Monthly Archives: June 2015

Missing Home

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As mentioned earlier, I’ll be celebrating (I love) Ramadhan(!) in few cities/countries.

‘Ramadhan in…’ checklist:

✔️Cairo, Egypt

✔️Istanbul, Turkey

✔️England, United Kingdom

⚫️Singapore, Singapore (Pending)

⚫️🙊, 🙊 (Pending)

Barely a year away from home and so much have changed – good and bad.

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Conversation with Shafa the other day:

Me: You know, I’ve been away from home for less than a year and so many things have changed. I’m not sure to look forward to home or not. I wonder when I get back here (uk) for the remaining duration of my study, what else will happen (in sg) given the fact I have nothing else to lose.

Shafa: Well, things happen.

*exchange the ‘I feel you’ look*

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Have you ever wondered what your housing area looks like from a bird’s eye view?

I got curious and looked up on Google Earth and found this.

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Just looking at this comforts me.

And yasssss, I live in one of the heart’s perimeter.

❤️

Singapore…. I’ll see you real soon In Syaa Allah!

Feeling Mutual?

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Few people have been asking my where being…. So!

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Cairo, Egypt! and I’ll be blogging them slowly, part by part yeah.

This was taken on the last day that I was there. It’s as if she didn’t want me to leave.

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We wanted to go out to grab last minute stuff for me but when we saw the dust accumulated through the shut windows, along with my low tolerance of heat, MISSION ABORT! MISSION ABORT!

If you think the weather forecast is not telling the real situation…. Lemme show you…

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Tadaaa!

If it’s a wet country, it’d probably rain cat, dogs and thunderstorm but since Egypt has got more sand than water, sandstorm it is.

Pfft…Who needs Sephia filter from Instagram?

Before coming here, I remember the days in UK was very sunny and bright, not to mention warm. I was a little worried that the temperature would be higher when I come back but noooooooo….

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The sky was grey and filled with clouds. Ready to mourn for my presence. *smacks head*

This happens everytime! E.ve.ry.time.

No matter where I fly in or train/bus in from, I’m always greeted by upset sky.

Sigh…

I guess I should’ve stayed in Egypt longer.

Hyde Park Kinda Day

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Rewind back to Mid April during Spring….

We just happened to hit Hyde Park on the ‘hottest’ day of the trip. Of all days… Omagash, of all days, London just had to be hawwwt when we were going to the park. Just thinking about it makes me want to melt into a puddle of sweat.

Ishh…

We set our base camp (read: sit and chill) under a big tree.

Tips on spotting asian in a park: They look for shade.

Guys be shirtless and in berms playing Frisbee under the sunlight while there I was, in 2 layers AND under the shade. #FAIL.

As time pass and the sun moves (or earth, whatever, this is not geography class), so does the shadow of the tree. We moved few times (to follow the shadow *rolls eyes*) and finally gave up.

While some of them went around continuing their personal project, Nana and I decided to have some fun.

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My personal project with the Cikgu (teacher)…

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Yup… We decided to climb a tree ….and we were noisy AND dramatic! Hehe.

#citykidsproblem

But don’t worry, no casualties yaw, cause we

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Totally made it.

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If the trunk that I’m holding on to on my right arm could speak, it’d say, ‘PLEASE STOP CHOKING ME. I’M NOT BREAKING ANYTIME SOON.’

My left arm was numb cause it felt so vulnerable not holding on to anything in case I slip, fall and my reflexes aren’t fast enough to grab on to anything. Gosh, body parts, have some faith in me!

Barely 10m (I’m exaggerating here) off the ground and so much mixed emotions – God, today’s not a good day for the tree trunk to break, the shoes to lose grip for me to slip and fall, any of the legs to cramp and etc.

In celebrating life that we made it back to the ground again (and alive!),

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Ahhhh…. Ground, How I’ve missed you.

Oh oh!

Do you watch Spongebob Squarepants?

I met Sandy.

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Almost didn’t recognise her without the helmet, suit and whatnot.

I think she’s working part time looking for acorn. Y’know…summer job.

Hehe.

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📷: Indriana / Me.

🌎: Hyde Park, London.

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Assalamualaikum geng!

One of the many episodes I remember during #pelinmunich is this:

Atikah: Aqilah, Is red or purple your favourite colour?

Me: Nope. Why eh?

Atikah: Your shawls and clothes tone are all reddish-purple colour range.

*In head: That’s it! What time is it, Aqilah!? It’s time to get more songket jackets yo!*

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Because it was a) a short trip, b) winter – need layers, c) I didn’t want check in baggage and d) My clothes need to complement my shawl, my shawls had to follow the colours of my coats.

Then one day, after the trip, I was reflecting on my songket jackets and realise that all, has dark pinkish / purplish / reddish shade, except one. Even my baby pink/green songket got that shade of red!

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📷: Atikah

🌎: Somewhere near Munich Residenz (Former Royal Palace), Munich

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Thinking of getting a few more pieces and customising a black songket jacket with another colour combo while I’m at it. Almost immediately my mind went, ‘Black and Purple!’

Well, brain, that’s definitely a no-no.

Hmmm… What colour should I choose for the second thread? Let’s worry about the motif later.