Aisyah Marrisa Effendy

Few years ago, when I was in Bayswater, in the city of Westminster, it always felt like I was at home. Many people from home who’ve been there may know the reason why Bayswater feels like home. Bayswater is a town where many Malaysians, precisely, Malaysian students are familiar with. It’s where our Education Malaysia London, also popularly known as Malaysian Hall, located at. Many Malaysian students reside in Bayswater too. There’s even a student accommodation under MARA nearby. There are lots of restaurants there, that offer Malaysian cuisines too, hence the reason why there are many Malaysians in Bayswater. There is a high possibility for you to find at least a Malaysian in that town, at any time of the year. I don’t really remember exactly when this was, maybe during winter 2017 or maybe around spring 2018. We just got back from our trip, either from Germany-Austria trip or Paris trip. Me and my Malaysian friends went for a late night stroll around Bayswater for a breather while at...

Few years ago, there was one time when Zico, Ferron and I just left Tukdin (a Malaysian restaurant in London) and had a walk around London for sightviewing. We were all from different nationalities and knew quite a few simple phrases of other languages. When we were casually strolling along a street, there were only us and a man walking in front of us. Being the usual us, we spoke and messed around with each other using multiple languages at a time. Most of the time, the languages we used were English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Thai, Malay, Korean, Japanese, Spanish. We were talking quite loud at that time. I remember us saying "sumimasen". To our surprise, the man who walked in front of us suddenly turned around facing us, with a face saying, "yes?". It turned out the man was a Japanese guy! He heard us clearly saying "sumimasen" and thought that we were actually trying to talk to him! We were all very surprised and we said sorry multiple times to the man for ...

Salam and hi everyone. First of all, sorry for being on a hiatus for so long. Today, I just feel like sharing my opinion on something that has forever been debated on all social media platforms. This is going to be rather long so move on to another page if you’re feeling lazy to read  hehe. So here’s my take on:-   “ Is it the women’s or men’s fault for rape to happen ?” My answer? Both should take precautionary steps.  But hold uppppp! My justification isn’t something similar to other people’s - this is based on my personal observations and readings on many people’s reasonings. And of course, this is only my opinion, from my own perspective. Feel free to agree or disagree for we don’t always share the same perspective. :) I hope if you’re reading this, you can try to view this issue from a different angle. Okayyyy, enough with my babblings- My take on this is with religious views being put aside. It is purely from my own logical thinkings. However, this isn’t to say that...

I dedicate this writing to my dearest juniors in KMS, batch 15/17 both A-Levels and IB Imperials. :) We have always been given a choice. Have you tasted failure? Well, everybody experiences failure at least once in their lifetime. Question is, what is our decision afterwards? Worrying about it over and over again wouldn’t bring us anywhere. Yes, it’s devastating. No one said it was easy, but everyone kept on saying it was hard and difficult. Now, that’s the problem. Saying something is difficult often is not healthy. “Why did I choose to do A-Levels? Why did I choose to do IB?” Past is past. Decision has been made. You were forced to take SPM but most probably you weren’t forced to go to KMS. You knew that it was going to be hard but that’s your choice, right? We signed up for this! Always be optimistic in everything that you do because positivity leads to healthy mind and soul. You can’t work with a weak mind. It’s our choice to go to KMS, so we must defend ourselves and ...

Salam and hey everyone! So I'm back. I know it's been awhile since my last posting. I was literally busy preparing myself, all the important stuffs for my departure to the UK. I promised myself to write a post before flying off to UK but I failed to do so. I was too busy even at the very last minutes. So here I am, writing this while eating Maggi Tom Yam in my room at Brunel University London. I've been here for two days now, safely landed at Heathrow Airport on the 14th of September 2016, 0710 hours UK time GMT +1 (daylight saving). I flew here together with a friend of mine from KMS who's going to further his studies in Oxford Brookes. We took off from Malaysia on the 13th of September, 2055 hours Malaysia time GMT +8 and had our transit at Suvarnabhumi Airport Bangkok. We were there for three hours and then directly flew to London at 0110 hours Thailand's time GMT +7.  We had our transit at Bangkok because we took Thai Airways. The flight to Bangkok w...

Salam and hey everyone (still having the same doubts) So as I promised, this post is specially written for those who want to know more about Kolej MARA Seremban (KMS) and what it has to offer. So let’s begin, eyh? Kolej MARA Seremban is located at the middle of Seremban City where you can easily catch any taxis in this area (by phoning them lah ). You do not have to worry about transportation. KMS is only 5 minutes ride away from KTM Station and roughly 10 minutes ride away from Terminal 1 (by taxi/car). It is also near to shopping malls, playgrounds, parks, jogging tracks surrounding lakes, hospitals/clinics and etc. If you're dead bored during leisure time, you can go anywhere you want though I might have to remind you that in KMS, we have curfews. It has been tighten than the previous years though. You can go out everyday but strictly between 5pm - 7pm only for weekdays (exclude Friday). You can also go back home every weekend and be back by 7pm on Sunday but carefu...

Salam and hey everyone (though I doubt that nobody's going to read my post) Well, it just happens that I suddenly decide to blog back. It feels different from the past years where I used to blog every single time. For those who do not know, I used to blog twice where I quit both time right after. I think the last time I wrote was after SPM I guess? I sure had a lot of things to share with everyone back then but then I got too many commitments and the blog was left...... terbengkalai . Well that was what happened. People might have been guessing (or not lol) the reasons I'm back now after those years. Well, I think that I have a lot to share to everyone and I am kind of regretting for not sharing anything these past three years (note that I was a 2013 SPM leaver) especially during my years in Kolej MARA Seremban. Yup I have just finished my studies in KMS and I'm going to share a little bit of my experiences in KMS in another post, specially designated for those mo...