Boom and clap and everything's wonderful.

Look everyone, it's 2016!

*cue an extremely late firework celebration*

Do forgive me, I have been busy these last few weeks. With ending my customer service assistant job in MPH, constantly visiting our new house to observe the renovation works, entertaining my dad when he has his week-long holiday and going to gym almost every weekday, my life had been awesomely full and satisfying.

2015. Honestly, I've never thought I will survive the year and still standing tall as a whole person with healthy body and mind and emotions. I thought 2014 was a challenge, but good ol' 15 had been more challenging than I've ever expected.

Let's see. I started 2015 with my emotions wrecked, and it was my final exam week. Urgh. So typically tertiary education life. Christmas and New Year with brain explosions with all the algebraic terms, nonsensical equations and formulas that cease to exist the moment the papers end.

Also, around this time, I was so obsessed with genuine Polaroid cameras because I was crazy about analogue cameras. I mean, c'mon. Actual Polaroid cameras, people. The very concept Instax cameras were based on. The originals!  hOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE POLAROIDS?!

Ahem.

I also developed my first film roll from my Smena 8M. I can still feel the anticipation and that sense of accomplishment when I held all of the developed pictures in my own hand. I need to shoot more on film this year. Refreshing all the lessons of composing the perfect settings for a perfect picture. Can you smell the challenge already? :D

While we're on the topic, 2015 witnessed how people unbelievably (as I still have a hard time believing this) trusted my miniature photographic skills enough to ask me to be their dinner photographer. Two, separate-events dinner, I might add. It was an unbelievable journey for me and I still have much much much to learn, but God, the experience was priceless and I'm grateful for every chance they had given and entrusted me with.

Oh and let's not forget how obsessed I was (and still am, honestly) with Taylor Swift's 1989 album, I practically thought that Tay helped me to create a Horcrux for me. It was brilliant and pretty much a masterpiece. And until this day, I can't and won't get over this album. And also, I'm still hung up over the fact that her 1989 World Tour didn't make it to Malaysia. If it did, I swear, you'll find me screaming rather than singing to her 1989 songs cuz I'm addicted liddat.

2015 was also the year I started to read rather excessively, due to me, discovering this God-sent app on my iPhone called iBook. Trust me, this app is the one of the main reason why I spent so many hours with my nose stuck on my phone's screen, trying to devour every word there is. Which later, sparked my interest to work in a freaking bookstore, and I recalled what one of my dearest friends said when I told her about my new job:

"(....) surrounded by the stuff you love."

Also, it is the reason why I've gotten unhealthily obsessed with contemporary poetry (Lang Leav, Micheal Faudet, pleasefindthis anybody?), the Lorien Legacies series and the Shadowhunter chronicles (i.e. The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices, The Bane Chronicles, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy and coming up this March, a new series called The Dark Artifices).

See? I told you. Unhealthy. And please don't get into my Harry Potter issue. It is universally known how much of a hardcore Potterhead I am, so yea.

Discovered my very own Dauntless crowd by joining the Peer Helpers' 2015 Prolead event. Honestly, I joined this organization to get rid of my social anxiety problem. And helped me with it this organization had been. Besides that, while we're on the same note, I've been slightly vocal about certain issues and voicing out my some opinion of mine and for me, it was a mighty leap. I have learnt on how not to care about other people's feeling when they didn't bother with mine. How to stand tall and confident. Even I am currently still trying to apply all those in my real life, I've never felt better.

And of course, the highlight of the year goes to my Australasia trip while visiting my baby brother who's still studying in Queenstown, New Zealand. Do read about the journey by clicking this Australasia'15 label. I promise you, I'm still sharpening my scenery-photography skills. But here's one for you awesome poeple:

In a tiny little nutshell, 2015 had been an adventurous and challenging year for me. It tested my limits as a person, my strength, my ability to stand strong and not let people see how helplessly depressed it felt. To be frank, 2015 was when I learn what the real world tasted like. But one thing's for sure, it doesn't matter how bad the situation is, what actually that counts are 1) how optimistic you need to be about the outcome, and 2) who's there to be with you and help you to figure your way out.

According to my planning, 2016 is going to be even more challenging. But hey, life's unexpectedly short, so let's do this, shall we? Let's live our lives to the fullest and never giving away any chances to regret. Insya-Allah. Here's to a brand new year :)

*clinks glass*