Keeping your heart intact.

I noticed that, the only thing that keeps my sanity and maturity intact is "moderation".

No matter how much you like, you love something, or someone, they don't and won't ever last forever.

Keep that in mind, mind. you rebel one.

#honestmoment

Every now and then, i couldn't help but to feel the need of thought, of having someone to claim me as his girlfriend. 

Girlfriend je lah tapi. 

Wife material is still not within my reach..

The Landlady by Roald Dahl

Billy Weaver had traveled down from London on the slow afternoon train, with a change at Reading on the way, and by the time he got to Bath, it was about nine o’clock in the evening, and the moon was coming up out of a clear starry sky over the houses opposite the station entrance. But the air was deadly cold and the wind was like a flat blade of ice on his cheeks. 
“Excuse me,” he said, “but is there a fairly cheap hotel not too far away from here?” 
“Try The Bell and Dragon,” the porter answered, pointing down the road. “They might take you in. It’s about a quarter of a mile along on the other side.”

Billy thanked him and picked up his suitcase and set out to walk the quarter-mile to The Bell and Dragon. He had never been to Bath before. He didn’t know anyone who lived there. But Mr. Greenslade at the head office in London had told him it was a splendid town. “Find your own lodgings,” he had said, “and then go along and report to the branch manager as soon as you’ve got yourself settled.” 
Billy was seventeen years old. He was wearing a new navy-blue overcoat, a new brown trilby hat, and a new brown suit, and he was feeling fine. He walked briskly down the street. He was trying to do everything briskly these days. Briskness, he had decided, was the one common characteristic of all successful businessmen. The big shots up at the head office were absolutely fantastically brisk all the time. They were amazing.

There were no shops on this wide street that he was walking along, only a line of tall houses on each side, all of them identical. They had porches and pillars and four or five steps going up to their front doors, and it was obvious that once upon a time they had been very swanky residences. But now, even in the darkness, he could see that the paint was peeling from the woodwork on their doors and windows and that the handsome white facades were cracked and blotchy from neglect. 
Suddenly, in a downstairs window that was brilliantly illuminated by a street lamp not six yards away, Billy caught sight of a printed notice propped up against the glass in one of the upper panes. It said BED AND BREAKFAST. There was a vase of yellow chrysanthemums, tall and beautiful, standing just underneath the notice. 
He stopped walking. He moved a bit closer. Green curtains (some sort of velvety material) were hanging down on either side of the window. The chrysanthemums looked wonderful beside them. He went right up and peered through the glass into the room, and the first thing he saw was a bright fire burning in the hearth. On the carpet in front of the fire, a pretty little dachshund was curled up asleep with its nose tucked into its belly. The room itself, so far as he could see in the half darkness, was filled with pleasant furniture. There was a baby grand piano and a big sofa and several plump armchairs, and in one corner he spotted a large parrot in a cage. Animals were usually a good sign in a place like this, Billy told himself; and all in all, it looked to him as though it would be a pretty decent house to stay in. Certainly it would be more comfortable than The Bell and Dragon. 
On the other hand, a pub would be more congenial than a boardinghouse. There would be beer and darts in the evenings, and lots of people to talk to, and it would probably be a good bit cheaper, too. He had stayed a couple of nights in a pub once before and he had liked it. He had never stayed in any boardinghouses, and, to be perfectly honest, he was a tiny bit frightened of them. The name itself conjured up images of watery cabbage, rapacious landladies, and a powerful smell of kippers in the living room. 
After dithering about like this in the cold for two or three minutes, Billy decided that he would walk on and take a look at The Bell and Dragon before making up his mind. He turned to go.

