Friends Beyond Expectation

With this recent 5 days break coming to an end, I realized that the friends I made online for the past years are really and truely friends beyond expectation. I spent my break in Kuantan for 2 nights in a friend's house. And this friend is not just any ordinary friend I made from school or a party. She was a friend from cyberspace, and now she's one of my closest and best friend that I love so much.

To start it all off, I made my first online friend from Pahang at the age of fifteen. I remembered the night where I was all by myself, downstairs in the living room, cold and dark , with only the computer screen lighting up straight to my face, and I was chatting away with a stranger from another state, who seemed (and still is) friendly, warm hearted and nice. A stranger he might be, I find him interesting and easy to talk to. His friend suddenly wanted to get to know me, and I somehow knew she can be trusted. That all happened in 2006. Now, almost 5 years later, we're still in contact with each other and have met tonnes of times in "real life". I guess there were two important values to be taken here, to be true of yourself to whoever you're talking to, and be totally honest about it.

I learned a lot from these two people that with truth and honesty, a person can have an everlasting relationship between them. Yes, some might find it hard to believe that the people we meet online can be a lie and a hoax. But when there comes a time the small voice inside your head says that this person is really telling you the truth, you just have to give in and keep the conversation going on until a relationship is born between the two of you. Honesty, to me, however, is a bit risky when it comes to something like this. You might be ashamed of what you might share with the other person, or you might hold back to something you really have the urge to tell. For me, what  I did to those two people was to be myself and develop honesty in that friendship I'm having.

Up to this very moment, I'm really amazed at how technology (Internet, in particular) has changed the way people connect with each other. Just by sharing pictures on Flickr, or even drawings of your favorite Manga character on deviantART, people all across the nation can instantly click with one another and develop a relationship through a common interest. Now I see that even by creating a blog can do so, too. *wink

Retro Rules!

I don't know if it's a weird thing for a girl like me, born in the 90's, that grew up in an all new generation filled with rebellious, ignorant teenagers, founds herself in love with mostly songs from the 80's. I bet none of my friends know who Stevie Wonder, Rod Stewart, and  James Taylor are. As I tell them they're really famous American singers back in the days, they would just give me the shortest response a person could reply when he/her is NOT interested in the topic that you're talking about, a typical "Oh". I'm really shocked and kind of disappointed to know that these famous icons are still not known to some people in my country, as well as others. I understand that kids are most likely to be influenced from their parents interests in music, or anything else like hobbies and the food they would usually go for. As for me, being mixed and having parents that totally dig English songs, I guess I somehow feel lucky because of the exposure I get from them on music that really makes sense in life.

To be quite honest with you, I totally hate songs playing on Lite FM when I was in my teens. I remember I had my Walkman with me in the car one day. I'd turned the volume up so high that whatever song that was on the radio I'd block them out my ears and just concentrate on the Green Day cassette playing on my Walkman. I really don't get why songs from back then, especially ones on love, had such a slow tempo and have cheesy lyrics to it. It just didn't work for me somehow.

All of that changed one day when my dad called me out of my room to watch a documentary tribute to John Lennon's birthday on October 9th. I went down to watch it because I LOVED The Beatles and the fact that I had some curiosity inside me on how he lived and finally died. Throughout the whole program something inside me was changing slowly and it did dramatically when the music video on John Lennon's Imagine came up. I didn't know what it did to me, but right after the show ended I headed straight to my room, opened my diary and started writing on how wonderful John Lennon's ideology of keeping peace and sustaining humanity. Shockingly, that was the night I started tuning to Lite FM, listening to John Denver, Phil Collins, Aretha Franklin and so much more. I realized the lyrics to their song were deep and inspiring to life.

I really have no idea what the future generation would think of John Lennon or any known artist that were once at their top some years back. Honestly if youngsters pick Lady Gaga or Nicki Minaj as an inspiration in their lives, they're missing out on something much better than them, icons that sang lovely tuned songs, giving insights on how genuinely life can be and how precious it is to each of us. I can say that John Lennon changed my views on music, who changed yours?

He's gorgeous *drools

Color Of My Life

Currently, I would say that blue represents the color of my life as it signifies peace, harmony, tranquility and calmness. Life was the other way around when I was in my teens. I struggled a lot with my personality and did not know who I was in school. I had problems getting along with friends and tried hard to fit in. I viewed life in another perspective when I left home for matriculation. I discovered who I was and the potentials I had in me. I then became a more open-minded person and took every problem in a positive way. i made peace with my inner-self and feel comfortable then ever. I could see the brighter side of life instead of worrying over its darker side that will lead me to much stress and finally land me in deep frustration and depression. I feel much happier now and hope that my life will be this way for a long time.

I Want More Of This!

This entry will be mainly about what I had done during the past 4 months when we were on our semester break. I did a lot of things I was dreaming about before I left Kelantan and headed straight back home. One of the things that I managed to do was to spend an entire evening with my family at the Putrajaya park. Since my mom had bought her long awaited camera, Canon's Powershot G-12, she started being "obsessed" taking photos of everything around her, be it in the park, our living room, in the car, and every pretty flower and trees that comes in her way when she's out of the house. Back to the story about my Putrajaya day out, this is my favorite photo among all the shots that my mother took of me.

This is a picture of me doing a "cart-wheel". I haven't done this for a long time. I remember the last time I did this was back in primary school , probably when I am around 9 years old. I would do this everyday in my old house in Bangi and it is one of the things I loved to do as a kid besides playing rollerblades and cycling. I was pretty happy and excited to be able to do this again! It brought back so many memories of me when I was a kid. Right now, I'm looking forward to do some rollerblading again. And I actually found one center that holds a roller skating rink in Subang Jaya. If I'm not mistaken it is called "Disco Roller Skating" at Subang Avenue and I'm planning to go there soon! I might drag along my other siblings with me and just have fun skating with them. I bet they will love it. I know I will =)

An Introduction

This entry will be mainly about me, as most bloggers would usually write about in their first few entries. I am Nasha to most people but I am known as Nash, Caca, and Sha with my closest friends. Born on the 23rd May 1991, I can pretty say that I'm a 90's kid. I grew up listening to the BackStreet Boys and N'SYNC, and watched TV shows like Sesame Street, The Muppet Show and Wimzie's House. I must admit I can still remember a few series from Sesame Street that thought me a lot of rhymes, the alphabet, numbers, colors, and manners. There are times when I'll look up on YouTube some old memorable clips from Sesame Street and reminisce the days of my childhood.

Awwww!!!!They're all adorable.

I love animals particularly the furry ones like cats and hamsters. I adore cats so much I'd pet whichever cat that comes in my way in the streets or in food stalls. My friends would just shake their heads when I'm doing this. Haha. Speaking of cats, I only had one as my first proper pet ever. I called her Bishu and she was my best companion at home. Sadly she lived with us for six years then died of having a kidney problem.

Another thing you should know about me is that I am a music lover. I'm into a wide range of music from various artists. To me, any song is worth listening to as long as it has a good tune to it and puts me in a good mood. My iPod now holds about 1000+ songs downloaded since the very day I bought it and I'm still singing to every song on it. I have major hit songs from the 80's like Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up, George Micheal's Careless Whisper and Billy Joel's For The Longest Time. But the ones that I'm really, really into lately are songs from Coldplay, Adele and remade songs by the Glee Cast.

My 8GB iPod Nano bought since 2007. It still works!

Well, I guess this is all I'm writing about. I'm not used to blogging (YET). Too lazy to go online and deal with the WiFi here in my room. It really puts you off when you cannot get full network coverage! I'll post another entry when I have the time.