.recap2013.

Assalamualaikum.

2013. A year of new experiences and new faces. A year of hellos and goodbyes. A year of truth and hurt. 

Generally, for the year of 2013, I've been given the opportunity to know more people and learn more from them. Besides that, for this year, the ties between those whom are important in my life were managed to be tighten and hopefully it will continue to remain like that.
-Family and Relatives
-USJ23 friends
-OATHS0809 and CS0809
-KMKN friends
-tdpuk5
-Malaysian@Leeds

Besides that, for this year as well, I have seen and encountered various events which I didn't expect to happen during previous years. Is this a sign of maturity of the people around me? Am I holding myself back ?


January
13 January - My first experience of snow in Leeds.
16 January - January Test starts
21 January - OATHS0809 5th Anniversary

February
8 February - *First trip to Cardiff. The following day visited Cardiff Bay in the morning and attended FODX in the evening, whose main actresses were Afifa and Amirah R. The next day, attended Muhammad: MUM, a talk by Ustaz Don from Malaysia.
15 February - Visit Sheffield and attended the Sheffield Malaysian Games the following day. Played rugby touch and table tennis doubles. Managed to get runner-up for table tennis.

March
1 March - Visited Glasgow.
2 March - *Day trip to Aberdeen. Had two wonderful tour guides around the city centre. Had the opportunity to taste Nazu's cooking. Tasted like home. 
16 March - Attended DUDE5: BSc in Love Management.
17 March - *Visited Loughborough to meet my cousins. Had the chance to visit Leicester and tried the famous Tinseltown.
23 March - Second visit to Liverpool. Went for the Anfield Stadium tour.
24 March - A visit from my uncle and aunt from Malaysia at Leeds.
27 March - *Trip to Belfast via Jet2 with Acap. Started off with a wonderful stay in Belfast. Played football amongst Batch5mates on a Friday morning.16 out of 21 of us went there for a biking and camping trip at Rostrevor, somewhere near to the border of NI and ROI. Had a campfire and BBQ during the night, while singing our lungs out. Biking around the snowy hills of Rostrevor and eventually got tired. Visited the Giant's Causeway as well.

April
3 April - Collected my bike at Northallerton.
6 April - *Leeds Bradford Games 2013. Became a committee member for FIFA13 game. 
7 April - Celebrated amiminey's birthday with other '92 kids.
9 April - Second trip to Cardiff, with Akmal Z.. Tried a buffet restaurant at Cardiff Bay and joined Syimi for a swim. Afifa and Amirah cooked dinner the following day.
27 April - LUMSOC AGM2013. Elected as one of the committee.


May
11 May - Visited Sheffield and ate Nando's.
16 May - May Exam started.
26 May - Visited Leeds United.

June
1 June - Visited Sheffield.
2 June - Handled a talk by Sheikh Habib Ali Zaenal Abidin.
3 June - *Trip to Blackpool Pleasure Beach with Tungk, Mud, Manjohn n Khairy, while others went to Germany, France. Rode some outstanding rides!
7 June - *Amon H visited Leeds. Brought him aroung the City centre, played touch together and watched a Doraemon movie.
9 June - Leeds Food Festival.
10 June - *Flight back to Leeds via Emirates with Khairy, Acap, Diana, Amirah, Akmal. Transit at Dubai for 8 long hours -.-
12 June - Registered for Hajj.
15 June - Returned to hometown in Kemaman.
23 June - Visited my tri-service squad at UPNM with Anam.
27 June - OPA Annual Tahlil at Bangunan OPA.
29 June - OPA Annual Dinner.  
30 June - OPPP Games Carnival at RMC. Had a great time catching up with my batch, OATHS0809.

