Majlis Junjung Ziarah

Assalamu'alaikum dan selamat pagi kepada semua yang berada di UK :D
(Peace be upon you and good morning to everybody in the UK :D)

So the next event after the special QC session is the majlis junjung ziarah that took place on the 28th December 2014. To readers who don't know what this is, it's basically an event where the Sultan of Brunei (our king) visits the Bruneian citizens who are currently in the UK. Of course a huge majority of the people coming to the event will be students studying in the UK. If you're one of those lucky enough to get a selfie with the Sultan, good for you! T.T

So the BruneianYork girls decided to stick together throughout the whole event. Citizens were asked to come as early as...9 o'clock? or was earlier? can't remember the exact details but basically the Sultan arrived at around 2 o'clock. We were given lunch of course, and Syukur Alhamdulillah, they're delicious (especially the dessert).

Although we waited a long time, we spent our time catching up with Bruneian friends studying in different universities (Brunei is so small, everyone is related to everyone else, not necessarily by blood but social circles as well).

Picture time!

 

Look at the number of people taking pictures as the royal family walks down the red carpet (not seen in this picture, too short T.T)

 



Look at the number of people surrounding the Sultan! Lucky people who get to stand beside the Sultan! XD

 

Lucky girl who got a chance to take a selfie with the Sultan!

 

 

After tip-toeing for a long time carrying "heavy" equipment, the girls decided to get away from the crowd and chillax. :)

 

 

Even though many photos were taken, most of them appeared blurry due to shaky hands (zoom lenses are heavy and imagine having to hold it high up in the air throughout while tip-toeing T.T). So in the end, we're left with these photos to post only. LOL

 

Anyway, our elections is taking place tomorrow at Hest East, Study Pod 1. The election starts at 2.30pm and may last a maximum of 1hr 30 mins. But please show up and listen to the speech given by the niminees and of course, don't forget to vote! Hope to see you dear members soon! ^3^

 

On that note, this post may be my last post. After the elections, if a there is a new post, without my trademark "XOXO", that means someone has taken over the blog. Anyways, it has been fun all this time, :) writing here about all of our BruYork adventures, although sadly the spring term was really hectic for the committee members up to the point that the blog was left as a ghost blog :(  I apologise for that but hope you'll look forward to our new writer!

 

XOXO

 

 





QC Sleepover

Assalamu'alaikum! :D

Hey! Sorry for the very late post and for being MIA for so long! (4 months! T.T ). We shall continue where we left off. So, after enjoying the end of term event, the girls slept over at Hull Road for a special QC session the next day XD This week is special not only because we had a sleepover, it's also because the QC session lasted till the middle of the night! XD

So the session started off with us watching a movie....a malaysian movie from quite some time ago. Forgot the title ^^' hahahaha! There aren't that many photos during the night as us girls were without our tudung that time. hehe ^-^

The above pictures were taken after watching the movie. The girls were just about to settle down and whatnot. But of course, our beloved RO has something in stored for us before we sleep. The...can't really describe the content...it's not a speech yet it is like a speech...but we'll just stick to speech for now since I don't even know the appropriate word in Malay. lol So the speech was supposed to move us, up to the point of tears. And of course some of us cried, names shall not be disclosed ;) Not really sure if everyone cried. Would love to have interviewed everyone but since the mood was sort of dampened into a time of reflection for us (and I'm not saying that's a bad thing, reflecting upon our mistakes and selfishness part of your journey in becoming a better person :)) .

We slept at 12.30am. We woke up at 6.15am in the morning for sembahyang tahajjud, and of course Subuh as well. Although the initial plan was for us to go back to sleep considering we're supposed to be tired. But of course with the excitement of a sleepover, who gets tired of lack of sleep?! So everyone helped to make breakfast. Breakfast was like a feast! Mwahahahahahahahaha!

These are the delicious food we ate! Yum!

A close up of the pancakes that were made...or is baked the appropriate word for pancakes?

Nora delicately placing the small pancake on top of the tower of pancakes. Yum!

Nisa washing the dishes :)

 

Pancake station :D

 



 

Lots of people gathering around the pancake station. Quite popular

 



 

Hanan and curry!!!

 



 

Pancakes before being flipped

 



 

Slightly burnt-looking pancakes after being flipped. LOL

 



Alas! the final form of the mountain of pancakes!

 

But if you look at it from this view....LOL

 



 

Voila! And then we feast!

