"Kalau pandai nak malas-malas tak apa juga. Ini dah lah bodoh, tak nak belajar. Apa nak jadi dengan kita ni?"
*if you choose to read this, you are in for a roller coaster ride. you don't think the title is up for no reason, do you?
Less than 72 hours before Maths paper starts and what am I doing here? Updating my blog. Heck, there's a lot of swearing words running in my mind for not studying but there's also not that less of swearing words in it for having to study. I have not touched a single subject-related substance today but hopefully I would be able to start on something right after I post this.
A year of A-Levels in Cempaka. How I cope with studies, how I cope with life, how I cope with my friends and surrounding throughout this whole year would all be reflected on how my results would turn out. They say that exam-oriented subjects are incapable of showing the true capabilities of a student, or so I have heard. That won't be it in my case. What I've seen happening to me is that whatever falls unto me, shall affect my studies. I got stressed, my emotions ran wild, my life turned haywire, I couldn't think right, my time management falls tumbling, hence the fall of my "astounding" grades.
Things with super-excellent student; you either have inferiority complex whenever you're around them, talking about their niche area, or you would plainly get sick and feel like throwing everything within reach. I know I'm not that smart so go on and tell the whole world you're brilliant and such while I'm as stupid as a donkey. ok. I better stop. moving on.....
I came from a place where Islam is always practiced and everything is so rich of it. The subtleties, sometimes can be so subtle that people tend to take things for granted. Take me as an excellent example. I was always that person who would be sleepy during preaches, never fail to be late for jamaah, not that particular about ikhtilat and do things as however I please. Things feel different when you move on to a place of desolation. Only then would you realise how it is actually Islam that strikes a balance in life, it is actually Islam that brings happiness to people and it is actually Islam that enables you to be strong. As stated, I used to be able to do things as however I please, yet not actually doing a wrong thing but now, I have to think very so thoroughly about something, careful of not destructing my faith. It's harder when you're alone on that journey, almost everything around you is against whatever you believe in that it's no longer clear of what is actually right or wrong. No doubt I felt tired at times but I always bear in mind what Ismat said about Heaven is a wonderful place that is fenced with pain and misery. The path, not many would choose despite knowing what's at the end of it. Otherwise for Hell, a place of the unthinkable and unbearable agony but is fenced with beauty and sweetness. The path that many would go though knowing what's in store for them. Siapa kata tak best tayang body? Siapa kata tak best orang puji memuji? Siapa kata tak best ada orang sayang? What's for us to choose is whether to have this momentarily sweetness or the everlasting ones?
Obvious from the previous post and the heading, I am not of a brilliant student and apart from the evermost intelligent students, the competition among us is pretty stiff. Sorry. I mean really, really stiff. I'm not that book-ish type and most of the times I just could not bear the pressure. Selalu gila si Sofina ni cakap dengan diri sendiri "takpe Sofina...kau lain dari diorang.kau ada Allah" but like all those soothing words you say to yourself, they don't do much soothing. Until one of my closest friends said that to me, oooh I felt like crying. Lain tau rasa dia. Selama ni jumpa budak cemerlang je, mesti tahu dia tu jaga hubungan dengan Allah. Asal tengok budak tu jaga hubungan dengan Allah je, mesti dia paling cemerlang antara semua. It's not the same here, where you have to compete with races who are claimed to be better than your race, when it seemed that religion have completely nothing to do with what you're trying to achieve. Ya Allah, peliharalah iman Sofina.
During secondary school, I was taught that to succeed, you need blessings from Allah, from your parents and from your teachers. Therefore, we can see that as exam is around the corner, people would seek blessings, beg forgiveness, ask the people to pray for them and many more. I don't see any of that here. I remembered when I congratulate my biology teacher here for the excellence of bio in the past year exam, she refused it, saying that it was entirely the good job of the students. I thought she was just being humble but after a year now, I see how that is so. It's like, the teachers are just doing their job at teaching and the students are the ones who resulted the product. I strongly oppose that thinking. How strong I am? to the part that I make Teachers' Day card half a month early just so I can pour out my thanks and sorries before exam starts. THIS is somewhat miracle because this is so not what I do. I was never the type who write cards and sadly, not even the type who appreciates them. To me, a card equals words said verbally but with higher cost. But all that is past tense now. Thanks to my ego, I don't want to face the awkwardness of having to go through the rituals I do with my secondary school teachers, with my A-Level teachers who apparently won't really understand it. Hence, the card. The expression that Mr. Chih gave to me during statistics class was priceless. I never thought such lousy card would do him much but as how my mom said "itu sebab Islam galak bagi hadiah", it brings happiness to the people who gets it and further happiness to the people who did the giving.
Well.....that ends well, doesn't it?
A little bit more :P
I studied a lot of Chemistry this past few days that my mind is so full of it. Here's my conversation with Jasmine (edited to sound nicer and to censor a few thoughts.heehee)
"Like the energy profile, if you leave reactants together, there would be reactions though sometimes it takes a long time. I was stable then but having to overcome the activation energy after left like so for a year, I became a stable product. But I guess the reaction is endothermic so it's not actually that stable. After that particular thing happened, it's like reducing the temperature of the reaction and lowering the pressure that the equilibrium shifted to the left. Suddenly I have to overcome the activation energy again but this time faster. So now, I'm stable back at reactant state but since it's faster, the pain is quite severe. Just not for long"
"Good thing it's a reversible reaction."
"If it's irreversible, mau gila meroyan aku pastu mati bunuh diri"
Tiada daya bagiku melainkan dengan kudratMu.
I'm not strong and I'm not capable but with the help of Allah and through Allah's will, I will and I am. Dah nama pun hakikat manusia sebagai hamba itu lemah kan. A reminder to always seek Allah for guidance, knowledge, strength and love. It's Him who has everything and it is us who have nothing. Hebat mana pun kau, itu Allah punya. Kau tak rasa ke kalau Dia boleh bagi kat kau, bila-bila masa je Dia boleh tarik juga dari kau?
The post is entirely subjected to me but it'll be great if it brings benefit to anyone who actually reads this. I mean the whole of this. Panjang gila kan?tabik habis siapa baca dari awal sampai akhir.
With that, let's ponder and be better :)
Now let's get studying!
*Oh. Minta tolong doakan saya supaya diberi kekuatan dan pertolongan dalam perjalanan ini dan dikurniakan rezeki yang terbaik untuk diri saya, keluarga saya, orang di sekeliling saya, mereka yang berharap pada saya, negara, dan agama. Doa seorang kawan kepada kawan yang lain itu antara yang paling makbul. Kalau kita doakan untuk sahabat kita, insyaallah malaikat akan doakan perkara yang sama untuk diri kita. Sungguh, saya tak mampu seorang diri.
May Allah be pleased (redha) with me, with you, with us :)
*girls can get reaaalllyy scary when they're together with their girlfriends and lough out loud.
They can also be scary when they are jealous. sumpah aku benci. especially when it's because of jealousy that my friendship has to end. Sick of makwes trying to dictate their pakwes life and sick of pakwes letting them be. pergilah korang berkasih sayang sesama sendiri je. jauhkan lah hidup masing-masing dari kasih sayang kawan. Why need friends when you have "loved ones", eh? Hope you would be happy in your life without me being in the picture :)






