Saturday Night

15 August 2009，零九年八月十五日
8:00pm - 10:45pm，晚间八点至十点三刻
Station 1 of NZX & Tropicana City Mall

在牛车水 - D'aman Crimson 住了好些日子的我竟然除了上回与父母和表兄姐喝茶聊天之外就从未真正地到这一间餐厅里用餐过，这是否就该将之推给自己那还是比较喜欢呆在较为安静无人的角落好好地慢用餐点，而非选择如此人来人往的显眼处如坐针毯般地进食的性格呢？

号外： 以下三张图片都是从 Station 1 的官方网站 转来的，版权为该餐馆所有

Never really stepped into the restaurant myself (except the time with my parents and cousins) although it'd been quite a long time that I moved in to NZX - D'aman Crimson area. Guess I still prefer to dine alone at some relatively quieter places than such a location that's totally exposed to anyone that walked around

P/S: All three images as followed were directed from Station 1's official website, thus copyrights and credits belong to the restaurant instead

The logo
餐厅的标志

The shop front
店面外观

The location map, kindly click to enlarge
位置图，点击就可以放大了

周六晚间八点左右刚和 Bunga (Jason) 与 Han Yeuan (又称 Chak Kor) 俩在 Station 1 小聚，虽说打从大学毕业后就再也没见过他们了，但还是不会搞到出现认不出他们等之类的情景，好像众男生都不太有些什么大变化似的

Had dinner at Station 1 of NZX around 8:00pm with Bunga (Jason) & Han Yeuan (a.k.a. Chak Kor), long time since MMU graduation, still I had no difficulties in recognizing them, perhaps all the guys also won't really change too much I guess

This was the view from my seat,
normally I pack my car in front of the cafe too
当时在座位上照的，通常我都将车子泊在该店铺之前

Bunga (Jason)

Han Yeuan (a.k.a Chak Khor)

The cover design for the menu
菜谱的封面设计

至于晚餐嘛，我点了比较笼统的黑胡椒鸡扒和青苹果汁来作为打分目标。饮料并不怎么样，也许应该叫回上一次喝的蜂蜜牛奶比较好；鸡扒则是除了酱料不太够味之外都还可以的，吃着吃着的我突然开始怀念起当初还在马六甲读书时 The Windmill Station 那里香浓的黑胡椒酱汁了

For the foods, I asked for the Black Pepper Chicken Chop and a glass of Apple Juice as a tryout. The drink was just a so-so, perhaps I should really stick back to the Honey Milk I tried during the first visit itself; but the chop was quite OK still except that the sauce was not really strong enough, somehow kind of reminded me with the strong pepper aroma from The Windmill Station back when I was still studying in Melaka

Apple Juice
青苹果汁

Black Pepper Chicken Chop
黑胡椒鸡扒

我们仨在九点一刻时就准备离开启程到 Tropicana City Mall 去了，希望能如愿地赶上 District 9 这一部电影吧。在为 Bunga 提供了通往该商场的新路线的简约指示后，我就跟着 Han Yeuan 开始出发了

现下牛车水的空旷与荒凉倒是令 Han Yeuan 感到有少许惊讶的，对呀，要是将之比喻为单独缺少了僵尸们的寂静岭倒也不甚为过，倘若有一天连那些餐馆都搬迁走了的话绝对会变得更糟的

We left Station 1 around 9:15pm and headed over to Tropicana City Mall for the movie District 9, if possible. I followed Han Yeuan's car after provided Bunga with some brief direction for the new flyover to the mall

Han Yeuan was kind of shocked by how vacant and deserted NZX transformed to, well indeed it's nothing now but a silent hill without the zombies, and would surely get worse if one day even the cafe and restaurants there also decided to move out

Bye bye the glorious days
再见了，曾经的光辉岁月

既然 Bunga 比我们俩稍早抵达商场了的关系，到 GSC 去买戏票的重大任务就被拜托给他了；很不幸地... 我们竟然刚刚错过了九点二十分的 District 9，接下来的那一场则是要等到十一点三十五分才开演... 太迟了些啦，等到散场时相信停车场应该除了那些同是刚刚看完午夜场的观众们之外就铁定是空空如也的了，太危险了些... 对不起啊两位，我应该好好查清楚再来的 x.x

Since Bunga reached the mall slightly earlier than both of us, thus he went ahead to check out on the GSC tickets and showtime instead; and thus the bad new... we just missed the 9:20pm show @.@ the next one for District 9 actually fell on 11:35pm at night, which was indeed way too late and would be kind of dangerous too since there should be almost nobody left at the car park except the few who were up for the late night show... sorry for not checking properly guys x.x

Better luck next time, I hope x.x
希望下回会好运一点咯 x.x

最后，我们就落得只到地下层的 Carrefour 去走走一下就了事的地步了，有些出乎预料地我竟然会在哪里看到像张小娴与吴若权等作者的中文书籍，想当年仍在多媒体大学时它们可是我既珍爱又珍藏的宝贝呀

还记得当时我那在 Emerald Park (此乃我生活到大三为止的多媒体大学生专署公寓) 的房间有如变成了众室友及学姐们寻找与商借小说的图书馆。不知道你们还记得洛可可幸福动画 & 音乐馆这一个网站吗？里边可是有非常多当时他们改编自吴若权的小说的动画影片呢

We ended up walking to Carrefour at the lower ground for slight shopping instead, well I'd never expect to see Chinese novels from writers such as Amy Cheung Siu Han and Eric Wu there, I loved their books so much and bought so many of them when I was still studying in MMU

Could still recall how my housemates and seniors from Emerald Park (the MMUians' apartment I stayed until the end of my third year) browsed and borrowed the novels from the piles of books I bought. Not sure if you girls still remember about the web KOKORO Animation & Music Production where they converted all the novels written by Eric Wu into flash clips and published there

Some of the flash videos by KOKORO
洛可可动画音乐馆的某些代表作

我们大约十点半时就离开 Tropicana 了，因为我和 Bunga 住得比较靠近 （他是家在 Kelana Putera 公寓）的缘故，该君也就担起了载送我回家的责任。真的很感激你们的盛情之约，要建健康康并一切顺心哦

号外： 要是你们打算回去马六甲走走的话请记得通知我啊！先在此谢过了~

Well, we left Tropicana around 10:30pm, this time around I followed Bunga's car instead since it's more convenient for him to fetch me home for he's staying at Kelana Putera. Thanks for the outing guys, take care and all the best for everything

P/S: In case anyone would like to go back to Melaka for a visit or so, REMEMBER to ask me too!!! Thanks in advance~