Black Pearl

Assalamualaikum, A day came when I had two smile-inducing interactions. One. A customer came to pick up his protein ration order at the cafe. As he finished paying, he pointed at me and asked "Are you the owner?" I nodded.  "I'm sorry to be so sudden, and pardon my outfit, but if you don't mind, can we talk business for a second?" I was a bit surprised but immediately said "Sure, let's" If anyone wants to talk business, always say yes.  So he told me that he owns a nearby medical clinic with his partner among other branches of clinics in Kedah & Selangor, I think.  Said he is currently searching for a dietitian to collaborate with the clinic. He was specific about the kind of dietitian he was trying to find. One who doesn't work for the government nor any private clinics/hospitals. He said it was hard trying to find one until he found @madusaglobal on Instagram. I fit that criteria perfectly. They plan to refer their patients to me for ...

  Assalamualaikum, Hari ni 22 Ramadan, kalau tak silap. I lost count haha. Kalau time budak-budak dulu setiap hari aku kira. Countdown nak raya punya pasal. Ni dah besar dah tak heran.  I have been doing a LOOOOOT of planning this month. Taking this huge leap requires a bit of planning, definitely. Banyak benda nak kena fikir, nak kena buat, nak kena siapkan. Dengan otak yang satu, dua tangan yang sempurna, badan yang alhamdulillah sihat walafiat tak ada penyakit ni lah aku put one foot in front of the other. Taking small steps every day. Tapi dia jadi mental breakdown kadang-kadang sebab aku belum nampak apa-apa hasil. Kena selalu ingatkan diri sendiri apa yang aku dah berjaya settlekan instead of thinking about things I haven't. Because I tend to freak out a lot sampaikan recently I've been experiencing SOB and even a tightness in the chest, angina. Me being me, terus paranoid fikir aku mungkin akan kena heart attack lol. It's a possible thing to happen, but then I think ...

Assalamualaikum, Pretty effin weird. That's what that was. Hantar makanan, letak depan pintu. Ketuk pintu and said "Makanan kat depan pintu". Lepas tu lari pergi tempat lain. Hahah. Macam hantar makanan kat prisoner. Ada Joe Goldberg vibe jugak kat situ. Eh.   After more than 2 years, unfortunately, this deadly virus berjaya menembusi our household. Izzat got it. Thursday, 24th Feb 2022. Tested positive after RTK self test. Me with my 'psychic power' dah rasa tak sedap hati when I heard Izzat terbatuk-batuk outside of my room. "Hm, lain maciam pula batuk dia ni." Tak sampai 5 minit lepas tu, ayah buka pintu and simply said, "Izzat positif".  Gelabah tak gelabah. First time kot. Fisha start sembur sanitizer satu rumah. Izzat terus kena kuarantin kat bilik bawah. Semua orang self test. Everyone else was negative. It's easy to deduct that Izzat got it from one of his friends during one of his many badminton matches. To confirm, he did PCR on t...

  Assalamualaikum, In an effort to procrastinate, here I am. Hahah. Tak berubah. Tak adalah procrastinate apa pun, but I have this huge interview tomorrow. For a program that I really hope to be in. So, kena prep some basic answers for that interview. It's going to be at night lagipun. I have PLENTY of time, kan? Not really. Tapi entah, I just think that insha Allah, I will be chosen. Sebab tu takde beriya-iya sangat nak prepare. Kalau ada rezeki, dapat. Aamiin. Oh lupa. This is my very first post for 2022. Happy new year to anyone who's reading. How has my 2022 been? Quite hectic. Won't lie. In a good way, though. On a lighter side, I managed to fit a lot of time doing my hobbies amidst the business I've been doing. Finished reading 3 books and  3 crochet projects  already. Yes, crochet. I legit started on the 1st of January. Actually dah lama beli the kit but then I didn't do it seriously last year. Got my momentum tahun ni.  Last Sunday, I gave my second talk. Co...

 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 ...

 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 t...

Assalamualaikum, I finished my 4 years of degree studies in June of this year. Since then, I have been at home, doing whatever I so desired. Mostly the things that I did not get to do much while juggling my studies.  One thing I noticed the most after being a fresh graduate is the pressure of trying to get jobs. Entah kenapa semua orang terkejar-kejar nak bekerja paling awal sampai ada yang fikir "siapa yang dapat kerja paling awal, dia paling perform. Sebab dia marketable". Sampai canang satu dunia dia dah dapat interview just a week after habis belajar. Sebab stigma memang macam tu kot. Dulu masa aku dengar senior dapat kerja even before graduating, aku pun impressed. "Mantapnya diorang."  Tapi bila aku ada kat tempat ni, aku rasa benda tu ridiculous. Tak relevan langsung istilah siapa dapat kerja paling awal tu dia paling mantap. Setiap orang target dia berbeza-beza. Mungkin lepas habis belajar nak chill dulu, mungkin nak pergi travel, mungkin nak sa...

Assalamualaikum, After one year of internships kat merata hospital & tempat, we had our final assessments for 2 weeks (11th to 20th June 2019). Habis special unit tu, cuti seminggu, sekali dengan cuti raya. Lepas raya lah maksudnya exam ni semua haha. Bayangkan betapa liat nak siapkan case report tu. Nasib baiklah log book dah hantar awal kat dietitian IJN. So, everything was settled even before cuti. Kat IJN pulak memang tak ada patient census and punch card macam kat Hospital Serdang/Kajang. So tu tak payah fikir dah. Everything kena hantar hari yang sama dengan case presentation tu. Manalah tak gelabah aku duk kira hari cukup ke tak nak siapkan report. Thank God a week before cuti tu aku dah present kes kat IJN. So, cuma tinggal nak edit sikit2 je slide tu. Nasib baik juga, aku tak raya sangat. Hari kedua raya tak pergi mana2 pun xD Okay, the final assessments ni consisted of case presentation (11 June), bedside exam (13 June), viva (18 June 2019) & written professio...