Redha's Journal

      Hello. Hi. How're things?     Winter. As titled. A shitty weather for the end of the year and the start of next year. Been in a place where only seasons are climactic season which means either it's hot or rainy days. That's all. Now I'm in a place where there are four seasons, and I hate winter the most. Spring was the best 2 weeks season of the year. Then, came Summer, the warmest season of the year and Autumn, the rainiest season of them all. Now it's Winter the coldest, wettest, most windy and miserable season. It was too cold for my skin. Had to wear layers and layers of clothes. Weather's unpredictable. Could be raining, could be sunny, could be gloomy. Nobody knows. Even weather forecast sometimes get it wrong.     Our house is cold during the Winter. Like supercold. This is the first time we had to live through winter by ourselves so nobody gives us any tips or what to do all sorts. So due to our house is using an old heating system which is using t

    Hello. Welcome to my humble blog/journal. Today's topic is about hobby (as titled). Some people might have a hobby of playing sports, either badminton or hockey or rugby, anything. Some people might like reading books. Some people might have a hobby of baking. Yes that's a hobby as well. Mine are reading comics (as you all know), playing games and collecting GUNPLA (gundam plastic model). Previously I've collected a lot of Gundam before. From High Grade to Master Grade scale. Back in Malaysia, Gundam is not that expensive. RM30 to RM40 for a HG Gundam. In Ireland, I looked up on Amazon, it cost around 30EUR to 50EUR for HG Gundam. Converting the prices, it cost around RM150 for a HG Gundam. That doesn't make sense. So I stopped buying Gundams.     But then over here, new comic books cost around 15EUR to 20EUR each. I started buying comic books. Started to read them. It's the little thing flicking through the book and finishing them that makes me like comic books

      Hi all. Welcome to my blog/journal. I wrote stuff that is "deep" and meaningful for me in this blog (and maybe sometimes bullshit stuff). Anyway, today's post is about... let me tell you what's been happening in my days and nights.     My wife is a TikTok user. She doesn't make much videos on TikTok. She uses the app to watch videos which usually consists of meme videos, cat videos, travelling, and some snippets of tv series or movies. She's been watching the snippets of The Walking Dead. Suddenly, she asked me if I have ever watch the show. If I ever watched The Walking Dead? Me? Finally, I can bring her to my world. To my childhood. (Yes, the shows aired when I was 13 or 14 years old.) This show was the show I grew up loving. Years back, there's no Netflix stream service, there's no Disney Hotstar, no Amazon Prime Video. I watched the show by waiting every in front of my tv through AXN channel. The first season made me fell in love with the sho

    Hello. This post. This is the post that I'm going to share to you something about me. Something that is considered to my friends that defines me. Something that some of my friend took/take on as a challenge or as a guidance. It's something that I never know I had and it was pointed out by one of my dearest friend, Hafidz (Pak Din).     I am what people call a risk taker, sometimes. I hate being in a rut. I hate constant feeling of just there, not moving anywhere. I'm always think of what's next. For an example, when I was 22 years of age (2019), nearly finished my degree, I think to myself, "Okay after getting my bachelor's degree, what's next?" Got a internship at Silterra. Nearly finished my internship, "What's next?" Got a permanent job, same place. "Okay then, what's next?" Got married. After that, supposedly, the plan was to furnished my rental house and make it liveable. Then, buy a house somewhere in Kulim or my h

     Hello.     This post is mainly about my feeling. This is not a normal post where I post things that came to my mind and write this post blindly. This post is about me having a slight depressed moment. A few days back, exactly like two weeks back, my parents came to Ireland. I was so happy that they decided to come to Ireland just to visit me and my wife. It was great. They stayed in Ireland for a week. In the morning, I would go to work and couldn't to get back home to see my parents. The house was lively. My father would crack jokes (about me), me mum would walked in the kitchen and talked with us. Irfan and Siti would joined in and have a chat. The house was never that alive. It was great. I brought my parents around the city, brought them to the shopping centre near our house. Get to bring them to some of my favourite places to eat in Limerick (which is not a lot). At night, I would go into my mum's room and have a chat with her. Asking about my relatives back home. How

