Valentines Day

So yesterday was Valentines day. And coincidentally my partner and I had free time for each other on that day. We don't celebrate Valentines day since we don't find it necessary to do so when any other dates that we had are fun. After all, my partner doesn't need a day like Valentines day to take me out for good food and buy me flowers/gifts.

We did our usual stuff when we meet up which is going for food that we both feel like eating and of course getting our weekly cup of joe at our favourite cafe:) I even managed to find the time to hit the gym with him since I know I need to sweat all those toxic out from my body after what I've consumed for the past few days during the festive season.

We had Japanese food at Sushi Zanmai since I was craving for sushi. The branch that we went to were usually empty even during weekends. And yesterday there was a queue! Both of us were rather surprise to see so many people inside the restaurants and outside. We even passed by a florist and usually there were no people at the place but today business were incredibly good. We saw many couples walking hand in hand in the malls. We also saw alot of ladies with flowers (roses in particular) and later when we went to Publika to hunt for desserts, the place was packed too! Most restaurants were so packed so we decided to leave the place without out desserts.

It makes me wonder if couples only dine out during Valentines because any other festive season we don't usually see that many people in most restaurants. Do most guys/men think that making their girlfriends or partner feels special only on that day is necessary so that they can get away with it during normal days when there's no Valentines/birthdays/anniversaries? Florists thrive and bloomed during Valentines and any other days the place seem to be a lil lonely/quiet.

To me Valentines Day is overrated. It's a great day to earn loads of money from people though:D Flowers were more expensive, you can see all those soft toys that were being displayed way before Valentines all sold out when it's near Valentines, chocolates which comes in those fancy boxes were more expensive too and restaurants get to attract more people during Valentines day just because they have those special menu for Valentines day!

But what matters is when we make our special someone or friends or family feel that they are worth is and important every other days besides Valentines/Anniversaries/Birthdays:)

I hope you readers had a great day yesterday and for the past few days with your family/friends/partner. Cause I did and boy I was really well fed for the past few days:) The barista at my favourite coffee place even added extra expresso shot into my Mocha Latte :D

June

Holaaaaa!

I will not apologize for the lack of update..

Anyhoo, the past few weeks have been rather eventful and hectic :)

But all is well *grins*

I started the month by celebrating Jyun's birthday!

My classmates gave him a small surprise by getting him a birthday cake..

Yeah I know it's sweet of them although they usually don't remember,

Unless we belong to their group.

And some of you readers know that we are just classmates, and there's nothing much to look forward to.

But, Jyun's presence made things different for me :)

A quarter of my classmates?

But it's really sweet of them to remember though..

Especially the ones who actually get the cake for him..

I on the other hand have plans for him on his birthday,

As in his gifts and such..

Although I am not sure where to take him for lunch/dinner on his birthday,

Since he's not choosy when comes to food,
So I decided to let him choose what he feels like having for lunch/dinner on his birthday.

And he was craving for pan mee, so pan mee it is :)

Had Japanese for dinner..

And he loves his gift! 

After that I got busy with my magazine assignment,

It's a ridiculous project I must say..

And it wasn't as fun as how it used to be back then when I was in the Editorial Board,

Anyhoo, I got than over and done with..

Then there's report writing and role play (which I found out at a very last minute)

I think we managed to pull that role play assignment off pretty well..

Turns out, our (Jyun and I) leadership essay turns out fine,

Albeit the last minute work :)

It's so frigging hard to get ourselves work on that essay until we had to work on it since the submission is due..

We decided to celebrate our little achievement over a cup of coffee and decent lunch,

At Coffee Chemistry! =)

My Cafe Latte

His Mocha

He got himself the pasta he had when we first went to that place for lunch..

I tried the herbal butter milk chicken rice..

Which was pretty good actually..

Since the chicken is crispy and not too buttery..

We also went to a German restaurant at the Curve for pork knuckles :)

Bavarian Bierhaus, a place with great atmosphere..

The pork knuckles were not as good as the place we went to at Bukit Bintang (Elcerdo)

The skin was really crispy, but hard. So it's hard for me to chew..

As for the meat, it wasn't as juicy as the ones I had at Elcerdo..

But the mashed potato were really good! 

I wouldn't go back there for their pork knuckles though,

Perhaps their German sausages will be a more satisfying meal :)

My sis were away for camp, but she called back home from camp since her stomach hurts a lot..

It was past 12am when she called back home..

Poor her..

