Damn.. ive promised so many people to update on the media talk i went to. But ive been too busy. I hope ill get time this weekend. Ill be back soon. I hope everyone is doing awesome 
Oh by the way, please enjoy this very EMOTIONAL song.. Just randomly picked for you. It is really sedap! There is another version by Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini Timeless. But nothing beats the original version.
Love
Shasa Aziz
For some silly and unknown reason, I am ill again. Since 2009 I’ve been ill for 5 times now. I think, —pause—- maybe more??? Is there something wrong with me? Anyway, I took a sicky today and regrettably I broke one of my silent 2010 resolutions. –No sick leave, attendance 100%- fat chance!! Now Id have to make do with 1 sick leave this year, pfffttt you think that will stay? I just got better from flu late December and slowly recovering from self made moustache, now Id have to endure with another new one. Mr Ugly Virus, give me a breakkk!! Perhaps I might need the flu / swine flu vaccine, hmmmm
Anyway, given the free time I had today, I decided to rest and forget about the music works, OMEC works or other things that have WORK at the end of it. And continue to catch up all the series that have been updated. My Chuck is BACKKKK!!! Oh my, how I love Zachary Levi (he is not Jewish by the way, just so you know) and how I wish I was a spy myself. I told Ifham over and over again how I would love to be one and all he can say is “yang, you tu gelabah ok..” Grrrrr, but he is quite true, hmmm pffttt. It’s mostly because of the gadgets they get to play. I love gadgets! So apart from catching up with the series, I also did some research for a new camera.
I have been neglecting my Nikon 300 recently, just because the weight is now taking its toll on my shoulder. That’s one of the reasons why I am now suffering from bad back. Plus, it needs to be repaired as the play button is currently stuck, sigh… So I resort myself to a new compact camera. I am contemplating in either to get myself a Canon G10, Nikon 6000, TZ7 or a SAMSUNG U10.
Why Canon G10:
It shoots like a pro and it has 14.7 megapixel. You can use RAW for better editing and you can use external canon flash. Not so heavy but a little bulky (not as bulky as Nikon 300). Wide-angle lens, 28mm But the video is not HD –boo!. It is currently rated as number 1 in Stuff magazine. I want a HD video though and I still think it’s bulky. Price: £450
Why Nikon P6000:
Because its simply Nikon 
.. I can use my SB800 flash gun and its smaller than G10. It has 13.5 megapixel and 4x wide angel lens (I can also change the lenses to make it wider or use a telephoto lens.). I can also use RAW and the video is not HD too –boooooo! It has geo-tagging (GPS antenna which I don’t need, ppffttt) it can go up to 6400 iso. So Good!! But it is rated number 3 in Stuff mag. Price: £430 but I can get £260
Why Lumix TZ7:
A lotttt smaller than G10 or P6000 and the video is HD ! COOOLLL Wide-angle lens up to 24mm. (It uses Leica lense!! Hello!!) Awesomeeee for a compact isn’t it? But its 10 megapixel (which is good enough) and it can take nice close up macro mode. It is rated number 7 in Stuff magazine. Price £280 but I can get £216 cheapest.
Lastly, the why the Samsung U10:
Amazing stills and video. Ultra-comfortable to hold and it is damn small. USB charging which is handy but it is not so great in low lights. I like it because it is small, practical and cheap! Price £130 but I can get £104
Ok, after surfing the whole evening, I’ve decided to give it a rest. I’ll go to Selfridges tomorrow and play around with all of them. Then, go home and buy them online. But if you have a better idea, please leave me a note or two. I need your opinion! Anyway, I hope ill get well soon.
Love,
Shasa Aziz
My classes for dancing and song writing have started last week. Awesome!! The only advantage I have over having no boyfriend around (more me time, woohoo!! Thank you baby for giving me this opportunity). I really do hope that I will maintain healthy, as I need all the energy to perform well. Hopefully by the end of March when all the classes are over, I would be rewarded with an awesome holiday trip! I am thinking of going to Iceland. I’ve always wanted to enjoy the blue lagoon and capture the northern lights. There are so many things to look forward to.
Anyway, before i forget, these are the belated wishes that I forgot to convey.
1/1/10: Dina Izzeans engagement.
My beloved Deens is now engaged to her beloved Rai. The pictures that I saw in FB showed how pretty she looked and the whole ceremony was well organised. Her pink canopy that she really wanted looked really nice too but my favourite of all is her gorgeous ring! Oh my…. The shiniest ever ring ever. Nice one Rai! Anyway, to both of you, congratulations, may Allah bless your relationship and I really hope I will be there for the main ceremony.
