Of Scholars, Graduates and Good Food

It was quite a sad day, I've graduated but... Didn't attend my own convocation lol. Nawh just kidding, I'd rather work off my hours as a student ambassador but at least I got to see my friends jumping for joy over graduation. Must've been exciting but no worries, I'll get a nicer robe and a graduation hat for Degree.

The Multipurpose Hall Grand Hall doesn't exactly give out that "glam graduation" sorta feeling. When the word "graduation" and "convocation" comes to mind, I cant help but think of them Ivy League style graduation, with brick buildings and wooden interior decoration. Not fluorescent lighting and plaster walls -.-

I'm so proud of the Diploma Valedictorian ANDREA LOW YUEN CHING that day. Even though I wasn't present to witness her valedictory speech, I'm sure she did great-! That, and the fact she practically recited her speech to me countless of times lol. 

And I'm pretty sure she's the first ever graduate that received a broom and bouquet of bak choi as her graduation gift instead of the usual teddy's and flowers. Her friends be loving her like that <3

Diploma in Hospitality Management, Culinary Arts and Tourism - Graduates of Year 2011

TCHT was the only school that gets to take a group shot, because we be awesome like that.

The perempuans waited for me to finish my shift then off we went to Nihonkai for dinner... A la Japonaise. I was a bit sceptical at first because this place served authentic Japanese cuisine and like, I can't even stand the simplest sushi-!

But alas, the food came and everything was very *drool worthy*. I'd pick this place over any common sushi franchise any day.

Iz cam-whoring with future Lim Tai Tai.

Load of food pictures coming out. And unfortunately I still don't know the actual names of the dish because I just can't seem to grasp them #failmax.

Fried prawns with lemon garnish

Ariel's cold noodles. There's actually ice underneath that wooden panel thingamajig

My "something" set. There's a proper name for this but like I've previously mentioned, I'm a failure when it comes to Japanese food -.-" Wasn't so crazy about the noodles, only managed to finish about half of the bowl then I banished it to a corner and nomz the rest.

Won't even bother trying to recall whats the name of this dish. It was served with Ariel's noodles.

May, Ping Er, CC and Lord Black joined in half way. The only noise in the restaurant that night came from our table. We were all laughing and talking like a bunch of jakun kampung hooligans lol. And the amount of food we ordered was like @.@ unimaginable. But hey, it was such a memorable occasion we just had to splurge a bit that night.

First round of Onigari *finally something that I remember

May's beef curry rice. I'm sooooooo going to order this the next time I go. Speaking of which, Ariel and Ping Er made a bet with each other. The bet was to see who can finish a plate of beef curry rice and udon set?*forgot again* the fastest. And the time limit given was 2hours. Whoever wins gets... Baskin Robbins trololol. I wanna be there when it happens and be the first one to laugh when either of them shits it out.

2nd round of Onigari... Ordered the grilled one this time and it tasted much better-!

I know, I know... This post is so overdue. The next one will be Ceccilia Wong's 21st birthday-! Stay tuned ;)

What's Wrong Dear Hippo?

"You shouldn't trust me. Because I don't even trust myself." Damn this sounds emo.

Just a mini conclusion of myself. When in a relationship, I usually go through 4 phases.

1. - Infatuation
2. - Comfort
3. - Arguements arises
4. - The breakup

For a normal person, the 1st phases lasts for hmm, around 6months? 2nd would be a year or so? 3rd may arise after a year and a half through the relationship? Thats where I come in. I go through all 4 stages within 2months.

However, if you say "i miss you" or "i love you" too soon, don't ever expect me to acknowledge your presence... Ever again.

Thank you.

No Worries... Klang Maa.

A good cup of tea must always come first. 

Went to Klang for a "Ji Mui Outing" planned by Lord Black (ywen). The rest of the girls had to wait for Wei Mae, Ariel, Ellen and I to finish our class at 5pm and they were waiting at Old Town before 2pm harhar ngawwww if that aint love than I don't know what is.

The journey to Klang took forever-! After more than an hour, and a million potholes later, we've finally reached Lord Black's neighbourhood. We then dropped off 2 cars and proceeded to the seafood restaurant, which we found out later was called "Coconut Flower" lol.

