Liyana Azizul

Let me take you today for a swim in my life at work. From the very first day, I’m really excited for the ‘hot-desk’ office policy where NO ONE in the office has their own personal office that includes people in the admins, juniors up until the partners themselves! Can you imagine that? If this is still a bit confusing to you, this policy basically means everyone doesn’t have their own office! There are a lot of desks with computers with/without standing tables, discussion area, meeting areas and soundproof rooms and etc where everyone could randomly sit every day. It’s an open environment where there are no walls in the whole office that separates ANYONE or any department. Isn’t that amazing? I think Auckland office has the same thing as well but the Christchurch office is very small. So everyone in the office meets everyone every day. In the beginning, I was really uncomfortable and scared, to be honest. Because you know, even if I’m shy, I still have to work in the open ...

After a month on my own - tomorrow im meeting my family again!!! and I'll meet my man as well soon enough <3 Also, I'm loving how I'm keeping myself really private these days. That I don't feel the need to post anything on social media. It's so much healthier and I'm happier than the person I was. Will post something later next week :D SO much exciting things happening next week - Graduation and road trips with famz! Okay bye! Be kind<3 Regards, Liyana

2 months flew by and part of me still can’t believe I’m surviving this LDR. In the beginning, it was really hard as it was really lonely. I constantly cried the first few days when I’m in my room. The real feeling actually kicked in when I got home from the airport on  9 March  last month. That moment, when I dropped my stuff, I felt it. IM ON MY OWN. For 2 years, I wasn’t technically alone – I was only away from families but I have friends and Azraei around so it wasn’t that bad being abroad. But that day, I felt it so deep. I could feel my heart shattered into pieces knowing that I sort of having to start living on my OWN in a foreign country that I love. I’m thankful that I really love New Zealand, the people and just where I am but adjusting to the new life is my new challenge. OK enough crapping liyana - now let’s talk about how’s the LDR life….. The first few days, I can’t really help but to cry at the smallest things. one, when I was about to cook for the ...

The time has come and I'm in the mood to write about all this jazz. If you've been following my life on Instagram, you'd know that I just graduated and recently just started working. Since the final semester last year, I could say that I've gone through one of the most challenging phases of my life - securing a job & deciding what to do next . Ever since I came to NZ for my Bachelor at the University of Canterbury, I've invested so much energy and time for my next phase of life. I once worked 3 jobs in 1 semester because I wanted to gain new experiences to build my character, English and etc because I know, my grades weren't enough. Truth be told, I didn't strive so much like I did in MRSM ever since I entered uni. ( Pls note: This is not an encouragement ). I felt pretty tired and I didn't have that motivation anymore. But I managed to maintain slightly-above-average grades bcs you know, I didn't want to screw up all of it. Anyway, in NZ, I...