My 24th Birthday

Hola, I'm back.

June is my favorite month because I'm a June baby.  Celebrated my birthday a week ago, I'm officially 24. Had a short meet up with my sis and a hearty dinner with my beloved colleagues.  Simple celebrations but mean a lot to me.  I guess I'm getting older?

Slept merely few hours after midnight call and drove all the way to Mitsui Outlet Park, the newly opened shopping centre nearby Klia. Braced myself through the heavy rain pours and sleepiness, I guess I am really deserve the legendary name of "geng wah" from my previous working place, LOL.

It took me around half an hour to reach Mitsui.  Went there all the way by following waze, so please do not ask me how to go or which way to follow, haha! (epic failed)

We had our lunch at a cafe call Straits House.  Picked this cafe out of limited options.  You may visit the official webpage of Mitsui to have a glance through the food outlets available before deciding whether to have lunch/dinner there, haha. Western food and Asian delights are available in the menu. Kinda crowded there, I guess due to limited food outlets?

Thai-styled fish fillet rice for my sis

Cheese baked rice for me

Hot coffee latte with epic failed coffee art for me
(I bet even I can draw it better... or perhaps this is not a coffee art after all? Lol)

Our wefie
(後面那位也太搶鏡了吧）

Food: ***  (not really impressive, just average)
Price: *** (about RM20++ for main course)
Environment: *** (a bit crowded, but still ok)
Service: **** (Good!)

I thought I would be able to shop a lot there after seing the shopping hauls people posted on FB or IG, who knows I got nothing after turning a few rounds in Nike and Adidas outlet.  The price was so much cheaper but the sizes are too limited :( 

Spent a few hours there and drifted back Banting for dinner with my colleagues. Thank you for cake and dinner with me, at least I'm not alone *sniftsnift

My cakes

With the pretties
Photo credits to Cindy

Look at me, smile till can see my gum to prove how happy was I
HAHA
Photo credits to Cindy

That's all for my 24th birthday celebration. Hope I'm getting wiser meanwhile of getting older, haha! Also, I wish I can think in a more positive way :D

Till then, see you next time!

 x.o,x,o

Happy Birthday Jane

It's 10th June, I'm officially 24.

Spending my birthday eve at outpatient pharmacy in the middle of the night. Yet, I'm grateful for being able to breath and surrounded by people who love me all these while.

If I'm given life span of 50 years, I had come to the halfway of it. Twenty-four isn't a scary number, just uncertainties are lying beneath. How you gonna spend the next 24 years and to become who you wanna be?

Thinking over and over again, and yet unsure with my own answer.  Perhaps stop thinking and move forward is the best answer?

Writing this post using phone, hence this photo is 100% unedited lolol

Birthday wishes? I gonna start figuring it out.


#Peace

致：朵兒咖啡館 Daughter's Cafe

看過《第三十六個故事》的你，對朵兒咖啡館應該一點也不會感到陌生吧。
以物易物為主題，說的是夢想，憧憬和勇氣。

“從以物易物聽來很多不屬於自己的故事，總希望有一天可以跟別人分享自己的故事吧”，朵兒淡淡的說出了她的心聲。
後來她留下咖啡館，環遊世界去了。
她，應該是快樂的。

簡單的故事，拍攝手法很美。
看過電影之後一直希望有機會來這家咖啡館坐坐。
一直等到這次的台灣之旅，機會終於來了，可是這是我第一次，也是我最後一次來到朵兒咖啡館。

剛好，光顧朵兒咖啡館的那天，正是朵兒咖啡館倒數結束營業的最後第二天。

台北市松山區富錦街393號1樓

看到那即熟悉又陌生的環境，彷彿走進了電影世界裡面。

以後這一切都會成為歷史吧？

 許多喜歡《第36個故事》的影迷聞風而至，抵達時候已聚滿了人潮。

在店外至少等了兩個小時才有空桌，我只能說朵兒咖啡館的魅力是在太強了，大家都願意默默的等待，哪怕錯過了這一次就再也沒有機會了。

那熟悉的櫃檯，只是少了朵兒的那句“歡迎光臨”

