Bestie's farewell *sobs*

I bet a lot of you have had farewells for your friends whom will be furthering their studies abroad. It's not easy having to say goodbye to someone who's going to be far away for several years especially if that person is your best friend. Well, this was what I had to go through on Sunday, having to say farewell to my bestie. :( Yeah it was happy in the beginning and we did what we promised months ago, which was to hang out at our "老地方" from opening time (6pm) until it was closing time (12am). We really did it and sat till midnight and it was pretty fun hahahah! Anyway, like any special occasion for a bestie or a person dear to me, there's sure to be a card/book lol. This time it was an album for her to keep and bring it along so she can view it whenever she misses us. :)

The bestie loves bling so I blingified the farewell word lor! :D

Every little page in the book takes me at least 45mins each to do since I cut everything by hand. Well not going to say how long it took to complete this but I started like 9 months before actual farewell hahaha! Okay la, not showing everything because it's private :P

My bestie is going to be a doctor! Ok la, dentist doc whatever but she's going to be Dr Kong like the shoe brand LOLOLOL!

No farewell should have the absence of polaroid photos! There was one ruined polaroid which looked really spooky cuz the top half of our face was just black and ewww ! Wasted 1/6 films I had left lor! ISH! Should have bought another box.

Anyway, if this is our 老地方 (Wings Musicafe @ Connaught Avenue) because well, we all are Cheras people and this is like near for most of us ahahha! Plus, good atmosphere cuz there's people singing from 8pm onwards and you can get them to sing any song dedications for friends! If you're lucky like us that day, maybe the singer is a cute handsome guy lehhh ... :P

Oh it's Halloween month and they've got Halloween decor everywhere in the restaurant and a special Halloween menu as well! SO CUTE LO! Like me so wadat wan sure will try the Halloween menu what! I mean, limited time only so why not! My friends kept saying I'm so disguisting. Whut. So sad xia :'( 

Hello my bestie / 主角 of the night ! <3

Her expression when I dont snap a slimming photo of her.. Sad to be me because I'm her driver, part time boyfriend (she's the girlfriend cuz she's got more boobs than me xD) and photographer hahahah!

Vain mode caught on camera :P

While waiting for our food, selfie la of course! :P

#selfiewithcamera

#selfiewithphone

#someoneisthirdwheeling #hint #itstheleftperson :P

#moreselfiesbecausewhynot

Finally after a gazillion selfies, the food arrives! Okay, the drink arrives. This is my drink / alien's blood / energy potion??

There's actually 2 more flavours, human blood and dont know what else blood. I chose the blue one cuz red coloured drinks normally tastes like cherries and medicine which I really hate! >:( My friend asked me what did my drink taste like. I answered colouring. Okay la, it doesn't taste like colouring eventhough there's alot of it *I dont normally drink these stuff wan* but it kinda tastes like the Tuitty Fruity flavour? hahaha anyway it's surprisingly not that sweet and better than what I expect from a heavily coloured drink.

And this is my fried rice with fingers because why not. This dish alone is RM14.90 if I'm not mistaken, and if you get it in a set, it's RM20.90 with drinks and a mushroom soup. The mushroom soup doesn't look Halloween-ish so no photo of that! :P

Mmmm.. Just me drinking my alien's blood. Nothing special here.

Amanda who loves asking people to help her take photos. I'm one of the victims.. hahaha! joking. Amanda please don't smack me :D

So that day somehow the singers arrived earlier than normal and started setting up. The guy singer quite cute and got a good voice lo. My pals all like wah cute hahahah!

As usual, we sat at our favourite booth which has these balloon light stuff that creates this super "feel". *spot the fake spider on the other light ball!*

After chowing down our meal, our main girl of the day got to open the album I made and the gifts we got her! Everyone wrote their wishes and put it in as well!

She just roughly looked through the book and if she slowly read the whole thing, I bet she'd cry.

When she was done reading my letter to her, I swear I saw tears!! She just claims its her contact lens but no need to be shy la Xing Wei, cry jiu cry la hahahah! :P

After we were done with our food, the 5 of us proceeded to play some games while waiting for the rest to arrive! One of the late comers had things to do and the other was sick but still rushed over just for the farewell! Oh btw, we played a truth game where the one who got the biggest number will get to ask the one who got the smallest number a question and they have to answer the truth. Quite a number secrets were exposed that night and we promised that it wouldnt leave that table hahaha! It was quite fun though because there were some pretty deep questions which led our bond to be even closer since we shared something deep. Some sad memories of mine were dug up and it was quite sad remembering them again but it was good that they finally knew that I felt like that and how much I gone through. It was great though :)

Us making a special song request for Amanda who's birthday just passed. 

Finally our turtle Nie came right from work and just in time to blow out the candles with Amanda! Hui Nie's birthday was actually a day before our gathering.

Awwwh the birthday girls hugging it out as they're finally in the 19 club!

