Haris update

6 April 2009 at 12:37 am (Friends, ToyVoyagers)

Today I got 2 cards from Valerie :) each sent from Strasbourg and Rome. She’s one of the cool buddies I have recently known and maybe coz she’s been keeping Haris so she’s even special and lovely to me :D 

Here’s Haris on Paris TGV speed train (though am wondering why he wasn’t looking outside lol)

And after visiting Rome, we had to say goodbye to Val as she was going to countryside to study which means a leave from Postcrossing for a few months :( 

Haris is now with Kriszti Szirmaik in Paris, and they’ll be going to Budapest for Easter!

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Untitled

30 January 2009 at 1:32 am (Friends, Life)

I think I have been weird. I’m trying to approach new people I am not supposed to. On the other hand, I keep forgetting people around me, who already belong to me, or who used to belong to me and actually still does (in perhaps a different way). I am speaking of friends, boyfriends, well you know these kinds of people. When I think I am left alone and have nobody to speak and nothing to do (hence the sudden and weird keep-yourself-busy stuff), I have actually got many many things I have kept aside for long. 

I have some long-delayed letters to write. Many emails to reply. But I don’t feel like doing. Since October I did not actually lose contact with Ado, but with many of my friends. I feel so lazy to write about what has happened, it’s sure thing. Why did I quit job? Why did I go to do Hajj in a sudden? It’s a long story now I don’t even know where to start. So I leave it just like that. Lalalala.. *rolls eyes*. I feel hopeless. Maybe the shortcut: ask them come and read this blog and at least you’ll get 50% of the idea about the heaven and hell of these few months to me. But I don’t like my friends to read this blog, as much as I don’t like my family to. Haih.

Just now I was chatting with one of my UIA classmates who’s now still in there doing Masters. Though we were quite close back then, I haven’t spoken to her since the convocation day. I asked her about referee thing to do Postgraduate studies. 

A: What makes you want to do Masters in a sudden?

I: Coz I quit my job

A: Whyyyyy??

I: …

Hence the long stories. I don’t know how many times I have repeated the same stories every time I chatted again with my old friends. Sigh. So tired. And many of them didn’t even know about me dating Ado in the first place because when I was in UIA I was very good at covering up :P Maybe only Lenya whom I have told 80% of everything. And Isuma half. I didn’t want people to know because I knew from the beginning it wouldn’t work :P :P

And now the far away friends. Maybe I’ll just print out some papers looking like tabloid newspapers with all the news and tragedy happening since October, make like 5 copies and distribute them away. The headline should write, “HOT! ILYANI LEFT KL AND BF, WENT TO DO HAJJ, QUIT JOB AND NOW WANTS TO STUDY AGAIN! Full stories page 2-20″ And make PDF version for those contacted by emails. Heh. Thing is I just don’t feel like writing it in the first place. Bleh.

It’s 1.30 am and I’m blogging craps again. I should be sleeping.

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Imajica meets Postcrossing founders!

6 September 2008 at 11:42 pm (Friends, Photos, Postcrossing)

Disclaimer: This post contains unextreme bragging elements. But don’t be too jealous okay! ;) Muahahaha.

Paulo, Ana, Imajica

Paulo, Ana, Imajica

At Old Town cafe, KL

At Old Town cafe, KL

Finally I met my celebrities! :D

Who would have thought Imajica could be so lucky? After failing to meet them last time they were here, I was so surprised by the news that Paulo and Ana were coming down to KL again, and this time quite a perfect timing as it’s Saturday and I was (finally) available for a meetup this evening. Charlie Dale and Asianpunk were there as well having dinner at OldTown cafe near KLCC. Yay and I’ve got a bunch of postcards exclusively autographed by them here I can possibly sell on eBay :P Just kidding! Let me know if you’d like one :)

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The Chronicles of Flat Tyre – continued

4 August 2008 at 4:36 pm (Friends, Life)

Looooooong Saturday and loooooong story. But to make it short, I went to some shops around Puchong area with Adam and Azmir and got a new tyre for Kelisa. RM140.

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The Chronicles of Flat Tyre!

1 August 2008 at 12:09 pm (Friends, Life)

Sigh, I was making a fuss for nothing! What was I thinking? Ado’s the only person on earth who could help me with the car? That’s a true MYTH! Let me tell you, IRIS has got many many guys who can help changing your flat tyre! :)

Haha funny but true, I thought only Nik would come to fix my tyre, but after work yesterday it seemed that he informed some other guys as well, so Taufik came too, and Adam, and Azhar, and OMG some other guys from other dept I dont know their names. Gathered around my poor car at the edge of the road as if they were having party there. So I was watching every single step of changing flat tyre, using some tools I don’t even know the names, and I didn’t even know their existence inside the boot. Anyways. At least next time I get a flat tyre and noone to help, I guess I can do it by myself :) Wow, do I sound like a super woman? Heheheheh.

