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Heyyyy!

First, I was thinking "ok..... let's write a blog post on the my favourite catch up with the friends while I was in Malaysia..." and it happened to be the CNY gathering @ my house and so... "it shall now be a full Chinese New Year related post" :D

I know... CNY happened two and a half months ago and I am only writing this up now... -.- but HEHE :D I have really been a bit busy... My daily uni life is totally eating me up alive and when I do have time, I don't have much time for blogging..

But but, I still am sticking to my good blogging roots and keeping up with the backlogs!

So...., here goes, the CNY spirit :D

And then on to the CNY must have, Lou Sang/Lou Hei/鱼生,


And a new found love this year, the Japanese kind of 鱼生! I LOVEEEEE IT!!!! Had two different plates this year and they were both AWESOMEEEEE! I love the sashimi!!! Of course. And I love the seaweed and the tempura batter crumbs and the jellyfishes!!! Plus I am sure the sauce is different. I like this version sooooooo much more!!




This year, since my grandma was ill, we've decided we weren't going back to Raub(my hometown) for CNY. But then, on the first day of CNY, it just felt so different and just as tho something was missing. Soo.... we went on an impromptu day trip back to Raub just to feel some CNY spirit :D

Because..., every year without fail, since I was a baby, we will definitely head back to Raub and celebrate the eve and CNY there. I am so used to the smell of food and it's preparations and the smell and the smoke of eyes watering joysticks and the loudness of laughters of people and gambling sessions. So, of course this year felt different. But at least we did make a day trip and had dinner with the rest of the relatives and for that day, it felt like a usual CNY celebration :)

Next up was a BBQ gathering with the rest of the familia and for the first time, the boyfriend was around to join. As usual, the KL venue will always be in my house :)



And the next agenda was, having CNY dinner with the boyfriend and his family and my mum :)



Next was, attending an open house @ Ulu Kelang with mum. It was a garden/outdoor thing and the food was really good!


After the open house, mum dropped me off @ SS15's Tong Pak Fu to meet up with the boyfriend for after dinner dessert. As he was there with his friends and I just went and join in the fun :D



Whilst we are on the bf's friends topic, I also joined some of his friends(CX,CY and JW) and went for brunch with them in Klang :)


It was superrr heavy brunch ok... Ate rice and soup and meat and all that at 11am!

Then after lunch, they've decided to gamble together and after all the deliberations, the small gambling session was held @ my house. They wanted to mahjong so yeaps :)


First was a BBQ party with them and then numerous gambling sessions and movies and lunches and yumcha sessions too :) Nice!


And onto my favourite part..,




Out little house party session went on until 4 something 5 in the morning man. From 9pm! or almost 10pm to be exact :) It was so much fun just catching up and doing stupid and funny things as tho all of us were still in high school together!

Even after all that games and drinking, we even sat for an hour more together and just talk. Talk about life mostly.. Its really nice to gather the group once in a while and just catch up with one and another. Always always nice :)


We were missing quite a few peeps that night cause they were away at their hometowns. They were greatly missed! I never knew so many of them stays in KL during the festive period as I usually would be in Raub for the first few days.. Even the boyfriend who wanted to be around badly, had to stay in Malacca for the night. Ngaaww... I know I sure have had missed him that night!





Seriously thank you to the digital age where you could just keep in contact with the smartphones. Without them being at the other end of a 4-inch screen on the whatsapp group chat that we have, I think my life overseas would be so boring and alone... And they keep me going in the sense that, I'll always be able to talk to them whenever and wherever and about anything at all! We will check up on one and another if anyone happens to have had a rough day to support each other or just randomly talk about girly things together and cheers ourselves up :) I miss them! I really do..

They made life from high school up until now so much more interesting :D As I've always said, these bunch, are to keep for life!

That's it for the backlogs today :) Not sure what will be coming next, but I'll try to keep with a post a week. Been having some pretty rough days and writing is therapeutic to me at times. So yeapp... Until my next post, take care! (and also send me lots of luck because I think I'll need it... =/)

Ciao y'all!

Lots of love,
Shereena.

Hi hii :D

I am suddenly in the mood to keep up with my old backdated post worthy events that happened while I was back in Malaysia for holidays.

I am taking a break from all the other stuff that is happening in my day to day life right now. It is pretty intense and crazy and I well deserve some sort of break of a couple hours(which translates to the whole day :D HEHE). These couple hours would be consists of series, movie, youtube and blogging(if I am really in the mood). I've been losing the blogging mojo more and more over time.... =/

Anyways, these drinks nights happened during the last days of 2013 and the middle of January :)

This trip home, I went out for TWO alcoholic drinks nights. I kinda like the idea of going out with a bunch of friends and have conversations over alcohol and nice musics. But don't get me wrong, the idea I have is nothing like going clubbing. I mean REAL proper sit down sessions and not dancing around all the time with loud musics that are impossible to converse in and so, what people do is do things that talking is not needed.

But oh wells, in Malaysia the "hipster" drinking places don't really have the kinda of nice music I have in mind but it will have to do. And I am not much of a drinker but I like to talk to people who have had some alcohol in their system because almost always, it'll crack me up with the weirdest funniest randomest things people say.