這裡不就是薔兒對著幾個空姐說了一個接一個故事的角落？

現實生活裡，這一個框框又蘊藏了多少個他或她的故事？

餐牌上留著被歲月洗禮的痕跡，五年的時間就這樣過去了。

在惋惜和接受之間找不到平衡點。

點了一杯摩卡，如果不是因為外面還有很多人在等著，還真想賴著不走。

只是，沒有如果。

老實說，食物方面其實還好而已。不過，環境勝與一切吧？

這是我點的雞肉三文治

簡短的幾行文字，結束了五年的感情。

這就是在城市裡日復一日的故事。

為了留作紀念，每位訪客可以親自剪下並帶走12格的電影菲琳，也就是電影的半秒。

短短的半秒，意義非凡。

得到的那半秒，正是朵兒咖啡館剛開始營業的一幕，感覺好諷刺。

短短人生里，半秒對你的意義是什麼？

依依不捨的離開了咖啡館，這麼一走，就是永別了。

慶幸在來不及之前趕上了說再見的機會。

踏出咖啡館，抬頭一看，只能說在台灣到處都是拍照的好角度。

帶走了36個故事，和回憶。

來到朵兒咖啡館是一種緣分吧？
很多事情在冥冥中自有安排。
如果每件事情發生背後有原因，有緣來到朵兒咖啡館背後的原因應該是什麼？



我，開始想念朵兒了。

A Date with Myself

I know it sounds weird, but sometimes I enjoy spending time alone.

Sorry for the long hiatus.  A lot of changes happened in my life, so I guess I should be forgiven?

After waiting for months, finally my posting letter arrived, I am officially a qualified pharmacist to serve you people!  But wait, when I read it further, I was like "Oh my god, I got Selangor".  Selangor is such a big state and I had no idea which hospital or government clinic I gonna be placed.  Lucky you Selangorians to have a pretty pharmacist to be in your state LOL.

On the day of reporting duty only I got to know I was placed in Hospital Banting, which is literally in Banting, a small town of 1 hour from Kuala Lumpur, 30 minutes to KLIA airport and 2 hours 30 minutes from my hometown.  Had to accept the truth meanwhile gotta figure where should I stay.  All thanks to my friends who helped me to ask around and of course a big thank you to Mark Zurkerberg for creating Facebook, such an amazing platform to spread the news. Haha!

This is the forth week of being in Banting.  Adapting new life and yet missing my girls a.k.a colleagues + housemates + partner in crime back in Slim River.

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End of story.  Back to a date with myself.

It was the first weekend I spent in Banting.  Decided not to go back hometown on Friday morning and start regreting in the evening.  Honestly I had no idea how to spend the weekend over here.  In the end, I was thinking "Why don't I date myself?".  I know it sounds weird, but sometimes I enjoy spending time alone.

Being alone isn't equal to lonely.
懂得與別人相處之前先學會跟自己相處吧？



SATURDAY

Decided to start cooking.  Drove to Giant and bought a lot of cooking utensils as well as food materials.  It was the first time of shopping alone.  Had the feeling of grown up suddenly hahaha. Two hundreds bucks gone but I had gained a lot of positive energies.

Walking alone, deciding own path and direction. 

Got myself a set of McChicken too. Honestly, it was my first time of drive-thru. 

My shopping hauls: A rice cooker, some food materials and happiness :D

SUNDAY

Drove to KLIA 2 for the first time. It was just a spontaneous idea popped out in my mind.  Surprisingly it is very near to Banting and I didn't get lost on the way there.  I would say airport is a good place to be alone where nobody will care who you are and why are you alone.  Walking around in Gateway, observing people come and leave, thanks God I did not bring my passport, or else I would have runaway.

Settled lunch at Dome
享受一個人的時光

My spicy olio chicken pasta (looks like mee goreng mamak here =.=)

Having a hot mocha is the best way to enjoy quiet moment. 

Being alone isn't that bad still huh?

The only drawback of going to KLIA2 is the parking fee.  RM4 per hour for the first 3 hours is no joke. Haha. Other than that, everything is just perfect and I think I will do the same thing over and over again. Peace!

