Spent 4 days (from 29th of July till 1st of August) in Bangkok, Thailand. Despite being stuck in traffic jam most of the time, I learned that typically, Siamese is much better compared to Malaysians in several aspects. Even if they're caught in traffic jam, they hardly honked. In fact, they would give way to any vehicles that went out from any junctions without honking or trying to stop them from going out of it. I actually felt guilty as well, as I've always try to not give ways to other cars which were about to go out from a junction and be like, "I need to go there first." Childish, I know. But that's what most Malaysians are like. Childish, impatient. We kept on saying bad things about Siamese, calling them rude and all, but I remembered a saying that goes, "You point a finger and say bad things to other people, but the remaining 4 fingers were pointing to yourself," which could be translated as, you can say bad things to other people, but you'll be 4 times worse than the people you trash-talked to. Anyway, this is the beauty of travelling. You get to observe what kind of people they are, how they grow, how they live. I'd love to spend my life being a solo traveler, but sad thing I'm out of cash to do so. I really hope there'll be good people with so much money that they don't know how to spend them anymore to spend 1/10 of it to me so I can travel and learn more of foreign cultures... #pleasecometrue Anyway, here's some pictures which were taken when I was in Bangkok! Not gonna post all of them because I'm a lazy bum.

Assalamualaikum,

We planned to go to Lotte World and was supposed to go out around 8AM or 9AM but since we were all tired and worn off, we went out a bit late and took the subway to Lotte World. The ride from Ewha Women's University station to Jamsil took about 35 minutes and so all of us almost dozed off in that sort of long ride.

We bought the ticket using the ticketing machine and a friendly ahjussi helped us navigating the machine even though we chose the English option. It was confusing at first but you'll get the hang of it in time. We purchased the day ticket, worth 44,000 won.

Sadly, we only managed to ride few attractions as Lotte World was packed with people, couples, family... Did we come to Korea at the wrong time? :( We went to Korean Folk Museum as we thought it'd be a waste to line up for the rides, which, well, it'd be better we actually lined up for them. Oh well.

Before we decided to leave, we stopped at Lotteria and had our late lunch there. I ordered squid burger (오징어버거) while Fatihah and Imanina both ordered prawn burger (새우버거). The cashier warned me that my burger is spicy and I said it's okay, since I really love spicy foods haha. It was really delicious compared to the plain prawn burger. Well, at least mine got this hot sensation going on hehe.

We then decided to walk around in Apgujeong and Cheongdamdong and so, it's time to search for the Kpop companies' buildings! The first building we searched for was SM Entertainment. Sadly, the directions given on blogs we found were not even close to the building we're trying to find. And we actually walked for I don't know how many kilometres but we sure walked a lot to find the building. We also met new friends from Indonesia who were trying to find the buildings as well. We succeeded to find the SM Global Artist Training Centre (noticeable with huge poster of SM artists that promoted at the time being) which is located next to Galleria Department Store. We found that but not the actual SM Entertainment building, and so, we continued to walk towards Galleria. And guess what happened?

I saw EXO's Tao, right in front of my eyes! At first I was like "Gosh, that is Tao, right?" and Imanina was like "Yeah that is him!" I was freaked out and we were nearing him, I took this opportunity to ask "타오씨 맞죠?" (You're Tao, right?) and he answered with a simple "Yes" and walked away. Then I felt like it's such a waste to not take pictures with him so I ran back (we were heading to opposite directions) and asked, "우린 같이 사진 찍으면 될까요?" (Can we take pictures together?) He was alone with no managers at the time, and I was hoping that he would agree to take pictures but maybe he's following his company's rule, he said "사진 찍는거 안돼요" (You can't take pictures) so I nodded and he continued walking. I thought of taking his pictures secretly but thinking it'd spread quickly and maybe people will follow him, I decided to let it slip. Pity idols who wanted to rest, let them have their time :)

We almost gave up since we saw nothing like the entertainment companies' buildings in our sight so one of our Indonesian friend turned around and took the road Tao took before. She said this is the right road to go to SM Entertainment so we followed the road all the way till its end. It was a hill, but luckily we're going down the hill most of the times. You will see a park at the end of the road, and all we need to do is to turn right. There were misdirection occurred and we met FNC Entertainment's building first. We noticed it since there were many people gathered at a place.

