The Day When Finals Ended

HELLO. 

I. am. back.

Finally, after more than three months of grueling lessons and tests, one semester has ended.

This semester was extremely though for me because it is the first time that I have finals for every single module - 2 qualitative and 2 quantitative exams - and omg tell me how does one person write 5 essays in 2 hours, come la you tell me. Seriously.

Oright, scrape all those rants, so right after the disgusting paper we headed for lunch at Old Airport Road together with Adrian and Annabel's Norwegian group mate. So we let him try Fried Carrot Cake, Fried Oyster Egg, Hokkien Mee, Lor Mee and Rojak, and the verdict was Lor Mee and Rojak tasted a bit weird (the culprit's the sauce) and the rest was good HURHUR.

Due to the awkward timing, there wasn't any signs of traffic jam so we approximately entered JB around 3:30 PM.  We arrived at City Square Mall and tried to find our direction but the information we found weren't very comprehensible. Thanks to Adrian's map reading skills, we managed to locate our very first cafe - Chaiwalla. 

How to get there

1. Exit the checkpoint and enter City Square Mall (right next to the checkpoint)

2. Go down to the first level and find the exit between Starbucks and Cotton On.

3. After you exit, turn left and walk straight until you reach the zebra crossing.

4. Cross the zebra crossing and turn right. You'll see a traffic light. Cross it.

5. Walk straight along the Little India lookalike stretch and make a turn to the left when you can.

6. Walk straight and you'll start seeing cafes popping up.

We tried the recommended Thai Milk Tea and Milk Green Tea, at a price of approximately 8.90 RM and 9.90 RM respectively, which I personally thought was overpriced because it didn't taste as rich as expected, especially when the ice melted. I guess I'll rate it a 7/10. 

Apart from Chaiwalla, there were many other cafes along the whole stretch, so we decided to check them out together with some of the nice OOTD spots along the way. While walking, we saw many people holding a plastic bag and we were guessing that it is either pastry or bread. So we walked and walked and saw this small little shop house bustling with people - ahhhhhhh it's the shop that everyone buys banana cakes from. When we stepped in, we saw many many many many many packets of banana cakes fresh from the oven, so my friends and I bought a packet each to bring home for breakfast the next day. And they smell reallllyyyy good.

After Chaiwalla and the banana cake shop, we walked backwards to this cafe called Replacement - Lodge & Cafe that sells all day brunch. (Apologies for the lack of pictures because we were all so tired from walking.)

We ordered the Breakfast Platter and the Eggs Ben, which costed us about a total of around 60 RM. The Eggs Ben was a lil small (the portion I mean) and I was shaking the plate for fun and then one of the poached eggs rolled of the bread and onto the plate (spot this poor egg on the picture). I was so sad. But I wasn't more sad than Adrian who stood up and immediately knocked his head on one of the hanging lamps while trying to take a nice photo of the food.

The meal was really good though. My favorite was the Breakfast Platter. Because of my weird preference in eggs (I only eat eggs that are well mixed; I don't like having the white and yolk separated. Okay don't judge me please thank you.), I did not try the poached eggs. But I'll rate the Breakfast Platter 8.5/10.

After much cafe hopping, we headed towards City Square for some light shopping and along the way we spotted this run-down empty hut and we decided to take our "Post Finals" pictures here.

Had the urge to do Manicure and we managed to get our gel nails done at this black and white shop at the 5th level of City Square Mall at 50 RM. We walked around a bit before that and among the shops that we saw, this offered a better price (the rest was around 55 RM, okay I know only 5 RM difference but we still need to save for dinner that day). I was quite sad because the colour I wanted wasn't available but nevertheless I am quite satisfied with their service. Heehee. 

While searching for dinner we walked past this restaurant that played the song 我的滑板鞋 (My Skateboard Shoes). OMG I WAS REALLY SURPRISED because this is quite a new song and we were walking and like from far we heard like 摩擦 摩擦 (mo ca mo ca) then me and Cheryl and Adrian was like - this is it. HAHAHAHAH.  

Last but not least, we ended our JB trip by having dinner at this Wanton Mee shop at the rooftop level. I spent 10 RM on a bowl of dried wanton mee with soup and chinese tea. The wanton mee was really good though.

Went back to Singapore at around 11 PM and all of use were dead beat. 

BUT IT WAS A GOOD WAY TO CELEBRATE THE END OF OUR FINALS!

Till next time~

If you're wondering what is the song that I was talking about, here's it: