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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Scrawlings,Literature, and Hope

  Hello readers. Surprised to see me? Astonished to see that this blog come to life after months of being seemingly dead? Well,it looks like I have never failed to confuse you readers about this blog being dead or alive hehe. Yes,I AM sorry for not posting and updating this blog consistantly for all you readers out there. If there even ARE readers left... *sigh* It's just that my life has been a whirlwind recently with school and whatnot,and I still have not broken the habit of..PROCRASTINATING. Yes,my worst enemy. Let me delight you with this picture that I saw a long time ago on some website which explains the whole idea of procrastination. (You've probably seen this on the internet somewhere so yayy me for being original.)


 SO. Let's get back to the main purpose of this post. You must be wondering,how come there's a new post on Nadhirah's blog when it's been dead for centuries? What made her get off her lazy arse to actually make the effort to update her blog? Well,actually,I was reading through my old notebook,which I kept as a diary some years back (when I was actually RAJIN enough to keep a diary),I saw a poem that I wrote last year. It doesn't rhyme,but I guess it can still be considered as a poem,and the poem is sad and kinda dark,and that's the simplest way to describe it,because that was how I felt when I wrote that poem. It's not jaw-dropping or Shakespeare-worthy so don't get your hopes up. I just thought I'd like to share it in this blog of mine. Mind you,I wrote it last year,which was ages ago,so some sentences are a bit weird and amateur. I wanted to improve the poem by editing it but I decided otherwise. If I did,it wouldn't be the original anymore. Anyway,enough of that. Here it is.


A Poem by Nadhirah Ahmad Nazri
(written on 8.8.2012)


 The Difference Between You and I

Walking down your sweet memory lane,
To me, is like walking down a lonely alley,
Piled like garbage on the ground,
Are shattered dreams and broken hearts,
As there is no room for more,
In the overflowing dumpster,
Of lost hopes and grief.

Tears of joy are glistening on your cheeks,
Like fresh dew on a morning glory,
While tears of sorrow forever flow on mine,
Forming a river of despair,
With no end.

Your life is a happily ever after,
While sadness casts a dark shadow over mine,
That not even the brightest light could pierce,
Forever doomed to dwell in despair,
Blindly roaming about in the darkness,
Never to find a way out.


   So. That was my poem. I know its kind of hard to understand,but aren't most poems? Don't get me wrong,the contents of this poem isn't really how I feel or how I felt when I wrote this. No,I'm not a depressed,emo girl :P Quite the contrary as Alhamdulillah,I am very thankful and grateful for the life Allah S.W.T. has blessed me with,but everyone gets depressed once in a while,right? I am a huge believer that no matter how hard the situation gets,it will get better,Insyaallah. We just have to hold on and ACT upon the situation to make it better. I was just feeling a bit sad over something and that kind of became my muse to write this poem. And I would like to stress that IT'S JUST A POEM. So don't get the wrong idea in your head about me. A work of art doesn't necessarily define the artist,though you can always find traces of the artist in it. Let the 'traces' of me in the poem be unspoken.. Ada faham? No? Hehe, I like to twist words so don't mind me :P Also,this is NOT a work of art :P It's just my amateur attempt to write a poem,so. 

  Well,that's it from me..for now. FOR NOW :) That's right,you'll be reading more of this girl writing crap and crepes in this pointless half-dead blog :P Soon. Well,maybe not so soon xD For now,I'll end this post with some word of advice and motivation,for when life gets hard and you think you just can't handle it anymore. I know,we as teenagers are at the point of life where we are confused,and angry and depressed, and just mad at the world. When the situation seems hopeless and unbearable..trust me,things will turn up,and it will get better. It's you who needs to stand up and make it better, and Insyaallah,Allah will reward you for your patience and courage when facing His trial. :) 

Remember, 
                                     
                                         "If winter comes,can spring be far away?"
                                 

