Ada apa dengan designers?

I have this habit of buying books and then simpan sampai one time I will read semua sekaligus. Or when the time is right, I will khatamkan one by one. As I mentioned before, I just came back from my London trip. Ye, takut nak kecoh² sebelum pergi. There are reasons why I did that. Takut orang pesan. Takut evil eyes, etc. Anyway, alhamdulillah dah selamat sampai Mannheim balik now. It was a 5 day trip. I found a really good book at Heathrow Airport. It's called, 'The Rules of Life' by Richard Templar. Usually I would choose not to read British writer's books but this one is a bit different. I like the ideas and messages conveyed and the 'rules' are very realistic and motivating. I would recommend you guys to read it. Ataupun kalau nak pinjam nanti pun boleh :)

Since I was on a break, I was also on internet-break. Hence social networking break. A FB-free time. I disabled my wall cause I wanted to minimize my notifications supaya tak serabut bila balik nanti and have to read everything. So, now menghadap FB la sikit². I read a friend's status saying something about overseas people wearing designers from top to bottom and how Malaysians are far behind because tak pakai barang² branded. I do feel like I want to comment but tak apa lah. I will just write here instead.

Firstly, in Malaysia, if you walk anywhere in the city, I would say 6 out of 10 people pakai handbag branded. Lately Longchamp is the in-thing. Previously, LV and Coach.  I would say Malaysians are quite lavish in spending by buying designers. I have nothing against them. In fact, I feel that memang best la kalau I ada sebijik handbag designer. Tapi I don't own one. Ada satu je Braun Büffel yg tak glamour sangat, tu pun hantaran masa kawin. Sekarang ni hantaran kawin LC, LV, coach. Tapi Malaysians are very brand concious. To be honest, kadang² rasa peer pressure juga kalau all your friends pakai designers. But luckily my close circle of friends yg jenis sempoi² :)

Secondly, since staying here in Mannheim, I notice that the Germans tak pakai sangat barang branded even though they can afford it. Money is channeled to other things. Frankly, I dunno where. Probably electronical gadgets or cars. Kalau pergi bandar, sehari, nampak la sorang dua je pakai handbag Coach or LV. Tu pun yang memang kaya gila ataupun tourists. The Mannheimers pakai handbag biasa je gi kerja. So, I would say that Malaysians lagi pakai barang branded. But perhaps I could be wrong.

Me personally, I dont own any. Pakai handbag H & M (dia macam ala-ala Metrojaya) and paling hebat pun Esprit. Jam pun masih lagi pakai jam AVON. hehehehe..


Just to share with you, Rule No. 1 : Keep it under your hat. -RT

the first quarter

hey guys, now ada mood nak berblog. do you realize that the first quarter has passed. time flies so fast kan? feels like just yesterday that i blogged about my new year's celebration. now its time to review how far i have gone in my 2011 resolution. let's check it out. Refer here for comparison

So my targets were, by the first quarter of 2011, i will be

Fluent in Deutsch
Finished reading 3 books/Novels

I think only managed to succeed in 50% of it. I didn't read any books / novels due to my exams. So hopefully, by April I can finish all 3 books that I have right now.

1. Have a little faith by Mitch Albom
2. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
3. to be determined.

I would sum up my first quarter as, full of ups and downs. I lost my dear cousin and still think of him sometimes.

Now that my German classes are over, while waiting for the results, I'm gonna start learning playing guitar again. This was not in my resolution but I have always wanted to do that. Yesterday managed to learn how to play Time of your life by Green Day.

And most importantly, there are other personal things as well that I wish to do and resolve which I would rather keep it to myself.

so how was your first quarter? :)

ennui

I learned a new word today. (auf English)

ennui–noun
a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom:

The endless lecture produced an unbearable ennui.

blogger has new fonts

I am so excited when I found out this. I was experimenting with the design n suddenly I realized that I can change fonts too! What do you think of my new look ?

After choosing this font I realized that this is a typical lefthanded hand writing. Cause it's slunted to the left. But as strange as it may sound, my hand writing is slunted to the right even though I am left handed. How weird is that?

Have a great week ahead yo!

Another level : B1,2.

Today I start with my final (hopefully) level for my Deutsch course. Before I citer dengan lebih lanjut, lemme explain what I mean by final level.

