Crazy Week

Its been a while since I last updated. When I was back in KK, I can only get internet connection by going to coffee bean or starbucks to get free line or else I can do nothing about it. Don't think I want to apply a line there while I know I will only be there once every 6 months, or more.

Ever since the day I came back to KL, I was busy and am still busy. The whole cafe thing is draining me slowly and I didn't know there will be so many preparation work needed to be done before I can finally operate the cafe and start making money. It gave me some sleepless night as my brain was too busy doing mental schedule and planning.

The first few days was disaster to us, rushed for order list, cleaning the kitchen and cafe, changes here and there, then manpower, then schedule and procedure, bla bla bla... Luckily the window is open while all the doors are closed, tightly. We still manage to see some light in the darkness. Few people came for interview and we actually have 200 plus for starting. Everything seems to be on track at the moment.

All ingredients arrived on Thursday and we started to do the preparation thing yesterday including some cooking. The chicken and fish came out good but the sauce was giving us some hard times. We added too much vinegar and it was too acidic to be eaten. Yucks, I can still remember the smell and taste, it did cause some discomfort to my poor stomach. After some adjustment, it finally can be eaten, safely:)

Then the next problem came, the soup for tomyam and curry noodles are failure. They don't taste right at all to be used to make money. If I was a customer to pay for that, I'm sure I'll be mad. Luckily one of our staff manage to find an expert to cook for us, hopefully everything goes well on monday.

After all the preparation work is done, it was already 6 something in the evening. I was totally drained out and felt like I could break down anytime. I was standing almost the whole day doing stuff. My legs muscle were killing me as well as my back. we went back almost 8 and it was 8.30 after buying dinner and showered. I lied on my bed not wanting to move around too much as my whole body was aching. I put my dinner aside and had only a piece of papaya before I called mum. When I heard mum said " I know it would be tiring and I thought I want to tell you not to get yourself involve in it" Tears were running around my eyes. I nearly break down while talking to mum. I manage to stay calm as I don't want to worry my parents. I'm sure I'll do fine in the coming days, I will.

After talking to mum, I started to have my dinner slowly. I found it hard to swallow my dinner as I was really very tired. I was thinking how nice if there's someone there to feed me. Later on when I was trying to sleep, my legs are still in pain and I couldn't sleep as it was bothering me. I broke into tears this time. I couldn't really stand it because I wanted to sleep so much but I just couldn't. Nobody was at home to talk to me. I fell asleep after crying.

I hope everything goes well in the future days. Pray for me.

Bye Bye 2008

2008 is going to end soon and it feels like it was yesterday when I welcomed 2008, with Vien, in the living room watching tv. HAHA!! Anyway, it's 11.40 now and I don't think I have much time to do the bla bla bla...

This year is definitely is great year for me; been through a lot of stuff, gained a lot of stuff and had a great change in my life. I guess I'll have to write my review some other day because I don't think I can make it now.

5 more minutes to go...

Tick.. tick.. tick.. tick..

Happy New Year!!!!!!

Restless Holidays

Do you still call it holidays when you feel restless most of the time? You tell me the answer.

Since the day I came back here, I've been working for my parents 6 days a week, 5 hours a day, standing in the humid shop, with the hot weather. I wish I can get more time going around the city before I forget how it looks like. The city has changed so much since I last came back. I thought to myself that this might be the last holiday I can get before working and I must spend more time around with my family and friends but I guess I'm spending most of the time with my family but not my friends. I wish I can get more time to spend with them. I want to talk to them, laugh with them so much. I miss those moments we had during high school time. Hopefully by next week I can get myself more time.

Darling, I know I've said that I'll try to write more frequent so that you'll know what is happening here with me but I'm so sorry that I'm only writing now. I miss you so much and you are really persistent like you told m before. I love those letters you wrote to me and reading them each time makes me want to cry and hug you so much.

Writing in public is really weird. I don't think I can produce some more right now. I need a quiet environment to write. Till next time I guess.

