My rant: Worst day ever!

Today has got to be one of the worst day ever.

I was involved in a little road accident through no fault of mine at all! Oh my shiny new car! Erghh..

That was the first ever road accident that I experienced while I was behind the wheels. Here's the story.

So right after work today, I was on my way to Kota Batu to send my cousins home. Mom was there to accompany me since I am not very familiar yet with the roads in that area. When we were in Bandar stopping at the traffic lights near Sg Kianggeh (next to the Bolkiah cinema) while waiting to turn left to go over the bridge, a white car ran through the red lights from the road heading straight to the bridge. By that time, our lights had turned green, and so this black car in front of us sped up and nearly collided with the white car from before. We didn't think much of it, so we just turned left to go over the bridge and was then on our way behind the white and black cars.

I think the driver from the black car was pissed off with the white car and we can clearly see him tailing the white car closely from behind. He was provoking the white car in front of him as well as trying to take over the white car from the left! (Mind you, there is only 1 lane for each direction of the road) This continued on until we reached the Kota batu area (I kept a safe distance from the 2 cars ahead of me all this time), when the black car made a signal to the left and entered a simpang while honking the white car in front. We can clearly see this from behind. We thought that this will be the end of it. How wrong!

The white car ahead of us was provoked and immediately braked his car and made a fast straight reverse to get back to the black car in the simpang (without turning around) heading to our direction right behind him and crashed into my car!! Stupid stupid stupid driver! Inda kan nda tepikir nada kerita lain di belakang ah, sampai telanggar kerita orang lain! Jalan utama jua tu!

While the white car was speeding in reverse to our direction, I was so confused at first at what he was trying to do. I thought he was trying to reverse to the side of the road, but noooo, directly dapan keritaku di belakangnya! At that time, mom was so tekajut and tried to tell me to reverse to avoid the impending collision but in my confusion, I can only brake and blast out my horn but it was too late!

The driver from the previous black car turun ke bawah, and the driver from the white car turun from his car and durang bekelahi tangah-tangah jalan raya. Apakan!? Bida jua eh, mun kan bekalahi jangan sampai orang innocent yang lain di jalan raya menjadi mangsa! Astah.

The wife of the white car driver ran to us to apologise and said that they did not see us at the back and ask why we did not horn them in warning. Astah, nda kan nda tepikir atu jalan raya, banyak pemandu nya. Nda jua ku sampat kan menghorn-horn lagi tu. Rasa marah ku jua bila ia tanya cematu. I got out of my car with mom and cousins pasal we were in shock and inspected the damage. Thank goodness there are no dents on my front bumpers or any broken lights, ganya ngingis saja on a small area of kereta ku di dapan kirinya atu. Bekumpul tarus kerita orang lain meliat kami tangah-tangah jalan, so ahirnya we moved the car to the road side to prevent traffic.

I called my dad to help me with the 'discussion' and to make the story short, the 2 drivers made up (kereta durang nada papa, keritaku yang tekana *masih bitter hehe*) and we are in agreement that the white car driver will pay for any damages or repairs needed to my car nanti. But still, my shiny new car sudah ada ngingis, sasak ku eh. Hopefully once berepair, it will be good as new.

So to other road users, road rage can only cause harm to other people. Ani tah lagi kami membawa kanak-kanak dalam kerita, baik jua nda papa, nyawa bah tu! Yang pentingnya, kami semua selamat tadi. Baik jua nda ku report ke polis. Yang calinya dua-dua lagi kerajanya polis yang bekelahi tadi ani. Apa sudah jadi lah! Please respect all road users! Use the road wisely!

*** Feels good to rant. Please take note, I am a very patient person and is very seldom angry but this is inexcusable! There.

Roger and out!

Sentimental Value

"All of these lines across my face
Tell you the story of who I am
So many stories of where I've been
And how I got to where I am"
(The Story - Brandi Carlile)

You can say that I am a sentimental type. I love keeping stuff which holds a great sentimental value to me. Some can even be categorized as junk, haha. The weirdest thing that I have a habit of keeping are plastic bags from travels. I don't know why I love keeping them, other than to make my storage places so full and sometimes I do forget that I kept them after all these years. I try to stop keeping those unique plastics bags now hahaha.

The thing is, I was just cleaning my room this afternoon when I realised how much junk and other stuff that I have accumulated over the years. I told you that I am sentimental, thus I love to keep some stuff that I always manage to convince myself are too 'sayang' to throw away. I am sure that I am not the only person out there who have the same habits that I have. There is always a part of me saying things like, "Oh, maybe this thing would be useful in the future, so I better hold onto it..".

