Poco homemade cafe

在网上看很多他们家的review,心痒痒了很久。

上个星期日，我终于有时间拜访Poco一趟。

抵达的时候，要仔细看才会注意到Poco的店铺。

低调的粉蓝+宛如童话故事里的门窗，让我还没踏进店就已兴奋不已。

室内设计。

简单带点英式复古的味道。

店内小物，当天带的配件，Menu & 窗口边摆设。

Menu serves mostly modernized Japanese food.

我们都吃了午餐才过去，所以只点了些 side order & dessert.

2图的chicken roll和4图的tofu cafe都很赞！！！别的地方都很难找到。饮料普通。

Poco位于比较清静的地方，来到这里仿佛忘了时间和城市的喧哗。很适合朋友们聚会或者小型party。

食物价格比外面稍微高一些，不过私房菜应该是这样的价钱了。

Poco详细资料：

Poco Homemade, Cafe & Atelier
3 Lorong Kurau Bangsar
Tel : 03-2287 5688
Opening hours : Tuesday to Sunday, 12pm onwards

p/s: 由于Poco在网上的扑光率越来越高，店面却不大，出发前记得先打个电话作reservation，以免失望。老板们都很友善 :)

Officially 24th

A bigger number comes with bigger responsibilities & higher maintenance, haha.

Thanks for all the wishes, presents, surprises & sabotage :P

Test test Brunch

Many of you are not aware that I'm having a week's break right now. I'd consider this as a hard-earned holiday, when I resume back to work, my assignments &  responsibilities in the company will be doubled or tripled. That will be next Monday's Monday blue.

Not having to worry about the alarm clock & cooking breakfast. I never knew these 2 simple things would be such a bliss until working life started.  

So this morning, I dig out the mom's old oven that has been abandoned for like... 10 years, and tested it by doing a simple breakfast.

Good news: the oven is still working very well.

Bad news: well, a few. Firstly, I forgot to time myself, resulting in these blackened bread corners & overcooked egg. Secondly, my bread frame failed. So there you see, egg spilted over the baking sheet :(

 

On a more positive side, the overcooked egg has a crunchy texture and the herbs made my brunch tasted awesome~

I need more practice :P

Rainbow in my fridge

Every time I think of the box of macaroons I received last week, it makes my heart pumps in joy~~~

Still can't decide which color to start with, maybe let me just finish off those broken ones first. I'm a person who keeps the best till the last.

p/s: Special thanks to cell group W26, Chelsea & Mr Biscuit.

Apple family

From left : the aunt, the cousin & the bf.

Our family topic is no longer about our other relatives but : "when is Ipad 2 arriving ah?" or "I heard Iphone 5 coming soon!"

And the kids:" when is my turn to play the ipad ah?"

me: "when can I have my macbook air ah?"

For sure, our mindset towards Apple has changed much since our parent's generation :)

When it comes to medication....

I have zero tolerance :(

Probably related to some childhood trauma.  

So yea, the ratio will always be:

 1 pill VS a pool of honey. 

And the place to make this happen will as usual be:

beside the basin. Just in case I puke everything out.

Been down with fever & swollen gum for a week, thank God I got better this morning. Can't imagine having to go through this ratio & basin thing for another day.

Can I have my bubble tea already?

Valentine 2011

The moment I woke up from my air-conditioned room, I had the urge to visit the washroom.  I then opened the door and found the bf standing outside my room (about to enter to give me a surprise) with 24 white roses in a transparent glass vase.

I stunned for 5 seconds in my PJs and thick-framed spec, while the bf cleverly said:"happie valentine!!!" in time.. .hahahahha...

What an awesome way to kick start our first valentine :)

p/s: love you, dear.

The end of.... 2010

 

1/2 of my December.

Christmas dinner, presents, family gatherings, food explorer, kids running around, birthday bash....

I was very tempted to not write any closing for my 2010 since it has passed for almost 3 weeks. But then I was reminded that this blog was not created mainly to gain visitors, but as my personal journal. One day, when I look back in the future, I can sigh in relieve and say:" ahhh... all these has finally came to past;"

Finances

2010 has been a completely different year for me. First, i graduated. Then, I started working. Needless to say, there comes the stress of financial independence. However, now i spend what I earn, save what i earn. The feeling is a lot better than getting money from my parents. Yes, it was tough surviving with a fresh grad's salary, but at the same time I got to learn to plan my finances wisely. Start small, and eventually when it grows, I will have no problem managing money.

