Banjir

Hujan... Hujan... Hujan... Bukan, bukan hujan yang band tu. Tapi hujan, Air. Ayak. Water. Bond yang terhasil antara dua atom hidrogen dan satu atom oksigen. H2O. Dah seminggu hujan lebat turun setiap hari. Berhenti sekejap, datang lagi.

Dah lebih kurang lima tahun pula kawasan perumahan aku nie tak kena banjir. First kena banjir tahun 2004 time aku darjah satu. Masa tu aku dengan abang aku masih kongsi bilik, tidur katil double-decker. Dia di atas, aku di bawah. Lepas tu bila aku bangun pagi dan nampak air naik, aku kejutkan abang aku and I was like :D

Happy lah masa tu sebab dapat main air.

Some Random Poem

If I could just embrace you ever so tightly

So you know that everything's okay

That the end is far from where you're standing

That the truth is, the end is never there

But I couldn't

Because you would just push me away

Gently so I won't get hurt

And tell me you're fine

When you're not

I know a lie when I see one

In reality,

The damage you've done is through your deception

How can I say this to you

When you won't even listen

Ears opaque of the incoming voices around you

To assure you

To brighten you up

But you just won't listen

It's tough, undeniably

But still I understand not

The predicament in which you are in

I can only blame myself

For I am not good a company

Many times I have left you

Many times, I wasn't there

O great warrior

Hold your weapon in pride

You might find yourself alone

And not a single human to help you

To bring you up when you're down

But how can they,

When you have shielded yourself

From their very protection?

My apologies, my dear friend

It was never your fault

I should've acted when I had the chance

But I let it go

I let you slip from my fingers

Like a child letting go of her kite

So there you flew

Out into the open sky

Never to return

Never to come back

Nuraini, 2013

There you go. Randomness. If you could, find the theme, moral values, settings etc. haha okay goodnight :)

Math Quote

I was getting my brain abused by all these college application essays that I decided to get some help from someone. There happens to be a college that asks me to indicate my "intellectual interests" and what it is about them that makes them so special. So I decided to ask my mum this: How do you define Mathematics?

She took a deep breath and replied:

"Mathematics is all about logic and never magic. Everything that you come up with has reason behind it. Although mathematics seem solely about numbers and what not, those "numbers" don't just appear out of nowhere. The units even. You can't simply poof up RM20 from 20."     -Mum

Deep. Those weren't her words exactly though, but close enough. And I nodded in agreement. Well, she is my Math guru. Logic. Mathematics is about logic. I began tap-tap-tapping on the keyboard again. I sighed.

Through these college essays (which are mostly due by early next year), I actually learnt to dig deep into myself. These essays aren't your typical English language exams. They're more of trying to get you to know yourself, and really I was able to reflect on numerous things in my past.

Think of it this way. Literature. In English class,

Tiramisu Recipe

This would be my first ever post on recipes. Coz I love food. Especially desserts. But ever since I entered a boarding school in the capital (not Capitol), I rarely had the chance to make desserts any more. Haha. Used to make cheese cakes, puddings, jellies and more cheese cakes a few years back. (I'm mad about cheese)

Tiramisu. Very simple really. So penguins, buckle up for a mouth-watering tour :D

Ingredients

All here :)

• 200g whipped cream
• 250g cream cheese
• 30ml fresh milk
• 80g icing sugar (less sweet)
• 20pcs spongefinger (no, these are not Spongebob's)
• 1tbs coffee + 200ml warm H2O
• cocoa powder

Beaten cream cheese. Ouch!

1. Beat the whipping cream until it becomes... creamy.. Be careful not to over beat. Some signs of over beating include cream getting watery and rough
2. Beat the cream cheese until soft. Add milk and sugar. Beat some more until bater gets light
3. Add the two creams together. Set aside.
4. Mix the coffee solution. Dip the spongefinger in the solution on one side and place it in a container. Repeat until the bottom of the container is fully covered.
5. Spread a portion of the cream on top and sieve the cocoa powder on top.



Line 'em up cover 'em

6. Repeat steps 4 & 5 until your resources have finished. I made up to three stacks. Refrigerate

Voila! :)

Remembering Death

Allah Almighty says, "Every self will taste death. You will be paid your wages in full on the Day of Rising. Anyone who is distanced from the Fire and admitted to the Garden, has triumphed. The life of this world is only the enjoyment of delusion," (3:185) 

The Almighty says, "When their specified time arrives, they cannot delay it for a single hour nor can they bring it forward," (16:61)

The most intelligent person is the one who often remembers death. Why? Because by reminding ourselves that we will one day leave this life that we currently live in, we will strive to make sure that the life afterwards (the afterlife) would be a pleasant one. 

