Dancing Tissues

Hey all, I am once again blogging from the train station. Okay, it’s not really a train station, it’s KL Sentral. Which is just a… transportation quarters? LOL! I know, I am extremely amusing to myself right now -.- I am sipping on ice lemon tea. Normal people SIP coffee/tea. I, on the other hand, sip iced tea. Like, doesn’t that just go against EVERYTHING?! No? Yeah? Ok. I realize that I’m bloodyASS bored here =D Let’s all grin like that. C’mon people, GRIN! =D

Pffft. Life is sad sometimes, you know. Things happen, you feel depressed, and the next thing you know, DEATH! KAboom. Yeah, I WAS thinking of leaving this place a la explosion. Leave my mark, man! Literally =P

ANYWAYS, what I really wanted to write about was what I’ve been up to! Which, if you think about it, is what a blog is supposed to be for O.o *imagines people staring blankly at my lame attempt at entertainment* Oh wells, so college has been REALLY great. I’m loving it! (Just like you love McDonald’s :O) First day of orientation was a bit of a sucky day. Didn’t know anyone and was kinda bored actually. But I made some friends after awhile. I met my now friend, Jirwan. Then he introduced me to KelVin, Esther and Sarah and I was like yay, I know new people! LOL. They like to play pool and Esther and I don’t play really. I suck so bad. Since we go to Asia Café quite frequently I’m FORCED to play. I guess I’m slightly better? O.o Haha.

Last last week we got our injections for typhoid--which made my arm feel funny-- and collected our uniforms. Have the chef get up as well as the whole knife set =D. SUPERASS sharp it’s insane. I cut myself TWICE already; yesterday and the day before. GRRR! Speaking of which, I love my practical classes! Especially Pastry and Kitchen Prac. For kitchen we’ve learned the different names for the types of cutting (there are too many!), how to turn potatoes, and yesterday we cooked some sautéed veg and a tomato fondue. Me and jirwan were in a team. So all the groups had to place their dishes on the table and the teacher wrote comments. I was so happy ours was good! Only bad one was: too many onions. But I love onions!(we ate it up =P)

Pastry class has been TOTALLY awesome. Chef Karam got his training in UK and worked in Canada for 25 years. Such a long time and he’s so experienced! Our first class and he already put us to work, which I love. At least he doesn’t baby us but actually trust us to produce something. We made cream caramel (just the perfect consistency, sweetness and colour! *sighhh*) and scones (Chef Karam claims his is the best in Malaysia. Agreed =D). Yesterday we made Butter Muffins (was supposed to be a cake but decided on muffins) which were light but tasted so GOODD. Because our class is the last on the schedule, he extends it and let’s us make EXTRA stuff. He made some chocolate mousse and I nearly died when I tried it. ORAGASMIC. Lol.

Restaurant Prac is quite interesting too, but not really my thing =P With the waitressing uniform and all. We have to learn about setting tables, the million different cutleries and crockery and 40+ different beverage glasses. Lol.

So far, theory classes are just ok. Staring at slides…. *sleep* =) Kidding! Just saying I’m GLAD there’s only 2 hours a week of it. Plus IT Class makes it 4.

College life is pretty different. Ok, totally different. Lol. I guess I feel it more cuz I’ve moved to KL? I donno. But, living with Ira, just the two of us is awesome (in terms of not sharing my room =P). I’ve gotten into the routine of it all. You know, cooking, washing clothes, keeping the place tidy, walking back from college and just go anywhere if I want (which I don’t because traffic here’s a bitch. I mostly travel to do my grocery shopping. Lol). I miss home though. –end of melancholy moment—

Oh yeah, on Monday I met up with Laura at Midvalley. It’s been a long time since I saw her so it was really fun =) We walked over to The Garden’s cuz there was an art shop there she wanted to check out. I was seriously amused with all the supplies they had there! I can stay there for hours, really. Then I went to FOS cuz Shera said they sell lots of Junk food shirts! But the stock for that week wasn’t that great so I didn’t get anything =/. I guess I have all year to buy one huh? LOL.

Right now, I’m not at KL Sentral anymore but at the Old KTM station. Yeah, I’m hoppin' about *stares at pogo stick*. I couldn’t catch the 12 o clock bus from Sentral because nobody checked in there which sucks, but I guess an extra two hour wait isn’t too bad.. NOT! I wanna get back to Penang now! All my precious time! Must not sleep at all… Argggg *morphs into Zombie* :O What a surprise that would be for my friends eh? hoho

Ooh, they just served me coffee. Aww, I feel the love *grins like an idiot* How sad am I huh?

Hmmm, seems my old school is having some “FIESTA” woahhhhh. Like WHOAAHHHH. I’m so excited. WOAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. *gets slapped with a brick* =P I guess I should ‘give it the benefit of the doubt’ blablabla. I’ll just keep low expectations then everyone will be happy. =)….. =|….=/…

Gosh, depressing. Well, Imma get off now. I can’t even post this as there is NO connection & for some reason none of my sms’ can be sent o.O. TOTAL assification. Meh.