I'm doing fine here so don't worry

p/s: I love you too darling.

Food Production Kitchen Lesson

This post supposed to be here almost a month ago but due to some complication, I'm posting it now.

Food Production is one of my subjects for the semester, we learned all sorts of food related stuff, did blueprint for kitchen and restaurant, then finally it's the kitchen lesson that we've been longing for.

On that day, I was so excited knowing that I'm going to cook in a commercial-look-alike-kitchen. When everybody arrived, Dr Naim, our lecturer started the class. First he explained and demonstrated on how to prepare fruit salad, prawn cocktail, 4 types of eggs and finally steak, with all the peeling, cutting, marinating, cooking, arranging and decorating. Then he requested that each of us was compulsory to cook types of eggs and steak, prepare prawn cocktail with all the decoration thingy he taught.

All of us were separated into groups, I was with Rishi and Darling. We gathered all the ingredients needed and started washing, peeling and preparing. Then we prepare the prawn cocktail, following by cooking eggs then lastly the steak. After all the cooking, we ate our production, cleaned and left the kitchen with a satisfied smile.

Our Proud Production

Cameron Highland Trip

Stay Period: 3 Days 2 Nights

Date: 23rd Nov 08 - 25th Nov 08
Venue: Darling's Uncle's Apartment

The trip was planned about a month before our exam; the purpose of the plan was to shake off all of our stress and tiredness gained from doing coursework and exams. To me, this plan has gone through all obstacles before we manage to make it a success.

First was the transportation problem, we couldn't get enough car to bring us up there. We've been trying to drag one of our friends along in hope that he can bring along his car. He didn't give us any answer till the very end of time. Then luckily my car can finally make it and the first problem finally settled.

Second was the budget problem, we were all in tight budget and therefore we have to redo our checklist for food and try to make a list with the lowest cost, of course we have to sacrifice certain food we like. It got settled after so many changes.

Shopping For Food

Third was the change of date, Rishi has to attend his sister's convocation and couldn't make it on Saturday. For a moment I was thinking of giving up but it's our last holiday together, we have to make it happen no matter what happen. Luckily everybody was okay with the change and we finally made it on Sunday.

We started our journey on Sunday morning at darling's house. We packed all the things in the car and drove off to the highway. We stopped once for lunch and once for petrol then we went all the way up to Cameron Highland. We reached the apartment around 4 if I'm not mistaken, unpacked all the things and cleaned the apartment. Then we started to prepare food for our first dinner there---Barbecue:) We had lamb, chicken wings, chicken and lamb kebab, squid, sausages, grilled potatoes... Burppp~~

Cleaning The Apartment

Right: Cleaner of the month
Left: Struggler of the month

Second day, we woke up early to prepare breakfast and started our journey to sightseeing in Cameron. First stop was the Rose Valley which nearly kill me. Nah!! Joking only. Haha!! I was having fun and at the same time my asthma came up probably because of the cold weather. Despite of the asthma thingy, I had fun walking around with lots of flowers surrounding me. I was a little bit hyper with all the flowers.

Breakfast - French Toast and Tea

Rose Valley

Kea Farm

Then the second destination was Honey bee Farm which don't get much of my attention simply because I'm not interested in bee or honey. Haha!! Then the third stop was Kea Farm which amazed me with lots of fresh vegetables and fruits. They sell vegetables in small packet and you can get 16 packets of them with only RM10!!!!! We bought some vegetables for dinner and continue our journey to the Strawberry Farm.

When I first stepped in the farm, the view of vegetables really amazed me; 4 different types of lettuce and I kept saying that I want to pick them up and eat them straight from the pot. They were all so fresh and pretty. Slurpppp~~~ I guess we were in the wrong season or something because I didn't see any Strawberry can be picked so we ended up sitting down and rest. We bought some flavoured Tea like Strawberry Tea, Strawberry cream tea and Rose Tea, and some Strawberries and went home.