      Hello. How are ya? It's the time for updating my blog as I'm waiting for work to be in process. As I'm updating this, my keyboard makes sound and my boss would think that I'm doing my job or anything. Which means good stuff. So, last weekend. What happened last weekend? It was my wife's birthday and you know me, trying to be the best husband. I brought her to London. We arrived in London somewhere around 10pm and we bought KFC (the only Halal KFC near Ireland is in London or Scotland) for dinner and we went straight to our hotel. We stayed somewhere in the middle of Hackney (which is a dangerous place to stay which now I know). The hotel is convenient enough and close to Overground Hackney Central station which was pretty neat but the area was not worth it. That area is pretty shady and pretty dangerous. I won't recommend staying there though.     The 2nd day (9th September 2023), both of us woke up around 9am (rarely I woke up at 9 on offdays) to get earl

      Hello. Good day to you. This post is about... I've started a page regarding all the comic books that I've read and I give a short kind of review or opinions or what ever you want to call 'em. This page is dedicated for me and for all the comic books lover who reads my blog/journal. I call it journal to sound old but it's just a blog. I can't kid myself. But anyhoo... go press the button and see what kind of comic books I've read and maybe you guys could just put some input on what comic books should I read as well in the comment sections below. See this is what I mean by that it's not a journal and more of a blog. You can't put a comment in someone else's journal but hey the sections is there so give it a go. Bye now.

      Hello there. How're things? Let me tell you guys a story of me when I was 14-ish. I met my wife when I was 14. She was a student at my school and she was in the class 2A at that time. I was in 2B. As you can tell, 2A is the class for more educated and smart students whereas 2B is generally for the ones that unable to get a place in 2A. Pretty much like that. During a Islamic studies period, generally the Muslim students from A class would combine with the B class. She noticed me during that period. Then, she would stalk me on Facebook and contacted me on Facebook. In other words, she made the first move. Usually, the lads would make the first move and not the lass but in this story, my story, she was the one that made the first move. I was a 14 years old boy who got out of a stupid relationship and my hobby was gaming. Still is though but that's not the point. So at that time, I wasn't really into relationship that much. I would just go to school, go back home and gam

    Hello my fellow readers. How're things? This post is about settling in. As you all know, I've moved to the new house with my friend from Malaysia. My friend that I've been living before in Malaysia before I got married. Irfan. He and his wife moved to Ireland a few weeks back to work in Analog Devices. They're doing great at the moment. The rent over here is massively a steal! So that's why we've decided before we could stand on our feet, we would split the rent for a year then maybe we'll be moving out to a new house. Just me and my wife. Okay. Let me update you on my life a little bit.     Moved to a new house. Bought some little bits for make the house feel more 'homey'. Bought few comic books for myself, just to read during my evening work shifts. I have a few comic books by DC and Marvel. I chose the books based on my own preference. Some would say that my tastes are only in the new era of comic books. Well, hate me all you want but I can

      Hi. Guess what. We moved to the new house! It is great having a whole place to ourselves. The kitchen is nice. My wife have a huge space to cook in the kitchen now. All the utilities are brand new. Last night (26th June 2023), me and my wife were unpacking our stuff and we realized it's just been 6 months since we've came here and we owned a lot of stuff. I've set up our bedroom and the gaming room. Update :     Assalamualaikum and hi again. I postponed writing the post because I was between works. Too busy to write. So, what's new? Yeah, moved to a new house. Bought some small stuff for the house to make it more like a home. New pillows, new duvet, just to name a few. Fibre broadband also gotten installed at the house. It's a freaking pain in the ass doing it. Ireland broadband installation is kind of shitty. On the 27th of June, I booked for installation on the 29th of June and on the 28th, the service provider called me telling me that they had to do some p

       Hi. Hello. Welcome to my journal/blog. This blog is my journal. It is not a daily journal. I won't be writing this blog so often. Only when I'm free. Sometimes I'll write this journal in between works. I'm busy. Just like a few days before this. So... update! I'm waiting to move out to a new house in Dooradoyle. The landlord said that it'll be ready in a few weeks. Praying I can move in the new house before July. If not, then it'll be 6 months delay. I've been keeping myself busy with trying to decor the house Japanese style decoration and also like a wood style decoration. I got this idea from watching a guy on Instagram. His account is Old Time Hawkey. His video is very relaxing and I like the ASMR type video that the guy make. It feels super relax and his decor is very neat and minimalist. I like that. So I'll try to decor just like that. Well that's it for today's post. Short post. Bye.