July
1 July - Flight to Tokyo-Haneda by Airasia with Khairy. Stranded at Tokyo for the night.
2 July - Checked in at our ryokan and started going around Tokyo; Shinjuku, Harajuku. Had two reliable tour guides, Nina and Alief. 
3 July - Went to Disneyland Tokyo
4 July - Went to Akihabara, Daiba. Had dinner at a sushi restaurant in Saitama.
5 July - Took the bullet train to Shizuoka and visited NAI's place. Prayed Jumaat there and straight away went to Gifu, Ben's and Faiz's place. Had a wonderful night there.
6 July - Took the train to Hiroshima and visited the historical spots. Had a great Japanese cuisine there.
7 July - Took the afternoon train to Osaka and overnight there.
8 July - Covered some place in Osaka and took the flight back to Malaysia in the evening.
14 July - Iftar with Aidil, Syrith and Arif Chan at Carl's Jr Subang Jaya.
25 July - Became a facilitator for a 'Langkah Bermula' program at SMK Seri Bintang Utara.
27 July - Back to Kemaman.
28 July - OPA Iftar. met my cousin there, Naim.

August
2 August - OATHS Ramadan TTS at Nilai. Stayed there until 4am!
8 August - Eidul Fitri at Shah Alam. 
12 August - Went to Melaka with Khairy. Ate SK!
14 August - *Raya open house at Ash's. A lot of OATHS came.
16 August - *Raya Open house at my place. Had visits from Batch6, KMB friends, USJ23 friends.
17 August - Participated in the Viper Challenge, along with Que, Wandan, Ija and Fae.
23 August - Went to Syamimi's open house.
24 August - Went to a graduation ceremony in PICC. Stuck in a jam for 2 hours before reaching BMI for Miss Shairah's wedding. Spent about 15 minutes there before stuck again in a jam on the way to USJ to attend a Raya open house there. Luckily managed to reached at the exact and correct timing. After maghrib, went to OPA Raya Open house.
25 August - Nazu's Open house. Dragged Ayol and Bombay.
29 August - Went to Sunway Lagoon with Akmal Zubir and Syimi.
31 August - Attended the Independence Day celebration at Dataran Merdeka with Anam. Parked at the most strategic spot. Then, picked up Que at Sungai Besi and Wandan at Sepang before going to Mimo's wedding.

September 
2 September - Took a flight to Kota Bharu and first time reaching Besut, land of Khairy. Then, straight away to Pulau Perhentian, together with Shang, Syrith, Syimi, Risdo and Khairy. Escape from reality.
5 September - Back in Shah Alam and went to KLIA to send off a person.
11 September - Instagram.
17 September - Flight my batchmate, Jose to Newcastle, UK. 
20 September - Space's flight to Southampton, UK. Last dinner with family at Agehan Japanese Restaurant.
21 September - My flight back to the UK, sent off by my family members as well as my squads, Que and Anam. Debt for not sending me off last year.
25 September - Visited Sheffield.
29 September - Day trip to Glasshoughton, a factory outlet complex near Leeds.

October
5 October - Fresher's Explorace, as the Gamemaker.
6 October - Garage Sale at Kelso Gardens. 
12 October - Visited Sheffield with.
20 October - Eid Adha Celebration at Woodsley Community Centre.
31 October - The birth of my first nephew, Salahuddin Yusuf :)

November
2 November - Went to London for UKEC AGM2013 with Husni. Had Habibi Sushi with Syrith and Fred.
8 November - Visited Sheffield.
9 November - Went to Nottingham for Nottingham Malaysian Games 2013. Celebrated Mud's birthday happeningly.


December
14 December -Trip to Glasgow. Had the long-awaited OKO Express, a Japanese restaurant in Glasgow :)
17 December - Day visit to Edinburgh with Khairy, Muiz, Acap and some batch6.
20 December - *Attended a winter program, RISE at Stowmarket. The program was conducted for 4 days and 3 nights. Made new friends there and learned loads of things.
23 December - Had a dinner at Tinseltown, Queensway and overnight at Highbury.
24 December - *Visited Cambridge. Impressed by the magnificent university.
25 December - *Visited Southampton and stayed there for a few nights, with the hospitality of my RMC batch, Saifullah.
26 December - Boxing day at Portmouth. Only bought a pair of jeans -.-
29 December - Attended a weeding in Bradford and visited Sheffield afterwards.
30 December - Celebrated manjohn's birthday at Centertainment, Sheffield.
31 December - First attempt of making Nasi Lemak. Achievement unlocked for the new year.

Wailalliqa' maassalamah.