To My Dearest Amethyst

Angah,

Selamat pengantin baru.  Aku mintak ampun dari jauh pasal tak dapat nak attend wedding kau. Bukanlah pasal tiket flight mahal sangat. Aku boleh je nak bergolok gadai dan ikhtiarkan utk  dapatkan duit utk balik Malaysia.  Tapi sekarang aku sibuk dengan finals! Aku punya last paper Isnin depan which will be two days after the akad nikah. Sadis kan? Distance has always kept us apart..nak buat macamana kan..Tak apalah ngah, jauh di mata dekat di hati. Macamanapun kau masih adik aku walaupun lepas ni kau bukan lagi the sister whom I can hang around with, jadi tempat sembang bila-bila aku nak..Pesan aku, jadi isteri yang solehah, jaga diri, jaga budi, jaga iman, jaga amal, and jaga laki kau, okay? =)

Deepest Love,


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New Eye: A Short Tour Around Quad

I really love the place I am living right now. Not only because it is astoundingly beautiful, it also reminisces a lot of my boyhood days in the United Kingdom in terms of the environment set up. (Used to live in UK when my father did his doctorate there). The buildings,  trees, bushes, weather, and even the scent-all these bring back the ''first senses'' I used to experience years back when I lived at Birmingham, England. Only now it is at a place called Troy, nestled north-state of New York.

The Quadrangle or  Quad refers to the dormitory I'm currently staying at. Just see how lovely it is. The  yellowish green hill, part of it fenced with decent wooden poles, the classic style building, and the shy sky..

And now it's winter. Snow on top of pine bushes. Couldn't be more awesome, could it?

How Quad looks like on a wintery night

Plus the snowflakes..

A lamp post under the snow

A typical American house before Christmas. Very similar to Malaysians' houses before Hari Raya with the glittering lights-except for the little snowman. 

A 'smiling' house

We've seen outside Quad, now let's get inside it.

Beds first-well, this is the main purpose of the room-to serve as a place to rest

The kitchen.

The modern-style bathroom

The desk

Desk close-up

A  close-up of the wall: Posters of Malaysia that remind me to never forget my roots

The setting is great. Right beyond the window is the field and right beside the desk is my bed. Not a good place to study though. I usually study at the Student Union, a building opposite to the dormitory.

The Student Union-the place where students gather to study, have discussions, meetings, socialize and what not.

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At last, I get to upload some pictures around my dwelling into this blog. Thanks to my 'new eye', which I bought on Black Friday