AMAN PALESTINE AUSTRALIA ROADSHOW & KHAZANAH LAST STAGE !!

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Hey there! Peace be upon you. 

So it's been two weeks since I promised to write about this Aman Palestine Australia Roadshow (APAR) right?

Okay. Basically this is a major event organised by Aman Palestine Malaysia, you can check them out here. And do give them support regardless in what terms you can either it is financially or just by clicking like and share to spread the awareness. All of those do matter! Thank you in advance. You guys are the best.

So for this year's event, we had Miss Farah Adeeba, Sir Robert Martin and this one more respected guy (whom I forgot his name) as the speaker for that Sunday night. I paid more attention on the context of Miss Farah Adeeba's speech because the way she presented it is full with emotions that really touched my heart. Plus she is very pretty as well and that catch my attention too hihi. 

Back to the content that she shared with us, telling about her experiences going to Gaza on 2012 and how does it looks like to witness these Palestinians suffer in their own homeland yet still tried to protect and provide the best for those activists who came to help. It is such a sad truth to be told. 

There's this one time she told us that she met a local boy in this one place and she tried to entertain him, started a conversation, playing toys and make him feel happy with the activists' presence. That boy smiled and looked so happy that time. Then, she did ask him a question. "Do you want to come with me to Malaysia and you can start a new life there?" *more less like this. 

The point is she asked him whether he wanted to leave Palestine or not* And guess what is his reply. A boy around 7 years old gave her this very mature answer; "I am a Palestinian and I won't ever leave my country." Oh my goodness. Look at how pure his heart is. I don't think I can give that kind of response at the age of him if I was being asked the same question. Can you see how patriotic these people are towards their country even though they have to face all those attacks and invasion by the Zionist, yet they still have the willingness to keep on fighting for their beloved land? Not to say the elderly, even this young little boy had portrayed such a noble reflection to make us think. 

What had we sacrifice to our country and most importantly, what have we done to help this Palestinians? What have we committed or contributed to them? Let's just reflect ourselves back. Getting the chance to be born is a very harmony country, being raised with a lovely family and able to go to school, meeting friends and any other nikmat that we got, do we really thanks Allah for all of these? Have we? 

They in Gaza, most probably won't have their parents anymore, they saw their family members being shot by the army right in front of their eyes. They have to starve and left alone to bear the breezing cold weather at night during winter. They have to sleep on the land. Like literally on the small stones with their hand as the pillow. Can you imagine that?

So in conclusion, let's start to nurture and train ourselves to be more grateful. To help more people and to give the best of us to the community for the sake of peace and justice. Remember, do not EVER feel demotivated. As long as we all in this together, we won't lose. Our job now is to start the actions. Help, donate and contribute. Allah judges you based on the effort, not the result. Start now! 

This is the part that I think gave the most significant impact on me that night. And I hope it will be the same on you who read this. 

And the rest of the night, we have another two speakers delivering their talk and at the end of the event, we had bidding session which is so lit! Hahaha this is my first time experiencing it and I didn't expect that it could be very fun. Lel. 

I did volunteered that night whereby I supposed to serve the food to the participants. But then they switched me to this charity sale promoter. Apparently, I have to sell some stuffs that night. Great! 

mak cik kayo $$

It was indeed a meaningful night to be remembered ♥️

Oh and then I had a wonderful Monday and a cuak-Tuesday so far. LOL

Remember on my previous entry I asked for your help to pray for me 'cause I had this Khazanah interview? Ya it was yesterday. OMG! 

It went well alhamdulillah but I got this one story to share with you guys about the kelam-kabut-ness that I encountered minutes before the interview. But don't worry, I won't share it today. We keep it for next week aight? 

So teaser for next week's entry: Yayasan Khazanah Scholarship [FULL VERSION] 

*my bizarre experiences will be included.

Wait for it bebeh! 

And..... that is all for this week. Can't wait to share with all of you for the upcoming entry !!!!

See you guys soon xo

Si Penjual Tshirt APAR 2017;

Aini Syahirah

EID IN DZUL QAADAH

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Assalamualaikum and hi there!