After multiple times of trying to connect to Wifi (sadly, there's no such thing as free wifi available throughout the country hahaha I bought KT Prepaid Card for OllehWifi, costs 9,900 won for 4 days) we managed to find a way to go to SM Entertainment from FNC. We were lost again, but then, after multiple times going back and forth at the same street, we found it. We found the gem. The company that made us walked from 5.25pm till 6.05pm. The SM Building located right after Yonsei Villa apartment's building. We saw 2 girls went out and entered the "idol van" and the way they covered themselves seemed like they already debuted. Can't say from which group but guessing from body size, I think they'd be from SNSD. We also saw EXO's Baekhyun, Lay, and Chen in the transparent elevator going up and down the building. 

We then proceed to JYP Entertainment but we found Cube Entertainment first, so time to stop at Cube Cafe and Studio for a break.

We decided to not waste time by only taking pictures of the buildings and went back to hostel. We wasted lots of time at SM Entertainment, particularly because there were idols going in and out of the building. We continued walking to JYP Entertainment since it is located diagonally opposite to Cube Entertainment. Easy to notice too because of the sign and all.

And this is where we wasted our time walking to search for nearest subway entrance. We walked so much and I was really tired of walking but since it was cold, better for us to be in any subway station rather than being outside for a long time. We found it, luckily and so, off to Hapjeong we go. Time to visit the last entertainment building, which is, YG Entertainment.

We walked back to the subway station and head back to our hostel. Rest time. The highlight of the second day of my trip is, meeting/seeing idols hehe. Got to talk to Tao is so precious, I was a bit disappointed with myself since I promised to record my whole journey each day but didn't do so.

*see you on next update!

Assalamualaikum.

Finally, I'm back to the blogging world. Yayyyyy! I totally have no idea on what to blog lately. There are times where I came across some beautiful topics to touch on but then I wasn't on and I absolutely hate to jot down my points first before writing and poof, they're gone with the wind.

What a waste.

Only 2 weeks of holidays left before I'll leave for Perlis, again. Hopefully for the very last semester before I get to continue with my degree. Heard some areas in UiTM Perlis have been 'upgraded' (read it as sarcastic as you can) like there are 4 hills at gate B's entrance. Yeah. The cute and small bumps have been extremely upgraded to be hills. They are high and well, bad for cute cars like mine. Degree students were complaining about this upgrade and they hate it so I guess I'm hating it too hahahaha.

Plan to work during holiday was... unfortunately failed as the boss of the bookstore went indecisive whether it's best to hire me now or later. Overheard her conversation with the staff that she thought it'd be better if I can work for a longer period of time. 1 month is too short for everything. Yeah I wanted to work as long as I can too. I need a whole lot of money by 25 November. I made plans, and I want them to happen. I love making people happy, or at least, I think they'll be happy if I made a plan AND included them in it. And my plan involves travelling from a state to another. Travelling from a country to another country is on the next chapter btw. 

Wee, travelling. I just love travelling. Solo or group, doesn't matter. As long as I'm outside of my comfort zone. I can learn the culture, the language, the people, the structure, the weather, the scenery, and etc. If only I am as rich as my cousin who has his own circle of friends to travel overseas together. Flying to different countries twice (sometimes thrice) a year. So lucky to be sponsored by JPA hm hmm. At least there'll be less thing to worry about. All you need is to work your ass off and get the highest possible value of CGPA you can achieve and bamm, if you're lucky, the scholarship will be reverted to loan.

So damn lucky.

I thought of uploading certain pictures but I've been hesitating whether it's the best choice since, after meeting this wise man I've been questioning my choices for months. But yeah there are times where I don't use this brain of mine and screwed myself and get a nice lecture from him. Anyhow, I owe you a lot. As I said before, you taught me a new definition of life. Thank you so much. So after 10 minutes of typing and stomach's grumbling, I decided to upload this

Urgh uber yummy picture of cheap sushi from Tesco aahhhhhhh tummy stop! Behave yourselffff

Hello, peeps.

I am now in Jengka, doing a short semester program (intersession) to retake MAT233 (Calculus 2) which I failed before. Today is officially my fourth day in UiTM Pahang, though intersession just started yesterday. After 3 semesters being a non-resident back in Arau, I got to feel being a resident, again. I was placed at room A3-40, Block A (Aishah), Kolej Tun Teja.