      Hi. Rihanna once quoted "Work. Work. Work." I'm not sure what is the aim for this music but let me walk you through a life of working. I've been working in the semiconductor industry for like 3 plus years now. 3+ years is a small time for a working life. So I can only tell you a perspective of working as a freshman. Some of you will say that 3+ years are not freshman anymore. Well let me tell you, it depends on how you see this. 3 years for me is still not experienced enough to talk about stuff but I'll try to write things based on my perspective. Not like some people who worked for like 10 years plus. This is a 3 plus years experience working is going to tell you shit whether it is bullshit or not, it's up to you to decide. If you agree, just nod silently, if you don't agree, try write in the comments and I can look based on your perspectives.     Now let's start. As I just wrote up there, I've been in a semicondutor industry for 3+ years no

       Hi. This post is about counting days. There's nothing worst than counting days in our life. This indicates that we're just passing by days in our lives. It means that we've not live the current days to the fullest and we're just waiting on the specific dates that enough to make us feel alive again. Right now, I'm counting days to when my wife can start to work again. I hate seeing her bored at home, waiting for me to come back home from work everyday. I would love to see her occupied with work and go out and socialize.     I'm also counting days for us to move to a new house and start a proper living in a new home. We can decorate the place and make it feel like a home rather than feel like a place for us just to sleep and get up. Right now, it feels more like a place where we just wake up and live in a room. The kitchen is there just for cooking, the living room is there but we never use it because I always feel like the landlord wants the living room al

      "Hello there." Famous greeting by Obi Wan. Hi. How are you? This post is about 'Change'. Just like the title. Change is a huge word. Sheldon Cooper hates it. Change is the reverse of homeostasis but change is needed for us human to adapt in this no mercy, non forgiving, brutal of a world. It's just is. The most easiest yet toughest change of them all is our mindset. Now this post is beginning to sound like a motivational talk but no shit. Changing mindset is the most hardest thing to do. I'm currently in the process of changing my mindset regarding some stuff. I'm trying to change my way of thinking. Usually I'm a cautious person, I like to retain my thoughts to myself. Thus, making me quote unquote kind of introvert. My wife is outgoing. She's a people person. She would just say hi to random people on the street. I'm more towards the quiet type of person. Plug in my earphones and stroll the street.     As you guys know (if you read my bl

      Hello. What's the craic. I'm at work now. Writing this post. As the title name, this post is about Red Dead Redemption 2. It's not just about RDR2. It's about game. This post is kinda different for what I normally write which are about my past or my feelings or what I want in the future. This post is just about gaming. So let's start typing and you guys start reading.     Past few weeks ago, I played God of War 2018. I achieved 100% achievements on it and the game is amazing. I didn't say was as it still is in my deep suppressed thoughts. It is an amazing game. The combat, the orchestral music, the story. Don't get me started on the story. It's an amazing experience! After I finished God of War, I felt some emptiness of trying to find the next game that I wanted to play. Some people would call it the "Post Witcher 3 Depression" syndrome. It's where gamers are unable to find a game that is up to par with the last game he played. It'

    Past few days, me and my wife watched videos (short films) that me and my friends made when we're in college. It was cringy, funny stuff but the memories of the place. It just burst out. I remember how fun it was during those days. Those easy days. Zero responsibility, other than studying. Seeing my friends' young faces. It was funny. I'm so feckin thin back then. Drugless drug addict thin. We have these two short films named 'Wind', and 'Bentuk' (Shape).       Wind was made because we had an assignment to make a short film while speaking in English for the English Week event held in college. Wind is about a boy(me) who turn a new leaf in college from lazy, playful to a studying book reading pencil pushing bone crushing drug smuggling... No. Just a boy who turn a new leaf and studies and got good results with the help of his friends. Script was written by the 4 of us, Me, Z, Ad & Dan. It was a good craic though. We made a lot of memories though when

