Cameron

We came back from Cameron two days ago.

And it was soooo nice up there cause the weather is so cool as compared to KL.

To put it into perspective, I was reading the newspaper today and I saw the weather forecast for Kl and Cameron. The minimum temperature for Cameron was 16C and the maximum was 24C, but in KL the MINIMUM was 24C and the temperature peaks at 33C.

So yeah, you can imagine how cold it is up there as compared to KL.

I miss Cameron already. =(

We stayed at this hotel called Hotel De La Ferns. Basically our room is one huge room that has a door seperating the two sides of the room.

Our hotel room.

It was nice and spacious enough for the eight of us. Slight problem we had was that there was only ONE TOILET.

Can you just imagine? EIGHT of us sharing ONE toilet? Now that's an adventure. Lol.

The first night there we had steamboat at the hotel and it was soooo good. I love eating steamboat in Cameron because you tend not to sweat while eating. Lol.

At the steamboat dinner

The hotel at night. Quite nice right? =)

And we also did the typical Rose Valley, Butterfly Farm, tea plantation and Strawberry Park routine while we were there.

This is apparently a Black Rose. I see nothing black about it. Lol.

Apparently when I smile you can't see my eyes. It's quite obvious isn't it from the picture above that it's a family trait!

At the tea plantation:

Other random scenery pics:

Too lazy to write descriptions for the pictures. LOL.

Oh, one of the best things that I did when I was there was going for a walk with my dad and Anis to the Tanah Rata town, which was 2 km away from the hotel. We went there for breakfast and to catch the sunrise.

The walk was soooo nice cause it was so cold that when I exhale, I could see my breath forming a mist. Lol.

And I seriously thought that I was gonna DIE when we walked back up to the hotel cause basically it was a mostly uphill climb for 2 km.

But surprisingly it was okay. Took us twenty minutes to walk back up to the hotel.

And we still had some energy, so we decided to continued walking past the hotel and go around the nearby golf course.

So all in all, I walked around EIGHT KILOMETRES that morning.

That will never happen in KL. I would pass out of dehydration before I can complete 5 km because I'll be sweating too much.

I hope I can go up Cameron again in the near future so that I could do some more walking!

I can't believe I just stated that line. Lol.

Pretty sunrise. =)

The row of (closed) shops at Tanah Rata. Lol. It was early in the morning, so no surprise the shops were closed.

Anis and I during breakfast at the mamak in Tanah Rata. Apparently Anis said I looked very Japanese in the picture. I don't see it though. Nampak bulat ada la.

The trek back up to the hotel. It does look somewhat scary, doesn't it?

We met this dog with her pups when we were near our hotel. The babies were soooo adorable. I wished I could hold the dogs. And they actually trailed us all the way back to the hotel and we were so sad cause we couldn't do/give anything to them. =(

So that pretty much wraps up the Cameron post.

Oh yeah, I saw this billboard quite a few times already:


And it was so strange to me to see a billboard with the Monash logo on it that on our way back I told my siblings to look out for the billboard and when we spotted it, my dad actually stopped by the side of the road just so I could take a picture of the billboard.

Having a picture proof of the billboard doesn't make it any less stranger though. It's still weird seeing this on a highway. Lol.

Okay. I've ran out of things to say. Hahahaha.

Nite everyone! =)

Somewhere Over The Rainbow.

Dear all,

I'm going off to Cameron Highlands with the family tomorrow.

Will be back in KL on Tuesday, so there'll be no updates till then.

Yep, I'll be missing one day of classes and one day of work. LOL.

Can't wait to go and see whether it is as cold as Anis claimed it was when she came back just now.

Don't miss me too much! Lol.

Love loads! =)

Run away. Run far, far away.

I got this email from my Internship Coordinator, Ms Adlina, sometime earlier this week:

Hi Alia,

It’s Ms Adlina here, from the Internship and Volunteerism Program, how are you doing? I would like to invite you to share with us your experience of your internship with BDO Binder which we would like to publish in our School website. Basically, it’s just to write a very brief description –in your own words - on how your internship helped/assisted/added value to your learning at Monash University. We also want to take a snapshot photo of you.

I was absolutely petrified because:

a) I don't think I have anything nice to say about my internship other than maybe something along the lines of "Doing an internship in BDO Binder or any other audit firm is highly recommended for students before they decide to pursue auditing in the long-term as they would be able to gain first-hand experience on the torture of being an auditor."

When I told Liyana about the email, she told me "You, me and Sham should go see Ms. Adlina and bombard her with reasons on why we don't have any positive experience in BDO".

I totally agree with her plan because frankly I don't think being at BDO taught me anything that's worth remembering other than that should I have my own company or become CFO/CEO /some other Senior Management position of some company (oh yes, I dream big. And I set these ridiculous benchmarks for myself. Lol.), I'll make sure that whenever a transaction is done, proper documentation would be there and proper authorisation is given so that it'll make my life easier and the auditor's life easier.

Oh, BDO also taught me that Monash is the place where I belong and that I was right when I said auditing's not for me.

b) I don't want my face to be on the school's website. I don't look good in pictures. -_-

So yes, I am seriously considering politely declining Ms Adlina's offer of being on the school website.

