Ae Dil Hai Mushkil - Movie Review

It's the latest movie by Karan Johar

and I love Karan Johar's movies;

they're all very awesome!

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil holds a whole different status, though.

The expectation from the official trailer:

Story about Ayan and Alizeh;

from friendship to love.

Ayan betrayed Alizeh for Saba's love

and Alizeh found her new love of her life, DJ Ali.

They both regretted their mistakes;

got back together.

In between the conflicts, Ayan became a popular singer,

sang really great songs.

The real story line:

The plot twist was insane!

Ayan was dating Lisa, a hot French chic and Alizeh had to marry Dr Faisal

due to the family arrangement.

Lisa and Dr Faisal hooked up when all four of them were on a double date.

Ayan got his heartbroken but Alizeh told him; it's not a broken heart.

They went to Paris, for

'retreating session', giving their hearts a holiday break.

At one of the club, Alizeh met her long lost lover; DJ Ali.

She broke down and wanted to fly back to London,

but DJ Ali finally said sorry for what's happening and she got back together with him.

Ayan left them, he's back in London.

The next few weeks, Alizeh called Ayan, 

informing that her family disowned her for not marrying Dr Faisal

and DJ Ali proposed her and Ayan was the only 'family' she had

and Ayan needed to be at her wedding.

The faithful friend, Ayan attended the wedding even if his heart was broken to pieces.

Alizeh thought of him as the only best friend, but he had a totally different feeling.

Ayan left the wedding.

Ayan met Saba, a divorced woman at the airport,

they kept in touch since then,

Saba was a poet, Ayan composed songs using her poems,

the relationship was pretty intimate.

Saba told Ayan, she can't give herself any chance to love anymore,

thus the relationship they had was purely based on lust and desire.

One day, Ayan and Saba met Saba's ex-husband who was still in love with her

and their conversation made Ayam think of Alizeh again.

They're finally meeting each other again in Vienna

and had dinner together, at Saba's place.

Of all touches of sarcasm in the dialogues, 

rhetoric questions, and honest answers;

Saba realized that she had been lying to herself for this while.

She fell for Ayan and had given herself another chance to love someone,

but she knew Ayan would never love her the way Ayan loved Alizeh,

so she let Ayan go.

But for Alizeh,

Ayan was her family, friend and strength;

she didn't love Ayan as a lover

because love was her weakness.

They were all separated;

Ayan became a very popular singer in London

and after two years his path and DJ Ali's path crossed.

Alizeh left DJ Ali,

cause he couldn't love her the way she wanted him to.

Ayan, started to search for Alizeh again.

They met at Alizeh's secret place;

the rooftop where she would spend time alone

when the world brought her down.

Alizeh was eventually dying;

she had cancer.

Ayan became her greatest strength towards the end of her life;

as a friend, still,

not as a lover.

I cried,

for Ayan's love.

I laughed,

for Alizeh's positivity.

I was surprised

of Saba's decision.

I was delighted,

by the story line and songs that were played in between those plots.

Karan Johar,

*claps*

3 more exams?!

This semester,

I didn't know what did I do.

Tbh, I didn't have that much fun,

I hardly socialize with people,

I only watched 2 movies (Baar Baar Dekho and Fantastic Beasts)

and yeah, what did I do?

I mostly spending my time studying, 

completing my assignment and instagraming(?)

But my midterm marks were too depressing!

Some subjects I did terribly well, some were just,

the marks reflected how undeserving am I to be in McGill.

There's no in between.

I had two Math exams previously and 

1 of them was the one with terrible midterm,

1 was the one that I did well in.

And both of the exams were equally difficult.

 *ketuk kepala with all the thick books*

I checked on final grade online calculator

and the notification that I got was

"I'm so sorry, you need 170% for your finals to get a B+, hopefully, they will give you extra mark."

This notification had broken my heart to pieces,

crashing my hopes to dust and 

I can imagine the amount of tears that will be flowing from my eyes;

like Niagara Falls.

As for now,

I have to keep calm,

pretend like the curving system will be taken place

sometimes soon 

and I need to focus on another three subjects.........

which are.......

harder than the previous two........

HELP

Ayam Percik?

Some days I can sleep really well, some days

I just can't sleep.

The worst part is, when I cant sleep,

I can't study. Gosh -.-

And so,

there's this one particular night,

I was thinking really hard;

what business should I do as my side-income?

It's not that the allowance isn't enough,

it's just that, I need extra money

to travel and to buy stuff for my family 

(cause I don't like spending for myself).

Then at 3.30am exactly,

I had an idea of selling food

cause the profit is instant.

If you do correlle or handbag business,

the income is very slow,

and you have to invest a lot of money to begin with.

I am really at the state of oh-no-I-need-money-to-survive-cause-im-gonna-travel-soon

so I decided to sell ayam percik during exam season.

I cooked based on the orders

and in total I received 20 orders;

which I only expected 6.

Alhamdulillah,

it went well, but indeed there's still room for improvement.

And I do enjoy cooking,

so I shall generate income from my passion, no?

#notetoself

1. Being an entrepreneur or a business lady needs a lot of patience,

self-study skills, networking, marketing strategies, and sincerity, The more experience you have,

the better business lady you'll be.

2. You just have to give it a try. Do not assume, or let the negative side of you

to stop you from doing what you wish to do.

Love,

Aliah

Top 20 - SAY WHAT?

Hello, beautiful people of the Earth!

So, from late October till 9th of Dec,

I had #duckscarves fever.

It's like the kind of disease that has affected 6000 people,

mostly Malaysian ladies.

I can't imagine myself, being affected too.

