FOUNDATION, NOT CONCEALER

Life has been quite busy and hectic lately. It’s true what people say. Foundation is hard. I’m not saying as if matriculation, STPM and diploma is not hard, but since I continued my study in foundation, I'm gonna write about foundation. I realised that there’s no time that can be wasted. Every minutes and hours are valuable. At times when I take power nap, I feel like I’ve wasted a lot of time. You know why? Taking power nap for about 15 to 20 minutes is quite enough to boost your energy. But in my case, dia punya power tu sampai berjam-jam. The time spent for naps a.k.a sleep can be spent for finishing up my work but what to do. The sleeping beauty needs her beauty sleep.

Let’s begin with the first day I stepped into UiTM Dengkil. Just so you know, I’ve never lived apart from my parents hence this is my very first time. During the journey to Dengkil, I looked out of the car’s window and silently shed tears. I breathed in and out so that I could calm myself down. I tried my best to act and look cool blablabla as if I’m okay being away from my parents. I succeeded…until the moment my parents were ready to leave. I couldn’t help myself but to cry. Tiga hari tiga malam wehh menangis #dramamuch. Guess how long it’ll take me to reach home from Dengkil? LESS THAN 30 MINUTESSSS but I cried as if my house is miles away from the campus pft.

In terms of work, there are lots to be done within short period of time. Assignments, tutorial questions, quizzes, revising lecturer notes, etc.. It’s hard for me to catch up. Sometimes, insecurities towards my classmates aroused in me because they seem to be able to catch up and understand on what the lecturers have taught. I do understand some parts during the learning but when I did the tutorial questions, I couldn’t do it as if I didn’t learn anything from the previous lecture class. Long story short, sis stress. I mean, the stress can be lessened if this girl named Aida knows how to manage her time wisely but she chose to waste time and procrastinate instead.

Okay mari kita move on daripada cerita tentang belajar #boring. Kita cerita pasal housemates pulak. For the first few weeks, I was awkward with them. Biasa lah, orang kita baru jumpa kan pastu tinggal sekali pulak tu. Weeks have passed, I got comfortable being around them and started to like living with them. Wanna know our daily mood routine? Every morning after we wake up, semua diaaaam je buat hal sendiri. Tetapi masuk je waktu petang and malam, haaa bersedialah dengar kita orang bising terpekik sama-sama. We started sharing our stories and some secrets, be it love stories or not. We talked about random things like our future wedding plans and then suddenly Ira and Iman started talking about their future first night...I'm not even gonna elaborate on that. 

We spent fun times together. Had breakfast, lunch and dinner together at Anjung Dengkil, went out together for lunch at Mr. Dakgalbi and dinner at Café Gegey, had our small party night in our dorm room where we bought a box of 50 Takoyaki balls and few bowls of spicy ramen noodle. Nyums! Then we had ‘local fruits’ nights when a few of my housemates brought bags of fruits of durian, mangosteen and a lot more form their home! It's a lot that I feel like we could open up a small stall in front of our room and make some $$$ *exaggerating*.

I still remember one night, our campus held a Quran Hour night. Everyone attended the event except for me and Iman. While I was doing my work, a small insect suddenly dropped from nowhere onto my book. I took a closer look to it. Guess what. It's Charlie ant!! You guys have no idea how loud and frequent Iman and I shouted while trying to cello-tape the ant. We were scared at the thought that it would jump or fly at us while we're trying to end its life. Thank God it behaved and stayed still (what a good boy/girl) until I successfully taped it...on Iman's one and only beautiful chemistry note that she has ever written in awhile #sorryiman! Itu la siapa suruh tak pergi Quran Hour #padanmuka. Then we got a message from one of the lecturer who lives below us through college Telegram group, telling whoever who shouted just now not to shout as if kena histeria. I guess they've had enough of it already.

Dinner at Gegey Cafe (July 12, 2018)

Lunch at Mr. Dakgalbi after we're done with our Mid-term test (August 17, 2018)

The day we planned to wear matching-coloured clothes (September 7, 2018)

October 24, 2018

Classmates pulak…at first it was krik krik. It still is now at times but they’re fun peeps. What's interesting is that one of my classmate, Mimi was my classmate during high school! One night, we held a class dinner together with our class mentor in front of library. We ate KFC and our class mentor bought a Secret Recipe’s Chocolate Indulgence cake omg. *psssttt saja nak bagitau, I’m a fan of that cake. Jika anda baik hati, belikanlah cake tu for my birthday hehe*. My lab group mates are fun, especially Biology lab mates. They’re fun to socialise with and we often have lunch together. Our favourite menu for lunch is white rice + buttermilk chicken. Apart from being my Bio lab mates, they’re my ‘membawang’ gang!

First class photo (July 2, 2018)

September 14, 2018

Our happy faces when Bio tutorial class got cancelled (September 13, 2018)

Class dinner night (July 17, 2018)

We went yellow-mellow for our Bio presentation about pineapple (September 21, 2018)

October 24, 2018

Our happy faces when final's over!

As for my other three happy pills; Farae, Shahida and Asya, I couldn't imagine what my life would be if they're not here with me. Thanks to them, I survived the first few weeks at the campus with a smile on my face. I'm close with Farae since both of us were in the same class during Form 5 but not much with Shahida and Asya. Our group chat is full of

"Nak dinner tak malam ni?"

"Are you girls having dinner tonight?"

"Jom dinner at 6. I lapar!!"

"Siapa turun dinner malam ni?"

Basically, it's full of the word 'dinner'. In conclusion, dinner brought us closer. 

My first outside-campus dinner with the happy pills 💛 (July 10, 2018)

They looked happy when there are steamed buns 😂 (July 31, 2018)

October 12, 2018

Although I can't wait for foundation to finish, I know that deep down I'll be sad once it is over. I actually enjoy foundation life, thanks to the happy pills, dear housemates and classmates. I wonder if my housemates during degree later will be as nice, fun and crazy as my housemates now. The fact that one will go back to Sarawak, and the others to Johor, Melaka, Negeri Sembilan and Ampang saddens me though. Once it's over, we'll never know when we'll meet again :(.

Whatever it is, I'm gonna live the moment and enjoy every bit of it, except for assignments, presentations, tests dan yang bersekutu dengannya. Cheers to semester 2!

Love,
Aida.