Tuesday, 30 April 2013

At random times

Dear Readers,

Time flies, yes I know everyone knows that. We are coming to a mid week of week 2 and April is Leaving us! Guess what, I'm 1 month past 20 years old. I feel damn old. I can see that I'm trying to change the way I do things. Yes a major revamp of Karl. Slowly and slowly. The thing is when you reached 20 years old, you start to think of life more seriously. There goes the time where you go down under the void deck and play soccer, there goes the time you play Maplestory together, there goes the time you making fool out of yourself. Seriously my parents asked me how I feel like turning 20, and I replied that I am starting to think of my life more seriously.

Something interesting happened for the last 2 days. As usual the guys were making a fool of ourself and making so much noise. We barely touch our work. But well for my group we achieved and completed our task well. We planned to do work seriously in the beginning of the day and relax till clock out time. Life has never been easier and carefree. Perhaps. Today we completed our project milestones and the rest of the days were spent talking and knowing each other more. Remember the girls I talked about the last post. Well things will start to change soon. I know her name and slowly we will get to know each other. The guys are rather suspicious of me and there's always a private conversation with different guys each time. I feel like a damn important guy haha. Okay back to the post, father will get discharge from hospital real soon, end of the week and I am really happy. I just come back from visiting him and he had make a awesome recovery. He only left with the food tube as his throat is still not accepting solid food. Time will heals everything I am very sure. I read 100 questions on my sister's blog and I thought I should try so my readers shall know me better. Here we go!


1) Full Name: Khamarul Ariffin Bin Mohamed Hodri

2) Male/Female: Male

3) Were you named after anyone?: I have a unique name.

4) Does your name mean anything?: My name means a smart and brilliant guy.

5) Nick Name(s): Khamarul, Karl, yeunkarl, Ariffin,

6) Who do you think you look like: I told you before i'm unique

7) Date Of Birth: 30th March 1993  

8) Place of Birth and Current Location: Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Red dot

9) Nationality: Sg-rean

10) Astrology Sign: Cancer

11) Chinese Astrology: Monkey

12) Religion: Islam

13) What’s your favourite smell?: Smell of perfume and delicious foods

14) Political Position?: Depends how I see it

15) What do you prefer to drink in the morning?: Cup of Hot Tea

16) Hair + Eye color: Brilliant Black and brownish brown LOLS!

17) Do you look like anyone famous?: Yes, I need to say who?

18) What do you look like?: Imagine someone you never see before

19) Any unusual talents?: I don't know

20) Righty, Lefty, or Ambidextrous?: Righty :D 

21) Gay, Bi, or Straight?: Straight

22) What do you do for a living?: I'm a student learning 3D Interactive Media soon I going to be my own BOSS!

23) What do you do for fun?: I hate games, I will surf the internet for latest news, watching documentaries and listening to KPOP! 

24) What are your favourite art materials to work with?: Pencil, pen, eraser hmmms.

26) Have you met your grandparents?: Yupp of course only 1 of them.

27) Your boyfriend / girlfriend: I'm afraid to get rejected. Do you?

28) Crush: Yupp. It's a secret.

29) What celebrity would you date if you could?: IU!

30) Current worries?: Studies. Future 

31) Favourite online Guy/Girl(s): Lenny! Rose! / Randy! Zahir!

32) Favourite place to be?: Somewhere relaxing and without any worries

33) Least favourite place to be?: I dreaded long queues of anything

34) Do you burn or tan?: I'm quite unique, I can be burn and I can be tan

35) Ever break a bone?: Nope 

36) What is your favourite cereal?: Koko krunch!

37) Person you cry with: I won't cry unless something bad happens, Would you lend me your shoulder if I do? 

Do You Have…


38) Any sisters: Yep 2

39) Any brothers: Yep 2 again

40) Any pets: No. I don't know how to take care of them.

41) An Illness: Probably have in the future, family trend

42) A Pager: My first was a legend nokia the blue colour one

43) A Personal phone line: Yup. 

44) A Cell phone: Personal phone line and cellphone. Is there a difference

45) Visible birthmark: Hmmms

46) A Pool or hot tub: Soon! 

47) A Car:  2 Family Cars.