And now a queer thing happened to him. He was in the act of stepping back and turning away from the window when all at once his eye was caught and held in the most peculiar manner by the small notice that was there. BED AND BREAKFAST, it said. BED AND BREAKFAST, BED AND BREAKFAST, BED AND BREAKFAST. Each word was like a large black eye staring at him through the glass, holding him, compelling him, forcing him to stay where he was and not to walk away from that house, and the next thing he knew, he was actually moving across from the window to the front door of the house, climbing the steps that led up to it, and reaching for the bell. 
He pressed the bell. Far away in a back room he heard it ringing, and then at once —it must have been at once because he hadn’t even had time to take his finger from the bell button—the door swung open and a woman was standing there.
Normally you ring the bell and you have at least a half-minute’s wait before the door opens. But this dame was like a jack-in-the-box. He pressed the bell—and out she popped! It made him jump. 
She was about forty-five or fifty years old, and the moment she saw him, she gave him a warm, welcoming smile.
“ Please come in,” she said pleasantly. She stepped aside, holding the door wide open, and Billy found himself automatically starting forward. The compulsion or, more accurately, the desire to follow after her into that house was extraordinarily strong. 
“I saw the notice in the window,” he said, holding himself back. 
“Yes, I know.” 
“I was wondering about a room.” 
“It’s all ready for you, my dear,” she said. She had a round pink face and very gentle blue eyes. 
“I was on my way to The Bell and Dragon,” Billy told her. “But the notice in your window just happened to catch my eye.” 
“My dear boy,” she said, “why don’t you come in out of the cold?” 
“How much do you charge?” 
“Five and sixpence a night, including breakfast.” 
It was fantastically cheap. It was less than half of what he had been willing to pay. 
“If that is too much,” she added, “then perhaps I can reduce it just a tiny bit. Do you desire an egg for breakfast? Eggs are expensive at the moment. It would be sixpence less without the egg.” 
“Five and sixpence is fine,” he answered. “I should like very much to stay here.” 
“I knew you would. Do come in.” 
She seemed terribly nice. She looked exactly like the mother of one’s best school friend welcoming one into the house to stay for the Christmas holidays. Billy took off his hat and stepped over the threshold. 
“Just hang it there,” she said, “and let me help you with your coat.” 
There were no other hats or coats in the hall. There were no umbrellas, no walking sticks—nothing. 
“We have it all to ourselves,” she said, smiling at him over her shoulder as she led the way upstairs. “You see, it isn’t very often I have the pleasure of taking a visitor into my little nest.”
The old girl is slightly dotty, Billy told himself. But at five and sixpence a night, who cares about that? “I should’ve thought you’d be simply swamped with applicants,” he said politely. 
“Oh, I am, my dear, I am, of course I am. But the trouble is that I’m inclined to be just a teeny-weeny bit choosy and particular—if you see what I mean.” 
“Ah, yes.” 
“But I’m always ready. Everything is always ready day and night in this house just on the off chance that an acceptable young gentleman will come along. And it is such a pleasure, my dear, such a very great pleasure when now and again I open the door and I see someone standing there who is just exactly right.” She was halfway up the stairs, and she paused with one hand on the stair rail, turning her head and smiling down at him with pale lips. “Like you,” she added, and her blue eyes traveled slowly all the way down the length of Billy’s body, to his feet, and then up again. 
On the second-floor landing she said to him, “This floor is mine.” 
They climbed up another flight. “And this one is all yours,” she said. “Here’s your room. I do hope you’ll like it.” She took him into a small but charming front bedroom, switching on the light as she went in. 
“The morning sun comes right in the window, Mr. Perkins. It is Mr. Perkins, isn’t it?” 
“No,” he said. “It’s Weaver.” 
“Mr. Weaver. How nice. I’ve put a water bottle between the sheets to air them out, Mr. Weaver. It’s such a comfort to have a hot-water bottle in a strange bed with clean sheets, don’t you agree? And you may light the gas fire at any time if you feel chilly.” 
“Thank you,” Billy said. “Thank you ever so much.” He noticed that the bedspread had been taken off the bed and that the bedclothes had been neatly turned back on one side, all ready for someone to get in. 
“I’m so glad you appeared,” she said, looking earnestly into his face. “I was beginning to get worried.” 
“That’s all right,” Billy answered brightly. “You mustn’t worry about me.” He put his suitcase on the chair and started to open it. 
“And what about supper, my dear? Did you manage to get anything to eat before you came here?” 
“I’m not a bit hungry, thank you,” he said. “I think I’ll just go to bed as soon as possible because tomorrow I’ve got to get up rather early and report to the office.” 
“Very well, then. I’ll leave you now so that you can unpack. But before you go to bed, would you be kind enough to pop into the sitting room on the ground floor and sign the book? Everyone has to do that because it’s the law of the land, and we don’t want to go breaking any laws at this stage in the proceedings, do we?” She gave him a little wave of the hand and went quickly out of the room and closed the door. 
Now, the fact that his landlady appeared to be slightly off her rocker didn’t worry Billy in the least. After all, she not only was harmless—there was no question about that—but she was also quite obviously a kind and generous soul. He guessed that she had probably lost a son in the war, or something like that, and had never gotten over it. 
So a few minutes later, after unpacking his suitcase and washing his hands, he trotted downstairs to the ground floor and entered the living room. His landlady wasn’t there, but the fire was glowing in the hearth, and the little dachshund was still sleeping soundly in front of it. The room was wonderfully warm and cozy. I’m a lucky fellow, he thought, rubbing his hands. This is a bit of all right. 
He found the guest book lying open on the piano, so he took out his pen and wrote down his name and address. There were only two other entries above his on the page, and as one always does with guest books, he started to read them. One was a Christopher Mulholland from Cardiff. The other was Gregory W. Temple from Bristol. 
That’s funny, he thought suddenly. Christopher Mulholland. It rings a bell. 
Now where on earth had he heard that rather unusual name before? 
Was it a boy at school? No. Was it one of his sister’s numerous young men, perhaps, or a friend of his father’s? No, no, it wasn’t any of those. He glanced down again at the book. 
Christopher Mulholland
231 Cathedral Road, Cardiff 
Gregory W. Temple
27 Sycamore Drive, Bristol 
As a matter of fact, now he came to think of it, he wasn’t at all sure that the second name didn’t have almost as much of a familiar ring about it as the first. 
“Gregory Temple?” he said aloud, searching his memory. “Christopher Mulholland? . . .” 
“Such charming boys,” a voice behind him answered, and he turned and saw his landlady sailing into the room with a large silver tea tray in her hands. She was holding it well out in front of her, and rather high up, as though the tray were a pair of reins on a frisky horse. 
“They sound somehow familiar,” he said. 
“They do? How interesting.” 
“I’m almost positive I’ve heard those names before somewhere. Isn’t that odd? Maybe it was in the newspapers. They weren’t famous in any way, were they? I mean famous cricketers7 or footballers or something like that?”

