Halloween

Even though we don't really celebrate it.

Oh, and also,

♥HAPPY BIRTHDAY RUBY!!!♥

In celebration, I drew a picture of her, dressed in something she'd never have the money to buy, with elaborately decorated hair, flowers that probably don't exist, and butterfly-like angel wings she doesn't even have. :)

*cackles*

i'm yours

♥ HAPPY BIRTHDAY HUDA!!!♥

Here's wishing you a wonderful day. I love you, you sexy gay thing, ya hear??? ;)

and that, my friend

Some of today's doodles.

The bed one, the popsicle one and the perspective-ey one were done on MSN messenger while chatting with Dan. The rest with Photoshop.

This one was the most time-consuming doodle. So here's the original size so you can see it better.

Oh yeah, and most of the subjects of these doodles are characters of Mahmoud origin. Meaning they're Huda's characters.

Speaking of Huda... her birthday's in a few hours. Hooray!

fail

Despite my better judgement, I followed Mama and Abah to Sunway Pyramid yesterday while my uni assignments lay ignored on the table.

We wacthed Mamma Mia! the movie, because Abah and Jules hadn't seen it. For Mama and I, it was our second time watching it. And we still enjoyed it. :)

Though I still think the song sequence of The Winner Takes It All is still a tad bit too long.

After that we had lunch at Kenny Rogers' before heading home. Oh, and I also stopped by at MPH and finally bought Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns. Can't wait to read it. ;)

Back home, instead of seeing to my pending assignments, I took a nap, telling myself I'd wake up at six. But that did not happen. I woke up around 7 something, then proceeded to the computer.

Again, I ignored my homework and started doing pretty much pointless stuff on the internet. I was alone at home because Mama and Abah had taken Opah to a function, Jules was at Opah's house with Kak In, and Arif was out with friends.

Then around midnight, Huda came online, so we got to talking.

For a long time.

I told myself that I'd go to sleep at one o-clock, because the next day I had to wake up early for mengaji. But then one quickly turned to two... then three... four... five...

Finally, sometime past five, I forced myself to go to bed, reluctantly saying goodbye to Huda.

Then, 3 painfully short hours later, Mama woke me up to mengaji.

And the rest of today has been spent doing...pretty much nothing.

So I've just spent my whole weekend completely ignoring the Voice of Reason in my head that is telling me to knock some much-needed sense into my head and FINISH MY GOSHDARN ASSIGNMENTS.

Not funny

To anyone who needs some laughs, watch this and this. :)

Everyone should watch em.

Gonna party like

It's my birthday!

And it's gonna be spent trying to plough through a mountain of assignments.

Yippee!!!

after the rain

I saw a rainbow on the way home from uni today. :)

There were actually two rainbows at first:

It's very faint, but if you relax your eyes and look at it at an arm's length, you can see it. It's on the left of the other one.

The first one became clearer the closer I got to home, but the second had vanished by then.

Taman Megah

The garden

Like Mama said, we rarely see rainbows these days. So it was definitely a nice feeling spotting two of them. :)

boom

Some headshots for your enjoyment:

Ruby Larhalt © Huda Mahmoud

Sylver Dumont © Arina Izyan

Mango © Arina Izyan

Phoenix © Huda Mahmoud

Rufus © Arina Izyan

Salem © Arina Izyan

Spider © Arina Izyan

Daani © Arina Izyan

Ciel Deux Tessa © Huda Mahmoud

Edrick Fawkes © Arina Izyan

Mace © Arina Izyan

Jung Yun Ho © himself

Okay, so I didn't draw that last one. So what? He's so pretty. :'D

Highlights of the past week (or so):

28.09.08

In the evening, Mama and I went to watch Mamma Mia! with Anji, Dan, Acap and Cami at the Gardens. We got our tickets, strolled around the shops, buka-ed and had dinner at Alexis, then watched the movie.

And I can honestly say that I loved it. It's so...musical-ey. I like! And although he merely smiled when we asked, I bet Acap enjoyed it too. Hahah.

