Reminder To Self

Nicely written poems by Rupi Kaur, definitely my current new fave ♥ 

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Hello 2❤16!

Happy New Year, guys! Can't believe another year just flew by like that, way too soon. 2015 has been nothing but great despite a few series of unfortunate events. Officially stepping into adulthood, more commitments, more debts to pay, losing my grandfather, best friend getting married, some bridges were burnt while new ones were built. In a nutshell, I guess I couldn't ask for a better year and I'm thankful for each and everyone who was a part of it.

Things 2015 has taught me:

#1. Life is unfair, period.

#2. You might not have everything figured out right now but it's alright.

 #3. People grow and change their mind.

#4. Become your own best friend and have your own back.

#5. I'm addicted to coffee -__-

Truth is, a year can make quite a difference. Next year we’ll come back to this point again with new things we’ve learned. Can't wait to fill my yearly planner with new memories, be it good or bad (: And yes, I'll be turning a quarter of a century old too.

The only regret I have this year is probably that I don't read blog enough. I doubt people even read my blog these days T___T sad but true. Just so you know, my half-written summary blogpost of 2014 is still somewhere in my draft, shame on me. Honestly, I do miss blogging but I just couldn't find the time to do after a long week of work. Plus, ever since the sudden death of my Canon G12, I don't have a proper gadget to take photos eventually losing my mojo to blog. I know all these are just merely excuse (yes, I'm guilty for not putting extra effort) but hopefully in 2016, I will blog more than I did in 2015. This post is definitely a good start, no?

What's my New Year's resolutions, you ask? None! Cause that's so cliche :P  I'm really looking forward to see what 2016 has in store for me. Definitely the year to make bigger plans and to fulfill them. Until then, leave behind what holds you down and let’s embrace 2016 with open arms! It will be better, trust me (;

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Blog Not Dead

...yet. Oh hey!

In case you've forgotten how I look like :P 

I know I have been silent for the longest time. I'd still be so darn happy if there is at least one or two readers still reading my blog. It has been almost a week since I'm back in Malaysia, still trying to catch up on rest (not forgetting stuffing myself with all the food I've been missing HEH) and trying to adapt to a new chapter of life. Yes, I am now a working adult T___T I can't believe it myself either. Gone are the days where I can stay up late or spend time in front of the laptop surfing the internet or watching drama. Oh well. Welcome to reality, kid. Yet I am super thankful that I managed to secure a job so soon after I completed my studies, so yeah I am not complaining at all. I hope I will learn to equally love Mondays as how I love Fridays but now that I am also working on Saturdays, guess I won't love Fridays as much HAHAHA but I sure gotta love the end of every month, cause y'know mmhmm $$$$$ to spend! Wait, I mean save :P Work has not officially started yet but I'll be officially reporting for duty tomorrow. Feeling nervous yet excited at the same time. Wish me luck!

Source: Google
Well in my case, I would be busy carrying patients hehehe :P 

Have a great week ahead guys!
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7 Types of Faces while Watching World Cup

The World Cup fever is here again with the Fifa World Cup 2014 starting tomorrow! Are you guys excited?! Cause I certainly am \(^▽^\)(/^▽^)/

I was hanging out with Joeann earlier today and we were so bored that we ended up facepainting (well, she was the one who painted it anyway) flags of the team we are supporting this year. Since we took shitloads bunch of selfies, I thought of coming up with this post just for the fun of it. I guess it would be better if we do a short video but it's gonna be tedious with the whole editing process and all so yeah.

So these are the 7 types of faces while watching World Cup; 

#1. YES-it's-a-GOALLLLLLLLLL face. 

#2. Dey-Referee-Y-U-simply-give-red-card face.

#3. Walao-liddat-also-can-goal face.

#4. Lansi-cause-my-team-just-scored-a-goal face.

#5. Is-it-gonna-be-a-goal face.

#6. The-opponent-is-leading-with-5-goals face.

#7. Wait-what-that's-a-penalty face. 

