15 March 2012

Welcome juniors!

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Salam,

This is my keep-for-later post which i have been in the draft for about a month. This year is my second year as Bachelor in Education student, majoring in Tesol. To be precised, Tesol is an acronym for Teaching English to the Speaker of other Languages. In my university (Victoria University of Wellington) the program was designed exclusively for Malaysian students.

what a cute lil senior. aww :p

So, for this major, there are students from two sponsorships, MARA and MOE (Ministry of Education). my cohort is the fourth cohort of MARA Tesol and this year we have got a new family or so-called little siblings. MARA five!

They arrived in Wellington two days after me and my housemates' arrival. The flight date was just a coincident without any plan to arrive before them. Alhamdulillah, Allah is a great planner. So, we were there to welcome them to this new environment for them, being abroad far from family and friends in Malaysia. That is why we tried our best to make them feel like home.

They were scheduled to arrive as early as 7 in the morning. So of course, we need to be there earlier. We hopped on the shuttle on 6.30 am along with breakfast packs for them. We were expecting 27 people all together with 14 tesol students and other 13 science students under MARA scholarship. 

M4 and M3

kak Adnin M3

excited faces!
Once the arrival gate opened, me and my friends were too excited to see their exhausted faces with eye bags. LOL. They looked so tired and i can understand how they feel after 10 hours direct flight and an overnight in Auckland airport before flying to Wellington. pheww! i still remember during our time last year, even without an overnight at the airport but still we felt like half dying.

MOE seniors with sciences juniors.

:D

Asri, our junior from MPCIM

Lala, my MPCIM junior

heading to their accommodation

tired but still smiling :D

i feel so grateful to have the chance to help them to settle down and help them out with shopping. Now, it has been a month since they first came here. They are adapting with all new things, as far as i concern. Glad to have them here as friends, and a part of our big Malaysian family.

erghhhhhhh bibik? LOL!

In short, and i think it's not too late to say...

Welcome to Welly my dear juniors!

we are family

14 March 2012

my new home sweet home!

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Sorry  for quite longggg ignorance to this blog. I've just settled things down for new academic year in Welly. New semester has started and i should admit that i got a hectic life lately with all the activities, classes, assignments, so on and so forth. The problem is the internet connection at the residence hall that i moved in is not satisfying at all. It is very expensive and slower than a snail. Can you imagine how miserable my life is without internet connection? Luckily we can access for free at the university.

So, where should i start? Everything keep playing on my head about what to write on this plain white blog. Lot of things happened since i was back in town a month ago. 

Let's just make it straight forward and as simple as i can. Obviously, i am now having new cozy and lovely home with my four other housemates. Everton Hall it is! we moved in on 26th February 2012 with full of expectation on how our flat will look like. Guess what? it was wayyyyyy beyond our expectation. A very comfortable flat with five bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen and most important is a living room which we didn't have in Stafford House last year.








My room is the first room on block and alhamdulillah i am happy with it. Not too big and not too small too, except for the fact that it is colder than my previous home. But, i'm kinda adapting myself with it now. It took us like a week to unpacking our stuff, brought in our heavy load things from the storage company. thanx Robinson Storage! we will definitely stored out stuff with you again this year!


After two weeks living in the house, my housemates and i decided to have a house warming to celebrate our new home with doa selamat and yassin recital. It was a very small event but yet we managed to cater food for all the guests. We invited few close friends, seniors and juniors so that indirectly they can meet up and get to know each other. The event was organised on Friday (9th March 2012). 

We cooked all the dishes for the day from early morning until the very last minute before the guests came. at 6 pm we started reciting Yassin with doa selamat conducted by Diana and followed with makan-makan session! The dishes that we had are bihun goreng,nasi goreng, agar-agar koktail, cucur, buah apple, kuih buah melaka and a carrot cake brought by Farhana!


my cucur!



carrot cake!

Alhamdulillah everything went smoothly with all smiling faces and laughter. We had so much fun during the event because we can share stories and gossips together. LOL!




diana :D





pencinta bihun tambah 3 kali :p



saya semakin tinggi!

we wore jubah for the event! comel kan?



pictures courtesy : Nusaybah Mohd Asri

24 February 2012

Kuala Lumpur - Christchurch - Wellington

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Salam, hello hello!

