Sudden Patriotism

Hey everyone! Was thinking of just writing a little something for you guys to read. Just a little update to my life and a small catch up session. So how have you all been doing? I hope you're all great and being productive cause I have been anything but productive.

First, explaining the title, we'll be celebrating our 57th independence day on Sunday and I thought i'd write a little about the country that I was brought up in. It's extremely exciting and I just like to think of all the small things that makes us who we are. The diversity in culture that we can see everyday. The culture or language of a different race that we've automatically adapted into our daily lives. Phrases that we've been so used to using that when someone else doesn't understand it you stare at them in awe. These are the kind of things that I admire so much in my country. Not to mention the fact that we all have to at least be able to converse in a few languages. I think that's pretty cool.

I would also like to talk about the food. The oh-so-amazing food. You can never go wrong with Malaysian food. It is the absolute best. (or maybe i'm just saying that cause i've been growing up with it. who knows. xD) It's really really easy to find food here in Malaysia. Let's say you want a quick bite with your mates, mamak it is! It's cheap and the food is pretty good. Love love love the spices that they put in the curry. I'm a bit biased towards curry. Besides that, there are also dishes which are prepared differently according which gives it a different flavour. Sometimes, it's hard to believe that you're eating the same dish because it can taste more sour towards one style of cooking, and perhaps more sweet when cooked a different way.

The post was partly inspired by this video made by TheMingThing which is one of my favourite local youtuber. You should totally check his channel out. Gonna leave the video here just so you can watch it.  Don't forget to show him some support if you like his work!

So, recently i've been listening to a lot of Joe Brooks... There's just something so nice about his voice and his songs. His voice comes out so clean and it's the kind of voice that doesn't require that much effort to sound nice. No high notes or anything, just plain old Joe Brooks and his guitar. Probably why he's on repeat on my playlist. I'm just really really hoping that he'll come back here to perform again despite the fact that he has already came here two times. Why did I not see him when he was here.

Alright, I guess that sort of sums up life at the moment. Spread love not hate! I hope you guys have an absolutely wonderful independence day, go do something really Malaysian in the spirit of it! or you can go listen to your favourite artist, your choice. Live life with no regrets! Till here, cheerio.

Song of the Week

Ironically enough, the song of the week wont actually be coming from Joe Brooks. Right now i'm in a The Vamps kind of mood and a song that I absolutely love from them right now is Lovestruck. It's cute, it's bubbly, it's about a girl and I just love it. My favourite line would probably be "I heard Wonderwall beating through your headphones, cracked a little smile when you got the words wrong." Hope you guys enjoy the song and i'm definitely looking forward to recommending more songs for you guys in the future. (:

The Little Things

Before you start reading the blog post, play the vid. :D (It's the song of the week by the way.)

Society has created so many unrealistic standards that most people think they need to reach in order to be cool. But what I want you to do right now is to just forget about those things for a second and just take a deep breath. Look at yourself, you’re still alive and going! I’m absolutely proud of you for making it this far in life already and here’s a hug for that! (just imagine a figure coming to hug you.) I think we constantly take things like these for granted and it really saddens me at times because you are absolutely beautiful already.

Another thing I noticed that happens too often in society is how we judge people way too easily. All of us do it at one point in our lives whether we realize it or not including me but there’s nothing wrong with it, doing it just proves that we’re all humans. We’re all flawed in a way and we can’t run away from our flaws. We’re not made to be perfect. I constantly see people getting bullied all over the world. The effect of words on a person is something that really amazes me. How simple words can create such an impact on a person.

I have seen so many people online who are just as insecure as we all are yet are in a worse situation. Anytime I see someone who wants to hurt themselves to make them feel better, I won’t hesitate at all to talk to them even if I don’t know them. God knows what they’ve been going through in their lives. It’s seriously amazing to see how much you can help them even though you think you’re not doing much. They’ll appreciate it, trust me.

So, this is what I want you guys to do. Since we have noticed how much words can impact a person, let’s put those words to good use. Compliment them. Shower those you think who deserve it with compliments. It’ll make their day.  They need to realize that they’re really worth it. Depression and self harm happens way too often nowadays that it’s time to do something about it. Hurting yourself is not okay. As human beings, living altogether on the same planet, and what more the same country/town/etc, we need to help each other out.

It could be someone who you’ve been friends with for a long time or someone you just met yesterday. Complimenting them will make them feel much better about themselves. Besides, the more you give, the more you get. When you compliment others, others will compliment you back. It will find it’s way back to you. If you think that girl is pretty, go up to her and tell her. If you think that guy is really nice although you’ve heard people trash talking about him, just tell him to never doubt himself about it.

It doesn’t just have to be compliments, let’s say you’re walking and you see someone who might need help, go and help them. You’ll realize that it doesn’t just help that person but you’ll feel good about yourself once you’re done with it. You’ll be able to feel the satisfaction of being able to help someone even if it’s in a small and discreet way. Living in a world where most people are rude all the time, little things like these always count.