 

 

So I'm sure everyone enjoyed themselves that day, t'was fun t'was fun. And sorry for the very late post! But guess it's better than leaving this blog becoming a ghost blog....if there is such a word. HAHAHAHAHAHA! Can't promise when the next post will be, since election is upon us and another person might take over this blog and if that happens, the rest of the 2014/2015 events will no longer be posted....well at least it's highly likely. Bah, nanti lagi (until next time), Insya Allah

 

XOXO



Announcement

Assalamu'alaikum readers,

I've got some bad news for my dear readers, some of you may already know that the secretary's camera is now unfit to take pictures of our events, so just to let everyone know that the next coming posts will have less pictures and pictures are more likely to be taken by a phone's camera.

The second thing that I want to tell everyone is that, the committee members are going to be busy preparing for the upcoming global week since we are participating in the cultural performance (YAY!!). So updates on events that happened from winter holidays and so on will be posted much later. Most probably after global week. So please continue to support us nevertheless!

XOXO

End of Term Event

Assalamu'alaikum everyone!

Today's post is about our most recent BruYork event, which falls on the last day of the term; our Brunei Social Night! Woot! For a small and humble society, it is a bit funny for us to do a social night in Yourspace. HAHAHAHAHA! But at least some of the furniture there helped with the games. HOHO!

So the social night started out with eating dinner brought by our lovely members (thanks guys! *kissus kissus*). Everyone was hungry and since a lot of people were running late, we decided to eat before playing the intro game.

Brunei Social Night just so happened to take place on our treasurer's birthday. So their housemates decided to surprise him with cake for the second time that day. HAHAHAHAHA! Happy Birthday Jason, hope you enjoyed the event as well :)

After that, we carried on as scheduled. The first game was designed by the committee members specifically so that the rest of the members can get to know each other better. So the game was a round of pass the bomb quiz. The piece of newspaper was passed around in circles and if the music stops,  the person holding the newspaper must answer the question or do the task in the newspaper wrap. Twas really fun.

Nora holding the newspaper wrap; the bomb to be passed around

Our VP got the second task

The relaxed face of someone who's out of the (slightly) nerve-wrecking game. HAHAHAHAHA!

Nora freaking out every time she receives the bomb. Lol

The first game ended with the last woman standing being Shereen! Although she too had to answer a question, so not much of a victory but then again the whole point of the game was so that evryone can get to know each other better, so everyone must answer a question :D So the second game is a classic game of musical chairs. It must've been quite a while since any one of us have played that game. LOL. Hopefully this will bring out the nostalgic feeling of attending birthday parties when we were kids. HAHAHAHA! 

Nora and Raihan being paranoid. HAHAHAHA!

The first struggle for chairs!

And Hanan was eliminated during the first round after battling for the seat with Nora. lol

After a few rounds, the birthday boy was eliminated as well. I love how everyone in this picture points to Jason. XD

So our MC's laptop was running out of battery so we used Hanan's phone to play the musci for musical chair and because we don't have a speaker, we had to make a makeshift speaker by placing the phone inside the plastic cup. To ensure that everyone can hear the music, she was placed in the middle of the chairs. HAHAHAHAHA!

We're down to top three, where Nora and Matin battle it out for the chair. Nora survived though

And, as with the many battles Nora have fought so far as shown in many pictures above, she was crowned as the  winner. Congrats Nora!

The third game is a fun game of smarties chopsticks relay race! The most anticipated game among the committee members. Lol. As the name suggests, it's a relay race where players need to move a smartie (is that the right singular version for smarties? HAHAHAHA!) to the next plate, for the next player to move. The smartie will be passed until it reaches its destination (goal). After the smartie is in the goalie, the starter can move another smartie from the bank of smarties and proceed towards thee goalie. At the end of the...was it 5 minutes or was it 10 minutes...the team with the most number of smarties in their goalie wins!

The smarties bank

The two teams. Lol Matin and Jason

Syafi, having a hard time using chopsticks use both hands to hold them

Now Jason's team is in the lead while Syafi struggles with the task

Finally, Syafi was able to move the smartie :D

In the end, Matin's team was able to catch up with Jason's team and managed to win by a difference of 1...I think...HAHAHAHA! But Matin's team for sure won. Lol. It wasn't until having to write up this post that it occurred to me that we forgot to take a group photo like we normally do! At least everyone's faces are in posts, well except for the photographer of course =.= Lol. So that was how we spent our last night of the autumn term. The committee hope that everyone had a great time even though they were just simple games. ^_^