Me and the two pretty birthday girls! <3

After a long night of laughing and bonding, we took a group photo and it's actually a remake of one of our photos taken a year ago. Of course we exchanged hugs and that was when the tears started flowing. I was the first to hug Xing Wei and I literally couldn't hug her for more than 5 seconds cuz our memories just went through my mind and suddenly with her not there for the following years, it's just going to be different. The thought of it just made me cry. :'( </3

Last selfies before we go our separate ways.

I'm just going to miss you so much! :'(

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Hope you've enjoyed what we arranged and done for you and dont kill me for posting your ugly photo ya! :D

Oh enjoy these 2 videos ya! Both very short only just watch lar :P
This is filmed and edited by Hui ting!

This is done by me using those video apps hahahaha! Okay enjoy! <3

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To my best friend, cousie, partner in crime & sister for life

Judging from the title of this post, you'll probably know it's a dedication post to my bestie. *if you're reading this, this one is for you :) hope you read it before you get on your flight :P*

I bet everyone has a best friend in their life and if you've got more than one then awesome for you! Having to spend time hanging out or in school, thus share everything from secrets to moments in growing up with your best friend is just a blessing and pure happiness. Every waking moment spent with them is just joy and that you just want time to slow down for awhile so you can reminisce or repeat that feeling all over again. That was what I got to share with my bestie, Sakai Xing Wei. *she calls me that too! :P* Most of us even wish or believe that we could be sisters from our past lives or even some how related with our best friend and lucky enough for me, I actually am somehow related with mine! Funny right? What are the odds that your best friend was actually a distant cousin of yours you never knew about? (Her grandma's sister married my grandma's brother) Rare. But that was what we shared and I guess it makes me feel even more like we were destined to be besties for life. :)

Of course, not everyday is happiness and sunshine with all things sweet and wonderful. Yes, there were some downs, arguments and misunderstandings throughout these 6 years being besties with her. But all the downs could be counted with a single set of hands because despite being two pretty different people, we share the same way of thinking. We can even communicate by just staring at each other and we can get what each other is thinking already. Talk about best friend superpowers! :P Even our "ji muis" in our gang just don't get our bond and how the heck we click so well which even I myself have no friggin' clue la. I guess we always take the time to listen to each others matter and don't fight about guys so that's like around 892034710 less arguments already. Okay la, we have different tastes in guys so... ahahah! A note to girls: no boy is worth ruining a great friendship but if that dude is really yours and your so called "bestie" doesn't stop fighting with you over him, then bye bye friend la xD

Anyway back to the topic! Even after all the ups and downs with her, we always held it together. Being truly best friends with someone, you really need to always look out for them, have each others back no matter what, be honest when we need to, patiently listen to each others problems, lend a helping hand or shoulder to cry on when needed and such. We did all that especially having each others back no matter what cuz whoever messed with either one of us, we'd fight back (in arguing) together and we were unstoppable *self-proclaimed lol*! I mean we have to had done something right since we are still standing strong today. I can say that without my bestie, I wouldn't be the person I am today. The high school years I've had was a roller coaster ride and had a bumpy start of me not realizing my hurtful actions towards the people around me, being quite lonely and left out not knowing why, but it was her who gave me a chance to change myself and be a better person. I guess it was the gesture of someone believing in me even after being an awful person led me to strive harder to change and be a better me. Thank you for believing in me and making the following years in high school were the best time of my life. *also must thank my other ji muis and everyone else that came in my life la :P*

We've been through a lot these 6 years of friendship and I've grown attached to her not just because she's my best friend but because she's someone that really knows and understand me like no one else and how can you ever replace that? You can't. Never imagined having someone so dear to me to leave for studying abroad as I probably never even wanted to even think of it at all. Nobody wants that, I don't want that, but it's for the best, it's for her brighter future. As for me, I will just be here supporting her no matter what, being that faithful friend since day one and waiting for her when she comes back. I will always remember the days we used to write our conversations in a book and passed it to each other everyday to write, my gosh, the book would be colourful and full of gossips. Also when we finish each other's sentences to help one another in mini "fights" we had with other people, that was pretty fun ahahah. To write down every great memory we've had would be totally insane because there were just too many great ones. I guess I'll just say that the memories we shared will be cherished and I just wish all the best to my dear bestie. I will truly miss you a lot.. :'(

Sad to see you go but it's for the best. :) 

Aisks.. I was literally sobbing and tearing up when typing this whole thing.. :/

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The Red Beanbag @ Publika

Hello guys! Supposed to be more productive in blogging since I'm having my semester break now but instead I'm even less productive as compared to before wth.. -.-ll Okay I guess it's my addiction to Sims that I can be on my laptop for god knows how many hours non stop which is super bad for my eyes... D: I just have a thing for interior deigning and stuff. Hmm.. I guess I should switch to majoring in ID lol JK xD I seriously cant. I just find designs online and TRY to recreating them but end up cincai putting all the windows. ahaha! Kays, back to the main topic! Wooo previously I talked about Metal Box @ Empire Damansara (READ HERE) right, and said I really should try The Red Bean Bag since it's from the same founder. Well I finally tried it yesterday & it was bombdiggidy! If you don't know what that means, read on! If you do, still read on & support a bit lar. :P

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If you've never noticed RBB in Publika, it's actually at the outside area on the 2nd floor above Dr. Cafe Coffee.