Yes, I'd love to compare both campuses I've been to (UiTM Perlis and UiTM Pahang).

Plus points for UiTM Pahang from my point of view

1. There are 10 colleges available for girls. T-E-N, 10! 8 were new and the other 2 (which one of them is where I am now) were the old college. 
2. For academic blocks, well, since my class is held only at FTA2-16 in the Fast Track building (its 'scientific' name is Leucaena) is okay. Reminds me of UiTM Perlis' Star Complex but way smaller than it. They have this newly built academic building and its situated on top of a small hill - not that high but will be a tiring adventure for those going to class by foot.
3. It is advisable for you to go to classes by foot since the short cuts are truly... short? You can see a major difference if you go by car and by foot. For me, I will usually go to morning class by foot and drive for evening class.
4. Marrybrown is in town like hello they have 3 options for fast foods: KFC, PHD and MB! Beat that, Arau! (Ehem food is important for a fat girl like me ehehew)

Less than 5 days to reach the end of this semester. If I score this semester's finals and get good result, I will only have 1 semester left for diploma. Which means, soon, I will be parting ways with my diploma friends. I might, and might not see them again. I might and might not be in their minds all the time, but after experiencing lots of hardships in finding true friends, I began to treasure some of my diploma's course mates.

Some, not all.

Semester 1 - Seeing new faces for the first time ever. Heard that some of my primary school friends were in the same campus, but only 1 of them is in the same course as mine, which is Amnan. I wasn't close to him since before, so I rarely talk to him. This first semester of diploma; fresh and new chapter of my life begun. I made some friends during orientation week but those friends won't last long. Proven now, though, none of them thought of contacting me first. For the first semester, I was close to Farhana, well basically, with the girls (and boys) in my group. Zharfan, Luqmanul and Zhafri, not to mention the rest, were the closest one to me. Before.

Semester 2 - Kicked out from the resident list so I lived my life as a non-resident instead, and I became closer to Amalina since we lived in the same area. We were the total opposite of each other but like magnet that attracts other magnet with opposite magnetic field; we attract each other because of the difference in our characteristics. Hah, I was close to Nabihah too, since we're like the non-resident team-thingy hahaha. Old times. I became quite distant with others since they're in resident colleges while I... I was alone in the house with literally no housemates since they went out a lot.

Semester 3 - Where everything falls apart. This happened and that happened, suddenly I hate Nabihah while Amalina and I became strangers again, nearing the end of the semester. This was the worst semester, for the record. Bad things happened - I lost my motivation, I lost hope, I lost trust on people, but I gained a car to ease me travelling in Perlis (and Kedah and Penang...) I knew cool guys from other groups and began to hang out with them quite often too. I am not that close to them, but to just be friends with them, I feel so happy :)

Semester 4 - The level of awkwardness between groupmates increased and the distantce between us became larger as well. I moved to a new house and lived together with Aida. New adventure, again. We became the new inseparable twins(?) since most of the times, I'll be seen together with Aida and vice versa. We share so many things in common and it's freaky oh my god! Haha. This semester is a bit plain. All I feel is the gap between other friends and I became deeper and larger. At times, I feel like I'm better off a loner. Without partner.

Ah... Time passes by, cruelly nearing catching up with the time for us to part ways. Yes, I can't wait to graduate and to be away from Perlis because of all the terrible things happened but I couldn't just forget all good friends I met here, right? I just hope that I will always be in their minds, as how often they are in my mind.

Farhana, the cheeky, petite Malay, blessed with Chinese-look.

Aida, the one with brain that I'm jealous of.

Zuhairah, the one who looks the happiest while eating.

Luqmanul, the... the... the bro that loves to belanja people.

Azri, the one perasan artis but full of humorous jokes.

Amnan, the childhood friend who became nice to me :P

Fauzan, the budak I thought sombong but he's humorous and nice.

Syauqi, the one whom I put my full trust in driving my car.

Izwan, the only guy I respected among all - he has good sides despite looking so rempit-ish.

