The Canadian girl

Hi blog, hi everyone, hi 2016.

I can't believe it's been almost a month since my last post. I admit that a lot has happened since then, but a month?! Crikey. It sure felt like a lot less than that. Anyway, I've been wanting to write a bit about what I was up to over my winter break. I had such a lovely break and I'm sad that it had to end, but sometimes I think the temporariness of things makes them all the more special, no?

Last December, right after I was done with my submissions, a good friend of mine came to London from Canada. I was super duper excited when she told me that she was visiting 'cause I hadn't seen her in like, a year and a half which is just ridiculous. I didn't get to see her last summer 'cause we got no jodoh; she only went back to KL after I'd flown back to London. The only contact we'd had was over text, and even then I'd usually forget to reply her at some point and would only get back to her after like two days and continue the convo as if nothing happened. I don't know how I became such a lazy texter hahaha but Amal still always makes the effort to text me about random stuff every now and then. She's incredible like that; always brings colours to everyone's lives. So anyway, Amal & I practically had been counting days till she arrived in Landan, occasionally texting each other "OMG giiiiirrrrrl!!! X days left! So excitedddd!" Totally lost our chill when she arrived outside my apartment building.

The top priority of her trip was, obviously, Malaysian food. What else could it be, right? Hahaha the girl's been deprived for too long so we took her to this mamak place in London that is the ultimate lifesaver for Malaysians in the UK, 'cause it's the only legit mamak restaurant that I know of here. I mean, they even tebar the roti canai and scribble your receipt on a piece of paper and everything.

The restaurant's called Roti King and it's located just outside Euston's tube station. It's a really small place though, and sometimes you'd find a queue outside it, like we did. If you haven't already gone there, you definitely should (why wouldn't you?!), but I'd recommend you to avoid the lunch hours. We had to wait for quite a bit and it sure worked up our appetites!

4 girls, 6 dishes. What'd I tell you hehe. Afterwards we went to walk around Carnaby Street and met up with Marissa & Azam there. It's sooo good to see these people la after so long. And London was pleasantly warm that day, which made it even better! I was only wearing a blazer and even then, it felt warm in some instances. The Canadian girl was just walking around in a t-shirt & a denim shirt tied around her waist, 'just in case' hahaha. Lovely day, lovely company – what more could I ask for! (N.B: don't answer that.)

What I looove about Oxford Street at that time of year are the Christmas decorations and window displays that they put up. So festive and just so so beautiful. The swarm of Christmas shoppers can get a bit too overwhelming though, so it's quite tricky to pick a nice time to go there without getting caught in the crowd. Buttt I had a great time anyway. Always is with these girls! <3