Sometimes there are old things that I keep such as jewelery that was given to me years ago but never wear again. I kept them since they are given by friends and family, and of course are precious reminders of friendships and good relationships. I still have in my possession one of those best friends half pendant thingie where I kept one half and the other person kept one half that was given to me by my then-best friend in the 90s, haha.

The half pendant :)

Some other stuff that I like to keep are birthday cards or any cards given to me as well as presents. Some I am still using while some are for safe-keeping. Back in Brisbane, I have this habit of keeping those bus/train/ferry ticket stubs especially after we visited long distant places. Back then I figured that those are nice to keep for 'kenang-kenangan', which is a bit weird, hahaha. I think I have thrown most of them away now.

While rummaging through my storage cupboard during cleaning, I came across an old tin box that I kept ages ago, which contain some memorabilia & gifts from the youth exchange programme that I went to in South Korea in 2001. I looked through the stuff and found some telephone cards, key chains, some cash and so on. Thought I'd share with you guys what I have put inside almost a decade ago.

The old tin box

The inside of the box :)

Korean cash: 1000 Kwon, 5000 Kwon and 10000 Kwon

The back side. I just realised that I forgot to flip the last one hehe

US$1, US$10 and 200 Vietnamese Dollars :)

The back side

Refreshing towel and a tissue from Korean Air which I kept. Not so refreshing anymore, hahaha

Telephone cards that I bought and used to call Brunei from the hotel

An unused 5000 Kwon phone card. Still in it's plastic!

Some post cards that I exchanged with other participants

Some gifts that I received during the last day :)

Map of the subway

Some letters that I received from Korean friends hehe

Some name cards

Korean coins

So these are a small portion of the stuff that I kept over the years, haha. What stuff do you like to keep?

Til the next post!

Happy New Year 2010!!

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Hello dear readers,

Another year has passed us by, bringing with it some good memories and some not so pleasant ones. Hopefully with the coming of 2010, things will change for the better. I would like to wish everyone a "Happy New Year 2010"! Hope everyone will have a great year ahead of you, filled with much enjoyment, happiness, success, fulfillment and love. Enjoy life to the fullest!

I haven't really thought much of my new year resolutions other than to find a good job and to shed a few kilos! haha! Although the losing weight thingie is a recurrent resolution every year which gets abandoned halfway! heehee

Anyhuu, thanks for reading my blog posts! Take care people!

With love

What I want to say

Yes, I am still alive and well, haha. It has been quite a while since my last post. Baru jua seminggu plang tu nada new posts haha, berijap bunyinya. Hmm, I have been quite busy these past few weeks, especially starting this week lah since right now I have a temporary job. The temporary job is actually only for less than 2 months lah. I had training for 2 weeks before really really starting the job this week, so I have been pretty busy and tired all week long. Even Fridays and Saturdays ku kraja, so my only off day right now is Sunday. Hehehe. Nevertheless, I have enjoyed my job so far and my work colleagues are a nice bunch. So I am grateful hehe.

To tell you the truth, this is my first ever job after all years of studying and studying haha. When I calculated the time I spent studying, from my kindergarten years (starting 1990) to my University years (finished 2008), I have spent 19 years of my life just schooling and studying! Kalau masukkan nursery years lagi arah Sunshine School jua, ada jua 20 tahun sudah ku sekolah! Wow! Haha. I am a nerd, haha. Okay, I love going to school, hehe, walaupun sometimes ada masa malas2 atu, tapi atu biasa lah ah, hahaha. Now I am 23, well going to be 24 in a few days hehe. So this is a new phase in my life, the working phase and living life in general.

I would love to continue studying lagi, but maybe sometime in the future lah nanti. Since some things did not work out as I have planned, I have moved on with life and try to accept the fact that maybe some better things are out there for me, who knows kan. Although sometimes bila ingat balik sedih lah jua, hehe. But I have discovered that I am a strong and optimistic person. I did not get to fulfil my dream to continue studying medicine to become a doctor but who knows. All we can do is pray and hope for the best. I believe I have not mentioned any of this to my readers in my blog di sini dulu, sampai ada yang tanya-tanya mengapa tarus-tarus ada farewell dinner masa di brisbane dulu and macam batah ku di Brunei masa ani. So I told them, I am back in brunei for good udah. Since dulu atu, nada ku rasa bemood kan share this di sini. I was so disappointed with myself and there were so many 'what if' scenarios going on in my head. What if I do that better or what if I do this differently, and so on. But ani banyak plang my friends tau sudah jua since I have accepted that fact sometime ago jua hehe. People kept telling me, 'it is not the end of the world' when they were advising me and I really appreciated that. Studying medicine is tough since every week ada new cases to research, understand and present and so on, so we have to keep up to date but fun lah jua, and I have enjoyed what I have studied so far. Maybe ia fast paced atu jua pasal it's a post graduate entry course for 4 years saja iatah kana compressed sikit atu kali walaupun ia kana consider as an undergraduate course. Memang lah jua tough kan pasal ani kes nyawa orang kan, hehe. Since I can't repeat due to stricter rules sudah masa ani, so I have to return back to Brunei. At least I have my degree to fall back to, and for that I am fortunate. Wah, sesi luahan hati tah plang nah haha.

