Back in March, I think, Rui came for a visit! This was her last visit to me as a student. The next time she comes, she'll be a legit working adult! (I bet if you're reading this, Rui, your face will be scrunched up in denial) Ever since I've finished my internship, I've always wanted my friends to pay me a visit. This time around, not only do I have a car to ferry them anywhere, I also know some really good places for good food and I actually know the way there!
There was this one time I went hiking to Broga hill with some of my classmates. Once I saw the view up there, I knew this place is a keeper! That's why when Rui said she was coming, I warn her in advance to bring sneakers along, coz we'll be going hiking!
This is us. Smelly and stinky up on Broga. We even recorded a stupid video for Hooi Fong. Hah... not to be posted in public.
On her last day here, we didn't actually have any plans. This was when David buzzed and asked if I'll be interested in seeing him compete in a culinary competition. Have you ever seen one such competition live? I didn't know what to expect, surely nothing as glorious as those shown on food channels. We went to the new Taylor Lakeside campus and saw for ourselves how aspiring chefs compete against one another. We were even allowed into the kitchen so long as we don't disturb the contestants.
While David was busy with cooking (that's him in black), we were busy taking pictures of ourselves. The whole thing was pretty cool, with him winning the title of 'Potato King' in the end (the sponsor's some potato product)! It's not easy for him to be there in Taylors to pursue his dream as a chef. Therefore, for him to achieve his first success in this field, I was feeling proud and happy for him too!
We have a bunch of Georgians in KL. Whenever we're back in Penang and meet for a gathering, we'll gush all over about how long we haven't seen one another and asked enthusiastically where each other is currently situated, and the mutual answer will be KL. It's so silly how everyone's here but nobody ever really made the effort for a meet-up. So there's this one time when Kar Yee, Shan Yin and I arranged something on Facebook. We invited a whole bunch of people, but in the end, only six of us turned up. For a first time, I would say it's a good number! It's small enough for us to gossip among ourselves, and big enough for us to see people we haven't seen ever since Form Five (hi Melissa!).
This meeting was awesome for it broke the ice for us, Georgians in KL. Now we don't hesitate in calling each other out to chill. Well, I do hope there'll be more such meetings in the future. (Sunway Lagoon!!)
Remember that Lamborghini design I posted back some months ago? The result was out sometime last month. I won honorary mention! Will be cashing in my RM500 soon, but it'll be o-so-cool if I were to win the grand prize. I SO totally know what I'm gonna do with 5k! But RM500 is still good, though I think I've spent it all on stupid things (yes, you read right, I've spent all the money I've yet to receive. I'll be a champion when I actually own a credit card).
Me and my classmates who made it to the top ten. Yay BPD7~!
Thank you Kar Yee for these passes to the Cleo's Bachelor Night. It was my first time to such an event and it was great spending the night with these girls going oooo-gaga over some of those reallllyyy hot guys on stage. Yoke Mun, #2 that looked like some Korean dude with the hot British accent. Shze Li and I totally agree #44's the best looking of them all. Awesome body, gorgeous looks. Too bad he didn't win.
We managed to get a picture with the winner. We were outside, and he was just sitting there waiting for an interview. He was already on the magazine cover prior to this night, so I guess he was the favourite to win? He looked so different from the cover! The magic of photo manipulation! He still looked good near, but not as smooth and air brushed as he seemed on the cover.
Tres came down for the weekend so that we can go together to KL Design Week. I went last year with 41 to one of the design conferences, it was awesome to see some of the biggest names in the industry speaking. The conferences this time around was not as tempting coz I didn't exactly recognize the names. Maybe I should just read up more.
Anyway, since she will only be here for the weekend, that means we'll only have the whole of Saturday to ourselves. With limited time, we managed to visit Capsquare and the National Art Gallery. Capsquare was where they display student artworks and where designers go about selling their works. It was a colourful and varied display of things. However, it was most probably due to it being the first day that we were there, many of the stalls were not really ready and no one bothered to explain to us what any of the things were about. I was expecting interaction with the designers or maybe just a more friendly reception. We went away pretty disappointed. But, like I said, maybe it's due to it being first day.