Life is too short to take these things for granted. Before you know it, it all could be gone. You should always appreciate those around you especially your family and close friends. Friends are amazing companions besides your family members. To me, they’re like my second family. I’m proud to say that I’ve found many awesome friends who I’ve created such great memories with and I can’t imagine being in a world without them. Spending half of my life with them has molded me into the person I am today and I don’t think I would have made it this far if it weren’t for them.

Go on and make someone’s day by telling them something nice that you like about them. It’s always time to spread some love! Don’t force it, make sure it’s sincere. Also, don’t just stop at one person, continue the act and tell someone else a compliment in hopes that the person you just complimented will continue the act with another person. So the cycle goes on and on. If you’ve been feeling down for a while and you’re reading this, I want to tell you to not lose faith yet. Things do get better. Come on guys, let’s make the world a better place for you, me and everyone else. After all, it is always the simplest and littlest things that can make someone’s day. J

Movies and Exams!

Hey everyoneee! How have you all been doing? I really hope you all are doing great. Welcome back to my blog, and once again feeling really bad that I haven't been updating as often as I can. I've just been so caught up with school work that I tend to forget about updating the blog. Since it's the holidays, I thought I might take some time off to write a short update for you guys! :D

So yeah, exams... We just finished our first test a couple of days ago. Not much to say about it but it's definitely a new experience for us considering that this is the first time we're taking papers with new subjects and also new formats. Definitely much more tough than last year. And I thought last year was really challenging already. So far, I only got a few of the papers back, most probably have to wait a week before I get the rest of the papers back but i'm fine not knowing. The thing about getting the results is that you want to know how you did but at the same time there is a fear of you not doing good enough. It makes me feel really terrible and i'd rather just not think about it sometimes.

Enough about school, it's the holidays now! Eventhough it's only for like a week. Started it out by going to watch Divergent with my friends and it was AWESOME. I really liked the whole setting and all, so so so unique. I think they did a really great job with everything. Shailene Woodley is also slowly starting to be one of my favourite actresses out there right now. She's just so adorable as a person and I just really love her acting too. I did not read the book because let's face it, we all know how lazy I am, but I have a friend who read the book and she said it was not a disappointment.

I think it's really cool to see how they adapt a book into a movie because it's a different way of portraying the story. The thing about adapting books into movies is that there is already a fanbase for it, and there are definitely expectations set for it. To reach those expectations isn't a very easy job, so kudos to the director for doing a great job! Also, I think the reason why it was great is because Veronica Roth (the author) was involved with the production of the movie and that actually helps in many ways.

Another thing about the movie that I can't get over is Four and Six (Tris). I just can't get over how adorable they were in the movie. It was clear that love wasn't a very big part of the story (well in the movie at least. even my friend agreed with me.) but I just can't stop thinking about how adorable they look together. Although it's just on screen romance, I can't get enough of it and i'm craving more of them. Hard to imagine Shailene with Ansel in TFiOS now cause I'm just too obsessed over Sheo (Shailene and Theo). /: I think another reason why I can't get enough of them is because they cut the kiss scene, and it was so anti-climax-ey (I'm not even sure if that's a word). My friend and I were so disappointed when there was no kiss scene. To say the least, we were pretty angry and pissed. It's like climbing a mountain to not reach the peak.

look at them and tell me they're not adorable.

So yeah, that's all I have to say for now. I hope i'll be able to write for you all again some time in the near future, even if it's just a short update. I'm pretty sure i'll just procrastinate and end up updating only a month later but i'll try to fit in at least short updates about events soon! Till here, cheerio.

Song of the Week

This week i'm deciding to go a little local and the songs that I chose are made by local artist. I feel as if the local scene is so underappreciated and that there is so much talent here that isn't recognized and we always underestimate the local scene. I'm choosing three songs made by local artist that I think you will like. :D The first one is No More by SonaOne. The first time I heard this, heck the whole time I heard it on the radio, I actually thought it was made by some guy overseas. I was totally shocked when I found out it was made by a local guy, The second one is Beat of Your Love by Paperplane Pursuit and Darren Ashley. This song is like a cute song that you can dance to because of how catchy it is. And last but not least, bringing back a familiar name. Here is Cair by Narmi. This song is just so fluffy and adorable an- just listen to it for yourself!

A Frozen Chinese New Year... and bad shampoo

Hey there everyone! How are you all doing? I hope you guys are having a terrific Chinese New Year because I am. Once again, I can't help but apologize for the inconsistent updates. I actually have time to write the blog posts but then I end up procrastinating and then I don't update. Still something I have to work on but i'm on the way there... I think. It's the last day of our Chinese New Year break and I guess why not take some time off to write a blog post for you guys!

Okay so yeah you guys are probably wondering what is up with the title and yes, I have to admit it is a pretty weird combination. But well the explanation is simple, i've been spending way too much time during my Chinese New Year break doing anything related to the movie Frozen. Oh gosh. It is such a great movie and I just absolutely love it. From the songs to the animation and the characters, there is just soooo much to love! I'm not going to talk much about it cause I'm gonna make this blog post short and simple. If you have not watched it, I highly suggest you to watch it because it is awesome! And when me and my friends were watching it together, we just couldn't shut up. We were either saying the dialogues or singing along to the songs. It was just so enjoyable!