But. As the spare tyre was out of air so Azhar offered his equal Kelisa spare tyre for my car to wear until I get my broken tyre fixed. And after all those thanks-goodness moment that I can finally drive my car back, I went to some workshop near Sg Besi to fix the tyre, but they said it’s totally broken and cannot be fixed :/ Alamak. So they suggested to change new one. How much? RM160. I didnt have money right now. Anyways I told him to fill up my spare tyre with air so I could use and give back Azhar’s spare tyre.

Hmmm it seems my newly-gotten salary will be spent on a new tyre somehow.

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The birthday: full story

22 June 2008 at 9:22 pm (Friends, Life, Whatever)

Hi WordPress. I thought in this post I would show off my picture with Ana & Paulo :-) But I can’t. Because I didn’t meet them the other day.

I am too lazy to recall the day. I knew I was going to see them, so I planned to sleep early and get enough rest on Thursday night so I would have enough energy for the whole 24 hours of Friday. And I hadn’t thought that Ado would remember about our earlier plan to celebrate my birthday together. But he did, so on Thursday afternoon he was checking with me if we were gonna meet on Friday. And he already had my birthday card and said he made himself free just for the birthday meeting. I told him I was going to meet friends at night, so I could see him during lunch hour. He didn’t want lunch hour, and I wasn’t thinking so much, so I suggested Thursday night. There goes my time I was supposed to sleep early.

I couldn’t blame the meeting with him though. It was the birthday celebration I was looking forward to. I would say it should be the last time I spent my birthday with him. Yet it was actually also the first time. I was at home for long vacation on last year’s 20th June, and in June 2006 we were “disconnected”.

I wanted to write in details what my birthday celebration was like. The food, the cake, the card, the mood, the talk. But I don’t want to. Sweet memories can be a torture in future, especially when you’re not supposed to gain more sweet memories with a certain someone anymore. I didn’t even take any pictures. Though it was a happy day to remember, I have to tell myself not to think about that day so much.

So let’s move on to Friday story. Everything was ok though I was sleepy at office. I told my new colleagues that it was my birthday, and they greeted me in surprise. After work, I reached home around 6.20pm and was confused if I was still having that energy and mood to go to KL Sentral. Ana hasn’t called, I didn’t know if they have arrived here or were still stuck somewhere. I decided not to go, as I don’t want to ruin a meeting mood wih my sleepy and tired face. I sent Ana an sms telling about that. But the sms didn’t reach her.

Minutes later I got sms from Ana but other number telling that they had just arrived and asking if I was still around. I checked back the last sms I sent her wasn’t yet delivered. I replied her sms again telling that I would come. But again the message was pending from being sent. I knew it was going to be a disaster. I don’t want to be someone who doesnt turn up in a meeting without telling first. So I decided to go there though it was a bit late. Yes in a sudden I forgot that I was tired and sleepy.

I reached KL Sentral at 7.45pm and I checked McDonalds though I didnt expect they would wait for me anymore. I checked every restaurant in KL Sentral and was going round in same places a few times. I was trying to call them and sent multiple sms but why on earth communication fails at really really REALLY critical times???? My messages kept pending, I dunno why, coz I did send Ana a message 2 days earlier and IT WAS DELIVERED after a few minutes despite of foreign number in foreign country whatsoever. I didn’t expect it could turn out like this now!!! :(

Can’t explain what I was feeling, I felt bad for them. I was supposed to come earlier anyway. I should have checked earlier about the communication thru stupid mobile networks who deliver messages only at times they feel like it but not during times when it’s really needed.

So on my birthday night I was wandering in KL Sentral until my legs got really hurt. Hehe. Not funny. I know KL Sentral is crowded with thousands of people but at least I kind of expected that I would spot them somehow in some restaurant (they say they’re coming for dinner afterall). Or is it too much for an expectation? I didn’t find them! I was sad and tired. Tired and sad. And hungry. Suddenly I had to have someone with me so I wouldnt be too sad and too tired and too hungry. So I called Ado and asked him to come to KL Sentral.

