Home Sweet Home

After 10 weeks of school, it feels great to be back. To the comfort of home, to the loved ones, to the warmth of Malaysia (although too warm at times)... This is Home. Greeted at the airport by my beloved bf, with roses in his hand for me. =D (Heh. Really excited when I saw that.) Thanx to my mum, who sacrificed and let Hazmi picked me up instead. It meant a lot to me.

Well, that's not much to tell yet. Have been jet-lagging for 2 days already... this is my 3rd night. Hmm, don't remember having trouble sleeping b4. Whatever... Like I never stayed up late and go to sleep only when the sun's rising.

Receiving-the-belt celebration

After the incident, we are more motivated to go for Jitsu training. We must be able to protect ourselves if we ever got attacked one day. (Hopefully never) Anyway, most of us are now yellow belt jitsukas, received the belt officially last Wednesday. After training (which is harder now, gosh), we went for a drink to celebrate (receiving belt ceremony). Apparently, you have to drink alcohol with the same colour as the belt you receive in Jitsu (non-alcoholic for me and mimi). This is the picture of us, with Sensei Alex, who didn't want to be in the picture but got snapped anyway.

Unlucky incident

On Wednesday, while waiting to go to Japanese class, Aida suddenly called me. She was crying, telling us her things got stolen and asked us to come back immediately. Mimi & I were worried so we rushed back home. She was not at home when we arrived which made us panicked for awhile. Lucky we managed to call her and she was on the way home with Basyar, Lomon and Amir. Here's the whole story:

When Aida was walking home alone, one black guy followed her to the front door asking for a plastic bag, showing all his stuff he was holding. Being the kind Aida, she asked the man to wait outside, closed the door and went to take the plastic bag. When she opened the door to give the plastic bag, the man asked, "Can I come inside?". "No. Why?", Aida replied. Out of a sudden, he threw all his things on the floor, blocking Aida from closing the door. Desperate not to be trapped, Aida pushed her way out of the house. The guy took the opportunity to went inside and stole anything that he could find in the living room. Realising Aida was outside, he went to the door and asked Aida to come in, which again, Aida refused. Lucky her, there was a neighbour nearby so she said, I'm going to call the neighbour and was halfway walking to him. Panicked, the mugger quickly said, "Ok. Ok. I'm leaving." However, he managed to stole Aida's purse and PDA, Dina & Rye's PS2 and XDA.

Aida went in the house, called HSBC to cancel all her cards until she realised she couldn't find her keys. Scared that the guy might come back, she ran out of the house to the nearest shop to our house, not wanting to go to the same direction as the guy. Then she called her housemates and the guys, who came immediately. (Thanx u guys) When everyone's at home, we went to make a police report.

The good thing is no one's hurt. Only some valuable things are stolen. But Aida's safe. Don't worry Aida. We are proud of you that you quickly ran away and saved yourself rather than trying to be brave and "protect the house". We can buy the gadgets but we can't buy your safety. Alhamdulillah, everyone's safe.

Yellow Belt Jitsu

Prior to the grading, I was so scared that I had a minor breakdown. As usual, I let it out by crying. Siewch found me on her way to econs and comforted me. Went to class with red eyes. I dunno why I was so stressed out. I guess last week's experience of not-be-able-to-breathe and nearly-break-a-rib because I can't break fall properly when someone kicked me down really bugged me. And we had this perception of grading would be more horrible than the pre-grading (which is horrible enough) And my lack of practice, my not-so-neat techniques, my forgetfulness especially when I'm under pressure and ...~
The night b4 grading, we went to MC's Malam Bakti. The play was good and entertaining. Went back immediately after Drog blowed her candles. Dina and Aida helped Mimi & I do some last minute practice on the techniques. Then, we went to sleep. (Supposedly, but I called my bf and get into a fight with him. Sorry honey. Blame the pressure. heh)
The grading was held in London South Bank Uni Sports Hall, Elephant and Castle. All of us arrived early. Yan gave each of us a Mars bar. I think it was his birthday that day. Pity huh, grading on birthday. But the Mars bar must be a good luck charm. After 3 hours of running around, punching, doing arm & wrist locks, forward, side, backwards rolls (which made me really dizzy), showing dangerous parts on the head, body and back and a few others, all of us passed the grading (I mean, from LSE). Some earn extra points than others. Mimi was the only one from our team passed with Yellow2. Hehe. Good job Mimi. I know u can do it WELL so I'm not actually surprised. Even our sensei have faith in you. Anyway, I graded with Yellow1 which is good enough considering all body parts intact and no broken bones. =D