random thoughts

- i think my boyfriend is cutest/handsomest/hottest when he accidently falls asleep on skype.
- i wonder what eyeshadow the blonde across me in class wears. it was such a lovely natural-looking colour. but it prolly wont show on my olive skin. nyeh.
- easter holidays start in 2weeks. duii kami baru start cuti; org lain kan habis sudah cuti tu.
- our babas curry powder habis so kenot cook curry anymore. arah thai shops nada bah. wats a good alternative, hmm..
- vivi's yet-to-be-born niece has such a cute nickname. te stuck tu nama ah sampai basar haha.
- cluessless abt this weekend, except the BCN bit. i just hope i dont spend too much money.
- i have a sudden craving for sugar cookies/biscuit.
- and tiramisu. krg migraine attack inda cali.
- im reli looking forward to the thorpe park trip, but i wonder if i have the guts to go on every roller coaster.
- my tummy lately has a new hobby. it likes to sing. even when im not hungry =|
-i cant believe how grown up brother number 5 is. he's old enough to understand the sibling code.
- football ystrdy was fun. ganya ketara inda fit. haha wat is the point of me doing weights and jogging if i still cant run around an INDOOR footie hall for one hr?
-i miss baking cupcakes.

thats all.

summer plans! =D

the exam timetable has officially been released and i couldn't be happier with the times my papers have been set =D i mean, i wud've chosen the dates myself! hee i only have three exam papers (yes, only three =p jgn jeles~)each about 3 days apart. whats more, my last paper is on the 20th of may =D

i dont knw abt you, but i love it when my exams finish earlier than most ppl, coz i get less panicky. plus, that way i dont get complacent when others finish their exam and i still have a paper to sit for. then theres that added benefit of rubbingitintheirfaces at finishing early.

mwahahaha.

the only thing i'd complain is the timing of the last paper, cause its set in the afternoon. i mean, knwing that that'll be my last paper, i'd prolly drive myself crazy that morning from anticipation of finally finishing my law course (awu i'm jumping wayy far ahead but jus bear with me) but hey, i've got exactly 40days to kill before i fly off to new york. 40days of doing absolutely nothing because until my exam dates were released, i didnt dare make any plans just in case it clashed.

depending on the bank (or more specifically, my bank account), i wanna go belayar somewhere summery, like greece or spain. me and some friends have definite plans for a bbq party during the summer while we wait for our family members to come for our graduation (ameeen!). so thats one event to fill in my currently empty 40days to kill summer slot.

oh, and theres the race for life thing on the 28th of june. then its jetsetting off to aen-why-cee, have the family come over for 2weeks for grad and possibly a european tour.

cant wait!

oooh, one more thing. the boyfriend is making special time to come to my graduation. horraayyy!

now all i have to do is wait of all this to happen. oh no, not wait. i need to work on 2 more essasy, revise for the exam, sit for 3 papers and then im done.

then we can say hooraaay. haha. and sleepover at mamacits =D

much love,
be'ah xoxo

food facts

i found out that twix is the worst candy in terms of calories and nutrition =s tis official coz i got it from womenshealthmag.com.

back in first year i'd go thru four to six twix bars a day. it was twix bars and donuts 24/7.

but thank god for that. im now so langu of twix, i dont ever crave for it. at least i got it out of my system, y'know. no wonder i gained weight so quickly in first year. i'm not saying dont eat candy ever, but best to avoid twix =)

dunno how much of a difference it makes from eating cupcakes all the time. and apple turnovers.

heres how our coconut cream cupcakes look like. excuse the crap quality of the picture.



arent they just divine? mcm kami bali dari kadai haha. my housemates were definitely in their rajin baking mode that night. kalah org pregnant mengidam bah durang ah.



and here's an apple turnover i made.



nis usually makes them pillow shaped but when she puts me in charge of putting the filling in the pastry, all sorts of shapes come out. but i think the heart's my best yet.




oh, and good news. i finally lost all the weight i gained over xmas holidays! like, for real for real. coz i had to wait a couple of days to know for sure i'd stay at this weight, and its been a week now so yayy yayyy yayyy for me. well, yg baca plurk will know b4 about this plg. speaking of which, i just joined plurk!

(well no duh~)

and obvs the blog has been given a mini facelift. love love love my header. basar plg palak2x haha but me likey.

anyhoo, thats all for now. i still have yet to start on my european law essay. ugh. cant wait for easter! at least first half will be holiday, second half barutah start revision =p hee

much love,
be'ah xoxo

the oven is back on!

after almost 2 weeks of not baking, my housemates got back into the baking game with a vengeance. illah came home from town with another cupcake recipe book and ingredients to make coconut cream cupcakes. i asked anisah to make more apple turnovers that night too. so like usual, we started baking at night, ready for a full fat fest of sugary treats.

mcm, i knw we should bake preferably morning or petang so we dont eat too late at night, but hey, it was the weekend and we automatically become nocturnal at weekends. so we had coconut cream cupcakes (with icing to die for and coconut flakes!) and apple and chocolate (it was my idea to put choc spread instead of apple filling) turnovers.

then we settled down to watch titanic.

haha. god i love weekends.

yes i had to have extreme willpower to not scoff every tantalising treat in sight. i made a compromise with myself; i can eat all the treats i want provided i only have one carbed-fueled meal. definitely not healthy, but if it means i can eat every chocolate bar i see, its fine with me. its not like im depriving myself of carbs like atkins anyway.