I actually had plans with my mom to help out with my cousin's wedding in the morning..

And we don't know where is the camp site..

With Jyun's help we managed to figure out the way there through Google map..

Her irresponsible teacher gave us the wrong camp site name with no address in the permission letter.

Jyun however, managed to figure out for us the real camp site place along with the address..

It was situated in Hulu Langat, but in the letter it's written Ulu Langat..

We couldn't drive over there to pick her up since it's late and we wouldn't be able to find our way there,

In the dark..

So we waited till 5am and left home to search for her..

After asking around and looking at the faulty signboards on the road,

We managed to find her campsite.

My gawd.

There were at least 6-7 campsite there and even the local people who stayed nearby the camp site gave us the wrong direction..

It was dark and we didn't have a GPS with us since my stupid GPS couldn't work!

(That's for buying China product. Told my dad he shouldn't get that GPS since we wouldn't know when will the stupid company go bankrupt. And guess what? After a few months he purchased the GPS for me, the damned company gone bankrupt)

Anyway, we managed to find our way there,

Thanks to Jyun's good sense of direction and our faith in ourselves..

LOL!

Turns out it's food poisoning.

(Sis told me there were alot of insects in her food. She had to take them out one by one before eating it. Eww?)

Her irresponsible teachers didn't even contact us when she wasn't feeling well..

She had to find ways to contact us from camp.

And they gave her some medication which she didn't take since she doesn't know what medication it is.

After all my brother had already warned her against taking medication without proper prescription..

Her teacher reprimanded her for being stubborn when she doesn't want to take the medication.

The school teacher also lied to the headmistress of the school about the activities they organized for the students since the headmistress is against some activities which are deemed dangerous.

There were EIGHT school teachers at the camp.

And none of them bothered to do something when some of the girls had stomach upset at the camp.

I didn't know that my previous high school teachers were that irresponsible..

Sis came back home, slept and had to be dragged to the wedding event..

We were dragged by our mom to the wedding event so early because we were supposed to help out..

But guess what?

Some god knows who relative already gotten that taken care of..

So we waited there like a moron.

Yes, it was a waste of time.

And I hate attending events that early when nobody bothers to turn up on time!

*Rolles my eyes*

 My sis and I..

I don't know why she has to attend the wedding when she isn't feeling too well..

Out of respect perhaps?

Jyun, who happens to be my date and a great company,

During the dreaded event :)

BBQ get together updates

Here's the update about my BBQ get together with the gang.

Not all of them are there but the group of people that got together that day is good enough for us all to have a good time=)

Runa and I headed over to campus to direct the way since the BBQ gathering is held at Runa's place and the peeps came from a quite a far away land compared to the place where Runa and I came from..X)

The journey to campus took ages since we took the train to campus instead of our car, and the mini bus took an atrociously long time to make it's way to our campus area for us to take a shuttle bus to reach our destination.

Anyway the ones whom we invited to be at the BBQ gathering knowing that they'll be around that day managed to be there=D Which is good^^ Even William who always have something to do was present!X) So it was good food and good company before I went for my family vacation (will update more about the "vacation" later).

I'll let the photographs below do the talking:

Weng Hoe the wolverine wanna be. Failed miserably though..X)

Oppa was so happy at the sight of those chicken wings..

Sunny the gangsta wannabe. And of course he failed terribly at that with such stick like legs like his! Tsk tsk..I am not gonna add that he has super clean shaved legs too

The cavemen period in a modern era=D

Now I present you, William's way of setting up the BBQ pit.

You need to look awesome, feel awesome, and sit at the right angle..X)

Fyi, when this pic was taken it's about 6.30pm. No sun but apparently vampires can't with stand fire too..X)

He's no Edward Cullen girls, he's just William being William?

Sue Yen and I

Jyunnie and Wengy..spot the height differences??=D

Carmen came much later since she had stuff to do

Carmen, Jyun and I played a game of..er...I can't recall what's the name of the game again, but I managed to get back at Jyun by being ahead of him in the game. Carmen won, I second her and Jyun came later=p Runa has a super duper uber ADORABLE dog!

Yesterday I helped my department by being a student helper. Met loads of funny parents and people. Even met parents that made me heave a huge sigh of relief that my parents aren't like that!

The keeper surprised me somewhere last week by making a surprise visit=)

The keeper sure is good at surprising me^^

Christmas is in 4 days. And I am not done with Christmas shopping yet!=s