We then made our way to the National Art Gallery where the Japanese designs will be exhibited. The place was a total bore and a waste of time. The illustration exhibition was basically just works printed on A4 paper, mounted on the wall with the illustrator's name stick below the artwork. There was nothing else. I might as well just get myself an IDN. At least I get to read interviews with designers and know what the whole process behind the work was. Too bad for Tres, she came all the way from Penang just to be totally flabbergasted by the poor exhibition.
But what she lost in the exhibition, we made it up in conversations and just hanging around with David. After a whole day of running around KL to see the exhibitions, we ended the day by going for Iron Man 2 in Midvalley. It was always great entertainment seeing that two poking fun at one another. We were there pretty late for midnight show, most of the shows were sold out. We waited an hour just for the uncollected reserved seats to be opened for selling. There we were, at the counter, with the time exactly on the dot and those seats were opened. Excitedly, we pointed our fingers to three really good seats, still unsold. The dude hesitated, saying he couldn't sell them until his manager nod his head. We were flustered, demanded an explanation since the reserved seats are already open. He seemed to be put in a tight spot until the manager said to all of them at the counter that they can sell the seats already. The moment our tickets were printed, we were laughing at the craziness of the situation. It was fun and silly at the same time to be so excited over buying great seats for a sold out blockbuster, midnight show summore!
It was always fun and spontaneity with these two. We reached my place at about 3a.m. We then woke up at six, picked up David from his place at about 7a.m. just to eat dimsum. It was fun for Tres and I coz after eating we get to go back and sleep. The poor guy had to go back to work all day on his feet. This was one of the best time spent with her. In a way, I guess I got to know this lil cousin sis of mine more.
Since the bunch of them were away in London, 41 and I were spending the days away as if we were still having breaks. One day, we decided to treat ourselves to good Japanese food and good movies back-to-back. We decided on Echoes of the Rainbow and Ip Man 2. I wanted to watch the former coz there's Sandra Ng and it has won many awards. However, being skeptical about award-winning shows, they all tend to be artsy and slow in pace, we decided to watch it before Ip Man 2. We were pretty sure Ip Man is gonna be the better movie thus if we were to watch Echoes of the Rainbow later, we'll be bored.
Oh my God. How wrong we were. We stayed until we were the last two in the cinema after Echoes of the Rainbow ended. The sleeves of my cardigan were wet with tears. Our eyes were too red and puffy from crying watching the show! I haven't cried so much watching a movie since Taegukgi in Form 5. The movie's really simple and nostalgic. It's not tragic or anything, just really touching and sad. Do yourself a favour and go watch this if it's still showing. It's really really good.
Ip Man 2 on the other hand was kinda disappointing. Maybe I was expecting too much? True, his kung fu moves still awe me. Even better than part one, I think. But this time around, the plot's a little too cliche. Even the villain's generic and without depth, unlike the Japanese general from part one.
Lastly, Eve's exam ended, she's now practically a graduate, so we went for a celebratory shopping spree and posh dinner. We went to Sungai Wang and Time Square to shop like lunatics. Thanks to her, I'm kinda broke for the remaining of the month. Thanks to her, I've bought some things I'm sure I'll never wear but would love just an occasion to show them off.
The dinner was also to celebrate her birthday. This girl has something against people celebrating her birthday out of obligation, so she didn't tell those people she worked with. I understand that, coz I sorta have the same perception too.
So there we were, tired and totally satisfied with our purchases, quickly made our way to Alexis in Ampang. We even dressed up prettily for the occasion too. I specifically chose there coz I wanted her to try the tiramisu, which was awesome. Plus, they have a live band performance which I thought we could enjoy while talking. In the end, the cakes were really good, but the live band was kinda too loud to warrant any proper conversations. So we made our way out barely fifteen minutes into the performance.
We ended up driving around anywhere and everywhere just talking random things in the car. This was really basically what made a good night out. Not great food, not posh restaurants, not live bands. It was a great company, quiet night outside and good music playing on the radio.
I do look forward to when Eve moves to KL sometime in June. I can already imagine the expensive things we're gonna get ourselves into. *evil laughter echoed off into the distance*
And I'm ending this incredibly long post with a picture of me and my brother. Just because we rarely have a picture together and this is one that turned out kinda nice.
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