Right now I am under temporary visa (more than 90 days) which must be renewed yearly. For me to get a permanent visa, I need to undergo 600 hours of Deutschintergrationkurs + 1 week of Orientierungkurs (Deutsch government and laws) and pass the exams. This is the new law by the German government for Ausländer (foreigners) who wants to reside here. I am 'forced' to take this Deutschintergrationkurs because I plan to stay here forawhile, inshaAllah. By 'forced' I mean, because I am married and my husband works here. For this, the government is subsiding for the course and I pay at a discounted price. But only upto 600 hours.

The structure are as follows :

• A1,1 Basic
• A1,2 Introduction to Grammatik
• A2,1 More introduction to Grammatik
• A2,2 The hardcore of the Grammatik
• B1,1 How to use the grammatik in topics
• B1,2 Preparation for exams and again Grammatik

But if a person wants to study in University, one must complete till C1. That means after B1,2 there is B2 and C1.

I am right now at B1,2.

My exams will be on 1. April. Takutnya. So far, I have been busy studying. Thats why I haven't been blogging as much.. Or chatting or doing other internet activities. I called home this morning n mama said, 'Belajar rajin² la. Pekse nak dekat' . I laughed cause the last time she said that to me was when I was doing my degree.. which was somewhere back in 2003.. hehehe its funny when you're almost 30 and your mom says belajar rajin².

Anyways, I have lots of pictures to share and also stories to tell. But perhaps when I have more time okay. Pray for me. I feel that right now I can speak better and I feel more confident. Socializing with other people helped a lot.

Bis dann. Take care people. Tschüss! :)

That's what she said

If you could make a youtube video which documents short clips in your life, how would you want it to be? You know, like those youtube videos that people make out of tv sitcoms by putting together famous phrases. Example, The Simpson, Duh! or the famous F.R.I.E.N.D.S hand gesture, or The Offices' phrase, that's what she said, etc. etc.

What are your most used phrases, or words? If I could make a short clip of my life, my most used words/phrases/gestures would be

• a very long Ooooooh Myyyyyyyyyyyyy Godddddddddd..  
• O...M....G...
• a silent OMG mouth movement
• OMG with rolling eyes
• OMG with a gaging gesture
• Oh Mein Gott (Deutsche version) 
• omg omg omg omg omg 
• Cool
• Coolio
• Coolness
• Freak!
• Freaky
• Freaky-G-ness
• Super / Superb
• Egal (Deutsche Whatever)

I just thought of this on the way back from home today and thought of blogging about it. Well, nothing much to update here. I am just very occupied with stuff right now. So tell me, what are your most used phrases?

Before 2010 ends

I have almost 2 weeks of holidays and my husband has 3 weeks. It's nice to have him around the house sepanjang masa. He will do his stuff and I will do mine and sometimes we will do stuff together. Right now he is busy finishing his PS3 game, Fallout Vegas. And I am in between watching movies and learning Deutsch. Yesterday I wrote my resolution and my target for the first quarter of 2011. I taped it next to the mirror with the hope that I will not ignore it :p
(Click to view larger). Yeah, looks pretty sensible. and No, i decided not to gain weight since I have recently purchased a pair of jeggings and loving it! Jegging like leggings only made of jeans. How cool is that! It fits nicely and looks great when your wearing boots because the jeggings will go straight inside your boots.

Why did I finally decide take multivitamins ? Why only start now?

• I realized that I am gonna be 30 by next year 
• Since my husband is on a healthy diet regime, he unintentionally made me wanna have a healthy diet as well.
• My hair is changing color 
• I have Vitamin B12 deficiency
• The multivitamins in Germany are sold in solluble tablettes. Instead of swallowing pills, I can drink them, in Orange flavour some more! (in case you didn't know, I have problem swallowing pills)

I can sum up my targets and resolutions into three main areas; Deutsch learning (OMG- this is typical German grammar.. Deutsch lernen) correction, learning Deutsch, consuming healthy food and reading.

Why my target is for the first quarter? Well, I don't wanna wait until the end of the year to see where I am at. 3 months is just nice to review my progress and still have time to improvise till the first half of the year. By March, I will complete my Deutsch Course and hopefully, inshaAllah dah lulus for my visa.. Please pray hard for me.. My visa has to be renewed by then and kalau semua okay maka it smoothens the process of my Permanent Residency and it makes it easier to find a job or further my studies :) That's why I am really struggling with my Deutsch.

