Simple DIY vase

I'm quite free in this week as I already passed all the report and assignment deadline. All tests are done as well. So those things I'd love to do during my holidays at home are blowing my mind. I start doing a lot of window shopping, not to worry its only window shopping. I start to look around my room what can I do to spend my free time.

I have one bookshelves beside my bed which is still not decorated. Then I saw a simple DIY to make a vase from a recycled mineral bottle and yarns. It is very simple to do but a bit tedious. So I suggest to use the thicker yarns so it won't take so long of your time to finish it. The thick yarns may cost a little bit expensive than the one I used but the quality must be better. You can see how the thicker yarns look like in UsefulDIY.com where the idea of making this DIY vase come from.

The process of making it is easy. We just need to wrap around the mineral bottle with the yarns. You can use any glue that stick nicely. Here I'm using my hot glue gun and glue stick. As the wrapping completed, you can add whatever decoration you love. I'm using rosettes decor as you can make it from ribbon you already have. You can search from Google on how to do the handmade rosette. I leave all the pictures I took while doing this DIY vase :)

Mineral bottle to be recycled

Wrapping the yarn around the bottle

Use handmade or ready-made rosettes or any other decor 

Glue on the fabric so it stick easily

You maybe more creative than what I did. LOL.

Sorry it doesn't look really cool though

Now it can be used to decorate my empty bookshelves :)

That's all!

It takes few hours to finish this and I'm so happy to see there's something colorful at this small part of my room in UTP :)

Pasir Puteh, Perak

I'm not used to drive alone to Ipoh or any places around Perak which are a bit far from UTP. I'm scared I'll be lost. If you're lost in KL it still doesn't matter. There are a lot of signboard that can route you back to your destination. But if you're lost in Ipoh or any area around Perak I don't think we can rely on signboard. At least for the time being. It will improve I believe. But my scariest driving experience was in Damansara. It has a lot of signboard with a lot of crazy diverging junctions.

I went to Pasir Puteh to find another two solar panels with the rating 3W6V. So I went to the most famous electronic shop among UTPian, the State Electronics. Unfortunately the solar panel with the rating that i'm looking for isn't available anymore. I moved to the next shops and still couldn't get the exact rating that I want. Its very hard to find a very small one or a very big one when you're looking for solar panel. And mine are very small. I went to the last shop that I know and that's my last hope. Finally I met them in the last shop :) 

3W 6V panel

I bought this at RM95 each. I need two of these and there are only two left in the shop and probably in the whole Pasir Puteh, so that's really mine! But I forgot to look at the name of the shop :(

Techcom Electrical

State Electronic

Sri Iskandar

Nowadays Sri Iskandar has become quite congested due to lots of cars. In these 4 years, I have witnessed a big changes happen to this place since my first year. Tesco, Billion, Giant, Mydin, McDonald, KFC, Secret Recipe, boutiques and all other shops didn't exist during my first time being here back in July 2009. I remember how at those time when I was about to cry as I cannot find even chocolate in Tronoh and Sri Iskandar after one year living in Subang Jaya town, a big shopping hub.

But still, there are so many places near UTP are not in my DONE list. 

I was looking for a new restaurant this evening and found out one in Bandar Universiti, Sri Iskandar. It's either the restaurant is new or me didn't notice it before. Chop & Grill Corner is the name. It's a normal western food restaurant and its cheap I think. The fish & chips I tried today costs RM5.50. Reasonable with the amount of the food in the plate.

Smoothie

Sometimes you plan for something to happen at certain time, but it happened the other way round. I plan to finish this small solar tracker circuit by today but I don't think it will work. By the way, it should works! Whyyyyy?? So the FYP2 first week milestone is not achieved. Anyway I brought all the stuffs out of lab and keep it in my room so I can do this during weekend. Rabbi yassir wa la tuassir Ya Allah Ya Kareem.

Al-Kahfi and chocolate banana smoothie are here for stress relieving :)

Simple recipe for chocolate banana smoothie:

1. Banana

2. Chocolate powder / milo / vico / ovaltine

3. Condense milk / fresh milk

4. Plain original yogurt

5. 3 to 4 cubes of ice

Blend all above. Happy weekend everyone! :D

First Sushi At Home

I'm not really into sushi actually. I've a mind setting that sushi restaurant always serve raw food and surely I cannot accept it. I've tried a raw salmon in my aunt's house and that's enough to make me lose my appetite for few days. It is so sad actually to know that I can't accept certain food from some part of this world :( That is soooo not universal and not cool! How can I survive traveling the world later on.

But sometime sushi really catch my attention. So it feels really good if I can do it at home and alter the ingredient that suit my taste :) I'll make sure the food is cooked first, and no way that I'm going to put those exotic animal inside my sushi rolls. That is so scary and too adventurous for me. lols.

This is my first attempt making a very normal sushi rolls at my home yesterday :)

End of Semester

I have just submitted the final interim report to Turnitin at 11.30 pm and that marks the end of this semester. FYP 1 interim report is the last to be submitted after a suffocating week with no single day without submission or test. The craziest week. The battlefield is not only physically but emotionally, mentally. When Allah wants to test you inside out.

I'm devastated Ya Allah without your help. I'm so devastated. Please Allah, please, don't leave me alone. Please. I'm so weak.

First exam paper start next Thursday. Allahumma yassir wa la tuassir. Rabbi zidni 'ilma.

First week of exam

Second week of exam

Always

Being ME Malaysia 2013

 In The Name of Allah, The Most Compassionate, The Most Merciful                    

                              

Al-Baqarah: 2

"This is the Book about which there is no doubt, a guidance for those concious of Allah."