Strawberry Farm

When we reached home, we had late lunch with Sambal Fried Rice and the left over barbecue lamb and chicken wings. It was a nice lunch, I love the fried rice. While Juan was cooking the fried rice, I was cooking sweet potato and pumpkin soup. It was my first time and luckily it came out okay. Then I had a short nap before preparing our dinner---steamboat. Some of us prepared food in the kitchen while some of us relaxing in the living room. We have so many food for steamboat; noodles, potatoes, mushrooms, crabstick, chicken, lamb, squid, prawn and vegetables. We started our dinner at 8.30 and ended at 11 plus.

Steamboat

The third day, I woke up early to cook breakfast and when everyone got up, we started to pack things and clean the apartment. We even made sandwiches for lunch and then went out for another sightseeing journey. We went to BOH Tea Plantation where Rishi's auntie is working. We had a tour into the tea factory and saw the tea making processes. We bought some tea and took some pictures. The view in the plantation was breathtaking. All the greenery which you can't find in any part of the city.

BOH Tea Plantation

The Peak View

Then we drove up to the peak to take some pictures, the view up there is even breathtaking but too bad it started to rain by then, we drove back to the apartment quickly in hope to pack all our stuff and go back but too it rained even heavier. We waited till 4 and made our move even it was still raining. We stopped once for dinner and once for toilet:p, then we drove all the way back to KL. The 5 hours drive was painful. It was killing me physically and mentally. It was raining the whole night and the road was so dangerous if you don't pay extra attention and drive carefully. I was about to breakdown and cry for a few time because i was so scared.

Bags

Fortunately, everything went well and I reached home around 11.30pm. Unpacked all the things, showered and went to bed. The trip was fun and I enjoyed the view and weather, but not the long hours drive. I hope I can go again but wish that someone can drive me up. HAHA!!

Joyful Day

Despite the tiredness from Cameron trip and the sickness that I had to bear with for two days, yesterday was one of the few happiest days. Darling was with me the whole day, we spent time together eating, talking and joking. It's been a while since we both spent time together alone. Our date has always been around the uni area because of all the responsibilities we had for our coursework.

Tomorrow I'll be flying back to KK for holiday and yesterday will be the last time I saw darling till I come back from KK. Darling paid for my breakfast, lunch and dinner which really made me feel touched. I know darling doesn't have much to spend but he said he wants to send me back happily and I was really happy yesterday.

Thank you darling... I will miss you while I'm there. I'll try my best to update this blog to let you know I'm doing fine there.

<3<3Love You<3<3

SICKNESS

I'm sick... so very sick...

I hated it every time I got sick like this, like the whole body is crushing on me. Every part of my body feels wrong and sick.

Last night I had flu that made me want to rip my nose off and throw it away. Then I felt warm over my body especially my eyes and my breath - I was having slight fever!!!

"What a bad day!!!" I thought to myself.

This morning, the pain of my stomach woke me up and it was killing me. I was having gastric. It felt as if thousands of needle poking through my stomach. It made me want to scream. I thought I was only hungry, so I went to the kitchen, boiled some water and had a cup of cereal drink. Then I took medicine and went back to sleep.

It was not surprising that I woke up 3 hours later with the same pain. To make the situation worse, I'm having diarrhoea!!

Fever, Gastric and Diarrhoea!!!

"What ANOTHER bad day!!!"

I thought to myself that I need food in order for me to take medicine. But I don't have any food at home, not even biscuits. I called my brother hoping that he can get me some food as he went to eat. My brother did not bring his phone along. I had to go down myself to get food. The pain was seriously killing me.

After taking a bowl of hot vermicelli soup, my stomach felt better. As I thought I might be getting better, the pain CAME BACK!!!

After taking medicine, I'm now lying on my bed, bearing with the pain in my stomach, the trips I have to take to go toilet and the warmness in my whole body.

