C'est LA viE

Indeed a family day today, and somehow it should be also a exciting yet terrifying day for me.

Why? Because I had registered myself for a swimming class! Yes, in the end, I made it.....yet to...because the pool was too crowded and I really not feeling comfortable to take this course in such a crowdy pool with kids and parents shouting around, throwing balls, having fun....that's really freak me out!

I nearly quit and asked for refund, but I was convinced and decided instead of quit then finding a new swimming class, i will switch to the Tuesday swimming class. 

The only thing maybe I need to sacrifice is my Tuesday badminton session, which is actually made me hesitate. 

Well, but my swimming class is only 4-sessions per month, and is actually not a contract-tied class so I actually can just go for one month and see how it goes.

Of course I can drive to the badminton court after my swimming class, but it would be very late and perhaps I only can play for half an hour with my wet hair on.

So, i will forget badminton class for this first month then, and see how the swimming class goes, unless the badminton session can change to other days. 

But I dont think they will, so I will see how it goes. The good thing is swimming in Tuesday also can save my petrol and toll fees, because I dont need to do extra driving on Sunday, plus the aquatic centre was closed to my company (in the same town). 

I sincerely hope there will be quiet on Tuesday, otherwise, that would be another factor for me to switch to another swimming class. 

Later in the noon after lunch, I went to Empire Subang with my family for the travel fair. 

Apparently I got "extra" annual leaves from my probation period last year. Since I was confirmed, I also eligible for these 3 and half days.

For sure i will redeem my leaves, and I was requested to use all of them by June. So, I asked my retired mum if she plan to go for a trip and we've been looking for chiang Mai, Thailand.

However, I was tired to find for accommodation, flight ticket, itineraries etc for such a short time, so going via travel agency group tour will be the most efficient and time-saving solution.

I proved it right because we had booked for the trip today, it would be 5D4N during raya period, but need to be final confirmed in the next few days. 

So means before my korea trip, i am likely to travel Chiang Mai first lol. I think i need to really cut down my temptation for cafe hopping and avoiding unnecessary expenses. 

Then, we also gone to Jaya Grocer for grocerries, coincidentally, there is a NZ fair too!

How I missed NZ? VERY MUCH!!! When i see all the products, my eyes were blinking, there were all so familiar, yet some new variety and flavor also released!

We spent more than RM100 here, but it was worth because I know NZ products are great!

Even the whittakers also have new range! 

Dad also bought the Kapiti ice cream, I picked the vanilla bean one, because i remember i tried it once and it was good! 

Still good! Not that sweet and ordinary like other vanilla ice cream, this is more a real vanilla bean ice cream! You can spots the vanilla bean bits in the scoop. 

RM5 is not expensive actually, it is cheaper than Inside Scoop! And you dont need to pay extra to choose the waffle cup~

Another good thing i discovered is this porto bello mushroom! I thought this species only grown in NZ/Aussie, but surprisingly Malaysia also grow these!

So I decided to do a quick research on this mushroom and shocked to find out both portobello mushroom and button mushroom is actually the same!

According to wikipedia: 

Agaricus bisporus is an edible basidiomycete mushroom native to grasslands in Europe and North America. It has two color states while immature—white and brown—both of which have various names. When mature, it is known as portobello mushroom, often shortened to just portobello.

When immature and white, this mushroom may be known as common mushroom, button mushroom, white mushroom, cultivated mushroom, table mushroom, and champignon mushroom

Wow! this is impressive and amazing! I thought they were both different species! 

However, there was also some saids that though they were belong to the same species but actually they were under the same species but different strains. This species originally have brown cape and would sooner mature into the portobello mushroom. Then, a farmer discovered a cluster of naturally mutant white cape mushroom in his mushroom bed, and the current white button mushrooms were descended from that cluster~

So meaning white button mushroom do not grow into portobello mushroom, but is the same species while different strain of mushroom (with brown cape) grow into that. 

Happy to find out this, and wikipedia is not always right =) 

After shopping, I suggested to have vietnamese meal because dad and mum seldom have chances to dine at Subang area, plus their last experience at a vietnamese restaurant near home was bad.

So since i had experience dining at Pho Vietz at Empire Subang, why not let them to try out.

Mum chose the spring roll & lemongrass chicken vermicelli, which is always the menu i picked everytime have vietnamese meal. 

But we were too full, because it was just close to 5pm when we dining, mainly because we dont want loose the chance to have meal here =) 

Therefore we only ordered 3 mains, beside the vermicelli is banh mi and traditional beef stew with rice.

I initially planned to order pho with beef, but dad was interested to have this traditional beef stew =) 

Actually the taste was not bad, just i find the beef brisket was too chewy and hard. 

For the Banh Mi, it was good as last time, yummy!! 

Glad that all my family like it a lot! Highly recommended, better than subway a lot no matter in price or taste!

So that's all for today, love how we bond together and laugh around casually, chit chat about good food and all those random little things in life. 

That's what i cherish and grateful for. What a good day =)

There were 3 of my colleagues having birthday in the April month, and Nancy suggested to have a dinner together tonight.

Food was meh, and price was not cheap too, i guess there is no necessary to mention where we dining then.

Well, i had prepared for the worst taste, and understand this is just a dinner using excuses of someone's birthday. 

We only gathered for 1 and a half hour, there were no birthday cakes, most of the people was either talking among their own circle or starring on the phone (me), perhaps the purpose was for the photo session only.

This place is located at Sekysen 9, shah alam, also my first time visit at this area, surprisingly, this area is where the famous Shah Alam big mosque located.

This was also my first time looking at this mosque so closely, really huge and magnificient.

Perhaps, this was the extra bonus to comfort my appetite.

Note: To be honest, i think i will turn down similar event in the future, to save my money and appetite. 

Had been quite sometime since my last cafe hopping, was thinking to cut down my cafe-hopping frequency, to save money at the same time to cut down my calories. 

Well, i also realized the moment i started to reduce the sugar, i actually had lost the temptation falling for sugary desserts.

However, everytime i saw some good dessert photo, it would still activated my urge for the sugar. 

I met up with Faeezah today, simply because I wanna visit this place - Naj and Belle.

Yea, I also would like to catch up with her, but tbh, my priority is still the food, lol.

