Half Way Through Third Year

Assalamualaikum :p

       Happy new year everyone. It's  nearly two weeks over 2017.  I am turning 23 years old this year. I just got back from my winter break. I went to London, Budapest, Vienna, Salzburg and Prague. The trip was nothing but amazing. The new term will start in a few days (16th January). I am half way through my third year now. That being said, if I pass al of my courses last semester. InshaAllah, hopefully.

     This year will be me going through spring, summer, autumn for the second last time. I want to graduate excellently, but at the same time, I am too in love with Edinburgh and the UK that I sometimes feel like not leaving. Even for the non-UK residents, the services and the quality of life that I have here are so much better than back home. Makes me wonder why are human rights are strictly preserved here and not the same back home. The answer is it's up to us to go back and spread the good things we learn from living here.

    My subject for this term is Field Skill for Geologist. It is a full field trip course. I already had one (two weeks) field trip last summer. Another one will be a nine-day-trip to Spain and the last one is a nine-day-trip to Mull, Scotland. Next course is called Practical Geochemistry and Data Analysis. This was the course I hated so much from last semester. This year will be a lab-based project and a write-up report. Hope I will survive this and pass the course. There are lots of programming as well.

    The third course is Igneous, Metamorphic and Ore Processes. No idea what's waiting for me but I hope it's a good one. No comment on this course yet. It's a new course. Everything is new for our year. Kate is the Course Organiser. (Could be a good thing as she is very organised.) The last one is the most erk course for me. Structural Analysis and Rock Regions by Florian. I am flipping scared for this course as he is also our Course Organiser for the mapping project (our kind of Final Year Project this summer). I really really hope things will go smoothly until graduation.

     There are going to be a lot of lab works and journal reading and hard work to survive this term. Hence, Farah Asri, please focus and improve yourself. Stop thinking rubbish and ignore the people that have done hurtful things to you. Leave them here. Be happy and forgive, forgive and forgive.
Stop analysing and trying to give reasons for why they did what they did. They simply don't care. Leave it and move on. It's all parts and parcels of life. :)

Till next post.

xx

Farah Asri

Praying that you are well :)

Assalamualaikum :p

I hope that you are alright. Please don't shut yourself from people. Or at least, from your parents. I won't ever understand your situation but you will always be in my prayer.

Semoga dipermudahkan urusan kau, weh. Semoga kitorang dapat berkawan semula dengan kau.

  

  xx

Farah Asri

    

Good luck, wherever you are.

Assalamualaikum :D

    Last Sunday, a good friend of mine went back to Malaysia for good. I managed to meet him a few days before he left for a chit chat and breakfast. He was very calm about it. I was actually pretty much alright until the day he left. I had a full day talk by JPA, so didn't manage to see him off at the airport. So I just texted him wishing a smooth and safe travels. He replied a few hours after; when he arrived at Istanbul. Just a two-hour transit before his flight to Kuala Lumpur.

        Me  : Sedih pulak aku tengok gambar lama. Macam ralat sikit rasa.
        'H'   : Alaa janganla, aku pun td okay je. Last2 peluk 'B' leleh.

   It was a rare occasion that I cried if it's not about studies or homesick and this time, it happened. I was just feeling sad that things turned out this way. When we could have had so much fun here (although it would only be another one year and a half to go). When I just managed to break the ice and made friends with him, he needed to go back. I knew that I needed to understand that this was for the best, but reality hit hard. It felt like I was kind of losing somebody that I was starting to cherish. Macam ralat. sebab baru je nak berkawan baik. Tapi, HE know best, kan ?

     To 'H' , all the best at the new place and may our path cross ! Nanti balik Malaysia kita buat reunion. Ajak satu Edinburgh.

xx

Farah Asri