    Happy Eid al-Fitr from both of us! Eid al-Fitr is a celebration for Muslims to embrace the end of Fasting Month which is Ramadhan and celebrate them with Forgiveness and humility. As you know, I'm a Malaysian born and proud. So all I can tell you about Eid is based on my Malaysian's point of view. So if you're from somewhere else and you find this to be not what you'll be doing, don't be offended, maybe it's just different on how we're celebrating Eid.     I'm happy to celebrate Eid. Extra happy this year because this year is the first time that I'm celebrating Eid as a husband. I'm grateful and consider myself lucky because my wife, she cooks all the best meals. The traditional chicken rendang, briyani rice, and today she's cooking Lontong(I don't know the English word for Lontong, just look it up). I'm so lucky. She tried all these kind of dishes just to make us have the feeling of Eid.     Both of us are missing Malaysia. Eid i

    So, it's 4:40pm right now. I'm waiting another 20 minutes then I'll go home to my wife who is currently waiting for me. I'm tired. I'm hungry. I'm thirsty. All of em. Not in this order. I'm writing this blog while listening to Trailer Park Boys: Park After Dark through my headphones. It's a podcast between 3 dudes from Canada. If I'm going to explain about Trailer Park Boys, then it'll be opening a can of worms now. So, I'm not gonna explain it here. Just search on them on Google. It'll be fucking fantastic. I promise you that.     Well, my wife is going to make spaghetti bolognese today for breaking fast. It's Ramadhan by the way. I'm in charge of the drinks for today. It's just Berries flavored Ballygowan mix with Ribena. It's good but not great. It's okay... rather than drinking Coke every day during Ramadhan. So, spaghetti bolognese. It's going to be good! I'm hungry right now just thinking about it. Fo

       Am I happy here? That is the question that I've been asking myself all day, every day. Am I happy here in Ireland? Short answer, no. I'm not. I'm trying to be happy for my wife. I'm trying to cheer my day up every day for my wife. Every day I'm missing my country. Missing my family, my friends, my car, my old house, my old furnitures. I thought that moving here is hard enough that I can take it but the truth is that it's fucking tough. It's nearly the end of Ramadhan and I'm missing the feeling of Eid.     Past few days, I've decorated my room with decoration lights that'll bright the whole room and I would turn on the seasonal songs for Eid by Malaysians. 2022 memories gushing in my mind. It was happy days. It was happy times. It was funny though. Surely I'm not going to have a fucking blast this year but I'm gonna make sure that next year, me and my wife will be celebrating Eid in Malaysia. 2 weeks off. 3 last days of Ramadhan. 1

     Hello. How's it going? Everybody good? I'm great by the way. Better than ever. Well, let me tell you a story how I got the name Meat Man. In 2012, I think, or is it 2011, I can't remember. During those times, I studied at a school in my hometown, SMK Bandar Sungai Petani. Directly translated, Farmers' River City High School. Every day during those days, I usually go to school around 8am and went back home around 2pm. I went to school by a school bus with my cousin, Ashraf. We went to the same school where he's in Form 5 (last year) and I was in Form 3. When school hours are done, me and my cousin would go back to his house as my mom were working at that time, thus nobody's home to look after me. Ashraf's mother, my aunt, was not working then. So, she would look after me until my mother picked me up to go home. Every day at 2pm, both of us, me and my cousin would watch this cartoon show on Cartoon Network, Adventure Time. It was a blast at that time. We