Team Holland vs Team Espanol 

And of course there's more selfies (as much as I wanted to post them all here) but I shall not bore you with our faces. So that's pretty much it :P

Last but not least, let the World Cup begins and watch responsibly! May the best team wins!
*cues We are One (Ola Ola) by Pitbull and J.LO in the background

So which team are you rooting for? Do share it with me!

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Homebound

....in another 3 hours time. It was sort of an impromptu decision to fly back home for my one week break, a well-deserved break I would say after the crazy hectic schedule since December. Plus, it would be a good excuse to escape from the terrible haze and water shortage issue in KL. So, here I am updating my abandoned blog at such odd hour just cause I have to stay awake at the airport.
  

Now that I'm done with my final clinical placement, all I really need is to sleep all I can, eat all I want or just do nothing before preparing myself for my upcoming battle (read: FINALS) which is in another two months time. Yet at the same time, I keep telling myself that I should at least spare some time everyday to update my blog. It feels weird to be writing again after such a long break (like what, a month?) and I can't seem to put the words together anymore. I guess my list of pending blogposts will never ever end. Blogging mojo, where art thou?

Till then, peace out and keep march-ing on.
Update soon, I promise!

Edit: I'm home! Gotta first catch up with some sleep that I missed last night.

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2♡14 | Moving Forward

While everyone is writing about their summary and recap of 2013, mine would be pretty brief in my own words and feelings with probably no photos. Yes, if you're lucky. It's sad (but true) how people nowadays doesn't appreciate wordy post anymore, they would prefer a post full of photos instead of words. That's not actually the point of my post so yeah, back to 2013. In fact, 2013 in general wasn't that bad, it has been quite a great year to me with fair bit of ups and downs. Come on, let's be realistic. Of course they are days where I wake up feeling all good for no reason and there are days that I wish I could just sleep the day away. I'm glad it's more of the former one. 2013 has taught me that you can't always get what you want. 2013 has taught me that when one door closes, another opens. 2013 has taught me to be stronger than I was before. 2013 has taught me how fragile one's life is. With that, I would like to thank 2013 for the lessons and all the people who have been with me through thick and thin this whole year round. I'm truly blessed x 

Few of the major highlights this year (that I could remember; I have short term memory pfft) would be me stepping into the final year of my uni life, meeting the Chelsea football team, my 22nd birthday, my trip to Taiwan and my recent hair makeover. Nothing extraordinary but it's still a year worth remembering. I started off this year with an empty jar where I will need to fill it up with all the good things that happen to me this year but eventually I got lazy and I never bother writing it anymore HAHA but hey, at least the jar isn't empty. Same goes to my Project 365 which never made it to the 365th day. Total failure T__T Despite the busy schedule, I still manage to blog from time to time and making sure that it's not totally abandoned. It has reached another new milestone with consistent traffic and surprisingly this little blog of mine has received quite a numbers of sponsored posts and invites to event this year. Thanks for the support, especially from my readers! It's definitely an achievement for me. Hopefully there is more to come in 2014 (: And not forgetting meeting new friends and different people through blogging. In 2014, I will try my best to blog more often, though I can foresee myself busy battling with the final semester of my degree in the earlier half of the year.

Speaking of 2014, I seriously have no major plans yet, just gonna embrace what He has planned for me. I have no clue how is it gonna be like too, but I'm pretty sure it's gonna be my year. Cause I can and I decided to make it better. Get hot. Dream big and try to achieve them no matter what cost it is. Love myself right, or else who will? Ahhhh, you know all the cliche stuff people say to themselves whenever the new year arrives HEH  

Not sure what's ahead of me but there will be brighter days as long as I'm willing to see them.
P/S: Photo taken on my last night in Taiwan, did a last minute shopping at freaking 12am.

So here's a toast! 

To the beginnings in fear and faith and all it tinges — Lang Leav

While everyone is out partying or spending time with their loved ones on NYE, I'm stuck at home with my final year research proposal and a half dying laptop. Yes, I need a new laptop sobs I remember this time last year, I was rushing on an assignment too that dues four days later. Oh well, it's just another new year (: and please stop saying #YOLO and playing Harlem Shake or any of PSY's songs, that's so 2013. 

Till then, have a good year ahead, guys!

Much loves,

Hilda. 

On a short hiatus; till I get back!

