Black Pearl

 Assalamualaikum, A friend from KL came to Kulai last week, teman her hubby yang ada work thing here. Naturally, we met. While catching up, again, naturally, she asked me how I managed to start what I started. A question people kept asking, "Do you actually do everything yourself? That IG especially, like really?" Hahah. Dan setiap kali aku jawab, "Yes, baby. I don't have the money to hire someone else to do it."  What can I say, I'm a woman with many talents, or let's just say it as it is; desperate times need desperate measures lol. Another friend once described me like this; 'Hanny suka cuba benda-benda baru & somehow you manage to excel in whatever you attempt to do.' Entah, Youtube videos & the internet helped a massive deal. Paired with my perpetual need to achieve perfection or at least near perfection, itulah jadinya haha.  The friend I mentioned, we last saw each other last year rasanya. When I went to KL for another friend's

  Assalamualaikum, Hey, I have been abandoning this blog for months. Not a new thing, but thought I should mention it lol.  Thing is, banyak jee draft tapi tak post sebab tak habis tulis.  I've had quite eventful months since I last wrote here. In July, randomly decided to challenge myself. Yang menang phone tu. Gila. Entered a quiz contest, in which I had to do a quiz every Saturday & Sunday at 12 pm for 4 weeks. Somewhere deep inside my gut, I do think I will win. Sebab the amount of efforts that I gave was, I think, huge. Kau bayangkanlah setiap weekend 12 tengahari dah tercatuk depan laptop & perah otak jawab soalan & tulis essay after essay. Mungkin ini yang dipanggil rezeki kerana usaha.  Lepas tu dapat good news one after another. One of them was being chosen to receive seed funding for my lil business. Ya Allah, I was basically overwhelmed at the time, and when all of these were being presented in front of me, tak ada fikir lain but thankful that they came at th

 Assalamualaikum, Okay. This one's short. I promise. Betul lah. The first step is always the hardest. I think everything is falling into place. Alhamdulillah. Baby steps is the approach here. Satu satu. Last weekend, something small but significant happened. Let's just say I sacrificed something with an open heart and guess what, I gained the exact same thing I sacrificed right after. The moment I realized it, I just gasped and laughed, and then said alhamdulillah. These kind of stuffs just further made me wonder how are there still people who do not believe in the higher power. Subhanallah.  That being said, Hannysa pun masih perlu terus usaha dekatkan diri dengan Pencipta, ya.  Passion. Purpose. Progress.  Yes. In progress. Slow slow. Pelan pelan. Satu satu. Insha-Allah.

Assalamualaikum, Full Lockdown Day 9.  I don't mind staying at home. At all. Somehow a nationwide total lockdown is not a problem for my nature. Lol 'my nature'. Maksudnya sebab aku ni jenis homebody. Yang suka duduk rumah. Bukan jenis yang suka keluar. I'd be perfectly content just by being home. Walaupun kadang-kadang tu memanglah rasa nak keluar, jumpa kawan, jalan-jalan just because, tapi benda-benda tu cuma some things that I can do without for a looooong time.   Sebab tu, aku kesian kat orang yang the opposite of homebody. Yang rasa tak senang duduk kalau kena stay at home for a period of time. Tak bebas nak bergerak. Ayah is like that. Staying at home is like a torture to him. He likes to be out and about. Main golf tu his second nature. We don't understand his obsession with it. I have since made a conclusion that ayah and golfing is like me with reading and cooking/baking, or ibu with gardening, or Man with his gaming and loud volume music, or Izzat with wo

  Assalamualaikum, Tajuk inspired by lagu The Band Perry tu. Petang tadi tengok video tahpape. Tell My Story series kat channel SoulPancake. Basically macam blind date tapi in a more interesting and entertaining concept I would say. Kalau tak, kenapa aku tengok enn. Buang masa je tengok orang lain jumpa soulmate. Baik aku je yang pergi blind date. Haha. Bitter Hanny is bitter. Anyway, one of the questions was "What are your top 3 fears?". Yang mamat tu jawab orang gila, ular & mati muda. Tapi lepas tu ada follow-up question, "Are you afraid of dying?" Dia jawab tak pula. Confused sekejap aku kat depan skrin tu. Then, dia elaborate, "I would like to think that I lived my life before I die. So I'm scared of say, dying in my 30s, but then I'm not really scared of dying in my 60s or 70s 'cause I feel like at that point, I did what I had to do." Boom. Logik jugak dia punya cara fikir. Betul lah kan kalau mati muda ni, mungkin banyak benda yang k

Over the years, I have randomly posted a couple of book reviews over this blog. This is a rare thing, although I do frequently post short reviews on my Instagram. Some books just need to be reviewed more, I think. Read this one about a month and a half ago. World without End (2007) by Ken Follett is by far the thickest book I have ever read (it was 1237 pages thick), but also one of the most intriguing. It is actually the second book in the Kingsbridge Series and is the sequel to Follett’s 1989’s Pillars of the Earth. Even if you have not read the first one, it's totally okay, because World without End is good even as a stand-alone novel. This is due to the fact that although set in the same town as Pillars of the Earth – Kingsbridge, the characters featured in it are the descendants of some Pillars characters 157 years later.  Uh did they change the 'insert picture' option? Thank God I still have this image in my gallery             I would say that the main focus of the n