    Hello. How're things? Everything is good here. So, to the main topic, how's life in Ireland? It's great. My wife and I are adapting with the new situation of ours. So, every weekday I'll be working at the semiconductor company from 9am to 5.30pm and after work, I'll just go straight back home. Eat dinner that my wife cooks and hang around (mostly playing games or watching movies). Sometimes I would buy takeouts from a place called the Pizza Planet II, it's a Muslim pizza store that sells burgers and doner kebabs. It's a good place for takeouts anyway. Good price.     Well, over the weekend, what we usually do is that we have our breakfast at home. We go out and hop on a bus towards the city center. The bus we usually hop in are the 304 Bus. It'll go straight towards the city center. Once at the city center, we'll walk to 24-7 shop for pre-lunch or brunch. It's a halal food store that sells pizza, burgers, kebabs and chicken fillet sorts of st

      Hello. Assalamualaikum. Morning. Afternoon. Evening. Depends on where you are in the moment of, you're reading this post. It's all good. All grand. Just a quick post today. In the near future, this blog (my journal) will have a few posts of stuff in Ireland, specifically Limerick. You know... like where I buy Muslim products or Halal foods or Halal meats, all that stuff. Yeah. Hopefully the posts will be a guide or some sorts for Muslims, who'll be travelling to Limerick (who wants to travel here anyway?) or who'll be relocating to Limerick (this makes much more sense). Okay bye now.

       Hey. How's things? I'm grand by the way. Got a job to do today but then there's some issue happened, and my work got delayed for the 2nd time. That's grand. After lunch, I thought of things to do, and nothing came to mind except this blog. So, I'm writing it with an empty mind. I just write what came up in my mind and I'm lost now. Have you ever heard of reminiscing? Sometimes, I reminisce the memories of me in the past, before marriage. How was it so simple back then. Go to work, come back home and just hang out with my friends, Irfan, Hafidz (Pak Din) & Imran. Every single day for the past years. Sometimes I miss those moments, you know. We would just hang around for hours and straight go to sleep. Sometimes I just think that did I move too fast? Did I do everything that I wanted to do before marriage? All of the questions got a quick answer when I go back home and see my wife. No. I didn't move too fast. Yes, I enjoyed everything that I wanted

     Hi guys, I'm doing good so far. How are ye? I hope you're well as well. Currently, I'm not well. Got a flu. Fekin cold in Ireland is not good. It's 10 times worse than having it in Malaysia. I've been coughing nearly the whole day now. My boss kept asking me if I'm okay. Same answer every time, "Been worse."     So, I'm just writing this to update that I'm good. Everything's good so far. Just bought a monitor a while back. I brought most of my stuff from Malaysia. Works going fine. Got a lot of stuff to do here at work. Mostly boring stuff, nothing that I haven't done before. Next week is getting exciting I guess because I'm going to learn a new process in Semiconductor. That'll be grand as they say.     Missing my wife actually. Although, it'll just a few hours of me and my wife are apart, where I'm going to work, and she'll stay at home doing home stuff. We got married in May last year. I planned my things acc

     Let me tell you a story of a boy who dreams a lot. You guessed it, it's me. I dreamt a lot when I was a kid. Aren't we all, right? To get a good job, good money, great friends, great love partner and so forth. I wasn't into engineering before this. In school, I always interested in astrology. Studying the stars. I like it but my father once told me that if I pursue this course, it's hard to get a job in Malaysia for this. That's when I stopped dreaming about things. That's when I knew that dream is just a dream. I have to be realistic and start thinking about my actions.      So, I started to study, but it was kinda late at that point cause the big exams were just around the corner. Thus, I got mildly good results, not great, just good. Good enough anyway. Then, I got into a good pre-university program, it's a foundation program for technology bachelor's degree. There I really know my potentials, if I pushed myself a little bit, I could do it and I

" Titled: Let me rewind...      Hey, morning, afternoon, depends on your area.      The name's Red. I'm currently in my living room typing this in the dark. I'm writing this to tell a story of my life. Let me start back when I was 17. "      This is what I typed when I was back in my old rental home in Kulim. I'll continue the post next time. Let me give you guys an update of how I am doing. I'm in Ireland. Limerick to be precise. Working here actually and living. It's been a long time since my last update. I'll properly post blogs after this. A way of keeping a diary or some sorts. Well. I got to go. I'm at work actually and I'm currently working on good stuff over here. I'll update ye next time. Bye.