As the credits were rolling, the song Thank You For The Music came on, and instead of leaving right away, like most people were doing, we stayed a while, singing along. Except Acap of course. Hahah.

We stopped by at Borders and Baskin Robbins for a while before leaving.

Mamma Mia! is a must-watch! I can't wait till the musical comes to Malaysia!


30.09.08

Syed Imran Zulkarnain's 5th birthday. ;D

In the morning, we went to visit Tok's grave with Opah and the Husswans.

After that, we parted ways and the Ramlis (minus Arif and Amir) went to Subang Parade to get biskut raya from a shop that Auntie Anum told us about. We bought four kinds, then lepak-ed for a bit at MPH.

Then we dropped Mama and Jules at home, and Abah and I went to the Digital Mall where I got my new phone. :D

Yeah, I'd been considering getting a new phone for...a while, to put it simply.

Sony Ericsson
W660i
Rose Red

Ain't she a beaut...??? :D

It took Abah and I quite a while, checking out every shop in the building, comparing offers and prices. I was quite determined to get the red one, even though it's apparently one of the most difficult colors to get.

There were no red parallel import phones available that day, and one guy said he'd be able to get the red one the next day, so we were about to leave. But then we stopped by at one of the previous shops we'd gone to, just for one last inquiry. It was a Sony Ericsson shop, so they only sold the original, no parallel imports.

Earlier the guy had offered to sell the phone for RM800, and we'd walked away. Now the guy offered us RM690, which was a pretty good deal, since it was original, so I decided to take it. And YAY red was available. :D

Abah sponsored RM200, so I paid RM490. Man, was I happy. I could hardly stop grinning on the way back to the car.

I'm still getting used to converting from Nokia to Sony Ericsson... The only thing I haven't completely gotten the hang of is typing. The placement of the buttons are a little different from my old phone, so yeah.

That night, despite being a university student, I still went takbir-ing with Dan and Lisa (and Julia and Cams). Nana couldn't make it. :(

By the time we were finished, it was past midnight, I think. It was straight to sleep once we got back home.


01.10.08

Hari Raya!!!

As usual, we woke up early, went to Opah's house. This year I got to see both Lisa and Didi. ;) Didi didn't get to stay long though.

Sometime after lunch, Arlina and Nabilla brought us teens to McD, because we teringin McShaker fries again, haha.

Soon after we'd finished eating our McD, the Ramlis had to go, to get ready to balik Tampin.


02.10.08

In the evening, Abah took us (me, Amir, Arif, Julia, Rahim and Arif Kechik) to Tanjung Bidara, and hour's drive away. We stayed there around 2 hours, exploring the rocks and watching the kids (Jules and Rahim) bathe in the sea.

We left Tampin after dinner, stopping by at Seremban on the way home to visit Mak Ngah and Kak Aida.

While they were baking and getting tea in the kitchen, a bunch of us went outside to play with fire works. After exhausting our supply of spinners and sparklers, we were left with pop-pops, which would have been pretty boring, if not for the hilarious antics my cousins, dad, uncle and brother did with them.

After having some apricot-flavored tea, sirap and snacks, we all headed home. By the time we got back, it was one something in the morning.


03.10.08

We went to Opah's house as usual, except we didn't stay for dinner. Nevertheless, it was still fun. Sometime after lunch, the teens (me, Nana, Dana and Acap) went to 7-Eleven and KFC (no, not McD this time) to get snacks, feasting on them in the upstairs room while chatting.



As for today...nothing special happened. Just a normal, slightly boring day at home. I have a bunch of stuff I can do, though. Including assignments...

But I'm too lazy.

It's that time of year again...

SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDILFITRI MAAF ZAHIR BATIN

It's Raya again, everybody, so bring out the kuih raya and angpau packets!

Wishing ALL OF YOU (even non-muslims) a Selamat Hari Raya.

I sincerely apologize if I've ever done ANYONE any wrong. You know I never mean any of the insults I throw at you guys, right...?

Well, most of the times I don't.

Enjoy the remaining of your holidays, and be safe when balik kampung-ing!

Sincerely,

Arina.