Things Take Time.

Oh hello there future room, I've accepted the fact that you won't be ready for me to move into before the day I return to Manchester, but thats okay. I look forward to seeing you in December, and am even more so because I've already began sourcing some items from the UK that I would love to bring back to put in you.

Also, a tiny blooming rose from Mama's rose bush at our new home.

Growing Up.

Three cheers for Nadhrah for finally indulging on something that isn't eyeliner and BB cream !

Now to figure out how I'm supposed to make this work for me and not against. Attempts in the past that involves drugstore-bought eyeshadow resulted in one too many failures.

Another one of today's buy from Sephora is.... this;

I've read and watched one too many good reviews about this and am pleased to discover that it is available in Malaysia.

Excited to give both items a try !

PS: Why yes I am in a kaftan.

Meh.

Why do I even bother having someone else take care of my matters for me for the last 22 years of my life. When I know I can do a better, if not the same job myself.

Basically, I just pushed my flight back to Manchester on the 20th of September from the predetermined flight on the 12th (this Thursday), and this would not have been possible if I had allowed a certain someone (not related to me) to do it for me.

I'm going to spare the details because although I personally believe he/she did not do as he/she was told, it might have just been some miscommunication... somewhere because I proved him/her wrong.

*positive thoughts*

So yes, I now have more than a week to spend at home and frankly I have no idea what I'm going to be doing with the 'extra' time now, but I'll figure it out. And I hate to admit that although I said I have given up any and all hopes that my family will finally get to move out before my leaving the country, I do still remain a molecular bit... optimistic.

If I may say so myself.

So YES, please please please please please let me at the very least move my stuff into my new room. 

Unsettled.

So its going to be a week before I head back to Manchester; and frankly I don't know whether or not I am happy to be back so early (since my first class would take place 2 weeks after).

On one hand, I feel a little heavy hearted to be leaving home. As usual. Because as much as I enjoy and appreciate studying overseas, a piece of my heart will always be left at home.

But on another hand, I do look forward to going back. Mostly because I feel... unsettled, even at my own home. Now that my bedroom has been taken over and is now functioning as the family wardrobe, I sleep downstairs in the living room.

My luggage, since I returned home in July is still unpacked. So I don't feel as if I've truly even been home at times in the past 2 months.

Truth be told; I looked forward most to moving out of our current home, to what would be our new home. Unfortunately though, construction's been really slow and our move just keeps getting delayed. I was optimistic at first that we would get to move in before I leave, but right now I've taught myself to be nonchalant about it all because I know chances are slim and I hate getting my hopes up for nothing.

All I planned to do during the summer was to enjoy our new home and I've come to realise that I'm the type of person who gets stuck when her plans just don't fall into place. Because I've set myself up for a move, and it hasn't happened yet, I feel incapable of moving on to and making other plans.

I haven't even seen much of my friends. Granted, they are all busy themselves, but I can't seem to bring myself to make plans to see any and all of them. 

All I've been doing at average every day is... nothing. It pisses me off knowing that I've wasted so much of my summer break doing practically nothing, but I really just... can't bring myself to do much else. I feel so unsettled.

I hate it.

Bangkok; Day Two and Three

When we arrived to Bangkok the day before, my mother requested that the hotel arrange a hired car to bring us to the famous floating market.

In order to catch the floating market however, we needed to leave our hotel at 7.30 am because the journey to the Damnoen Saduak floating market would take us roughly 1 hour and 30 minutes, if not 2 hours. Bangkok is famed for their traffic congestions.

So after breakfast, we met with our guide and moved on to our destination, but not without needing to stop for the restroom thanks to my small bladder and my insistence on drinking about a gallon of water before we left the hotel.

In order to get to the floating market; we had to take a different boat there.

At the first stop, we bought ourselves these hats because... lets face it; we're dedicated tourists. The fact that it shields us from the unforgiving Bangkok (or Bangkok outskirts) sun, is a pretty good bonus, we later discovered.

The first boat to the floating market is roughly a 5 to 10 minutes ride. After that we alight onto another one, that led us through the crowded river, passing by boats selling things from chicken skewers to mango sticky rice to tourist souvenirs.

I Went Mac, and Then I Went Back.

GREETINGS !

Okay, so new laptop came in today (not really though, because I had to drive to a place in Shah Alam to pick it up) and I am a wee bit... overwhelmed, if I may say so.

Well first of all; Windows 8.

What the fudgestickles (!!!!!!!)

Half, if not most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing. And frustrations all over when I realise that I can't minimise Skype, and have Hadzray sleeping in a tiny little box on the top of my screen while I sort my life out. I've come to figure out that Windows 8 kinda works like my iPhone. Basically, I can't run 2 apps simultaneously on a single screen. 

But I'm trying not to hate Windows 8 just yet, because I remember feeling the same when I first got my Macbook four years ago. I WILL love this OS.

Second of all; Adobe Creative Suite.

Now, I am no computer software genius, but I got lucky with downloading the entire Adobe CS6 on my Macbook thank you to this magic crack folder I got through Youtube. But now, I am back to Square UNO. 

Also, something is stopping me from downloading AutoCAD and the likes.

*screams internally*