For all you readers who have been good to me, here is a picture of myself. I have mentioned this before and will mention this again, this is an unprivatised private blog. I feel very happy blogging here knowing that the people I share it with have good hearts and are not judgmental. 2010 has been a challenging year for me (If I have the time, I will blog about the highlights of the year). It's a year with full of significant changes. Honestly, I can't wait for 2011 cause it's gonna be a great year inshaAllah :)

This pic was taken by my husband. We were on our way back from grocery shopping. We got used to carrying heavy things on our bagpacks and walking back home with it since we don't have a car to carry our groceries. This was after a 2 days of heavy snow. Snow was up to my boots! White Christmas indeed.

This is me at Mannheim's Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Market). On the left, I was eating Crepe with Nutella. Sedap! And on the right, I was having Alcoholfrei Glühwein. It's a traditional German drink. But they drink it with alcohol of course. The content that I had was Zitrone.Normally they will drink it during the cold winter. I brought bag the mug which costed 2€ as a souvenir.You can see very clearly that I am very lefthanded. Haha..

One question, what is the last thing you wanna do before 2010 ends?

A Long December

I was on facebook just now. I have toned down on the anger bit since I watched socialnetwork. I figured that Mark's idea was brilliant, though there are people who claimed that he stole the idea. But he didn't steal the codes. And that is why, when you have an idea, you should act on it right away and not procastinate :p 

Anyway, our friend, Kurik posted Counting Crows' Long December video and that had triggered me to write this piece (again, with the pieces :p).

It does seem like a long december though. It's only the 7th today and I feel like two weeks has gone. Perhaps its the long night time where Maghrib is only at 1630 and once you're done with Isya' at 1815, you feel the distance between that time and the time you sleep moves very slowly. Does it make sense at all ?

Well, I am fasting today and I feel bad saying this. It's nice to have Subuh at 0611 and maghrib at 1630 which makes it supercool to puasa but the winter makes me wanna eat all the time.Sabar².

Tonight my husband is going to hang out with his Americana friend here in Lindenhof to watch their favourite NFL team, New England Patriots. It's another guys night out. I wish I had more girl friends here and have more girls night out.. or in.. or whatever.. Since my friend YY is currently busy with her Masters presentation, I malas nak kacau her. I will only kacau her after her presentation hehehe.. Sooo.. Im gonna cook a healthy yet fatty speghetti bolognaise with lots and lots of cheese. And maybe, I might just make my famous Bread pudding as dessert. I'm gonna put on my legging and watch Eat.Pray.Love under the covers tonight. I need some down to earth kinda movie.

By the by, yesterday while going to town and surveying boots for my husband, I saw that there is a Christmas Sale and said WELL HELLO to you too! Perfumes are sold at really cheap prices. Luckily I am not so much of a perfume person.  I will use one perfume till the very last drop before buying a new one. Im more of a shoes and handbags person. Or maybe just shoes. Oh wait, yup that's right.. Shoes and handbags :p So I didn't get any.

Contemplating whether I should go out again or not today.

Well hey

Well hey I changed the templates of my blog, again. Going for the simpler, not-so- girly-er kinda look. It's been a cold winter this year. And we experienced so far the lowest of -9°C recently. But now its a bearable 0°C. However, there is no sun today. I am thinking of heading down to town and just check out some stuff. Last week I went to the Christmas market with my friend from Americana, Lisa. She bought some stuff for her family back in the states and was telling me how they celebrate Christmas. I told her we have something like this before our Muslim celebration, Hari Raya. We have the Pasar Ramadhan for one month. In Germany, they have a one month Christmas market. They call it, Weihnachtsmarkt. I also saw a bunch of Polizei walking around and riding horses (that's the first). Seems that there was a terrorist threat in Germany and the police are just standing by.

Planning to go there again with my husband, probably today. He wants to get some boots because sneakers are not good for winter time. I got mine already :) Also, I got a Roti Phrata from the Asean shop as a substitute for Roti Canai. It has a Halal chop from Singapore and it tasted good. But we only get 5 pieces for 1.80€. Shade. Makan sekali round dah habis :(

Well hey, probably will update some pictures soon. I was not in a blogging mood for awhile but now I'm back. Shout out to Zoey Jane (my car) who turns 5 today!

boots, heidelberg, winter and experience

I think sueannajoe was my junior back in SriAman. That statement was totally irrelevant but I just wanted to write that. I have been reading her blogs (she has a number of blogs, in BM, in English, about her business and photography) and she is pretty good.

