I miss my carefree life. I remember there was this month when every weekend I was in different city – Sitiawan / KL/ Penang.

I miss my ex-colleagues in Penang, I miss waking up to bird chirping. I miss eating lok lok by the road side. Oh and I also miss the lala/ caprang Prangin Mall.

I miss becoming a family chauffeur. Oh, and I also miss flying to Labuan wtf.

The other day Henry was telling me about his family in Labuan and mentioned the place where he live and I’m like OMG I took picture in front of Milimewah before wtf.

And we were talking about the famous satay at Layang-Layang and the famous pork satay in the town area.

If I have the time, I’d visit the island again. So much memories. I wana eat crab at Anjung Ketam and I want to eat the rubbish -grilled/steamboat-food at Manja Rasa.

Oh and I miss my friends a lot too. Last time I was complaining about wearing formal to class. Now when I get to wear casual to work, I still ask myself the same question every day. What to wear?

Some things will never change.

Well, just came back from yumcha with Tai Si Fatt, Papa Bear, Henry & Sherry (hey, it rhymes!) and I was telling Elwyn how I need excitement in my life. For the past few months, day in day out, my life is a routine that sometimes I feel like I am living in yesterday. Waking up in the morning doesn’t symbolizes a new day.

I need something to shake me up. I need colours in my life. Or maybe I just need more than 24 hours in my life. Hrmph.

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So, we were on the lookout. Simply drive until TarC and this interior caught my eyes.

How can you say no to such an artful cafe?!

It’s a sin for not entering!

I was dead hungry so ORDER!

Apparently Dari means bridge in Korean. And the owner, David Moon (I know, tak Korean right his name) has a thing for bridge. All the pictures in this cafe was drawn by him.

Him explaining the concept cafe to us. Love his t-shirt btw, why didn’t Elias design one of us like that in uni??

And all the pictures depict the concept of bridge. E.g. People sitting in front of each other are connected by a bridge.

He did take a picture of us illustrating the idea but my hair was super messy so am not gonna post it here

Soon our food arrive.

Spicy Rice Cake with Vege

Tukbokki

RM7.90

Very filling and SPICY! Just nice for two small eater like us.

Kimchi Fried Rice

Kimchi Bokumbap

RM8.90

Gosh, I love the kimchi! And the egg look so cute, really bu she de eat it. After eating here, Korean food is officially my fav food! No more Japs jor. Cos Japs food taste almost the same geh everywhere. And I love Korean food cos it’s a tad spicy. Like it!

Mr. David served my dessert last, like how it should be. You know how some people serve dessert together with the main course and switching between warm spicy food and sweet cold food is not good for your pearly whites.

Korean Ice Kacang

RM5.90

The sweetness is just right for us. What a nice way to end our satisfying meal

And then David served baby coffee on the house! The perks of being a blogger. No la, he didn’t know that I’m a blogger also.

See the coffee is engraved inscribe with the word Dari

Baby say the coffee tasted nice but too bad it was cold jor.

The love of my life.

The love of his life wtf.

I would actually come back here just to chill out. Too bad when we arrived, it was already closing but kind owner extend his working hours for us

While writing this, I actually drag my mom to the laptop to look at the pics cos the place is so pretty! Mommy says that it looks so comfy like a home. Awww…

I would someday love to own a place like this. Restaurant by day, cafe by night. A mix of Betty Midwest Kitchen at Aman Suria  and The Bee at Jaya One. Main purpose is of course make people happy with food whilst meeting people.

Here, you can learning language too! David came to Malaysia, 2 years ago to learn English. So, he has this program called ‘Language Exchange’, teaching people a language you know in exchange of learning the language you want. For example, Ali is looking for someone to teach him Japanese and since I can teach Japanese, I’d volunteer! Provided he can teach me Spanish but I doubt it wtf

Very cool concept kan? You get to chill, meet people and learn a whole new language at one go!

Writing this post makes me wana drive all the way to Penang just to chill at the cafe! Sigh… how I miss it T__T

Even the mural on the wall is drawn by David *sigh so artistic

And some furniture he bought it second hand and re-paint it.

