When I told people that I take Culinary Arts, 

people would most often not, say

"Boleh la bukak cafe or bakery after this" 

When my friends and I went for a night drive,

we saw this one space at the town and thought

" maybe we should open a kedai and sell teh o 5 kupang" 

since then it has been an inside joke.

I would be in the kitchen

Nabilah would be making drinks 

Pika would take orders 

Najwa would be at the cashier

Dila would be our ' duta ' or ' influenza ' (as she phrase it)

 Recently Aizad and I went to Diamond Creeks,

on our way back we talked about the future,

he told me Maria wanted to open a cafe,

and we talked about wanting to 'bangunkan' 

this small town.

I would want to actually open a cafe in this

small ass town with my friends. 

I would want us to make this town to be 

more than just a place to stop by for a 

famous pau in the middle of KL and Ipoh

As naive as these dreams may be, 

during a pandemic, 

dreams like these gives me hope to survive

from being hopeless 

and I will hold on to it

wafaa.