oh, i forgot one more thing we made lastnight. coconut ice-cream =D

okay before u say 'whatt u guys can make ice-cream??' let me clarify. a couple of my housemates have been craving for coconut ice-cream since our last trip to yoshi. sekali illah came home with all these coconutty stuff like cream of coconut, dessicated coconut and coconut flakes apa. sekali one of us (i forgot who) had the brilliant idea of modifying vanilla ice-cream by adding all the coconutty stuff and blending it all together!

skali tada! we have coconut ice cream. sekali saya mkn the coconut ice-cream with apple turnover. kalah mcm d restaurant yo. tapi calories nya pun kali berijap. hence the carbs-controlled diet.

i cant wait for holidays tho. more baking and more eating makes me a happy bunny. and the sun has been shining down on me. so can wear pretty skirts and slippers soon. yayy yayyy yayyy!

(i understand the last paragraph is pretty random. but im just so happy now.)

much love,
be'ah xoxo

38 months

..and counting =)


this is a cheesy picture of us in shades. im addicted to wearing shades in brunei everywhere i go. i wear them all the time in the car and i make him wear one too, even when its not sunny.

then out comes the camera hee.

thank you for putting up with my silly antics and everything. here's to many more happy months and years to come. i love you.

the Guess watch

remember back when i wanted to buy a watch as a birthday present for myself?

i never got round to it..

well, ystrdy in manchester i won myself a guess watch through a lucky draw.

talk about murah rezeki yea? alhamdulillah~ balik jua modal sikit, coz the train ticket to manch costs me a whoopin' 50quid. the trip was well worth it tho (other than winning a watch =p) coz i got to see friends i wudnt have seen otherwise. altho it did scare me slightly 'cause i was seeing loads of bruneians in one go.

mcm, tepksa jaga diri coz ppl know who u are kinda thing. kalau org putih, malas tah saya ingau. like, u get the feeling that ur being watched? kalau depan org putih, u trip or fall kah, they dont reli know u so no real reason to feel embarrassed. i survived manch without any trip or fall plg so yayyy for me.

also met a silent reader of this blog who was kind enough to introduce herself. silent readers scare me haha but thanx for coming up to me anyway =)

on another note, my diet has been killed over the weekend. no surprise there. im expecting no different this weekend coz i'll be off to london again. i so cannot wait for easter holidays. oh, and for the sun to come out so i can start wearing sandals.

bah enough. i said i wont update much but here i am. haha. oh yea, one more thing. becoz of my weekends to london, i'm not able to do my weight routines as regularly as usual. hope it doesnt affect me so much; toned arms are hard to come by =( put that with a diet of crisps and hummingbird cuppies and i can say goodbye to my size 6. sigh.

depressing much? i miss my boyfriend too. but ia cuti nie so i can skype with him a lot more than usual horaaayy~ hehe

i'll leave on that happy note.

much love,
be'ah xoxo

'tis march

time flies so fast. its march already. next thing u knw, its easter holidays, exam and just like that, i'll finish my degree (amiin!). where did it all go, huh?

anyhoo, going to londres this weekend for choir practice (for BCN), then sunday going to manchester for talentime. all this traveling is putting a strain on my pocket, but what the heck yea? i'll soon be away from this place anyway so may as well make the most of my time here.

with that said, i wont be updating much this month (or maybe i will. i usually have tons to share once i say that) because deadlines are looming and i'll be in london almost every weekend for practice and the event itself. how im gonna juggle everything is beyond me at the moment. i guess i wasnt really thinking when i signed up for choir. but then again, it'll be good for me to go out and kacau imah and huda :p plus, they live near a park, so can jog easily =D

on the weight-loss front.. i succeeded losing the weight in a week, as targeted.. only to gain it in one day when illah came back from london with krispy kreme =( damn u krispy kreme. i guess my willpower's not that strong anymore. and being away from home makes me have irregular eating patterns and snack like theres no tomorrow. i hope theres no more cookies at imah's place. just shows i can lose the weight, its just maintaining that i suck at.

till next post then.

much love,
be'ah xoxo

baking galore

my housemates ie manis and smelly LOVE to cook and bake.

last nite the kitchen was filled with salivating aromas as they baked chocolate chip cupcakes, lemon meringue cupcakes and apple turnovers.

lest to say we put the oven into good use.

this also means one has to have extreme willpower to refuse every baked goodie that comes out of the oven. they were baking around 8pm.. its like a double whammy for a recovering food addict: eating high sugar high carb food late at night.

the apple turnovers were evil. manis made them bite size, so the next thing u know u've chowed down 4 in the space of 5mins.

cupcakes atu jgntah d mention. but i guess because of having cupcakes almost everyday for the past 2 weeks, i wasnt eating so much of it cause i know we could bake more. the turnovers, however, were a different matter because it was the first time manis made them and it was deeelish! it was like apple pie from macdolong (mcDs to you and me), but better.

i think its already amazing that i manage to maintain my weight (give or take a couple of kilos) in such a household. hahaha gotta give myself credit =p

dinner lastnite was amazing as well. we had spaghetti meatballs baked with an absurd amount of cheese on top. i usually ask that a little corner to not have cheese but antah, lastnite i was like, lets go all out. plus, i was the one who made the meatballs so cant really blame them, can i? plus its not like they force-feed me or something huhu.

i shudnt reli blame anyone. like syaima said, i shud consider myself lucky that my housemates make amazing food =D

i just have to keep up my exercise regime then.

much love,
be'ah