We are planning to go to Ireland during the Christmas holidays. My husband's younger brother is expecting their 2nd baby. Yup, 2nd baby. So we are gonna visit them. I thought of going backpacking (am I capable of backpacking?) around DE abit before going to Ireland for the Christmas Hols. But it all depends on my husband. Nak la jugak jalan - jalan here. However, some friends are coming to DE for Christmas so maybe I might bring them jalan - jalan around Heidelberg. It's very near to Mannheim. My husband works in Heidelberg. But not the tourist area. Dia dekat tempat² office. Heidelberg is eine altstadt (an old town) and its beautiful. From Mannheim, it takes about 30 minutes or so to get there. Depending on which train you are taking. I have been there more than 3 times and I don't mind going there again and again and again..

Anyway, I wanted to share with you guys how I felt about this upcoming winter and what are my preparations. In the magazines and websites stated that this year's winter is gonna be the worst winter and I am so not looking forward for it. I bought a few jackets though and a few pair of boots and gloves. A long black trenchcoat from H & M and a cute white one from The NewYorker. Kelakar when I say The NewYorker because they actually have a shop that sells NewYork fashion. And they are not bad too. Not so pricey and it has that young vibe going on. I did blog once about buying a red jacket with a hood so that I have that little red riding hood kinda thing going on.. But I saw Baby Spice wearing a white jacket and a pair of white boots in the video Stop Right Now and she looked so cute! (Takde pic, so I had to PRINTSCREEN on the youtube video. Pathetic ay? Click on photo to see clearer) I know my husband would raise an eyebrow if I said to him, awwww cute kan boots putih tuu? kan ? kan? kan ? But.. I won't request for those from him.. Hehe.. if I want, I will buy them using my own money which he gives me every month. By that time, winter pun dah habis. Haha!
 
Some of the jackets I see online nampak cantik bila model dia pakai.. Or you see other people putting them on, it looks soo good. Macam citer Ally McBeal, Sex & The City or 30Rock. Samala bila tgk website H & M online. You feel like buying everything, if possible! But all of those are just the advertisers playing tricks on our minds.. and also, good looking models and good photography plays an important role.. Maka, jangan tertipu dengan online fashion pictures :p For example, yang kat tepi nih .. I can never pull that one off! But it looks so good on the model ! Believe me I have tried that exact same jacket but I don't look as near as good as that model. Maybe the shape of my body pun mcm sekeping je, so tak nampak cantik..  Boots dia pun cantik but kena jaga² because most boots from H & M and NewYorker or any other shoes that costs 20€ and above has pig skin lining. Jenuh la nak samak balik (although ada sesetengah orang cakap tak perlu samak because hanya perlu samak when kena daging babi. But just for the benefit of the doubt, I did samak). Harini ada mood la nak citer pasal fashion because yesterday I did a whole lot of 20 minutes walking while having my lunch. I had a small portion of wedges with Lemon Tartar sauce from Nordsee to-go (or Malaysians say it as Take-Away, dipengaruhi oleh Colony British). So I walked from Marktplatz all the way to Hauptbahnhof. I noticed that people walk while eating for several reasons. 
1. Nak jimat masa. 
2. It feels warmer when you walk sambil makan. Its a bad habit, I know. But the coldness made me do that. 3. You can kill a few stones macam jalan, sambil window shopping, think and do your shopping list in your head, check out other people's fashion and finally reach your destination. 

Things they usually have while walking are bende yang macam to-go-ish like Pretzel, Croissant, Burgers, Fries. Depa takde la makan nasi lemak or kueyteowtomyam while walking. That would be a messy sight wouldnt it?

Yeah it's already November and in a few days it'll be mid of November and come December will be winter. Daun - daun pun almost semua berguguran. My hajat untuk berphotog with my feet in dalam himpunan dedaunan pun taktau sampai ke tak since it's freaking cold to go out for photography.. But for Winter, I hope it snows though. Last time when I first landed, after a couple of days, it snowed. But I only experienced snow on my way to the hospital di dalam tangisan  sebab kena chicken pox. Read here to recall. Last Winter was quite an experience. An experience I shall never forget kot.

