Tea Republic, BSC

Naturally one has tea at Tea Republic, but I was reliably informed that they serve note than that. I had the chance to visit the outlet earlier in the week. We held the KLickr discussion for the upcoming Urbanscape there, and one of my friend actually worked there.

The outlet was located on the second floor of the newly refurbished Bangsar Shopping Center. it was part of the new wing, right at the back if you come through the main entrance. Of you were unfamiliar with the place, a quick glance at floor plan or ask one of the friendly staffs, and you would be pointed towards the back of the building. A couple of escalator rides up, and you're there.

If was certainly quiet corner, next to Tutti Frutti which tended to be heaving with children. The menu was rather complicated if you were not familiar with the variety of tea brew on offer. They also offer main courses and light snacks, as well as cookies and cakes. I was not sure if they do any coffee ....

My far-too-sweet Red Velvet cakeI ordered one of the ice tea - it was infused with mint and lemon, light to the taste and zesty from the lemon. It needed some sugar syrup to balance things out, but refreshing none the less. I also ordered a red velvet cake, hoping that the cake came from Gourmet downstairs. To cut a long story short, it wasn't. One of my fellow KLickr ordered nasi biryani. He said that it was OK. Mind you, he has not had lunch, and it was close to 5pm.

More discussionTo sum up, it was cosy little place to meet friends and had a quiet down time. Food was OK, staffs was friendly and the ambiance was relaxing. There was also wifi provided for free for those interested.

KLickrs for Urbanscape

Later on the Tuesday, after our outing to Plaza Damas, I went to join my fellow KLickrs to discuss our activities in the upcoming Urbanscape. It was scheduled for the 17th July - a Saturday of course. The
Sad news was, it would no longer be at KLPAC. Instead, ironically, the event, organised by KLUE, would be held outside KL. It would be at Padang Astaka, in PJ, on a rugby field.

Can't imagine what it would be like as as far as I can remember, it has always been at KLPAC. One wondered if over time, the event itself would fade away, which was a shame really. As a regular, KLickr would be taking part again this year. The event was only a couple of months away and we were still unclear as to the concept from the organiser, not even the layout of the area.

We had a few ideas being discussed. A themed photo walk or two of course, may be a photo critique session, some sort of competition. What I was keen to do, is a themed photo competition which the photos would be uploaded and tagged via twitter. Once uploaded, it would then be voted upon to select a winner. But that might exclude those dSLR slingers about. Therefore, we had to plan diverse range of activities for all, and for that, we would need numbers on the day.

It looked like I would need to invest on a twitter client which can read and parse hashtags with twitpics, and automatically download the attached photos. We may then reupload them onto another site for the competition. I'll work that one out eventually.