Describe Your…


48) Personality: I'm quite an outgoing type. I tend to be shy at first but once you know me, you tend to think otherwise. I prefer to text first to know cause I'm a shy type.

49) Driving: 1 year experience already on the road. 

50) Your clothing style: I love traveling t-shirts like ( I Love HK!) etc with jeans, cardigan and shoes

51) Room: Like a museum, we have 50 different bags and 1/2 of the room covered with wardrobe

52) What’s missing: A set of 55 inch tv and a collectible casings

53) School: School have been enjoyable all these while

54) Bed: Sofa bed

55) Relationship with your parent(s): I'm the jewel of the family.

56) Do you believe in yourself: Yes of course, but I tend to give up halfway ( HELP ME)

57) Do you believe in love at first sight?: Yeah, one sided love

58) Consider yourself a good listener: I'm all ears

59) Have a future dream that you would like to share?: To earn 5-6 Digit income and travel the world with my family.
60) Get Along with your parents: Yes

61) Save your e-mail conversations: Nope. It sounds like I am confirming something or finding proof

62) Pray: yes 5 times a day, 7 days a week

63) Believe in reincarnation: Yes. Religion related.

64) Brush your teeth twice a day?: Usually 

65) Like to talk on the phone: I'm okay if you want a heart to heart talk

66) Like to eat?: Who doesn't

67) Like to exercise?: Haha, A bit lazy

68) Like to watch sports?: No!

69) Sing in the car?: No, cant concentrate!

71) Dream in color: Whut? Dream in color? Whhaaaat? :O 

72) Do you have nightmares?: Weekly

73) Sleep with a stuffed animal: Nah

74) Right next to you: My galaxy note II :p 

75) On your favourite coffee cup?: Caramel Macchiato from starbucks!

76) On your mouse pad: I don't use 

77) Favorite flavor of gum?: I hate chewing on it

78) Your brand of deodorant?: I just use whatever is available

79) Your dream honeymoon spot: Haven't think of it.

80) Your dream husband/wife: Beautiful, caring, understanding and always work hard in everything she do.

81) Hiding in your closet: It's very clean

82) Under your bed: Clean too

83) The name of one of your closest/best friends?: Huzyer, Imran, Abdul Rahman, Aizat, Joel, Zahir, Randy, Zihao etc, girls Lenny, Rose, Alicia, Inhyung list goes on and on 

84) Your bad time of the day: 1am-630am

85) Your worst fear(s): Heights, death. 

86) What’s the weather like: Overcast skies

87) Your favorite time of year?: Feb- April, August- October ( HOLIDAYS and WINTER!)

88) Your favorite holiday?: Each holiday is fun in its way, I like Seoul the best! SEOUL DAEBAK!

89) A material weakness?: What is this?

90) The weirdest food or drink that you like: I don't know, I just eat everything I hate sambal belacan! the truth

91) At the top of your “to-do list”?: Save money to pay back loans for handphone, laptop, Save for Umrah 2014 and earn $300 a week very soon.

92) The hardest thing about growing up: Leaving childhood behind. I agree.

93) A pet peeve?: ?

94) Your scariest moment: Near accident

95) Your attitude about love?: I'm in love!

96) The funniest or most desperate thing you’ve done to get the attention of the opposite sex?: Haha. This is interesting. Back in secondary school I approach a Korean girl while listening to a Korean song. Indeed I'm desperate that time. The other one just go to her and say " we wont be seeing each other very soon, can I have you number so we can keep in touch?

97) The worst feeling in the world: Failure, but all failure will result in success

98) The best feeling in the world: When something great happen like, she agree to see me as a guy, passing a damn examination and getting your first SALE!

99) Who sent this to you?: LENNY!

100) 6! people you tag: I won't tag anyone.

Thursday, 25 April 2013

School here we go again

Hello readers, I realised its coming to almost a month since I last update my blog. Initially I told lenny that we will update the blog but then I haven't have the time to update mine. So today since I'm a bit free I shall begin what I've been up to.

