[Cafe Visit] The Little Prince Cafe, Somme Road, Singapore

Earlier this year, I came across an article about hipster cafes in Singapore, listing these obscure cafes that I'm currently on the lookout for now.

One particular cafe caught my attention: A themed cafe based on the novel, 'The Little Prince' by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. It was one of my favourite books growing up, and my curiosity was stoked -- I knew I had to check it out some day.

~The KL Depressed Cake Shop 2013~

Sunday, September 15th found us at Madisons Jalan Bangkung, at the invitation of my friend and colleague Alia to support The KL Depressed Cake Shop. :)

The KL Depressed Cake Shop is a 2-day charity bake sale held from Sept 15-16 this year as part of the Malaysiaku50 Festival, to help raise awareness for mental illnesses and depression in Malaysia. All proceeds from the bake sale would be donated to the Malaysian Mental Health Association.

The featured cakes and baked goods fit the theme, with grey icing and morose motifs. It's kind of an avant-garde idea, considering that the traditional image of cakes are almost always cheerful and colourful and meant to celebrate some happy occasion. It's also almost ironic, since dessert is usually the first thing people would go for to cope with not-too-happy feelings ...

This was also the KL chapter of the global Depressed Cake Shop movement, founded in the UK. There are over 30 Depressed Cake Shop chapters around the world, dedicated to the same cause of raising awareness towards mental health issues.

EDIT: I was told that the bake sale managed to raise RM 15,000 for the cause, hurrah~! :D Congrats to the great people and amazing crew behind the effort~!

~The Escape Room KL: Real-Life RPGs~

After an extremely exhausting week, I wanted nothing more than to just 'escape' from it all and do something fun ... so it was probably the best timing for my first 'Escape Room' session! Perfect way to end the work week and blow off some steam. :)

~Trip to Ye Olde Smokehouse Fraser Hill~ "Far Over The Misty Mountain Cold ..."

It all began when Kids and I saw this Groupon for a 2D1N stay at Ye Ole Smokehouse, Fraser Hill:

The minute I saw the deal go up, there was no question that we were going. >< We've been wanting to go to Smokehouse for ages now, and personally experience the quaint, 1900s British surroundings and atmosphere instead of just looking at beautiful photographs online and wishing we were there ... but the expensive prices turned us off. :( Groupon was our only hope!

With almost no hesitation, and with the punching-in of a few credit card details later, we had two coupons for a 2-night stay. We we were on our way for an adventure! :)

~An Ode to Upstairs Cafe~

While the cast of Friends are busy hanging out on their favourite orange couch at the Central Perk, Ted and company are always at MacLaren's on How I Met Your Mother, and if you're a Malaysian from my generation, you'll probably remember Ipoh old-town Kopitiam gang from Kopitiam.

Seriously, does anyone remember this awesome series?

If my friends and I were cool, fascinating and popular enough to have our own TV sitcom, we would have ... Upstairs Cafe. OwO