Hmph. And he turned up. We ate, we talked. He laughed at me for having excluded him on my birthday for some other meeting which turned out unsuccessful. Ugh. And he showed me his license he just got today, and his motorbike.

And only after that I checked that my sms to Ana were delivered, except one that I replied to her saying I would come, which was failed to be sent.

I should just throw out the phone.

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Ummmmmmmm… (cont’d)

11 June 2008 at 10:49 am (Friends, ToyVoyagers, Whatever)

Why must there be unpredictably un-nice people in this world?

Sigh, I am so tired. I am trying to be nice to people but what do I get in return? :( There’s someone who used to claim that we’re friends, and yeah we are, or at least we were, during our busiest participation in Postcrossing forum. I have only been in contact as friends, I mean more than as fellow Postcrossers, with Newrule, Aliah and him. I always thought he’s a neat buddy and sent me great postcards that made me smile and he somehow used to knock me some sense when when I was having hard times with Ado, whether he himself realizing it or not. He used to wish me luck for my jobhunting and even said something so motivating when I just got a job! But he suddenly disappeared and now never replies my sms!

He didn’t reply me since about 1.5 months ago, but I thought he was busy. But yesterday I again sent a neat invitation if he’s interested to meet my celebrity and have dinner with them as well. I mean, though it’s still undecided if I can make it to meet them, I’ve somehow started planning this and that. Hehe. Though I can go by my own, I thought it’d be fun if I bring someone with me. More fun if it’s a Postcrosser. And the only Postcrosser (or at least used to Postcross before) I thought available and lives in KL was him. So there, but I’m being ignored! What happened?

I asked Newrule if she’s still in contact with this person. I recalled that he stopped responding my messages after I didn’t answer his call. And apparently, Newrule says it happened to her, too, and she’s also been ignored. Ohmy, how so easily offended this guy is!

Mukhsin

Hmph. I am now so demotivated to think about meeting my celebrity. Plus, at a second thought, I think it’s inapproppriate to ask them to make a long trip to KL only to go back to the airport a few hours later.

Anyways. Everyone, say goodbye to Mukhsin. I’m sending him back to Aliah today. Bye bye, I’m gonna miss you! :~)

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Ummmmmmmm…

10 June 2008 at 10:38 am (Friends, Graduation, Life, ToyVoyagers)

I guess I shouldn’t write this out loud as a certain somebody may be reading. But this is my diary afterall. Some folks from Shanghai are coming down to Malaysia. Who are they? If you’re a Postcrosser, they’re your celebrity. And I want to meet my celebrity! I’ll take a picture of me with them and will show it off to Newrule, aliah, charlie dale, chat noir, ketupat.. perhaps the entire folks in the forum HAHAHA how cool is that?

Plus Ana has instantly become a neat new friend, that I’d love to meet her in person.

But a few things seem to avoid me from meeting my celebrity:

1) They’ll only be in the KLIA airport for a few hours on Friday night. That Friday happens to be my 25th birthday.

2) Never mind the birthday, it can be postponed even though I wanna have some celebration or anything. But on Friday I’ll still be working until 5.30pm. Can I still be driving for one hour afterwards (yet to count the traffic and weather)? Unless I get someone to drive for me, but..

3) If they come to KL from the airport it’ll be time consuming and I don’t want them to miss the flight back. And I never take that expensive ERL train myself so I wouldn’t recommend them to.

Haih. I’ll think about it later.

Yesterday UIA Alumni called telling that they have received my form and payment for the commemorative book earlier. And I asked, when the convocation day will take place? He said some time in late August, and they will be informing us the details.

I have to send Mukhsin the handsome cow back to aliah :-( I just realized that I’ve been overkeeping him for months without doing anything to update his travelog. Hmm, since the job I seem to be disconnected from Postcrossing, and ToyVoyagers. My camera’s display screen is totally broken, I don’t feel like using it anymore. I’ll send him to Aliah tomorrow, but maybe today I can still take some final pictures of him at least in my apartment.

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Desperate housemate

9 June 2008 at 11:42 am (Friends, Life)

Too much sleep and too much TV don’t sound like a healthy lifestyle. But until I get my own internet connection back, those are the only things I can do to refrain myself from going out over the weekend. Going out isn’t a harm, but going out to meet a wrong person, is. A wrong person who has been so nice lately as a friend. Hmm. A wrong person who asks when we could go out to watch a movie, as if he hasn’t registered in his mind about the breakup. The same wrong person who called a few times on Saturday morning acclaiming there’s a new shop nearby his area selling a washing machine at RM300 and offers to bring me there if I’m interested to buy. Whether there’s really a cheap washing machine or it’s just an excuse to meet me. Apparently right now I am not interested in both buying a washing machine and meeting him. My excuse is the shop should be too far for them to have a delivery to here, plus I don’t have much money left. Even if I have extra RM300 to spend, I would rather go for more important stuff than a washing machine. Like a broadband subscription, or sport rims for the Kelisa.