I want mummy now!!! T_T

How Do I Live

How do I,
Get through one night without you?
If I had to live without you,
What kind of life would that be?
Oh, I...
I need you in my arms, need you to hold,
You're my world, my heart, my soul,
If you ever leave,
Baby you would take away everything good in my life,
And tell me now
How do I live without you?
I want to know,
How do I breathe without you?
If you ever go,
How do I ever, ever survive?
How do I, how do I, oh how do I live?
Without you,
There'd be no sun in my sky,
There would be no love in my life,
There'd be no world left for me.
And I,
Baby I don't know what I would do,
I'd be lost if I lost you,
If you ever leave,
Baby you would take away everything real in my life,
And tell me now,
How do I live without you?
I want to know,
How do I breathe without you?
If you ever go,
How do I ever, ever survive?
How do I, how do I, oh how do I live?
Please tell me baby,
How do I go on?
If you ever leave,
Baby you would take away everything,
I need you with me,
Baby don't you know that you're everything,
Good in my life?
And tell me now,
How do I live without you,
I want to know,
How do I breathe without you?
If you ever go,
How do I ever, ever survive?
How do I, how do I, oh how do I live?
How do I live without you?
How do I live without you baby?

Dear Holy

I just got Holy's [in case you're wondering, Holy is my friend Ho Lee Yin. Instead of typing HLY, I prefer to call her Holy:) ] messages asking me if I'm free on 23rd of December. Her baby boy Timothy is turning 1 and she's having a BBQ party in Kampar. At that moment I was thinking "wow!! Timothy is turning one already!!"

The last time I met Holy was July or August 2007, just before I moved out from Millennium Court. Gosh!! I moved out from that place like September 2007 and today is 09 November 2008. I'm such a bad friend I thought to myself. I've been getting her messages telling me about Timothy and herself; I'm glad that we still keep in touch once a while. I wonder how Timothy looks like as I last saw his photo when he was only one month old. Suddenly I thought I miss her so much. She's one of the first few friends who got married early and have a baby already. I went to her wedding and during her wedding ceremony I nearly cried; I was happy for her. Just hope that I'll find some time in the future days to meet her and catch up with her.

I miss you Holy!!

Excitement versus Restlessness

There's a small cafe around my university compound which belongs to my faculty. Among my friends, we used to criticize the cafe and thought it can be better. We always throw out ideas randomly, on how to improve the cafe. Recently, we found out that the cafe is closed due to lack of manpower. Suddenly, we came out with the idea of running the cafe, voluntarily. I guess deep down inside, we had already imagined doing it.

Previously, the cafe was run by students as their practical. No rental needed and budgets are given. Where to get such great deal? The only weakness is that we can't really change how it looks because it doesn't belong to us. We can only come out with excellent concept and great marketing strategy to sell our excellent concept.

When we first came out with the idea of taking over the cafe, I wasn't so sure if i want to do it. After all, it is a huge responsibility, not a game that you can quit easily. Darling suggested that we should see prof and get some information on the cafe. I wasn't so sure about the idea but we met prof yesterday and talked to her. Somehow she gave me strength to do it. Maybe because of her trust on us. I was all energized up after meeting her. Then we met May, the girl who run the cafe previously. She gave us some details on the cafe and even gave me her file. From that very moment, I felt like the responsibility belongs to us already. I can't help thinking about plans on improving and running the cafe. So many things came up and without knowing it, I am restless now. Ideas keep coming and I need to keep jotting down before it goes away. Recipes, concepts, management stuff, marketing stuff, decor stuff... I'm restless but I feel content.

My parents are not so sure whether it's a good idea because they're worried that I can't cope with my studies. I have faith on myself and my partners. We can definitely do it because we are the best and always will be. Darling, now I am sure that I really want to do it. I hardly have this feeling, a feeling of wanting something so bad that I'll doing everything to get it. My friends who are reading this, please give us support because we really need it. Pray for us as well...