...I guess by the time you read this, I should have landed in Taiwan already HEHE Winter just started so I'm hoping the weather wouldn't be freezing cold. Feel free to follow me on twitter and Instagram for instant updates (; So I was supposed to write a prologue of my trip before I fly off but I was too busy the entire week. I guess I'll just write it when I get back cause it takes time to write a lengthy and decent post, y'know. One of the things that I'm looking forward in this trip would definitely be the food! Thinking of all the various night markets that I'll be visiting every night, I'm pretty sure I'll be coming back with a few extra kgs. Yet I have to be cautious to not get my tummy upset throughout the journey. So there's thiis infographic provided by Gaviscon that shows 7 easy-to-follow tips that could help me and you keep our tummy safe in every circumstances, especially when we are travelling.

Good to have reminder like this sometimes, no? (:

Can't wait to share with you guys the food and places that I'll be visiting!
In the meantime, don't forget to join my giveaway that is still running till the first week of Dec!
Don't miss me, be back real soon HEH

Till then, xx

Four more days

....till I'm done with my 7th clinical posting which is this Friday, to be exact. Can't wait! Life has been pretty mundane ever since my clinical posting started which explains the lack of updates in my blog. Cause it's just the same routine everyday, from Monday to Friday. Waking up as early as 6am and spending an average of 11 hours in the hospital is really tiring and by the time I'm back in my hostel in the evening, I still have reports to finish. So, it's really hard to juggle in between active social life, work and having enough sleep. Obviously I chose the latter one.

#truestory and in my case, it's impossible to get even 8 hours of sleep a day.

Every time a new week starts, I'll be looking forward for the weekend cause then I'll get to go out and sleep in. Yet the truth it, when the weekend arrives, all I wanna do is to curl up into a ball and stay in bed the whole weekend. I'm that tired T__T But it doesn't mean that I hate clinical posting, it's definitely more interesting compared to having class. Cause I'll get to see patients from different walks of life and getting exposure of how work life is going to be like in the future. It's definitely something that I look forward every semester. And as for this clinical posting, I'm grateful that I've gained much more than just knowledge and experiences, it changed me in a way. Seeing life in a different perspective. I'll probably write it in another different blogpost some other time, when I'm feeling it.

I've no idea why am I writing this post, but I just realized how much I miss blogging. Alright, I shall post some photos before you feel bored about this wordy blogpost already.

HKL Paediatrics' Institute is where I'm posted for the entire 6 weeks.
I had to walk 8km everyday but good thing is that I feel less guilty for not being able to workout this one whole month. So this will compensate :P 

Hydrotherapy with the kids last last Friday, looks fun but it is not as relaxing as you thought. 

So besides sleeping, food is definitely what I'll go for to de-stress myself too. Bad idea I know, but I can't help it. What is eating clean again? HAHAHA Sorry self, not this month. Tried packing food for lunch as well but it didn't last till a week. And I find myself craving for all kind of food whenever I'm stress.

Breakfast and dinner that I had over the past few weeks but surprisingly I didn't gain any weight :P 

Pampered myself with green tea ice-cream last night (: 

Excuse me for this abrupt ending but I'm so happy that it's a public holiday tomorrow so we get a day off from clinical too! No Monday bluesssss 8) Counting down to Friday! Last but not least,

 ...guess who's turning 22 next week? HEHHHH

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Hello Summer Holiday!

YAYYYERS I'm finally done with my last exam for this sem this morning, and you know what that means :3 Yet I won't be able to sit still until the result is announced tomorrow *cold sweats

Be sure to stay tuned on my page, now that I'm on holidays, it's time to clear my blogging debt and plan to spend my holiday productively.

Edited: Passed my presentation!

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Gong Hei Fatt Choy

It's that time of the year where it's all about the good food and angpows, and of course family bonding time too. To be honest, CNY is my favourite festive season of all(!) cause I get to be home, clad in brand new clothes and reunite with my extended family as well.

One of the tasks I enjoy doing before CNY; decorating the house (^～^)

Megan, helping out in the kitchen.

