Just as when I was beginning to enjoy the slowness of time…when 1 minute seemed like 3 minutes, an hour seemed more than an hour or two… or three; it had to revert back to rush time.

For a while, time seemed like the Matrix or a Bollywood movie, where each frame of time (which could have been each momento), stuttered in movement. Not that it was spoilt or anything like that. It moved slowly, slow enough to capture every aspect and corner of each moment of time.

Why oh why is it back to 180 frames per second? Where speed is everything.

I won’t really know if time did slow down… perhaps for a short period… everybody was busy with their own thing or things that they were unaware of this phenomena. It sure felt good.

We, the Batik Influencer – Jeannie, my wife; Laura, our daughter; and I; treated Jeannie’s mother, who is Laura’s grandmother, who is mother-in-law to me; for a pre-birthday lunch. Mum Ong loves plants and almost everything to do with them – she spends much of her time tending to her multitudes of plants in her home. We planned to take her to Foliage Coffee – a restaurant built within a nursery.

Foilage Coffee used to be located next to the owner’s other business, RAP (“Rent-A-Pot”), in Taman Desa, a suburb, towards the southern part of K.L. (1) According to the staff here, Foilage Coffee shifted to its present location a few months back, after the town council acquired the land that the restaurant was originally on, back.

Undoubtedly, the current restaurant is a far cry from the original restaurant. Being able to sit outside, amongst the lush green surroundings of foliage, with a roof overhead. It may be raining quite heavily, but you don’t get wet; while you enjoy your meals with friends and family, getting the freshness and aroma of the greens, as raindrops bounce off each leaf, no matter its size, big or small. The freshness the rain brings. The way the tables were arranged, spaced out from one and another. This uniqueness is not found in its new location. It did have some semblance of the original restaurant.

We proceeded with out meal orders. Mum and Jeannie both ordered chicken chop. Laura was having brunch, so she went for the big breakfast meal. I ordered something simple – a beef burger and an iced americano. The others went for sky juice.

No, Laura did not eat the big breakfast set all by herself. She started distributing portions of her food under the “try this” guise. She was left with probably a quarter of what she started out with. Jeannie and mum both enjoyed their chicken chop meals. It must have been good because before I knew it, they had finished with their meals.

I’m flaunting the “fuchsia” word. 👆 It is not “deep or dark pink” colour; it is fuchsia.

My burger meal was so-so. The overly sesame-ed seed burger bun top was a nice top, not so that it was crumpled, sort of. I am not sure if it is usually served that way. The beef in the burger was ok – I would give it a “6” out of 10. The chili sauce and mayonnaise was already on the burger. I think it may have been Lingam’s chili sauce. The chili sauce improved the overall burger experience.

The sad news is that Foliage Coffee is set to close at the end of this month (August). The cafe has been at this location since April. Ever since the shift, business has been slow during weekdays. The location is in a quiet part of the commercial district. And, it does not have the charm that it used to have in the previous location, that draws customers in at all times of the week. They are selling all their wall signs and posters. I picked up one. Pay them a visit before they close. They may have some decor or accessories that may catch your eye, tug your purse strings and say to you, “This was meant for you. You’ve gotta have it”.

We wish the management and staff of Foliage Coffee all the best in their future endeavours.

After lunch, We took mum to this place in Bangsar called “Floristika” where Jeannie and she bought some (actually [there that word comes in again. It means: no, “not really”] they bought quite a lot of) flowers and orchids. They were both smiling from ear-to-ear when they came out of the florist. Laura and I waited for them, in the car.

It was close to 3.00pm in the afternoon by the time we got back to Subang Jaya. Good time for me to go for my 10km walk.

It was a good start for mum in her new birthday year. The orchids and flowers will be a reminder that she had a good start to her birthday new year.

NOTES:
1. K.L. or Kuala Lumpur, is the capital of Malaysia. A large metropolitan city, it is 243km³, with a population of 1.77 million. ESCAP