Something girly

My make up collection :) And you'll be surprised, I bought them mostly from a drugstore (Boots) The Bobbi Brown and Chanel of course, are gifts from my sister. I feel so girly! Actually, I barely use any of the products unless I'm going out or I feel like making up (which most of the time..hmm...once or twice) I'll be too tired to actually put on full make up. I probably would just apply eyeliner and bah bye. 

Heh, yeah. 

I don't have much going on aside from my awesome lunch today which I will post in the next post :)

     

Have I really grown that old?

After celebrating my 20th birthday on Sunday, I come to realise alot of things. At the moment, I am watching 101 Dalmations and it brings me back so much memories. I used to love Disney as a kid. I really do. And I would always watch all their old animations back then with such glee. It was one of the reasons why I love animations back then. Even if they were childish but did you know, it contained so much moral values that makes one so valuable to watch and learn? They're just not for children. They're for us as well. For humanity, for love, for inspiration.

Winnie the Pooh has always been my favourite animation. It held so much meaning about friendship, love, forgiveness and most importantly, to never give up.

What happened to today's generation's of cartoons? I am still glad there are a handful good ones out there but I wonder, what happened to value of it? Call me old fashioned or dated, but I don't know. Sometimes, it's best to reflect back at the past, and realise what are the good things that we missed out.

I love how when I watch them back again, there's this sudden burst of nostalgic moments where you remember bits and pieces of it. And it brings you much joy to know that you remembered them so well :)

You are my greatest gift of life.

Thank you. I love you.

Words can't describe how much you mean to me.

The Hangover

It's fucking 5.49 am in the morning. I can't believe after all that shots I've taken, I'm still up this early. I can't remember the last time I got hammered so badly. Oh wait, maybe I do. Either way, it was sort of my getaway from all the worries and troubles that I've been facing. I wish I was back home. Don't get me wrong, I love London. I love the bustling sound of people, the merging of old and new together, the parks, gardens, fashion, their dedication towards art and design..just so much more.

But when you live here longer, you see an ugly side of it. And you realise, it's just another messed up country. It's just one of those days, you wake up and realise that everything's just not the same. You don't wake up to the sound of the vacuum that goes on every morning, the sound of the prayers that rings through the halls, the sound of my sisters getting ready for school and most importantly, the sound of my boyfriend.

It's been almost what, 3 months since I left and that feeling of nostalgia is coming back. I know, it's only another 3 months before I see him again. But yesterday morning hit me hard. It's just not the same. I thank God for skype even though I HATE my internet connection but I thank Skype for still keeping us in touch. The fact that we've been through so much together, touches me. I thought I won't be able to find anyone to love because of my past experiences but when he came into my life, everything changed. We had our fights, had our ups and downs but in the end, we always find our way to each other. People have their doubts but I never did. I have faith in us. And that's how this blog's name came about. Faith.

I'll always have faith in whatever I do no matter the consequences and hardships. I want to be strong for the both of us and not crumble at petty things. Not that I want to be the controlling one but at least be strong for him. We came a long way from where we started and I'll treasure every single moment of it.

I'm turning 20 soon this coming week. Not sure if I'm looking forward to that. But I'll embrace the twenties with an open heart.

I love you, dear.

Always have and always will.

Things I wish I could do

I have some secret wishlists on what I plan to do on my birthday. Though it's not decided yet, but definitely, there are things I want to do on my birthday itself.

On my birthday, I will. (in no particular order)

• CALL MY MOMMEHHH! :D
• Spend sometime with myself (which the past few days, I hadn't been doing that)
• Spend more time with the boyfriend :) (MUACKS)
• Splurge on something (which well this time it's my birthday but we'll see how it goes)

Anyways yeah. Let's see how this goes.

Exhibitions!

Today was rather productive. I went to Alighiero Boetti's exhibition for my research. It turned out to be quite unexpected. It started off with installations where Boetti first started designing using just hardware store objects and anything he could find to make amazing pieces. After that, he started working with Afghanistan people where he seeked help from the women there to produce many pieces of embroidery of the world maps. From then on, he started experimenting with different ideas and methods as well as mediums. I didn't regret going for this exhibition. It simply opened up my mind to many possibilites of pattern making and such.

Here are a few pictures.

I am thinking well, since I am starting to get tumblr again, should I continue with this?

What I'm cut out for.

I think the sickness has gotten to me due to the fact I'm not eating very well.

Today I made my lunch! :D Lemon mushroom sandwich with potatoes and asparagus. With a sprinkle of thyme! It tasted yummeh and healthy :D And for dinner, made some salad with potatoes and tomato! I think I can do this healthy eating thing.

Eating fresh veggies without meat (and yes a restraining order on fish as well cause I realised my cholesterol level went berserk because of the seafood. In other words, it's bad D:)

No junk food definitely. So far, I haven't eaten any sort of junk food! So I'm pretty good :D I got myself oats as well! I used to love eating oats. I wonder what happened to that :/ Oh well, I think I'm gonna get an early night tonight.

:D

Teehee.

I finally got myself make up.

But no make up brushes.

Yay.

Time to man up!

No more junk food. Time to start eating healthy! I haven't been eating very well and my appetite is declining. I have to start eating a normal and healthy diet. Sadly today and yesterday, I have no idea why. I didn't eat much. And today I barely ate anything for lunch aside from bread, chips and a coffee. I don't even feel like eating dinner :(

No idea why.