“Famous,” she said, setting the tea tray down on the low table in front of the sofa. “Oh no, I don’t think they were famous. But they were incredibly handsome, both of them, I can promise you that. They were tall and young and handsome, my dear, just exactly like you.” 
Once more, Billy glanced down at the book. “Look here,” he said, noticing the dates. “This last entry is over two years old.” 
“It is?” 
“Yes, indeed. And Christopher Mulholland’s is nearly a year before that—more than three years ago.” 
“Dear me,” she said, shaking her head and heaving a dainty little sigh. “I would never have thought it. How time does fly away from us all, doesn’t it, Mr. Wilkins?” 
“It’s Weaver,” Billy said. “W-e-a-v-e-r.” 
“Oh, of course it is!” she cried, sitting down on the sofa. “How silly of me. I do apologize. In one ear and out the other, that’s me, Mr. Weaver.”
“You know something?” Billy said. “Something that’s really quite extraordinary about all this?” 
“No, dear, I don’t.” 
“Well, you see, both of these names—Mulholland and Temple—I not only seem to remember each one of them separately, so to speak, but somehow or other, in some peculiar way, they both appear to be sort of connected together as well. As though they were both famous for the same sort of thing, if you see what I mean—like . . . well . . . like Dempsey and Tunney, for example, or Churchill and Roosevelt.”

“How amusing,” she said. “But come over here now, dear, and sit down beside me on the sofa and I’ll give you a nice cup of tea and a ginger biscuit before you go to bed.”

“You really shouldn’t bother,” Billy said. “I didn’t mean you to do anything like that.” He stood by the piano, watching her as she fussed about with the cups and saucers. He noticed that she had small, white, quickly moving hands and red fingernails. 
“I’m almost positive it was in the newspapers I saw them,” Billy said. “I’ll think of it in a second. I’m sure I will.” 
There is nothing more tantalizing than a thing like this that lingers just outside the borders of one’s memory. He hated to give up. 
“Now wait a minute,” he said. “Wait just a minute. Mulholland . . . Christopher Mulholland . . . wasn’t that the name of the Eton schoolboy who was on a walking tour through the West Country, and then all of a sudden . . .” 
“Milk?” she said. “And sugar?” 
“Yes, please. And then all of a sudden . . .” 
“Eton schoolboy?” she said. “Oh no, my dear, that can’t possibly be right, because my Mr. Mulholland was certainly not an Eton schoolboy when he came to me. He was a Cambridge undergraduate. Come over here now and sit next to me and warm yourself in front of this lovely fire. Come on. Your tea’s all ready for you.” She patted the empty place beside her on the sofa, and she sat there smiling at Billy and waiting for him to come over.