"Al-Quran is the GPS of our life. We seriously don't have the idea on how to go to our destination. Allah help us with that GPS. But when the GPS says go to right, we choose to go to the left. When the GPS again says go to the left, we choose to go to the right. What will happen to us? We'll get lost. Get lost in finding our true destination. Where is our destination? Jannah, our first HOME." - Bro. Yusha Evans, my most favourite speaker, Being Muslimah Empower (BeingME) Malaysia.

Seeking an inspiration to be a better Syafiqah Najib :)

These girls

Though I'm not graduating this September, I joined my batch for EE class dinner. Most importantly, me and these girls I have since years ago spent time together, groom ourselves, eat, chat, making fun of each other, laugh like crazy and take photos a lot in that night. I will definitely feel lonely and missing them so much in the next semester :')

Look scary isn't it? :P

We all just want to be happy. So, be happy! Praise to HIM :)

Wordless Wednesday

It's not exactly a Wordless Wednesday. It's a One Word Wednesday. "Alhamdulillah" :)

Kitchen Grooming

I wish I could write more frequent after this since this blog has been in idle mode for so long. I wish I could use my absolute free time during last two weeks semester break but the super slow internet connection made me hate blogging during that time. Now lets get back to this again :)

It has been already two weeks passed since the new semester started. Week 3 begins tomorrow and we should get ready to be busy. All labs and assignments and project and FYP (and the list goes on) are waiting and smiling to us :) Before jumping into the havoc, I really want to spend some time having this pampering mask on my face tonight. Its honey + cinnamon mask!

Sometimes skincare and beauty products are so expensive to some people especially students like me. But we still have other option where we can fully use what normally available in our kitchen. We call this kitchen grooming :) Seriously girl, don't underestimate the power and potency of these substances especially honey and cinnamon. Did you know that cinnamon and honey are both the most powerful natural anti-bacterial and anti-microbial remedy for skin and also other health matters? This antibacterial property make it very good in combating acne. We call it anti-acne mask too. One of our beauty expert, Michelle Phan has also advised us to try this and she already made a guideline video of making this mask on our own. Watch it on YouTube and you can find so many other beauty tips in her channel.

To those having problem loading video or time constraint, lets check these very quick steps below! :)

1. You need honey. Again, it has an amazing anti-bacterial properties.

2. You need cinnamon powder too. According to Michelle, it will work to bring blood and oxygen back to your skin and dry out the pimples. Mix them with reasonable amount and ratio.

3. Michelle prefer to heat it up in microwave but I think it is not really necessary. In fact we don't have it in UTP. lol.

4. Apply it on your face and relax! Rinse it with water after 10 minutes. Time to glow! :)

May we have a lovely attitude and behavior as how we want our appearance look wonderful to the eyes of people we love around us :)

Verses for The Soul

And remember this always my dear Ika..

Al-Imran : 133, 134, 135

Pictures' Notes

Alhamdulillah I have just finished my test 2 for DSP subject. I can feel one by one heavy burden released from this head. But remember that all these responsibilities will not end till forever. There will always be task/responsibilities/problem to be solved. As one test has passed, need to get ready to have more serious time on DSP project starting tomorrow. That's the real life, it will come one by one. Before going back to the reality tomorrow, let me fulfill one of my promise to this blog : to keep in touch with this blog, at least write something once in a week. There's nothing so important here, I received some pictures from Ain, and I would like to share few thought of mine. 

1. These are the two pictures of me with my roommate. She is Nur Ain Syafiqah Binti Shamsudin. In UTP, we have been housemate since the beginning, and yes, this is my first time being her roommate. But this is not the first time ever. We had been roommate for a year during our time in Taylor, taking Canadian Pre-University. As much as how I used to love staying in the same room with her in 0912 Casa Subang, that's how I'm in love to stay with her now. She'll be graduating in September, so I still have a chance to stay close to her in this and next semester. This is just so wonderful and I love her :)

2. In the first picture, I drove from UTP to Lumut. We were heading to Pulau Pangkor to attend the wedding of Ain's cousin there. It was a wedding on island! I just knew and realized that it is a bit difficult to take all the hantaran (I'm not sure what do we call this in English) to go to the island as we need to take ferry. Probably to make it possible, the family need to book one private ferry for the whole family and stuffs. Any other way? And the second picture, we were in the ferry :)

3. With the technologies, products, researches and other improvements exist nowadays, you can change the way you look, virtually and literally. For me these two pictures virtually make me look a bit different from the reality. Its is just different virtually. These pictures are taken from Ain's smartphone and she did use one apps to edit. If I'm not mistaken, it is Camera360. Same goes to those instagram and, what else? I don't know as I don't have smartphone, you guys know better. Of course this technologies does not change my face to be a beautiful girl, but it does change how the skin complexion looks. It does not completely disappear but definitely diminished. At first I saw the pictures, I wonder where does my acne scars and so many other flaws go? I have been facing all the flaws in front of the mirror everyday! Maybe we cannot judge everything from a picture, the real thing can be better, or it can be worse.

4. Beautiful is always said to be subjective. Have you ever experience the situation where you find someone you know get more beautiful day by day. The way you look her or him change, its not the same as how you look at her at the first time you saw them. I do believe it is because of the beauty of their characters and so many other things that brought our love to grows toward them. It is not only physical beauty. Let us all try to achieve this ultimate beauty. Be beautiful inside out. Physically, spiritually. The most important things about beauty and love, it's Allah who place it inside us. May He guide us till the end. Ameen :)