8/1/10: My Kakak Fatins birthday.
Happy birthday kakak. I wish you every happiness in the world. I haven’t celebrated with her for a LONG time. I think it is almost 6 years now? I miss you kakak… Love you loads.
This is a picture of Faezah and Farahin in Westfield recently ( dont have a recent photo of me and my sister, so their picture would do hehe). I was really jealous of them at that time but I will see my sister when I go back in September (if she decides to stay in KL then :P:P).
9/1/10: Kajal’s Birthday
My Colleague’s birthday was on the 9th and she invited me to her dinner/club party. After a long contemplation (there was the snow, the freezing cold weather, there will be loud noise and I hate going back late ALONE), I decided to go. It was a really nice club but I really don’t like the level of music they use. It was too loud to my liking (this is the Audiologist speaking, not the real fun Shasa would say). I think I’ve grown out of Clubbing and loud music (never liked it anyway). Nevertheless, I had fun. Good food and met new people too, so it was quite nice.
Me, Matt and Kajal the birthday girl
12/1/10: Our Anniversary 3rd year anniversary.
Alhamdulillah, the relationship is going strong and I hope it will stay strong or else stronger. I really miss my dearest Ifham 
. Sorry Chagi, we are not near each other to celebrate this wonderful day. May Allah bless us, so one day we will be near each other and may be more than just friends, fewiiittt!! I love you always. Sorry a little mushy .. Angau mode.
Hmm, all covered now. I need to rest now, tomorrow will be another busy week. Ok have a lovely week everyone.
Love,
Shasa Aziz
In my last entry, I was stating how proud I was for keeping my food diary up-to-date consistently. Tada, never speak to soon! I don’t think I am the consistent type AT ALL lahhhh sighhh what’s new about Shasa Aziz, but I will try and sort my problem out asap. Although this time, im pretty desperate, so, I do keep a note of what I ate daily. I am almost there. I think?
Ok here is an up to date food diary:
Friday 8/1/10:
Saturday 9/1/10:
The ravioli
Sunday 10/1/10:
Monday 11/1/10: I was fasting.. need to cleanse my body again!
Tuesday:
Wednesday 13/1/10:
Yucky scmucky fries..
Thursday 14/1/10:
Friday 15/1/10:
Saturday 16/1/10:
Egg benedict Patisserie Valerie
Our fav cake! Strawberry Gateau
Sunday 17/1/10:
Ok results:
Rice noodles, wheat and starch is ok! Vege is fine too. Beef, turkey, seafood, oily food, fried food, light spicy food and Salmon are ok. But Meckerel and soya milk is not so good for me. But After a consultation with the Chinese Dr, he said the problem is actually my Spleen and that problem contributes to my stomach issues. So, next week, I will avoid taking any soya milk and I will be having all sorts of fish to see if I have any problems with them on top of my gazzilion medication this Chinese dr gave me. If I have the time, I will try and find rice milk. Maybe that will be my solution. I need some sort of calcium right??
Feuh, there you go. My food diary to date. I hope this diary will help me figure out what the hack is my problem. Shishhh
Love
Shasa Aziz
Have you seen this picture? I dont think i’ve shared this one..
This is a picture of my married bestfriends and myself. During this picture was taken, Natrina was pregnant and Fiena was about to get pregnant (haha sounds naughty, cheeky laughs)). Now, Natte has got an adorable son called Nik Aaron Emran and Fiena is expecting one too in May. I just shared a picture of my Niece in FB who is going to be 15 this year. Man I feel old and all of my peers felt the same way after looking at how grown up my lil not so lil niece have become. Ok I’ve been telling myself, you are as old as you think you are.. haihh those promising words is still not working for me, grrr.. okok.. back to babies, not just Natte and Fiena, Yan my primary school besty has got a gorgeous son too, Haris. Azmarea the daughter of Kak Marisa and abang Alan is big and now you can have a proper conversation with her. Oh my…. how time flies..
At work, my manager loves talking about his children a lot. He can talk forever about them (mind you, they are cute and mischievous, hence lots to talk about ). But one day, we got to talk about Islam and how scared are we to see how there are so many signs of the end of days (Kiamat). Have you heard of Ali Yakubov? This little boy is from Russia. This gifted boy will have appearance of Ayat Al-Quran on his legs every (or almost) Friday. Please watch this youtube, you’ll be amazed!
From Reuters..
The Ayats from the holy Al-Quran.