Family

Also, 2010 was full of family gatherings as compared to the years before. More meet ups with my maternal family, more kids fight, more Audrey, more good food, more sofa talks, more toys encounter (mostly Dominic's toys @.@), more adults getting crazy with the kids' play, more cleaning after the kids played, and more bond~

BGR

Not only would I like to thank God for his blessings in my career & family, but also my relationship with Jacob the soulmate. We've gone through so many ups and downs, we rubbed shoulders among ourselves, but in the end we were also the only one who could comfort each other. All these good & bad moments have shaped us to become a better partner. Thank you soulmate for always standing by my side, rain or shine :)

Another section of  VIPs

Of course, these are not the only things I feel grateful for for the past 12 months. Thank God for ministry growth, awesome CG & church members, last but not least, my BFFs who are ever ready to share joy & burden. This section may seems to be shorter but that's because I am rushing to get myself a shower now, lol. I assure you that all these people have been playing different yet important roles in my life, until now.

A million thanks to daddy God & those who've made my 2010 was a memorable one. Now I can kick start my 2011 post, well hopefully :P

Long lost treasures

While i was doing spring cleaning just now... yes, on a Saturday morning. Not because I have had enough sleep, but after doing all the laundry I suddenly have the urge to clean my room, especially all its cupboards & wardrobe.

Okay where was I? ah.. while i was doing speing cleaning, i found my long lost treasures:

See these shiny "bejeweled" hair clip bows? They were like my Iphone or maybe LX5 back in the 1990s where I was still a child. By saying this,  i feel so old mature already. haha.

They were so precious for a small girl like me, that i kept them in a hidden place in my room. Until spring cleaning was done, everything being opened & raided, I finally found them again. I'm surprised that they look just as new as how I remembered them to be.

The funny thing is, I tried to recall where these little things are few months ago. Did i gave them to someone? Did i threw them away when i was in my teenage? Or did I kept them somewhere in my room that I have yet to discover?

Now I know the answer :)

So start raiding/ spring clean your room. Who knows you might find something. CNY is coming real soon anyway you don't want your mom to scream:" CLEAN YOUR SMELLY ROOM RIGHT NOW" at the very last minuet right?

I'm glad I did~

p/s: I know I should be writing about Christmas, new year eve, or at least some new year resolutions. But that will be another long post I suppose. Maybe tonight :)

十一月的最后一天

不晓得是否是我的错觉，天气很冷。

下了地铁，走进人群中，

双耳塞着耳机。

突然有种狂念又来了。

恨不得马上搬去个陌生的城市，

煮自己的早餐，过自己的生活，

不为谁伤心。

看着身边来往的路人，

我的心里只能轻轻叹息...

Weekdays phobia

Yes, weekdays have became a phobia to me. Not only Monday blues, but the entire week.

For many days, the moment I open my eyes, I feel like taking emergency leave just to escape the super heavy workload in office. OTs are like lunch now, everyday will happen. Public holiday has became a pain, for I have to process double or even triple workload to cover back whatever that needs to be settled during the holidays. 

And though I am the top performer in my team, for some reason I just don't feel the sense of belonging in this company. In fact, the more I work with my so-called-seniors, the more I begin to lose my respect towards them. This is no good :(

As if these are not bad enough, I realized my mind is often at its "shut-down" mode after work. In this week alone, I :

• NEARLY pushed into the male washroom
• washed my contact lens' casing with my lens still in it
• shampoo-ed my hair twice in  a roll
• wanted to take a pump of bodywash but ended up pushing off all other toiletries to the ground like a bowling game
• take more than 5 seconds to recognize faces that I've already knew

Now, this is double no good T.T

Haihz, life goes on. What keeps me going every week, is the random food discovery with the soulmate.

I love having caffeine drinks with some pastry, in a not-so-local cafe *if you get me*, talking nonsense / ranting / planning our future / surfing the net with Iphones. 

 Can Sundays not pass so fast?

p/s: Sigh, my eye bags are getting worst, all thanks to 8 hours of daily PC usage. Time to really plan for a prison break.

Finally KO-ed...

Been on MC for the past 2 days, I feel like throwing up all the time. Only has appetite for red bean milk tea.

