Tuesday, April 30, 2013

The Price of Beauty.

Wow, reading my previous post, I must have been really stressed out last night due to lack of sleep and doing work endlessly. As I mentioned before, i seldom talk about my wedding preparation. Well, I guess it is not the time to brag about it yet, and the fact that I am no influential personality, the only people that'll be reading my blog is well. Me? haha, kalau opah baca pun tak reti dia bahasa inggeris...tulis jawi ok-lah kot. haha.

However this post is not really to brag, but to reflect upon myself regarding the price of looking beautiful..if it wasn't for a wedding, I think it is pretty cheap. I have been starting this spinach based diet, and I'm telling you, IT WORKS! The fact you swallow a whole cup of spinach everyday is better than most detox diet. I add in blueberries, bananas, sometimes oat, and honey or avocado. Before sleep I would cleanse with a cup of green tea leaves bought from Suzhou, China.

Yes, I am telling you, it helps to cut down and slim down. Another additional juice I should try is warm squeezed lemon juice to cut up the fat. This is all cheaper than those in packet detox or diet drinks I have tried all my life aside from Herbalife, which is also good, but more as additional drink, but Herbalife is expansive, and I have to replace it with fresh spinach drink and add-in Anlene.


My ingredients; A whole cup of spinach, Low-fat yogurt, honey, blueberries, avocado, banana, and Anlene. Planning to try a different flavour next week!

Hari tu semangat nak try so luxury sikit beli Avocado and blueberries, but now, as I know it works, and I need to maintain it, I will keep it to Banana and Spinach with honey, oat, anlene and a squeeze of lemon as everyday's potion to detox and skim fat. Other options include tomato and spinach or carrot...the point is to have green spinach in the drink...itu yang melawaskan dan mengempiskan.

Secondly, I have stopped eating rice for nearly 4 months now. To tell you the truth, sometimes I cheat and have kerabu or dagang, but only ONCE a month, so still boleh kira dengan jari berapa kali cheat. Nak stop makan nasi tak susah, bila dah nampak hasil perut dah start kempis sebab sebulan tak makan nasi, jadi semangat untuk stop terus, but yeah sometimes kempunan, mama masak lauk sedap..makan lauk je...tapi itu pun menggemukkan. Have to stop from today onwards after last nights dinner meratah lauk chilli crab and ikan masak lemak! 

It's May and I have a family wedding to attend by the end of the month, this one whole month will be potent to detox everyday and to slim as much...because....my engagement is very soon, a hundred days away... and....I buat baju cantik..kalau nak pakai baju cantik and mahal, badan pun kenalah slim...

And so, I jog, atleast 2-3 times a week....The first price of beauty is: DETERMINATION


My first set of target is to fit into my engagement dress, and talking about dresses, I am telling you, Nurita is not cheap...Personally, the Nurita Harith choice is because Mama likes beautiful sweet things, and Nurita has managed to be dubbed as the purveyor of those things. Secondly, this is for engagement, kalau tak, jangan haraplah nak spend so much for a dress selagi diri ni tak kerja lagi. Bila fikir balik semua benda mahal, padanlah diri ni kena jugak jadi arkitek bila kenang senior2 arkitek masa kerja dulu bergaji "ok" and could buy whatever they want, because everything is more expansive these days. At first tempah dengan tailor biasa sahaja, then suddenly, a decision was made to have Nurita harith to do it. Nice....

You, my friend, I will wear it to the wedding....

And you make me want to loose a lot more weight!


Selain dari baju, MUA is from Min and the Make-up for RM300 for the coming engagement, belum kira nikah and reception. Then there are personal efforts to have clearer skin for which stress and not sleeping is not helping! Facials, drinking collagen, using better shampoos for better hair and the need for treatments. The bottom-line is nothing is cheap when it comes to looking pretty...and if it's for a wedding..lagilah...thus the second price of beauty is that: MONEY

Okay, that's all my celoteh for today...back to work! Dah dapat tempah baju cantik, kerja pun nak kena cantik, back to stressing myself :)

FIVE WEEKS UNTIL THE END OF FOURTH YEAR!

Monday, April 29, 2013

Suffocating.


I want to complain and whine.

I have never really shared any of my wedding preparations here, the clock is ticking and the countdown seems still miles away, but the only thing I am concerned right now is getting fourth year over with. Really, kadang-kadang...ataupun kebanyakan masa sangat menyesal ambil Part 2...nak jadi Arkitek pun tak sure lagi, because I don't think this is where I belong sometimes. But I continue on taking Part 2 because that's what the society depicts is the best...if it was up to me...a Masters in Design Technology/Landscape/Art would have been good enough and I should proceed to be in the creative field....like advertising agencies and such...

