Continuing where we left off for my 23.1 & 23.2 birthday celebration..
I wanted to have dinner with Pisang, Shrimpy and Dani in conjunction of my birthday and also Dani's first time in Malaysia (we were talking about her coming to visit since Uni!).
Shrimpy unfortunately had a company dinner so had to pull out :(
Anyways, Zayana said Zawir could come if he wants and that's when I started getting suspicious (Zawir and Zayana have this mutual dislike relationship with each other).. Why would she invite Zawir to a simple dinner? o.o
Days leading up to dinner was filled with where is it going to be. I suggested to go for a Ramadhan buffet so then Dani can get a whole range of Malaysian food and if nothing tickles her fancy, there's always a la carte, hehe.
Cik P suggested that we go to Seri Pacific, and I'm like it's nearby.. so okay!
As I was already running late the whole day (I had IKEA guys coming over to fix the most important part of my room makeover), I quickly changed and got ready for buka puasa.
Texted Pisang that I was going to be late and she said it's fine she's running late too..
About 15 minutes before buka I left home thinking I was super late because it's a Friday and traffic to KL would be terrible. Fortunately, less than 10 minutes later I found myself in the parking lot of the hotel and I think it was rezeki orang berpuasa, cause I masuk parking jer because it was full, the nice uncle who was manning the traffic allowed me to park right in front of the Lobby entrance!! Alhamdulillah!
As I walked to the restaurant I asked God to bless the uncle and murahkan his rezeki also, lol. Then I spotted Sarah (Dani's housemate during our student days) and Dani, who was carrying a bouquet of flowers. I tried to catch up to her but damn her long European legs! #asianproblems
At the reception, the receptionist asked if I had a reservation made. That's when I realised the smart me forgot to ask Zayana who's name was the reservation under! -___- #notsosmart
So I just bantai that it was under her name, and the girl said there's no table under Zayana.. Next I tried my name and even that wasn't on the list. Desperate, I even asked the girl if there's another restaurant at the hotel... *blush* She kindly allowed me to look at the reservation list and luckily I spotted Zayana brother's name and I said "yes! That's the reservation I'm under!" with confidence.. Padahal on the way up I prayed that I'd find Zayana before the waiter brings me to her brother and friends' table, hehehe.
Luckily I did find Zayana right as I went upstairs.. And Dani who was coming from the opposite direction holding a Baskin Robbins cake.. Which Zayana then quickly took from her and passed to the waiter while giving instructions in one breath probably.. Bahaha! So cute these people trying to hide things from me.
Zayana then pretended I saw nothing and nothing happened,
"How did you know to come up here?"
"So we're gonna pretend nothing happened?"
"I don't know what you're talking about"
"Okay.. The waiter said your brother's table is upstairs so I went up"
".. How did you know it was under my brother's name?"
"I said your name and they said there's no reservation under that name then I saw your brother's name"
".... You're quite smart..."
BARU TAHU?! pfffft
Anyways after that she led me to a room instead of a table and then I saw yellow balloons and Dada & her boyfriend, Akhimy screaming SURPRISEEEEEE!
Not bad these people.. Wasn't expecting anything grand, so they sorta managed to surprise me!
I feel like the real surprise was more of Dada & Akhimy - because I surely wasn't expecting them! But thank youuuuuuuuuuuu! Apparently since Zayana was busy at work, Dada & Akhimy had to do Zayana's biddings and get the balloons and what not ready. :')
Days leading up to dinner was filled with where is it going to be. I suggested to go for a Ramadhan buffet so then Dani can get a whole range of Malaysian food and if nothing tickles her fancy, there's always a la carte, hehe.
Cik P suggested that we go to Seri Pacific, and I'm like it's nearby.. so okay!
As I was already running late the whole day (I had IKEA guys coming over to fix the most important part of my room makeover), I quickly changed and got ready for buka puasa.
Texted Pisang that I was going to be late and she said it's fine she's running late too..