Okay malas nak sebut nama sorang sorang because honestly, I'm not that close to all people pun. It happens that some of the names are listed as they love to borrow my car so they act so baik to me but they are kind so I like them for their kindness hahaha but I will always remember your kindness, the way you treat me. Yay what's with this crappy entry, it's supposed to be emotional and sad and tear-worthy *cries* Tapi aku sayang korang tau, muehehe segan nk cakap okay bye

Gonna hop to convenience store to chill. Kinda. Bye :D

I actually love to talk. At times, I recorded videos of myself talking nonsense and linked them to my friends hahaha which is, a stupid habit, actually. But because of this hobby, I thought of making vlog. Travel vlog, to be exact. As I'm currently studying in Arau, Perlis, I've went to many interesting places and when I wanted to tell about them to my friends, I know they won't have the same image like what I wanted them to imagine to. They couldn't see what I see, they couldn't feel what I feel. So I thought that doing travel vlog is actually a good thing.

Thing is, I have no suitable gadgets for it. I am still collecting money to own a DSLR, as videos recorded by DSLR has a higher quality...? The current camcorder at home can only recorded in low quality. It's not HD. Thus, less feel for the video hahaha do you get what I mean? Like during my trip to Bukit Ayer with classmates before, one of them recorded random videos of us having fun using a DSLR and it comes out really pretty! The super high quality makes it really breathtaking! Wait what, I feel like my English became worst ohmygod

Nahh I won't be like matluthfi since I don't have the skill to be a good vlogger. My communication skills sucks big time, and travel vlog is the best choice for me because I will be recording the sceneries and the details of the places more than I will record myself hahaha agree? And oh, besides travel vlog, I'd upload videos of my hedgehog as well! I already created a Youtube account for it, oops, sorry for being impatient haha.

Okay so let's end the talks of wanting to be a vlogger.

I am actually worried for so many things. Like, I tried my best for this examination but somehow I feel like I will fail certain subjects? I have the confidence that I can actually score but for the previously mentioned 2 subjects, I have the least confidence in them. What if I had to extend 1 semester just to sit for a single paper? What if my parents had enough with me, and eventually will never care about me, the one who always frustrates them in any way?

...

I just got a really shocking news that made me stopped writing my entry for I don't know how many minutes. Anyway, my sister, Shiema, got a really awesome news that she is accepted to be a student in the course she applied for so go and wish her the best!!!! And this marks the end of my entry. I need to study for tomorrow's paper.

Hello, I am supposed to be studying for a test that will be held later tonight and I have 2 projects awaiting me to be finished and here I am, typing this motiveless entry because I feel tired of studying.

I slept on 7:30AM last night just because I was adjusting my itinerary and budget and stuffs and around 7AM, I was stuck in organizing the trip for the 4th day and onwards. I had to dig more and more tourist spots and heck, it gave me a major headache! I slept until 12PM (because I'm a princess wuhuu) and I went out to Kangar to meet my friend.

I spent my evening with a group discussion which was spent mostly on eating and playing games and talking nonsense and watching animes and thinking of our future... And this one friend of mine has the craziest mind on programming, like, he's really great in it but he doesn't want to continue learning Computer Science for degree. He's interested in learning languages which is so like me. But I decided to choose the other way - I mean, I'd love to continue my degree with any courses related to Computer Science. 

By the way, I keep playing on this song the whole day! Standing Still by U-KISS. It's a Korean group but don't worry because most of the members speak English and the song has more English lyrics which makes it easier to sing along to it :)

I am actually feeling so hungry right now. I was bloated on dinner time because I ate so much during the day but c'mon scumbag stomach why do you have to feel hungry now? I don't even have the guts to go out to buy foods :( And stupid me for browsing my gallery and I saw the picture of burger bakar I took before. The patty is so fat oh my god

Hehehe I ordered double patties and managed to slice only 1 patty that time XD But look, it looks so fat omg omg omg drooling :Q___________________

Oh ya I know I'm supposed to edit my blog since it's March already but arghh I don't really have time to, you know, to make my blog pretty and flashy and grand or whatever. If I ever have time to edit and stuffs then I will. Mehh I still haven't finish my HTML project and my work is to design the template and such. Crying. I love coding but why it has to take lots of energy bla bla bla okay  no more complaining.