But Part 2 has it advantages, and I want to become a Creative Director at one point of my life, and Part 2 Bachelors in Architecture is a very precious degree to be in the creative line, because it teaches one thing, and that is Legislated Professionalism (bonded by the Law Profession). And ofcourse, it's important to fall-back to something solid, and nothing is more solid than to be a Professional.

To be an Architect is to go for Site Visits on hot sunny days, sweat like crazy.

Well, as frustated as I am with this final 4th Year semester and the CRAZY submissions I am facing, just imagine yeah, a Topical Studies Thesis submission, 15,000 words in one semester (Universiti lain 2 semester atau 1 semester setengah!) and an office tower design project with one detail-model aside from the normal plans and 3D's, also...to add to the stress, professional practice subject, which is equally important to acquire deep understanding regarding the profession. MORE stress, my topical studies research venues is in Pahang AND Terengganu..!@#$%^&*(. Money and time consuming. Aaa, sgt tak peduli jugak diri ni nampak tak berapa cun..WHATEVERR...<---cubaan melepas geram.

Ok. Nak tidur, nearly 20 hours tak tidur buat kerja je. Tomorrow will be another hectic productive day!

I must perform,behave and stay discipline so that all the good things to come will feel well-deserved!

Monday, April 15, 2013

Term-Break and Birthdays.

Hah!! Last week was term break. However, I spent the whole week doing work like any faithful student. THREE THINGS...Thesis, DUALISMA, and Studio work!! Menghadap supervisor dan kerja-kerja sewaktu dengan-nya, sampai tahap menangis-nangis..oh this is my first time crying while studying in UM, this sem is too stressful.



Dualisma Student Architectural Workshop 2013 presentation to TNC of UM. Saya comelkan...(puji diri sendiri)

Thankfully, last week was my mom's, sister, auntie and of course, Mr. I'm-way-too-macho birthday 10,11 and 12 consecutively, and we celebrated over lunch at Mandarin Oriental's Mosaic.




April babies.

Kbye...

Friday, March 29, 2013

Friends of March 2013

Taking a break from my work and bebel a bit on my lonely blog. 

Coffee and work. My two absolute best friends lately...it's just been really hectic after my merisik because at this point, we had to book the hall for the reception immediately! But yeah, alhamdulillah with that done, I am back to being a student and my wedding plans are being moved to June.

It's good being busy. It keeps a lot of heartbreak and "perasaan terkilan" away...I am the happiest girl just sitting infront of my laptop finishing up my plans and thesis...even better when I get to jog for about an hour atleast 3 times a week! I am progressing awesomely with my weight lost... DISCIPLINE IS THE KEY!

huhu.

Despite being busy...I still managed to sneak in a few outings with friends!

With Amalina, a Muslimah fashion designer friend from Australia...she's like really an Australian as in originally Australian..bukan melayu perasan Australian yeah..(Australians ada original melayu). This awesome lady is busy with fashion week in London, Dallas, Jakarta and soon Kuala Lumpur! Sangat terharu, kawan yang sangat jauh and busy made time to meet-up and catch up!

Then there is Nona! Oh yes, this is her all the way down to earth...hanging out with me with nearly no make-up and baju kembang-kembang...incase you don't know...her wedding last December was probably one of the biggest wedding ever held last year... 21 dulangs man!! (i think?)  Woo hoo! You might have seen her on "Raikan Cinta" Astro Ria and numerous magazines..from TATLER to NONA.


Her as a princess... Absolutely love the wedding experience :)

Last but not the least, is my now very much single hot single mom, Fifi....ahhh..yes, doing very well with her life...yeay!

This glamour mom will be out in the HIJABSTA magazine soon! Probably one of the strongest woman  I have ever known in my life..she is one of the main motivation why I got over my past so easily.

Sometimes, I don't know why I complain about not having friends...I have more than enough good and trustworthy friends, aside from that I have my siblings... Trying my best to be a sweet girl that people could bitch less about..*sigh* but these friends...no matter what people assume about me, they'll always be around!

xoxo
More hang-outs to come, and I miss my sister!

(Back to thesis)

P.S: Most of my friends including this one..glamour2 belaka..hehe.

#throwback #December2012

Kay kay...dah dah...

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Wordless Wednesday 13 March 2013

Settle part 1.

Now, back to my assignments and projects! (That's all I am worried about now)