United States of America.

Sebagai suatu komitmen aku untuk menulis di sini dengan lebih intimate, mari aku cerita tentang update perihal kerjaya aku.

I graduated with BBA (Hons) Business Admins Marketing Multimedia back in 2006. I graduated locally. (Multimedia University for the win!)

Both my parents are lawyers, and they graduated from Buckingham University, UK, and ALL my siblings studied (and/or will study) in the UK.

Upon completing my Degree, I was supposed to continue for my Masters in USA but when I was offered to work with Shell Malaysia in April 2007, I thought, what the heck, scrap the MBA.

Why?

It was because the only main reason I wanted to do my MBA was because I wanted to live overseas LOL and that would be just ridiculous.

I managed to convince Daddy to give me that money for other investments instead -___- (Shoes, maybe? LOL)

I told myself (and my parents) that I would join a multinational company and work globally instead.

Daddy gave me 5 years to achieve this, failing so, he would STILL want me to have an international education, to expose me globally.

And that was why I joined Shell.

For it's global opportunities.

And, Alhamdulilah,

Four years down the road, next week to be exact,

I will be leaving to United States to become the Industry Lubs Marketing Manager for USA & Canada.

Alhamdulilah.

I write this because for the past few days I was busy packing my life away, and for the past few weeks, it has been a blur, and somehow, I still can't believe this is happening.

Mixed emotions.

Selamat Datang!

Malam tadi, sedang aku duduk bersahaja depan television menonton kartun Mr Bean yang di pasang oleh Aliff, Bone (bukan nama sebenar) bertanya kepada aku tentang belog ini.

Iya, belog ini.

I didn't think anyone read or even remembers this blog.

Aku lihat history carta pencarian, dan aku tertawa seorang diri.

Kebanyakan link pencarian adalah berdasarkan nama aku, tetapi ada juga yang google "Aziati Father" dan "Aziati Boyfriend".

MMMMKay.

Dan aku lihat history juga, belog ini masih mempunya hit trafik walaupun telah diabaikan selama 4 bulan.

Dan kerana ini lah aku akan kembali menulis di sini.

Cheh.

Padahal tak reti pakai Tumblr, sebab tu nak pakai blogspot balik.

Chehchehcheh.

The Goodbye

Dear Insert-Your-Name,

HELLO EVERYBODY.

Well, if you do come across this blog, congratulations.
You are now entering my life back since 2009-2010.

I do not document everything in this web media, because well, honestly, I'm pretty much a private person. -_-
And with what I document here, I do not mean to harm, offend or hurt anyone.

When you go through of what I write here about my life from 2009 until 2010, do know that these are MY memories, something I can never alter or change, and will remain as MY memories, despite it being here on the web, or in my heart and my head.

And as for the rest of my life (Year 2011 onwards), I guess the story is yet to unfold.
And even if it does, it will not be written here. I will continue writing at > www.aziati.tumblr.com

I love you.

XOXO,
Aziati Wan Haron

I Wrote This For You #12

And I’m sorry if I haven’t written to you in a while.

It’s just that life gets in the way of living.

It’s just that my fingers were stuck together.

It’s just that all the paper in the world caught fire.

You’ll forgive me if I haven’t written in a while.

It’s just that all the envelopes made love to dragonflies and now, we cannot bring them down.

It’s just that time stopped ticking.

It’s just that all the ink ran clear.

It’s just that words ran out of letters (these are the last in the bag).

It’s just that language isn’t perfect.

It’s just, me.

Call To The Bar

Sebentar tadi, seawal pukul 7 pagi, aku ke Kompleks Mahkamah untuk melihat adik aku dinobatkan sebagai seorang peguam.

Apabila Kakak aku membaca the petition for him to be advocated as a lawyer, aku hanya tersenyum kerana obviously my brother had the greatest resume in the courtroom.

Aku bandingkan hujah-hujah yang di baca oleh peguam lain mengenai future lawyers mereka, dan bukan aku ingin menjadi 'bias', tetapi sungguh, Azri beat them all.

Kakak aku menjadi mover Azri kerana Kak Ija juga merupakan seorang lawyer, and what's awesome about today's Long Call adalah kerana kedua ibu bapa aku menjadi 'Master' yang menyarungkan 'Robe' kepada Azri.

Future-future lawyers lain mendapat Masters mereka yang entah siapa-siapa, tetapi adik aku berpriviledged untuk di sarungkan oleh ibu bapa aku, yang juga merupakan practicising lawyers.

On our way back, Daddy turned to me and said, "Out of all my children, you make the best lawyer." And then he added, "You know it's not too late."

And then he added, "Why didn't I force you to be a lawyer...." And started to wonder away.

I know it is very difficult for him to accept that my chosen career path might lead me to move on the other end of the world, and I don't blame him for it.

Me, on the other hand, don't really know what I want.

Let Go.

Setiap kali aku cuba menulis di sini, otak aku jadi tepu.
Blank.
Kosong.

Ia seolah kau cuba menulis di dalam buku nota yang sudah usang, menggunakan pen dakwat basah yang menjengkelkan, the type that will smudge everything as you write.

Then you stopped writing.
Not because you don't have anything to say.
Simply because you just CAN NO LONGER TOLERATE THE SMUDGE.

The World's Highest City

Hello everyone, greetings from Shenzen!

I miss Ayam Kicap.

Win Weekly at Shell

Today is the last day our our Win Weekly at Shell promotion.

I really shouldn't be seen walking around like /with this.

Okay, I promise to stop taking photos with the mock cheque.

-___-

I missed the train today. And you.

Hello from this part of the world.

I Wrote This For You #11

You think you know what you want.

You have a picture in your head.
A pleasant noise in the background.

But what you're really looking at, is a stepping stone.
A point in a time.

Because once that picture becomes real, you can see new things.

A new picture emerges.
A new point. Just a little bit further away.

So you find yourself wanting this new, better picture.

And, there is nothing wrong with this.