About 15 minutes before buka I left home thinking I was super late because it's a Friday and traffic to KL would be terrible. Fortunately, less than 10 minutes later I found myself in the parking lot of the hotel and I think it was rezeki orang berpuasa, cause I masuk parking jer because it was full, the nice uncle who was manning the traffic allowed me to park right in front of the Lobby entrance!! Alhamdulillah!
As I walked to the restaurant I asked God to bless the uncle and murahkan his rezeki also, lol. Then I spotted Sarah (Dani's housemate during our student days) and Dani, who was carrying a bouquet of flowers. I tried to catch up to her but damn her long European legs! #asianproblems
At the reception, the receptionist asked if I had a reservation made. That's when I realised the smart me forgot to ask Zayana who's name was the reservation under! -___- #notsosmart
So I just bantai that it was under her name, and the girl said there's no table under Zayana.. Next I tried my name and even that wasn't on the list. Desperate, I even asked the girl if there's another restaurant at the hotel... *blush* She kindly allowed me to look at the reservation list and luckily I spotted Zayana brother's name and I said "yes! That's the reservation I'm under!" with confidence.. Padahal on the way up I prayed that I'd find Zayana before the waiter brings me to her brother and friends' table, hehehe.
Luckily I did find Zayana right as I went upstairs.. And Dani who was coming from the opposite direction holding a Baskin Robbins cake.. Which Zayana then quickly took from her and passed to the waiter while giving instructions in one breath probably.. Bahaha! So cute these people trying to hide things from me.
Zayana then pretended I saw nothing and nothing happened,
"How did you know to come up here?"
"So we're gonna pretend nothing happened?"
"I don't know what you're talking about"
"Okay.. The waiter said your brother's table is upstairs so I went up"
".. How did you know it was under my brother's name?"
"I said your name and they said there's no reservation under that name then I saw your brother's name"
".... You're quite smart..."
BARU TAHU?! pfffft
Anyways after that she led me to a room instead of a table and then I saw yellow balloons and Dada & her boyfriend, Akhimy screaming SURPRISEEEEEE!
Not bad these people.. Wasn't expecting anything grand, so they sorta managed to surprise me!
I feel like the real surprise was more of Dada & Akhimy - because I surely wasn't expecting them! But thank youuuuuuuuuuuu! Apparently since Zayana was busy at work, Dada & Akhimy had to do Zayana's biddings and get the balloons and what not ready. :')
And it glowsssssssssss!!!
So fascinating!
Cousin It & I love it! Thank you Dada, love you!!
We had a full spread on the table ranging from soup gearbox, sushi and satay. That was courtesy of Zayana's brother. Non of us knew how to eat the soup gearbox, so we took our guesses on what to do with the straw on the table next to the bowl.
"I think it's for the drinks"
"I think we're supposed to bring our bowls outside for the ABC and this is for it" - me
"It's for you to sedut the soup in the tulang...." - Akhimy
He must think we're a bunch of bimbos and Dani & Sarah must think we Malaysians eat weird stuff, oops! Hehe
We stuffed our faces silly with the wide buffet range. I had nasi with lauk, then I had char kuey teow, and a bowl of pasta and ABC. Totally forgotting about the cake I spotted earlier on...
And then the cake came, and I swear if it wasn't for my name on it, I thought they served the wrong cake.
Why?
Bahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahaha! #icingonthecake #literally
Me: Bahahaha, it's fine. At least that's one cake I know no one else would get for me, ever..
#mayanamakingmefeelspecial
As you guys realise, Shrimpy isn't in the photo...
Le tahdaaaaaaa!
Dani's like my first ever friend in Uni okay! Despite what everybody thinks (that I'm an outgoing person etc), I'm an introvert. I actually hate when I have to introduce myself to new people and I have to make new friends.. And Dani is just a super nice person that sat next to me during orientation and we kicked off being friends after that. And when I met Zayana, well actually when Zayana heard me, was when I was speaking to Dani. Then I properly met Zayana and introduced her to Dani.. Not long after we met Raema and then it's the 4 of us! :')
Okay back to happy pictures..
See Shrimpy, you're always with us.. ;)
Tak dapat lah beb!
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Since this is long enough as it is, I shall continue with 23.4 in another blog post!
xx, A