Naj and Belle is a cafe established by the founder of Serai Group, we all knew how good was their selection of cakes, and yes, i come for the famous watermelon cake =) 

And as it was a halal cafe, of course i would love to have Faeezah with me, eating good meal at the same time shared our recent life.

Glad she is doing alright, not sure if she ok with what she having now, but i do hope she is happy with what she has. 

I have the belle breakfast, come with a panfried salmon steak, roasted cherry tomatoes, chickpea cake, poached egg, pickled onion and pita bread.

To be honest, i am quite shocked with the breakfast when it presented to me, it's just like mix and match, something like the chef did not know what to cook and simply grab a few items to make up a plate.

Overall, the combination was very dry, the salmon was overgrilled, and the pita bread/chickpea cake were too dry. 

Only thing amazed me maybe was the sweet roasted cherry tomatoes ==。 

I am not sure how Faeezah thought about her pasta, but i guess both us had a good night for chatting.

For dessert, I did not miss out the melon cake, but it was not that great that i thought.

Simply just replacing the spongy cake with a thin cut of watermelon, perhaps precisely ensuring there was no seeds remain. 

If you are looking for something less sweet, the cake is an option, but it did not fall into the healthy category because the amount of cream layer was not little.

Faeezah picked another cake too, a sweet and rich berry cheesecake, nothing fascinating about it. 

Apparently only the melon cake was the highlight among their cake selection, this also explained why the place was still so quiet after opening for more than a year.

Actually there are plenty of eateries in SS15 courtyard, but the parking fee was too pricy, I guess i would park outside the building for my next visit if there is next time. 

今晚又來了個閨蜜晚餐，和敏今晚聊了也是很多，之所以叫做第四出動是因爲最近我開始追看一部日劇-《東京白日夢女》，劇中女主角和閨蜜們有所謂的聚會原因：

第一出動 - 閑著無聊想來一杯時

第二出動 -  工作不順想發牢騷時

第三出動 - 想說某人壞話時

第四出動 - 有關男人的緊急狀態時

哈哈哈哈沒錯，今夜我們出動是爲了男人哈哈哈，因爲最近輪到我們的敏敏桃花旺咯

老實說，知道敏有了新的約會對象后，有替他開心之餘，也間接擔心自己的狀況，感覺好像快剩下自己一個人了

可能如此，最近真的很消極，覺得做什麽東西都沒有勁，沒有信心，更別説什麽愛自己什麽了

對人對事，自己向來都是愛恨分明，只是沒想到敏今晚提醒我一定要改掉這種觀念和想法，因爲她不想我變成她討厭的那種人

我其實也不知道哪一面引發她這種反應，我只是覺得我最近很消極，對很多東西（聽到的還是看到的）都很不屑

我不懂是不是因爲環境的關係，還是年齡引發的心理的關係，反正就是對很多東西都不滿，不爽，不屑

很不好，我當然知道，我也很想擺脫這個狀況，也不明白發生了什麽事，大概是因爲從玩了那個交友app加上前同事所謂的“改造”和“洗腦”讓我更加喪失信心

我就是如此不堪一擊，任何人，即使和自己沒什麽相干的人的一句話我就是可以淪陷，就是如此脆弱

很感謝hema上次告訴我學習無視那些抨擊和言語，或許如此才造就我現在的不屑對吧？

反正今夜和敏敞開心房后，有點釋懷，覺得自己還有這麽一個可以聊心的閨蜜實屬難得，很珍惜我們相聚的時光因爲很害怕她如果談戀愛后會有異性沒人性哈哈哈 

至於我自己的事，終究還是得自己去解決吧？

我會好好的，只是真的要努力去改變心態和想法，我會試著去改變自己主觀的那一面並且提高自己的信心，真的要相信自己，愛自己多一點，努力的活著，成爲自己想成爲的人吧！

加油！！

回到今晚的餐點，我們去了最近相當紅的一家新開的綜合式的素食咖啡廳，話説我們等位置等了10分鐘，等餐點等了近30分鐘！

食物本身就真的很天然，有機沒有我不懂因爲沒證據證明，但是我想說的是，那位服務員不斷的長篇大論解釋爲何餐點會需要那麽久的烹煮時間，然後等了這麽久看到的餐點卻看不見所謂的用心和需要那麽久的烹煮時間

就如我點的這一份番茄燉蛋，其實是水煮蛋吧？！放了幾片番茄在下方，然後直接把2顆蛋打在上方再放入oven,就告訴我是bake egg?! 你當我是白痴嗎？

還需要長時間燉！？拜托，那個蛋都已經過熟了好嗎！

怎麽說，這種餐廳堅持原汁原味，並且以健康作賣點是好的，但是這麽貴的餐單（還要很多東西都放在餐單上然後又無法供應==），那麽多的解釋來做遲上菜的藉口，說什麽很多人病了所以今晚上菜慢，你知不知道如果你的員工病了，在這一行（hospitality)根本是不允許來上班的，萬一我們食物中毒怎麽辦？

反正我再也不會光顧了，希望他們真的有所改進。

怎麽說都好，我們今夜的第四出動最後都要變成第五出動了（我自己取的- 赤裸裸的心事大會）哈哈哈

For the first time, I drove myself to Publika, which means the target I set for a long while - to drive to KL is success now =D Wee~

This is not a joke, and I never into those prank for April Fool, i did it~

Actually I could consider myself success when I drove to Mid Valley end of last year, but Mid Valley is somehow considered quite close to PJ (to me), so i guess Publika is a good milestone hehe.

Not to mention that I also drove to Bangsar 2 months ago, now I am more confident to drive to those places I used to be afraid or nervous of =)

Maybe one day I could drive to KLCC, KL city centre (B.Bintang, Pavillion, Timesquare etc). 

Went to meet Cheryl today, and also saw the art market held at Publika every weekend.

This is actually a good platform for the local artist and seller to show the public their creativeness on craft or other brilliant ideas.

I gone to an artistic zakka shop and bought this:

I am going to send this card to Sze Ying for her birthday, and hope the local food can remind her home everytime she saw the card =)

Then, I was so hesitate to buy this necklace, because of the recent minimalist trend, I started to like simple thing, this tiny but meticulous copper colored arrow necklace was so beautiful ^^

After wandering around a few stores, Cheryl was here and we gone to The Red Bean Bag instead of the initial plan - Ante. 