How are you guys today? I hope all of you are doing great and had a very pleasant day. Oh btw, my day today is kinda awful tho hahaha. This morning, the tram that I rode stopped a stop right before mine and the conductor asked us to go down since that is going to be the last stop. I'm screwed man. I pretty sure I used up a lot of ATP walking a kilometre to class. Okay then I tried to make sure that my day is not gonna be spoilt by that incident. UNFORTUNATELY, as I went back to my stay, I accidentally miss one stop from the stop that I'm going. I swear to God I am so hungry and barai and wanna pengsan already cause I had class from 9-5 today and I just need my rest :') This incident once again forced me to walk back home aiyo sis barai gila harini. #healthylifestylenohal

Anyway, back to the topic that I wanna share today, just to inform you that I WONT SPREAD ANY DAKYAH. I STILL CELEBRATE EID-UL FITR IN SYAWAL. Please don't misunderstand ye ;)

So the thing was we had this Mega Raya celebration last Sunday (I know Syawal passed already haha) at Malaysia Hall and all the Malaysian students or parents or whoever has Malaysian IC are invited to come and join and most importantly to enjoy the free food. Yas that's what I like. And I did joined the volunteer team that day and my job is to serve the people with delicious and scrumptious and mouthwatering and yummy foooooooodddd. Thank God I got this part. It suits my nature tho haha. My shift started from 10 am and ended at 1. Even so, my hungry malay tummy cannot stand anymore so I went there earlier. To eat with peace before anyone else come (the event starts at 11 btw). Nikmat dia tu Allah saja yang tahu weh haha so I had these for my breakfast, brunch, lunch, high tea and dinner. Heaven on earth! Sesungguhnya nikmat Tuhanmu yang manakah yang kau dustakan (':

There are soto, green chicken curry, nasi himpit, ayam masak merah, acar etc

After my shift ended, I clocked out and straight away with very high determination go to my room and walk to my bed and lie down and pull my blanket on and gracefully sleep. What else rite? Lol.

In between Sunday up to yesterday, I do nothing much. Just a daily routine. Classes and classes again. But today is kinda special because I'd unlocked one more achievement! *standing ovation*

I took part in helping this one senior with his Honour's research about something related to optometric and vision thingy. Basically what I need to do is to complete this one AQ test, look at the moving dot, watched a one-minute story telling about Disney's princesses and have a minute Skype with his supervisor and himself and we talked about this flea creature incident happened at the Brighton Beach recently if I'm not mistaken. That's it and at the end of the process, he handed me a gift card worth $10 for Coles. OMG! I am legit happy haha. Settle dah groceries expenditure for next week alhamdulillah. Eh wait so by doing that, I got this ten bucks. Can I consider this as my first part time job here? 😝

I really enjoy this session. Both of them are so nice and full of encouragement! 

Esok jugak saya serbu Coles $$

Oh last one. Yesterday I went to a very decent coffee shop with kak Hana right after class and we had this hot chocolate. Fun fact about me is that I never been to a coffee shop before this like I don't even feel like to. Since I don't really into coffee, there is no dire need for me to go there. However, since yesterday, I think I'm gonna come here quite often. The ambiance is so calm and having a chit chat here is very satisfying tambah tambah bila kak Hana yang belanja hihi. 

Effort kak Hana untuk bagi nampak macam candid :P

Effort saya untuk bagi nampak macam hipster -.-

5 stars for you. Or should I rate you 7 instead? 

These are all for tonight's entry. Now is 12 am dy. I need to sleep #perksofbeingastudent

Before I say good night, erm *acah dehem sikit* *buat buat batuk* *awkward gesture*

Hampa........

Actually,

I have a news.

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I passed YK's fourth stage interview and I'll be having the last stage interview this coming Tuesday. Em nak mintak tolong doakan boleh tak? 🙈

Doakan supaya saya tenang jawab semua soalan yang ditanya.

Doakan supaya interviewer lembut hati nak award saya with this scholarship (yang saya teringin dari f5 lagi huhu)

Doakan semuanya dipermudahkan.

Doakan yang terbaik untuk saya.

Okay haha mintak lebih lebih pulak. Terima kasih semua. Yang sentiasa support and mendoakan. Semoga hampa semua murah rezeki and diberkati-Nya. 

Good night!

Future Yayasan Khazanah's scholar (amin 🙏🏻),

Aini Syahirah.

FIRST WEEK SURVIVOR YASS

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[I'm early to class that day (haritu ja la :P) so I took this photo of my lecture hall]

Assalamualaikum wbt semua!

It's been a very challenging and tough period last week for me. However.......

I SURVIVED!!! OMG HAPPYNYA ALHAMDULILLAH. TAKBIR!

I am extremely happy and relief for being able to go through that zaman kejatuhan emosi saya. And like magically after a week, I'm 90+% fine. Like before this, every single day I woke up, it feels like there's rock hanging down my heart. Sumpah rasa berat hati gila gila. I'm not saying this to make it sounded tragic but indeed, this is exactly what I've gone through last week. 

