Tea-time with Secret Recipe

This just happened in less than one hour ago.
 Sylvia bought a cake from Secret Recipe. 
So we had tea time at the office pantry since most of lecturers were free. 

Gosh. 
It's such a waste if you don't have Secret Recipe at your place.
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One of favorite places to get any kinds of cakes too. 
Check out their website at the link below.

Thank you for the cake, Sylvia!


Agust D since 2016

Been listening to these and never get tired. 
I guess because of how he expressed his emotion in the songs. 
I have all songs in my phone. 
His mixtape. 
Loving Interlude; Dream, Reality very very much. 
I wonder if he ever has the thought to come out with a full song and lyric for that....




Family bonding

This was what happened in our family Whatsapp group.

When my little brother sent us this photo...
We were like, congratulation! 
Finally he's now wearing his Able Rate Maritime (Lance Corporal). 
How time passed us by...
He was just a little one before, now has grown up into a fine young man. 
God bless you always, little brother... 
You are always the youngest one to us.

Last night I went to wet market with my auntie and my cousin. We were there to find vegetables. 
I tell you, it's like a paradise for people like us to find fresh vegetables. And then, we went to our favorite bakery. 
Yeay, Mita Cake House!!!! 
I spotted this Elaborate Baked by Mita. 
I've never seen this cake at the other outlets. So, I bought one. 
If it's good, I'll come back to this outlet to buy, I told myself.
It turned out awesome! The pandan coconut cake was so so good. 
Coincidentally, it was raining last night. 
So, I had the cake with a cup of Americano. Totally nice. Seriously.  
If you want it to taste extra awesome, just heat for one to two minutes in the microwave. 
Then drizzle honey or condensed milk or cream cheese on top. 
Aaaaaa, great!

And the most saddest part would be when my cousin sent this photo.
It was my first car. A brand new car. My very first car I bought using my own money.
But of course laaa I paid monthly.
Hahahaha
Damnit.
I miss the car. I really had a hard time when I tried buying it. And at last I got it. Then after two years I lost it during car accident. I was just lucky enough to be alived today. Thank you, God.
This was in 2012.
Now I have a new car. It has been two years since I bought it.
Am not gonna reveal to you the photo.

That's all. 😁😁😁😁😁

Life as an educator: Part 2

You see, there will always be ups and downs when you are in this field. As an educator, I've been through the bittersweet of teaching life. I may not have that vast experience. From my own perspective, I think I had seen enough, although it may not be that enough. It just enough for me.

Do you want to know what keeps me happy? What keeps us the educator happy?

From my own experience, it would always be words. Words like thank you, it's nice having you to teach us, we'll meet again next semester. Hahahaha, you never expect that, didn't you?

Honestly, those kind of words keep me overwhelmed, keep me feeling appreciated by my students. It even help to cure and relieve my stress.
I may not show you how much I love hearing those words, but if you look closely, you will see my little smile at the end.😊😊😊😊😊

For me, I just don't need fancy stuffs or gifts or foods from students. The words that you utter to me that I normally and always remember the most. And the most expensive gift, the most valuable gift that I expect from you is to see you excel in your academic, and also in your life after you graduate. I'll be thankful enough for I know I've done my little part in shaping you. That is what I called life.

Since it's almost the end of semester February 2018, few more days before the final exam starts, few students came and brought food. Received cupcakes the other day, thank you very much. I truly appreciate it. Received fried bee hoon yesterday too, thank you very much. I was on diet, but never mind, I ate them by the way. Hahahaha





Thank you, class!

You know it's almost end of the semester if you start to receive things from students or someone leave something on your desk...

And today, I received this. 
My students were like,"Miss, we left something on your desk."
And me,"Really?"

 Auuwwww, so sweet... 
Sweet like BTS Suga.
Well, you know how I love seeing Suga's smiles. Hahahaha
It's addictive.
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Aaaaa... Looks cute. See the icing. I just use my finger and tasted the icing. Tasted so goodddddd
I assumed it was done by FR PΓ’tissier (based on the sticker there).
Maybe you should give it a try. 
Based on the taste of the icing, I like it. Hahahaha

Seriously, thank you, guys, for these cupcakes. I really appreciate it. 
I wish you all the best in the coming final exam. 
Specifically to my Testing and Evaluation in Education class. Huhuhu
I guess I'll not be meeting you guys next semester since most of you will start to attend classes for your major subjects.