Soon after dad got transferred to Bright Vision Hospital. It is situated near Hougang Ave 8, near Lina's and Darilyn's house. Okay he was brought here because he is a strong candidate for rehabilitation. On the day he got transferred, we found the place not up to standard and somewhat quite warm compared back to SGH. Everything was new, the place, nurses, doctors even though they were from SGH. First week I met his first therapist. He is a young and friendly guy. He told me about the current situation and how he planned to help my father to walk again. You are right, he is a walking therapist. Firstly he was given a slow sit up with the help of us. I can see that my father is very keen in quickly recovering as he participate and give his 100% cooperation to the therapist. He is really enjoying his stay there. Very well trained nurses, friendly therapist and more. The truth I spend most of my time taking care of him during my holidays. Lucky my holiday is not being wasted like that. Previously I completed 2 trips to Seoul and Indonesia. Definitely satisfied with the trip but things has to happen for a reason.

Lets fast forward shall we since everything happened back from Indonesia till I begin my attachment in School is the same. Other than my father recovering day by day and spending my time there other than that nothing much. Hope he is able to discharge soon and returned back to his normal life but this time is different. He will retire.

School began for most of us in Polytechnic and it has been the 4th day in school. first week is a bit quite plain and slow moving. Joel, Aaron and I was shifted to the other lab together with Alex,faried,ernest and shaun. At first we thought that its going to be boring since there's only 7 of us in the whole lab. Additional 3 more girls from different courses. First day they got awkward and left the lab for a few hours just because us guys were talking about girls and some boys stuff. What they didn't know that my group project is on Breast Reconstruction. They might have misunderstood us and it has been awkward since. We cant be that awkward till week 21, surely they'll understand us soon. Out of the 3 there's only 1 who is pretty. Aaron and I were like stealing glances at her everytime, maybe we have fallen for her? But the thing is two of us is of the same kind. We are shy and doesn't like to talk that much. So how? I also don't know of the outcome. Maybe soon we will get to know more about her.

For my business updates before school begin I told zef to purchase this program name traffic robo. The program is said to convert a text like this blogpost into pdf,movie,mp3 and ppt. What we don't like is that the upsells have what we needed and that cost way more. We are really sceptical for now. I purchase another software name Instant traffic app. It is a wordpress plugin that help you to generate content and auto drive traffic to your blog. Sounds good. But to our disappointment like other affiliates, waiting for that $1 to come in to our sales seems like taking forever. But I'm very sure we can get to there soon. I'm already putting aside a few hours back from the hospital to dedicate myself to this business. Okay I'm done for now see you in the next post.

Sunday, 31 March 2013

My 20th birthday wishes

So hey guys. I hope you guys had enjoyed by blog post so far.  I know it's long and with a bad English but who cares. Its my blog and I have the full authority to however I want to write it.

Okay back to the topic. Yesterday and 30th March I celebrated my 20th birthday. No longer a teenager.  Time fly so fast. I give you a bit of information about me. I was born in Mount Elizabeth hospital on 30th March 1993 approximately around 10am. Thats so far I know.

This year so far has been a good and bad year. Many unexpected things happened.  Everything happens for a reason. Anyway last year wishew came true after about a few weeks.

This year my wish is to start earning passive income online.

Many people have turn to online for their retirement plans. Many has succeeded and many others fail. I have tried this since last year but have not really but my heart and mind to it. So I really hope to give this a big success.

The thing I want to be an entrepreneur is that as to fulfill one of my father's wish to have at lesst one of the son into business. I have talked to him about this and he gave me 100% support. Since he is being hospitalized the total amount of hospital bills will setback for our family and if mum is not working. The after service car will mount up to a few thousands too. I think we can't live like previously. Finance is always an issue for everyone.That's why as being the youngest child, I hope to be a good son and take care my parents and give them wealth and luxury as to repay them the good life they have given me. Oh Allah, please help me and guide me to right path.

If all goes well in 3 years time I'll see myself and my family migrating to a bigger house and enjoy vacation all year round. My plans is to donate part of it for Mosque rebuilding and charity to orphanage.  May Allah grant my 20th wishes. Insyallah.

Friday, 29 March 2013

Part ll

Continuing from my first post about March adventure. Today I will writing about my Indonesia trip. A little background of the trip, we travel a total of 17 people. Places we visited includes Jakarta, puncak and Bandung.