So first night was, a middle sized group of us went to The Beer Factory @ SetiaWalk in Puchong. That would have been my first visit to the new mall(?) and I must say, I kind of like the surrounding and the outdoor greenery and water concept of the place.

It's not exactly middle size cause it was a table for eleven :D




Then halfway while we were chatting and all that suddenly the beer selling ladies came to our table and started pulling and grabbing the boys to sit on the chair in the middle of the place that serves them some sort of drink from a tube?

At first it was Ee Jun who got caught then it was pushed to Wei Jun and he then pushed the lady to En Lin. So.... it was En Lin who went for it and we were just cheering and happy that we weren't the ones who got caught XP




But also, other than that, I think SetiaWalk is pretty dead at normal times lor.. I don't think it has ever crossed my mind to go there to shop. But maybe to eat? :)

After Beer Factory that night, we went back in Subang and yumcha-ed at Lorong JS in SS15. It is one of those mamak places that we like :D

Second outing was on the 18th of January @ Piccadilly Restaurant in Section 14, PJ.

That night was on a very random note with Ferns and Tim *in the last week and a half, they both celebrated their birthdays, Happy Belated Birthday guys!* :DDD It was super last minute too. But anyways, me and my friends, I think we do more things when it's totally random and unplanned hahah!


So..., that night was my first visit to Piccadilly. And the place is not only massively sized for a regular mamak type restaurant but it's menu is massive as well! I think it was like 14/15 pages of varieties of food? They were all printer quite small in a page and it was packed but yet they still have sooooooo many pages of food! 

Andddd the beer was like CHEAPPP!



Tim was like questioning why is it so cheap which is understandable because the beers were all so cheap until it felt a little dodgy... HAHA!

We sat there for quite a number of hours and just chatted away. It has always been a thing for the three of us. We can sit down together and talk about anything and everything amongst us and the conversations will always stay at where it is.

I love my friends!! :D *I have pictures I candidly took of them but I don't think I should put it up.... Because the pictures weren't taken that nicely. They were too engrossed in some conversations until all they look like in the picture is either really weird or really serious HAHA!*

And that's it for this little short post!

I am kinda on a hype now to write about my friends and the people I've been meeting when I was home. Sooo maybe the next post will be of them? or of #100happydays? or both? :D

We shall see how the week turns out first..

Bye now!

Much love,
sher xoxo.

Heyyyyyyy!

I am in the mood for a food review right now rather than on a daily life update :) Review of food places that I like makes me happyyy laaah! Didn't you guys already know how HUGEEEEE of a FOODIE I am?? :DDD

And since I haven't been out much to eat good food here in Melbourne recently(I am leaving the ones I've been to, to be posted in my #100happydays posts), a writeup of a brunch spot in Malaysia shall do!

Soooo.... the much hyped about Garage 51, in my opinion, made the cut for me!

I am very fussy when it comes to brunch style food in Malaysia because I have the luxury of eating the good ones straight from where in came from best which is here in Melbourne. And even that I am being so picky, I found that Garage 51 was pretty good!

In a span of slightly over a month, I went there three times and it was the only spot that I went to, to satisfy my brunch cravings whilst I was back in Malaysia. I think that pretty much double confirms my statement of how much I like the place :)

Garage 51 is this new trendy and happening cafe/brunch spot in KL. The chain first started with Coffee Société in Publika and then this, Garage 51. I was told that the owner is a guy in his later 20s that used to study in Australia and decided to bring the concept back the Malaysia and then the cafe became a huge hit with its good coffee and food!

I want to open a huge hit cafe too! And earn big bucks! But more importantly, sharing to the community the food and it's concept that I love :) 

My first visit, was with Steph and Qi Hong. I was like telling them that we HAD to do brunch that weekend and so..., being the typical me, I will research and read up for good places to go to before actually going to the place itself. And Garage 51's name started popping up alot and it seemed to have ticked the boxed for most people, I thought to myself and spoken out loud to them saying, "We should go there!" Moreover, it was just in the Sunway area... so near to where we live!

And since I am so used to the famous brunches in Melbourne, it would also mean, I know that for good brunch spots, there is always a queue. So I was like telling them, we have to get there early to beat the queue! And fortunately for Malaysians, brunch spots or this particular one, doesn't open till 11am and we got there at 11.15am! :D But bear in mind, finding a parking spot in the area can be a tad bit challenging.. The place is located just opposite the side entrance to Sunway College and it the middle of all the other car garages.

But we didn't have to queue at all! :DDDD Was seated straight away on the long communal benches super near the kitchen area.



I LOVED IT! The homemade potato hash is the highlight!! Some may say it is a tad bit on the salty side, but I love my saltier stuff, and so I loved it! The hash is heavy and dense and crunchy on the outside :) The cured smoked salmon was yummy andddd the poached egg was cooked to perfection! And the most important thing for me is, the hollandaise tasted good! You could tell it was freshly made rather than the one's you get from Plan B which just taste and look like it came out from a vacuum sealed jar.

I judge my Malaysian brunch spots based on the sauce they have if there's any. So yeah...., only two has made the cut for me with good hollandaise sauce!










But anyways, I really enjoyed the place for it's food, a lot! :)

With love, Shereena.