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Save me: Happy 7th Anniversary!!!

*long sigh*

I know, it's not a good thing to sigh.
I just can't help it.
See, I have works to complete by this week.
But then, it seems like I lost my motivation.
Or maybe because am lazy to get things done.
Or maybe, maybe, because I have this laid back attitude when it comes to things like these.
Things will not get done until few hours or few days before they need to be completed.
I don't know. I just don't know.

Can someone just save me from all of these?

My mom always complained on these before especially when I was in high school. I was just too laid-back and did not push myself that enough to strive for the best. I have the brain, but not the attitude. My attitude depends on how I see things. If I feel it's crucial to get it done, I will always work it on to meet the best end. If I see thing in a way that, it's not something important, it'll be like, I'll get it done later.

This attitude thing.

It's such a problem. For me.

You see, I keep on coming back to this post and update it. Ideas don't come just like that. Am bad at expressing it too. I looked at the date on my desktop, and guess what???

Tomorrow will be the 7th year of Appaz's Place. Huhuhuhu
It has been seven years since my first post on the 13th April 2011. Huhuhuhuhu

Seven years of on-and-off relationship with this blog.
I changed the title few times, I changed the link twice. The older link of this blog before this was www.appazsplace.blogspot.com. I deleted my old blog and the link (and lost the old statistics. Ahahaha. The numbers of visitors on the old link before this was pretty good than the latest link), and created a new one (www.mzappa.blogspot.com which is the one am using now).

And massive thanks to my university buddy, Deideian, for introducing me to this platform. I used to write diaries before. I mean, a lot of diaries. I had more than three, and every year I would always write a new one. Damnit. Those were the times...

Writing things digitally and doing it traditionally are just totally different.

Seriously.
I always have things running on my mind which I express better when I have them written down.
When typing, ideas running away, not want to be expressed here. If it's too personal, I don't put them here. Some things are better to keep in private. More safe.
And there are things better to be written down here.
Why? Since I have no ideas on who are the people that come across this page.
So, I just don't mind it at all.
I don't know you, and you don't know me.
That's how things work for me when ever I post something in this blog.
😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

For me, it's just good to put things up here. There are times where I just search up for my old posts and read them. It makes me like, owh, I was like that before, I didn't know that. And sometimes, it makes me like, I shouldn't repeat the same things ever again, I could be better.
It's like a personal journal where I can always reflect on my self.

It's nothing much here, honestly.

I don't do review, I don't do post that are useful to other people. It just that, I do this for me. Just for my own pleasure. To accommodate my free times, to fill up the emptiness whenever I feel so... I guess it's just a real definition of doing whatever I want to do, depending on my time, whenever I want, whenever I feel like doing it...

It's a SATISFACTION and also a HAPPINESS.


Anyway, Happy 7th Anniversary, Appaz's Place!!!!


Such a lame, nerdy first post. And still the lame-ist until today.πŸ‘†πŸ‘†πŸ‘†πŸ‘†πŸ‘†πŸ‘†
*feeling meh*


Birthday celebration

We celebrated my nieces birthday in March and also my cousin's birthday in April. Don't know what else to type. Am just gonna update on photos of whatever happened since the end of March till this early April.
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Happy birthday, Husna & Deeja!!
 
And then on the April 2nd, 2018, we celebrated my cousin's birthday

Happy birthday, cousin!

And both birthday cakes for nieces and cousin were bought from Mita Cake House. Loving their cakes since many many years ago. Whenever people from other parts of Sarawak or Malaysia come to Kuching, they always "tapau" butter cake from Mita. Seriously, there are all good. 

Since 1978
Mita Cake House
See what happened to the cake?
It showed that you have nephews running around in the house
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And we went outing on the day before my nieces birthday. Just jalan-jalan jak
Tadaaaaaaa
I was my niece's kangaroo on that night
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