Sigh, I don't want to spend my weekend on the bed doing medication T.T

Don't judge a shoe by its cover

Then how to buy shoe?

To be honest, I've been asking this question for the longest time *role eyes*

Whatever shoes I bought, 8 out of 10 of them will bite me. Better still, the remaining 2 which don't bite are slippers. Sigh. That's why I don't fancy buying shoes. And that's why most of the time I'll be seen in the same pair.

However, shoe being shoe, they will get teared apart someday. Especially when you do distance walking everyday, like me. So, a few pairs of comfy shoes of mine have been ripped off their base ever since working life started.

I couldn't explain how panicked (more like.. pain in heart) I was seeing them got broken one by one. Part of me feeling broken-hearted, another part of me was worried what if I cannot discover other comfy shoes? Am I going to allow my feet to be bitten every single day? wear slipper throughout all occasion? store up plasters at all time? or just walk with my bare feet? 

I was so desperate for another pair of comfy shoe that I walked from office to Pavillion, to Isetan, to Sungai Wang after work, hoping to find my feet another good carrier. 

Guess what, I found none. But because I was so desperate, I settled for a I'd-give-it-a-try-shoe from Vincee. The shoe wasn't exactly comfy, but it is made out of good leather (reasonable pricing too). I tried it on and did some walking around the shop. It was all good, except that its back part has some rubber thing attached so that particular part was a little tight.

Looked all angelic and decent, I was so convinced to buy it. In fact, I actually did.

That was my BIGGEST mistake!!!!! It bites It bites!!!!

After walking for 10minutes from the LRT to my office, I ended up with 2 dissimilar Doremon plasters and a sinked heart T.T

Oh gosh.. now I can only pray for my cotton crocs (yes, the one being accidentally ran into a pool of rain water) to survive longer.

No~ I don't know....

2/3 of my office drawers are filled with food.

Now it makes perfect sense of why I haven't been stepping on the weighing scale for quite some time.

I'm afraid that what if the weighing scale reveals a number which my brain cannot accept, I'll get stress. Stress... then eat more T.T

So, what they said was true, some things are best remain unknown.

I shall stop buying, but continue eating the existing food *still in denial*

Chatime II

After drinking Chatime on an almost-daily basis, I've concluded that I like Red Bean Milk Tea the most :) 

And these were not the total cups of what I've drank for the past 2 weeks, how laa like this....

It's like my daily dose of caffeine, soaddictiveitellyou....

Few days ago, the soulmate was telling me to fast sugar for 1 day, I bet now he's going to say:" Honey, fast the whole month~" T.T

stand there and watch me burn...

My stomach has been upset since morning, I hope it will get better later.

I'm leaving the office at 5pm. sharp. In other words, just in a few minutes time. My mind has been blank the whole day. Heartache is so severe for the don't-know-how-many times.

How many times do I need to deal with all these? I thought I was out of the hole, but looks now I've just fallen deeper... It's a path less taken, but nothing extraordinary happens.

They said, it is during difficult times that you'll get to see through a person. Agreed.

Now, its time for me to leave. I'm gonna stroll around KL before heading home. Let some walking clear my mind off.

Melacca

I guess the title itself is already very suggestive :p

So... during one of the Raya holidays, the bf and I randomly decided to drive ourselves to Melacca instead of the usual dating routine.

The whole journey's point form would look like this:

 ** massive jam **  lost our directions (but Thank God for Iphone, haha) ** crowd everywhere ** makan makan; jalan jalan ** snap photos ** sweaty, tired, but happie :)

Some photos taken along our journey:

My front view in the car

I got to monkey around with the bf's DSLR. It was so heavy. After a while, I told him:" I no more energy d..." and then kept the heavy thing aside lol...

Bravo to my soulmate/bf who drove all day long yet tamed the impatient & fatigued me.

One thing not good about DSLR (apart from being too heavy hahaha) is that... you cannot hide your flaws. Look at my eyebags + freckles  -.-'''

*soulmate, how come you didn't photoshop them away T.T*

My 3Gs looks more like an antique to me now, all thanks to Iphone 4 laaa. Steve Job, this is so unfair laaaa how can you not take care of your "old" users as well :(

Anyhoo, my iphone served me very well during this trip. If it wasn't for iphone, we might have ended up in Johor.