If you come around peak hours *which is what I did*, waiting time is around 20-30 mins depending on the amount of people infront of you. I waited for a little less than 20 minutes which was a decent waiting time despite there being quite a number of people infront of me waiting.

Note: Do get a "number" (actually a card that has a pic & name of an item from their menu) & the staff will take you to your seat when the table is ready. I think this way is more fair for those who's been queuing first. Also, that tactic of putting a pic + name of an item from their menu is pretty smart to me. Makes people notice it and want to order it :)

The place is called The Red Beanbag what so beanbags hanging on the walls with red teddy bears is a must! So cute :D

Their brewing area is quite small but there lies the 2014 Malaysian Barista Champion leh! Gao siao. So obviously ordering their coffee is a must!

Their menu don't look like the typical book kind of menu and instead looks really "hamm choi" LOL. The menu I got what so darn faded I couldn't really read the description about the dish. 

RBB, please do something about that hahaha! Anyway, since we were starved so we just went ahead and ordered all their signature dishes!

Expresso - RM8

Okay so my dad ordered their expresso & it came in a super small cup and we were just kind of like "whut??" & well there's a spoon there so I'm pretty sure it was going to be beyond bitter. Which I was right. I'm not a coffee person but even though it was just so darn bitter, you still managed to taste the aroma of the coffee towards the end.

Salmon Chowder - RM16

This was new on the menu and I was quite intrigued to try it because you'd normally see soups like clam chowder and seafood chowder on the menu and rarely salmon chowder like ever. *maybe for me* So we decided to give it a go & it was totally worth 16 bucks !! The soup came in a perfect amount and there were bits of salmon in the soup in addition to the considerably big piece *for RM16* on top! I mean where can you get this for under RM20?! The soup was fragrant and delicious, loved the way the salmon was cooked because it wasn't fully cooked through which meant that the salmon was under cooked in the middle. Loved it a lot & me as a salmon lover has tried lots of good and not so good salmon, but this was a really good one! One in the top of my list of salmon dishes!! <3

Look at the salmon bits in the soup omg. Typing this already made my mouth watery!

Benedict III - RM26

I think it's called that because they've kept improving this dish? Idk but I think that this dish is already really perfect! The hollandaise is in the right thickness, the poached eggs cooked to perfection, french toast styled bun soft and not oily and everything else sauteed and blended together like BOOM. A perfect family. :D I have no clue what vege they put there but it's really good and worked really well in the whole dish! I just cant find any changes to make in this dish. It's just too good.

Look at it! Just look at it!! OMG.... Oh, you can choose either you want turkey ham or beef bacon for this and we chose beef bacon cuz it's BACON! :P

The Atlantic - RM25

Similar to the previous dish but with salmon instead and one toast had just veges while the other has just mushrooms. Just look at the perfection of this dish! This dish was also really good, but I still prefer the Benedict III better. I still do recommend this to salmon lovers!

Oh my gawd. Look at the yolk bursting!! Should have recorded this and turned it into a GIF.

RBB's Specialty Baked Eggs - RM22

Lastly, we've got RBB's specialty baked eggs which has eggs, sausages, beet, cheese, tomato sauce and toasts on the side. It literally tastes like pizza when you eat it with the bread. I just loved, loved LOVEDDD the beet. I actually thought I'd hate it *although I've never tried it*, but I loved it! I gues it's been in the sauce for a long time because you can just taste the sauce infused in the beet! OMG Just so damn gooooood! Too bad we were all pretty full if not I would have licked the plate lols.

OH MAIIII GOD THE CHEESE!!! <3

A day out equals an #ootd opportunity! Snapped at BlackBox Publika where Raffles College had their 37th Graduation Showcase! My turn will be next... D: So not ready...

Ending the post with Bae admiring him and his group mate's work :P

Overall, I had a really great and satisfying experience at The Red Beanbag and I can't wait to visit again when I crave for breakfast food! Even my dad who always eats chinese food and thinks cafe food is no good thinks RBB was really good! Just a tip, share you food with friends because you're going to want to try each other's dishes when the food comes! Also, only towards the last dish we realized that all our three main dishes had 2 eggs each, so it was just too much egg man. Even said, it was surely a great lunch and I really want to try the other food they offer!

P.S.: Go hover around my header! I added a new category called food because why not! :P Also I categorized the foodie places to PJ, KL, Cheras and Else where so you'll get to search for food reviews for those areas with ease! ;)

The Red Beanbag

Address: Block A4 1st Floor A4-1-08, Publika

Jalan Dutamas 1

Solaris Dutamas

50480 Kuala Lumpur

Phone: 03-62115116

Operating hours: 

Monday (CLOSED)

Tuesday - Friday (10am - 10pm)

Weekends (9:30am - 10pm)