SIN-BDO-JKT (Day 1)

Wake up at 5 and we are ready to leave. Well it was a short holiday and I didnt pack much. Little did I expect that I can buy so many stuff there.  Lets proceed. The taxi uncle was driving at 110km/hr. It was so scary and we arrived on time. Checked in our baggage and we met uncle and aunt. The first trip it was all the middle age including me and granny. There was drama because one of my aunt has her name wrongly printed so they need to do some ammendments.

We boarded the A319 Silkair plane and was greeted warmly by the stewardess. The plane took off at 830am and was due to land at 900am Indonesia time. It was a rough ride I can say the least that I expect from any Airline. The formation of clouds in the sky was splendid. Imagine looking at the sky from the cockpit, what a view anyone could ask for. Soon after 1hour we are greeted by rows and thousands of atap houses. As soon as I saw that I knew that the airport would be at the center of the town. I was right! I did my research beforehand to see what I would expect. Landed at Bandung husein sasteranegara bandara, it was a rough landing. The whole cabin was shaking and the pilot make an emergency brake. Why on earth he do that. Next come the moment of truth. I was so shocked to see the airport. It was small and the pick up baggage is beside the immigration. 

We were greeted by our driver, hary. He is a young guy with those Indonesian complexion. He was very friendly and welcome us warmly. We got on his 12 seater van and was due to travel 150km to Jakarta. We ate at some Padang restaurant at the expressway and continued our journey to Jakarta. Soon after 1/2 past 12 we arrived at Mangga Dua, Jakarta. To tell you the truth it was my first time visiting Jakarta. The least I ever visited was Batam. The place and atmosphere looks exactly the same as Batam. The place where we will be staying is Rumah Shinta, located along Mangga Dua street. Fast forward to dinner. We visited a beachside restaurant and has a sumptuous meal of seafood. It cost about 1 million! Rupiah. We got back and rest early because the shop there closes at 5pm. That night I was due to meet Randy my old classmate from secondary school. After O level we never saw each other. I was supposed to be first one to meet him but then a turn of event. He couldn't make it for our meeting because of his aunt. Oh what a night. Both was disappointed and he was disappointed more than me. But when the  time comes we will sure meet again.

JKT-PNK (Day 2)

Woke up early in the morning as we will be going to Puncak. It is a 3hrs drive from Jakarta. We shopped at mangga dua mall abit before continuing our journey. We arrived puncak at 1pm local time. Upon arriving we went for lunch at kerinduan Alam(Missing nature).it was about few hundred metres about sea level.  It was the most delicious lunch I had so far and we eat at a Sundanese Restaurant. After that we went to find our hotel. It turned out to be a villa. A huge villa with 12 rooms, a pool and a soccer field of its own. The temperature there is about 24 degrees Celsius.  What I like about this is that even though its sunny the temperature is cooling. Rested for the rest of the evening.

PCK-SBG-BDO (Day 3)

The next day we are going to visit aunt's helper house at subang. Driving time takes about 3 hours and from there to the house it takes about 1 hour. It was really sad to see the standard of life here. The atmosphere was fresh as it is a new experience for me. Vast area of padi fields, coconut trees, rambutan, banana etc. As usual it is very humid here but its good climate to harvest the plantation.
Finally after hours of rounding we arrived at the house. It was so far and deep inside. Without their help, we wouldn't reach the house. We were greeted warmly by them. They prepared food dessert for us. If you have the chance to see, you would have been much more grateful what you have now. They don't have most of what we have. After chatting and eat our lunch we left back for Bandung.

We are going to meet the 2nd group the rest of the 6 people back at the hotel. It was a damn long ride. From 4pm till 8pm. By body ache and neck pain. Upon reaching the Harris Hotel I was so surprised. The hotel is really good with linking shopping mall just under the hotel. Had a sumptuous dinner at the food court and went to watch movie at cinema.  Now this is where it all happens.

DAY 4

Awoken by a serious series of headache and diarrhoea.  I was the first one to get sick on this trip. It was really sad and tiring. All I could do was eat medicine and drank lots of water. Every time the bus stop I rushed to the toilet. Finally decided to go to clinic. They gave me a jab to ease the dizziness. Then rested the whole day in the van. They visited tangkuban perahu air panas, kampung daun, strawberry farm etc. All I could do was sit and watch from the van. I got to go into the tangkuban perahu air panas.  Legend said that the water here can cure any illness. The water is at 30 and 45 degrees respectively.  It was like onsen in Japan, really nice. Wish you were here. Arrived at hotel at night. From tomorrow more dramas.