Since I am in a reminiscing mood jua kan masa ani, hehe. Sigh.. becoming a doctor was my ultimate ambition since high school and sudah masuk Med after going through so much of schooling to reach that goal felt good since the end was becoming nearer and nearer. But we can't really predict life, I mean we make plans and we try to do the best we can but if it is not destined for you, terserah tah pada takdir kan. I didn't do as well as I hope in the end year written exams last year. I have never failed anything in my life before this and that was such a huge blow to me. Nda lagi langsung dapat repeat the year tu eh, if other courses dapat, ish ish ish. At first ku rasa nda fair plang since it wasn't the case macam orang dulu2 but new rules are new rules. Sudah nasib sorang-sorang kan. As I said, we just hope for the best through prayers and usaha. So right now, I am planning to work dulu and maybe continue studies nanti, hehe, rehat2kan minda tah dulu lapas 20 tahun belajar non-stop. So yes, as you may have read from my previous blog entries, I am happy now and moving forward, with my family by my side now in Brunei although I miss Brisbane and my Brisbane friends especially since I left rather unexpectedly, hehe. Hearing about other people's stories who have been in the same position before makes me more positive and optimistic.

Bah, sampai ke sana ku plang nah, haha. Sometimes I like to reminisce on things as you can see, hehe. Brapa bulan kah sudah tu hal atu hehe. Hmm, baik jua lah masa ani ada temporary job to focus on while waiting for any govt job since I got back in Brunei in February. Ani macam makin kerasahan lah jua batah menunggu and jobless, sigh. But nya org, time2 masa ani andang selalunya batah menunggu kraja ani, hehe, so sabar saja tah dulu, hehe. Wah, panjang ceritaku ani haha, sometimes it feels good to say what is in your heart jua kan. Awalnya kan bercerita pasal my new temporary job haha, sekali sampai atu. My close friends tau plang udah pasal ani but some may still nda tau so I thought baik tah ku blog to clear the air pasal ani haha, and now you know! hehe, walaupun bebulan-bulan sudah haha, sorry about that. I hope you understand. :) Now, it's not good to reminisce about the bad times in my life lagi haha, so a note to myself: Think happy thoughts saja! hehe. To my friends yang masih berjuang dalam medicine atu, semoga sukses and akan ku sentiasa doakan semoga kamu berjaya menjadi doktor suatu hari kelak, amin! :)

xoxo

jannah (^_^)

Musings - If I were a superhero

So I had this really really silly dream last night. The details are quite fuzzy like most of my dreams usually are. As we slip into consciousness, the memories of the dreams would usually slip away and we are left with a few snippets of objects and places. And as you know, the dreams do not seem to flow with one another and sometimes are so silly that they do not even make any sense haha.

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From what I can remember, I dreamed that I was a superhero. And the funny thing was that, I was wearing a Sailormoon outfit, with a cape, hahaha. However, I don't remember the colour of the outfit. I guess this has something to do with my recent readings of the sailormoon manga. Oh well. I know that there are some people in my dream whom I don't remember. I think I was jumping around or running on the streets. In another scene, I went into a posh shop in the middle of a battle, haha. Sampat lagi tuuu... and I noticed that the clothes sold are very cheap. Supaya laku kali tu ah, since it was in the middle of a battle :P. I was trying out this long beige sparkly cardigan which has a price tag of $5.50, which is very very cheap heheh... weird.. sampai pricenya pun ku ingat heheh. Those are the snippets that I can still remember.

I was really curious so I checked the net for dream interpretations. Saja-saja heheh. You can see that I have plenty of time to spare haha. Here's a really good website. I looked for the meanings of certain themes or objects in their dream dictionary, heheh. This is what it says for 'superhero'.

"To dream that you are a superhero, represents your above-average talents, ideas and other hidden abilities that you may not realise you possessed."