You know what I feel so awkward to end my entry like all the time :( I don't know what should I say or what should I put or what should I express so since I don't know anything, I should just put a picture of my lock screen

...because gorgeous Kim Jaeseop hehehehe okay bye XD

So last Friday night, my course had a dinner for this semester. The theme was Red de Luna, which, if it's translated in English, means Red Moon. It is actually based on vampires, and the original name was Bloody Moon. Since it's inspired by vampires, the main colours for that night are red, black and white.

I've uploaded most the pictures on Facebook but um, let's serve you with few pictures of me on that night :)

People around me are getting married and most of them are my peers. People with same age range with me. Do I feel jealous? Of course, I do. Seeing that most of my peers found their soulmates and ended up marrying and live happily as a couple... It is seriously the nicest thing on Earth.

Congratulations to those who got their status changed from single to married :)

/ / /

This will be a post about me swimming through my own thoughts. Read if you want, close if you feel lazy to do so because this is purely me vs my thoughts, difference is this will be in written form. I warned you, so yeah.

/ / /

So I had this friend, a male friend, for about 6 years. I dated him back then, hahaha well it was during my zaman jahiliah when having a date looks cool and awesome ohgodwhy but we didn't last long since it was only cinta monyet lewlz yeah you could say that back then, love is my game. 

We lost contact for a year and somehow, he added me on Facebook and apparently he still remembers my phone number. So yeah, he contacted me, and we talked normally as what friends do. He did ask to be mine again, but I have no faith in him. He cheated on me back then, and I caught him dating with multiple girls during that time. Of course, I knew everything since I am a certified stalker. Yay.

I had him rejected and he stopped contacting me. Even changed to a new number. Again, we couldn't contact each other but this time, it is for about... 3 or 4 years? I was unintentionally searching for his name on Twitter since I was thinking of him that day. To be really honest, I forget most of the things happened in my past (excludes the ones that leave deep scars in me) but yeah, I forgot most of the events I went through before.

So I found his Twitter, followed him and tweeted him without expecting any reply since, well, he ignored me before. Unexpectedly, he replied to mine and he said that he's happy that I contacted him back...? Lol siapa taknak contact siapa dulu ni oi. After a few times of replying short text messages with him constantly saying I love you, I asked for explanation.

"I still love you" - so you only realized after years that you need/love me? Nahh maybe it's not me that you want. Maybe. Lol yeah ignored. Teehee. But another problem(?) came out. I can't seem to contact him (the other him, not the person I mentioned before in this post) and it's been days and I'm worried if anything happens to him :(

I hope you are doing fine.

Holiday's ending yet you're nowhere to be found.............................................

I miss you so much so please text me when you're okay

Hello,

I was supposed to sleep but then my previous skin annoys me too much that I thought of changing it instantly. Okay, I know, I am supposed to code my skin by myself but it will be a whole load of work for me since it's 4 AM so I decided to change the background and header.

February is supposed to be decorated with red and pink since it's like the colours that represent February the most...? I don't care hahaha since for me, black is neat. Hence, the black static background with a galaxy-themed header featuring new love of my life, Logan Lerman!

So, ta-dahhh! My blog's February look. I really really really really really want to change my blog URL but since I promised to use this as long as I can, I think I shall wait for it. Hmm. But I changed my blog's name from the Japanese words and a star to Kimmy's Journey. Easy.

#noteToSelf I should practice doing graphic and work on my writing and coding

It's 5:15 AM now, I really need to sleep or else I'm a dead meat :/ Good night :)

First of all, Salam Maulidur Rasul to every Muslim readers of my blog!

Hello, how's your day going on? Good? Fun? Or just a plain Thursday with nothing to do?

Mine is perfectly... plain. I spent hours for sleeping and resting and I began to sub for a Korean show. Yeah, I continued subbing, again, since a kind sister wanted to sub along so this actually motivated me to continue subbing. You know, translating and subbing are actually a difficult task for an average human being like me.

As a full-time student, I have to juggle my time for study, rest, and subbing. But at certain times when the subbing process became so enjoyable and interesting, I could be subbing for the whole night. Which, well, if there's no classes on the next day, I'll be sleeping for the whole day. I know it's wrong to stay up all night and sleep during the day but that's how I like it. I mean, I love working at night.

Okay so maybe that's just a lame reason to defend myself, haha.