And the whole of yesterday? Bread? =(

I love food but I don't know why I can't eat properly :(

Dinner!

I made dinner for my friends yesterday and it was a success :) I'm glad everyone enjoyed it! I honestly didn't think I could pull it off because there wasn't much time for me to prepare and some dishes were made very spontaneously so I didn't have time to taste it but overall, it was fantabulous :) The company's great as well! Thank you guys for coming! :)

Pictures!

The menu?

1) Potato Fries with thyme and sea salt

2) Mushroom with thyme cheese topping

3) Salmon terriyaki

4) Roasted chicken with lemon and thyme.

5) Strawberries! :)

More pictures will be up soon! This will do for now :)

It's time

It's one am here. I was dancing for a bit haha! Bored as I am, because working all day can be well, annoying. Anyways, I got back my results for my second term projects and I passed them all once again :) And the comments made me even happier! :)

I was seriously upset about my typeface project cause things didn't go too well but I was glad I did it. I pulled it off without backing out at the last minute. That, I was just really proud of.

I have definitely come a long way from being a clueless graphic designer and now, I understand fully on what I could explore with. It makes me so much happier that I'll be able to explore all these possibilites for my degree course. I definitely am dead set for a BA and it makes me happy that people do recognise that as well. I am going to work much harder than ever and do my best!

My new issue arrived!

My issue for the wildlife photographer of the year arrived! I had the Portfolio 21 which was the latest issue and the portfolio 20 just arrived today! I was so happy that I had to take a picture of them! I was glad that I bought it. Worth it :)

The photographs above were taken by our very own Malaysian photographer who's only 10 years old! :) Amazing! :D

Breakfast is golden 2

I cooked breakfast today! Eggs and mushroom with onions. To top it off, with some strawberries. Yum :)

I'll be cooking dinner this coming Saturday for my friends as well! 

Hope you guys have a wonderful day!

Funny things.

I wish I was a mermaid. 

Sometimes I just wish. Though I might not be able to umm, well experience certain things, not hinting on anything. But I wish I was well, pretty like one. I wish I had nice flowy long hair that naturally is wavy and that I wish I had a beautiful porcelain tonned skin that never ages or wrinkles.

Impossible? 

Hahaha. But I guess I'll always be happy with what I have.

Goods have arrived!

Remember I said, my bag was arriving? It arrived on Friday itself after I ordered it (so efficient!) I'm so glad it looks really lovely :) I brought it to Kew Gardens which will be in the next post I promise :)

It was a good deal! :) DAMN I am so happy! Anyways, I am already working on my FMP. Which is a good thing! I am actually motivated to do it and now I'm working on it. Been really excited about it! Sooooooo yeap, off to do my work!

Colourful world

Hello there! Umm, well. Yeah. So finally my second project is done and over with. To be honest? This project wasn't particularly that great though everyone seem to like it. I felt like I was being too bogged down with my typefaces and I forgot all about designing my broadsheet. Nevertheless, overall, the crit taught me many things about designing. I'm looking forward to start research on my FMP!

Anyways, yesterday after the crit, the peers and I decided to have some delicious mexican food. We went to Chiquitos where we had the BEST MEXICAN FOOD EVER. I guess when you look hard enough, you'll be able to find some really good restaurants. We ordered like crazy. The boys especially. They had 3 pitchers of cocktails. I had Cosmopolitan and Sex in the beach as well but nope, I didn't get drunk :P The food was good too and gosh, FILLING. I was so full to the brim, I felt my tummy exploding inside.

But that's not it, on the way, we saw M&M's world and immediately, I went inside and bought myself m&m's for NINE QUID :( That's equivalent to RM 45 of M&M's.

SUE ME. But they were so COLOURFUL AND YUMMEH :(

Excuse my fat thighs :) But here are the pictures!

Pop art makes me happy! :) 

Awaiting for new goods!

Waiting for this baby to arrive at my door step tomorrow or Saturday. Either way, it was on sale! Cheap :) And it makes me a happy person :) So excited. I've been up till this hour trying to resolve some issues with the sketchbooks and even working my way to get some good designs out. So far, it's been okay. Okay enough for me to get decent comments. Wouldn't say it was my best but I've been happy with the results. It's been a long 4 weeks and now the second project is finally about to end tomorrow. Which moves on to bigger and pressing projects like our FMP (Final Major Project) I am honestly, quite excited about it cause for this project, I'll be travelling a lot. Which means, I have to save up and spend less on clothes and other nonsense which well I caved in to goodness last week and this week. And my birthday's coming up in a few weeks' time which I'm not too excited about but then again, one cannot blame me. I've been busy that even at this rate, I feel like punching something. 

Anyways, I am off to bed soon enough.

See ya :)

New items

Last week, I went out to get some fresh air and bought a few things. Three actually and I was really happy with the purchase! It's been a while since I last shopped and I decided to well take some time off and spend a lil bit :) I didn't buy a WHOLEE LOT. I just bought a few things that made me very happy :) Hehehe!

Got these Zara mint pants for 35 quid. They're so pretty :)

And this Zara Knit Jumper for 17 quid :)

And OOOOH! These gorgeous pearls :) I saw my friend Juliana wearing them and I wanted them so badly. And I have them! :) Happiness!

Of course my happiness is short lived because I have work to attend to :(

See ya!