Talking about experience, I went to Seilwolf yesterday to do the normal weekly grocery. Kat situ tak ramai orang and you can get all this weird² stuff that they don't sell in the normal DE grocery supermarkets. By weird² stuff I mean asian stuffs like cili kering, tofu, santan, sos for nasi ayam etc etc. So as I was walking, I saw another asian looking lady and I thought it was Kak Asmah (a kakak permanently residing here, married to a German and has twin sons a year younger than us). So dengan penuh confident I ran to her and said, Hi kak asmah! and she was like, 'was?' (apa?) and I was confused, I said, 'eh, ni kak asmah kan?' dia pun boleh jawab, 'nein, nein' .. rupanya she was some Thai or Vietnamese lady. MALU OK! terus saya ckp, 'ooh! Entschuldigung²' maksudnya, 'ooh malunya saya.. sory²'. My husband will say that I am racist bila I citer nih, but actually I am not .. betul...!

Okla, do you notice that this post takde correlation antara satu sama lain ?
This entry has been edited several times. I lost count

Autumn In Mannheim

Autumn will be commencing soon. As everyone back in Malaysia celebrating their Eid, I went to die Stadt (bandar) to get myself not a baju kurung or a kasut raya. But a sweater and a new handbag for Autumn. Actually sweater je for Autumn, the handbag just looked nice with the sweater :p . I treated myself after getting my gaji from my part time gig. But when I told my husband, he said , takpe la I blanja. Yippie ! :) Alhamdulillah :)

Since the weather was superb today (unlike yesterday, sangat mandom and depressing.. dah la raya first day yesterday), and after hearing mama's and papa's voice and listening to them enjoying their hari raya, I told myself, That's it! takmau la sedey². Aidilfitri is for us to celebrate Hari Kemenangan. Alhamdulillah the Ramadhan month went well even though it was a long 16 hour tp inshallah, dengan kesabaran, moga - moga alaman ibadah akan berganda.. ameen.

Musim sejuk will be coming soon. So I have to buy baju sejuk, one buy one. Today I bought one from H & M. Before that I saw a stunning red jacket macam gambar sebelah ni, along with a black belt (ala - ala Princess Diaries). Lama I duduk dekat Tally Weil tu belek² jacket tu. But my husband will surely geleng kepala bila tengok almost 40€ for a jacket. Actually it's quite okay memandangkan it's kalis air and ada hood lak tu. Tapi apakan daya.. Maybe I will bring my husband to town and accidentally nampak jacket tu for the first time and look all excited about it so that he saysm 'Ok la, belilah'.. hehehehe.. But knowing me, I tell my husband everything! sekarang ni tunggu masa je nak bagitau dia about the red jacket. Everyone's dresscode now dah bertukar pakai jacket² and since I have a very thin Asean skin, I need lots of fabric to protect me from the coldness. I don't know macam mana nanti Winter. Sekarang ni pun sejuk sampaikan malas nak basuh pinggan. Even ke dapur pun tunggu matahari dah naik sikit.

So okla, this post is actually a feel-good post since I have been quite sad and homesick lately. My husband berkali kali tanya are you okay? sbb I was very quite yesterday. Homesick :(
 
Alrite, for you peeps, this is the model for Autumn look from H & M :) viel spaß und schönes wochenende!

my first video blog

Hi everyone! this is my first video blog.. turn up the volume k.. the background was purposely made in black color..

sory²

Perasan tak the previous post has no title and ended just like that ? ok, I was blogging and suddenly my husband came back and I terus tertekan publish post :p hehehe actually I was waiting for the telur to masak so I blogged for awhile. Yesterday's dish was nasi lemak, kari daging and telur rebus. Sedap. It wasn't me who said it, it was my husband. heheheeh sorry I have no pictures. Dah licin habis dimakan.. I guess we were really that hungry. The heat is making us (or at least me) eat alot, sleep alot and laze around alot. Tak larat nak buat apa. But yesterday, the weather was just nice and I decided to surprise my husband with his fave dish :)

