I'm one of those people who can never welcome Mondays with open arms. I love the weekend too much that I start counting down to Fridays every Monday! I know I'm horrible. Although today was an exception as it was a public holiday (Salam Isra' Miraj to all Muslims!) and we had a family day out.

My mom just came up with a spontaneous idea to go watch the sunrise at the beach and just having a family day out. I was excited for this one as I have had failed attempts on catching the sunrise due to my love of sleep. So once we decided to go for it, we went to get preparations for the morning and I even invited my cousin and her family to come join us! It would have been nice if everyone from my family could come but since it was last minute, we couldn't invite everybody.

So morning came and everyone woke up late; we missed the sunrise. I was so upset but I kinda knew that we couldn't get everyone ready in time to catch the sunrise anyway cause who are we kidding? We love sleep! So I waited for everybody to be ready and headed to the beach at once. I was surprised to see that the beach we went to was full with people, and even more surprised that people can wake up that early to go exercise as most of them came with their bikes and sports attire. But I was also so so proud of their determination to wake up early to workout. Hats off to you guys!

Anyhow, seeing how it was packed and we didn't get the chance to secure a spot to put our stuff (and food) we decided to just play around for a bit and go to another beach. Hence we went to another beach near by just to relax and eat our food. We packed some light food and even bought milo kotak! Milo is bae. Milo is everything. So it'll be ashamed to not eat them after all the trouble. The beach wasn't as packed as the first one though but one thing I couldn't bear was the heat as it was really really hot but then again despite the heat, I still went down from our hut to the beach to take photos of the sea. What's the point of going to the beach and not take photos of the sea right?

Although we didn't do much except ride our bikes, eat, take photos and just talk to each other but I felt really relaxed. After such a hectic week, this was much needed. Spending time with the people I love especially my family is a good way to re-energize. They should make Mondays a public holiday so I'd look forward to a new week all the time.

Hope you guys enjoyed your long weekend like I did! Here's me trying my best to post more in the future. Let's see how this goes (I say this all the time, I know, don't judge me). Enjoy some photos that I bothered to save from today. Hehe.

It has only been one week after our mid-semester break ended and we had to go back to this place called university. Only one week and already, the amount of assignments thrown at us is unbelievable. Well I guess it's no surprise as we're going towards the end of the semester but this week has been quite stressful for me. Bad things happened since Monday and the day after was more or less the same.

It was all rain no sunshine kind of week as the following days were similar as well and thats when I told myself I needed to do something before things get worse. By worse I mean me, thinking negative about everything. So on Friday I had a little "me-time" as I told myself to take a break from everything and I honestly felt so much better at the end of the day.

And comes the weekend! A stress-free weekend I should say because thanks to the weekend, my stress level decreased.

There are two parts of my weekend and both consist of me spending time with my family!

1st part: Saturday night

My family from my mom's side came together for a "doa selamat" for my aunt who recently received an award during Teachers' day. She is obviously a teacher but she is also a part time student and as far as I know, she has been scoring mostly distinctions on her exams. I am really inspired by her as she is juggling a lot at one time but still managed to score distinctions. If you're not jealous of that then there must be something wrong with you.


We also celebrated the people whose birthdays are in October. AND I can't emphasize enough on how much I loved the cake that night! I've always, ALWAYS loved Bakerlyn's Snow White. We bought the cake for my dad's birthday last February and I thought last night needed a wonderful cake as that as well. So I told my mom to buy Snow White and she did, and my tummy was happy.


2nd part: Late Saturday night till Sunday Midday

Second part of my fun filled weekend was staying over night at Mangrove Resort Paradise at the new villa. My nephew turned one today and his family wanted to celebrate his birthday at Mangrove and they decided to let me tag along. I couldn't be happier when my cousin invited me because I thought that was what I needed to release my stress. What could be better than spending the time surrounded with amazing people, the river and the forest? Nothing!

The villa wasn't that big but it was enough to fit all of us. It consists of three bedrooms, one living room and one kitchen. There's also a Jacuzzi outside on the balcony but the water wasn't as warm-hot as I thought it would be. The buttons weren't working well though so I think that's part of the reason why.

