UK Family Trip 2016-What happen.

Hiiiii.
This is Nik coming in.

This post will not be about tips and me putting all the infos that I want to share about my trip but it will be more about story telling time.

At the beginning of this year, my sister said that she will be having a graduation ceremony in London and hoping that all of us can attend and also at the same time have our family trip.

Seriously, we start talking about this since January or last year. Im not sure.

We sort out everything and came up with a rough budget on how much will it cost each person.
I was the one who calculated every single thing.

How much will it cost if there's 13 people (this is all of us) then
how much will it cost if there only 9 people, 8 people and finally 7 people.

Only 7 of us end up going.
due to budget.

eventhough it will be merrier if all us went but some other things are way more important than travelling 10 000km away from home.

After finalizing on how many people are going, we bought the flight ticket and then we start to plan our route from there.

IT IS NOT EASY.

It is not easy NOT because it is hard to go around in the UK ,
it is more to making sure that we have proper place to pray, enough time to rest and my parents will not get tired.

Ouh yeah. The people who went to the UK are my parents, my sisters, two of my teenagers cousin and I.

Whenever we move, or where ever went, we always think about.
What if mama gets tired. What if papa got sick. Where can we perform our prayer comfortably and so on.

I will be sharing my schedule later in another post.
For now, lets look on the bright and fun side.

We went to the UK to attend my sisters' graduation and went to the cities other than London because we never done that before.
Many have said that, going outside of London is better than staying inside London.

I personally still thinks that I like London, I dont why. But I have to admit it is much calmer going outside of London. Less traffic, less crowded.

In 2014, I went to London, when I got back, I had a chit chat with my lecturer who has British citizenship. I said to him.
"I dont understand why my parents like taking the bus than the train"
then he replied
" It is better!"
and I said, "No, its not. Its so slow"

Now, its 2016. I am two years older and matured. hahaha
I have to say taking the bus is better than the train.

If you really just wanna relax the bus is the best.
You dont actually have to change bus unlike train where you have change according to the "line" that you have to take if necessary.

It takes us 45 min to arrive to my sister's graduation hall by bus but only 18 mins if we took the train. but we have to change it.
We dont feel like the bus ride was 45mins at all. because we are busy looking around. Rest and relax.

So if you are tourist and you wanna relax OR you have older people that cannot run here and there as much as a young person can, I SUGGEST YOU TAKE THE BUS.

I have changed so many of my perception towards UK. The people and the place. You cannot judge UK just by ONE visit. It changes every time you go.

At the end of the day, I still love Malaysia but still wanna go to UK. Insya Allah. I can and I will.
Well, sapa je taknak travel kan.

This is Nik Camelia Al Haded , I am not done shopping.
Over and out.

 

p.s I make UK vlog. If you want to have a look at it, you can search for my name "Nik Camelia Al Haded" at Youtube.

Squash: Maybe one last time?

This is Nik. coming in. over.

Squash has been a big part of my student life. 

I played for 4 years in high school, entire matriculation year and degree years. 

There are lots of bittersweet moment. The best part was making new friends.

Winning second place in one of the sirkit tournament was surprising and funny. Rezeki. lepas tu tak merasa terus.

I got the chance to participate in the most probably my last squash tournament in September 2016.

It was held in Melaka. my hometown.

I was excited to welcome the team to my hometown.

Since the schedule was packed, and there were 26 of us (UPM Squash Team), so we have to spend almost the entire day at the court in Stadium Hang Jebat coz everyone have different time to play. 

The things that I was able to bring them to experience and try was the famous cheese naan @ Pak Putra, then the traffic-jem-cause Coconut shake and a 30-minutes photoshoot @ Klebang Beach. 

So here are the pictures taken.

 

From left: Gurshan (national player), Farhan (national player), Nik (cute player), Kupu (Bintulu player) and Nik (cute player).

dah malas la nak namakan sorang2.

new friends. new friends. can? hmmmmm

adik adik Kolej-11 aka roomate @ Hotel. Adik2, after this, turun training selalu ye.

 

boleh tunggu orang senyum leklok dulu tak. haih..

The tallest. duh.

 

The loud girls. super-loud.

 

One with the manager.

 

 

because #dab is trending. 

 

failed. I failed.

 

One descent team photo.

 

New frienddddssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.

The left one is the champion. The right one is my opponent. A very friendly girl.  

one thing common about these two girls is their HEIGHT. iDongak. iPasrah. iTerima.

Emiiiii. Hmmmm. Met him ever since high school's tournament and we became friends when we met again in the IPT tournament. A talkative young man.

and lastly.
hmmm. iCry
These three.
hmmm

They have been the ultimate best friends throughout my 4 years in UPM. Ying and I trained so hard when we were 1st year. Iqmal and Jiha were so passionate. They trained together with me even there were time when we have to borrow car from other people and went all the way to Putrajaya at night.

Jiha has the bigger picture because obviously she is the one who was very helpful and I improved my skills mostly because of her. Jiha has the most patience since she has to deal with my ultimate laziness running in the court. Iqmal is a just a good damn annoying friend. That basically summarize everything.

I cannot thank these people enough. All the memories. damn feels.

hmmm
The end. iKenot handle the emotions.
iKenot move on.
iSad.


This is Nik Camelia Al Haded, over and out.

p.s: I never thought this day will come. waaaaaa.