Everyday pikir nak masak apa. Sometimes dah sampai takde idea nak masak apa. Yeah² so random housewife talk kan.. hehehe well, its okay. I guess its kinda cool being a housewife. A friend once said , waah you are an expat housewife.. sounds so cool.. heheheh it would be if you're in Malaysia. but here, everyone is the same. Everyone speaks the same language no matter where you are from.. :)

Now that I am in level 2, we are at the difficult of Deutsch. Grammar! Deutsch is one of the most difficult language to learn. I would know, cause I am learning it. It's no where near English. I thought the articles were difficult. Tapi bila masuk dativ and akkusativ mak aih.. And all of this are only in present tense. Belum past tense lagi! oh gosh.. Tabik hormat (lama tak cakap nih) to those who studied in Germany for their degree or masters. Because it is not easy to learn a 3rd language (eg. Deutsch) and also learn a difficult course in it... Most of the time, I am just trying to figure out what they're trying to say or ask..... and then... figure out the answer and how to reply in Deutsch.. that will take me a few seconds.... :p

Hope I will manage! okay.. its 7am now.. gotta get ready for class.. catcha later!

Bis Dann!

Ben Harper

Currently I am listening to Ben Harper's Waiting on an angel. The song sounds so sincere and deep.

I read through my old blog from the very beginning till the end. It has more than 500 plus posts and I decided to stop blog there. Hence the new blog here. What's funny is that I saw myself back then, four years ago, and how I evolved to be someone I am right now. Not much difference in term of size but I guess I have matured abit (I hope). Some of the things are still the same. I am still that goofy person who sings in the shower and talk alot sometimes about nothing or everything under the hot sun. I used to blog about the random-est thing and it was to me back then some sort of a Dear Diary blog. Except that what it really meant was Dear Everyone. Later I changed to a more discussion kinda blog.

Sayang juga nak tutupkan the blog.. But I have my reasons why I am doing that.. so, here is to a new life and new blog writing here :)

Running running

Baru semangat nak berblog. Blogger has upgraded its template so that I can change² according to what I like. I don't have to import from third party templates and keep on failing to change my blog to an interesting one. And I loveeeee this template. Thank you blogger!

So I have been wanting to blog for a looooong time. A lot has happened (I always say that). But no life changing things though. Just random updates.

1. I finally found out what does the word pflege means. care. Example : handflege - hand care or sabun.
2. My cooking has improved significantly. With a wide variety of dishes :)
3. My german still sucks but my cleaning skills is now better and more efficient
4. I have been doing a lot of running and exercising. Chasing busses and S-Bahns.
5. I am now becoming very precise in timing. 9.31, 1432. walk 3 minutes. These are specific timing because you dont wanna miss that buss or S-Bahn.

Okla, I will post something with picture² sikit after this okay :)

facebook.com

Tomorrow is my last day of being 28. I dont feel any different though. But my birthday this year is gonna be so different. Reasons are:-

• This is my first birthday as being a wife. Hence, Mr. Lucky will say, 'It's my wife's birthday' 
• This is the first time I celebrate my birthday with my husband after 4+ years of being in a relationship (couple + marriage)
• This is the first time I celebrate my birthday in a foreign country
• This is the first time I will do a party where prepare almost everything from scratch (slalu mama will help)

So I am gonna be 29. Usually I will do a self-reflection kinda thingy on my birthday. Maybe I will do it the night before.. I havent been blogging lately. Although there are soooo many things to blog about, seriously sooo many things happen. I wouldnt know how and where to start if I would start telling. Maybe I should just leave it as that or as time passes by, I will write about it.

Many reasons why I stopped blogging for awhile.

• I was very occupied and getting used to the new routine I have. Now that I am finally getting the hang of it, I got used to the change. I used to blog about how I hate changes and also the transition so much now that there is this SUPER HUGE change, I got used to it already.
• Perhaps that I was too hooked up on facebook, I kinda forgot about my blog.. 
• I was on a hiatus mode and I don't know why I just malas sangat nak blog.
• I had all my energies out on talking to my husband and I need not to blog anymore since he is at home all the time and I could just talk to him non stop (kesian dia.. hehehe)
• There are just things that I feel I don't need to share with the world wide web

The last point, I feel so much I wanna blog about that and how ironically that I dont wanna share but I wanna share about not sharing.. get it? At one point, I got so sick of facebook, I felt like wanting to deactivate my account. I even thought about opening a new one consisting only CLOSE PEOPLE THAT MATTERS. Why you might ask?