Repeated not once,but TWO times in the Qur'an ;  "Kerana sesungguhnya selepas kesusahan itu ada kesenangan. Sesungguhnya selepas kesusahan itu ada kesenangan.(ash-sharh:5~6)"


Quoted from SuhaibWebb.com  (clickable)
"So when you go through a difficult situation, be it the inevitable death of a loved one or the loss of a job or just a flat tire on the side of the highway, take a deep breath and say:
قُلْ لَنْ يُصِيبَنَا إِلَّا مَا كَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَنَا
“Say: ‘Nothing shall ever happen to us except what Allâh has ordained for us…’” (Qur'an,9:51)."
            
Remember,my dear readers:
 “Allah does not burden a soul beyond that it can bear…” (Qur’an, 2:286)."

Au Revoir for now and May Allah help you through tough times and guide you to the right path :) Amin.

                               
*Picture taken from: An Islamic Facebook page, StyloIslam (clickable)

Smiles and Wishes,

- Nadhirah ;o

May Allah Bless You :)

p.s: Also,please,PLEASE leave a comment below and tell me what you think about the poem :) Thank you and have a happy day ^_^

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Picturesque Memoirs

Hello again readers :D So,instead of writing about what I've been up to in the holidays recently (although I will find the time to write about that sometime), in this post I decided to put random pictures that I took in various places over the last few years,some that even I forgot I took. This post will be different from all my other posts in this blog,since it will be more pictures instead of words. I know that I'm not the best photographer in the world,but I do hope you'll enjoy it :)

                                                                 Sungai Perak 2012


                                                            Mangrove forest, Perak 2012


                                                                      Langkawi 2012


                                                                     Langkawi 2012

       
                                                                    Langkawi 2012

                                                                        Langkawi 2012


                                                                    Langkawi 2012


                                                         

                                                                   Home-made Pizza


                                                                 Part of my Grandma's garden


                                                                Dusty,my Grandma's cat


                                                   When my cousins come over (Grandma's house)


                                                                  Universal Studios 2010


                                                                     Universal Studios 2010 


                                                                 Singapore 2010


                                                                   My hamster 2010

                                                                   My hamster 2010


                                                               Cameron Highlands 2011


                                                                Cameron Highlands 2011


                                                                 Cameron Highlands 2011


                                                                    Cameron Highlands 2011
                                                   View from the window, Cameron Highlands 2011


                                                      Strawberry farm, Cameron Highlands 2011

 




                                                            Catch of the day, Morib 2012

Well,that's it for now. Sayonara for now /bye

Forever and always,

-Nadhirah ^.^

Pictures Copyright © 2012 by Nadhirah Ahmad Nazri





Thursday, November 22, 2012

La Littérature


Greetings,it's been a while,hasn't it? I'm truly sorry for abandoning this blog for quite some time. The truth is,it's not that I've been that busy to write in this blog recently,it's just that I've been putting it off. Yes,procrastinating. Anyway,for this post I'd like to try something different. Instead of writing about what I've been doing recently (which is very boring,I know. Reading about some girl's fairly ordinary life.), I'm going to post a short story that I wrote a while ago- last year - for the Creative Writing Class organised by The New Strait Times,held in my school. Don't expect too much from it,it may not be very good or as interesting,but I hope you enjoy it :) ( Bear in mind that I did write this a year ago..which was ages ago,and I wrote this close to midnight,which was the deadline, so I apologise for the simple words and the straightforward story line :P )

                                     Hungry For Love
           A Short Story by Nadhirah Ahmad Nazri
                  Copyright © 2011 by Nadhirah Ahmad Nazri


