Café Hops in Malacca

    All of you might already know that I'm a lover for cafe hopping and on my previous post I have already written about my trip to Malacca with my friends and if you haven't read it... What are you waiting for? go read that now and then only come back here HAHAHA. Anyway, Malacca also have some famous cafes that are worth visiting instead of just going to the same cafes in KL right? My friends and I decided to visit some of them too and it was awesome, lovely and delicious of course! ;)

When in Malacca

    It was in the month of May where my friends and I decided its time that we'd go on a trip just ourselves to enjoy before we take our next BIG step in our career paths. We would suggest different places to go to from Cameron Highlands, Genting Highlands to Penang. As a result, we chose MALACCA! Why you ask? Well, apparently one of my friends involved named Jia Ai did her 4 months internship in Malacca and this came up as a conclusion that it's easier to walk around having a friend who was familiar with the streets there. So we made our decision and started planning our itinerary for our trips and also scrolling on AirBnB to find the most affordable stay-inns that we could find. We planned a 3 days 2 nights to Malacca and that's when our exciting trip goes:

1. Photoshoot in Malacca Streets
    As a lover for photography, of course I would bring my favorite camera to shoot as much as I can wherever I go to. I tried my best to capture what I think attracted my eyes and also the foods and streets in Malacca such as the famous Jonker Streets where all the delicious foods and colorful streets are there. Other than having my visions focused on food and scenery, portraits are what I love most and you guessed it right! I just held onto my camera; having my index finger placed on to the shutter button and took lots of pictures of my friends as if I was some professional photographer having a photoshoot at a chosen location with the models and here are some pictures that I took of my friends and some strangers:
This picture was taken inside Jonker Street; I'm not very sure where is it specifically but it's quite near to the Baba Nyonya Museum. I felt the circle shape was cute as my friend was also standing there, it felt like a picture frame to me. The only thing different was the frame was in a shape of a circle. 

Appreciation Post

    The first time of my uni life if I flashback to the day of orientation, I met some new friends and well, it became a little rough as time passes. I'm not sure why but I guess that some friends were not the fated ones who would be by my side whenever I needed them BUT as each semester goes by, I did met 3 friends who I believe they were the fated ones where we were genuinely comforting and also backing up each other when we were down. We would also support each other in every other way best friends could do and I truly am proud of having them by my side. This post was requested by them and I promised to write about them each individually with my own words of thanks so here it goes girls. HAHAHA

    Throwback to the first day of orientation, I didn't really know she existed in my group just because I'm the type who doesn't mingle around much and was not the sociable kind of person but after it ended I went down to the entrance to get picked up by my parents and while waiting; there was a girl who came to me and introduced herself with a big smile on her face - It was Clarisse. I was kind of awkward of course but she made it less awkward by smiling and laughing and we ended up exchanging phone numbers until I realized she was in the same orientation group as me. From then on, we chit chatted a few times and as time passes, we became close friends and of course I'm proud of it. :) Until now, she was the lovely girl with all smiles on her face and I think that's her charm as a girl. Her sweet smile would comfort you at moments when you feel down and her jokes would cheer you up and sometimes just face palm just because we couldn't help it so yea. Here are some pretty pics of Clarisse ;)


    Another person is the one who I actually saw her for the first time during orientation and literally couldn't help but compliment her that she was so pretty and made her put on the embarrassed laughter HAHA. Her name's Annabelle and well we weren't that close for the first few semesters but at some point we started hanging out together and soon after; we became as close as ever. To be honest, if you asked how we got so close, I have no idea how to answer it just because both of us didn't know how we ended up being a gang that makes lots of people question us if either of us weren't beside each other. All we know after being close was both of us originally had in mind that we wanted to get close to each other and I think its awesome that we really got closer to each other. She's the one who gave me lots of advice on literally almost everything and always reminded me not to give up on what I wanted to have and achieve in the first place. Of course, I am proud of her too for everything to be honest, she has done so many things for me and I hope that one day we'll always continue to back each other up whenever we go down. Continue to scroll down if you wanna see how pretty Annabelle is: 


    Last but not least, the person who has been with me ever since middle school though we weren't that close during that period of time. We got close during our high school years and I'm not sure how too just because we were actually in different class but it ends well anyway so its good hehe. Her name's Jia Ai as I would jokingly call her either "False Love" or "Add Love" just because her Chinese name sounds like it. I would also call her Nasty just because she calls me Stinky LOL. But anyway, she's been with me for quite awhile now and I must say that we do have arguments at times but we'll just end up being together again and that makes me happy too since it shows how strong our bond is. we registered to the same university together and we also stick together through almost majority of the group assignments and I can say we make a pretty great team as we helped each other out with what we don't understand or can't find. She's the one who would actually comfort you in many ways she can too and I appreciate that just because we both experienced the worst case scenarios in relationships and we both understood how painful it was as we hug each other with love and sincerity and even telling each other to always never be easy on others to avoid people from using us easily. We've been through so many things together and I do hope that we'll always continue to be together as we continue to create even more interesting and thrilling memories in the future. Please scroll down to see the very chic model, Jia Ai HAHA


    These 3 girls in the end was the one who made my university life interesting I can say. We would go to cafes we've never been before, hang out on holidays where Clarisse would drive us out and btw, THANK YOU FOR DRIVING US GURL!! HAHAHA and also we would help each other out in assignments and studies if we can. We've been having  each other backs for quite some time now and I really do feel grateful for having them come into my life. I also do hope that we'll be together forever despite our different locations, and careers we choose and also that we would try our best to meet up once Annabelle comes back to KL. To all 3 of you, thank you for being a part of my life and making it so interesting that I couldn't even catch up sometimes hahaha and also please thank me after reading it all the way here. Also, I realized I have very little of ya'll portrait pictures, especially Clarisse and Annabelle so fast fast let's meet up and take some pictures! AHAHAH I also fulfilled your requests on writing about you people so.. THE END. Love ya'll!!

Sincerely with love, Shannon