outing with my peeps

on Monday i took a day off from work to hang out with two of my high school friends. my roommate wanted to go shopping and weekends just couldn't cut it (not free lah, got wedding lah, got to layan hubby lah) so we chose Monday to go lepak. Aida who was getting married next month wanted to tag along too, so the three of us it was. no kiddos of course. i left Dayana with the maid, Aien sent her son to the nursery.

so i woke up at 9am that day wondering whether our planned outing jadi or not. i checked my phone only to see no messages and not a single missed call. apparently Aien messaged me on the other phone, saying to meet up at her place at 11.30am because she had something to attend to that morning. cheese. and i was all excited to go out early to have breakfast together first =(. but i arrived at exactly 11.30am at the parking lot of her apartment. hee. Aida was already there.

we headed off to MV, since it was a working day and almost noon, we decided to ditch the idea of driving all the way to Jalan TAR. the first thing we did was to get head up to GSC for our movie tickets. we decided to purchase 'Paul Blart: Mall Cop' for 1.20pm. i was hungry, no thanks to my roommate for making me skip breakfast, so i got to choose where to eat for lunch =D. at first i chose Killiney Kopitiam, but along the way we came across Paddington's House of Pancakes, so we made a split second decision to have lunch there instead. hehe. i thought PHOP could be found only at the Curve. i've never been to PHOP before. i've heard people raving about how yummy the food was.

Paddington's House of Pancakes!

i had no idea what to order (the pancakes looked soOooO yummy but i knew it wouldn't be very filling for lunch) so in the end we each decided to order the set. i forgot what the names were, but mine had blueberry and cheese pancakes, slices of meat and some egg, Aien's set looked like a tomatoey pizza but without the crust, and Aida's set had chicken, some kind of veggie roll and mashed potatoes (i'll rewrite this part once i find out what the set names are). and we each ordered ice lemon tea. yummy! but the blueberries in my pancakes tasted rather sour though. is it supposed to taste that way? since we were rushing for the movie i didn't even think of taking photos until we were halfway through our lunch.

the two rascals Aien & Aida posing with our halfway eaten food

yours truly

and the funny part was, we were happily stuffed after wolfing down the main dish and were about to call for the bill, until they served us dessert. we actually forgot the set had dessert included. haha. our dessert was mini pincakes drenched with ice cream and strawberry syrup, i think. i find it amazing that the pancakes weren't soggy since it was mixed into the gooey texture. it was nice!!! minus the raspberry syrup. i thot the syrup was manis nak mampus. naturally, we were late for the movie =P. i think we missed the first 10 minutes of the movie =(.

dessert eater #1 sengih sebesar alam

dessert eater #2 wearing tudung bibik! =P~~~

the movie was great for a comedy, if you don't really look into the details. i find it a nice watch. the only thing i regretted was that we didn't stay for the end credits! how was i to know that there was going to be an end bit at the very last end of the credits roll? haiz. i find it annoying when the producers do that. i remember last time for Ironman me and Significant Other left the cinema early so we missed the end bit, in the end we resorted to pirated DVD just to watch it, haha. sometimes it's annoying when if we do actually wait until the end of the credits roll, only to find out that there isn't anything to see, well that is really annoying. i mean credits roll are really long okay, and most people won't stay to actually read them one by one unless your name is credited somewhere in there, or if you're trying to find out who starred as the yummilicious hero in the movie. nevermind though. Significant Other hasn't seen this movie yet. so if he doesn't manage to catch it in the cinemas, there's always pirated DVD =P.

hmm, so where was i. oh yes. after the movie i dragged my friends to Arzu. last week i stepped into Arzu KLCC and wanted to get this nice scarf for rm99 only to find out that the display was the last one so i didn't get it. the scarf wasn't at this outlet either, but the guy at the store was really nice and even demonstrated to us on how to wear square and long scarves, Arab style, haha. too bad i didn't take any photo of me wearing them. i look cun! hahahahahahha (perasan diri sendiri). so in the end i bought 5 scarves, three long, two square. oops. they had an offer, rm100 for four scarves. so, why not? Aida even bought one for herself. those two friends of mine kept on touching the brown colored scarves. i kept telling them what a boring color brown is. haha. they, on the other hand told me my choices were all makcikky. i'm into florals at the moment =P even though they say geometrics is the way to go now. hahahah.

oh yes, i even bought my mom a Mother's Day gift, but i'll write more on that later.

after MV we went to Ariani and the Strand in Kota Damansara. i think they just newly opened an outlet there. those type of 'Ekin' tudungs are really getting famous now, aren't they? i don't like them because they're being overworn here. there's just too many people wearing the same type of tudung lah! i know they're easy to wear, you don't have to iron them and don't need to stick pins into your head and all, but to me it looks like wearing a helmet. i prefer those tudungs and scarves that you can lilit around your head, they look more feminine and unique, even though it's a bit of a hassle since you need alot of pins to achieve this look. at the store i tried a couple of those Ekin tudungs for fun, but even though they were nice and really simple, i still didn't like the look. i felt like an Ustazah in one. blergh. the storelady said i shouldn't spread the material out at the shoulders, i should bunch it up to make it look nicer and less ustazah-ish. hahahha. Aida bought a black patterned one which had a really nice flowery design that even i liked. even my roommate who rarely made any purchases whenever we got out shopping managed to grab three pairs, all in plain colors. haha.

and what did yours truly get? while browsing and complaining that the look wasn't for me, Aida spotted the 'Siti' tudung, the type that shows off part of your neck if you wear it without those inner headscarf to cover your neck. now this type of tudung i'm interested in. it doesn't look too formal or helmetish =P, and i've been eyeing them at Ampang Park recently, so without thinking much i purchase one in the end. the headscarf i got was in a soft pink color, and the tudung itself was black with hints of pink and green on it. nice kan? =P. now i have a tudung and nowhere to wear it. Aida suggested to wear it to her wedding solemnization later. heehee. i also bought a nice pink stripey scarf. i'm into stripes lately, no thanks to babywearing (and to Syaz's Chococabana and her stripey Jalan TAR headscarf! hehe). but that's another story.

by this time it was already 6pm so we headed back to Subang. we picked up Aien's adorable Wally at the nursery on the way.

where's wally?

it was a rushed outing, but it was nice to actually hang out with the two of them. especially Aida. i haven't seen her since... hmm... since i delivered Dayana practically 8 months ago? (yakah? wah, that is long!).

i hope i can make Eiwa and Aida's wedding next month. it's in Alor Setar, Kedah! jom convoy ramai-ramai =D