Year 2013

I went through a lot of obstacles this year. Entered a new school, new environment, new friends, new rules, rejection, break ups, meeting my idols, new people and more. It's definitely a bitter sweet journey this year. 

I've met people of all different kinds of attitude, egoistic and any other bad and good attitude that they have. Some people left and came into my life. I won't talk about those people who have left my life whether its for a good or bad reason. All i can say is thanks for stepping into my life and make me smile when you got your time to. I appreciate all the kindness and efforts made but sometimes, some people are not meant to be in your life but will stay in your heart. So, here's a little recap on my life in 2013....

Started off 2013 by entering a new school. Met new awesome friends, some left, some stayed. I've yet to see who will be there for me when i'm in need. All of them are nice friends but some just started to show their true colours as months passed by....But this was my favourite friends during the start of the year.

January 2013

March 2013
Met my beautiful idol, a singer/songwriter from Los Angeles and she's a Youtuber, Tiffany Alvord. She did a Asia Tour of her album and she came to Singapore for the second time so it was my second time meeting her and it is a great feeling to know that she remembers me. 

              

June 2013,
This is by far my furthest country i've ever been too (i think) this is my first trip without a dad (well, i mean my stepdad) My mum, sister and I, the three of us travelled to Bangkok, Thailand to have a holiday together after years and years of not travelling out of Singapore. The trip was all on my mum and i'm thankful for the trip. Thankful that i got to enjoy travelling out of Singapore and see how it's like in other countries. I've always wanted to make a visit to the MADAME TUSSAUDS MUSUEM and i did, i met the wax figure of my idol, Justin Bieber. 

July, August, 2013
What i did during this three months was....working. I've applied for some part-time jobs to work during my weekends and holidays. Quitted the job because i was too tired and couldn't handle what i was going through. I met a guy, we broke up, i don't want to talk about it at all, i wish to erase him forever and ever. I regret knowing him and yes, this is my first time ever regretting meeting someone in my life. I've never regret meeting each and everyone that has entered my life just this particular guy, i just regretted meeting and knowing him...

September, 2013
One of my wish/dream that i wrote on the white ball that is released every year at the Singapore River, came true. My dream was to see Justin Bieber LIVE once again came true. At first, when i knew he was coming to Singapore, i knew that the tickets will be expensive and they'll be no chances for me go and see him sing at the biggest outdoor arena in Singapore. Miracle happened, i entered a contest (wasn't prepared, just did a cover of his song) made it through the top 30's and won myself a pair of tickets to see him live. That time, it was just...magical (: 

I brought my best friend, Atiqah to the concert and we enjoyed the time of our lives by enjoying Justin's songs on stage. It was indeed a very memorable night, i wish it could happen again, anytime soon. *wish*

I also met someone who is close to Justin Bieber and he is Justin's Manager, Scooter's, brother,so i was quite fortunate to get that close to Justin. Well, i didn't get to meet Justin but at least i met and worked for a person who is close to Justin. It was great and the doors of Pencils Of Promise in New York is always open for me to come and visit if i were to go to New York one day, kudos to Adam Braun for that. 

October, November, December, 2013
I sure spent a lot of my time at Sentosa as i was working with Sentosa for the biggest Halloween Event of the year, Sentosa Spooktacular. Again, made new friends, got to experience how its like to be in a mask for 5 hours without a break and also experience how its like to be in the attractions industry. Spent my last few months in school, took some exams and enjoy my holidays with friends. I have till this coming 13th before school starts again and its time for my second year in college! Time flies when you're having fun.

2013 has been a great year for me, like i said, i met new friends and a whole lot of different people. I widened up my talent of music by doing covers and also being able to see my idols is just..amazing. All the things that i've went through this year made me stronger and who i am today. Thank you too all that of them who has been with me all along and staying by my side when i'm in need. I'll always love you guys...

Till my next post, i just want to wish all my readers a very
HAPPY NEW YEAR! May 2014 be a blissful year ahead of you and..enjoy your life while you still can! Talk to you next year! 

