INDEPENDENCE DAY

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I'm completely forgot to post this entry.

Independence day. Umm... What is Independence day? Why is it so important not only to Malaysia but also to those country who celebrated this day? 

Independence Day of Malaysia is  also known as National Day. 31st August 1957, the day when the first chief minister of Malaya, Tunku Abdul Rahman officially declared the Federation of Malaya's independence from British Empire at Merdeka Stadium. Since then, Malaysian will celebrate on this particular date every year. 

Every year, new theme is given for this day. Last year’s ‘Sehati, Sejiwa’ (One Heart, One Soul) theme has been retained for this year’s celebration of National Day.

What does National Day means to me? For me, Independence Day is a day full of excitement. Malaysian would celebrate this day by decorate their belonging with our flag. I love to watch flag that been hang on cars, taxis, and flat. In Kota Bharu, the lights will be hanged among Malaysian’s flag. Although it was jammed packed with cars ,my father would always bring us to watch this light at night. It was magnificent to see all the creativeness of people.

As I was born in 90’s, it is long passed the hardship era for Malaysian. I know that it wasn’t really appreciated enough for most us youngster . Malaysian Independence Day, is day that I feel grateful. Thankful to be present in this country. Thankful that the hardship of my ancestor had ended. Thankful for my ancestor to fight for our peace. I really do thankful.

So, what does Independence Day means to you?

English Oh English...

English. How many of you fluent in English? How many of you love English?

I love English. I was exposed this language since I was young by my mother. My mother,whom I called Mama would taught and sing with me and my siblings nursery rhymes. For instance, “Are You Sleeping,Brother John?”, “Twinkle,Twinkle Little Star” and “Three Blind Mices”.

My certificate.  

 Attending   Smart Reader was a must for my siblings and I.Starting from my oldest brother to my youngest sister, we must attended this English tuition since Level 1 until we graduated from the programmed. I still remembered, not only for the first year and second year but until my fourth year in Smart Reader, I would  always cried in the beginning of the class and Mama  would always walked with me to my class. Of course,that wouldn’t be enough to ease the heart of seven-years-old,who known she would be left by her mother to seat with unfamiliar faces in a classroom. So what do my beloved mother’s had to do… She would sit with me, in the class, with Mrs. Tan’s teaching her young students. Just to make me feel comfortable and learn. Mama had to sacrificed and leave her youngest daughter at home with her husband for about two hours. Luckily, the rest of my sibling had no problem likewise.

Oh! How I feel thankful to Allah to have my Mama as a mother. There had been a few times where I would asked myself why do I have to learn English. Why do Mama so eager to make us learn English? Why do Mama and Abah,my father would have the heart to spent their money on the expensive fee and the expensive books? When they could uses the money for themselves? Why would Ma would sent all five of us on different day with different time to Smart Reader just to learn English? When she must be tired from working all day? Why would she had to troubled herself,just to let her children learn this stupid language? Why? Why? Why?

Not only since I started college in KPTM Bangi and being in the capital of Malaysia, I started to notice the important of mastering this second language.

I don’t know about you but for my batch, since standard one , we had no choice but to learn Mathematics and Science in English until in form three. In form four ,I was pretty devastated when our last Minister of Education, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin announced that the ever so controversial policy Teaching and Learning of Science and Mathematics in English (PPSMI) is completely abolished in 2012. Do you know how much we had to struggled all this time to learn these subjects in English? What about all of the hardwork that  my teachers,both of my parents and I had been put into? I was pretty irritated,until my teachers gave us a choice whether to learn in Bahasa Melayu or in English. Of course, all of us, classmates minus one (betrayer,lol) choose to learn in English.

Did you know, in college everything is taught in English except for certain subject such as Pengajian Malaysia. So,the first thing I noticed was that you have to really conquer English in college. It would be pointless to go to classes if we didn’t understand what had the lecturer’s taught. Most importantly,it’ll be dangerous if we misunderstood the meaning. What if you answer a test with misleading translation and you’re just one mark away from passing it. Wouldn’t it be sad?

13 Reasons Why.
I love this book.

Futhermore, you will feel left out when you didn’t know English. For example, you’re around by English speaker. They are having a conversation. Wouldn’t you wanna know what they’re talking about. I bet you do especially if they give you a look. What about all the creative movies that produced from primary English spoken country such as USA,UK and Australia.. I’ll tell you, it is a waste if you watch an American produced action movie by understanding the storyline through the subtitle. You wouldn’t feel engrossed as those who knows the storyline by listening and understand it. I find that most of the county novel is better than Malaysian. Most of Malaysian novel is commonly known about love which I do not like. Compared to American and British,they had a wide variety of genre. One of my favourite is mental health’s theme.