  The last rays of the sun began to fade as it sets in the horizon,a sign that the day is at its end. Melody slowly got up from the swing,where she had been sitting for the past half hour in the playground. She stood there for a moment,watching parents persuading their children to go home.
  “Come,dear,it’s getting late. We can come again tomorrow,okay?” ,she heard a parent say. Children began to clear the playground,walking home, hand to hand with their parents,or riding their bike,with their father or mother guiding them along. Watching them,she suddenly felt jealous. She knew it was ridiculous to be jealous of little kids but she could not help it. They all have something she doesn't have. Wiping a teardrop with her sleeve,she remembered the life she use to have,but it was no use thinking of it,for she can never bring it back,it was her past.
  Melody went back to the orphanage,‘The Home’,as the neighbours call it,but to Melody,it was just a temporary home, not even a home,just a house. A house for orphans like her. She often felt hungry,but not for food. No,she was craving for one thing,but she couldn’t tell what it was.
She did have some friends,the orphanage warden expected all of them to be friends. “Who says you don’t have a family?”, the warden used to say, “Here,we’re just like one big family.”. Melody still preferred to be alone, so the others were not so close to her which made life at the orphanage lonelier.
 There was one thing she could still hope for though,being under aged,she was still up for adoption. As she had been under foster-care for more than three years,it was her dream to be adopted,to be cared for and finally have a real home, and she knows,deep in the hearts of every orphan,they had the same thought.
 One Saturday morning, after finishing her duty washing the breakfast plates,a blonde girl,a few years younger than her, walked towards her. “Mrs.Moore would like to see you in her office.”she said timidly. “Now.”,she added hastily and went away,skipping happily. Mrs.Moore is the head of the foster-care orphanage,she handles the children’s affairs and anything related to The Home. After taking a deep breath,Melody finally knocked the office door and gently opened the door.
When she entered the room,she was surprised to see not only Mrs. Moore,but also another lady,sitting at the opposite side of Mrs.Moore,with a table in between them. The lady looked around thirty,and had hazel eyes and black hair, dressed neatly with nothing too fancy. She gave Melody a kind smile and Melody returned it with a shy smile. Too shy to remain eye contact,she looked at the office table,and saw a piece of paper. Her eyes flashed with hope when she saw the adoption form,which had her name on it. Mrs.Moore smiled and nodded in approval.
  Melody began to realize why she had been so hungry at The Home,even after a Sunday meal. Now she knows what she had been craving for,what she wanted so badly. It was love. Now,though,she never feels hungry again,because her new foster mother will always give her an endless supply of love,something she did not have before. ~
                                  ~End~

Till then,

- Nadhirah ^_^


Wednesday, July 4, 2012

After So Long

HEY PEOPLE I'M BACK!! /wahaha  If you think this blog is dead, then you are wrong, my dear readers :D Wrong,but partially right because I thought I would never have the time to update my blog :) I haven't updated this blog since January! I've been so so busy lately.. :\ Okay,so I'll take it from the top. Last year,December,I went to my third Al-Khaadem Youth Camp :) This time it's at Lang Buana. I was fun and all,the only spoiler was I got sick halfway through the camp TT-TT I also went to Comic Fiesta 2011 with,of course,my otaku craz cousins :D It was awesmazing /blur Oh oh,also in December,I finally went on my first outing with my close friends,Janette Jelicca,Abigail Lim and Nurain Nadhirah at Sunway Pyramid :D It was awesome and we had so much fun :D ,we had lunch,played bowling,etc.,etc. Okay,I honestly can't be expected to remember every single thing that happened this year,so I'm going to write the recent ones. If you do not wish to hear read about me blabbering to myself in this post,then you can go read Perez Hilton's website instead hahaha Okay,I'm just going to list the highlights hehe (not in any kind of order whatsoever):


 1. I got in the school Softball team! /wahaha We had our district level match a few months ago at SMK Tropicana (honestly,that school -.- ). I thought I was just a reserve,but at the last minute,our captain put me into a position,Left Out fielder :o I was seriously shocked but really touched because she trusted me,my ability,to be put into that position :'D But we lost haha TT^TT It's okay,there's always a next time :)


 2. I entered an inter form (?) Solar Cooking Competition at my school with my good friends, Ilham and Khairah...and... WE ACTUALLY WON. Wow. We were suppose to go to Terengganu a few weeks ago to represent our school at International Level but we didn't go as we had some problems along the way.. :(

 3.I got a new post as Ketua Pinjaman in the Librarian Board :D

 4. I finally got the forth and final Emily The Strange Novel!!!! So happy yet so sad since it's the final one..I think? D': Emily The Strange: Piece Of Mind.
   << Click it,it's clickable

