C'est LA viE

Finally that day has come.

I have been denying the departure of Karen "mentally", though I really understand it is a fact and Karen would be always my boss just like Sergey and Aaron.

However, I am still happy and proud with what she has chosen, I believe she has a brighter future after leaving Macfood.

Today is her last day, and I also completed her sketch book after the short period of preparation time.

I could tell she is really touched when she received the gift today

All the tears, all the memories in R&D department....

The last photo in R&D for Karen, of cause still Derrick's wefie~ too bad ching yee was in penang today, pek shan was in malacaa, faeezah had sick leave, Zura is also on leave.....

I also had opened the chocolate blanc et langue de chat Huey yee gifted me, to be shared during this special day.

This chocolate sandwich snack is really premium, 12 prepack in the box, precisely and premiumly packed.

After the farewell in office, I proposed to have dinner together, of cause without the boss and the assistants.

We went to Thyme Out, a new mexican cafe newly opened in Bandar Sunway area.

This cafe do not have wifi, i like its concept - NO WIFI, TALK TO EACH OTHER =)

I have the fish tacos, but seriously very bad....I guess it is very hard to find good mexican food in Malaysia.

The meal of cause is not satisfying, we chose Softcore for the dessert place, this cafe specially sell the molten lava cake.

This cafe is still very popular, luckily there is still one available desk. 

We ordered 2 desserts to be shared: matcha molten lava cake and dark chocolate molten lava cake.

The matcha version contains green tea, white chocolate lava cake, with candied calamasi, homemade vanilla ice cream served with red bean paste and sesame tuille.

Look at the green tea sauce after cut off the lava cake, omg, this is so tempting! 

The cake is very soft and very nice, I really like it.

For the chocolate version, the lava cake is made by 70% Belgium dark chocolate, matched with homemade vanilla ice cream, cherry jam, mixed berries and sand crumble.

This chocolate sauce is even greater than the matcha, love it =)

I believe all these insta photos will be rarely taken in future days as Karen is not around in Macfood.

Only her will have these kind of "toy", but for sure we would definitely meet again =)

Oh yeah, this is not just Karen's last visit at the pasar malam (night market), it was also my first time visit after working at Macfood after nearly 2 yrs.

This night market is just 3 mins walk from my company, and it was set up every Tuesday afternoon.

I purposely not eating tonight, as Karen and I made an agreement to visit the market together.

Derrick was supposed to join us, but he was caught by the new boss and couldnt join us.

But in the end, we bought lot of food and had a small party after work

Derrick also got "released" and joined us for the snacking

This maybe is our last crazy time, look at these photos:

We were having the 1,2,3 kiyomi pose~

Then, followed by the expression pose: happy, sad, angry, shocked.

But we decided to make it into a story~

First we heard that we won a lotto.....

But somehow we lose the ticket! so sad....

Then, we found out someone actually taken the ticket, hence we are mad....

But in the end, we got our ticket back, and guess what? IS GRAND PRIZE!!! HOORAY~~

Lol, i think i will miss these memories a looooot. 

Karen was also very lovely, she brought us farewell presents, the moody pillow.

Guess which one is mine?

I supposed met Cheryl in March, but she was busy with her boy fren. 

Yeah, she got one...sigh beauty is always easy to find her lover aye.

Today we meet here - Yellow Brick Road~

It is located at Damansara Height, and I actually wazed to get there. 

Apparently this cafe is quite famous and Cheryl had waited 20 mins patiently for a table.

Thanks to Cheryl, I could directly ordered my brunch upon arrival.

Looking at the long crowd at the door, I am so grateful =D

I started with rose and lemon grass hot drink, this is also my first time encountered this type of "natural" drink.

The rose petal and lemon grass slowly infused into the warm water and given a very mild but herby taste. 

It was not too bad, and I like the beautiful cup =)

For the food, it is quite struggling to choose because there are lots of interesting options.

I was tempted for big breakfast but somehow thought that big breakfast is too mainstream and is just combination of those food that I would able to get from supermarket.

Hence, I picked the sweet mash of mine - a very healthy brunch today.

It contains 2 pieces of rye toast with 2 poached egg topped with avocado and sweet potatoes mash, and sprinkled with coconut flakes, sesame and sun flower seed.

I personally not a poached egg fan, because of the mushy egg white texture and sometimes, sour after taste.

Same goes to this dish, the poached egg is not pleasing me, and I dont like the combination of avocado and sweet potatoes mash on the rye bread.

Overall this dish is rather dry and taste very "healthy".

Well, I am those type of people who looking for satisfying evil and high calories brunch if I am eating in a cafe, so I wouldnt order this dish for the second time.

However, somehow Yellow Brick Road gave me a hope that I should have give second chance for their other brunch menu.

At least the dessert was really great！

We shared the Apom Terbalik, apom is a Malaysian traditional type of malay pan cake, apom balik is a famous street food in Malaysia.

However, given the name of Apom Terbalik, seems like the chef is hinting something different from the traditional well known snack.