Being alone isn't equal to lonely. 

一個人也可以過得好好的。

I might just drop everything one day and runaway.
也許有一天我會放下一切不管，尋找我的自由。

可以在台灣做的十件事

我回來了，我親愛的。
從台灣回來不到一個月，我開始想念台灣了。
也許上輩子是台灣人吧？這個國家總讓我有一種很熟悉的感覺。
喜歡這裡的環境，喜歡這裡的文化，喜歡這裡的人，喜歡這裡的一切。

台灣給人的印象不應該只局限於珍珠奶茶吧？
來到台灣可以做的事實在是太多。
用時間去體會，用心去感受，心靈上獲得的，遠比物質上的更有價值。

不如換個說法吧，與其以遊客觀光的角度看台灣，不如跟上台灣人的腳步，融入台灣的生活節奏？

1. 到誠品享受寧靜片刻
挑一本書，細嚼文字與文字之間的情感，或偽裝成文青也好。如果你不愛閱讀，不如就挑一張CD，讓自己陶醉在音樂的世界裡，讓時間流逝也不覺得惋惜。

台中勤美誠品

挑了一份禮物，給自己

2. 乘搭公共交通，看看這國家的美麗
也許多耗不少時間，也許得站在搖晃不定的公車裡，如果細心留意，也許可以發現不少驚喜。或者，買個便當，在火車上慢慢享用也是一種不錯的體驗。

台鐵自強號，往台北路途中

3. 騎腳踏車
如果不喜歡乘搭公共交通，就騎著腳踏車，口裡哼著歌，穿越大街小巷，欣賞台灣巷弄的
美吧！台灣到處都可以看到U-bike的租借熱點。既然對身體好又環保，而且腳踏車的車道完善，何樂而不為呢？

台中逢甲大學附近的市集

4. 晚上餓了，去逛夜市吧
旅客愛逛夜市，台灣人也一樣愛。士林夜市，寧夏夜市，逢甲夜市，師大夜市，幾乎每個地區都能找得到夜市。手裡捧著豪大大雞排，留意身邊的人群，為喧嘩的夜市編上一個感性的故事。

逢甲夜市，還有我愛的臭豆腐

5. 寫一張明信片，把祝福送出去
分享當下的心情，把祝福投下郵桶。收信人的那份感動，就是所謂的禮輕情意重吧。

都收到了嗎？

6. 把7-eleven當作自己的家
美麗的早晨，來杯咖啡吧；沒人陪的夜晚，來解決一個人的晚餐吧；或者，想流淚的話來買一罐台灣啤酒，哭過了，一切不好的也過去了。可以當作自己最熟悉的地方，度過很多個人生的moment。

7. 把記事本蓋滿印章
走過的每一步，看過的每個景點，留下經過的痕跡，帶走不退色的故事和回憶。

平溪老街的一個角落

8. 來一份傳統早餐，為嶄新的一天掀開序幕
總是無法抗拒那份對傳統早餐的喜愛，無論是蛋餅，燒餅，油條，豆漿還是饅頭。坐在早餐店裡觀看街上熙來攘往的人群，也是一種享受吧。

令人想念的味道

9. 感受濃厚的人情味
只能說台灣是個很有愛的國家。無論是公車司機，為你指引方向的路人，或是看見你自己一個人站著而前來關心的阿姨。小小的一個舉止，可以讓人感動很久。

台北西門町街頭

10. 談一場戀愛吧
每個人都值得擁有幸福。有人說，幸福永遠會遲到，可是卻從不缺席。也許錯過了，也許得到不屬於自己的，幸福總會來敲門的。

台北十分車站（幸福車站）

許個願吧，不一定會實現，可是至少還有一線希望吧。
（台北平溪老街）

也許是舊地重遊吧，少了一份驚喜，卻多了一份懷念。

如果你問我還會不會再度來到台灣，答案應該很明顯吧？

Till then, see you next time, Taiwan!

Ps：十件事太少了，可以做的還有好多好多 :)