 5.My class,2 Nyatuh,won the inter-class choral speaking competition!! :D One of the special things about our class' choral speaking is,every single person has a solo :)

6. ??? I got my Yellow Belt for Taekwando :D ???okayIshouldStopYappingCozOtherPeopleDon'tReallyCarehehe

Well,that's it that I can remember for now. I am very forgetful okay? OH OH Today is my very close friend, Abigail,'s Birthday!!!! :D Her birthday is on the fourth of July. Wow haha :D Anyway,Abigail,if you're reading this right now,

                                       Happy Birthday,
  Abigail! :)                                                            
            
 You'll have to wait for your birthday present haha :D You have been such a good friend to me,one of the closest friends I have ever had. You'll always be remembered as my Randomly Hyper Friend :D 
  Oh,and Form 5 Farewell Party (Librarian) is coming up this Sunday,can hardly wait! :D Since the theme is traditional,I'm planning to wear my cousin's yukata (Japanese). Hey,it is traditional :D Us form 2's (Librarian) are currently working on our performance for the Farewell Party :) Here's one of the songs we are using:

 Here's To Us : Glee Version

It's a really nice song,very meaningful,especially since we are performing it to our seniors who are leaving next year :'( Also,do come to Sri Aman's Hari Keusahawanan this Saturday,7/7/2012, 9.00-3.00 at SMK(P) Sri Aman,Petaling Jaya. It's a public event so do come,don't forget to stop by 2 Nyatuh's stall! :) Okay so..I guess that's all for now :)
 Btw,before I sign off,check out my good friend,Amira Ahmad's blog, >>Click here<<
I hope I'll have more time to post more in the future :) 
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>>Oh,and do like my blog and/or leave a comment :D 


*IF YOU HAVE READ THIS POST UNTIL THIS POINT,I LOVE YOU SO MUCH FOR SPENDING YOUR PRECIOUS TIME FOR IT. I WOULD EMBRACE YOU RIGHT NOW IF IT ISN'T THE FACT THAT YOU AREN'T ACTUALLY HERE BUT THAT'S OKAY,WE SHALL EMBRACE EACH OTHER VIRTUALLY. /please I'm sorry if I'm being creepy,but seriously,thank you so much for reading my post/posts which mostly is just me yapping about my typical life. You're probably like,*Why the heaven is this girl even posting these things? It's not like I even care!* Well,actually,this blog is a medium which i can channel most of my thoughts or anything related to my typical life without being critisized as much. This is Nadhirah,signing off.

yourslikemad,

-Nadhirah *A*

Monday, January 2, 2012

Drop by

Note: This is a very short post.

 Hello :D I felt really guilty because I haven't posted anything in a while so I decided to write this short post :P I know I haven't updated my blog in quite a long time,but it doesn't mean this blog is dead. I will write a proper post as soon as I can,that is a PROMISE. I have been quite busy lately and I finally made a Twitter and Facebook account! xD I went to quite a few places,and I'll write about those in my next post :) I guess that's it,for now :D This is Nadhirah,signing off. ;D