He crossed the room slowly and sat down on the edge of the sofa. She placed his teacup on the table in front of him. 
“ There we are,” she said. “How nice and cozy this is, isn’t it?” 
Billy started sipping his tea. She did the same. For half a minute or so, neither of them spoke. But Billy knew that she was looking at him. Her body was half turned toward him, and he could feel her eyes resting on his face, watching him over the rim of her teacup. Now and again, he caught a whiff of a peculiar smell that seemed to emanate directly from her person. It was not in the least unpleasant, and it reminded him—well, he wasn’t quite sure what it reminded him of. Pickled walnuts? New leather? Or was it the corridors of a hospital?  
At length, she said, “Mr. Mulholland was a great one for his tea. Never in my life have I seen anyone drink as much tea as dear, sweet Mr. Mulholland.” 
“I suppose he left fairly recently,” Billy said. He was still puzzling his head about the two names. He was positive now that he had seen them in the newspapers—in the headlines. 
“Left?” she said, arching her brows. “But my dear boy, he never left. He’s still here. Mr. Temple is also here. They’re on the fourth floor, both of them together.” 
Billy set his cup down slowly on the table and stared at his landlady. She smiled back at him, and then she put out one of her white hands and patted him comfortingly on the knee. “How old are you, my dear?” she asked. 
“Seventeen.” 
“Seventeen!” she cried. “Oh, it’s the perfect age! Mr. Mulholland was also seventeen. But I think he was a trifle shorter than you are; in fact I’m sure he was, and his teeth weren’t quite so white. You have the most beautiful teeth, Mr. Weaver, did you know that?” 
“They’re not as good as they look,” Billy said. “They’ve got simply masses of fillings in them at the back.” 
“Mr. Temple, of course, was a little older,” she said, ignoring his remark. “He was actually twenty-eight. And yet I never would have guessed it if he hadn’t told me, never in my whole life. There wasn’t a blemish on his body.” 
“A what?” Billy said. 
“His skin was just like a baby’s.” 
There was a pause. Billy picked up his teacup and took another sip of his tea; then he set it down again gently in its saucer. He waited for her to say something else, but she seemed to have lapsed into another of her silences. He sat there staring straight ahead of him into the far corner of the room, biting his lower lip. 
“That parrot,” he said at last. “You know something? It had me completely fooled when I first saw it through the window. I could have sworn it was alive.” 
“Alas, no longer.” 
“It’s most terribly clever the way it’s been done,” he said. “It doesn’t look in the least bit dead. Who did it?” 
“I did.” 
“ You did?” 
“Of course,” she said. “And have you met my little Basil as well?” She nodded toward the dachshund curled up so comfortably in front of the fire. Billy looked at it. And suddenly, he realized that this animal had all the time been just as silent and motionless as the parrot. He put out a hand and touched it gently on the top of its back. The back was hard and cold, and when he pushed the hair to one side with his fingers, he could see the skin underneath, grayish black and dry and perfectly preserved. 
“Good gracious me,” he said. “How absolutely fascinating.” He turned away from the dog and stared with deep admiration at the little woman beside him on the sofa. “It must be most awfully difficult to do a thing like that.” 
“Not in the least,” she said. “I stuff all my little pets myself when they pass away. Will you have another cup of tea?” 
“No, thank you,” Billy said. The tea tasted faintly of bitter almonds, and he didn’t much care for it. 
“You did sign the book, didn’t you?” 
“Oh, yes.” 
“That’s good. Because later on, if I happen to forget what you were called, then I could always come down here and look it up. I still do that almost every day with Mr. Mulholland and Mr. . . . Mr. . . .” 
“Temple,” Billy said, “Gregory Temple. Excuse my asking, but haven’t there been any other guests here except them in the last two or three years?” 
Holding her teacup high in one hand, inclining her head slightly to the left, she looked up at him out of the corners of her eyes and gave him another gentle little smile. 

“No, my dear,” she said. “Only you.”

Bamboozle

 I dont think it's fair for a person to be neglected for their overfeeling for something.

Unless the person specifically mentions to you that they like you, don't assume.

Well maybe they have a reason, or plenty of reasons not to say. Maybe they're just confused, maybe they are not looking for love, maybe they dont want you to be distant (there you are), maybe they dont want things to get awkward, or maybe they still want you to be their friend.

No matter how visible it looked to others.

Read that: to others. If you are concern with the others, why didnt you be close friends to them before instead? 

It's just going to shake the ships. It's going to shake the friendship.

Remember, we need not too many people on the ship or the ship will sink.

Nevertheless, it also depends on whoever lets the people to get on the ship?

Too bad i realised this just now. It's not nice to be abandoned just because they thought we like them. At least not until we state it clearly to them. Nope.

It makes you wonder, whatever has happened between both of you, has it not brought any meaning to you after all these times.

Maybe the person is just in one of their confusing stage on wherever you stand in their heart. But right before they could really figure it out, you have way long gone. 