Favorite shot :)

Photos starting from here were taken by the bf, hence I shall leave the photos with no captions:

Soree ar, this one I must interrupt. Never ever visit this famous chicken rice shop *the photo here is to warn you guys*. They served us the most horrible chicken rice I've ever tasted in my life. Totally over-rated. They have lots of branches in Melacca, so beware.

My happie buy from the trip, xie xie soulmate :)

p/s: I wanted to show all photos in the largest size, but they all got chopped off when I previewed. So no choice, small photos. Pity our high quality photos :(

Babycakes!!!

When I was about to leave my office this evening, I received the bf's message asking me to meet him at the LRT station. 

As this was not pre-planned and nothing similar happened before, I was so nervous don't know what he was trying to do. Almost ran all the way from office to KLCC's LRT... *hahaha*

And when I saw him, this was handed over to me....

Honestly, my mind went ding dong-ed for a while, couldn't react. I thought it was a jewelry box or something... until I saw the words: Babycakes.

Babycakes!!!!!

Without hesitation I knew it must be those macaroons which I've been making noises over the weekend, lol. 

Because Babycakes used to close on Sundays, while I'm always busy with church on Saturdays. Thus, it is almost impossible for me to head over to their shop.

But God blessed me with such a sweet bf, who'd sacrifice his lunch hour just to get macaroons for me :)

Awww... I wish my camera could do a better job in capturing these gorgeous french cookies :(

I've tried the third color from top, with caramel filling. It was crispy on the outside, soft on the inside, superb~ And I really like their natural coloring as compared to those electric blue or fuchia pink macaroons I saw in other websites. 

p/s: all thanks to my soulmate, Biscuit Yuean *huggies* *blush* *hahaha*

Chatime

近日的工作很烦心。

上头给压力，同事们不是MC就是EL，OT了好几天，

忙到连上厕所的时间都没有 *如今才真正了解这句话*

觉得自己快烧焦了 T.T

结果星期5，不管还有多少差pending,

我lunch完便独自走去Pavillion买杯Chatime。

他们家的饮料近期被很多blogger打得很红，

我也就半信半疑地下单order。

第1吸，茶味香浓。

果然如他们所说，茶是现泡的，而且很讲究温度。

第2吸，甜度很微。

这点是我最喜欢的：）只带一点甜，不怕糖份超量。

太好了，又多一个健康的选择，

不必只赖着Snowflake。

说到Snowflake,

我是越来越不满意了。

食物时多时少，时好时坏，

已经无法保持以往的水准。

俗语说得好：

创业难，守业更难。

*也是对自己的忠告*

你喜欢现在的自己吗？

不敢说100%喜欢，不过比以前更喜欢自己就对了。

现在的生活很安稳。

从小到大，上天把一切平凡的都赐我。

平凡的脸蛋，平凡的成绩，平凡的身家。

也许是太平凡了，我的内在附带些许自卑。

成长过程当中，最令我不愿提及的莫过于中学时期。

相反与别人如何怀念中学，

每每看见FB里的旧照都让我害怕下一秒就看见当年的自己。

多少愚蠢，多少羞辱，多少自卑，

现在敲打着这份文章都让我觉得不安。

大学时则为感情伤心，为功课没觉好睡 ，

已经没时间自卑。

奇怪的是，心灵竟比中学时期健康得多。

如今我还是很平凡的毕业了，找了份平凡的工作。

生活就如我所说的...安稳。

但我常在想，我的生活就只有平凡和安稳两个字可以行容吗？

不可能。

上天一定也在我身上种下了无限的潜能，

他给与每人不同的天资，就看他人能不能发现和发挥。

我也许还不清楚自己有什么过人的长处，

但我已大概看见4或5年后，我要站的方向。

 

不过说真的,每个梦想都有它的价格...

我现在的平凡，宛如在替这份梦想还钱，哈哈。

再多4 或5个365天，我可以不必逼自己起床，不必平凡地上下班，不必跟别人挤键运，还有很多的不必。不过最重要的是，可以爱穿什么就穿什么*兴奋中*

我看啊... 以后的自己要是看回这篇文章不知会骂还是笑 :P

话说回来，我还真的很喜欢现在的自己。

无论是对上帝，经济，家人，感情，还是工作方面。

当然，我不否认它们都各自还有很多进步空间。

活了23年，

生活虽没有很富裕，至少没有欠银行钱 :)