And here is another one, this boy can read the Al-Quran sooooo fluently at the age of 3??? Amazing! Gods gift!
And this final one is pretty mind-blowing! She produces on average 8 crystals every day * from her eyes!!!*
So I only have one wish to all of my friends with babies, pregnant and planning to have babies, may Allah/god bless you and provide you with fruitful family, healthy, gifted and for the muslims, soleh/solehah babies. InsyaAllah my turn will come and I too hope Allah will give me the rezeki to have healthy, gifted, soleh and solehah children.
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My food in take update (wow im surprised with my consistency!)
) and thai sweet chilli crispsLove,
Shasa Aziz
It was snowing heavily last night without me realising and on my way to work this morning, I was smirking all the way. Finally my wellington boots are serving it’s justice 
(no more falling down on slippery after effect snow). By the way, I’ve got a new housemate but just for 10 days though. Her name is Henrietta Roe and she’s my course mate in UCL, who is only back in the UK for a month. She is currently residing in LA to practice her acting skills and she has got her own IMDB (how cool is that??). Now i am thinking whether i should ditch Audiology and hit the route to fame! Dancing or singing perhaps?? haihhhh at the age of 26? like the song by Jojo “its just a little too late!”, pfffttt. Anyway, she’s been awesome.. Today, it was her turn to cook… She cooked chicken salad lemon-ish, sesame seed sauce. I don’t know what its called but its good. Thank you Heners.. huggss
I’ll post a better picture of her in the future.. for the time being , that will do. My Henri
Anyway, here is an update on my food in take for today (if you’re bored already with my food diary project, just skip this part ) ..
)but I had the innocent juice ( I like the sound of that and I felt innocent after that~lame tak terhingga ). *) and Ok
The yum yum salad
The ever delicious *suffle*.. thank you Faezah for getting it for us!
Love,
Shasa Aziz
Another tiring day at work, and it’s only Tuesday. Funnily, my hearing therapy patients (hmm 2 je pon) cancelled and had to rebook their appointment due to aversive weather condition. But tomorrow, I will have a definite patient because he is very desperate for help. (kesian …). But they say the weather is only going to get worst. This morning, I got stuck at Earls Court station for almost 30 minutes. I can’t feel my toes and it felt really horrible. I think it is the coldest, psycho-est and unbearable winter ever!! Hence be safe my dearest friends, and keep warm. By the way, just to remind you, gas is wayyyy expensive than electricity. So use them all wisely.
Best to use at night: hot water bottles and electric blanket .
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Ok, let me update you with my food intake today. Hmmm..
). And a medium size hot chocolate . .Hmmm.. I don’t know if I want to share you this story, hmmm.. ok okla. This is only for people with strong heart, if suffer from faint heart, please stop reading.. LOL. When its time to leave work, I started to f*rt a little bit (with no sound of course, im well trained in that sense). So usually when there is no sound, the smell will be TERBAIK! LOL… then, when I went into the staff cubicle (it’s a tiny tight space ok!), I accidentally f**ted. OMG the horrrrooorrrrr~~ The worst part was, I told my colleague, don’t kill yourself going into the cubicle and DON’T TELL ANYONE. Yeah and she did all the opposite. What the freak??? M&M (MALU & MARAH).. ah well, they are my family anyways… but haih.. takpela. I give up. So the moral of my embarrassing story is that, please don’t skip lunch, you will suffer from gassiness but the worst thing is that, you can never know when to expect when its time to let it go. It can surprise you in a lot of ways, darn!
I hope this will be my first and my last entry about my f*rt . ngehehe smacked my forehead..
Love,
Shasa Aziz
2010 is finally here (hmmm.. I sounded like I was waiting for it to come so eagerly. Honestly NOT!!) and today is the first day everybody is back at work. I am happy to announce that I’ve been working for a month in St Mary’s . I am using my brains more than I was before and I travel a lot less. Albeit, I feel equally tired by the end of the day but I always come back with a satisfying feeling, yeayy (insyaALLAH it will stay the same or better AMIN). Tomorrow I am going to practice hearing therapy for the first time. AWESOME!! Finally I get to do more and use my Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) knowledge I got from the courses that I’ve done from May to June 2009. Hopefully I will develop new skills and able help more people .
In CBT we usually encourage pt’s to write a diary of their progress on the assignment given. So for example, if the patient suffers from sleep deprivation from tinnitus (constant ringing/whistling/shushing in the ear), they will be given a specific task to evaluate their sleeping progress. Since this is a new year, I have a new resolution too (well I do have new resolution every month LOL but its good right?). My new resolution is to find out, WHY I am suffering from Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). I get severe stomach ache (sometimes with reflux) even when I regularly eat on time. So I’ve decided to start a new daily food intake diary (page). What better way can I practice what I preach? By the end of the month, I should be able to know what kind of food I am allergic to or what irritates my poor tummy.