Anyway, what would a Korean themed cafe be without the Wonder Girls and 2PM kan? For K-Drama/Songs/Movies lover, you should totally come here. Then you can impress David with your self-learnt Korean language teehee~

Unfortunately, the only foreign language I can speak is Japanese so… no chance to impress people wtf.

Detailing is vital for a concept cafe and he certainly did a good job!

Dari- The Korean Bridge Cafe is located at Permai 32, No. 30 (near Blue Reef), Lebuh Lembah Permai 4, Pulau Pinang.

It opens from Monday to Saturday (9am – 9pm)

Go ahead and visit Dari Cafe when you’re in Penang. It is a MUST GO PLACES in Penang

Update!

Whoops! Actually, all the paintings in the cafe is done by David’s friend. Sorry ya, I stand corrected. Nevertheless, it’s still an awesome cafe. Cheerios~

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And most importantly, she is free from THE PRISON. Am so glad that she made it through *hugs babe

So, sempena Ming’s birthday, imma blog about our friendship!

Still remember, the first time we spoke was during the Upper Six Monitor/Asst Monitor photo session for ACS yearbook

We were placed side by side cos both of us got long legs ehem and talked about my Malaysian Idol experience zzz.

It was brief and after that day, I never spoke to her again and couldn’t remember that we spoke before too *sorry ming

Once the public uni placement result was out, she called me to tell me that I’m not the only one stranded in an isolated island call Labuan zzz

Since then, she has been my best friend, make up artist, traveling/shopping/Japanese buddies

“LET’S GO EAT AT BEACH CAFE!”

Empat sekawan back then

!!!!!!!!!!!

“HAPPY 20TH BIRTHDAY MING!”

Ming’s first bday celebration at UMS bus stop

“MEL…. !! MING… !!!”

Our first KK/Tuaran/Kota Belut trip during first year National Day hols

“GIRL, WHICH ONE IS BETTER?”

Our first shopping trip @ Ipoh wtf

“MING, I’M SICK T__T“

Celebrated X’mas in yucky Labuan. Damn classic weih this picture

The guy whom we have good & bad memories of

Was looking thru pics and came across this. Sorry Stephanie. We found him first XP

“WHY WE SO KESIAN ONE ONLY GOT 30 MINUTES TO MAKE-UP. WAIT MY ANGPAU LEFT IN THE HOTEL!!! TOLONG PATAH BALIK PLS”

Pls excuse our fashion sense from zaman batu

Then somewhere in 2007, we attended a wedding in Penang. It was so funny. We went there on behalf of my mom to her friend’s daughter wedding. We didn’t know anyone there so they seated us with the bride’s relative. And they were all in their 50s, successful and rich. They traveled half the world and were telling us about their experience, what did they do and we being two girls from small town just sit in awe and listen to their grandfather’s story. Then they were asking us about where/what we study, you know the usual stuffs. And Ming answered International Finance at UMS Labuan. And so, the man beside her was like, “So tell me how is the financial situation in Labuan” Both of us looked at each other for a moment, not knowing what to answer and I took a sip of my drink and quietly thank god that I do not need to answer a question like that

We didn’t eat much during that night. Excused ourself a couple of times to camwhore in the toilet (of all places, huh). At the end of the dinner, we were going to flag a taxi back to our hotel and one of the guest was like, “Don’t be silly, I’ll drive you girls home.” And he led us to his BMW don’t ask me what series and that is the first and hopefully not the last time I sat in a BMW.

Once we reached our room, we screamed, giggled, more camwhoring until we got hungry. Called McDelivery and unfortunately they don’t operate after midnight zzz. So much for land with good food.

“WOW ALL THE WAY”

We are the only group who did our Japanese ‘field trip’ in his house

Pictures stolen from my friendster. Who has all the pictures from this album?

“IRISH PUB”

The day we celebrated our JLPT 4 failure

The group members (missing Alvin) and all four of us failed like 5 marks to pass?

“OKAY, HE19 COME TAKE PICTURE. NEXT IS HE20 ZZZ”

Early 2008, Elias threw this prom night themed ‘The Immortals of Rock & Roll’. But we dressed anything but rock zzz.

“YOUR DINNER WILL BE AT SOME KOPITIAM”

Yeah, that was what 先生 always tells us and when we read the invitation グランドドセット and you can see everyone screamed silently

JLPT 3 dinner at Grand Dorsett.

