Backdated post. Actual event took place on 4 January 2006.

Ever since the cake conversation on Monday, this tiramisu thing has been clinging on my head. Yeah, I was thinking up and down… dreaming and imagining all about cakes. Yeah, Gigi told me how nice and special the tiramisu at Alexis is.

Well I kinda trusted her taste, coz when she says it’s good… it’s normally good. What’s even better, lots of people say it’s good, thus I decided to give it a try. What got me more motivated? Yeah… I watched this movie quite some time a while.. ermmmm I still remember I watched it in 2001. This show call “Tiramisu” by Nicholas Tse and Karena Lam. It was a romance movie. Yeah, in this movie it says.. when you eat tiramisu, you will have this “first love” kinda feel.

Okay… I gotta try this. I wonder if I will have that feel. Mmmm.. this is interesting . “First Love” hahaha… Maybe everyone of you should try this and tell me if you can find this feel while eating tiramisu.

Me and Gigi head down to the Alexis at Great Eastern Mall. It was quite a large and spacious place compare to the one in Bangsar. We stepped in and quickly place our order. Yes, tiramisu is a must. We wanna feel our “First Love”. We didn’t have our main course as Gigi took dinner at home while I had late lunch. Thus we both order a slice of cake and drinks. I ordered a slice of tiramisu while Gigi ordered Chocolate Walnut cake to share.

Our food was being served quickly and I saw the cakes. Okay… the grass is always greener on the other side. The Chocolate Walnut cake looks so much nicer. Yes.. warm cake with ice-cream. Hello… what can be better than warm cake with ice-cream . *Okay, focus girl.. focus… “first love”, yeah “first love”.*

I wasn’t happy with the cake when the cake wasn’t at it’s perfect shape when it arrived. The tiramisu seems to be sliding down. It’s as if it’s melting and I dunno, when I am eating cakes at places like this, I expect to see my cake come in a perfect form. A proper and neat piece.

I can’t wait and I quickly dive in to the tiramisu. Oooookay. It was not what I expect it to be. The feeling I mean. As for the taste, it’s quite good compare to other places ones. What made them special, the additional nuts glazed with honey on the outer side of the cake . It adds in this special kick to the cake. Yes, soft and smooth in the middle but crunchy and sweet on the outside. It’s quite good. But the feeling… no where near “first love”, as a matter of fact, it brings in this strong sense of bitterness and sadness in each bite. Maybe it’s my expectations to the cake. I have no idea. I just felt it didn’t give me that feel… then only I remember, in the show, you will only get the “first love” feel if you eat the cake together with your loved ones.

So that explains everything. Hahaha… so I gotta wait till I have a loved ones to share it with me to feel the “first love” feel.

As for my personal opinion, I prefer the Chocolate Walnut cake to the tiramisu. Yeah, I love warm cakes more. Well, what’s better than a cake with loads of walnut. Yup, lots of it. I can feel and taste it. Best of all, it’s being served warm and with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream. It just felt like heaven. If you ask me…. I have more of the “first love” feel while eating this cake than the tiramisu. Guess everyone just have different preferences.

Backdated post. Actual event took place on 2 January 2006.Wooo… serious planning has been done weeks ahead. Okay… not serious.. erm.. We’ve done lots of serious talking but no action plan about this day out. But then again it was a almost canceled plan since lots of people can’t make it. No idea why, I just felt the elder we grew, the lesser time we could spend or we would choose to spend with friends.

Yes, me.. always staying the opposite end with most people believe it’s now or never. We’re growing older, and I believe our experience, friends, knowledge and belly should grow bigger and broader. But at times is really saddening and depressing, especially people you would want to hang out with just wasn’t bothered or either plain lazy. And when shit things happen, they will come running to you, hoping you spend precious times supporting, talking and advising them.

You know, like there is this Chinese saying “There is no such thing as FREE lunch in this world.” Communication and friendship works both ways. If you have no time to spend you precious time gathering and bonding friendships, then never expect it the other way round when you are in deep shit.

*argh…. I am straying away from my happy outing again*

I woke up early… hehe.. well not really early.. 10.30am. I love to think of it as I am early coz, it’s a HOLIDAY~ and well.. the fact that Gigi says she’s coming to pick me up at 12 makes me feel 10.30am is early. Woke up, bath and getting ready and yet I’m still early. *hip hip hooray*

Hahaha… I’m expecting Gigi to be late. Erm, she messaged me 6am that morning itself that means she barely have 6 hours of sleep. Hemmm… she wasn’t that late, she reached around 12.45pm and we straight head back to her home. Hem.. yeah Brian is already there when we arrived. Apparently he and Gigi has set the time to meet at 1pm. Haha.. opss, I wasn’t involved in the time management so.. they both kept arguing about the “late” factor.