Ok, here goes.
4.1.10 (Monday) :
I think that’s a good start.. :)
Anyway, I have found a few sour side of 2010. I am going to be a year older (pfffffffffftttt). And in this recession climate, the traveling expenses in London have increased up to 20% (BULLOCKS!) and they are not even expending the congestion charge. Good for the rich but unfortunately the poor and the middle class people have to suffer. I am sorry for being rude but its ridiculous! Do you also know that by 2011, Malaysians will have to pay RM1200 for the entry VISA. This is per entry ok… GOSH! So to all fellow Malaysians in the UK, good luck! Do ask your parents/family/friends/boyfriends to come to London and visit you this year while they can avoid paying RM1200 per entry on top of their tickets. And do take care of your money!! If you can walk, just walk… at least its healthier, damn you Boris Johnson.
Love
Shasa
p/s: sorry to end this entry with such a angry note.. Sorry, i do feel a little emotional with such ugly changes..
Ouhhh Happy New Year people! Look at what Yan cooked . These are food for fabulous people . ouhh I feel fabulous hahah..
Aunty Su and Haris sayang
Daddy and daddy’s boy
Baby Haris learning his alphabets
Yorkshire pudding
The best Roast Beef by Chef Izzy
Meh makan!!
Heheh, rewind back … this was in the kitchen.
Apple Crumble.. Yummstterrr
My favourite Chef Izzy … Berusaha babes.. I will support you. I will be your faithful guinea pig!
Perfect New Years Eve dinner.
New years eve with gorgeous friends
Anyway, this is the time of the year when you start to ask yourself, what have I achieved or what made this year another special one?
2009 has been full of surprises for me. I entered quarter century with my beau next to me. It’s a year that reminded me of my success at work, VISA problems, disappointment and fulfilments. Beginning of the year I was with all of my favourite people (too many to name) and I learn to make new housemates (hey its not easy when you’ve been staying alone for 4 consecutive years) and new course mates. Then middle of the year was mostly sad farewells @ see you later and then weddings, babies and wishing that I were one of them. I got to be closer to two my darling keciks (Alia and Faezah). Now, Alhamdulillah I am healthy, I am still loved by my favourite people near and far (I hope I tak syok sendirila *blush*) and happily employed! It’s complete and I am ready for 2010. Goodbye 2009! So, bring it on 2010, amuse me baby!
HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone !!!!
Love,
Shasa Aziz
I’ve had such a wonderful Christmas holiday and now I’m back at work, but not for long hehe new year is around the corner! We (Su and I) are celebrating New Year’s eve at Yan’s tomorrow. It will be a very quiet celebration with loads of food too! Talking about food, I am a very lucky girl as I am always surrounded by great cooks . My gorgeous Nik Izyan and Su Yin have got their own food blog (or whatever they call it). You can look at their websites on the left corner of this blog, under food blog. Anyway, when i was at the AtanMaya’s, I watched Julie and Julia, which reminded me of Yan soooooo much! This was before I realised she’s got a food blog. It is absolutely a feel good movie and I assure you that when you watch the movie, it will continue to make you hungry (and i continue to drool ). The story is about Julie’s journey of life when she started a food blog. She calls it the julie/julia project, link –>Clickme!! Okok.. enough, go and watch it!
Meryl Streep and Amy Adams were brilliant!! It is from a true story. And here are the real late Julia and Julie respectively.
Here is my 1 pound opinion (mahal k kalau convert! Haha! Lame mode), other than all of the awesome Le Cordon Bleu French food, there is another very important part of the story that I LOVE. Both of these wonderful ladies have a very very very supportive partner in their life. People always say, “There is a woman behind every successful man”. But in this story it is the other way round. The world is different now, woman can have goals and dreams that are able to be pursued. And I just realised how lucky I am and grateful to have such a supportive boyfriend, (hopefully he will stay that way after we elope haha… I have faith in you chagi! I love you). And I wish that everyone will have a supportive partner too! It makes life a lot more meaningful, kan?
Look!! So sweet kan?? What a loving couple
But could it be that their partner is happy and supportive because they are continuously fed with delicious food everyday? Maybe? An answer that we can never know…
Cant wait for tomorrow. Have a good New Years Eve everyone
Love,
Shasa Aziz
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