Mieza Everdeen

Assalamualaikum and hello! Hopefully everyone reading this is interested to know about my passion for archery, hehe! Yeah yeah, I am not the 24/7 stay-at-home type of human. I love outdoor activities but my movements are a bit restricted due to my parents' rules, unless I am not at home :p I have been immersing myself in archery classes since 2012. It started as a co-curriculum subject and I volunteered to be the vice (as usual, president was a guy). It went superbly well, I fell in love with archery more than I ever imagined but I never got to go further than the walls of UiTM because it seemed like I started a bit late (not since school) and I don't have the capital to equip myself with a professional set. I am lucky that my father gave me a set of wooden recurve bow, which is exactly as used in my co-curriculum class, mostly used by beginners.
I then developed my confidence by joining the inter-faculty archery competitions, and also inter-college competitions held by UiTM Shah Alam and UiTM Jengka. Every semester, I'll be there. My first game in semester 2, I scored 5th place, no medal. Then the next semester I scored my first gold for team event at UiTM Jengka. In semester five I scored third for individual event in UiTM Shah Alam and recently I was called again to UiTM Shah Alam to take part in individual and team event, and alhamdulillah, I scored gold and silver for both. I think I ended 2014 with a bang, what more with my convocation day drawing nearer and I still managed to collect a few "points" before I get crowned as an official alumni, hehe!
If you're wondering why I chose archery, please be reminded that this has nothing to do with The Hunger Games or Katniss Everdeen. I fell in love with archery since before I read The Hunger Games in 2008. I am really grateful that god gave me the opportunity to learn archery for free in UiTM and be good in it. Archery taught me to be patient, composed and focused. You get good body stance if you do well, and you practice it, I'm not kidding. I used to be so skinny and slumping my way in and out till my mom get so pissed off looking at my posture. Archery's discipline changed that. Aside from learning and participating in competitions, I also have experiences teaching archery to beginners in schools and college around KL/Selangor. I helped my coach to be her part-time coach assistant whenever I have free time.
Maybe I'll think and discover about setting up a business to open an outdoor archery range for public. All these while in Malaysia, archery is not that famous yet. All I can see is the super-mini archery ranges in shopping malls, sad-looking outdoor archery place with hefty entrance ticket, and traditional/horseback archery classes at secluded places with again, expensive price. What I learned and practice here is the Olympic format archery. The equipment, the rules and regulations. I just never practiced the Olympics archery shooting distance (up to 70m for female and 90m for male) because it requires years of constant training and the need to own a professional archery set that costs more than RM7k.

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Yeah, if you know my real name then I bet you can spot it up there!!! I am so happy that finally it is confirmed that I received the first class honors, alhamdulillah all praise to the Almighty for making it a reality ^_^ I had heaps of disasters, obstacles, failures, disappointments and whatever-you-name-it to keep my CGPA above 3.50 along my degree years. I stumbled, I fell so hard I thought nobody can save me from the darkest pit of shameful failures but Allah kept bringing me back, resuscitating me and reminding me that no matter how bad I wrecked myself, He is always there listening to me, my parents' prayers and prayers from all who loves me so dearly. 

I am not gonna brag on how good I was during my bachelor's degree years. I am going to tell the truth here about my experiences along the three years I spent in UiTM Shah Alam. I was a silent member of the class, I don't normally be the noisy one and people might mistaken me as a stuck up weirdo. I regret (a bit) for not being the loud ones sometimes because that is one way to make lecturers remember you, which later will benefit when you need a recommendation letter, hahaha! But if you are an over-achiever, then lecturers will remember you too. Well, it depends on what suit you I guess? If I can turn back time, I want to be the loud ones in the class, who achieves well and consistent. 

we successfully pranked the entire class using this computer lab after our session.

at that time 9gag meme was so hot, we pasted it under all 30 mouses XD

I was not an entirely over-achiever. But I keep my balance between study-sports-fun very well. I am so glad that I took archery, it made me a different person. I became more stable because I had something to wait for once a week. Shooting arrows after arrows is a therapy for me. The routine made my body fitter. My posture became fine. I get the healthy glow, and I am so happy being among my archery members. My coach was a superb lady too, she knows my strength and she polished me. I haven't touched my bow and arrows for months now because there is no place for me to practice here in Melaka. I wish I live in Shah Alam :(

 my archery mates

see how slim I WAS? 

i. was. THAT. slim. 

oh, that sunburn. 

