Pinkle Island

Yesssss finally it is Sunday, my 2^nd AUD class just ended 10 minutes ago, what a relief. I am sitting on a chair in Westminster University with my lappy and a cup of hot choc. Oh heavenly student life…. Anyway,while waiting for Faezah, im going to share some Geriatrics (study of old age, x>65) with you (the chill partla, you don’t wanna know the depressing part).

I think Geriatric studies in Hearing Loss are a heavy and depressive subject to start of with. Even so, I still like it very much. I think I might do a further study on Geriatrics… yeah maybe if my brains still h the energy to learn after this AUD degree. My dad is reaching 74 and the whole time, I was thinking about him. Alhamdullah, he is still with it, healthy (as healthy as one can be at that age) and I can still communicate with him very well. Do you know that people are living longer (people that live up to 100 have doubled since 1950’s). And I don’t know if this is good or bad, women live longer than men! And apparently, a TV show called it’s only a theory (it’s quite an interesting show) in BBC, found that a person that can live up to 1000 has been born. I don’t know how to verify this theory but then again, I think its just a theory!

Let me share with you something simple. When we grow older, everything grows old too right! So a lot of changes will happen to our bodies. Our bones, heart, hearing…. vision will deteriorate (so depressing kan, accept it, it’s a FACT!), and have you realized that your taste buds and your sense of smell will grow old too? Have you ever wondered why the elderly usually smells really bad? Or their meals are too salty? That’s because their sense of smell deteriorates as well as their taste buds. They tend to lose the sweet and salty taste. So sad kan! I’ve learnt to be more understanding and I think you should too but that doesn’t give us a way to not keep up with our hygiene. Albeit, that doesn’t mean when we grow old, we cannot have fun or have a social life.  Look at this elderly rock band,  The Zimmers, if they can do it, why cant our parents/grandparents in Malaysia do it!!!

Now, since we have established that this is a very depressing topic, listen to my old time favourite song . It is called If tomorrow never comes by Joose. Most of you have heard Ronan Keating’s version.. You don’t know when you will die so, don’t forget to tell the person you love, I LOVE YOU. Even if you are young, you don’t know when you will die.

The first song i played with my guitar back when i was 14. That was 11 years ago and i still cant play well. LOL!

Okla.. Faezah is already on her way, i better go to Hamleys before she gets there first. I am getting myself Taboo!! Trying to expend my vocabulary

Love,

Shasa Aziz

The beginning of this new chapter is looking pretty good, fast paced and challenging. I might have to cut out some activities I’ve been involved with and concentrate on my priorities. I haven’t started work and my wallet is leaking pretty quickly. There is so much responsibilities to handle being a grown up but I am trying to survive. InsyaALLAH I will start work soon, Amin .

I had my second open house at Kak Farah’s on Saturday. I think this is the most undesirable Raya I’ve ever had, subdued and not much food fed into my tummy. But I still have a week left, so hopefully next week, I would enjoy more food ☺. UMNO is having their open house on Sunday and we (Marr, Suraya, Mira, Faezah, Liza and myself) are having our open house on Saturday from 5pm till late. You are all cordially invited but please RSVP .

Kak Farah, Kak Ramona, Myself and Adilla Long.

Anyway, I had my first AUD class last week (Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday) and it was excellent. Although I felt a little left out, being away from school for a year had made me a little slow up there. Nevertheless as I said it was excellent, my lecturer for this module is called Charles Berlin @ Chuck, who is a famous Audiological Scientist. He has done important work in animal hearing and vocal output, human cerebral organization for speech perception, electro-cochleography and Auditory Brainstem Response, Otoacoustic Emissions, and has discovered a rare form of hearing loss called ultra-audiometric hearing. But the best part is, he is also a very very very famous Jazz pianist back in Florida and New Orleans. He soooo have given me the motivation to be a good musician and an awesome audiologist. SEMANGATTTT!

Chuck Berlin and myself

The unlucky guinea pig haha

The gifted Chuck Berlin

Dinner with my new classmates and the lecturers

ANYWAY, New moon is coming out next monthhhh!!! CEPAT LAAAA!! After I’ve finished reading Breaking Dawn, I took a break from reading. It was just sad to start anything new, I was emotionally attached to twilight. But the long rest has its end, Im starting a new saga called Wicked Lovely. It’s about a fairy romance novel, lets see if it will give me the same impact as Twilight heeehehe.. Ok, I think I should go and take a shower, Faezah is bringing back lunch yummmm then we can do some gardening. The sweetness of unemployment, hope it wont last any longer..

Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr

Love,

Shasa Aziz