Sunday, 6 July 2014

Down the Rabbit Hole

I spent July 1st in Tokyo. My Father, being the best Baba in the world, found a little Alice-In-Wonderland-Themed restaurant called Alice's Fantasy Restaurant to celebrate my birthday there because he knows I love the story.

Fun fact: Someone gave me a doll when I was younger and I named her Alice because she was wearing a blue dress. I used to talk to Alice all the time. Alice lost her shoes and is now getting bald. 

I dressed up for the event. I even wore a pair of vintage wedges I got from a thrift shop because I'm officially an 'adult' now. Hah. I took it off straight after lunch because we had to walk very very very far to get to places in Tokyo and there was this huge-ass boil on my toe but I don't want to scar you for life.

I got that Alice ribbon from Disneyland (more on that soon!)
 It's kind of a magical place. We had to go down to B3 to get to this cafe, just like going down the rabbit hole. They have lots and lots of Alice in Wonderland themed decorations there too, from the tiny 'Drink Me' and 'Eat Me' bottles, to the Red Queen's maze and also original illustrations from Lewis Carroll's book.










This book I'm holding is actually one of their menus. SO NICE RIGHT. I was just constantly fangirling as I explored the place.

And the food! I usually don't trust the food in themed cafes/restaurants because they absolutely destroy the taste of the food just to make it suit the theme *cough* hellokittycafe *cough* but the food here was surprisingly good. Japanese people never disappoint us tastebud-wise. I kind of forgot all the names for the food so bear with me as I make them up spontaneously.

Salad.

Weirdly shaped pizza that was hard to share.

Crossed-eyed Cheshire Cat meat loaf with mashed potato and completely useless whiskers and sauce teeth

this is supposed to be a rabbit and you're supposed to drizzle it over the salad

This tasted weird. Don't order this. But the plate sure is nice.

And behold, my birthday cake. It's cheesecake, with raspberry jam and whipped cream. I was pretty disappointed they didn't sing the Unbirthday Song to me, damn.


Hello, other desserts which were sugar and carbs


A big thank you to my family for celebrating my birthday in Tokyo with me. I'm such a blessed girl.

So I did some googling research, and I found out that this cafe/restaurant is actually a chain restaurant. And in it's other branches in Ginza/Kichibucho, the waitresses actually come to your table to entertain you with song and dance. Damn. All we got was a birthday song. And that was because it was my birthday.

In conclusion, if you want to go there, go there at night, and perhaps don't go to the branch under the Shinjuku station. (THEY SERVE COCKTAILS AT NIGHT WTH). And don't ask me for the address, It wasn't in the first 3 results on google. I'm lazy. I can't find it on the internet

There you have it.

Down the rabbit hole.

 
A Very Merry Unbirthday to you. 

I make no promises in blogging about the rest of Tokyo.

Alice-d Angel

Thursday, 3 July 2014

Being 18

Hi. My name is Noel. I am 18 years old.

What an awkward age to be. Am I an adult? Am I a teenager? Old enough to do adult things, but not mature enough to take responsibility for it.

When I was ten, I've always imagined what being 18 would feel like. I've always imagined myself tall, fabulous, a boyfriend by my fingertips and living the life in a university. Eighteen-year-old Noel would be able to drive to places, hang out with my friends past curfew, travel anywhere I like.

But being 17 was not exactly like that. Seventeen-year-old Noel was weighed down with school and exams and the heavy dread that sits in my stomach that whispers failure. She was silly, reckless and dreamed wild thoughts about her future.

I wonder how eighteen year old Noel will turn out?

Will she procrastinate? Will she fail? Will she fall? Will she find The One?

I don't know. But I am quite excited to find out.

I wonder who will find out by my side?

Here's to looking forward, partings, crossings and only looking back to laugh at myself
18 year old Angel

Wednesday, 18 June 2014

Adventure Time: Sunny Sunny UUM

Hello sweltering humans! "It sure is hot, isn't it?" types Noel, whilst sitting in her air-conditioned room with a fan blowing directly at her.  I'm here with more sunny photos that will make you sweat, which were taken in my Father's hometown, this little town in Kedah called Changloon.