In my academic classes, I was like all normal students. I dozed off in class, because I slept late to watch movies and series. I skipped classes with my best friend because we had a quota of 3 days absent before we get barred from taking exams. I did last minute assignments because I thought I am so cool to be able to work under extreme pressure. I did all the mischievous things a student can do, but I never regret it because those are my memories. I joined clubs and societies, I became an exco member at my faculty and I learned a lot through taking up these positions. I am truly glad that I acquired a lot from my academic classes and non-academic activities. Among the sweetest memory was that I joined the faculty's debate team to Walailak University, Thailand as a newbie debater for a training and competition. Well, that was my only debate experience, hehe!

our first day at Walailak University for the debate training and competition

 with my best friend Mazlina Nina, we went through so much together :')

and here is me with an overachiever who has been the greatest senior + best friend to me

All in all, I just wanna clarify that I miss my friends out there :) three years spent together with them, muddling through our sweat, blood and tears to graduate and soon the day will arrive. Some won't be with us this year, but they will next year insyaAllah. I pray the best for all my friends who have been with me through thick and thin, who understands and accepts me the way I am, my temper and my judgments. 

 i am not daring, I can only manage that "salute" pose

 oh the "young faces". they're all so grown up today. and "healthier" than in this pic :p

 classmates.

classmates again, my lovely ladies :)

One thing for sure, I cherish all the memories I have. No matter how pleasant or unpleasant they were to me, they are and will always be mine. I feel terrible for not having backups of all the pictures I took during those three years, because the unposted ones are all stolen during a robbery that costed me my laptop, external hard disk, camera. The pain is still aching in my heart, but I have to let it go eventually, I can't get them back anyway. I hope that the upcoming days and years will fare me the best of luck, and the same to all my beloved comrades too. Live your life to the fullest but remember Allah in whatever you do, insyaAllah you will be safe :)

Till then. 

Assalamualaikum and hello! This is a totally random post as I am experiencing brain-block while suffering with acute hungriness when there is still 30 minutes left till I finish my shift. I saw Cindy posting a picture of seafood ravioli and suddenly it reminds me of mushroom ravioli eaten by Bella Swan in Twilight. I am a mushroom addict, I love everything mushroom and if possible I always want to have mushroom in my meals. But of course, that does not happen a lot. So, I was wondering how mushroom ravioli would taste. I quickly googled for it and found one recipe that I think I would be able to try at home, of course with mom’s help as I don’t think I can knead the dough. So, that’s all for now, and my mushroom ravioli craving continues.

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p/s : my colleague Rachel asked me to bring some mushroom ravioli to the office when I successfully made it. 

Assalamualaikum and Hello!

I'm gonna do a quick update here about my current life, hehe~ I'll be starting my internship today, Monday, February 3rd 2014. Truthfully, I'm a bit nervous but I don't have those butterfly in my stomach, yet. I hope everything will go well. 

I'm now renting at a new place nearby the office. I got my own room, though the wardrobe does not look like a normal wardrobe at all and the bathroom is outside, not attached. But I don't mind it though, I'm happy coz the house is very comfortable and my housemates are very nice to me. 

Thinking about going to work tomorrow, I yet to find out on how am I gonna get to work, on my own, safely. I used to be very pampered, always have a car waiting outside the gate and I can go anywhere I want at ease. Now that I'm all alone at this new foreign place, I'll just have to shove that awkward feeling of being looked by strangers, chin up and strode off like a boss. I actually want to just walk to the office since it's quite near and the roads are all within housing areas, shops and the mosque. It is not the main road and it is always full with people. But...my parents and housemates are kinda skeptical about me being a skinny underweight girl wanting to walk alone to the office. They say I won't be able to defend myself if I were (god forbid) attacked, harassed or teased by any perverts. They said "No, you don't walk to the office. Take the cab, it's safer". My dad even told me to bring anything that can be a weapon when I use the elevator (my house is on the 16th floor and this condo is full with foreigners). But the taxi driver I met today while on the way back from One Utama told me to just walk to the office coz it's very near and it will be such a waste to ride a taxi everyday. Hmm, we'll see how it goes tomorrow. 

Baru je ingat nak stay fit and healthy by walking to the office. Alahai...

Anyhoos, wish me luck in my internship! ^_^ 

Assalamualaikum and hello!

Praise to God, I just finished my fifth semester of degree with a blast! Well, not much of a blast considering I went home to sleep for hours after the paper ended, and woke up feeling very successful indeed, hee~ My fifth semester witnessed me being a too laid-back human being, I just don't know what makes me so but I took necessary care of my studies and I can foresee that I won't be repeating any papers, InsyaAllah. 

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There are so many things I'd like to write, regarding what I felt and what I have been through but I guess I'll save it for now. I'm gonna need to make a proper plan and carefully construct it so that it won't be another random babbling, I want it to be a guide for my juniors who crave for information on how to successfully live through the 3 years of this EPC degree.

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Here are the things that I'm gonna do afterwards, since I am sooo done with the textbooks and past year papers :

Thanks for reading, be back soon ^_^

I also received another parcel from Nabilah of Beaut and The Beast, this time it is my first Ecotools brush! I bought it with her (we do 1 massive order @ group buying, coz a single postal cost is damn expensive) during Ecotools sale at Mysale.my last month. This buffing brush was sold at RM20 each. I'm gonna try it with my face powders soon ^_^ *excited!