As for me… I am pretty busy thinking of food . Yeay… Yong Taufu (Vegetables or Tofu stuffed wit fish paste). Haha… Brian and me have been talking about this plan for a long long time. God knows why we suddenly talk about Yong Taufu when he suddenly says.. “Ah, I know a good place that sells great Yong Taufu.” *eyes rolled up and blink blink* “You serious?” Brian was like so confident “Yeah, serious. Got one place in puchong. They make them on the spot and fry it.” I was stunned . *saliva dripping and eyes still wide open*

Hehe… I can hear them still arguing over matter on the front… but I can’t hear what exactly they were talking about as my mind was floating around aimlessly. We soon reach this shop called “Puchong Yong Taufu”. Hemm… seriously it’s quite packed but we manage to find seats. Wooohooo… Gigi was left behind to book the seats while Brian and me went to grab food.

Everything we took was raw and un-stuffed. Okay… what I saw on the Yahoo screen chat with Brian sounds convincing now. Haha… We picked loads of stuff. Gigi who initially said she only wanted 4 pieces… hahaha… didn’t end up having more than 4 piece. Yup, obviously she has to eat more… coz I over ordered . Don’t blame me. As a food person, everything looks tasty and good to eat. I would say eat more, eat more!

Okay… we then headed to Sunway Pyramid for our next round. We went and book tickets for movies. Yes, first things first… queue up to get tics for Wallace and Gromit then head down to Sunway atrium and lepak there. Well… it has this nice and ermmm many designer chairs and deco stuff and all, however I always think their designer who design the display for Sunway was rather disappointing. They just can’t fix with one style. They will have this mixed stuff mixed up in the wrong way. The place was suppose to be quite a quiet place for you to play pool, have a drink and chit chat but hey.. loads of people were walking behind us. Seriously loads of people. I would say an average of 20 people walk by us every 1 minute.

That just makes me feel it’s not a serious quiet place to hang out. I can feel that when I am talking to a friend, someone might just suddenly stick their head in the middle and interrupt our conversation. But hey, I guess it would be a better place at night as less people will be walking around.

Jon and Angeline came pretty soon after that. Yup, we were all busy playing pool while waiting for our movie. We’ve loads of fun.. yeah.. I guess everyone have fun except for Brian. Hahaha… kena boycott. See.. that is the point, never tells a woman she is “farn” especially when the person’s name is Gigi Fong. You will die very cruelly. Angeline had to leave as she has a date with her boyfriend and the four of us continue to head down to Haagen Daz. Yeah, Brian supposedly owe Gigi strawberry ice cream (I have no clue for what reason) so everyone decided to head down to the ice cream parlor. When we reached, Jon offered to treat everyone of us ice cream. *Aw… Jon, you’re just so sweet*

I had “Belgium Chocolate”, yummy, just so rich with chocolate. Gigi.. hahaha.. never changing and constantly very persistent with her strawberry Haagen Daz. So guess what Brian, you still owe Gigi Haagen Daz. *don’t say I never hint you* We then just straight rush to the cinema as we are a little late. Luckily for the trailer’s session, or else we would have missed the opening a little.

Ah… dinner was already planned before hand. Okay, I like it… I won’t have to bother where to dine while I can still try new places. Well I am too sick of explaining it why again since I have explained it before. Jon and Brian were already tempting us with this place called “Mantra” when we were playing pool. They told us the ambient is cool, they have Live Band and best of all, the food is great there. It sounds like heaven to me. Best of the best with everything in it. It’s worth a try.

As I walked in, we picked a sit that has water flowing right behind us. I like that feel. Yup.. the Chinese believes places with water continues running means “lasting forever”. Yup in chinese it says “sai sui cheong lau”. But the place is rather bright than what I imagined it to be. Yup… Coz the word Live Band struck me, so I was assuming it’s a not so bright place with small candles on the table. Yes.. you can hardly see what you’re eating and you can hardly see your friends sorta feel thing.

Okay.. it was pretty sad that they didn’t have Live Band on Tuesdays . If I am not mistaken, The Live Band only comes is on the Fridays and the weekends. Guess I’ll have to drop by one weekend to check their Live Band out.

Food eh… ermmm okay, it’s some fusion Indian food. The food there was good. Ermm… well I’ve tried the Butter Chicken (nope, it’s not those Chinese cooking style). It’s actually some form of curry chicken with extra buttery taste to it. I would say not bad… quite appertizing . We then chit chat a little. Yeah… not much time to chat a lot since the shop is closing early. Yeah we forgot it’s Tuesday!

Brian sent me and Gigi to Gigi’s house. Me and Gigi then decided that it’s still early, thus both of us went for mamak and lepak. Yup, it’s only 11++ and I just think it’s rather early to wrap up the night. We lepak in the mamak and chit chatted till around 2am. Haha… yeah.. we have loads to talk about. Don’t ask me what we talk about. It’s a girl’s thing. You’ll have to be a girl and be crazy enough to know and understand.