Waited for 4 tables only able to get a table, this was my second attempt at the red bean bag, this cafe still receive such a overwhelming crowd after 2 years, it was really a great success.

Overall, i think they somehow also maintain their food quality, my last baked egg dish experience was not that great, but this time, my Atlantic dish actually was satisfying.

The presentation was good, just like 2 fishes swimming in the black sea, and actually the bread underneath is French Toast =D

Both toast contain different combination: one with sauteed mushroom, while another with wilted Australian baby spinach. 

The French toast just like how the menu described: FLUFFY~ very soft upon biting, and not oily at all =) 

Portion was just right, i didnt feel guilty after finished up both French toast, and the combination of the poached egg with the remaining was meant to be together =) 

I guess I will come back here again for trying other dishes, because i really think their dishes are heartful and passionate which is rarely seen in Malaysia.

Hope they keep this standard forever !

For drink, i totally jumped to the wrong boat, should have read the menu more precisely, it written freshly squeezed and bottled juice, what i was thinking !?

But the taste was not too bad, just very tiny and it didnt really fulfill my sweet tooth, as I did not eat any dessert today hmmmm.

Yea, reason was Cheryl seems not interested then i might be end up eating all by my own. =S 

I am well aware of there is plenty of dessert places at Publika and I ald shouted that loud to Cheryl, but could tell she is not excited as I did.

So, kept that for someone who appreciate the same thing then =) 

After all, I am happy to try out her bridemaid dress, and looking forward for her wedding~

By the way, mum also had bought something good this weekend, check out this!

Is the NZ yoghurt, imported from NZ al the way to Malaysia, and come with a yoghurt maker!

OMG, the taste just like those old days when I always buy myself a tub of yoghurt almost once in 3 weeks. 

Creamy and yummy~

Indeed a good Sunday!

好久沒和敏單獨相聚用餐了，這一夜我們好多話題和八卦，對我而言這就是閨蜜的時光

其實我本身並沒有很多知心的好友，敏算是這麽多年來在我身邊非常重要的一個朋友

不過自從我們各自投入社會后，好幾次我曾經都因爲她和她的同事閒更加親密的交往而感到失落

那種失落是覺得自己仿佛失去了一個知己，被一個重要的，在乎的朋友冷落了。我還記得我在開車的路上失控大哭，揪心的責駡自己的愚蠢

好幾次告訴自己要看開，君子之交淡如水是我應該要有的心態，因爲我投入的感情未必能得到相同的對待，這是現實也是對對方的一種尊重，因爲我不能要求什麽

我隱隱中擔心或許我的在意反而會失去這個摯友，與其擔心和操控失去的時候不如珍惜彼此還是好友的時光

於是我並沒有和敏大吵大鬧，反而時間漸漸過去后，我的心情慢慢平復，慢慢明白其實大家都重視對方，只是方式不同罷了

我的方式是比較主動聯係型且要求回報型，我對人好就希望別人也以同等的好來對待我，所以經常因爲沒有得到同等的待遇，讓我這個天平座心靈心理都失衡

但是人還是會長大，從以前的極端到現在漸漸看開，當然不能完全說不在乎但是是漸漸豁達是真的，應該把這個執著放在愛惜自己身上

今晚的晚餐聊了好多，從7點45分一路坐到11點多，我們話題一直變但沒有冷過，要說的話還是很多

敏分享了最近和她的同事吵架的事情，某种程度上我在她同事身上看到了自己的影子，不過我沒像她同事選擇欲擒故縱，鬧情緒耍脾氣

於是我也和敏攤開了我曾有的不滿，當然沒那麽深入，我只不過道出了我的釋懷，她也說了她當時也故意不要理我，哈哈哈

說真的我好像沒有什麽和敏聊過這麽深的話題，當初自己被害妄想症爆發時也想了很多，發現自己其實並沒有很關心這個好友，往往都只是在想她怎樣對我，我的心情如何

原來自己也那麽自私，所以才會豁達，才會釋懷。珍惜這份友情應該包容，應該尊重，應該理解。

所以當敏說她的同事抱怨敏遲遲才說出媽媽生病的事而故意不告訴敏自己車禍的事，頓時覺得有些意氣用事，也很好笑

我想她很在乎敏，但敏沒用相等的方式對待不代表她不在乎他吧？

我曾經在友情這個課題上沉思掙扎矛盾很久，一直在想那是個什麽東西，以前是國振，不久前是韻敏。但是如今我不想去想那麽多，我覺得自己重視他們就應該尊重他們的對待方式，至於施多了，就是自己的結的因，那種下來的果即使不好也應該自己去承受

恩說了那麽多，要回到晚餐的身上了，我這個吃貨還很想感謝那些總是配合我的意願去吃飯的朋友們=）

今天的晚餐就在我幾乎沒去過的區域，也挺靠近我家，但是平時只有路過，之前聽説（就是敏那個同事說的）食物還不錯吃，於是乎就在今晚大快朵頤！

其實餐點選擇挺多的，我才想說不要吃big breakfast了，要減肥，結果我還是抵抗不了那個引述的食材召喚！

看看這多元且新穎的搭配，才馬幣20，老闆真的是佛心來著！

和一般的早餐不一樣，不是普通的荷包蛋或scrambled egg,反而是omelette! 然後有少見的玉米粒和香料一起炒過，還不錯吃，也罕有的搭配smoked duck slices，真的很有心

還有2片煎火腿，馬鈴薯餅也是有點不同，比較大塊然後在煎炸時應該加了些香料，最驚喜的莫過於那個迷你可頌了， 香腸也是超大一條

整體上中歸中舉啦，不過價錢算實惠畢竟分量不小

我點的lychee black tea也是不錯喝哦，這個小屋造型的茶包好想帶回家啊~

最後來一張閨蜜合照，這也是好久好久以後難得的合照耶~

致友誼~

Hmmm, seems like i am blogging once a week again...nah, is just nothing special this week.

Soon as I bought my korean trip flight ticket, i had tried to save more money for the trip expenses by reducing the cafe hopping frequency. Hehe.