I think one of the reasons why I'm getting better is because of all these new friends and seniors I met who are very very very helpful, welcoming, nice and funny. I did met a girl who took the same major as me. I met my roommate. I met my Tun Syed's seniors. I met Indonesian, Vietnamese, Indian, Chinese and many more friends in my tutorial class. I met Dhuha, this one small and CUTE little baby. I met solo tourist from Malaysia. I met handsome mat salleh (jkjk) I enjoyed meeting them and I am very grateful to Allah for this chance to meet all these wonderful fellas. Basically, hari hari saya ditemani depa depa ni :') Thanks peeps.

I don't remember whether I did mentioned about my problem regarding the enrolment process in my entry before. If I'm not mistaken, I did. Rite? Anyway, I've been going to this student centre (we called it Stop 1) to settle this problem. New semester started dy but I didn't have my fixed timetable yet. What the fish is this? Istg masa ni memang serabut gila. Plus like if I go there at 8, I'll be served around 10. 'cause there was like an ocean of people there waiting for that same purpose as mine too. And after 5 days bertempur kat situ, on the fifth day, I managed to know what is my mega problem is. Fuh. Menguji keimanan betul T^T

And my problem is................ my previous academic background required me to take this particular subject as a prerequisite subject. WHY DONT YOU TELL ME THIS ON MY FIRST DAY HERE?? WHY NOW???? Ya Allah :') 

Apparently I needed to take extra subject. And I asked them how to arrange my study course and everything. Guess what is their answer. 

"Oh sorry, it is impossible. It is either you commence next year or you change your major." *more less like this*

Ketidakadilan apakah ini wahai Tuhankuuuuuuu.

I called my mom and told her abt this. *I can still feel the tension of that moment while typing this aiyo*

So after adjusting my study plan which I did on my own, I can see there's a shine of hope. Jeng jeng jeng.

Rupo ruponyee, boleh ja nak buat course ni and commence this sem. Cuma nanti ceq kena tambah satu sem lagi. And this make me stay here for 7/2 years. Erm k. As long as my enrolment process is done, I'm done. Kalau dia suruh start tahun depan, I will rush home and straight away delete the previous entry abt my first day here. Malu gila weh kalau jadi centu ya Allah nauzubillah.

K my tragic story ended here. 

So today I wanna show you guys some of the people and activities that I've done with them minggu lepas.

Fairuz (middle), Kak Hana (right), chicken curry and rice (beside me)

During Dr Rafidah's sharing time. She's a lecturer in USIM (USIM student where you at 😜)

Induction with the APAR team *I'll share about this next week ;)

These are some of the activities that I did last week. From halal restaurant hunting with Tasha, iftar with Kak Zati at Nene Chicken (oh my goodness guys the ayam is damn nice!!!!!!), mini forum with Dr Rafidah about Islamic Liberal in Malaysia, usrah at the Shrine of Remembrance whereby we get to know abt the history of that memorial building that had cause awful impacts to us as muslim society and and also this story-telling kinda meeting regarding Palestine's issues with this awesome squad and many more. I am beyond grateful for these. This weekend we have Mega Raya at Malaysia Hall (free fooooooood) and next week, I'll be joining this one Aman Palestine Australia Roadshow. InsyaAllah I'll update about this fortnight from now. (I did alrdy. Here to read.)

Next!

Presenting to all ladies and gentlemen *drum roll pls*

MY LECTURE HALL 😍

Okay for my classes, at first I found it is a bit difficult to cope with the content, lecturers' accent, heap of quizzes that come out of nowhere and the venue of my class. I was lost like average 4 times a day pft. But as the time went by, I learned something. I read lecture notes before class (poyo idc), I deadly try to do all the quizzes even there's this one set I only got 2/20 lol and I figured some shortcuts to my classes in case I'm late. I will definitely use this haha. Tbh, to switch from science to commerce is a huge challenge and responsibility that I need to deal with. Pray for me everyone hihi ☺️

But overall, I think I started to love things here already. Everything is still under control and I'm still trying the best as I could!

Tambah tambah bila ada free lunch dekat uni. Lagi suka. #meow

Free food is the best food. Eh no mama, your cook is still my fav.

Um I guess I can stop babbling now. Not many people are gonna read a super long and dry post anyway hahaha. Thank you for reading till this last few words guys.

Ha dok baca apa lagi tu? Bye xx

Bakal ilmuwan,

Aini Syahirah.