Artisan Roast HQ

Been seeing a number of pictures on Instagram on this place.

So when I came back from Sarawak for my mid-sem break, my friend suggested that we go here for a chit-chat, catch-up night. I jumped at the opportunity.

This simplistic, cosy, contemporary and rustic place is located at Section 13, Petaling Jaya, near DUMC.

The counter. The menu & price is displayed on the wooden logs above.

Brew Bar

We sat by the brick wall. That's my Latte on the table. Latte @ RM10

My friend ordered (hot) Chocolate @ RM10

The 5 of us. (including me behind the camera lol). Catching up with each other after we left Form6 and
sharing about our university experiences with each other.

Perfect setting and ambience for chit chats and some good ol' reminiscing.

Literally having a pillow talk.

I'm not an avid coffee drinker and therefore I don't have much to say about the coffee but I really like the ambience. As for the price, well, everything is expensive to us students haha.

One thing's for sure, I'll be back here again!

It's weird when you visit your abandoned blog and read your previous posts. It's amazing how much has changed since then. Emotions, feelings, thoughts that evolved over a period of time.

But that's all part of blogging isn't it? It's a place of venting your frustrations, sharing your opinions and thoughts or just another form of communicating and expressing bottled emotions.

We write and leave. Coming back one day to contemplate on the past in the present.

It's a virtual diary we keep and hide away and, one day, open it and look back at how we felt back then and maybe even laugh it off a little.

As off now, i'm currently going through testing times. My pre-university exam - STPM is just around the corner. So much to cover. It demotivates me, knowing that so much has yet to be done. But who else am i to blame but myself? Being a typical Malaysia student, i studied last minute.

Now i can only do whatever i can and hope for the best.

shall go back to studying chemical reactions of carboxylic acids. Sad life.

Why is it so hard for me to grasp the fact that I'm no longer that person to you

So it's 11pm, exactly one hour before i turn 19. I dont know what to feel. 19 would be my last year as a teen forever. Time flies. I wish i could go back to my pre-school days where life was like being in a bubble, always blissfully happy.

Something is missing this birthday. something big. a void.

生日快乐
我对自己说 　　
蜡烛点了 　　
寂寞亮了

Writing, like music, enables one to express their feelings and convey their emotions. It is a powerful tool that is able to impact and influence one's thought and perception. Photography is no exception.

Writing, music, and photography are my best friends now.

What happened along the way? how did it end up like this..

A feeling of nostalgia is surging through me. I miss everything that was from the past. Life seemed so much more carefree compared to life now and it certainly isn't getting any easier. Those moments are never coming back again. What's left are only memories...

the song that im currently stuck to. I love tyler ward's acoustic covers, they're so heartfelt. and of course, cody simpson looks cuter now heh, and his voice got deeper,he sounds less gay now lol.

cant wait for the full version to come out

Updates!

Well we had to carry out a mandatory bio experiment which we will be graded for and the worst thing is it involves cutting potatoes. Cutting isnt exactly my strength. I had to get practice at home first because we have a limited time on the actual day itself and this was how it turned out

it actually wasnt that bad when i practiced at home but on the actual day itself, i freaked out.

As i mentioned earlier, we were given a time frame of around 15 mins to cut 15 strips of potato measuring 5cmX 0.5cm each. i was nervous and rushing for time, i started hyperventilating. my hands were practically shaking. i couldnt even manage the speed and efficiency as how i practiced the night before. So somehow or rather i had to get the job done although my readings wouldnt be accurate but then again, nothing is perfect.

the potato strips in different concentrations of sucrose solution.

while i was waiting for the strips to react with the solution, i started cleaning up. while i was about the dispose my evidence ( the amount of potato i wasted) pn yip caught me red handed, well literally. of all times she had to take a picture of me trying to get rid of my evidence grr

"caught red handed"

Frankly speaking., i feel kinda bad for the potatoes. oh well

Before i start writing, i would just like to clarify some things. Im not some vain narcissist who blogs about everything and anything, im doing for the sake of a certain reason.