Dah seminggu lebih sebenarnya aku sampai di Welly ni. tak terupdate blog sebab baru-baru ni je rumah kawan aku yang aku menumpang sementara ni ada wifi. Alhamdulillah, makin mudah nak berhubung dengan insan-insan tersayang.  So, kalau refer pada tajuk entry pun memang dah dapat agak aku nak story pasal apa kali ni. Apa lagi kalau bukan pasal perjalanan balik yang memenatkan.

Basically, tarikh aku terbang balik pada 12 februari 2012 yang lepas. Tiket pulak awal-awal pagi pukul 8.40 pagi waktu Malaysia. Jadinya, seawal pukul 6 pagi lagi dah kena ada kat LCCT untuk check in dan semua-semuanya yang perlu.

Kalau ikut plan awal, yang nak balik sama dengan aku ni semuanya 8 orang, tapi last2 lagi 3 orang tukar tarikh flight lambat sikit. So, tinggalla kami berlima satu rumah balik tarikh tu. Kali ni semua ada untuk hantar aku, termasuklah Kak Lang yang dapat off haritu dengan Eddy. Awal-awal lagi dalam pukul 5 dah gerak pergi LCCT sebab rumah Yong agak jauh daripada LCCT tu.

Sampai-sampai je, aku terus contact Myn and tanya apa nak kena buat, yelah first time nak naik daripada LCCT. Huhuhu. So, tanpa berlengah lagi aku pun timbang beg, agih-agihkan apa yang perlu dan terus check in. Selesai check in, makan nasi lemak dulu dengan family dan convert duit RM500 yang abah bagi. Dapatla dalam NZD190. Agak mahal la sebab tukar dengan Hong Leong bank. Huhu. Takpelah, rezeki dah setakat tu kan?

Lepas dah selesai makan tu terus tunggu kat gate berlepas. Agak rushingla jugak nak salam salam peluk cium semua. Aku sangat sedih sebenarnya tapi aku berjaya tahan air mata ni daripada tumpah. Sebak masa bagi lambaian terakhir sebelum boarding. InsyaAllah hujung tahun ni kita berjumpa lagi.

miss u guys sooo much!

si budak kecik yg comel :)

Flight haritu berlepas ikut masa. Jadi, terbanglah aku, Myn, Hanis, Saybah dan Zila menuju bumi Kiwi. Agak ramai jugak students Malaysia yang naik flight tu walaupun kebanyakannya aku tak kenal. Perjalanan mengambil masa 10 jam 15 minit dan dijangka sampai pukul 12 tengah malam waktu NZ dan 7 malam waktu Malaysia. Beza waktu NZ 5 jam kedepan daripada Malaysia. Masa dalam flight tu macam-macamla yang kami makan, buat, sembang untuk hilangkan rasa bosan dan lenguh kaki 10 jam duduk dalam plane tu.

kami!

buang masa

makan lagi.

semak :p

now everyone can fly

subhanallah

nak masuk senja,

Sampai je touch down kat Christchurch, masing-masing dah lembik. Runsing jugak fikirkan mana nak lelap sementara tunggu flight ke Welly pukul 10 pagi esoknya. Dengan sejuknya MasyaAllah tak tertahan. Lepas penat buang masa, baring, bangun , baring, bangun, dapat lelap dalam sejam dua then pukul 5 pagi kena kejut dengan guard airport. Terus kami pergi mandi dan tunggu masa untuk ke Welly di domestic airport.

mata panda.

beg2 aku

first time sampai :)


air NZ :)

peeeenaatttttt!

tunggu n breakfast kat domenstic airport Chch

Untuk flight ke Welly aku dengan Myn satu flight, Zila dengan hanis, Saybah pulak dah balik awal-awal pagi lagi dalam pukul 8 pagi. Sampai je Welly penatnya tak terkata. mana taknya in sum 24 jam waktu kami travel. Penat angkat beg, check in sana sini. Fuhh! alhamdulilah selamat sampai akhirnya di bumi Welly. then terus naik shuttle ke rumah Ayuni dan nabilah yang akn kami tumpang untuk 2 minggu.

cuci mata sambil tunggu flight

myn dan ukelele nya

tak sabar nak terbang ke Welly :)

till then! :)