Lala bee hoon

Deep fried sotong

Kangkung belacan... A must-!

Sizzling tofu

Sweet and sour chili crab

Buttered prawns

More lala

7 large dishes finished by 9 girls. We were so famished we sapu'd everything. Owh and top of that Lord Black bought 3 large coconuts for us. Again, so much loves =) And the total bill came up to RM192 which isn't as bad as I thought it would be. But I think Langkawi's seafood is still the best heh.

There were so many poor dogs surrounding the compound. It would come near us when we offer them food. But when we reach out our hands to try to pet them, they would just shy away in fear :'(

This was taken when I was half asleep back at Lord Black's house after dinner. I have such classy friends, don't I.

We went to scout for places to sit and drink after dinner. Choices were OverTime, Library and what not but in the end we settled for Barcollo Restaurant & Bar because it was one of the most quiet ones at the mall we were at. 

We played like dunno how many drinking games. A few were really challenging because we weren't allowed to use Malaysian slangs like "laa", "marh", "lorr"... just to name a few. And other times we had to only speak in Malay, Mandarin and Cantonese... Damn Cantonese was the hardest. And there was one more where we had to keep our left hand raised up and see who's the first one to put it down lol. Mad night.

Car, Wei Mae, Mich and Ellen couldn't sleep over, so we left the bar together around 12pm because Lord Black had to show them the way out. The leftover girls then headed to mamak for second round, then proceeded home.

If you're wondering what's that, it's a picture of my leg with spots of hair. And those spots of hair belonged to Andrea -.- We were experimenting with the Veet wax strips and Andrea was our tribute ( by force ). So when I left one of the used wax strips lying around, it stuck to my own leg instead and left not only those patches of leftover hair, but a generous amount of wax as well. And trust me, they were not easy to remove.

Had bak kut teh for brunch. Lord Black brought us to this place that was insanely packed-! Food is, just food to me. Some people live to eat, some eat to live. I fall into the latter category. So to me the food there was good, but "meh". But then this fantabulous thing called "dry" bak kut teh came and I was like @.@

  Soup bak kut teh

Yao cha guai

Stir fried vege

 Dry bak kut teh-! The sauce is relatively thick and some what spicy, which made it soooo good nomz...

Went to Shepherdoo after that, which is also where Lord Black works. Then we decided to give that "no phone's at the table" game a trial run. Totally failed because we kept giving each other permission to take pictures of the food and drinks to update instagram XP

My virgin pina-colada. Because it's too early in the day for a real drink... and because I'm a pussy like that harhar.

Molten brownie with ice-cream. Forever my fav item to order whenever a restaurant sells it.

Went back to Lord Black's house to laze around a bit after Shepherdoo because we were all too full and shit. Left for home at 4.30pm and have never looked back to Klang since XP

Look Out Behind You

April has been a really hectic month-! It's really not easy studying and working part time at the same time. My social life has reduced drastically and I rarely spent time with my family... That being one of the major contributions to why I've decided to resign, and because my dad forced me too -.-

Dahling's official birthday on the 22nd of April. We patiently waited for his highness's arrival for about an hour or so? Celebrated at Fridays Sunway, of all places right lol. As if Ellen and I don't get enough of Fridays on a daily basis already. 

Ordered a cocktail that night but Michelle and Ellen finished most of it because... I could feel myself getting a bit cuckoo quarter way to the glass harhar. I've got a very bad history with cocktails -.-

Samantha, Ellen and I, with Mamun trying to photobomb us at the back.

Working at Fridays has been such a great opportunity for me. I actually dreaded having to leave because I felt like I've bonded so much with the people there. And when I've finally got to learn the ropes and what not, then it was time to leave. 

Back when I was doing my first internship, I often wondered why seniors were so selfish. If not selfish, then they were very unwilling to train trainees and often blame them for not doing things right the first time.  Now however, I realised that they weren't being selfish, they were just looking out for themselves mostly. Its in our nature to be possessive, and some take advantage of other people... Especially in the service industry, in my opinion that is.