Actually had eaten quite a lot for this week too, my younger brother was celebrating his21st birthday at Ole Ole Bali on the previous Monday night.

I didnt blog on spot because i did not capture any nice photo lol. I wonder if my brother did but neither he was uploading any food photo.

Well....we enjoyed the family time at the restaurant and surprisingly my parents love the food more than i expected.

Then, i was thrown with a chocolate lava project end of last week, and start to do the project this whole week long. I had eaten so much lava cake these few days.

The evil molten lava was filling up fat in my body, oh, how disgusting....yeah recently was really anticipating on reducing sugar but still cant resist dessert ==

I had set up a target to reduce the cafe hopping frequency as well as avoid ordering big breakfast because i am aware of what i was eating was actually ruining my diet plan.

Then, i also set a target to have dessert just once a week. Had been thinking maybe once in a 2 week will be more productive but for me who work in the baking industry was real hard.

Ok, stop talking about work, though it's had been a long week and quite moody in between, thanks to Li Yin, my new colleague who kept cheering me up to stay positive tho i understand it was hard.

Thanks to her motivative kit-kat bar again, i was loaded =)

Back to today, it was a relaxing day, coz is FLY DAY!! hahaha 

I had completed my chocolate lava cake project yesterday so was also very relaxed =D 

Actually i realized i completed many projects these day in a fast pace, it could be due to the projects were not that hard, or because of my capability?

I rather believe the projects were not that challenging, well, the success rate somehow made me scared.

But, i think it is a good way to prove that it is right to hire me right =D 

Catherine was on leave today, so the day become easy pisy lol. I actually prefer Cat to have leave, of course it would be perfect if both Cat and Ms Foong (both are managers) absent at work. 

However, it would be hard to happen so with absence of cat, all of us less struggling because Ms Foong is slightly easy to deal with. 

Moreover, Ms Foong would be gone around 4pm, and just like what we expected, she left at 4-ish. 

The kitchen turned into dining area, Kenny and Nancy were preparing special bakery this afternoon - curry donuts sound attractive, just i find it really oily.

Still, everyone love it and enjoy the relaxing time without bosses.

At night, i finally catch up with Hema. We used to work together very frequently in the old days at LOC in Macfood. 

I am glad that we still connecting and she insisted my attendance at her wedding.

DOnt she worry that i would be absent because myself also very looking forward to attend my first Indian wedding. 

We had a simple dinner at Flingstone cafe at ss15, was lucky to find a parking nearby and thankful that Hema didnt call off the dinner even she actually was sick.

The only dissatisfaction was the cafe had limited available dish due to something went off in their kitchen, no wonder it was so empty.

We were too lazy to walk around to hunt for other food, so we just bear with the limited dishes they offer.

I had the famous chu yao zar (pord lard) angel hair pasta, i found it too dry but the taste was not too bad.

I also suprised myself to order the matcha latte mainly because it was caffeine free, somehow just felt like getting it rather having icy drinks. 

Actually it was not too bad, i just googled and found that matcha latte is just combination of milk and matcha powder.

I am not a coffee fan hence i never interested to understand the meaning of latte, so now was lightened that i actually i can order matcha latte in the future =)

I never love coffee, i dont mind the smell but i seriously dislike the taste, but i always love matcha, like everything come with matcha ^^

Hema got herself an eggy sandwich and she said it was nice. That's good, at least can tell the cafe was keeping its standard then. 

Revisiting next time? Maybe for the other signature porky mains... 

We chatted so much tonight, good to know Hema is getting a new offer and i really hope she considered wisely for the career because even now i think Macfood is not a place for long career.

I was worried for Hema's health and emotion especially she is planning to get married end of this year.

Hope everything goes well at her end, as for mine, thanks for her advise to tell me to be more confident, her words somehow motivated me. 

Yeah, i shall become ignorance, ignore those words that used to offense me, this is a good way to become less sensitve.

Once again, i was told that i expecting too much, i guess i have to just let everything flow at their ways. 

Somehow, i realize my nature who love to control everything, but things just happened in their way and i never get to enjoy the moment. 

Good lesson vivian, you should just enjoy the moment, but not controlling the process or the result. 

I believe every single person we met in life would bring something to us. It would be physical, or mental, we couldnt stop these people step into our life, neither we could hold them to stay in our life. 

So appreciate the moment they come, enjoy the moment we shared, and thank the gift they brought to us, it could be a real present, a joyful time, a good lesson, even a bad experience.

We may not notice how they changed our life, maybe because we were not inspired, or we just never think of the reason behind. 

I guess both me and hema are alike in terms of our living value and career goal, i am happy to find someone similar as in she also want some me-time after reaching home.

I also love this me-time and i think that is important because we always live in a big society and somehow will lost. It is important to just be by our own, and reflecting what we had done and how could we improve. 

That's life isnt it?

Yeah, today is the International women's day, but we did not celebrate this day, it was just a random night for the outing group to gather =)

Cheen had finally returned from the cruise after 4 months, glad that she still in full piece and definitely had a good experience and fun!

It was delightful to hear her stories, and also happy to receive these!!

I can feel the love hehehehe =D

We were having dinner at Funa Zushi tonight, this was my second attempt here, and apparently this place considered the best Japanese cuisine in Klang.

The food overall was not too bad, we ordered way too much tonight!

I had the aki bento, come with various sushi, tempura (shrimp and salmon =D), sweet soy flavored fried chicken, chawan mushi and miso soup.

This was a luxury meal, and the price of RM40 to get all these was considered very good because it would be hard to get such a great variety and also quality food.

Besides my bento, we also ordered agedashi tofu, gyoza, edamame, a few selections of sushi, karaagae ....omg, i ate way too much tonight!

The gathering tonight was awesome, good talks, lots of laughter and jokes. 

Kok chin was making fun of me with my funny and weird dates, and i also laughed at his weird encounter of women =P

Cheen talked so much about her experience on board and almost had no time to eat

Bean was just being quiet and listen to our silly stories and occasionally gave a bombing comment.

In the end, bean also was telling us about her plan to leave the job and so. We were teasing her again, and the night ended with it. 

Hopefully she made up her mind and move on soon, also wish cheen and chin stay well and happy with their life. 