Anyway, Tuesdays has got to be one of my most hectic day of the week, or probably this tuesday anyway. We had sports day rehearsal which required us to stand under the scorching hot sun until the ceremony was over. JN ( dont want to mention names here) told me she felt slightly dizzy and soon after i noticed her lips started to turn white. Oh no, she's gonna faint. right so insisted that she rest and escorted her out of the marching line. She was pretty faint by then. Her eyes looked like they were literally poping out soon and she stared blankly into the air, she sort of looked like a person who was demon possessed, i was pretty freaked out. Her whole face turn white and she was wobbly. We sat her down and fanned her. Even the guy who came to help was freaked out by her blank stare, i could tell. At one point i thought we had to call the ambulance. She finally responded and looked better after sitting down. The irony was she ate a pretty full breakfast and i didnt and i felt fine lol. So i spent the rest of the day teasing her and re-enacting how she looked like and told her that she had the potential to act in a horror movie. so after staying for maching until 4, i left for chem tuition. my goodness. why is chemistry so freaking hard, it is so much more complicating than what we learnt in form4 and 5, and i thought that was hard. pfft, who was i kidding. form 6 chem is more to the technical side, which is really tough. Well after every chem tuition, my brain is fried, and if that isnt bad enough, i have maths tuition straight after that, and after that my brain is toasted.

Wednesday, well nothing much happened today. except during our weekly colloqium meeting. It was the agm today and they elected the new BOD. i was just sitting casually and suddenly someone suggested my name and poof, im the new assistant secretary. how much more random can you get. ugh everyone knows that being the secretary is very tedious but for the sake of co curriculum marks, i didnt reject. as if my life isnt depressing enough already.

im so freaking dark right now, thanks to the hours and days spent under the hot sun marching. i could pass off as a orang asli. everytime i bump into my friends they'd say : "melanie, you seriously got darker" like 5 or 6 times. my sis even said i look like a myanmar worker ugh. i hope sports day is over and done with.

Well hello blog! back to talking to myself again, feels kinda weird now, considering the fact that i sort of abandoned this blog.

Oh well, today is a sunday. and like every other ordinary sunday, i went to to church. Today the church invited Rev Kim Sung Hae South Korea, wife of Pastor Cho who is the senior pastor of Full Gospel church in korea, the largest church in the world boasting tens of thousands of members. She had a really thick accent so i couldnt catch what she was preaching most of the time but anyway she seemed like an influential lady.

My comp blacked out AGAIN, because my sisters overused it so here i am at Old Town in the newly opened Ss2 mall. A very nice and well planned open-concept mall i must say. the only thing missing is a much needed cinema!!

i know its weird but here's me saying HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII =D with my kaya toast.

ps: imy. hope you enjoyed the show

The list is out and i didnt fucking get the tickets.

It was my only hope to fall back onto in case i didnt manage to win any tickets.

Im gonna fall back into depression now.

Tah.

Big City :)

Today was the first time i went to the Big City, Kuala Lumpur all by myself.

After enquiring about colleges and courses at the Annual Facon Education Fair, i took a walk out to the KLCC park.

The Petronas Twin Towers

KLCC Park

Despite the crowd, it was serene and beautiful, calming in a way.

There's something about that place that reminds me of New Zealand. It's probably because I dont come to this place often therefore it feels like its my first time here, just like how i felt everywhere i went when i was in New Zealand.

I guess i feel more matured now. Going around places alone, making life-altering decisions alone. It's time to grow up now.

The End

Today not only marks the end of spm for some of us, but it also marks the end of high school life, the end of a phase in life.

Relieved? Yes Happy? maybe. Sad? Definitely.

Today was the last day in school for some of us, last time of wearing the uniform, last time of walking in the school as a student, last time of just chilling out and hanging around school, last time eating the canteen food.

For some of us, we'd be more than glad to leave school.But for me, as much as i hate school, i still love it.I think we all have a love-hate relationship with the school.The school may be a pain in the ass sometimes, but it was the place where happy and sad moments took place.The place where we met friends that we would keep and cherish for life.A place where we learnt and experiment with new things.

A place that we grew up in. A place that will always be a part of us.

5 Angsana class of 2009/2010

I never regretted entering this class. Although there was always constant pressure from the teachers as this was the "first science class" it was one hell of a fun class. We were always up to somthing. 5 Angsana taught me alot in life and I will never my forget my journey with them.