This morning, we tried to catch the sunrise so we went up to the tower! It wasn't really a tall one but it was just right. Although we weren't patient enough to wait for the sun to actually rise up, the view was beautiful nonetheless. The one thing that disappointed me was seeing the river filled with trash/garbage. The view of the river and the forest was amazing but seeing garbage in the river was a definite turn off! But other than that, everything was amazing.



I wish to come with my own family here too someday! (Mom I know you are reading this so let's go next time!)

I also took the advantage of the beautiful view to capture my #ootd pictures. Hehe.





I also bumped into one of my close friends as I was on my way to my car. We've met each other at the same place before too and it's funny that it happened again!


On a different note, I just wanna say Happy birthday to my cousin and my nephew!!

Arif Fayyadh

Nurul Kamaliah

P/s; What I mentioned above were only the surface of what I did during my weekend but what matters most is now, I am welcoming the new week with a clearer and positive mindset!

I hope all of you enjoyed your weekend as much as I did and I hope life is treating all of you well!

Sabrina Yussof

It's no doubt that I have been crazily busy with assignments, revisions and all that as the semester is ending. I haven't been going out to watch a movie or go out to shop cause I would either be studying or sleeping. I had a moment where I just wanted to give up but I know that wasn't an option. Everything has been so so hard but I'm still alive cause I have amazing, wonderful people around me to support me in every single way. They lift me up when I fall (not literally cause i know they'll laugh at me for falling down instead of helping me up), they make me smile even when I don't feel like it and I am constantly incredibly thankful for each and every one of them but with everything that is going on, all I needed was just to step back, breathe and rest and I did that yesterday.

TelBru had a family day yesterday where they rented the whole of Jerudong Park Playground for the staffs' families to enjoy and I was so so SO happy that we get to go on rides for free and the best thing about that was... no long queue. You read that right guys!! No long queue!! I bet you're jealous of me now! OH and they even rented the waterpark!! I regretted not bringing extra clothes though cause I would loveee to jump in the water especially on a hot hot day.

But the highlight of the day was, I FINALLY WENT ON THE ROLLER-COASTER! I went to JP playground a countless times but I didn't have the courage to go on the roller-coaster cause it looks scary. On my way there I kept whining and asking myself "why am I going to the roller-coaster.." "what am I doing with my life" "WHAT IS LIFE!!!" I kept saying that until I sat down on the seat, and when it finally started moving, I closed my eyes. I was basically closing my eyes 98% of the time, and that other 2% I told myself, ok, open your eyes now and when I did, I regretted that decision so "nope, keepin them close" I didn't scream on top of my lungs though cause yea I didn't have the courage to even open my eyes! but I didn't regret going on the roller-coaster. Well maybe a bit, but one thing for sure.. I am never...ever going on one again and If I happen to go to JP Playground again with my friends and they insist on going on the roller-coaster.... I'd say no. NOPE. NOT AGAIN!!!! IM NOT RISKING MY LIFE TO GO ON THAT THING AGAIN. I'm just gonna sit there... and think about life... and how happier I am to be sitting down instead of going on that scary thing.

I went on the carousel twice too and I was tempted to go on it the third time but the person in-charge was looking at me as if I was crazy so... better not! Afterwards, we went on the bumper cars too and my sister.... sigh my sister.. she hit my car and I moved from my seat! YES! I moved to the seat next to me.. and not to mention, strangers also hit my car countless times. I think they were planning it from the beginning cause I was squished by 3 cars.. sigh, so painful. BUT IT WAS FUNNNNNN!!!


So... to sum up, I was thankful to have a good day yesterday despite everything that has happened to me for the past few weeks. A little advice to everyone, even if you're busy with work, don't forget to take a step back, and give yourself space to breathe. You'll realize you'll be more happier and more motivated to do your work after that.

To those trying to finish up their assignments or going to sit for their exams soon.. I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST!!! You guys can do this!!! We all can :)


Sabrina