Until then, let's count down to the next gathering =)

Just finished celebration for February babies last week, and here comes the celebration for the March baby, - chyi's. 

Apparently the girls only whatapps group had been recently modified into a new name - Wo們, means "us".

Finally someone realized how lame was that name, oh well =) 

We had our gathering at That comma cafe in Setia Alam, this cafe has a good rating over the websites, I must agree the ambience and the service was just like what the viewers experienced, but the food was actually just alright.

I ordered the combination of breakkie waffle and farmer's breakfast. 

The breakkie waffle was served at first, without telling me they would serve the second one later, which made me really confused.

Reason of myself being confused - I was so shocked after seeing the portion size.

In my mind, i thought the waffle was just like an extra add-on with the breakfast, but apparently it's really come with an sunny side up egg and grilled bacon.

Unfortunately, the waffle is a Belgium waffle, this crispy and sweet waffle was not a good companion with the savoury and salty egg and bacon.

Hence, this breakkie waffle was really a bad dish. 

I waited for quite long for my second part to be served, and was doubting if the staff wrote down the wrong order, ignoring my combination meal.

Kc was comforting me about they will serve later, and it was true until i asked one of the staff. 

Then, my farmer's breakfast finally arrived after KC's cheese baked spagetti, which was pre-informed need to take 20mins for prepartion.

However, they never told me it need more than 20mins preparation for my farmer's breakfast. Hmmm....

The combination was not too bad, there were baked beans, a long chicken sausage, grilled capsicum and mushrooms, corn and lettuce salad, served with 2 homemade toasts and sunny side up egg underneath.

The mushroom was actually cold, sames for the egg, it was actually not very appetizing. Chicken sausage was actually quite salty, but overall not too bad, if the breakfast is hot.

I could complain about the "bow up" pan, and also the rusty pan, but i was too hungry, and ate so much until the end, turned up i was so full ==

Let's skip the food and back to the main purpose of our gathering tonight - to celebrate Chyi's birthday.

But it was an early celebration, and she was so like a student tonight. Seems like we were just back in high school.

There were also many high school throwbacks and conversations, all the memories back like we never change at all.

It was a happy night, with lots of laughter and fun. 

Yimei bought the same cakes again, a variety of cheese cakes from Purple monkey.

However, i must confess that the cheese cake actually was not that great for the second attempt. these cheese cakes were too hard

The taste, no matter which flavor, were also not very good, they almost taste the same ==

The new flavor - chocolate banana was so awful, i felt like throwing up after eating that small piece. Imagine the cheese cakes were so small but shared by 9 of us, each person only got to taste very tiny bites. 

Ignoring the cakes, afterall it was a good night, with good people. Happy birthday Chyi!

Finally met Natasya after 2 years, lol, I was the one who made the call again, i doubted why i always be the one who schedule all these gatherings...

However, i would take this as a blessing, a gift, who bring people around me closer, and together =)

Had big breakfast at Plan B this morning, actually all cafes at Mid Valley were packed in this Sunday morning, I guess everyone woke up late and linguiring for brunches.

JUst like myself, rather skip my homemade simple breakfast, also drown for this evil breakfast platter

Actually Plan B got a varieties of breakfast options, but somehow I was very hungry this morning, so still chose big breakfast.

The breakfast come with pan seared chicken sausage, angus beef bacon, avocado wedges, sauteed mushroom, scrambled egg, cherry tomatoes, baked beans and homemade multigrain toast.

Portion was real big, I still got like 2/3 to go after Nat finished hers. BUt i am happy with what i had ordered, but sincerely it was just an ordinary breakfast set, nothing special about it.

My honey lemon tea was more interesting, come with a beaker of honey, it's really reminds me about those lab work i did at job.

We chat so much today, not into we-fie, cuz i could tell Nat did not like taking photos, and not even into social media.

So we just enjoy the moment we shared, and talked so much, from work to relationship, to view about guys and setting up a family.

We covered such a deep topic today, and it had been a while since i use english to begin a conversation outside of work.

It was actually a bit struggling at first, but somehow it brought back lots of memories, those memories that i always had english conversation naturally with my ex-colleagues, friends...

I guess is time for me to speak more in english, because i really afraid i will lose all these familiarity one day.

After breakfast, we spent sometimes for window shopping, but Natasya managed to get some outfit for her work.

For me, i nearly bought one but hold back at last minute because the dress i saw was really similar with one that i had.

In the end, we also got further "snack" and dessert at Define: Food.

I actually really wanna dine in there, thank god Natasya didnt mind it is just pork free restaurant.

Nat was still hungry, so I suggested to order one savoury meal and one dessert.

So here we go: homemade wagyu beef lasagna for savory: i actually really like this, it was really good, the cheese really creamy and chewy, matched so well with the sauce and minced beef.

It may not seems appetizing, but the taste was actually good.

I picked the Alaska Bomb for dessert, because it is more unique and i really wanna find out their standard for dessert.

For sure, Alaska bomb aint a easy dessert, the presentation is awesome, but the meringue was too soft and too sweet.

Actually it was my first time encountered such a soft meringue and just learnt that Italian meringue is baked differently from French meringue.

Italian meringue was soft and stable and more ideal for decoration purpose. 

However, i still think the meringue was too creamy and thick for this dessert.

The crumb underneath the meringue, over the pandan kaya ice cream was actually slightly crumbly and not matched with the dessert.

Pandan kaya ice cream was still almost frozen like ice, and the flavour was so mild that was not able to cope with the sweetness from the outer layer (the meringue).

Good for looking but not for the taste. 

Maybe we paid for the visual then =D

Anyway, it was a good catch up, we shall not meet a year later, Nat, please make the call for the next session =) (but somehow i think it would be me again =S)

Here we come our February baby celebration, it would be good if Karen could join us, but we will have another birthday gathering next Friday~

So is TGIF, tonight is the secret lunch society gathering because we had something for Wai Ee. =)

It had been a while since I give present, well i mean to colleagues specifically.

However, Wai Ee initiated this practice since Derrick's birthday, PS farewell, my farewell then also on my birthday.

The giving is always bring happiness, especially if it was a sincere and heartful one.

Thank you Wai Ee for your kindness, and now is our turn to give (gift) =) 

Gone to BBQ Ma Eul Cup Ba for korean BBQ tonight because Wai Ee suggested to have cakes at Rekindle where is closed by to the korean cuisine.