If it's love, then yeay you win! (I guess)

But

What happens if it wasnt actually love?

You are just going to lose a friend. 

People cant just be grouped together and be labelled!

There will ALWAYS be much differences on the way you handle a situation.

If you are good, then much congrats.

If you are not, you gonna rot in hell lah kalau gitu. Most people wont think or wont even bother to think "oh mungkin dia lain dari aku." Nah. People tend to group people or even see other people just like how they see other people. Inception much?

Nonetheless.

What a cool psychic you are or your friends are, man. 

Can i sign up for it too?

Pre-birthday present !

Got it on 23rd. November 2014.

Yeayy!

Thank you Ayah! :* :* :*

Hahahh selekeh. Tak cari lagik screen protector. Aaaaanyway, aku dah order bumper baiiik punya. So kita lihat bagaimana nanti.

P.s. I wish someone could pay for my concert tix to A7x this January :(

friend.

i'd.... rather and prefer to provide silent therapy to a friend than to provide unneeded nag.

20 facts

Been keeping this one quite a looong time. Nak post kat instagram haritu panjang sangat, so... Yeah.

Some 20 facts about me requested by assaleenah 💣💣

1. Tersangatlah mudah rasa awkward. Dan down. Dan pesimis. 

2. I'm sorry if my insecurities tire you but i just couldnt help it.............

3. Manga ish my porn. I dont need porn bcs i got it. TEEHEE.

4. Easily attracted to people. No matter what gender. Cantik ish cantik. Kacak ish kacak. But i ish stwaight. :( 

5. Unless it's icecream, aku rasa apa2 benda yg ada mint, rasa dia macam ubat gigi.... 

6. 2005-2007 would be the years that i would really want to reset and redo all over again if i could.. 

7. Dulu masa kecik kecik minat sangat ziana zain sampai lari rumah naik basikal dek pengaruh maria mariana (yg still ada 2 roda kecik di tayar belakang. Tak sedo diri. Lepastu, balik dengan kereta polis lak uh)

8.  Pernah suka kat sorang budak ni dari darjah enam, sampailah umur 18 tahun. Or 20. Cant remember)

9. Tak pernah ada kawan baik, tapi rasanya sekarang dah ada. Dan ramai :')

10. a boy called me 'ugly' once and it was so sudden i just kept quiet till the next day i broke down and cried. Fuyoh drama tipu je hahahh😝 

11. Berdesing rasanya telinga kalau orang tutup pintu kereta terlebih kuat/buka lock kereta sendiri. Sabar bro, aku belum layak bawak treler lagi 😤

12. 'Slow' - siapa yang penah kena ngan aku, mesti paham pasal benda ni. Maaf BG10..😝

13. Dari kecik sampai sekarang, pernah +-4 kali bela kura kura. Semua ended up lari..🐢🐢

14. Dulu teringin nak jadi lelaki, instead of perempuan sebab ingatkan lagi senang dapat protect adik beradik.. (Entah apa2...)😶

15. Masa kecik kecik penah kena tipu ngan ayah bila ayah cakap auntie rumah belakang tu girlfriend ayah. Dapat tau kena tipu bila aku pi tanya sendiri kat auntie tu. Haaa main2 lagi ngan anak..  😂

16. Kenot tolerate orang berkuku panjang tetambah kalau orang tu Melayu. Ang originally makan hanya menggunakan jari kot. 😪 basuh berak lagi? Haaaaaa

17. Tak gemar aiskrim, cokelat, kek, bunga. (Tapi cokelat dan kek at least boleh makan kan. Pernah pulangkan balik bunga sbb tak tahu nak buat apa dengan benda tu. Dasar kanak2 '-.- )

18. Sampai sekarang still menyesal koyak surat cinta masa darjah enam sebab takut ibu jumpa.. (Ibu saya dulu garang terok! 😂)

19. Dulu selalu jeles dengan orang yang ada abiang kandung. Tapi sekarang...blekh

20. Commitment was, is and still a big word for me.

saya takkan tag sapa sapa sebab benda ni dah lapokk. Kakakakaka.

DONE!

6 november 2014

Pre-chariday yevennnt

Ah haritu sebelum pergi charity event, crash rumah wany wonka kejap!

(Tak ada dalam gambar, kak siti dgn wany wonka. Padahai pi rumah wany :p )

Penerangan.

I learnt that, not all people deserve your word of explanation.

learnt it the hard way, or you'll never learn. At all.

Little thought

"Letting go isn't about giving up, it's about accepting there are things that just can't be."