le jour spécial du sm

yesterday was a special day for sm as she celebrated the day where she was born into this world. as usual, its another working day for us before we go on with the plans i had for her. we had lunch at this japanese restaurant called 'san kei' at plaza mont kiara with our colleagues as a simple celebration for her. almost everyone attended the lunch session except pixel where he's stuck in bkk office for 4 weeks and some that's on leave. lunch was good where portion was big enough to last you till at night and the taste was fantastic.

me and sm left office around 615pm and we drove to life center in town where we had our dinner in tgi fridays. there's nothing special about the restaurant but the reason why i choose fridays was because i wanted to bring back the happy memories where that's the restaurant that i dated her years ago. hehehehe!!! we had a bit of traffic getting into town as it's friday night and that's when people hangs out especially where we are going to dine.

i made a reservation prior going there and we were there right on time at 730pm after all the hassle on the road and finding a park. the decor of the place is still the same since we last dine there a few years ago. the place was decorated with old junk yard stuffs such as sign boards, old photos, bronze wares, kitchen equipments, gardening tools and etc etc. tables and chairs were placed on top of elevated platforms and they had a relatively huge bar counter.

after taking a few moments browsing through the menu, we then decided to order. as a starter, we ordered tgi fridays famous 'loaded potato skins' where it is filled with colby cheese and crisp of beef bacon (we replaced the beef with chicken strips) served with sour cream and onions. this is the first time we've tasted it and we loved it very much. it's a good choice to start with when you felt like something that is not too heavy. for our main course, i had 'jack daniel's® chicken & shrimp' where it comes with vegetables, cheddar cheese mashed potatoes, juicy chicken breast and battered shrimps served with jd dipping sauce. when it first came, the first thing i said to myself is 'man!! that's small' and after i'm 3/4 done with it, i said 'this is the right portion'. hehehe!! (kind of greedy). sm had 'cajun-fried chicken salad' where it's a crispy battered chicken strips served on a bed of mixed greens with tomatoes, hard-boiled egg, black olives and monterey jack cheese. it's also comes with a slice of garlic bread and honey mustard dressing.

there were no dessert for us as the meal was enough for us. we then left fridays for a walk along jalan p.ramlee where all the clubs and discos were. there were crowds in certain clubs as some were quiet for a friday night. both of us haven't been to that area for quite some time and to my surprise, the famous disco 'warp' is no longer there and it's replaced by a new club called 'channel'. i'm not sure when did 'warp' closed down but that definitely indicate to me that i haven't been going out for a while. nothing much to see or wander, we decided to head back to the car and think of where to go after.

we did a quite adventurous thing where we drove down town as we have no specific place to go. so, we decided to keep on driving while exploring any new places to hang out or food. believe it or not, we drove all around the golden triangle area, going through different roads to see where it leads to and shortcuts that can be taken to reduce some distance. we even drove to places like klcc, chow kit, kampung baru, general hospital, taman tasik titiwangsa, petaling street, brickfields, sentul and finally bangsar. along our exploration, we indeed identify a lot of places that we have not gone before and lots of road in town have been re-routed.

our last stop is where we ended up in bangsar before we headed home. the scariest part of the journey is when on the way to bangsar via brickfields, there were this bunch of moron, twit, idiot illegal motorcyclist racing each other through and flow the stretch of brickfields road. they were revving and trying to overtake the other vehicles dangerously that causes almost all the vehicles to stop as it almost created a panic situation to everyone. the best part was there's a patrol car with 2 policemen at the side of the road doing nothing when all the actions were happening. those motorcyclist weren't bothered at all and they carried on outracing each other. when we were driving along jalan maarof in bangsar, there's this same bunch of idiots riding dangerously, beating the lights and making illegal turns. one of them even went as close as a foot away from my car and i'm hoping that guy don't bang onto my car. the only thing i could do is stay in the lane and not making any turns or even switch lanes. it was really an experience driving around town at night and overall we only did an hour plus of roaming around.