lunch @ Cravings Kitchen & Bistro

imagine this.

you just came back from a torturous Certified Financial Planning (CFP) class at 1pm. you want so much to go home so you drove about 140km/h on a highway from subang jaya back to kota damansara. but when you're about to reach you found that you were freaking hungry and even wonder when was the last time you ever ate, or did the food you swallowed a few hours ago (because you were incredibly late) just disappeared like, "poof", so you decided to go for lunch in a newly built shopping complex in sunway damansara, the "Sunway GIZA"!

you parked your car and were thinking what should you eat and suddenly realized that YOU HAVE ONLY RM4.00 IN YOUR WALLET! oh my God! what are you gonna eat before you die of hunger in 10min?

just when you wanted to drive home instantly and go for maggie mee (malaysia's best instant noodles), a beautiful young lady in blue black dress walks to you and gave you a warm smile. then, she shows you a leaflet that says "Super Crazy Opening Promotion" and "Only RM 3.50". Wow! this must be the best promotion you can ever find, and at the best timing you can ever imagine!

then, she so kindly walks you to the restaurant below:

Wow! so stylish! another kind young waitress shows you to your table and presented the leaflet again. when you asked for recommendations, she points to one of the 8 images on the leaflet and starts telling how special and unique and healthy their signature dish was and the recipe came from Korea! besides, this Kongguksu was supposed to be RM 12.90! without even asking what it is, you ordered it.

5min later, the dish came

now that you are super hungry, you want to gobble down this warm and mouth-watering noodle so you grabbed your chopsticks and touched the bowl. eh? hold on a second, why is it cold? but you didn't bother much and took your first bite and you found that the noodle was sweet! you then drank a spoonful of the cold soup and you found out that the soup was SOY BEAN!

now you examine your noodles seriously for the 1st time and found

(Bok Yi)

and

(apple in a seriously bizarre place)

after a few more reluctant bites, you eventually found out that all the materials in the bowl were actually RAW! i mean, even the noodles were never cooked!

that's what happened to me during lunch just now. i went home with an almost empty stomach and gratefully ate my Tom Yam flavoured Maggie Mee! oh i love you Maggie you just saved my life.

A warm welcome to the real world

for the past 17 years i have lived a life that i now find very very innocent.

i went to pejabat pendidikan daerah (PPD) today, at 2.30pm to submit my appeal form for form 6, not that i desperately want it, but for the sake of having a back up plan just in case everything else fails.

the conversation between me n the officer (Malay) in PPD. a very pleasant one.

Me: selamat pagi bang, i nak hantar surat rayuan untuk masuk form 6 tahun ni.

Officer: u dari mana? sekolah persendirian?

Me: ya.

officer: nah u kena bawa ini juga. sijil lahir u yang benar, sijil kahwin ibubapa u, dan etc etc....

me: kenapa? borang ni takde tulis pun! website ppd pun takde tulis! i bawa je apa yang tulis kat situ!

officer: u kenalah ikut prosedure kami! u datang untuk rayu tau RAYU!

me: (quite provocatively) so kalau bumiputera kena bawa ini juga ke?

officer: tak. pasal ni untuk sahkan kewarganegaraan ibubapa you saje. orang bumi memang dah malaysiankan? so tak payah prove la

me: tapi you tengok ic saja la. ic kita birukan!

officer: mana kita tau you buat yang palsu saje?

i just felt like slapping that idiot's face 1,000,000 times and send him straight to the deepest pit of hell where he belongs.

also, i learnt that the biggest hurdle when dealing with the government are the ones that can make the least impact, the non-decision-makers, or the ones with the least importance and can be fed to sharks and no one would care.

not that i never heard of this, i heard this kind of experience about a million times. but experiencing it for the 1st time, well, it sucks