Day 5

My father was infected by me and he got the diarrhoea and vomiting too. But he got worse. He almost got hospitalised there. Then more and more people got infected.  I rested for the whole day inside the room whike others enjoy their shopping.  At night I just gk for the laid dinner barbeque. It was not as good as I expected but definitely I need something to fill my stomach.

Day 6

I brave myself to fight the disease. Went over to shopped at pasar baru. I bought 5 t shirts and a new balance shoes. The thing about new balance shoes is that I wanted to get a pair in korea but the price was tok expensive.  Then we went over to rumah mode, paris van java and back to the hotel. Nothing much to do

Day 7 last day
BDO-SIN

After breakfast in the morning I went to lottemart to shopped abit then back to the hotel room. Didnt get to get a haircut,  buy teh botol etc. Really disappointed. In the end I ky manage to buy sunglasses. Father was using the wheelchair by now. We arrived at the airport at 230 and was set to depart to Singapore by 430. I was in charged of taking care of father till we reached Singapore.  I got a special lane to board the airplane first. No need to go the long way. Just go by the staff way and boarded the plane. Took off at approximately 430pm and for the first time I am happy to go back to get my treatment at the doctor. The food served on the plane is not as nice but to fill our stomach. Beautiful landing at changi airport around 7pm. The view from my seat can see the whole view of Singapore city with the sunset effect. Very nice didnt get to capture the photo. Arrived and we separated our ways back home. Enjoyed our time and I cant wait to receive my krisflyer card soon. Such a long post. Anyway leaving for now. I spend 1 hour waiting at the hospital writing this blog. Take care and happy easter.

Tuesday, 26 March 2013

What i've been up to?

Dear readers! Its has been nearly 2 weeks. Hope everyone is In their best Health. Well I going to split the post into 2 parts. 1st part: What I have been up to and 2nd part: My Indonesia trip. Here we go....

Anyway 3 days before our flight to Bandung I have decided to get myself a brand new laptop. Well you know the old one has kind of served its purpose for full 3 year. I can't imagine, 3 years passed really quickly. I remembered that time brother and I bought it at IT fair in March and now it is March 2013. I bought Acer Aspire V5 Touch 15,6 inch. It was an early birthday present I guess but it is split into 5 since I got 5 siblings including myself. Its quite a steal and definitely worth the price. One good thing is the screen is huge 15.6 inch. First time I'm using a large screen laptop and furthermore it has a TOUCH function, like a tablet I can say. All ready and packed. Watching Running man is such a nice experience. MacBook Air with retina display would be better but then it is out of my budget.

One day before flying off, I met with Kevin and Weesin at Airport for a short catch up and to pass Weesin his Kang Gary Newera Cap that I bought in Jamsil,Seoul. It was a short catch up but definitely we need more time like this. Weesin told me he like the coffee here because of the casher. When I look ohh no wonder!, she's quite pretty. The funny part was when we wanted to order drinks, first I choose Javachips Mocca then weesin and Kevin choose the same so i choose Green Tea Latte, the girl laugh looking at our childish behaviour. Seriously guys we are near 20! Nothing much happened just that we disturbed weesin in asking the cashier for a talk haha, we all shy so nothing happens.