We passed by this korean restaurant during our last catch up at uptown, the atmosphere of the restaurant had attracted us since then.

So now is time to drop by and check out, i was excited actually because too long never had korean BBQ. 

We had the RM79 BBQ set for 3 of us, there were 3 types of BBQ meat options, come with quite a number of "banchan" (side dishes), and also a mini kimchi jigae (stew).

I kinda miss the korean rice wine drink i had once in Auckland, so i ordered the Makgeoli (korean rice wine) for drink.

It was real good, very different from what I had in Auckland, but i guess this one i had is just without the sprite, so got to taste more oridinary taste of rice wine. 

Having alcohol drink once in a while was really good, especially it really helps to relief the stress.

Oh, i actually was not that stressful, perhaps my stress was not from my current job, maybe more from my age and relationship status of being single.

I shared my tinder experience with Wai Ee and Derrick for the first time, thanks for being a good listeners.

For now, I shall just stay calm and keep moving with life, for whatever jerk i met via the app, or if there is a minor possibility of meeting up Mr. Right, i shall just stay chilled and be patient i guess.

Perhaps I shouldnt expect that much with the app, meeting up the right person using app, for sure all of us are dreaming....

back to the dinner, dinner was actually just ok, not really very good. 

But dessert was surprisingly good. Their cakes seems normal, but the bites was good.

They recommended us to try their famous alcoholic cake which is the chocolate bailey cake and non-alcoholic cake which is the rekindle cheese cake.

Chocolate bailey cake was really good, not too sweet or rich, the texture was good. 

As for the rekindle cheese cake which named after the shop name, was very rich upon the first bite, seems ordinary, but you will be surprised with the end note, a fluffy but creamy mouth feel.

No wonder it was their popular cake.

Derrick ordered churros too, i am pretty sure i am not a churro fan, i really dint find it impressive, basically it was just a long fancy dougnut. 

Wai Ee said it was not good too, i guess maybe i havent tried the good churros yet, but i cant be border now.

Anyway, tonight was good with these folks, we forgot to take a wefie again, but just like what derrick said, we had food photos =D

Thank god is weekend, this week was a busy week, and i still slept late these days ==

I guess i have to be more focused on my goals and never give up!

Woke up around 7am this morning, and gone for a run at the park, glad that i am able to maintain this run routine every weekend.

Hopefully i can do well in the coming Marathon in April, the 10km route is definitely challenging for me, really have to train up myself more frequently.

After the run, i quickly got a shower and drove all the way to Bangsar, yea, for the first time =D

Tho i turned into a wrong junction again and had to pay for extra tolls, but still able to reach destination smoothly, and also luckily got a good parking lot.

Highlight of today? Meet up Cheryl!!

The last time I met her was actually August last year, then she was busy with her marriage preparation and trips to Melbourne hence we drag our monthly catch up to today!

Actually we almost met in Sep, but she was sick at last minute, so we postpone our catch up again and again.

Finally we met each other today at Botanica+ Co, apparently this restaurant and bar is quite famous lately, wow, so cool we jumped into the trend, indeed a foodie, arent we? =P

The menu was too fascinating, many varieties, from sharing platter to brunch, then to mains during lunch hour also pizza range...so hard to choose,

I really struggled to choose this time, was really tempting on hummus which i rarely find in Malaysia, but dont feel like having bread =S

Ended up I picked the Seafood Bisque Linguine, and deep in my heart also tempted to try out their halibut fish n chips, spicy shashuka and big breakfast, thinking i may come again.

My linguine was actually not bad, the seafood portion is really generous, got 3 mussels, some squids and 3 medium sized prawns.

Their in house special seafood bisque gravy was also matched the thick linguine very well.

Yeah, the linguine is quite different from others i found elsewhere, is slightly thick and perhaps mildly cooked because it was quite chewy but not too hard.

Overall i quite like it =) 

Cheryl ordered the Botanica big breakfast, but she found it awful. Luckily i didnt pick that, because from the menu i also found it was overpriced tho the portions seems big.

As the breakfast come with baked beans, grilled button mushrooms, half sized of roasted tomato, turkey bacon, chicken sausage and butter toast, nothing special about the breakfast.

The chicken sausage have a very weird taste, and the button mushrooms also not really grilled well, at least now we know we should avoid this dish when we revisit this place.

I also have ordered a unique drink - rum and raisin milkshake~

The alcohol was so strong! actually not too bad, but i think next time i would get the Guiness chocolate milkshake.

Actually the food at Botanica+ Co is quite pricy, but their portion size is generous, and service was also great.

We thought we need to wait to be seated, but then the waiter approached us and asked if we fine with bar seat, of course not~

But somehow we were lucky, after seated for 10mins, there was another free table. 

Happy that Cheryl is finally engaged and getting married in this June, too bad she forgot to bring the bridemaid dress today, but yeah for another catch up~

I also grateful that she advised me to not demand for good looking guys which somehow i already not doing that. 

Was a good catch up today and looking forward for another meet up before her wedding =)

Really glad that Sze able to spare a night for us during her overloaded schedule within her days in Malaysia.

Finally 3 of us were able to gather tonight, and more importantly, we took a wefie tonight =)

I was so looking forward for tonight since yesterday, because I really treasured our friendship. 

To be honest, it's aint easy to maintain friendship that started from Uni time, there were so many hi and bye but somehow I was able to stay connected with Sze and  Huey Yee

Of course there were also Wann Zhen, but we actually did not keep in touch that frequently but for sure have endless topic when we met.

Sze suggested to meet up at Mid Valley tonight, this was also my second time driving there, but first time departing from my work place.

Thank god the traffic was smooth, tho I went to the wrong road somehow, but still able to get to my destination.

Parked at Garden mall this time which was more convenient and safe, but their parking lots are really packed, and the access entrance was really narrow.

Sze was not able to have dinner with us because she got a family reunion dinner, so only Huey Yee and I had a simple dinner at An Viet, a vietnamese cuisine at Garden Malls.

The restaurant actually got a few choices of dinner set come with mini appetizer which should be a better option, but those set did not include my favourite  Bún Thịt Nướng

However, the menu here named it Bun Bo Num Bo, but I always recognized this dish based on the description or the photo provided on the menu.