I wonder what that means. Hidden abilities? Only time will tell, hahaha. Then I looked for 'cloth'.

"To see cloth in your dream, represent components and various pieces that composes your life. Consider the colour for significance in the outlook or how things are going on in your life."

"To dream that you are wearing brand new clothes, signifies new attitudes and a new persona. You are finding a different way of expressing yourself. If the price tags are still attached to the clothes, then it suggests that you are trying hard to adapt to this new attitude. Perhaps it is not who you really are and you are not quite fitting in."

"To dream that you are shopping for or buying clothes, represents your anxieties about trying to fit in or being 'well-suited' for your changing role."

Hmm, I wonder what these new attitudes are. I am not going to ponder these seriously but they are all very interesting ey. Heheh

Now, back to the subject of superheroes, I wonder what powers that I would like to possess if I were a superhero. Here are some stuffs that I came out with, ahem *clears throat*.

If I were a superhero:

1) I want to have the power to fly. If I could fly, I would love to go to other countries and continents for impromptu holidays. If I get stressed, I could just fly there to relax my mind, and go skiing in Colorado, or go to the top of Mt. Everest ( so I can claim that I am the first Bruneian to do that, haha) or go swimming in the Pacific ocean (of course I need to wear a drowning-proof swim suit since I can't swim, hahaha, errrr.. superhero apa ni ah haha). Of course I would bring along my passport and travel documents since I do not want to become a pendatang haram, hahaha... The benefit is that transport will be free and faster.

Hmmm, come to think of it, a magic carpet would be nice to own as well.. just in case I get tired and cold (if I were to fly in stormy weather) and the magic carpet would be equipped with cool controls and safety belts (since I am terrified that I might fall off and plunged to my death haha, superheroes need to be prepared with that too, you know, hahaha) and it will be stocked with enough food, clothing and anything you could possibly need, coming from a mini-sized drawer of some sort (just like a Doraemon pocket). If I could not get a magic carpet, hmmm, maybe a broom would be nice too.. (how many superheroes use brooms as a means of transportation for flying?) and no, not the tacky ones, I want something cool like a Firebolt or a Nimbus 2000, heehee. Ah and of course, the most important thing is that, if I could fly, it would be easier for me to fight my arch nemesis in a battle to bring peace to the world, like how any good old stereotypical superhero would do, heh *smirks*.

2) I want to time travel. If I could time travel, I would need a mad scientist to guide me as well as to invent cool superhero stuffs. I had this idea from watching the night at the museum movie that, I would bring a lamp, or mobile phone or a laptop along when I time travel to the past when those things are yet to be invented. So I can claim that I am the first person to ever invent those things in the past time period and then become very rich and famous, hahaha.... and of course, to fight evil to bring peace to the world... of course.. heh :P

3) I want to have the power of teleportation. Why didn't I think of this earlier?! I wouldn't have gone on and on about why flying would be a good power to possess. This would have been much better, ey? But come to think of it, I would reconsider and would still want to have the ability to fly although teleportation could get me anywhere in a matter of seconds (I assume that's how long it takes to teleport - see the movie Jumper hehe). Ohhh, here's an idea! I will only fly when I need to exercise! Yes, yes, yes, that's a good idea, you'd say. Flying requires a lot of energy than teleportation. I mean, it couldn't be that easy to balance your body (usually horizontal) up in the air and to put your right arm pointing forward like superman does, all the time, couldn't it? Hahaha... Well, if my right arm is tired, I could easily switch to my left and vice versa. I need to be in a cool superhero fighting stance all the time right.. Yup, that's settled then. Flying only when I need a few kilos to burn and teleportation in most times and emergencies, heheh.

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4) I want to have super elasticity like Elastigirl in the Incredibles. Might increase my chances of joining the Olympics.. Hahahaha... yes, a girl can dream... :P

So if you were to have any superpowers, what are they?

Now, that's a fun subject to write about. Macam membuat karangan skulah masa dulu plang rasanya hehehe. Remember the common ones, like "Saya Sebuah Kereta", "Saya Sebatang Pensel" or "Diri Saya". Such good memories, hehe.

Right.. oh and also, here are the answers to the riddles that I posted yesterday:

Highlight the areas within the brackets and you will see the answers! :)

Riddle 1: [ A watermelon! ]

Riddle 2: [ Charcoal! ]

Riddle 3: [ Fire! ]

Alright then, that's all for my Tuesday afternoon musings hehe. Don't mind my sometimes overactive imaginations haha. :P

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