Sounds like my kind of personality.

Retarded.

We're getting acquainted with ourselves this holiday, it seems. Well, seeing as how I'm getting zero social contact from the outside world (...either by choice or by design...? *solitary weeping*) it can't really be helped. After weeks of shouting back and forth in my tiny space; all 1130 cubic centimeters of gray matter, I decided that typing it out won't do anyone much harm. Except bore people to death I suppose.

Talking about boredom, holidays are a necessary boredom in college life. The dull, monotonous, repetitive days seems to spur students to take hold of their lives and gear up for some action! Something new, something challenging, anything will do! Just take away my boredom ple-eehh-eehh-eehh-ease.

So says Sakinah but here she is heating up the bed with the netbook. 

Well I tried to teach my sister Form 4 Chemistry, but that gave me a headache so I've been avoiding giving her further lessons. Sorry mum, for being a useless role model. I tried doing some simple SPM questions by myself and they were surprisingly difficult. It's a cinch once you've figured out the steps, but still, I was pretty embarrassed that my PASUM credentials didn't guarantee instant recall with some of the trickier chemical formulaes. Goes to show that any lesson learned goes to waste without use or practice. 

With teaching out of the way, I tried to devote my days to drawing. I set myself with a new challenge this season: colouring! And what a mess that turned out. I would snap some shots and post it here myself, or on Tumblr at least, but uuuh...oh it's going to turn into such a huge joke! Purple skin, yellow hair, blue lips...If it's not clear to you by now, then let me spell it out for you. I have a huge problem with colour mixing and combination. Or simply, I have never looked properly at a human being before. Maybe I'll gather up the guts to post some of them here so we can all have a good laugh. At my expense. 

Hmmm...what else....oh! Congratulations to Dato' Lee Chong Wei for a magnificent game! I realise this is uber late and all but let me add my own tiny contribution of heartfelt gratitude to the swirling mass of love Malaysia has for their badminton champ. ESPN described the match perfectly in a line,

'Skills may win you medals, but attitude wins you hearts.'

This entry has been nothing but another raggedy patch of thoughts. That said, happy Ramadhan folks! 

All in all, 2010 had been a surprisingly good year. I was able to learn new things academically, and socially. Unfortunately, my mind is foggy enough even on a clear day, so blogger has to bear the brunt of saving up partial pieces of my memory. Haha, yeap, here comes Sakinah's Highlights of 2010!

1. Outdoorsy me :)

January- PPIPUM outing to Broga Hill and some waterfall or other. I was scared to death climbing down the steep hill. Heights has never been my strong point, and Broga just made me :S

Every free time we got- Went with Som to Mid Valley every time there was enough space in the schedule for it. Ahahahaha- oh God, my poor wallet ;___; my poor parents ;___; Evil temptation, shopping is.

June- Surabaya with Awin and Jaksyen! And 7 or so other dental students of no consequence whatsoever. Climbed Bromo and had a near-death experience on the way up. I wish that was an exaggeration, but holding onto a broken door in an old, old 4'drive at 4am is terrifying shit. Especially when you're sleepy.

2. Events and reunions

Reunions can either be awesome or awkward. Change is upon us, but when it happens to both sides, can anybody tell whether it's for the good or for the worse?

Met up with Germaine and Alissa over dinner at Italiannies. I've already mentioned this before in a previous post, so there's no need to go over this. By the way, there is still no mention of updating SaYuKo Collab. I'm getting over it.

That was over in Ramadhan, and on Raya, Dental-ians (ahaha) and Nigel Lin came over. It was one of those awkward things.

Met up with him again for Com Fest 2010, along with Hasyim and Jaric. Alissa went with her friend. Faris went as well. This is probably egoistic of me, but I felt bad dragging him into it and then running off with my old friends. I forgot to bring my handphone to the event as well, so contacting people was a huge mess. Com Fest happened in the middle of GACC, and Aliaa couldn't go because she went to Perak with the other GACC-ians. UiTM was having their holidays as well, so no Hazel either. D'aw.

3. Entertainment!

Am getting bored with listing anything altogether. I'll just say that I'm in love with Nephew now. Was also pleasantly surprised to find that Som's songs aren't all incoherent weirdness. Some, like Vampire Weekend and Regina Spektor were pretty easy to listen to.

Also recently found out that I like listening to OSTs the most. KHR has some awesome OST, and I've been checking with AnimeTech for the CD, but no luck.

The highlight of my entertainment list is undeniably the Playstation 3. People are probably bored stiff to read my romantic proses, but I couldn't help myself. Hating FF-XIII though. I've finally went over the 20-hour tutorial mark, and now am bogged down by super monsters that kill and kill and kill. I only have two games on me right now though, so I have little choice but to brave it out. And wait for Team Ico Collection to come out *drools*

4. Resolutions are compulsory for the new year

There should also be a check list as for resolutions that have been accomplished for 2010, but I don't think I made one. Either way, here goes my list:

i. Get some A's for the final semester as thanks to my parents for the sexy black beauty.

Probability of achievement? Well, there might be some hope, but until I buck up and actually study, I can't really say.

ii. Save money.

Probability of achievement? Oh God, please, please help me with this one. I won't buy any more manga with the exception of Tactics, at least until June. I need to save money for Team Ico Collection, and I would like to feel the happy feeling that I once get whenever I put up money in the bank.

iii. Reduce cursing.

Probablity of achievement? Not much. But I'll try.