Too bad, this dish served at An Viet was a dissapointment, the refreshing fish sauce taste was totally overpowered by the black pepper flavored grilled beef. 

The grilled beef was so pepperish and not matching the vermicelli at all. 

I guess I would order the normal set if I got chance to visit this place again, but I dont see that chance at all lol.

Soon, Sze also arrived, while we almost finished our meal.

We gone for dessert after that, picked the newly opened cafe, Dazzling cafe.

This famous Taiwanese chained cafe was opened by Johny and Janet Yang, a famous Taiwanese couple from the high society, they brought back this shibuya honey toast idea where they encountered and inspired during their trip in Japan, and brought that idea to Taiwan.

Dazzling cafe was first franchised in Singapore, and finally come to Malaysia last month in Garden Malls. 

I had heard Wai Ee commented that the toast was not as great as those in Taiwan, but there were not much dessert options in Mid Valley.

We ordered the chocolate hazelnut honey toast, the toast was really little, only 4 small pieces, really self-fish! =S

Honestly, it was just alright, not that amusing, I think the toast I last tried at Miru dessert cafe was much more better.

I also ordered their signature fruit tea, but was just alright, i really think it was over-rated or maybe the one in Taiwan is better.

However, for sure we had a very good catch up this time!

Sze had shared her memorable travel experience in Germany black forest, which really inspired me a lot.

I so wanna to visit German now, and somehow recalled what I planned like 3 years ago when i left NZ.

I used to think to do a master, but not in NZ, maybe in Europe, then i will have excuses to travel around Europe~

Now think back of that, am i able to do that? Yes, it would be depend on how desperate I am, and if I willing to let go of what I have now.

If i chose that path, i would need to quit my job, use my saving, suffer in thesis, and after completed the master, i may need to face another chapter of challenges such as job hunting and so on.

But, we just live once dont we? I have to think about my future, do i want to continue what i am doing now, work stable but not sure what's next or maybe no changes at all.

Will i find a guy and married soon? I dunno.

Will i be promoted and become manager? Will i stay at where i am now? I dunno

But i always thought about living in another country, especially the countries i love to, for few months to a year.

Living in NZ was very great to me, even i chose to back home, i still have a thought to live in Taiwan or Japan or Europe area for a year or two.....

I am getting 30 this year, I should have deep consideration now, because I am running out of time. 

Will I be fine to do that? Left my parents in Malaysia again? Sigh, there are so much things to think.

Thanks to sze, I really realized I actually still have some dream to capture, and is about time to make a move.

The dinner tonight was really good. Keep moving Sze, keep motivating us =) All the best in NZ for your new job. 

Yeah, tomorrow is public holiday which is awesome! 

I had been slacking these days during CNY, all my goals and targets had been really far away, slept almost 1am every night, not focus on my job, day dreaming all the time....

oops, seems like a bad girl! Well, i really cant help to be like that, so i blamed the cny =P

Ok, anyways, is time to get back to work, move forward in life, but before that, let me celebrate tonight with my folks.

We finally come with a reunion with Lou Sang theme, thanks to me =)

I actually really enjoy gathering, even I always used to be the one who organized all this gatherings, i am happy for that.

Life somehow can be struggling, boring, so i have to make some surprise and happy moments, and we, as human, always can be the one igniting the changes and chances.

So bring it on for more catch-ups, reunions, gathering, because i appreciated the time we spared together and the job we shared would be last forever~

I scheduled this yee sang reunion at Pasta Zanmai tonight, and to be honest, with the cost RM36.88 for this beautiful cny yee sang, it is really generous of Pasta Zanmai.

I wouldnt say their food was good, but at least they were really heartful when come to variety and new menu.

We have a very funny conversations tonight, and it was also the first meeting of Karen and Wai Ee.

Happy to see Kong again, he is still as funny as last time we met. Good to know he is graduating soon and hopefully he got a good job in future.

Pek Shan is still as crazy as usual, I shared with her my tinder experience and glad to hear something positve from her.

Somehow I never imagine we would share such a deep conversation, it was really eye opening!

Actually she was right about me, I am too sensitive and over-reacting towards people, which I might be offended easily by some unintentional conversations.

Is good to know everyone is being right about themselves, somehow you can find out yourself from conversations with different individuals, even both of you were not closed.

I felt relieved after gathering tonight, I think I am holding a lot of grudges, a lots of madness, I am holding myself too much, is time to let go

Is time to just be myself, is time to not care about others, is time to feel ok, is time to just go with the flow.

Thanks Pek Shan, I will learn to let go and be myself, and love myself. 

It was a good reunion, though we really have a very short time.

We had the egglett dessert after the Japanese meal, it was CNY and here's come the LTO edition of egglett waffle 

Seaweed CNY glutinous rice cake version and sweet potato mochi versions! YUmmy!! (Note: photo credit goes to Eggette lab official facebook page)

The sweet potato mochi egglett waffle was good, the sweetness of sweet potato matched well with the mochi~

I am so happy with the egglett!

We also have a nice photo session at the main court at Sunway Pyramid, their CNY decoration is really vibrant this year.

We had been complaining the star wars themed xmas decor at Pyramid was really dissapointing, but now I understand the reason, because the mall decided to place the investment on CNY.

That's actually very heart-warming because they rather spent for CNY, as a chinese, I really touched =) 

Not just the main court, the decorations is up to 4-storeys high with structures of shops and movie theater that resembles the old days. 

The photobooth this year was also very impressive, with a interesting setting of ancient chinese herbal medicine store, and let the public to fully use the props provided.

Moreover, 2 free instant printed photos will be given, and also with soft copies sending to your email. =) That's very nice of them.

It was a memorable sessions, and I am happy witht the gathering tonight =) 

Oooh yeah, after 8 days of CNY, finally come to a proper gathering with my friends.

So glad that sze chose to meet me while following her family to visit friends at Klang, it was such an honour and pleasure for me.

We chat so much this afternoon, but time flies, we dint even capture a wefie!

Hopefully we would be able to catch up before her departure to NZ for next chapter.

