Not a Mighty Mind after all.

Assalamualaikum. Hola. Regarding to my last post about me getting braces, let me just tell you that I suffered for the first two days. Still suffering actually. I think I may be over-reacting since the only thing that hurts are the separators and the wire has not been put yet. That's what Chandra told me. But really, I cannot even eat happily. It just hurts. I am being a bit of a baby really. I should stop whining and moaning because I even annoy myself when I do that.
Enough with the introductions. If you earthlings do not know, I joined the Mighty Minds competition in Paradigm Mall on Saturday. It was a disaster, I tell you. Let me just tell you the full story. I shall not mention any names or point any fingers here except for the names of my friends.
It was a beautiful Friday morning, great for learning Mathematics with only half of the class in since the rest are practising for their choral speaking performance in front of the SAEYLS participants at 11. Until Aynn came and called Qistina, Hafizah, and me to the office about the Mighty Minds competition. Yes, I did signed up for that a few months back but I did not receive any news about it until that day. While walking to the office with the rest of the MM competition which was Mitra, Adeebah, Aynn, Hafizah and Qistina, we all found out that the competition was less than 24 hours away. And we only knew. Definitely not ready nor prepared for it. And we were supposed to get the hands-on question TWO WEEKS before the competition so that we can do research and be ready. Here's the hands-on question if you want to know.

We only had one day to prepare. Plus I had to cancel my plans to go to tuition and a PMR seminar which I have already been registered in. /weeps. Btw the hands-on challenge is the second round, the first round being 20 Multiple-Choice Questions about General Knowledge. So skip skip skip did not even get past the first round, with only 10 teams out of 120 teams from schools all over Selangor managing to the second round. My general knowledge sucks. Qistina, Hafizah, and I were reading people's blogs about their experience in the competition the years before and if you are participating in it, I wish you all the best.

Said hi to Vythi and his friends - they were representing Samad. For the first round, they got number 1 out of 60 schools can you believe it. And I heard in the end they got number 2 in Selangor in the competition. It's times like this I feel stupid. I would not be surprised at all if he gets the best results for PMR and SPM in Malaysia in the future. 

To celebrate our loss, with everyone else already going home except for Qistina, Hafizah, Adeebah and me, we ate at Paddington's House of Pancakes. Went to Toys R Us and played with the toys there. Went to a Japanese figurine shop. Went to this shop where they sell cool t-shirts and I bought a tee for Mira with TOP's face and this for myself:

Went to eat, again with Qistina and Hafizah buying Auntie Anne's and Adeebah and me buying ice cream. Then bla bla bla. When I got back home, I was.. reflecting on myself.

What happened to the hardworking me back in standard 6? Am I being too obsessed with K-Pop? I guess the past me would be disgusted if she saw me now. My results could have been better. Then I made a decision. 

I'm quitting K-Pop. 

Sorry, that was my idea of a late April Fools' joke. Of course not. I shall try to lessen my.. obsessions and focus more on my studies. I also looked back about how jealous I am with people from my tuition being able to socialize with people from other schools and make friends. Sometimes I ask myself, why can't I be like them? Going out, having fun. Then I realized this at home.

This is my PMR year. I have no time to make friends. Why should I even bother. Those are not the things that matter. My grades are what matters. 

I should also stop fangirling too much about Korean idols. They are not my life. I would hate to tell my children that all I did in my teenage life was to spazz and idolize people who do not even know who I am. And really, to those who are reading this, please don't waste all your teenage life just tweeting about boys. No, I am not directing this to any specific person. But please, life is much more than that. Wouldn't you be embarrassed to tell people when you're older that you didn't do anything special when you're young except scream and get emotional in front of your laptop/computer screen? I am directing this to myself, Durrah, especially.

With all this, no, I am not hating K-Pop. G-Dragon is still and shall always be the person I would really like to meet one day. I will still listen and be updated to their songs. It's just that I shall control more of my feelings and not have unnecessary emotions that will disturb my focus with my studies. Cause that's all that matters now. 

This is becoming more and more of a motivational talk, really. I am still not done. To those who wants to get skinnier, taller, perfect skin, perfect hair, thigh gap and perfect teeth. Why? Give me perfectly logical reasons why you want them. Let's say you manage to get them all. What then? What will you do? You will want more. Cause we are all human, and we never get satisfied with what we have. So my advice is. Appreciate what you have and stop asking for what you don't have if those things are not important at all in the long run. Having them - will it give you happiness? How? All you are going to get are haters and people jealous of you. Will it secure your future? You might be the victim of un-civilized people from the opposite sex who definitely will take advantage of you. You are beautiful in your way, cause God makes no mistakes.

Song. Hmm. Let's have a motivational one.

With English subtitles in the video. Enjoy. 

Assalamualaikum.

P.S: I'm not asking you to be a robot. Go exercise. Check my Tumblr too mehehe. http://yeogichupda.tumblr.com/