The theme for this year's Ramadhan Youth Challenge (RYC)... RYC has more or less motivated me to become a better Muslim. With the help of KPR, religious class and one of my religious class books, I am trying. Insyallah, I'll grab the opportunities provided by the upcoming month of forgiveness, Ramadhan. I hope my family and friends will help motivate me further. And I hope Allah will guide me. And you.

Anyway, check out this blog. It's very informative on Islam. And this site. It contains a lot of information on Ramadhan.

We humans sin practically everyday, but Allah doesn't give up on us, yet provides us with a lot of opportunities to redeem ourselves. Our sins can actually be turned into good deeds. Believe: Allah is most forgiving, he forgives our sins even if our sins are as many as the bubbles at sea (heard that somewhere, forgive me for not stating hadiths) on condition that he ask forgiveness from Him in the state of true guilt. Ramadhan is just around the corner. Grab this chance to ask Allah for forgiveness and amplify the QUANTITY of your ibadah. Insyallah, Allah will forgive us.

So envious of all those who did extremely well. I did well... well. But not well enough to be considered extremely well, cause I know I could have done better for MST sem paper. Like I kept telling myself, "I should have practiced more... I shouldn't have overlooked it..." bla bla bla. And OC, it's really good but I'm rather disappointed! I thought OC was my strongest subject, the results prove not. As for MST, I know I deserved it lar, should have practiced more!!!!

Oh well... Anyway, congratulations to those whom I considered had extremely well. Congratulations, but "you know you could have done better" to those who got results like me. Not bad, "work harder (and smarter) next semester and you'll reap what you sow" to those who didn't do so well. Last, but certainly not least, "don't despair, you still have time to get the results you want" to those who failed and need to sit for supp paper.

Haiz... Wish I'd gone over to Jamie's house for piano 'lessons'. Would have felt better I suppose.

(Oh God, cheer up Marliyana! Be satisfied with your results now while you can. Start despairing next sem, not now!! :()

PS. Sorry for being away for too long. Computer spoilt. During that time, I had some things happen to me that I could have blogged about then. But now... nevermind...

Hahaz, long title, but I think it pretty much sums up my night out with my cousins yesterday.

We wanted to watch the fireworks at Esplanade, but well... We were late, so we took a taxi there. Two taxis actually, which was the reason we lost Kak Dayah along the expressway... By the way, the expressway wasn't exactly an EXPRESS way yesterday due to INCONSIDERATE drivers who stopped their car in the middle of nowhere to watch the fireworks. Woitz, the newspaper tell you already right, TAKE PUBLIC TRANSPORT!!!! Really inconsiderate you know... As much as my cousins and I wanna watch the fireworks too, we didn't get out of the taxi until we reached Lau Pa Sat. WE, unlike YOU INCONSIDERATE I-DUNNO-WHAT (don't feel that they are fit to be called humans, not even monkeys. Well, at least monkeys would have jumped off the bridge instead of clogging up the expressway...), TOOK INTO CONSIDERATION THE VEHICLES BEHIND US AND KEPT OUR BUTTS IN THE TAXI (I won't exactly say we kept ourselves in our seats cause that'd be stupid of us as we'd obviously miss the beautiful fireworks display) AND WE STILL GOT TO SEE THE FIREWORKS AND GET PICTURES AND VIDEOS OF IT even at the cost of our discomfort. Irritating know... What I refer to as inconsiderate was PARKING THEIR CARS ALL THE WAY UNTIL THE FIRST (EXPRESS) LANE, the taxi we were in as well as other considerate people had to squeeze through the space between the first lane and the divider. Sheesh...

Anyway, the taxi ride was... undescribeable. The taxi driver was really talkative. All the way before the fireworks started he chatted with my brother about clubs and hotels and what-nots. My cousin was like telling me, "Today they're chatting like old pals and tomorrow they'd meet up to go to some club." The taxi driver likes dangdut so much that he had an Inul's cd in his taxi lol. He was a 60++ chinese by the way. When the fireworks started, he joined in our excitement and was very kind to us, trying to help us get a good view of the fireworks despite the traffic jam.

Let's focus on the fireworks lar ok? Lol. The fireworks weren't really as spectacular as how I imagined it to be. It was rather simple considering today's the last day of all this fireworks thingy. Only towards the end was it pretty, golden flecks filling the maroon sky. I made a terrible mistake of taking a video at the beginning, which meant a lot of car tops and vans and lorries instead of the fireworks itself, and so I didn't have anymore memory space after that video, which meant that I could only take 5 pictures instead of 70 if that video wasn't there!!!!! Lucky, and I mean LUCKY my brother caught 3 videos of it, one of it which showed a very nice display. If not, it would have been such a waste of time, for me lar since my main agenda was to watch fireworks at Esplanade and take a video of it whereas my brother's main agenda was mainly to spend a Saturday evening with our cousins.

After alighting at Lau Pa Sat, we made our way to Esplanade to meet Kak Dayah, which we didn't at the end anyway cause she got lost. Along the way, we took lots of pictures of ourselves and the night scene there. Got some pretty nice pictures, though a lot of the pictures of my brother and me were blurred, aiya. After reaching the Esplanade and knowing that we won't get to meet Kak Dayah, we made our way across the padang to the Memorial, which meant more pictures!!!

I dunno what else to write about, so... Photos!

Haha, I dunno what I feel. I have a lot to say, but it's like I feel words can't really put across what I really wanna say. Been bottling up my feelings. Not all are bad, many are good. Erm... I'm like speechless lol. Guess I'll just go to sleep now. Forget about updates. I'll just lose my entries at the end anyway,

Just thinking: Wish I have photoshop and know more about html. I wanna have a personalised blog that makes me feel brighter, happier as how I think everyone should be....