Typical English Town.. TET!

Nak lari dari London, nak pergi another town yang lebih English style.

Bila Ili book kan ticket pergi Canterbury, saya macam, wowww...tak sabar.

Nak tengok kambeng!

Jadi atas bas nak pergi Kent tu memang terbeliak la bijik mata, tahan tak nak tidur.

Sebab nak tengok pemandangan.

Nampak lah pokok-pokok epal, tersusun elok je. Daunnya takda. Botak.

Lepas tu nampak pulak pokok-pokok kecik atas tanah, pun sama botak. (Strawberry kot)

Daun habis gugur semua.

Sampai je small town Canterbury, lagi lah melonjak.

Sungguh lain daripada London yang berterabur tu.

Whistable

Kononnya, rindu kat laut. Cakap dengan kawan kat Canterbury,

"Ili..dah dekat dengan laut kan tempat kau? Pergi laut jom."

Ternganga jugak lah si Ili. Yelah, mana lah orang pergi laut time winter.

Tapi tak tahan rasanya nak menanggung rindu kat laut.

Bak kata Faridun, "Yelah dah kulit biawak...."

Hehe. Kulit biawak pun biawak lah.

Iqa kata, "Sejuuukkkkk..."

Padan muka.

Yo, career girl!

Makin lama kat sini, makin banyak otak ni berfikir tentang apa yang patut dilakukan dalam hidup.

Hal-hal yang dulu susah sekali nak mendapat tempat dalam kepala.

Takdalah dapat perhatian sangat.

Career.

Apa sebenarnya yang nak dicarik?

Apa sebenarnya yang nak jadik ni, Iqa?

Kena la serius. * Yeah, mungkin ni sebabnya Iqa sambung belajar.

Tak pasti nak buat apa. Lah.

Sekarang ni, Alhamdulillah, dah nampak sikit jalan Tuhan beri.

I think you know that's what you are passionate for when you can talk for hours about it.

Kalau dulu Bioinformatics, sepatah haram la susah nak borak pasal tu.

Kalau orang tanya je, I would go, "Well...we use computer skills to analyze biological data."

Yadaa Iqa, yada, yada, yada.

Punyalah takda idea nak jadi apa bila dah grad, siap Onn and Iqa cadang nak bukak

kilang kek batik. Bolehlah.... Impian jadi realiti, Onn, insyaALLAH one day!

Macam mana pulak dengan awak yang ada passion for baju dan kasut, dan boleh borak pasal baju dan kasut berjam-jam.

Boleh je awak nak masuk fashion industry. Tadehal. Itu passion awak.

Lebih-lebih lagi selepas kejadian hari itu, tiba-tiba terdorong nak get busy.

Get the right career.

No. Just get a career. It doesn't have to the right one for now.

Kadang-kadang kan, mak bapak bising sebab kita asik tukar-tukar kerja macam tukar spender.

Tapi kata speaker haritu,

"It doesn't matter if we are always changing jobs before settling down to what we really want to do. I was a swim instructor before. Then I studied engineering. Now, I'm a health analyst. It's the experience to explore different fields that matters."

Beautiful.

Iqa pun ingat, lepas belajar ni nak kerja kat South Africa sat, India sat, Russia sat.

Tengok lah, kalau ada peluang nak join HIV research sana. Health services or anything in common. Kalau ada rezekilah.

Hidup masih muda. Go explore. Never regret weh.

Nottingham

Nottingham was freaking cold, I felt every single teeth clattering.

Scenery was beautiful, but the heart was breaking.

Wish I could take back my words, and rewind everything,

Should have enjoyed my time at Notts game, not spending most of my time missing.

Shiver

So I look in your direction,

But you pay me no attention, do you?

I know you don't listen to me.

'cause you say you see straight through me, don't you?

Don't you Shiver?

Shiver

Sing it loud and clear

I'll always be waiting for you,

So you know how much I need you,

But you never even see me, do you?

And is this my final chance of getting you?

Shiver, Coldplay

Hi..Nama saya Iqa.

Haiya, ini budak sangat poyo.

Nama: Iqa Mohd Salleh

Umur : 18

Hobi: Bermain gitar

Kejayaan: Compose songs dengan Chris Martin and Noel Gallagher

(Sila jangan percaya)

Uxbridge

Sitting on the train to Uxbridge on the Met line, as clear as the picture I've always had at the back of my mind; a picture of me staring outside a moving train, I could hardly believe I'm living the dream. What's so gorgeous about this place that I chose to leave behind the prettier place? The great scenery, the cold that bites my skin? That, I will find out.

Uxbridge, meeting some friends at Brunel I have, and getting my Bubble jacket which I bought from Farah Yunus before she left the UK. "Farah dah takde space nak bawak balik Malaysia baju-baju, so jual sikit."

Whoah. I guess she must have spent most of her time here shopping.

Class has been *beep* hectic. Which explains why I have not been updating this clumsy blog. I've been dreading not to go to Uxbridge, figured I should use the weekend to study. (Like what I've been doing the previous weekend). But on second thought, alang-alang dah menapak ke UK ni, baik lah langkah panjang lagi sikit. The guilt burns within miliseconds. Bwaha!

Ruislip Manor. Berbelit. How do we pronounce THAT? "Rice-lip Manor, " announced si Announcer train. Huh, kalau aku, Ru-is-lip aje.

As soon as I got out the station (Uxbridge), I stood in awe, gazing at the simplest town I've ever seen. Buildings located next to each other, in the most perfect order. I sooooooo wish I had chosen to go Brunel! Countryside with horses, cantik!

The Chimes, The Pavillions, Hayes, the mosque in the center of Hayes, houses with chimneys.

Sangat kampung. Sangat saya suka. Sangat tenang.

Dulu, kena buat dua pilihan; Brunel or LSHTM

Last-last pilih LSHTM

Sekarang nak rasa rugi pulak

Sebab life kat Uxbridge lagi tenang

Uxbride baru rasa macam student

Campus Uni besar macam UM

Central London serabut habis

Tapi takpelah

Nak buat macam mana

Dah masuk belajar dah pun

Tapi kan still boleh jalan-jalan Uxbridge weekend

Ok, happy balik *Smiles*