Don't Tell Me That It's Over.

Credit to Idris' Fb page

My boyfriend graduated on Wednesday. And I am so proud that he has graduated. =)

And as much as he wished that I graduated with him, I still think that I made the right decision when I decided to extend. Lol.

And I was properly introduced to his parents at the ceremony and surprisingly, he was more scared about me meeting his parents than I was.

Actually it was quite strange that I didn't feel scared about meeting his parents.

And what's funnier is that the parents decided to ask him questions about me rather than asking me themselves, so it's nice that he was interrogated on my behalf. Lol. (But you do know I would have gladly answered those questions myself right sayang?)

=)

Oh, SPM results came out yesterday and my siblings came home all excited and said that two girls from Melawati managed to get into the Top 10 list. So I was reading The Star online and I saw this list below:


And I am so proud that these two girls are on the list. Shows that Melawati is a good school after all. =)

But so sad that we're not yet in the Top 10 schools of the country.

Oh well. One step at a time.

Oh, I've started my RA work and basically right now I'm doing a lot of data entry because we're still at the stage of preparation stage. But I don't mind cause at least I can take my own sweet time doing the data entry and it keeps me occupied. Plus I'm getting paid more than I was in BDO. And I can go back anytime I want. So yeah, I really don't mind doing this. =)

Seeing how I need to perpetually keep my mind occupied, I've transferred some songs from my laptop into my pendrive so that I can listen to some songs while I'm keying the data in.

And I am so obsessed with these songs right now:

Lifehouse - Sick Cycle Carousel



I know it's an old song, but I've just discovered this song last week. Yeahhhh, a bit too late. But better late than never right? The chorus to this song has been playing in my head these past few days. I swear to God I think I listen to this song like every 30 minutes.

Amy MacDonald - Don't Tell Me That It's Over



This is another song I'm obsessed with. I've listened to her first album and liked it, so I was pleasantly surprised when she had a new song out. I absolutely love this one.

By the way, even though I love these songs, I'm still not sure what they're singing about. Hahaha.

I think that's about all I wanted to say in this post. I think.

Love laods. =)

PS: While I was typing out this post, I was listening to songs on my Winamp randomly and out of the 1053 possible songs to be played, this song came on:



How appropriate. Hahahaha.

PPS: I had no idea what title to give for this post, so I decided on the title of the Amy MacDonald's song as the post title. Yes, I am that lazy.

Maybe I should do that more often. Putting up song titles as my post titles.

Hmmmmmm.

I have run out of titles for my posts. Hahahahaha.

Apparently I look adorable here.

I seriously have not heard anyone calling me adorable in AGES.

I was goofing off cause I was bored and Acap MY BOYFRIEND (that stalker boyfriend of mine thinks that it's weird that I put "Acap" there and thinks I should be consistent when I talk about him and hence from here on forth he shall only be known as "My Boyfriend") and I had nothing to do while we were in Pavilion. So I ended up trying on these ridiculous hairbands and caps and hats and whatnots. And my boyfriend found it amusing to take pictures of me in all these ridiculous headgears. And this particular picture just had to end up on Facebook.

And so I have come to a conclusion that having a boyfriend who owns a Blackberry is very dangerous. Lol.

And it is still so amusing to me how people are so fascinated by my relationship with my boyfriend. It's like every little thing on our fb pages are being scrutinised by our friends. LOL.

Oh, by the way, I was bored yesterday, so I read up a photo essay on Time.com about Colourful Religious Festivals and then I saw this:


That, ladies and gentlemen, is a PIG. And it is so scary that they actually have a festival in Taiwan called the Pig of God Festival where they slaughter the heaviest pig they could find.

And it's even scarier that in order to make their pig heavier than normal, some people actually force-feed the pigs with SAND and METAL.

What.the.hell.

This totally takes cruelty to animals to a whole new level.

Mind you, I can't even eat pigs, so this by right shouldn't concern me.

But it does.

It's DISTURBING. Kesian the pigs.

Oh, and Anis was telling my boyfriend about how smart I am cause apparently even when I'm bored I still try to keep my mind moving. Which is true I guess, cause sometimes when I'm bored I end up doing Sudoku or Kakuro puzzles. Or read up random articles like the one above.

I like to keep my brain moving and frankly I see nothing wrong with that. Lol.

Okay, enough blabbing.

Oh wait. One more thing.

I'm starting my part-time RA job tomorrow! Wish me luck!!!!

Lol.

Nite, people. Love loads. =)

='(

I read this a few days back:

Indian boy found dead near Melbourne Airport

And it made me think, no matter how much some racist people can't stand being around other races, to murder a three-year-old boy is just beyond comprehension.

What could actually possess them to kill a boy who could barely think for himself?

I hope they rot in hell.

=)

I got the research assistant job!

I'll be starting next Tuesday and my lecturer said that there's a possibility that we might be going to Penang to collect data, with all expenses paid for. How awesome is that???

And the project that my lecturers are working on is about urban poverty, so should be very interesting, I hope.

And there's actually a Research Assistant room where I can do my work. With my own desktop computer. No more lugging around my laptop to do work! Hahahaha.

I really can't wait to start! Wish me luck!!!

I'm so excited now!