Ming, still remember this ice-cream? Weee~

“YEAR OF … ??”

Ang Pau Night 2008. Nothing interesting happened. Saja post our pretty pictures

“DARE YOU TO GO INTO THE HAUNTED HOUSE AND TAKE PICTURES”

For me, final year is the best time of our lifes! My previous two CNYs was at Miri (2007) and KK (2008) and final year must be with friends!

I know I blogged about this before in The Things I did in 2009 but it’s one of the bestest CNY of my life *sorry family

“PLAY GOLF AND HAD THE BEST PORK SATAY EVER!”

“WE GRADUATED, BITCHES”

And ever since we work, we hardly meet each other. She’s based in Ipoh and I’m… everywhere. Happy Birthday, girl. Thank you so much for your friendship and for always being there for me especially during the weekdays! Tomorrow will be probably the last day we meet until don’t know when. I’m sure you’ll have a great time with Alvin at Phuket and I’m still waiting for our next trip girl XP

I wish you the best of luck, many happy returns of the day & may all your wishes come true. Love you girl! <3

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I lay down on my bed, hugging zhumao & bucuk tightly. Thinking about the things that I was supposed to do over the weekend but I didn’t. Disappointed with myself.

The week passed to fast to breathe in.

I called him and he was busy. We talked a while but I didn’t mention what was really on my mind.

So we hung up and I hugged them lagi tight. Last week at this time… what I was doing?

Hanging out/supper with the part-timers after work at  Gurney Drive. Had this MUST EAT rojak which Soo Ai recommended. i had it ever since i first tasted it

12.05am

Tears started rolling.

I’ve been so patient for the whole day not disturbing his guys day out. And now it’s after midnight still not enough to lepak?

Not that I wana stop him from going out but… at this time when I need him the most. I just wish that he would make me feel wanted.

Not just call to update me about his whereabouts. Not just saying ‘I love you. Muacks’ at the end of every phone call just cos it’s a thing we always say.

I just want to hear you say you love me and really mean it.

By that time I started to send him some really nasty text cos I was angry that he wasn’t with me when I needed him the most.

No point changing to digi.

Fuck off.

I will be gone. Ja.

And then I switched off my handphone.

I really tak tahan why I need to suffer, miss him like hell. What am I doing with my life?? I’m freakin’ 24 this year. I am supposed to have the time of my life. Chasing my dreams.  Do the wildest craziest thing. But over the weekend, I just stayed at home and locked myself in the room.

I didn’t feel like meeting anyone. I didn’t feel like talking to anybody.

I onlined/blogged/FB/read/eat = chocolate/biscuits yepp, that’s practically what i ate on saturday

That’s why in my previous blog I wrote that my condition right now is WAYYY worst that UMS. At least back in UMS, I was eating proper food.

12.15am

He called. We argued/cry/he brainwashed me/i cried even more

for that 45 minutes, he was practically brainwashing persuading me. To move to Penang and live together.

I hesitated. Cos I am not ready to move in with him. I worried if it might damage than do good to our relationship.

Okay okay… I really do want to be with him. But I just can’t… i just can’t…

If I were to move to Penang,  I basically am giving up my career. My future. I’ve never done anything like that. Especially for a boy.

What makes you think that you won’t get a good job in Penang? You have Intact Group. Nuffnang.

Yeah, but how fucking sure are you that I’ll get a job in either of this company?

Then he said, let’s work in Singapore by end this year.

That time lagi I pening kepala. I’m not sure if I can get a job in Penang now you’re asking me to find a job in Singapore??

The conversation ended with a lot of sighing. A lot of ‘I need time to think it through‘ and a lot of ‘I need to sleep. Working tomorrow.’

6.15am

Woke up WAYYY earlier than the time I set. Bersemangat cos I made up my mind. I realised this year I didn’t make any new year resolution and now am making one.

Finally, I’m ready to take charge of my life.

7.05pm

I told you. Every time after work, I feel like I should stay in KL. My job opens up so many learning opportunity which I’m yearning of. Can’t just throw it all out of the window just for a boy.