Yeah, she must be fated to stay in NZ as she got a 2 years contracted job in our uni. Proud for her =)

Great to hear her stories and journey in Europe, and really impressed of how she able to overcome all the barriers of languages and her first work life in a new environment.

We shared a waffle at Coffee Origin, I definitely would bring her to a better place if we able to catch up again.

Our conversation is yet to continue, and i really wish she would able to spare sometimes for me and Huey Yee, especially Huey Yee was not able to meet us today.

 Then it was another catch up tonight with the class as usual. 

Too bad only 12 of us attended tonight, I guess it would be harder and harder to reunion in the future.

However, it was a good night, we chat some random topic about mediatation, bank calling, and very family based topics. 

It resembled our ages somehow, lol. 

Anyways, thanks for all the attendance tonight, it was a good catch up =)

I think Bean definitely overloaded with birthday songs, wishes, pranks, cakes and happiness this year.

Tonight is another throw up of celebration for Bean, this is also my 3rd celebration for her. LOL

The celebration initially was set on past Monday but I got sick and HuiB also got diarrhea, while Yimei also could not make it, hence it was postponed to tonight.

Afterall, it was just a simple dinner at Sushi Tei, and Siew Teng bought a cheese cake for Bean.

Felt ashamed that I could not tell what cake Bean actually like, somehow I just remember she did not like green tea cake.

So tonight, I would remember she only like cheese cake and pure green tea cake, and she never like chocolate cake and artificial green tea cake lol.

MY bestie, i think i did not really take note what you really like, somehow i think there are more people take note on your preference than i did.

Sigh, and I always thought I am your best friend....so from now on, i want to be more tolerate and understand you more!

Happy birthday my bestie, thank you for growing healthy for another year, thank you for being my best friend for another year and we will be by each other side forever! 

I think Bean must be very touched today, in fact, i was touched too, and somehow really glad she has such a good bunch of colleague did such a huge celebration for her.

Bean, that's right, 30 in fact is a new chapter! 

Bean's colleagues had another celebration for bean today at Mr. Dakgabi in Setia City Mall, her colleagues were really very hearty and love bean so much!

Food were not bad, korean bbq cant be wrong, especially with cheese!

I am really happy that could take part in this lunch, happily to share the joy and hapiness and love from Bean's colleagues.

Bean cried after watching the video, it was really a good combination of warm blessings.

I really impressed how her colleagues reached Bean's parents at Banting, cousin, and sister in overseas. 

Of cause I had put in some effort on getting videos from Scheen and Kok Chin, too bad another 2 persons unable to provide the videos on time. 

Otherwise, it would definitely be perfect!

But i think Bean was already very touched today and happy with all the gifts. 

Hope you always carrying the bright smile, happy birthday my dearest best friend!

2017 will be a brand new chapter for the rabbits, for us who born in 1987, because we are turning 30 this year TT

It was not something to be celebrated, isnt it?

But for bean, it is time to celebrate, because she is the first closest friend who turn 30! 

I was actually very grateful that Bean chose to hang out with us in the big night, if i were her, i would spend the night with my beloved family.

I knew, because Bean's family are at Banting, and it was just a normal weekday, poor her.

So of cause we wanted to spare the big night with her, and also thank you Bean have a bunch of good colleague who pranked and celebrated her birthday yesterday and this morning.

That will be another round in coming weekend and I really looking forward for it.

There were just 3 of us tonight, because Cheen still on the cruise, too bad she would miss a lot of stuffs in the beginning of 2017 but i think she gain a lot too.

happy for her anyways.

We had simple dinner at Coffee Origin as Bean wished, my bologonese was really bad, overcooked and very mild.

I guess it is damn hard to get good pasta in Malaysia. The good or not bad one really countable. 

Coffee Origin is kinda famous with their waffle, they had come out with other varieties recently like what we had tonight.

4 in love waffles, Kok Chin eaten Cheen's, hope he found his love soon then.

As for myself, actually met a guy recently and we chat quite frequently these days, but i just take it as meeting a new friend. 

Time will tell a person's character, i rather take it slowly plus i found out actually i set up quite a number of boundary for my Mr. Right.

For now, I have no any apple of the eye, so take it easy and enjoy life. =D

P/s: this is the love shaped chewy bun baked by Nancy this morning, hope my love reach me soon.

Last, Happy Birthday Bean! Believe me, 30s is just the begining of new chapter! Move forward and be strong!

Finally meeting Eileen again after so long. the last time we seeing each other was last year around October.

She still as busy as usual, Macfood life indeed not much changes at all. LOL

But we shared so much today, unlike our last catch up, we hang out until 10pm and even got dessert! 

I was hesistating to pick a cafe, because there were plenty at SS15 and I not sure which one serve good food.

Ended up we gone to Raku Pizza because I thought we just having a simple dinner. 

Hmmm, i guess i can choose something better next time.

Raku Pizza was not bad, at least they serve a lot of varieties, and food portion was generous.

We had pizza today, which I wanted to try out because I had waffle at my last visit, and it was meh.

Went for the salted egg yolk chicken karaagae pizza, i thought the salted egg yolk trend had ended....so quite surprised when i saw the lto on the menu.

To be honest, it was just so so, chicken was not bad, but the taste overall was really mild and dry unless you chose to pour the buttery salted egg yolk sauce over the pizza.

We also ordered another char siu pizza, this was not too bad, but i think it could be better. 

If i found out their pizza was that huge, i would just ordered one and called out another side dishes or so. 

Still missing their signature dry chicken teriyaki ramen, wonder if i going to visit here again.

We had lot of conversation tonight, mainly surrounding stories and gossips in Macfood. 

Happy to share my thought of life with Eileen, also thank her to share so many life stories especially her past in setting up business and her love story with her bf.

I could see she is more happier now especially when her freak boss had left the company. 

She now cope up with more work load but could tell she is learning more but i did remind her about appreciating her personal life too. 

After so long, i think everyone shall enrich and appreicate what we really care in life. 

Our dessert come last, with salted egg yolk sauce and nestum oat on top of vanilla ice cream, and waffle at underneath.

Surprisingly, their waffle tonight was crispy at the outer surface and chewy (with mochi) upon biting, which really good.

I guess you guys improved or i was bad luck last time. lol

Maybe a 3rd visit next time?? hmmm...