It took me a long time to come up with my title because I couldn't pinpoint what to call my little adventure in Changloon (it's actually spelled Changlun but I like to call in Changloon just because I like to say 'loon' because it sounds Thai).

The purpose of me going back to Changloon was to visit my Popo, who had a major surgery recently. She's doing quite well but on the second day there, Mother suggested that us teenagers should go and visit the UUM campus which isn't located far away from Changloon. I jumped at the idea because we were basically hibernating in our room as there was no wi-fi.

So we drove to UUM. The main purpose was to check out their Deer Garden (Taman Rusa)  so we were pumped. Well, I was, anyway.

The UUM campus was surprisingly H-U-G-E. I don't know what I was expecting, but it was definitely not it's vastness. We just drove right in because nobody stopped us (okay lah, it's an open campus, anyone can go there). I drove really slowly because it was my first time there, but we still managed to miss the turning to the Deer Garden so we just followed the main road. But then we magically ended up at UUM's front gates again. So we went for the second time. And finally, we found the Deer Garden.

To call it a garden  would be giving it too much credit. It was more like a sangkar. There was a map showing how large and organized the Taman Rusa was, back in the day, obviously. But now the deers are all just rounded up in this sealed off perimeter where they stare at cars passing by. I'm not even joking.

When we reached the cage, we realized that curious humans have also come and visit the deers and they brought food for them. So naturally kiasu, we had to feed the deers something too. So we started pulling the grass surrounding the fence which the deers could not reach and fed them that. They got pretty excited.
My Snow White moment. I didn't even have grass then. She was just licking me.



It looks like an emoji hehehe




My cousin couldn't feed it because the deer kept snorting at her. 

FREE ME

It was interesting how they weren't afraid of humans. We could just touch them easily.

Their noses are quite soft okay

The less nosey deers were just chilling there.
Then we decided to go to this lotus pond we saw on our first attempt to find the Deer Garden because... I wanted to camwhore. I'm sorry there really isn't much to say, I really just wanted to share these photos with you because it was a happy day.



Do I look like a sun child


Itchy butt alert

 My cousin brother asked me to jump like a star. Apparently my cousin sister didn't get the memo.




And then and then I climbed a tree. I am so wild. When I sat on that extended branch, my cousins said: "Are you sure it'll hold?" IT FCUKING HELD OK 

This was the can we pls go to an air conditioned room it's fucking hot but okay i'll pose awkardly for this one photo



Oh, Kedah is so beautiful.

The place where we took the photos was actually a golf course. There's a golf course inside the UUM campus. I don't get it, but it was a gorgeous place to be.

And butterflies. There were so many there. While I sat my huge ass down for the itchy butt photo, they were literally dancing all around me. It was pretty rad, but my cousin sister is actually terrified of butterflies. She runs away when we scream: 'BUTTERFLY!' at her. It's pretty hilarious on our part but incredibly traumatizing for her. We had to try multiple times to take that photo of us sitting on the grass without her flinching from a butterfly 10 meters away.


I realize it doesn't really matter what I type here anyway because the size of my thighs blind you and you are already forming your own opinions about my body, my weight and how I should slim down to be pretty. But you know what? I'm so done caring. I know my thighs look hideous in your eyes. I know I have short legs. I know I'm not skinny. But that doesn't wipe my sunny smile off my face. I still look absolutely happy in these photos, and that's what matters the most to me.

Basically; fuck off with body shaming thanks

So, I have lots more photos of Alor Star and outings with my friends which I haven't posted anywhere else, so I'll be back soon. 

Sunny Angel

Tuesday, 17 June 2014

I have so many things to let out here, but I can't seem to ever finish all my drafts.

I will do so soon. I have not abandoned you, please remember that.

Love,

Noel

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