Love, 

Athirah 

Malacca Haul, 2013

Here's as promised! My vacation trip to Malacca, haul. I decided to do a video this time round and try out and see what you guys think of this video!

I don't have a proper video editing software at the moment as i'm still finding one so that explains why this video has a watermark in it. But, i don't mind so i hope you don't too! I actually had to shoot this video twice in 2 days because the first time i did it, the lighting was bad so i finally had the day-light to do the job and i'm currently trying to find a cheap ring light so that i am able to do more videos with good lighting. Speaking of camera...my camera is a normal 16.1 megapixel digital camera so its not that good like a dslr camera. Haha, but anyway, here's the video, enjoy. This video is only applicable for people with this link as i don't set this video to public. Only my readers get this link! ENJOY (:

Love, Errah Athirah 

Review: Mahkota Hotel, Malacca

If you've read my past three post, i just came back from my vacation in Malacca one day ago. The last time i went to Malacca when i was 13 or 14 years old and i only stayed at my uncle's house whenever we visit Malacca. This is my first time staying at a hotel/apartment in Malacca City itself.

Since my cousin have stayed at Mahkota Hotel in Malacca before, so we expected the hotel to be good since it was a popular spot and place to stay in few years back. Time and things change, the hotel standard went down according to my cousin who has stayed there once.

Photo from AsiaTravel.com

All of the other hotels around Malacca City is fully booked so we had to make do with whatever we have for 2 nights. I won't recommend any of you to stay at this hotel unless you're fine with waiting for 2 hours for the room to be ready, faulty toilet flush, useless air-conditioner, dirty water(yes the water is really dirty and yellow), every extra bed that is requested cost RM77.70 per day (SGD 29.90, just for a bed), faulty room door and if your clothes get messed up and crumpled, you have to go down to the laundry/ironing room to iron your clothes and share it with many people. I'm not trying to say that all that is really bad, i mean, you paid for a APARTMENT ROOM to stay and enjoy your facilities but this is the case, will it be worth your bucks? Of course not. You can get many other hotels that is much more better than this hotel. One more thing i have to add in, my cousin asked the housekeeper to clean their room and the minute we got back to the hotel after a long day of shopping, she found out that the balcony door was wide open. What does this means? It means that the housekeeper isn't doing their job right and all they want is to get the things done fast and let the hotel visitors valuables in danger....See how bad it is?

Seriously, i'm not trying to make their reputation bad but... if you really want to experience a bad hotel in your life, you can come down and try it yourself (:

That's all i can say! Hope this post helps!

Back Home

I am finally back in Singapore(reality) feeling sad because my trip is over :( i just wish to travel all over the world at one go. 

Anyway, we left the hotel in the afternoon and head down to shop @ Giant, Plentong in Johor. We did some last minute shopping. After shopping, we ate our dinner at Stulang Laut (Stulang Beach) and had seafood...so i had my all time fav Tom Yum Noodles and now...i'm stucked in a jam going back to Singapore. 

I will do some reviews of the hotel and do a haul post on what i got in Malacca/JB once i'm free :) have a great week! 

Love, 

Athirah xx 

Malacca Trip: Day 3

Can you guess where am i right now? Nope, i'm not at home, neither am i in Singapore. I'm currently at Johor Bahru! We decided to book rooms and stay at Johor for one night because we left Malacca in the late afternoon earlier on. Our journey from Malacca to Johor took us around 4-5 hours so thats the reason why we decided to book and stay in Johor for a night @ KSL HOTEL & RESORT. 

This is my second time staying at this hotel. The first one was 3-4 months back (you can see the post on the right side of this page) since this is a last minute plan, the only rooms that are available is the King Bed room (good enough to deal with for one night) 

Malacca Day 3: Time to check out of the hotel and head for lunch. We had our lunch at a very famous cartoon character restaurant....kids in Singapore like this two boys a lot and they are.....UPIN AND IPIN!!! If you don't know what i'm talking about, you can just Google them and find out! 

And this is what i had....Chicken Chop! 

This ice-cream is too cute to resist so i got one for myself. 