It is made of pan cake, topped with crushed nut, sweet corn, hawaiian coconut, gula melaka (Malacca sugar) and coconut candy ice cream.

I think I mentioned quite many time, I couldnt find any pan cake that could beat the pan cake I tried at Pan cake on the rocks in Sydney.

This Apom Terbalik, not exactly can beat my pan cake from the rock, but it definitely is my number 2 best pan cake so far that I had tasted.

It is soft (not as soft as pan cake from the rock), and fluffy, not too dense. The combination of all ingredient is very yummy, it's taste like apom balik for sure, but the coconut actually enhanced the fragance and soothing flavor of the pancake. 

I actually would like to try the other pancakes in Yellow Brick Road after this pancake attempt.

We didnt stay long at the cafe today because we were stressed by the crowd out there.

Lots of people are aiming our table, oh well, the cafe hunting culture is really blooming among youngsters in Malaysia.

Guess what, with this short 2 hrs, I got to pay RM6 for the parking! OMG, hopefully I got to carpool to here during my next visit.

Since I finished my date earlier today, I decided to chop off my hair....

There I go~ hehehe, I was pretty afraid my face will look big after cutting.

Recently， I wanna have short hair because I am bored with my frizzy long curvy end hair and the extreme hot weather lately really killing me.

But, I really afraid it wouldnt look nice because I have gained weight since my last short hair cut.

I guess I was over worried, or I might have lose some weight, I looked brighter and energertic with this short hair.

So I am happy with the look now, and may consider having another hair dying before I go Japan this September.

Time flies especially after Karen tender, I was counting down the days because I really had a very hard feeling about Karen's departure.

She is such an understanding boss, I really respect and admire her. I think she is my prefer boss after Sergey and Aaron.

Tonight, the whole technical team have a dinner session to appreciate the contribution of Karen throughout the 5 years in Macfood.

The dinner was hold at Bubba Gump, also was my first visit tonight, is just cant believe I am dining here because of such a sad reason.

Apparently, the restaurant name dint remind me of the movie - Forest Gump....after Chiam, our technical director mentioned that.

She even questioned why none of us knew about the movie, well I actually knew, but not familiar.

I do remember their famous quote: 

Oh well, good to know the link between this restaurant and the movie.

I also quite like how they use the plate to call waiter/waitress:

Run Forrest Run - we are good with everything, please let us enjoy our meal

Stop Forest Stop - we need some guidance or so called service...lol

We actually accidentally turned the red plate on, and a waitress come to us and politely ask what we need. 

That's how we discovered the function of the plates hehe.

I ordered the "....of cause we have scampi" which is a plate of linguine with tender shrimps and also a toast...

It taste not bad, the toast is crispy and there are many shrimps as well.

We also shared lots of platter - Bubba's far out dip and shrimp mayan salsa. 

shrimper's heaven: with 4 types of shrimps, expensive but who cares, is appreciatiation time!

We also not going to be shy for ordering dessert ya!

Alabama mud pie - not really nice regardless of the fancy name

Chocolate chip cookie sundae - is a bit too hot as the sundae almost melted when it served...

chocolate dream cake - not dreamy at all

The hook, line and sinker - just like its name....not hooked up though, is sinking == 

Overall Bubba gump dessert is not charming as their names, but seafood and other main dishes are quite good.

Here are some photos of the night: 

 I guess this would be the last time Karen dine with us for company event. 

Thank you for being a great mentor, and we will definitely miss u!

I actually quite enjoy meeting up with frens after work, because it really relieve lots of stress~

Tonight meeting up with Huey Yee at Garage 51, a cafe which is very popular at Bandar Sunway area mainly because it was constructed from a garage~

I have Chicken Pamigiana, which to me, really taste awful =S. Very dry, my own developed lab sample was much more better than this!

The hot chocolate was ok, I guess maybe they served good coffee and also famous with their crazy massive milkshake, but really bad in main dishes...

Well I am not heading back to this cafe again as I am not addicted to coffee or milkshake....so no point.

At least we had good dessert tonight at US cafe:

If you think this is not fancy enough or wondering what is this, let's look at below~

Another litting fancy dessert produced in US, though I was dissapointed with the fireball last time, but tonight's dessert was really good.

This dessert is call - Underground Grenade, basically is a bombe Alaska, it was blanketed with a layer of soft meringue believed covered with alcohol, within is a lemonade sorbet and a layer of cookies crisp underneath.

Too bad I was too enjoying it and forgot to capture the inner part.

It was a great night, we not just covered what happened recently at work, we also schedule a trip tonight!

WE ARE GOING TO JAPAN!!!

OMG, FINALLY MY DREAM COME TRUE!!

I cant tell how excited I am, but definitely need to book flight asap, as we planning to go in September...I guess is a good month =D

Last, also thanks Huey Yee's fancy present all the way from Hokaido!!

I actually just ask Huey yee to buy the melty kiss for me, but she also kindly brought me the famous chocolate blanc et langue de chat~

Thank you so much!!

Now I really overwhelmed by the Japan trip hehe =D

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