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This weekend was mostly spent melayan my emo. Everytime I wake up, I’d think… Last week at this time… I miss him. I really do miss him. And every time I’m like this, I have the thoughts of going back to Sitiawan or transferring to Penang.

Just say, if I go back to Sitiawan. I work there, spend less and be happier. Cos I’m always homesick and I miss Matthew so much. He’s growing so fast that I wish I had the chance of watching him grow. Then again, I could foresee. If I were in Sitiawan, I would say that the life there is boring, my job wouldn’t be as challenging as my job in KL, wana be adventurous la bla bla *sigh

But if I get a job in Penang, first thought would be yay, got boyfriend to teman me all the time. Won’t be lonely at all and, and… I couldn’t think of anything jor zzz. But then right, in the first place, one of the many reasons I didn’t find a job in Penang is because I wana test our relationship. See if it is strong enough to withstand the distance. And another reason is I want baby to have his own life. Like he can do whatever he wants, go out with his friends etc. Well, that applies on me as well la.

Sigh, sometimes I also don’t know what I want. Wana be independent also me, wana bermanja also me-_-

Anyway, all this has nothing to do with my relationship with my job. It’s fun at times, challenging at times and paling best is it’s very de social media oriented *woots

Aarghhh, it’s raining now and I’m so de emo-ing again.

Psst. Sometimes I can’t wait to go back to work cos I don’t want to ber-emo anymore. So depressing la talking to myself. Listening to my conscious fighting amongst themselves. And eat sucky food cos I wana save money. Sigh, my condition now is WAYYYY worst than my life in UMS. Although that time I was away from home, still I got him to bitch about my day and friends to gila with and freaking go to the beach whenever we want!. But now, everybody is all so busy.

One of my favourite place in campus. The library. Got aircond and that’s me wearing my pajamas. Don’t know what I was doing. Probably reading somebody’s blog. So intense one my reaction.

Tata.

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I just came back from Penang last week and it was my second trip in two months. So I’ll squeeze in 2 Penang trips post into 1:)

In Jan, went down to celebrate baby’s birthday and early Valentine’s Day. Well, actually, everytime we meet, it feels like Valentine’s Day. Cos we meet like once a month and that one time means a lot. Precious, precious moment.

Baby brought me to this Taiwanese restaurant for lunch one day.

We ordered Mini Steamboat.

Tomyam Mini steamboat

Psst. The red blurry thing on the bottom left is pork slice. Yums!

Baby’s favourite. Forgot what it is called -_-”

The best thing about visiting baby in Penang is.

Can take picture while on motorbike how i wish it was a vespa

Transformer.

Starting to take pictures that scream AH HANNNNNNNN!

It wasn’t easy taking picture on a motorbike. One needs to be very alert and can quickly think of what story to tell by taking a particular picture.

This was taken before the man turned into a junction.

Komtar.

In another trip.

Baby attempts to be artsy fartsy.

Sipping on green tea ice blended while reading an old issue of National Geographic *geek mode on

G Hotel

A quick lunch at Pastamania before Valentine’s Day. Couldn’t decide which is the best photo of the pasta so you be the judge.

#1

#2

#3

From the earlier food pics, I think you can more or less know which one is taken by me.

After movie, go take pics again.

Okay this is cheat one. We were still when I took this. That’s why so symmetry.

Sigh if only I got wide angle lens.

Even go vertical also cannot save Mayfair building.

Baby pai de.

Hello uncle.

Gotcha mister.

Hello mister. Again.

He managed to cycle in front of us cos he didn’t stop at the traffic light hence overtook us.

And then we lunch at Kochabi. The same Taiwanese restaurant we came during my last trip.

If only you had showed me your body.

His colleagues recommended this beef noodle. It’s a MUST TRY when you are here.

Well, looks can be deceiving. After I tried it, sad to say but it tasted like the RM5 instant beef noodle Elias bought last time at 7 Eleven in Taiwan zzz.

When we were here, the second time, all the food price increase by RM1. Probably because of CNY week. Ice water also increase 20 cents making it RM1.20. Freaking ice water per glass.

Alien invasion.

Very skinny fireworks on the 2nd day of My FM event at Esplanade.

Lastly, RM7 rojak at Gurney Drive for supper.

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