• I got sick of people tagging me with pictures which are not relevant to me at all (eg. kain, tudung, cupcakes, handbags, wedding invites, DECRIBE ME, Top ten lists and all those craps)
• I got irritated receiving endless notifications which I have to read that has nothing to do with me
• Its really disturbing to get email notifications on people's comments which are so trivial, such as 'hehehe' or 'LOL' on something that is not related to me whatsoever.
• Some of the status updates are just so lame
• I got tired of ignoring all the group invites which I never check or participate at all. 
• Its funny how people wanna upload all 200 pictures of the same place with different poses. Cant they just choose the best few?
• It's weird that married people communicate to each other through facebook where anyone at all can see and read when they are just 2 feet away from each other.
• I find it confusing that people update their status as 'busy' or 'no time to do this and that' but have time to update their status.

See, I was at that point. I was at the point where facebook was soo irritating, I decided to cool it down forawhile. I know, you might ask, why not just quit anyway? biar la people nak buat apa² with their facebook rite ? I know I know.. I dont know why.. It has become part of my routine.. But I am slowly detaching myself so that I won't be in the statistics of people who spend 4 hours on facebook daily.

So there I said it. I had let my enery out after a month of not blogging. I am back people!

Lately

Yes. No. I mean, lately I have been staying at home. Mr.Lucky suspects that I have low blood pressure. Since I have not been feeling well. Perhaps yes. I am sooooooooooo dying to go out. Like literally. I need sunshine and fresh air and abit of sweat wouldn't hurt. This chicken pox is almost diminishing so its good news. Alhamdulillah. The weather here is still cold though. It's about 7° / 9° during Mittags (afternoon). And we have very little sunshine compared to KL. Some parts of DE is still snowing like Berlin, Dresden, Hamburg, Stuttgart and München. Mannheim is comparatively warm (I suppose ?)  compared to other cities.

 Most of the time, I hang out in front of the heater, and also Choco-loco-bear (CLB) [i know he is not a bear but just be it like that ok] keeps me warm whenever its cold, read my Time Traveler's Wife and learn abit of Deutsch to get a head start on my classes that will be commencing in April. Here are some pictures of life at home so far. hehe..

That's Choco-Loco-Bear (a gift from YY) with my hp (a gift from Mr. Lucky) hehehe 

 Living with a heater

Tomorrow I am FINALLY going out, yay! I haven't gone out since I got lost in the forest.. oooh.. then I went to the hospital during snow.. and I went to the clinic to do a follow up check up with the doctor (which was soo cool. He speaks English, yay!). So, yeah, tomorrow Mr. Lucky is gonna buy me a pair of running shoes, and I will be going jogging when the weather is not so cold anymore and I am back on my feet again. woo hoo!! And then on Thursday, we are going to the Immigration office to settle my visa (hopefully alles ist gute). So, yay! again! I need this. I need to go out.. Watch out world! I'm coming... with no chicken pox virus (inshallah).

I found a radio station, BIG FM that plays 80% of English music. Out of 10, 2 of them are German songs. So it's not so bad. And they plan Lady Gaga's Bad Romance too! Btw, Lady Gaga will be coming to DE in May to do a concert! I am hoping that I can find someone who can accompany me but the tickets are expensive.. We'll see if I decide to go or not cause the place is quite far from Mannheim, (2 hours via train ) König Pilsener Arena, Oberhausen. Since the lost in the forest incident, I'm scared that I will get lost again.. in the city pulak! Minta dijauhkan.. huhuhu

Well, I guess that's all for now. I wanted to post a video of me singing Lately by Jodeci. But it's just to embarrasing when I view it again. Haha! If I am in a tourist-y (I learned this word from Nadia hehe) mood tomorrow, I will quietly record a video of the city using my Nokia and post it here hehe..

This blog is not so glamour (check out the number of clicks below) cause I only share this link with the ones who are close to me. Although they can always ask other people to read but its okay. The thing is, I dont want to really advertise it as much cause I you never know who might read your blog. I was just from my old blog and it's really disturbing to know that people landed on my blog after googling my name or some other people's name.. So, I wanna lay low this time :)

Ok. readers. Pray I won't get lost tomorrow! Bis später! Tschuss!