I started buying myself a duckscarf on 12th of January 2016!

Just to have a flavor of having a duckscarf in my life,

since as you could read,

from my long-lost post, I didn't really celebrate my 21st birthday,

but I granted myself this scarf.

Tbh, I could only buy them,

because I'm given monthly allowance in the Canadian dollar.

I ain't a rich chic.

Back to the story.

So @theduckgroup launched a #duckcollection competition,

where the duckies had to be as creative as we can

and the winner will be granted a trip for two to anywhere she wants + accommodation + business class flights + the whole collection of their LE world map duck!

I decided to give this a shot because

I AM CRAZILY OBSESSED WITH WORLD MAP

YOU HAVE NO IDEA!

I have world map watch, world map journal, world map (the old ones, the new one)

You name it.

And I really wanted a world map scarf!

Any scarf would do. But duckscarf is a bonus, lol.

I remember talking to Qim about designing a world map scarf back in 2014.

And as impossible as I think it could be,

@theduckgroup really does come up with this concept.

Perfect-o!

I didn't have much time, 

you can really tell based on the amount of post I wrote this time.

I only had three slots for outdoor shooting,

and the flatlays were all in my room,

not much of proper planning but the captions were all from my heart, lol.

There're more than 6000 entries and 

the pictures were damn creative, beyond comparison

and my pictures were totally out of the league.

The day when they announced the winner, I purposely

didn't look at my phone, I studied in the living room,

leaving my phone in my room cause I didn't want the feeling of losing in a competition

distracting my whole purpose of being in McGill University,

which is to hm study (?).

Then my roomie, Nawwar, 

who's also my loyal grocery shopping mate, photographer,

chef, kitchen helper, gossip mate,

she was talking about the 'saguh hati' prizes were insane blablabla...

Yes, she spelled sagu hati -- saguh hati, lol.

And my reply was,

they had announced? lol

Then I ran, checking my phone, so many comments notification,

and obviously I didn't win (as expected)

but I was in the top20 list?! How?! 

God really helped me this time,

there wasn't supposed to be any consolation prize,

but it's God's will;

they have few categories of winners.

ALHAMDULILLAH

Becoming the top 20; that's beyond my imagination.

And the Limited Edition, world map duckscarf is mine!

And I made them posting it to Canada muehehehe

cause they usually don't deliver here.

#notetoself

1. Allah will help you if you put your heart into something.

You may not get what you want, but you definitely get what's best for you 

(calming myself down, finals are terrible)

2. You have to follow your dream, no matter what people say. Follow your dream,

you'll be the happiest person ever.

Thank you so much to those who helped me, supported me and 

for not blocking me on your instagram after seeing so many #duckcollection spams!

Till my next post!

Hello?

I haven't been blogging for 2 months+ and

as much as I feel like

no one is missing my post,

I do miss blogging!

What's up with the silence?

Oh well, engineering life.

Really, this semester,

is when every hard work begins.

Last two semesters were a total joke.

I had been complaining and crying

in my first year,

but hey, last year I was just crying a river.

This time around, I cry like Niagara Falls, no kidding.

I didn't sign up for this life,

but I guess this is the consequences of me 

signing up for engineering life.

So many things happened,

long story short,

my hair is falling out so badly,

crying is my weekly ritual,

I eat supper thrice a day,

I don't have breakfast cause I am late most of the time,

I failed some of my labs,

I failed a midterm,

I don't get to blog as much

and I only call my parents twice a week.

It sounds bad, ey?

I also have good stories to share, no worry ;)

I cook weekly,

main dishes range from western to eastern food,

desserts and I don't eat junk food on weekly basis anymore!

I only do, once a month, max! 

I started to learn that

islamophobia is real but I have Allah to protect me all the time,

so I don't have to feel overwhelmed by it.

I have great friends

that will always support me,

and I don't have a need to increase my circle of friends anymore,

I will just appreciate those I have now,

I follow my financial budget,

and everything is well-planned now.

I really take everything in a positive way,

ie when I failed certain things,

they don't let me down, rather they push me to work harder the next time.

I dance whenever I want,

I feel happy whenever I see my friends' posts on Instagram,

I am happy that they're happy with their life.

I have days when I miss my best friends terribly,

and I will randomly call, or text or stalk them on Instagram, or comment 

on their InstaStory with hopes that they will miss me too :P

I watch all of my summer vlogs whenever I wanna feel close to home, 

cause we will not have a chance to be together for a longer time now,

since Atika is in Australia, I am in Canada and the rest are in different states of Malaysia.

I always watch Amigas videos on youtube whenever I miss them

and I am trying so hard to not forget anyone's name.

I watch Hindustani movies whenever I feel like watching them.

I drink a lot of water these days

and I always do my skin care routine.

I only had makeup on my face for less than 5 times in these two months,

I only put on makeup when I have occasions

cause I believe that my skin will be better, much much better without

having to constantly hide my scars and pimples.

I take pictures of buildings and sceneries

and upload them to Instagram, not to brag about anything

but my Instagram feed is like my online photo journal.

Because I will leave Canada one day, 

and I will miss every moment I have here.

I constantly remind myself that

I don't have to work as an engineer for the rest of my life,

but the lessons that I gain throughout this journey of mine,

will definitely make me a better person,

businesswoman and whichever position that I want to hold in the future.

Whenever I feel like complaining about 1 thing,

I will remind myself of 5 other blessings in life that Allah has sent me.

And most of the time, I will reflect on

what used to be my dreams, and now I have achieved them,

ie to study at McGill University.

Alhamdulillah for everything that happens in my life.

I hope you are doing fine with your life too!

Love,

Aliah