You can try this restaurant out if you're in Malacca. This restaurant is located just directly opposite Dataran Pahlawan Megamall and you'll be able to see a big Upin signboard just like this. 

After having lunch, we decidec to have chendol drink but the road was too busy and so they decided to leave Malacca immediately and drive all the way down to Johor. Initially, the place was to just shop at Johor but haha, it turns out to be a night stay instead! 

I'll be back by tomorrow evening! Sorry for the messy pictures! Will have to arrange them again once i'm home! Peace out xx 

Love, 

Athirah :) 

Malacca Trip: Day 2

Second day in Malacca: 

Didn't had breakfast at the hotel(because the charge for having breakfast here is too expensive.) Left the hotel room in the afternoon and head down to Klebang to have the popular and famous coconut shake. 

If you're planning to come to Malacca, you have to come down and try it! 

And this is what i had for my late breakfast! Sausage Rolls! 

We spent around an hour at the Dataran Pahlawan and visit the landmarks there.  

The weather was nice and warm so after walking around, we went to the Dahtaran Pahlawan Megamall to shop (my favourite part) all i got was a big black duffel bag, Starbucks and mum got me some clothes but there wasn't that much thing that caught my eyes there except for the bag. 

After spending hours of shopping, we had our dinner at a local seafood restaurant. The service there is so lousy so i wouldn't recommend this to you guys. The food came after an hour of waiting, no forks/spoons, the food isn't that tasty and the service is just a no-no...

This will be the first and last time eating there! Everyone got pissed off with the service and the staffs. To get the pissed feeling off, all of us had durians by the roadside stall before going back to the hotel to rest! 

Today has been a really tiring day, as usual but the sad thing is that....tomorrow is the last day and then back to Singapore(reality) :( I wished holidays would last forever and ever but no. Lol! 

Will try to update tomorrow night if i'm not tired okay? Goodnight xx

Malacca Trip: Day 1

Blogging in my hotel room right now! Hello everyone! I've reached Malacca safely yesterday in the afternoon. I didn't get to sleep last night because i was too excited for this trip. I actually spent time watching two movies before getting up at 3:30am.

Left the house and went to meet up with my other cousins who are going for this trip and we left Singapore in the morning at 6am. The journey from Singapore to Malacca will take around 3 hours but all of us took a longer time because we went to the resting area and had a short rest. 

The hotel that i'm currently staying is...Mahkota Parade Hotel in Malacca. I thought this hotel will be a amazing 4 star hotel because i'm actually staying in a apartment room. What i can say about this hotel is that...THIS IS THE WORST HOTEL I'VE EVER BEEN TO IN MALAYSIA! Why?!

- They made us wait for 2 hours for them to clean up and make the room. 

- The toilet bowl flush is broken. 

- The exterior design of the hotel looks really nice and cozy, but the minute i walk down the corridors of the hotel, it gives me a chill down the spine. 

-YOU HAVE TO GO DOWN TO THE LAUNDRY ROOM TO IRON YOUR CLOTHES. They don't provide ironing boards to your room. 

- Every extra bed that is requested will be charged at $77.70 per DAY! (Can you imagine how much it'll cost?! I might as well get another room.) 

Look at the exterior design of the hotel surroundings.

I won't go further about this hotel. All i can say is that this is not a good hotel to recommend around to your friends. 

Ratings: 2/10 

Nonetheless, we got to explore Malacca today. We had dinner at a local malay rice restaurant. And this is what i ate for my early dinner. 

I was told by my friend that when i come to Malacca, i must try out the Chicken Rice Ball but it isn't halal so obviously i won't try it out! 

We then went for some grocery shopping to stock up food in our room for the next 3 days. We shopped at Parkson and Giant and head off to Jonker Street and Hard Rock Cafe to experience the night life in Malacca. We also got to see the Malacca River Cruise boat and the hotel that is near the sea which is the Casa Del Rio, Malacca. 

Jonker Streets reminds me of Chaktuchak market in Bangkok. I managed to get some accesories for myself before going back to the hotel. 

Basically, thats what i did on my first day here in Malacca. Will update tomorrow xx 

Love, 

Athirah