#SAIDINA; Central Perk Sg!.

Hi!

20 May 2017.

I planned to bring Dina for a surprise lunch after yet another Saturday spent in the second home (aka work).

Mainly as a birthday surprise thingy.

It was a pretty random idea/thought, to bring her over to the Friends Cafe.

Central Perk Sg.

Because, out of nowhere, I recalled her really liking the Friends TV series.

Getting there took some time. :'D

Directions look really easy on maps, but not so much once you're at the actual place, and when every other building at Clarke Quay has the word "Central" on it. :|

& I'd actually consider myself pretty good with directions, as long as I can spot the landmarks.

Anyways, after a few go-je moments, we found the place by foot!

Here's a note:

I've never watched Friends. :>

So it did bum me a little that I wasn't able to relate to everything around, from the layout to the Menu.

But I slowly got into it as Dina told me more and introduced me to the characters, etc.

Let's get the food part down first.

Joey's Ceasar Palace Salad with Quinoa.

Mrs Braversman's Cheesecake.

Iced Latte - in Rachel Green & Ross Geller blends.

I loved the coffee!!

Should've tried their other coffees as well, but how much coffee can one take in one serving, right? :')

The Really Serious Break- Up Ice Cream.

We were actually really hungry but oh wells.

They projected the series in the Cafe too, hence I got to watch some episodes myself.

Some of which were pretty funny, I must say. :')

The area where we sat was the 'Set'.

While the area in the picture before this ^ were the 'Directors' area, as you can probably tell from the chairs.

We almost got the sofa but some other hoomans grabbed it. :(

The Kitchen!

You can actually get some tokens (in exchange for $ obviously) and play it!

"How do I pose and pretend I'm cooking?!"

:D

The entire area (Central Mall) made it feel like we were in a different country, you know, like how you'd feel when you're in USS.

We spent quite some time at the cafe too, and then got on our way to grab some actual grub.

Curious question of the day: How do people feel/get full from eating a salad?!

Happiest 22nd to you, Dina.
Apologies for getting you the wrong card game, plus all the instructions and words are in Chinese.
Thought that counts..? :x
Thank you for the past 4+- years of friendship.
Hope I perked up your day (life).
Appreciate you a latte.
^^ :)

Warmest regards
I ALMOST SIGNED OUT WITH ^!!!
Goodness, I work too much.
Ha.

Du vet jeg elsker deg.
Goodbye

I crave solitude.

& no, it's not the same as being lonely.

Just, being alone.

With the freedom of letting my thoughts wander.

Thinking and imagining about whatever I want.

Only for 20 minutes

at the end of the day.

That's all I need.

20 minutes of no fighting, just allowing.

It's funny but,

it's something I actually wonder;

What if someone takes it away from me?

Doesn't allow me any?

Just because I ask for time alone,

it's not because you did anything wrong whatsoever.

No matter who or what you are or do,

I will need time alone.

It's just me being myself.

#SAIDINA :D

Hi!

Last week was the Labour Day long weekend, so Dina and I took the opportunity for a short escape to Jaybee.

After quite a number of alternatives and trials, we ended up queuing for the yellow bus to bring us over to the other side.

There was quite the traffic jam heading towards the immigration and we had to stand the entire way through.

There were huge groups of humans, but we managed to get through Singapore immigration and waited for the second bus for a rather short amount of time.

Waiting to get our passports stamped took about 50 minutes of waiting.

Once we got through, the first things we went ahead to grab were some nomz.

Reached Kranji MRT; ~850am

Reached JB: ~12nn

Boost & Auntie Anne's.

Settled on a random bench to get our nom on.

Since we had a couple of hours till check-in, we walked around to survey possible purchases.

Ha!

We checked-in on time, but our rooms weren't ready.

Had .5 hour to spare, so we thought we'd rest at the lounge.

It was so lonely there, just the two of us and the guy in-charge.

We had drinks and did not want any food, although he offered us and we ended up agreeing to soda because we felt rather sorry for him. :')

He must be so dang bored alone up there for hours, with the same music playing over and over again!

& lol at our choice of drinks matching the sofa. :'D

Half an hour later, our rooms still weren't ready.

So we left our bags at the hotel and went back to the malls.

Here's our food choices for the day, because I did not take any shopping shots.

Seoul Garden in Malaysia is more practical for both of us, who do not usually eat the money's worth at buffets. :'D

Night #1 shenanigans.

Board games because Dina has been obsessed.

& also because we decided to return to the hotel before sundown as the path from the mall to the hotel was not very safe/friendly.

Hence that was what we did that night.

(We gave up on snake and ladders cos we figured we'd take forever to win.)

We watched Jarhead 3: The Siege, which was pretty good, and then I fell asleep.

Day 2.

Made it to the last half hour of breakfast.

Decent food.

Went back up to get ready for the rest of the day.

Matchy.

All new clothes purchased the day before. :'D

PS I really enjoyed these pants from Uniqlo!!

(Hella expensive though.)

Lunch was at...

Boat Noodle as suggested by Nina. :>

All our food came before our drinks.

& we waited for a really good amount of time.

So I took pictures of the food, after asking about our drinks and waiting some more.

Boat Noodles.

We bought 6 bowls, 4 with rice noodles and 2 with egg noodles, all in spicy beef broth.

RM2.01/bowl.

Kra-pow Chicken with Rice.

Warning: This dish is spicy.

It's basically the Thai Basil Chicken sorta deal.

I can take high levels of spice, so it was delicious.

If you can't take spice, you probably would not like this.

*v*

Finally, the drinks arrived.

Dina had the Thai Green Milk Tea while I had the Thai Milk Tea.

The Matcha in the GMT was pretty strong, you can taste a lot of the bitterness in that one.

The TMT was great, real yums.

Hence, I prefer the TMT.

The cups were legit plastic though, it's kinda a waste that they have to throw them away, but also disgusting if they were to reuse it.

I would've brought it home but it would take so much space. :'D

Yes, people were looking over at us while we waited for our drinks like "Why aren't they eating?"

& yes, people were looking over at us, as though thinking "Can they finish it?"

& when we ordered this delightful steamed bread with pandan custard kaya, they were like "Add-on oder?!"

& yes we finished it all. :>

The bill amounted to about RM50.20 or something, which is about $15/person.

We were joking about how in Singapore, for $15, we would only get 2 large cups of Thai Milk Tea. :')

Very happy meal right here, 10/10 would come back again ^

Shopping resumes.

There weren't much new/nice collections at H&M/Cotton On, so we spent our money on books, food and Uniqlo.

Mostly Uniqlo.

Last minute snack grabs before returning to our hideout.

Boost again, obviously.

What a combination of things to do.

Me after I poured hot water into the cup noodles: "....how are we going to eat them? We don't have forks, right?!"
So an extra toothbrush and stirrers were the answer. :'D

No good movies that night, but slept better than the night before. :>

Day 3.

Went down for breakfast a tad bit earlier, checked-out and did some last minute shopping.

We left for home at about 1145 and all that immigration and bus-ing took us about 40 minutes at most.

Thus we managed to reach home way before 2pm, means there was ample time for us to rest before work the day after.

Thanks for agreeing to this rather impulsive suggestion.

Needed the escape.

Eternally thankful to this babe.

Nice seeing you, every single day of the week. :'D

Looking forward to the next one!

May is going to be a hectic, crazy month but let's go all out and pull through!

Du vet jeg elsker deg.

Goodbye