Death does not mean that everything has ended. NO. It's just the fact that our soul has been separated from our "worldly" body, out of dunya and into another phase of life called Barzakh. A constant reminder of death convinces us that life has a meaning. That in whatever we do, it is not without reason.

One can never be so sure that he or she would still be alive in the next few minutes, or the next few hours, or the next few weeks, or the next few months, or even the next couple of years. It's unknown to everybody. Death is not to be feared, but rather to be prepared for.

Here's an amazing video I found on YouTube. 

Penang Again

Photo from internet

Ini bukan kali pertama aku menjejakkan kaki di Pulau Pinang. Kali kedua. First time aku ke Penang ialah tahun 2008. Masa tu aku baru nak masuk tahun 5 dan abang aku tingkatan 2. Cepatnya masa berlalu. Kini aku kembali (cehh) dengan tujuan menduduki SAT subject test. Sebelum kita pergi lebih lanjut, aku memang berniat nak buat kat Inti College kat KL tu. Lebih senang dan dekat dan murah. TAPI... masa aku daftar tu dah penuh.. *sob-sob* Kali nie kami bertiga ja, sebab abang aku dah masuk kolej.

Hari Jumaat sebelum bertolak, kami breakfast mee kolok. Dah halfway aku makan baru aku teringat nak ambik gambar. Maklumlah, dah lapar sangat. Hehe. Tapi jangan risau. Pak cik google sentiasa sedia membantu. Mi kolok nie sangat femes di Sarawak ya. Menu wajib kalau datang melawat. (Aku tengah promote nie)

Photo: Credits to this blog

Pergi KL naik Malindo Air. Katanya low cost, tapi aku tak sangka pulak ada screen kecik macam dalam MAS tu. Tambah lagi dia ada sediakan sedikit kuih dan air free. Best dan cool jugak la for a low-cost airline.

Comel...

Flight tu cincai ja. The real challenge comes with road travelling. Sekali lagi nie bukan first time aku travel by car dari satu negeri ke satu negeri kat semenanjung. Kali pertama masa aku pergi Johor tahun 2011. Tahun nie pergi utara. Dalam perjalanan tu pulak aku menahan lapar yang teramat, so singgah la sebuah R&R yang aku lupa nama tapi aku ingat yang R&R tu ada restoran jejantas. Di situ lah aku "melantak" nasi campur. Haha. Guna hiperbola sikit.

Teruskan perjalanan. Sampai di R&R Tapah, aku makan lagi roti kahwin benggali cicah nescafe. Nyum2.

Cair dalam mulut

Aku menyesal sebab tak sediakan fizikal dan mental yang utuh untuk melalui perjalanan ini. Aku sangka sekejap ja perjalanan nie.. Tapi malam barulah kereta yang aku naik tu menjejakkan tayarnya di bumi Pulau Pinang. Otw tu pulak aku terjumpa bangunan nie. Kalau tengok dekat-dekat, ada tertulis "Biotech Centre"

Aku tau aku noob =='

Stuck dalam traffic jam. Sampai Seberang Perai, bukak la Mr Map untuk mengelakkan kesesatan. Crucial investing needs to be settled soon, if you know what I mean. On the way pergi hotel tu, lalu la test centre SAT iaitu Dalat International School. After going through some windy roads, we finally reached Batu Feringgi where we would stay for the next couple of days.

Akhirnya bertemu jua dengan Hotel Budget Zahaar. Dari kejauhan dah nampak bling2 signboard dia. Pergh. Memamng stylo la hotel nie. Reception dia kat luar, macam kaunter yang ada kat kedai lobi. Pastu ada tempat lepak pula kat depan reception. Ala2 lobby open gitu. Hotel bajet la katakan. Aku tabik arh pemilik hotel nie. Ada wifi pulak tu. Mantappp (again with the promoting). Keluar rumah tadi pukul 7 pagi gitu, sampai hotel dah nak pukul 10 malam. Hardcore...

The not-so-very-big big day. Red letter day, I suppose? SAT. Sampai kat Dalat agak awal. Tengok most, if not all, of the test takers are >18 college students. Pastu nampak Maneesha, Vivian and Lim. Yeay! And I guess I'm the only one who came all the way from Sarawak. They should give me credit for that XD. Tiga minggu nak study SAT subject. Tak sempat nak cover semua. Aku tak beli buku, so aku cari resources dari internet selain menggunakan buku SPM. Minutes prior to exam, tawakkal ja :)

Music in Islam + Acapella

Before I proceed, I'd like to remind fellow readers that I'm not in any way influencing you. Rather, this is just to share what I have recently found through readings and videos on the internet. It all started way back in school, when a few of us were discussing about music, and that someone has discovered a video by Mufti Menk regarding the origin of music.