And hey, let me tell you something interesting. Guess who I went out for a dinner with on the boring Saturday night?? My housemate! Haha. I have been living in this apartment for one month and despite the fact that we live in a same house and share a same bathroom, I have only encountered with Rin less than 5 times in this month. So I decided to ask her out for dinner, and we went to Shakeys at Carrefour Sri Petaling.

I used to go out alone before, and though I am happy shopping by my own, when it comes to eating outside, it doesn’t seem fun if you’re alone. Go to whatever restaurant, everyone seems to have at least one partner or family member or a friend along. Eating alone seems too unhappy, isn’t it? I always get this feeling that people are staring at me and they must be wondering, “this girl must be very boring that nobody wants to eat with her”. How pathetic is that feeling! :-(

So now I am glad I have got a replacement someone to accompany me eating outside. And she’s my own housemate, lol, why hadn’t I thought this earlier. She’s 28, from Sabah, and apparently quite a nice conversationist. She was studying Communication Eng in UM but now works as finance exec for 5 years. Like me, she’s also an eldest sister of 4 siblings, except that all her siblings have been married and all mine are not. And there goes, I asked if she always go out during weekends, and she said she used to, when she had a boyfriend but no longer since they broke up last year after 3 years dating when the guy got married to his family’s choice. Eh? I just got to say my story too, now that I seem to have found a buddy who’s also (just) become single like me. Though I didn’t tell her every single thing about Ado, there she now has got a clue that I was suffering from an on-off-on relationship which only recently I have put an end to it for good. And when I said that Ado’s from Europe, her response was “must be handsome..”. Yeah, and handsome men are only pain in the arse, I never wish to have a handsome boyfriend! Good looks are not appealing anymore when a guy is bad and always failing his subjects!

Well I hope Rin doesn’t see me as a desperate housemate who now only ask her to go out because I simply dont have anyone else. Agh, yes I am desperate, so what. My uni colleagues are mostly still jobless and in their own hometown, and even if there’s Lenya working here but she lives in her grandpa’s home in Gombak and even so hopeless to make her drive to MidValley. And I can’t be any socialized with my work colleagues either, as most of them are married (!) and of course the guys are single but I don’t want them to have wrong idea if I ask them out :p

Therefore Rin is luckier as she still can go out with her work colleagues sometimes. Sigh. Why wasn’t I put into a department with more sociable work mates?

Anyways. I have survived a weekend without meeting a wrong person. Well not that I am too bored, you see. I have my own weekend routine too, like cooking and pampering face and body. And yeah, (hand)wash clothes too. I still cannot buy a washing machine.

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The (ahem..) announcement :-)

16 April 2008 at 3:06 pm (Friends, I got a job!!)

So my family and the rest of the family was the first to know that I’ll start working soon. And among the friends Lenya was the first to know as I was chatting with her on YM quite often lately, and her first feedback was “Tahniah. Hepi for you” :D Further, though I don’t have too many friends, I thought I had to inform some other relevant people about this just as well. Haha I know I’m too excited. Jangan marah ;)

sms

And further different responses for the sms:

Aliah: Tahniah! Leh blanja poskad nnt hehe

Akmal: Alhamdulillah dpt kijo dh ye. Ehe. Gud luck! Nati leh g derak umah ilyanila. Bilo g intrview iris 2? Cmpany gapo?

Isuma: Wow hbatnya. tahniah. ble stat kije.

Nora: Haha.. Poyo ar~

Chat Noir: Good for ya! Very best of luck in workin life & Allah Bless.

Amani: Congratz! Selamt memulakn idup berkerjaya! All d best! ^_^

Lenya (again): Huhu. gud luck okey!

Ado: u kate suprise? I have song 4u but xmuat sini.. nti i nyanyikn utk u. I dh bls email u. nti u tingal semenyih,. i pgi sane atau mcmne? My family got my surat..

What is this?? He doesn’t even congratulate or mention my job. Though it’s not that necessary but still. Hmm. I told him earlier that I might be coming again to KL if I start working and when he asked about the job I told him I would tell later so that it’d become a surprise. But hey, isn’t this a surprise already??

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