Till we meet again

After more than three years, I tendered my resignation on Monday, April 2, 2018. Monday, May 14, 2018 was my last working day and now I'm taking a break before I start work at a new place.  Last Sunday, May 27, 2018 marked my three years and ten months with my current employer.

As the tradition goes, I had farewell lunches. My first farewell lunch was at Tony Roma's with my four colleagues on Thursday, April 5, 2018.

On Tuesday, April 17, 2018, I had farewell lunch at Sushi Zanmai with three other colleagues where I had Salmon Don.

On Friday, April 20, 2018, I had buffet lunch at Nook with the newly promoted Head of EB Sales.

On Wednesday, May 2, 2018, I had lunch at Dish Room with a colleague from Customer Healthcare Administration. I had beef ribs platter (RM38)

and she had nasi ambeng (RM30).

The next day, Thursday, May 3, 2018, I had buffet lunch at Latest Recipe, Le Meridien with another two colleagues from Direct team and a colleague from Agency team. Only managed to take one photo here :p

On Friday, May 4, 2018, I had lunch at Vasco's, Hilton Kuala Lumpur Hotel with seven colleagues from EB Pricing team.

On Monday, May 7, 2018, I had lunch at Copper Cafe located at Level 5, Menara Shell, 211, Jalan Tun Sambanthan, 50470 KL with two colleagues from Direct team.

 I had 3-course meal ~ mushroom soup, char grilled chicken and fruits with hot lemon tea (RM39++).

My colleagues had 2-course meals (RM29++). One had salad and mackerel while

the other on had salad and char grilled chicken.

Both of them add-on latte (RM6).

On Tuesday, May 8, 2018, I had lunch at Sushi Tei with a colleague from Product Development team.

On Friday, May 11, 2018, I had lunch at Absolute Thai located at Level 3, The Gardens Mall with a colleague from Broking team.

We shared seafood tomyam, stir-fried kailan with salted fish, green curry chicken

 and mango with sticky rice.

Lastly, on Monday, May 14, 2018, I had big breakfast at Panettone located at Nu Sentral Mall with the Head of Department's PA.

I am gaining weight with all these non-stop free meals... Hope to get rid of the fat before I start work at the new place.

On Monday, May 14, 2018, I received balloons, 

 Coach pouch bag

 and a bouquet of roses.

Till next week, thanks a lot, everyone! Nice knowing some of you! Till we meet again...

"Every ending has a new beginning."

Lunch at Dish Room

Malaysia is holding both federal Parliament and state assembly elections today, Wednesday, May 9, 2018. The Prime Minister's Office has declared today a public holiday for the 14th General Elections as Malaysians  go to the polls to decide who will be the nation's seventh prime minister.

Not that we're gonna discuss elections or politics here.  We're going for lunch instead :P Dish Room is located at Cardiac Vascular Sentral Kuala Lumpur, Jalan Stesen Sentral 5, 50470 KL. Dish Room serves east and west cuisine. Its business hours are from 9am to 7pm daily. Four of us went there for lunch on Friday, April 27, 2018.

My colleague and I had Double Stack burger (RM32)

 while the other two had nasi ambeng (RM30)

 
 and Tiger prawn aglio olio (RM17).

Location ~ nearby the office

Seating ~ indoor and outdoor

Food presentation ~ alright

Taste ~ good

Price ~ expensive

Service ~ slow

Coming back? ~ sure

Till next week, Happy Voting, Malaysians!

A weekend in Ipoh

On Friday, April 20, 2018, my colleagues and I took ETS to Ipoh. We left KL Sentral at 10.32pm and arrived at Ipoh Railway Station at 1.02am.

We took a Grab car (RM7) to Syeun Hotel and checked in at 1.26am.

We received a complimentary fruit basket.

On Saturday, April 21, 2018, we had buffet at their Garden View Coffee House from 8.20am to 8.45am. Then we took a Grab car to Kellie's Castle.

It costs RM21 but we were told earlier that it would be hard to get a Grab car from Kellie's Castle so we asked the driver to wait for us. He asked for RM45 which we were happy to accept. We reached Kellie's Castle at 10.09am and we left at 11am.

We joined the queue for nasi ganja at Kedai Kopi Yong Suan where the two of them have the nasi ganja.

We left at 12pm by Grab car and walked along the 3 Concubine lanes.

I had lunch at Burps & Giggles till 12.50pm.

We had chicken aglio olio (RM20), watermelon (RM8), mud chocolate cake and lemonade.

Then we walked to Yasmin Ahmad Museum. Entrance fee is RM5.

 After that we took Grab car back to the hotel.

At 7pm we left for dinner at Konda Konde restaurant by Grab car (RM4). 

I had nasi ayam hitam set which comes with tea 

and ice-cream.

My colleagues ordered honey chicken wings, nachos

and chicken lava burger.

After dinner, we walked at the night market known as Gerbang Malam from 8pm to 9.20pm. Then we took a Grab car (RM5) to Dataran Ipoh. There we ordered bihun soup,

char kuay teow

and satay with drinks.

We walked back to the hotel which is just nearby.

On Sunday, April 22, 2018, we had buffet breakfast at their Garden View Restaurant from 8.11am to 9.11am. We took a Grab car (RM5) to Restoran New Hollywood. We had kuay teow kicap, 

wantan noodles,

chee cheong fun,

and roti telur goyang.

We took the Grab car (RM7) to Ipoh Parade to pass time as our train is scheduled to leave at 1.15pm. We were at Ipoh Parade from 11.15am to 12.30pm. Then we took the Grab car (RM6) to the Ipoh Railway Station. Departed at 1.35pm and reached KL Sentral at 4pm.

Till next week, glad to be out of the city for the weekend...