So yeah besides that, it's Chinese New Year! Also known as the most exciting part of the year. The time of the year where you get to meet all your relatives and get to spend some family time together. It's like the whole family takes time off their work to meet up with one another and it's kind of like renewing the established bond among the family members (i hope that made sense. and if it did not, i'm truly sorry. i'm not very good at metaphors. xD) It really is nice to just have fun with people that you rarely see and just the whole feeling of the celebration is great. And it's not just about relatives but also maybe around your neighbourhood. Everyone will be able to feel the joy. It's not just the family reunions but we get to dress up too! For me, I got a really really nice dress and so did my friends. In my opinion, they all looked absolutely beautiful in their dresses.

Book wise! I have finished reading The Fault in Our Stars. Really good book with a really good storyline and plot and language and characters, okay let's just say it was a really good book overall. Managed to finish the book in a day or so and I just really love the way John Green writes. You cannot imagine how creative this guy is. And his metaphors are just top notch, like they are fantastic. I've never came across that many great metaphors in a book. (Most probably because I don't have many books from that genre. xD) Recently, the trailer for the TFiOS movie came out, and I am more than excited for the movie. Even from the trailer you can see that it's incredibly true to the book and the 5/6 month wait for the movie is gonna be a torture but i'm sure it'll be worth it. Also, I got a new book shelf to keep my books so that's a plus.

Yeah about the bad shampoo, I don't even know why that's in the title. xD I just really hate when my hair gets all greasy after one day. So yeah, I blame it on the shampoo. I prefer my hair soft and not greasy and stiff if that too much to ask. (well maybe. i don't know.) But yeah, that is all I have for you today, will be ending my blog post here because it is time to go back to work! Most probably will procrastinate for the next few hours or so but I WILL RETURN TO MY WORK! same old me. haha. Till here, cheerio.

Song of the Week

This week, I chose a song which I instantly fell in love with the moment I heard it and it's called Tenerife Sea by Ed Sheeran. I really really hope that this song will be included in his new album coming out real soon cause I am SUPER SUPER excited for it! I'm just so pumped up to see what he has in store for us in his new album and there's just so much to love about his music. Also, in this song I want you to listen to the lyrics too because it is just absolutely beautiful. This is one of my favourite lines in it "cause all that you are is all that i'll ever need." There you go!

New Year, New Beginnings

Hello everyone! I am really bad at consistent updating because not updating for the past few months has really affected me and it's gonna take me some time to get myself disciplined again. First things first, this weeks blog post is not gonna be long because I am writing this on a school night and I can't sleep late on school nights. But at least there's an update!

Was supposed to update last week considering I was quite free but then my laziness took over me and I did not lay a finger on my laptop. Weekdays have been pretty busy too considering school has already started along with my tuitions and such and it's hard to find time to sit down and write a blog post. I would usually get back in the afternoon feeling really exhausted after having to go to school for almost 6 hours every day. Our climate, which is naturally hot and humid, does not help us in any way to feel better it just wears us down even more so when we get back home we're basically fried omelettes ready to be eaten. (that did not make sense at all. xD)

Anyway, new year, new beginnings. This year our class was oh-so-lucky to be placed on the TOP floor along with our juniors. I don't even know why we were placed there but according to our teacher, there are reasonable explanations as to why we were placed there. Let's just say that having to climb at least 8 flights of stairs everyday is not fun at all. But at least we'll like burn some calories doing so and stuff so I guess its worth it. Usually, by the time we get up, we are always sooo out of breath and we just need to stand there for a few minutes to catch out breath. Also, it's really hard to see our friends now when we're all the way on the top floor and they're on the ground floor. I am secretly envious of them.

Other than that, I also gained a few jobs for the school clubs and such that I really did not see coming. I don't know how i'm suppose to cope with all the responsibility. So, first things first, I was elected as cheer captain for the blue house and I can really feel the pressure. I mean, leading a whole group is not easy. I've never really done it before but I can already imagine how it'd be like. But at least one of my best friend is joining the cheer group this year so at least i'll have some support. Besides that, I was also elected Vice Chairman for the Girl Guide Commitee(?). That's a really high position for me and just to even get that title is so huge for me.

So yeah, that's basically what has happened in the past week. Nothing much so far but i'm sure more interesting things will happen in the future. I need to prepare myself for things that i've never experienced before and i'm kind of looking forward to it. I have to go now but I wish you all good luck with the schooling year and i'll try my best to see you all again next week! Let's just hope I won't be too lazy to update my blog. haha. Till here, cheerio.

Song of the Week

If you all don't already know, I am very obsessed with Ed Sheeran. He has got to be one of my favourite musicians out there today and I just admire him a lot. So this weeks song choice is Sofa by Ed Sheeran. Weird name I know. But I just love how the song goes and how can you turn Ed Sheeran down, I mean, he is a musical and lyrical genius. It honestly doesn't matter what kind of music you listen to, you are sure to fall in love with this guy. So go check it out! :D