But seriously, after experiencing the subbing process by myself, I knew now why people couldn't bug the translators and subbers to work faster. It's a tricky work; to translate is one different thing and to set the timing for the subtitles is another different thing. We want a perfect subbed videos to be released for international audiences; we want people to fully understood the entire story of that particular video.

To achieve this, we have to spend more time just to produce a high-quality of subbed videos. It will be way easier if you have more people for subbing and timing team but imagine if you're working alone. Struggling to translate each sentence correctly and fighting with your sleepy eyes to set the correct timing for each line being spoken.

It was a tough work, but when it's done, and when people anticipate for your work, it's something. For me, I'll feel happy when people anticipate for the next episodes. Sometimes, the kind audiences will leave you some kind words and those words will actually keep you motivated for God knows how many hours. It works like a magic. Trust me, because I've been there.

Okay so, I didn't plan on typing an entry on subbing, besides, I had a completely different topic pinned in my head while waiting for blogger to load. It switched unintentionally when I started to type ;~; So pardon me if this is a really boring entry or if you think I was bragging about my part-time job (forever considered subbing as my part-time job).

I will try harder on subbing and translating; hoping it will polish my skills and talents (if I have any). Thank you for reading my blog, it's an honour to have guests visiting this blog :')

I will be graduating from diploma most probably in this October, probably and hopefully it will be in this year. I know I still have around 9 more months to think of where should I go for degree, but you see, I've been worrying about my future so much that I've went surveying best universities that put my course as their priority.

After days of sleepless night (because I was too immersed in researching), for local university, I will choose Multimedia University (MMU) as the one that I want to be apart of. It's been said that MMU provides the best facilities for anyone who wants to advance in faculty of engineering and technology and also faculty of computing and informatics. MMU is Malaysia's first private university which was set up through Universiti Telekom Sdn Bhd, a wholly owned subsidiary of TM. 

Since it's a private university, the fees is quite high for an average human being like me. Hearing rumours that alumni and even current students of MMU have been calling it as "Money Making University" since they used students' money quite a lot...? And truth be told, I heard bad rumours about MMU despite its high achievement in education. Sometimes, I feel hesitant about my choice to be in MMU for degree because of those weird rumours going around but I guess I should not feel that way, as the reason why I diligently study now is to be admitted to MMU.

But it's never wrong to make plan B, so I thought of surveying overseas universities as well.

Being the child of alumni of Acadia University, I began to do my research on my desired course there. Seems interesting, since it's located in Canada. Earlier this month, I e-mailed one of the university's representative and asked about scholarship and the award for alumni's child and I got the reply this morning and guess what? Since I was born in Canada, I am still considered as a Canadian. Which means, I only need to pay for fees in the same amount of other Canadians and will not be charged as a foreigner. Looks good, right?

Everything looked as fluffy as cotton candy but my imagination was ruined after I converted Canadian Dollar to Ringgit Malaysia. My dream, my hope, they crushed into pieces, literally. The tuition fees alone reached tens of thousands, I can't imagine the total I had to pay including airplane tickets, dormitory fees, meal fees, registration fees, etc. No, I would rather go elsewhere and let go of my dream to go back to my birthplace. Sorry, Acadia University :(

So I heard that studying in Asian countries are way cheaper so I went lurking around the sites of famous universities in Korea. I've been doing that since 2010, but my heart is really fond of Yonsei University for an unknown reason. To compare being accepted by MMU and Yonsei, I will say that I'm dying to be known as one of Yonsei students :( I tried to convert the tuition fees from Korean Won to Ringgit Malaysia, and I can say that somehow it is cheap. Well, at least still cheaper than Acadia's. That was tuition fees alone so I don't know how much the total fees will be.

...so I was on Google Image for Yonsei and Acadia images and wow, they were located on such beautiful landscapes! My photographer heart, please keep calm :'( Look at Yonsei! Look at how delicious-looking autumn colours painted the whole campus! So beautiful, mother of nature. But then, I was reminded that Acadia University was first established on year 1838 and it is said that Yonsei was one of the oldest university in Korea. Hmmm, older universities with beautiful landscape... /eyeing the somewhat new MMU/

So, well yeah. I've narrowed down my choice to this 3 universities. I talked to my parents about MMU and it seems like they're okay with that, let's see what is their reaction if I voiced out my opinion about studying in either Acadia and Yonsei. Hmm.