Tuesday, November 29, 2011

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.


Saturday, November 19, 2011

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