I met this friendly lady just a few weeks ago while I found my name not inside the recycle campaign list. Hence I leave her a memo, she was quite helpful that she put down her work and helps me search for my name. Then we went into a chat about anything from recycling to vegetarian food, fine dining and English. She even give her friends a mail to get me a journalist job in some electronics-related magazines after she found out about my interests and my acceptable English.

And we did talk about my internship as well. Since I’ll be leaving soon, she’s inviting me to join her and another 2 other interns for some sort of a small farewell party at The View, Equatorial Penang. I have always loved nice food, great music and a relaxing dining environment, but this is really something really different. Usually I only pay for like RM60 for a meal of two. But the menu here has nothing below RM100!!!

It’s a semi-buffet where we have to order a main dish while we can get a free fill of the appetizers and also desserts. They have huge king prawns, abalone, and salad for appetizers. They also serve sorbet (Wiki) in between the starter course and the main entrée in order to cleanse the palate. The whole dinner is really proper, and there are waiters who serves us all the time. The view is great as we can look across to the mainland, and the Penang Bridge is lit up. I have salmons for main entrée, and various delicious desserts that would be a terrible sin for ladies who are trying to maintain a good figure.

The bill for all 4 of us, Sanjeev, Aizat, Prema and I came up to about RM400++!!! After dinner, Prema asks if we would like to drop by the Blue Moon for a drink. I’m not really the pub/bar kinda guy, but I’ll just make an exception today. The guys played pool at the beginning, I din join in as I’ve not been playing since my days in Disted. While they guys are at the pool table, I sat down with Prema for a drink, chat about anything under the sun. As I don’t feel really good for her to give me such a posh treat, hence I offered to clear the bill this time. But to my amazement, it cost me RM75 for 2 glasses of Bacardi Coke and another glass of ice lemon tea. My face instantly turned pale, but I offered to clear the bill. But I think Prema saw my sudden change and hand me a RM50 note smiling to me and say, “Its okey, you can just pay for your drink”. I was so ashamed then. But I really appreciate her generosity. Next time I start working, I’ll make sure she’s one I’ll remember to bring her out for a proper dinner, my treat.

I took quite a lot of photos that night, but dang! I accidentally formatted my CF card when I was shooting May & Choy’s Autograph sessions. There’s only 2 photos came from Aizat’s camera. What a waste :(

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On other story, my handphone was low in battery that night. Ming Zheng was trying to contact me all night as she was having dinner with my dad in Seberang Jaya. But she din recognize my dad until her mom mentioned his name. Had quite a conversation with her that night as she was worried that she might leave a bad impression on my dad. But dun worry dear, dad din complain about u.