Oh yes Before I forgot the week before I fly off my sisters and I went to Universal Studios Singapore(USS) on a Sunday. Pictures will be upload later of the post. So it was our first time visiting there since it opened few years ago. What a thing. But definitely nice. So many Indonesians, Japanese, Chinese visitors. The ride was awesome. Actually I wasn't a big fan of roller coaster and scary rides but today I beat that! I took few of the rides but not full, 1/2 a day wasn't enough. We spent time on food, Goldilocks etc. The meal and price was a ripped off you know those place where tourist visit always a ripped off to us local. First ride we took was Madagascar banana boat. Its those rides where they bring into dark place and characters will start shooting you with water. Haha it was definitely fun. Then we went into the magical castle of Shrek. A 4D cinematic experience. Not much of the special effects but definitely will thrill first timers. We proceed to Canopy flyer, a high speed roller coaster. At first I was scared then I saw this grandpa, then I told myself if he can do it, I can do it too, better? Then it was the moment of truth... the last check and we are ready to go... Up those scary slow track and a sudden pause, the followed by a acceleration and spinning. Woah once I reached back my hair was like just past a typhoon and my face like I strike gold haha, it was that awesome. Next we queued for Pyramid, we didn't go for Jurrasic Park because it is a wet ride. We gave up on Pyramid as they have some technical difficulties. I was passionate for another round of roller coaster so we went for a ride at Transformer. Everyone when visit USS always say Transformer is definitely a ride you cannot miss. So being a typical Local, the queue was indeed long but it was moving so it was okay. Upon reaching we are given a special 3D glasses to enjoy the ride. The ride is really cool. Its like a vehicle but the show and effects and a bit of movement make it really realistic. It was definitely a recommended ride for those who want to visit USS. Then we went over to Steven Spielberg studio. To our surprised we really got so wet. So the MC was saying that 2nd and 3rd row has a surprise and row 1 which we were a bigger surprised. The biggest surprise is that the boat drop into the pool of water and bam! all of us got wet, damn those sneaky surprises by MC never believe them! Then we head over to Sesame Street where brother just finishes the projects there. He said that it is a thrill rides but for kids? the theme is Elmo preventing the world from spaghetti meatballs attack. It was so fun and hilarious. didn't get to enjoy the other rides but will come back for more. So we ended the day with Musical Show at 840pm and meet mummy back home. It was okay. I actually felt like a tourist in my own country. Definitely fun and enjoyable.

I guess this time the holiday is really enjoyable, 2 trips in 1 month. Okay next, let me talk to you about what I've been really up to. Well you know the new galaxy S4 that is recently released? I think the S4 not so much difference than the galaxy s3 and Note 2. It has a 5 inch screen with 13MP camera and 5 mp front camera. One good thing I like about the new features is the S Translator. its really cool! Every tourist definitely need that. Now I feel like getting my hands on galaxy S4. I just need to wait for few weeks to months for it to launch at our shore. Not really excited but well since Samsung is releasing a new product, as a fan I will support. Okay moment of truth! my results are out. Guess what? I passed everything yeah everything. I though I going to fail ASP.Net but then I passed. Cheryl whatsapp me straight when I was in Bandung, Indonesia. She asked me to check if I pass my ASP.Net at that moment I really don't care. Being on a holiday mood I just open and check it, I passed! Wohoooo. You know we actually said that if we fail this lets do it together and go to the same class! But both pass. Sigh of relief. The CGPA and GPA both increase luckily. It was a difficult semester but really worth the trip for a distress session. You know I just love writing long post and I going to continue still.  Okay now is the real deal. at Bandung we travelled 17 people and 7 people got diarrhoea, I'm the king cause I was the first to hit. As for my father I really pitied him, he got infected by me and was even hospitalised. Now he is on his 9th day at SGH, last week he had a major operation to remove his blood clot. Little did we know that cabin pressure make it worse, if not I would have extended my stay in Indonesia for another week or two. Since his major operation, I was full time at hospital with mum.

We arrived early around 10am and go back at 10pm. ICU you can come anytime 24hrs because it is Intensive Care Unit. His diarrhoea trigger the stroke and he need to go major operation. For once I thought if I didn't get diarrhoea nothing like this would have happen and I just wish all the best. I was really scared if he don't make it. But I know, he is very determined to get back on his two feet as the breadwinner of the family. Good news is that today doctor said that tomorrow he will be transferred to a normal ward. That means he is going to go home soon! Yay! I'm so happy and yet sad. Firstly this holiday I can't work because I need to take care of him till my holidays are over. One thing I wish for that the business really start kicking in very soon. Okay since its 26th March, you know I am 4 days away from my 20th. As a start in welcoming to my 20s I have prepared something for myself. I not sure what I will be doing on my birthday though, cause I will be at the hospital looking after my father. Well all the best for me!. The next post is going to be my Indonesia Trip. Please look forward to it. Thank you!