sorrylikemad,
-Nadhirah ;P
 
P.S: Happy New Year! Bid 2011 farewell and greet 2012 with a smile :D


Thursday, December 1, 2011

Say Your Goodbyes

 Hello again. Sorry for not posting anything in a while :D I guess I have been procrastinating a lot these days :P Last night I slept over at my grandmother's house,pretty lonely because none of my cousins are here :I I have quite a few things to report,starting from the most recent. On Saturday,I went to Zoo Negara for the IBM Malaysia Family Day,the company my mum works for. It was quite fun,considering it's held in a zoo. My brother entered the colouring contest but he didn't win :P I got the Young Achievers Award there because of my good UPSR results last year :D An MPH Voucher,just what I need xD Anyway,I can say that our national zoo is not that bad,I mean,the animal enclosures aren't filthy,the equipment for the animals look safe,most of them have some kind of privacy in their enclosures, and I don't see any kind of cruelty or weird behavior on the animals. Let's just hope it is what it looks like or better. So. On Friday,my aunty took me to the Big Bad Wolf Aftermath Books sale with my cousins. The prices were unbelievable, everything is 5 ringgit and below! The prices were very low because at the Aftermath,they want to clear out all the books from the real books sale. Also,two weeks ago,on Tuesday,I went on my first outing with my friends :D I went with Janette,Nurain Nadhirah and Abigail :D It was really fun,we went to Sunway Pyramid. We had lunch,went bowling and shopped. I didn't buy much,but they sure did! xD I am going to miss my very close friend, Janette,because she moved to Sarawak,last Monday :( I gave her a farewell present on the day of the outing. I am glad I got to go on an outing with her before she left.  Also,she gave me an early birthday present on the last week of school :) I hope I get to meet her again,because I didn't really say a proper goodbye to her :( Anyway. Tomorrow is the final episode of The Walking Dead season 2 for this year. I am in misery because I look forward to it every week,and after tomorrow's episode,it won't start again till next year )x Well, I guess next year it will be the third season :D Also, on the last day of school,which was also the open day,my father came to school to collect my results. I managed to get number 4 in my class,alhamdulillah :) Oh,and on 7th-11th ( 7 Eleven :P ) of December,which is next week,I'm going to the Al-khaadem Youth Camp at Lang Buana Camp,Perak :D Very excited xD Wow..it's already 1st of December ,the year is ending so soon :( Time flies so fast. I still remember the starting of the year,stepping into a new school with different people. A form 1,a newbie,the junior in school. Getting used to the new surroundings, I used to get lost on the school grounds at the starting of the year :P Fitting in and getting use to the rules and 'culture' there :) Next year will be a new year,different class,teachers and classmates. I still hope I get to be in the same class with my friends..if not all of them,just some. That's all for now. Till then, adiós.


boredlikemad,


-Nadhirah ;P

Friday, November 11, 2011

Cherished

 Hello again. Currently listening to Greyson Chance- Hold on till the night :) As you may know, today's date, 11th of November,2011, (if you didn't know that,you are probably still using a sundial to tell the time -___- .)  is a very nice set of numbers, 11.11.11,which,believe it or not,only happens once in a century. A few events occured today at school. Important events. We had our end-of-year class party after recess,it was really great,we had plenty of fun. We feasted,played games,and just had fun :) Before school ended,we took plenty of class group photos. Without a doubt,I will miss my class, 1 Amanah, terribly when I'll move to form 2 next year :( Because we have all the awesome people in one class,and so that's the reason why 1 A also stands for Awesome :P . Anyway, after waiting for so long,the final moment of truth..we had our Librarian Installation xD ! I am now a real librarian with an official tag to prove it /hmm So proud of it,hehehe xP .. We also had an end-of-year librarian party after the installation,which was,of course,after the teachers left :P We had a blast,it was really great :D We 'ex-probates' actually did a "yam seng" with pizza to celebrate our uh..so called 'victory',literally! xD At the end-of-year librarian party,we had a really great time playing games,having fun (who said librarians don't have fun? /wahaha ),and, feasting. We actually feasted twice, at the installation and then at the end-of-year party. So,as you can see, today was a very tiring and exhausting day for me /sweat . I am exhausted particularly because of eating too much,I still feel bloated now! Ugh..so..full... *wheze* xP

  I went for the Creative Writing Workshop yesterday :) It was really fun and not at all boring,it didn't feel like we were there for the whole day. The workshop is not where they gave long speeches on how to write,instead, we did a lot of fun activities,and because it was done by the New Strait Times, a couple of the activities involved writing like a newspaper journalist,pretty cool actually :) . Oh yes,and Greyson Chance tweeted 2 days ago that he believes Malaysia is the most beautiful country in the world xD !! Aww..so sweet!! I hope he really means it. I am proud to be a Malaysian :) . 
 As usual,when my mind is blank,this post comes to an end. Remember to check out my blog regularly for my post updates, or better,just follow me :D . Till then, I bid you adieu.

tiredlikemad,
-Nadhirah ;P

 
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