Of Falling Olives and Rising Cheeses

Well, this is it! The oh so anticipated blog entry that absolutely EVERYONE has been waiting for! Haven’t you seen the ads out in the newspapers?? *calls up the advert guy* Zomg, they forgot the ads! Oh wells, not my fault whatsoever.

*crowd whispers loudly: Suuureeeeeee*

Meh, fine. I’ve just been busy/lazy/uninspired. Yeap, in that order too. Lol. Right now I’m sitting in my new room in KL which is internetless! So, I have no clue what my previous post was about. I know, when I finally post this, I would have internet, therefore I would find out what the blog was about, leading me to edit this part out. Well, this isn’t a perfect world, is it now? Yeah, life sucks that way sometimes. –end of ASS moment-- I’ll just tell you bout the stuff I DO remember this year.

First of all, I finally got my license to kill, ie. Drive. Haha! Aren’t you scared already? It’s just a ploy to get you to stay away from my precious car. The glamorous and extravagant……*drum rolls* Datsun 120Y. It’s 30 years old and is traditional manual, baby! ZOMG, at first I hated being on the road since I didn’t have enough experience and my car was swerving everywhere! Fun times, I know. Though, after a while everything was good… except my parking still stinks =P.

With my license, I had to get a job! So I started work at the E&O Hotel. I was lucky to even get the interview. My Dad had the connections actually. Lol. Nothing to do with my charming personality, sadly. HAHAHA! The Exec Chef said I could work there but without pay and I didn’t mind at all because the experience would be amazing! My whole time there was AWESOMEEEE. Got to work the Sarkie’s Kitchen & they let me cook instead of just chop onions all day. Lol. Then went into the Cold Kitchen where they prepare the salads, fruits and sushi stuff. Then was into Pastry Kitchen with the ZOMGBBQTHEYUMMIESTDESSERTS. Made some tarts, cheesecake and some custardy thingy. I spent the last week in the 1885 which is a fine-dining restaurant there. During that month I put on some weight! Scandalous, I know. There’s all this food around me, it’s hard not to =P I would go into the chillers, especially the Pastry Chiller, I would grab some brownie or cheesecake or chocolate mousse or ANYTHING. And sometimes, when I’m working the evening shift and the dinner buffet is over, they would cook stuff for me! =D

Oh yeah! I nearly forgot we received our SPM Results. Such a joyous occasion, really -.- All that anticipation, jumping up and down, and finally they gave it out (a gazillion years late I might add). I immediately wanted to go and apply for scholarship but the bloody teacher took my result slip away from me! ALL BECAUSE OF A LOUSYASS UNRETURNED PJ TEXTBOOK. I had lost mine ages ago and I didn’t know they were gonna pull this crap on me. Seriously. Asses. After much begging, I ended up driving (extremely pissed off) to the nearest bookstore to buy that useless excuse for a book that will never ever be appreciated by ANYONE. I handed it over when I got back to school and snatched my results from the teacher’s hands. Okay, what really happened was I smiled sweetly and thanked them so much. PFFFFT. Must be at the top of my fake smiles list. Mmmhmmm, I have a list! Can you believe it? Yeah, neither can I! Lol. Well, once I calmed down I drove my retards (Mon&Mei) to the College office then headed to Gurney to celebrate! We ate loadsa desserts; Happy food!

Anyways, work finished in the middle of March cuz I had to prepare to go to college. I went down to check out the apartments under Taylor’s and got so depressed! The place was REALLY bad. We had to share with 6 other people on top of that. Luckily my old classmate called me before that and said she could share her apartment with me. AHHH, it was so amazing compared to the other one! So, it’ll just be the two of us until we find 2 more tenants.

I spent my last week in Penang hanging out with everyone besides packing/doing last minute things. Me and MonMon went to stay at the Copthorne Hotel. On the way, Mon was pestering me (kidding =P) to go to Shenanigans to have their Apple Crumble. It was SO AMAZINGLY DELICIOUS!

*starts dreaming about giant apple crumble*

*grins happily*

We checked into the hotel and the woman was giving us directions just to get to our rooms. ZOMG, very retarded. When we FINALLY got the our room, we ate ( Mon brought some Cheese Chiffon Cake. Never knew there was such a thing), played games, laughed at stupid drawings (we were playing guess the sketch. Lol), and took lots of pictures =D. At night we went to Ingolf’s for dinner. YUMMMMMY FOOOODDD. We enjoyed it so muchoooo.

Aww, Mon Mon!

Lighting in the toilet was better. LOL!

It was around 10 when we got back to the hotel and we were supposed to have this movie marathon until some ungodly hour in the morning. We started off with Forrest Gump. Gosh, that movie is just one of the most enjoyable ones I’ve watched! I could watch it again and again. After that, we saw Finding Neverland. Half way through, Mon was falling asleep -.- PFFFT. So much for that =P

In the morning we went down for their breakfast and totally stuffed ourselves. i was so extremely full, I couldn't move! Their omelet is really good though! When I discovered I COULD move, we went back up to finish the movie, talked, took MORE pictures, and THE END…. We checked out. We were only home for like 10 minutes then Belle arrived! She stole somebody’s Kelisa! *gasp*

To find out whose, log on to www.iknowwhoyoustolefromlastweek.com

It will be shocking, it WILL be exciting & IT WILL BE SCANDALOUS.

