We Live In OZ

In the name of Allah, The Most Gracious Most Merciful

Salam and Peace to all

Now it's almost accurately 3 years I have been here in Melbourne. So many memories and feelings to share and reminisce.

First Year [2009]

..open your eyes open your eyes again to the new world
where where to find a new day
anybody, nobody will ever know about
we live in oz..

Before fly at KLIA [16.02.2009]

Welcoming BBQ at Brighton Beach [28.02.2009]


Philip Island trip [21.03.2009]


With Chem Lecturer Prof. Rizzacassa [27.03.2009]

With housemate at St Kilda Beach [11.04.2009]

Picnic at Fitzroy Garden [14.04.2009]

My Usrah group [30.05.2009]


Winter holidays with friends from Tasmania [28.06.2009]


Winter Trip Sydney-Canberra [10-14.07.2009]

Farewell Sis Abby [29.08.2009]

Break-fast at Alamaro Restaurant [18.09.2009]

Eidulfitri [20.09.2009]

All in all, my first year life is generally simple and moderate. Even ordinary things in Melbourne could fascinate me. We lived simple, ate simple foods, wore simple plain clothes (not into shopping yet), and we're so close among the first years. And so with the seniors too. Life was challenging and getting complicated, trying to adapt with uni life, aussie life, been swindled left and right, been tested on the friendship, my self-esteem messed up. To survive that, that's an accomplishment. Lecturers are mostly cool and awesome (and handsome too =P)

"Who has made for you the earth like a bed, and has made for you roads therein, in order that you may find your way" [Az-Zukhruf 43:10]

Second Year [2010]

..and the things we wanted that we hoped for
to me, to me, to my honesty
anybody, nobody can replace
We live We dream We live We dream..

Sand Sculpture at Frankston [16.01.2010]

Watching the entertaining Aboriginal Performance [21.03.2010]

EHSAN trip to Great Ocean Road [02.04.2010]

Usrah at Geelong [08.04.2010]

Sovereign Hill, Ballarat [29.06.2010]

With my housemates at Mount Wellington, Tasmania [06.07.2010]

Trip to Tasmania [06-10.07.2010]

Lake Mountain [15.07.2010]

Sounds of Light Concert [24.07.2010]

Eidulfitri Open House at Amess [17.09.2010]

Malaysian Aspiration Program [26.07.2010]

Spring holidays with Aufa & her cousins [27.09-01.10.2010]

Summer with Aufa [20-22.11.2010]

Working at a cherry factory in Alexandra [04-14.12.2010]

This year was pretty amusing. Moved out to a new house, got a new housemate, still with Muz as my roommate. Got new friends, mixed around with lots of people, and involved with lots of activities. Had enough money to go trips and vacations, shopping, and eat plenty of foods at various eateries. Study became more interesting as the subjects go more in depth with the course. 

"A Muslim who meets with others and shares their burdens is better than the one who lives a life of seclusion and contemplation" (Muslim)

Third Year [2011]

..One more try give it one more try
take a deep breath and open your eyes again
Give it one more try just another try
realize all the dreams you had held in for so long
Remember your forgotten dreams..

Retreat EHSAN comittee 10/11 [26.02.2011]

Methods in Agrifood Biotech project: Screening transgenic A.thaliana [23.03-28.04.2011]

Grampians Trip [27.04.2011]

With Advance Food Analysis lecturer, Dr Said Ajllouni [24.05.2011]

Friends visit from Malaysia [08.06.2011]

Trip to New Zealand [28.06-10.07.2011]

Eidulfitri prayer at Flagstaff Garden [31.08.2011]

Spring holidays with Chema & Atie [11-21.09.2011]

Graduation [19.12.2011]

Family visit [14-20-12.2011]

New year at Wilson Prom [31-12-01.01.2011]

Bonus picture: Tennis Australian Open [16.01.2012]

No more fun this year. Third year already, and every subject matter. Busy with studying, club activities (as I'm an EHSAN committee), and many more. Still, manage to have getaways to Grampians and New Zealand. Totally had fun with third year subjects, classes get smaller, able to interact more with the students and lecturers. But, since the course getting more specified, every one goes on their own way (agrifood or pharmacology or microbiology or biochemistry or genetics). Glad to have my own study mate: Ros, Syed and Ariff. We rocks, you all know! haha

"He it is Who enables you to travel through land and sea, till when you are in the ships, and they sail with them with a favourable wind, and they are glad therein, then comes a stormy wind and the waves come to them from all sides, and they think that they are encircled therein. Then they invoke Allah, making their Faith pure for Him Alone, (saying): 'If You (Allah) deliver us from this, we shall truly, be grateful'" [Yunus 10: 22]

- We Live In OZ by Clazziquai Project

p/s: Feels so touched with the farewell party and the small gift from Sis Baie. That gift, although simple, but that is the thing that I've been looking for. Jazakillahu khayran (^^,)