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The cake & caffeine

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With the sudden infestation of fake hipsters  emergence of coffee lovers, coffee places are sprouting everywhere. I realize that almost every weekend I visit a new coffee place. Just to hang, to talk, to take pictures of my food, you know all that good stuff. The other day I went to a very crammed VCR (in KL) for coffee and cake. I even had a very good strategic spot next to the window for good instagram pictures. Here, I show you: #nofilter #really Then it dawned on me that, this must be peer pressure! haha! Just like road raging, has this become part of the Malaysian culture? o.o If I'm honest, I'm not the biggest fan of coffee. I drink it iced. with milk. and sugar. (I hear coffee nazis gasping all around). I can't even tell the difference between the brews. I much prefer tea but going all the way to a coffee place with special cold pressed brew so I can ask the barista to put a tea bag in hot water doesn't make much sense. Even as I type this, I'm here sitting

Dad vs. Technology | The mystifying Google Calendar.

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Hello and happy father's day! For father's day I usually take my dad out for a meal   since it's usually so hard to get a booking anywhere, I thought I'd set it in stone and send him a Google Calendar invite the week before. zzttt zttt! my phone went. "I don't understand your email," my dad went. "It's a calendar invite," I went. "...if you're free click on it and it will appear in your calendar" "Go where?" "It's in the invite" "Eat where? "It's in the invite" zzt zzt! my dad accepted and ticked that "yes I'm going" option. "Hah! Set in stone. I'm so clever," I thought to myself. On Saturday I sent my dad a whatsapp; "Curve later! 6pm! See you there" "I can't la" WHATTTT!!! "I sent you a calendar invite why you accept it then!" "You didn't say anything after that" butbutbut it appears in your calendar!!  "

What mother says | Like that thing from the poppy plant.

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"Hey mum, I got this for you. You want me to open it?" I ask about the pork sheets I got her from Taiwan. "Ya okay" BTW: These pork sheets are super good! I see them everywhere in Taiwan and honestly, it was love at first bite for me lol If you're ever in Taiwan, that's what you need to look out for! "OH MY GOODNESSS!!!! IT'S SO GOOD! How many packets did you buy???"  mum screams at me. "Uhm, one?" "JUST ONE? OH MY! It's sooo yummy!" She continued chomping away and when she realized she had eaten half the packet,  this is where the monologue began, hers, not mine: "Okay! Last one! I don't want to eat anymore!" *Seals the packet* She then found a piece that she dropped on her lap, looked at me sheepishly and then put it in her mouth. "Hehehheeh....AIYOOOO it's soo nicee!" "Where can we buy it here ah? WHAT? we can't find it here?" "Maybe we should bring it in!" "One

Beseech my aching feet for a seat.

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I cannot begin to tell you how much I love shoesss! flats, heels, sandals, peeptoes, maryjanes, slingbacks, boots, wedge, pumps.. they're probably what gets me the most excited. But I'm also human and I have inner conflicts and all that. So everytime I see shoes I like, they need to fulfill a certain criteria : 1. they are comfy 2. they will not kill my feet However, most of my heels don't fulfill number 2...or number 1. There have been so many times I've hobbled to my car because of my aching feet! "You see my shoes? They're Rockport, so comfy. You need to buy one like this, it's walking shoe" my dad told me when I went to buy plasters for my feet while we were in Taipei. Blablabla dad! shoes are not meant for walking okay?  They're meant to match with your clothes! He dunno! The other day I excitedly put on my new pointed toes and (unexcitedly) received three new blisters just from walking to the restaurant from my car and back. Curses!  I was d

Instant gifting!

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It was Christmas last year when I got my friend a present that I knew she'd love! I thought   I was soooo brilliant   when I got it. It was practical and smart and   cool   and   hip,   everything she wanted. We were super busy during the time so I wasn't able to pass it to her. But when I finally saw her, "Aiya! I forgot to bring your present!   Nvm nvm! It's okay, I'll bring it the next time!  Remind me okay!"  I've seen her almost every other week and I keep forgetting about it. It's almost June now and let me tell you,   it's still sitting in my car boot *blush* How many times has this happened to you? Where you're soooo excited you got your friend something but kept forgetting to pass it to them?  And months and seasons change (rain, no rain, rain, no rain) and it's still laying in the corner of your cupboard or worse! hanging on the door knob - in your poor attempt to remind yourself about it before you go out. Sometimes you can even