And for the unwillingness-to-train-newbies part... They always see trainees or new staff come and go. Having to teach someone everything they now with such dedication in the beginning, only to have them move on to some other department a month later. Its like, whats the point training someone when they're going to leave eventually?!

I've experienced that about 3 times or more ever since working at Fridays. Though I wasn't their official coach or anything, of course you'd feel obligated to watch out for them, make sure they don't get scolding like how I did and such. But in the end, I felt that my efforts were greatly unappreciated and some even just left unannounced. That really made me @.@

I'd help certain people when I was working there, and then I would just bat an eyelash to others. I wasn't always like that, I'd like to think that I helped everyone, even in the smallest way possible. But some were just plain ungrateful.

So the next time you judge me for being a selfish person... Well, you're either to ignorant, judgemental or have absolutely no experience working. But to me, I'm just looking out for myself. Always have to. It's a dog-eat-dog world after all. 

Dahling's Birthday

I know, I haven't been blogging for a long time... Slightly more than a month more like it. Work has been pretty crazy since January and all the time in between that is spent bumming around at home, sleeping, reading or at the gym ( gosh haven't been working out for a week, fatter die me ).

However, if you expect a wordy post today then you should probably turn back now because I'm still in that "hung over" phase from last night's party and I just wanna post pictures heh. It's for the best really, because I'd risk sounding like a retard ( i get dumber after clubs ). So, enjoy-!

Group photo-! First time clubbing with Reena&Sathid

Went to Ariel's house around 10pm first to lepak and wait for Ellen to finish her shift because we were all going together gether. We had a really quiet drive to Vertigo, I guess it's because we've lost all the hype of clubbing already.

I remember when it was my first few times going out at night. I used to get all excited like a week prior to partying and go crazy in the morning of the actual day. And now I'm like "meh". But I still love going, don't get me wrong XP

With the birthday boy. It wasn't his actual birthday but we were celebrating it in advance. Also, it has been a while since we last clubbed with Tze-!

Random flashback again. I find my nightlife for the past 2 years pretty amazing ( for my bloody low standard ) because I used to go every week @.@ can't even fathom on how I had the energy to go partying every week. And it was one of the main causes I went really broke last year -.-

Fargutz... With Jiyni photobombing them. Everyone had so much fun last night... Spamming my camera with their nonsensical photo's and shit.

With the guys. Sang Ping Er is ridiculously good in photobombing people's pictures I tell you.

What I practically did was "bottom's up" all the way and went straight to Nero around 1am. We were at Bianco but the dance floor was super not happening. And the only people that were dancing, were shufflers-! Owh god i seriously despise people who shuffles on the dance floor because they need like a 10meter radius to shuffle-! Which btw eliminates all chances of other people dancing. That, and they're virginity protection level is just too god damn high lol. They totally deserve it.

Ellen and duck face Ariel.

With the birthday boy, whom I seldom NOT go clubbing with lol. You know how sometimes we all have different cliques of friends? For example separating our college friends with our clubbing friends? Well all of us don't seem to have a problem in this area... Especially him and we've been partying together ever since I can remember lol.

No, it's not something that anyone should be proud of but it's the sorta friendship I really appreciate. And he's going to be leaving Msia to further his studies abroad... so :'( we'll make sure he gets even more drunk that last night.

These 3 were goners XP

Andea, Ellen, Ariel and I went to Di Kayu for an early breakfast after everyone dispersed lol. Thank god Andrea came home with me because by then I was already feeling a massive hangover coming on and was definitely not fit to drive ( see im so responsible scoffs ). 

Reached home close to 5am... Entered the house at ran straight for the bathroom to... Yeah u can imagine what happens next XP Passed out in the same place for an hour or so before Andrea woke me up by opening the bathroom door which knocked my head *ouch*. 

Kay so this is like the lowest point for me EVER. Definitely don't ever wanna feel like this again. The last time I came close to this was last year at Opera, and even back then I've already swore to never puke that much lol. Lowest... -.-

My fav picture of the night... I just can't keep my eyes off of Jiyni's eyes and nostrils man. I edited it into black and white because the original one really cannot make it, what with the redness of her cheeks and all lol.

Kay that's all for now. I'll blog about work or degree or whatever shit that comes to my mind. Till then =)