Goodbye High School.

pure stress

Sigh.Trials is just around the corner and im totally stressed out. Talking is one thing but doing something about it is another.

Why is it so hard to concentrate? i know the consequences if i dont. but yet, im not putting my whole effort into it.

Why cant i study like when i studied for pmr and did well. Do i lack motivation? Am i giving up? Have i lost hope? Or am i just pure lazy..

I wish life was easier.

I want to do well.But now that just seems like it is only a dream.

I just hope that the spm papers wont get lost or something because my trial results are messed up.maybe im just being pessimistic.but its pointing to that direction anyway.

All that's left has gone away and there's nothing left to prove

BOO.

I missed blogging.

So i shall SPAM my blog.

No one will see this anyway.

Damn Pn Khairiah and her Karangans

Giving me sleepless nights

If i have eyebags its all your fault!

Im talking to myself

How creepy is that?

*cricket sound*

Ok Buh bye

SEE YOU =D

Lets blog about cell !

michelle's new house is finally ready..its So awesome..although i kinda miss the old house..

her oh-so-awesome rooftop garden.

best place to stalk people

syin liii

michelle and amelia

mun ho and jun ho

i was bored

the family room

water feature

living room

love the sensor lights at the stairs


KL skyline

and lastly my fav shot of michelle's hamster-spam!

just WOW..i cant believe it..is this for real?
is this some big joke?
im just so shocked and dissapointed.
out of all my friends..i least expected you to be one..
i had no idea that things were like that.
and i have to ask you first for you to tell me.
did you know i would react like this and therefore you decided to tell it to me face to face?
and i thought you were miss goody two shoes.i mean you're really nice and you're a great friend and all but i guess all that comes with something else.
this is just too much to handle.
how did it become like this.
im so traumatized im in a state of shock.
im so disturbed i cant even sleep now.
and i dont think this disturbing thoughts or images will be going away anytime soon.
its just haunting me.
you know maybe part of it was my fault.for not warning you and stopping you.
but i didnt know that things would turn out to be this way.
but then again who am i to judge you anyway.i dont have the right to.
maybe i dont know you as well as i think i do.
things are just so awkward now.
as much as i dont want to i look at you differently now.
i wish i could look at you like i did last time but i really just cant.
this changes everything doesnt it?
your decision changes everything.it will never go back like it used to be then.
i just hope you take this as a self-discovery process and maybe hopefully it NEVER happens again.
and i hope you dont get too involve in it and that you snap out of it as fast as you can.
it really sucks seeing you become like this.
i feel really weird, guilty and sad seeing you make that decision.
im not discriminating you but its just pure wrong.

so i hope you learn something from this and know your mistakes and never do it again.

im just speechless beyond words.
i guess you can never judge a book by its cover.

The cousin sister in australia got married! woots..

Wedding held at some high class hotel garden somewhere in Melbourne.

The groom

The bride

The cousin brother and sister

marcus.kuma.michelle.unc mike

new in-laws

The cousin brother and the cousin-in-law's brother lol

The wedding car T.T

With the best man and bridesmaid

The husband and wife -julian and michelle

aww..the happy couple

Hope you guys live happily ever after =)

hope to get little nieces and nephews soon ;)

So as everybody knows..I LOST in the delicious photography competition..after one week of effort and time wasted asking just about anyone to help out..and i eventually end up with NOTHING..and the worst thing is..the winner doesnt even deserve it..im not saying that im very good myself..but seriously..this is a PHOTOGRAPHY competition..your "balinese fried rice" looks like some nasi lemak from some mamak stall.its so degrading to delicious..this is nothing personal..just that a competition like this should be judged by someone who is in this field and actually has taste..not based on votes..and so i lost the grand prize of rm500 in cash vouchers




the winning photo by Cherrie Yen
votes: 272 "likes"



my entry
votes: 260 "likes"


i lost just by 12 votes..i think that she had some strategy of "attacking" me on the night before the deadline just so that i couldnt catch up..seriously..if your pic is that good do you need to be that desperate and ask every single person to vote for you

ok im done ranting

and i would also like to thank everyone of you who helped out and voted..you guys rock! ;)