Massive fireworks just right in front of my house, so pretty! (≧∇≦)  

Yes, I have an Instagram account now! Teehee I know I know I am a century late, but it's never too late to follow me for my latest updates HEH
Username: @hildamildaa
P/S: With a double a at the back (´∀`)

Last but not least, I hereby wish all of my lovely readers a prosperous and great year ahead filled with success, wealth, happiness, joy and love. Gong Xi Gong Xi! Let's all huat huat huat together in this year of snake! ＼(^▽^＠)ノ

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Up North

Hello from Penang! *waves*
I'm currently leeching wifi in Starbucks so it will be just another short post to keep my blog updated HEH Headed up to Penang yesterday morning and thank God for the fine weather though it was raining heavily earlier and surprisingly there was no traffic jam.

Few photos I took throughout the journey;

Finally, we're almost reaching the much awaited Penang YAYYYYY

We're on the Penang bridge yaw! *jakunnnn*

And oh spotted MAHSA adv towards the end of the Penang Bridge! LOLOL

We safely arrived at 3-ish! :D Somehow the GPS couldn't find most of the places in Penang and since none of us are from Penang, we had to drive around aimlessly while asking around for  directions and trying to figure out where to go #failedGPS and there are so many cars everywhere T__T Hopefully by a week time, we would be familiar with the roads and stuff.

Big thanks to Henry Tan for bringing us around Penang today! :P  

So glad that it's sunny here in Penang B)  

Joeann and I (:

Managed to try the famous Penang Teochew Cendol at Lebuh Keng Kwee :D 

And as for now, I'm having mixed feelings for tomorrow; my first day of clinical posting in Penang GH. Excited yet nervous cause I haven't really been studying over the one week holiday but let's just hope all is well *fingers crossed*

P/S: Penang langs, do recommend me places to go or food to try :DDDDDDDD

Till then, have a great week ahead!
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10 Things

So I've been wanting to say this for this entire week, so here goes.. *clear throats* I'm finally done with my assignment! :D

PL0054 STATUS: Completed // Submitted
Hopefully all is well, it's definitely the toughest assignment I've did so far. Even finding the evidences can drive me up the walls! Handed it in this morning and literally felt so much relieved (:

So I've decided to do a short post that summarizes my week with just 10 things; just cause I feel like sharing some photos I took with my phone HEH

#1. It's been raining for few weeks now and still is, bummer much. Don't you think? It makes things even gloomier than it is T__T Monsoon season, go away and come another time can?

#2. Last Friday night, we actually stayed up at Mcd till sunrise HAHA speaking of dedication, that's why who ask you do so last minute lahhhh :P 

#3. The sunrise I took that morning (x 

#4. That evening, dropped by Miss Selfridge to get something for Belinda (:
Tried on this dress and omgggggg it was like love at first sight but yeah. 

#5. Managed to pull off a surprise party successfully for Belinda that night ! :D
She was so happy cause Kenyee flew on the way back to surprise her. 
Full blogpost soon, soon. 

#OOTD Peplum Dress from Cotton On 

My loveliessssss; love of my life (˘⌣˘)ε˘)(ʃƪ´⌣`)

Our mandatory self camwhore shot on each of our birthdays (; 

#6. Changed my nail colour too :3 Farewell glitter nails! 

#7. YAY Finally a day without rain (:  HEHEHE So excited to see the sun! *rolls around under the sun

#8. See how hardworking am I? :P In the midst of rushing assignment yet still have the time to go on twitter #failed HAHA

#9. Early celebration (cause we finished our assignment!) last night at Mu Jin Jang HEH  Time to treat our tummy with good food! Their BBQ pork was really good but I don't really like the kimchi jiggae. 

#10. My late night cereal supper with cold milk; sheer bliss ❤

And guess what, my holidays officially started today woohoo *cues Rebecca Black's Friday I shall make full use of it and enjoy every single day to the max before the real business coming up the following week. So if you'll excuse me, I've got to sleep all day and party all night yo. HAHA jkjk  but I'll still catch up with the sleep and dramas that I've been missing for the past few weeks #likeaboss

Stay tuned cause I'll be clearing my blogging debt this holidays for sure (;

Happy weekends guys!
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