There goes my advertising skills eh? Lol. Moving on, we went to Queens and randomly decided to watch a movie; The International. It was so lameASS. The ending was completely wtf. I nearly fell asleep half way through it and, as I found out later, so did Mon and Mei! =P

We went to Paddington’s for dinch (it was in between lunch and dinner time. Such a glamorous name =D) and had desserts all the way! WOOOOOHOOOO!

*receives medal for making excellent food choices*

After that we were just spazzing about the mall. Went into Jusco and raced to see who could find tinned palm hearts first. How lame are we? Nobody won cuz there wasn’t any! LOL!

We went home after that embarrassing activity. Well, not right after, but you know. 0=)

Am I squeezing too tight? :O

Then……………………………. Oh yeah! Next day, I went to Pelita to have lunch with Mon and Nabilah! Tis’ been ages since I saw her. Zomg, she is as crazy as ever! That girl is so hilarious and animated. Lol. Ooh, for dessert we went over to Baskin&Robbins.

MonMon, Me and Nabilah

We took eons to choose which flavor we wanted. Lol. I had to leave earlier than expected cuz I needed to get to town and make a new IC. SO ass! The chip wasn’t working and I needed it to open my own bank account. Pfft, all the bureaucracy. Anyway ,at night my dad took me out for dinner at Eden. I had lamb which tasted tender and juicy =D. I was excited to get home cuz Mei texted saying she had something for me. She came by after I returned home and gave me a tiramisu cake! It was so sweet of her... Thanks so much Belle =). BEST TIRAMISU YET! I just spent the rest of the night packing my bags. I didn’t realize there was THAT many things to bring!

On Friday, my last night in Penang, I went to FGA church in Air Hitam cuz was gonna be there and I hadn’t seen her in ages! They had some Revolution thing going on which was pretty cool. The crowd there was so full of energy, really! Mon and Mei came a bit later cuz it was raining, and I quote Mei ,“horses and giraffes”. LOL! Totally funky! I had to say goodbye downstairs =/ Kai got me something and she was so eager to see me opening it! LOL! She got me a mouse shaped cheese grater!!! It’s the cutest thing! I actually saw it before in Parkson’s and was so amused by it, and now I have it! =D Kai, that was an awesome gift, Thank yooooh =D. I hugged everyone and we didn’t want it to be all sad so we started being our spazzy selves. Gosh, I love those retards.

Me & Belle outside

My favourite Munchkin!

Kai with the lil cheese grater. So cute! I have no clue why I'm laughing. O.o

On Saturday morning I loaded everything into my car and we drove off! We were planning to stop in Ipoh to go to Indulgence for lunch. Zomg, we got so lost, driving here and there based on everybody’s WRONG directions. We nearly gave up, can you believe that?! I really wanted to try the food there. I think we finally got there after 40 minutes. Pheewww. Let me tell you, it was TOTALLY worth it!!! The food is TO DIE FOR. DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even the décor was great. Little knickknacks around the place made it all cosy. Me and mum started off with their bread. Even that tasted good! Lol. For appetizers we ordered Mushroom Bruschetta and it tasted bloody good. Then we had smoked lamb with cottage cheese jacket potato. It tasted great too, but not the best. Oooh, for mains I had this salad of duck, figs, and feta with a Gooseberry glaze. The combination of the flavours was excellent! My mum had this pasta in creamy zita with quail eggs, baby carrots and frittered blue cheese. MMMMMMMMMMMMM. You just had to savour the whole thing with you eyes closed. Sighhhhh. For dessert we ordered this dark and milk chocolate truffles with pistachio ice cream, avocado gelato and some raspberry sauce. SINFUL DESSERT! I was just so happy eating it, the chocolate was totally silky and melt-in-your-mouth delicious. I need to bring everybody to this place! It also doubles as a lil hotel actually, so we can stay for a couple of days eating all their glorious food! =D =D =D

Mushroom Bruschetta =D

Fig Salad

THE DESSERT

After that heavenly meal, I drove down to KL. Surprisingly, we didn’t get lost trying to find my apartment! Ira and her aunt helped us to carry all the stuff upstairs. Vooosh! We rested for a sec before heading down to Carrefour to shop for food and other random things and only got back at 12! Such a tiring day, seriously. I immediately went to sleep when I got into bed.

On Sunday, my mum was gonna go off. So we had lunch together before sending her to the KTM. It was raining so heavily so it was a quick goodbye which is what she likes. LOL. We’ll be seeing each other in 3 weeks time anyways!

So yeah, I haven’t been up to much since then. Watched Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging with Ira. Gosh, that show is crazy! Lol. Entertaining though =). Got some eye candy in there too =P.

Today’s been pretty relaxing. I was gonna go to the gym just now but they said it’s not open for some weirdASS reason. So, I improvised! I climbed up to the 26^th floor and back down again. Man, I’m so out of shape. Lol. Hopefully I’ll be able to run up within a few months? *crowd whispers: dream onnnn* PPFT!

That's all for now! My past 3 months summed up in about 2000 words. Lol.