Besides, you can learn about yourself when you know English. Most of people in the internet uses English. You can connect with your kind of people anywhere in the world through the internet. English is not only a tool to connect with people, indirectly you’ll also get a new information. It is a tool to find the right people with similar identity as you and a right community for you to connect and shared your problem with. Trust it is a great feeling to be understood.

 Check out this website,if you’re struggled with mental’s health issues.

http://www.katimorton.com/

And do watch her YouTube's video.

https://www.youtube.com/user/KatiMorton

Next, not fluent in English is one of the reason of job seeker to fail their interview. The requirement for most of job vacancies is required to fluent in English. It is consider as the most valuable investment for the future to have English influencer. So, you’ll have a higher chance to success with the interview.

Last but not least, learning English is fun and it can boost your level of confident. I love most of my English classes so far. Most of it is fun. You feel like different person. You can turn over a new leaf. For example, I’m not really a talkative person in class as I was in focus mood however in English class I found myself more interactive and cheerful. It really does boast my confident. I feel like I can express myself better and shared my voice as I’m learning English.

 Okay. That's all.Good Luck you guys.and do Wish me luck,y'all!

The Most AWESOME movie of all time!

Have you ever feel sad. Obviously, many of you would say yes.

But... have you ever feel sad all the time..and you don't even know why.. You just feel down. No matter what you do to overcome it.

Growing up,I was timid. I still remembered, when in primary school,I wouldn't go anywhere alone not without my friend's company. I would depended on my friend. Whether to ask a question or going to toilet. It was my mistakes  that I never takes the time to thanks and appreciated them enough till they're gone from my life. Secondary school's started. Alone.New school. New faces. I started felt that I was being isolated. It was hard. I gave up. 

I wish "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" appeared earlier in my life during those most depressing time in my life where I almost took my own life.Most of you probably known about the amazing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Although,I had watched the movie first before discovered the book, as a bookworm I definitely prefer the book's version. 

At first, I didn't really want to watch the movie as I'm afraid I'll cry. I felt depressed that day. I didn't want to talk with anyone. I just wanna cry but I'm afraid to because I didn't wanna feel worst afterwards. Then I remembered the movie. I watched it.Alone in my room. I felt connected. After watching it, I felt at ease. I felt motivated. 

 The Perks of Being a Wallflower movie's trailer

My precious book.

The author,Stephen Chbosky managed to portrayed the main character,Charlie perfectly. The story was about Charlie a teenage boy.He is a wallflower and is facing a lot problem. I could related to Charlie, so I was immersed with the character.

There are many reasons to watch this movie, If you have time I strongly recommend to read the book. One of the reasons is, it’s a good to motivate yourself. For me, it makes me feel motivate to keep moving forward. I was struggled to make friend in my teenage years. This story makes me feel that I have hopes. Maybe one day, I will found the one who I could called friend. 

There will be times that YOU will be cry out of sadness and even happiness. You’ll be facing an emotional roller coaster throughout the story. If you an introvert, a wallflower or even struggling depression, you’ll feel relieved. You’ll realised ,“There’s someone like me. There’s a hope. This is temporary. All good things comes to those who wait.”  

For extrovert out there,  by watching or reading this story you’ll learn about those who’re introvert. Get to know us. This movie is one of the movie that successfully portrayed an introvert. Not only  that, but also about mental health issues. There’re reasons for those struggle with mental health. Please don’t give up to those who struggled. Keep on fighting!   

P.s. The main actor is LOGAN LERMAN!! LOGAN LERMAN!
Btw There's a poem in the novel that I love. I don't want to spoil it to you. But please do let me know what do you feel when you read the poem.

Officiallystudent of KPTM BANGI.

Hello! Welcome to my first post.

You can call me Sis Reen.

 It had been more than a week in KPTM Bangi. It would be my honour to share with you about my first week in Kolej Poly-Tech MARA,Bangi. To be precisely about the differences of high school with college.A little bit about myself, I lived in Machang,Kelantan but I attended my secondary school in Tanah Merah named,Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Dato' Mahmud Paduka Raja (1). My beloved mother teach there.  I loved it there.Knowing my mother was near me, made me feel safe.

A vie from my room,

First of all, you do not required to live in dorm in SMKDMPR(1) whereas in KPTM Bangi it is a mandatory to lived in the hostel for semester 1 and semester 2. There are a few of student that didn’t lived in hostel. One of my classmmates, he lived in Bangi.So,it is cheaper for him to not live in hostel.My whole life,I have never being far away from my parents for such a long period of time. At first,it is sad. As my parents,my brother and my youngest sister said their goodbye to me, I was on the verge of tears.  The  first half of the  day is full with activities of orientation. For batch of July 2016, the orientation day were total of four days. We were as busy as a bee. So,there wasn’t much time to called my parents.Its had been more than a week in KPTM BANGI,I felt proud . I can cope here well enough. It gives me chance to be braver and independent to make my own decision without relying on my parents.

