I Am

Dear Diary,

Today I skipped my ngaji class and celebrated JM's advance birthday together with ZO. It has been long since the 2 of us went out to have dinner together or to even have meet-ups, since I no longer go for gym classes with them.

Initially, we wanted to settle for 'Lava Stone Steak House' for dinner but the Halal eatery one is all the way at East Coast and it was a little bit too out of place for us. Thus, we decided to go to the one nearby which is at PasarBella, when JM realized Lava Stone only serve beef which she can't have. So we had to change the whole venue and look for another Halal eatery, for my convenient as well. It was not that difficult though because Bugis have a variety of Halal cafes and since JM have always wanted to try 'I Am', we settled for that.

I Am

ZO have already made a reservation beforehand and the people there kept getting confused asking us to queue up before walking-in, and different people kept attending to us. They kept asking how can they help us and when we told them we made a reservation, they walked away to help us check our reservation and "never" came back  and another person did the same thing, and another and another when...a familiar face came up to us and assisted us. Then! I realized it was D's cousin. Small world. The funny thing, I smiled widely in confirmation knowing it was her (I kinda have superb memories ahout people even when I see them once, just like Mama) but I felt kinda paiseh after that when she gave me this unsure smile back at me. LOL! Made me felt super awkward too. Heh. Maybe I wasn't that easily recognizable among some others. I really should learn not to embarrass myself by acting like a smart alex with my overfriendly behaviour with people sometimes. People might think I'm crazy. =X Or maybe I really look a bit Chinese wihout the make-up (that's what D thought to) just now.

So anyway, they brought us to our seat at the 2nd level. I had no idea they have 2 levels to this cafe. Awesome! Again, I couldn't decide what to order. That's me being fickle, nothing new about that. I was thinking of having their Burger initially, 'Satay Burger' but I couldn't remember if I already had that with D the last time. I tried to 'eeny meeny miny moe'-ing on my choice but ZO said such things doesn't work. So, I decided to follow the girls and have Pasta instead, since they all are having our usual favourite - Aglio olio. But this time with Fettuccine as our choice of pasta. We three had different sides. Mine was Cajun Chicken, JM was seafood and ZO's was just prawns. It was my first time trying Fettuccine pasta (I don't usually fancy any other pasta besides just Spaghetti). To me, Fettuccine felt a bit dry with the Aglio olio sauce but well it was still nice though, chewy-chewy and  because it was Aglio olio. Slurrrp!

Not forgetting we have to have sides whenever we dine, so we had Buffalo wings as the sides. It was also my first time trying Buffalo wings. It's nice and I like it but not something that I would go crazy about. It tasted a bit burnish like your BBQ kind of taste, which something I don't favour much but the girls love it!

After we finish our pasta, we did a Birthday surprise for JM. The person there brought their in-house special rainbow cake that we order over for JM, singing her a Birthday song too. Thank God we were at the 2nd level. So, it was only us and 2 other groups of people there. They too join in to sing JM the Birthday song. Hehehe! It was really sweet and luckily not too embarrassing for JM. Hehehe!

Anyway, side track a bit because I just had to share this part of my story. When the girls and I were seated at the 2nd level, we had the table near a red window and at that point of time, it was only the 3 of us there. While seating down and waiting for us to be served, the window suddenly opened by itself and then shut on its own. It shocked the 3 of us and I was confident that there were NO wind at all at that point of time. Like literally, how someone would open the door and closed it. So ZO tried to neutralize the situation and explained that probably the window was loose causing the window to open by itself. Plus I didn't want to think so much about it either and so I brushed it off my thoughts. But few hours later after we finished eating, I realised my glass had a lipstick stain on it which I had no freaking idea where it came from. I was sure that my glass did not have lipstick stain in the first place because I am very particular on checking my glass before drinking. (I know of some places who doesn't wash the glasses/cups properly, don't want to name them) So, I'll usually give a quick check to see if the cup is clean. I have been taking sip after sip of water from the glass, not until later when I found the lipstick stain on my glass. The spooky thing, I wasn't wearing any make-up or lipstick AT ALL. So again, ZO helped me change my glass to a new one and we ignored what had happened. But then while taking pictures, we realised there were candles reflection on JM's face, which I am not too sure what was that and we were sure there wasn't any reflection before we snap the picture. Anyway, does candles' reflect light on pictures? No right? Hmm.. Anyway, I choose not to think too much about it again. Could be just one of those spooky day, you know. Told this story to my other colleague and she too got spook out. Lol! And then she asked me this question, "Would you go back there again?" OF COURSE! I'll definitely will and I don't think that place was spooky or anything. Probably it was just some playful soul who was just trying to "play"  around with us. Hurhur! 

I did mention to the girls that the cake is huge with 7 tall different colours slices. So the 3 of us get to share JM's birthday cake as one person won't be able to finish this. We all chose a colour each and started eating the colour off. JM chose the violet and ZO chose the blue, while I chose Yellow. And then ZO was too full that she had one last Green and so was JM, with one last purple. I don't like anything to go to waste when it comes to food and so, I finished the cake with the Red and Orange, this time skipping the cream cheese because it was making me sick and jelak. Haha! But honestly, their cream cheese is so so nice, to die forrrrr!

After dinner, we all walked for a bit to let the food settle in since we were already too full and then we headed home. Sadly now, I am still thinking of their rainbow cake. Haizzz! It's sooooo nice!

XOXO,

Princess Azie Anni ♥