Where student's can buy references book.

Futhermore, textbooks in secondary school were lend to student. We are lucky to be a Malaysian as the government helped us in this situation. While in college, you have to buy your own textbook which can be pretty expensive. Then again,we are required to write our notes in log books or exercise book in secondary school by our teacher which can cost a lot of money. However, in college your are able to write your notes in any types of source. Whether on paper or on your electronic devices. It depends on you,whether to write the notes or not.

Moreover, the time table in secondary school is packed full of classes. In comparison, there is a huge gap of time in timetable in college. I was very surprised. For me,its kinda boring to wait between classes. I didn’t like it. Maybe I was used of being busy. I was eager to learn. It’s been almost six months on break. I missed learning so much! Hopefully,it was just temporary.Maybe it was on purpose for us to get used to the surrounding.

THE PERIUK'S , a food stall.

Besides, social life in secondary school mostly are hierarchy. This is one of the reason why I was depressed in secondary school.I am an introvert. I didn’t like to stick with one person or a group of friends.So, I am constantly afraid of being judge.On the other hand, in college, you  can befriend with whoever you want. Sometime I got asked whether I’m alone when I was eating at the café in college. I didn’t really mind now. There are always people who would join with me. Even though I didn’t know their name. I felt blessed. Thank you to those who are kind enough to join with a loner. But be wary,there are also a group of people who are rude. They would teased you.  Don’t lose your spirit. You are here to learn. There wiil be those who are kind. Always be grateful to Allah. Allah will helps us. If you are distress,don’t be shy to talk to a counsellor.

That's all I have for now. Thank you for spending your time to read my post.

K-POP OBSESSION

As a preteen, I was obsessed with K-pop (Korean Pop) which a few years later suddenly burst into fads. How do I get trapped in this fandom?

One midnight, I was awake. I couldn’t fall asleep. So, what did 12 years old me do? Watching tv. Yup... As I was switching the channel, this handsome, cute guy appear on the screen with a few of older dudes. Fell for his good looking face, I strive to find out who the guy was.  The next day, I will wait till midnight so that my parents fall deeply into sleep then  I will watched the tv and tuning in to KBS World channel to find out about the program. To no avail, my effort was hopeless. About a week after, I found out the name of the program. It is 2 Days 1 Night. I am sure most of you know the program.And that charming man’s name is Lee Seunggi. 

Since then I was obsessed with the program as it is hilarious. Soon after I discovered Music Bank Show. My obsession with K-pop (Korean pop) started. In my preteen,I spend most of my time listening to K-pop and watching Korean variety shows.

I used to collect Korean theme magazine named “e-pop”. Every month, I would bought one from my

My precious prize.

 grandmother’s bookstore. There were couples of time, I would bought two for various reason. For instance, my favourite idol was on the cover and to have a higher chances to win the contest.  Thanks to my grandmother, I once won a DVD from one of the contest. It is a Korean movie named ‘Postman To Heaven”. I am more into music than movie. So,I wasn’t really interested until… I found out who the actor was. It was Kim Jeajoong! Fyi, my favourite idol of all time is TVXQ . I would literally spent my days watching and listening to their songs. I was enthusiastically waiting for the prize. I would listen to k-pop every hours and searching for new songs. TVXQ and JYJ will always be in my heart. They are my savior as I spent part of my years listening and following news about them. They helped in such many ways. Tuning in to their produces stopped me from overthinking.  I must admit it made me negligence at my responsibility as a daughter, a sister, a granddaughter and most importantly as Allah’s servant.

That was years ago. Now, I stopped completely purchasing the magazine as it is a waste of money. Instead, I spent my money on Islamic theme magazines such as Iman,al- Ustaz, i and Solusi which are full of information. Looking back, I felt contrite about wasting my precious time. After the “accident”, I am endeavour to change.  I constantly offered my help to my mother. I helped her cooking and folding the clothes. I also love to watch Korean variety show with my siblings. I have two cats. Rather than spending most of my time listening to K-pop, I spend my time to play with my cats. Oh yeah, also with my cousins. I love them to death. Ever since the twins,my cousin were born, I couldn’t helped but fall into their cuteness. I can officially say that I wasn't obsessed with K-pop anymore. I do sometime tuning to it if my favourite idol made a comeback.

An eid's envelopes that I will always keep on my table back home since 2010.

One day,maybe I will write about the “accident” that change me and about my cousins that I love. Thank you.

Do you want to know what happened to all of the E-pop megazines, that I spent most of my money to... My freaking big brother burnt it! All of it! Huhuhu~~~