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Done with EIL, Sem 1!!!

It kinda breaks my heart, but cheerios! I’m finally done with EIL 1010–may it rest in peace ^^ Don’t have to worry about its results until after my Winter break, so… all’s good!! =D

Stephie’s staying over tonight… we’re pulling an all-nighter with our subjects >.<

For the first part of the night it was MicroE for me and Law for her. Then Gary and Jerry showed up to start playing pool (after Steph and I had this incredibly inventive dinner lol)… and Dixon popped in soon after… so they started playing doubles pool XD… I was busy on the forums, so um, didn’t join in. (It was way too cold to aim, IMO, and towards 3, 4am it went down to 6 degrees celcius. Zowers!!)

After the Mauritians left, Dixon and Stephie went out to grab Mackers… got a soft serve and nuggets ^^ yay, midnight snack!

Later on the three of us started to tussle more with our subjects… Stephie slowly got out of her mood, but in exchange she had a tummyache (she says she’s going to sue Mackers lolz) and thus suffered more =.=”

Dixon left around 2am, and I shooed Stephie off to bed around then too. Poor girl had had too little sleep the night before… didn’t want her fainting on me or something o.O Hung around online until 4am… then took a short nap. Bloody hell was it cold over there… was still raining too! Cold + no central heating = frozen people.

Got up at 5am to continue with accounting (both of us). Tied up at 6am, packed everything up from the Pavilion back to my place, and ended up sleeping at around 7am. As Adilah would put it, Se~ma~ng~at.

But yeah. Was a fun experience. Sadly, not one that I want to repeat in a hurry. I feel like I’ve been having an overdose of studies now… time to let go and just crash o.o

Quiet Musings, II

A few days ago I was talking to an ex-classmate and ongoing good friend, HYan. She’ll be packing off to Beijing come August, and as the rest of us did, she tussled quite some time over the dilemma of ‘What To Study’; or more appropriately in her case, ‘What to Major In’.

And so we talked about her choices, and we sighed over the reality of those choices, and we found that parents really are the same.

They keep saying ‘Choose what you like’, and ‘It’s your future so you decide’. But is that what they’re really saying? All’s fine if you go the way they want. Yet choose something that you yourself want as opposed to what they feel is best for you, and they’ll start asking ‘Why?’ ‘Why?’ ‘Why are you choosing that course/major/subject?’

For her it was just a toss-up between actuarial studies and finance.

For me it was a play-off between first Arts&Design, Arts, Science and Commerce; then when the ‘unpreferred by the elders‘ faculties were eliminated from the list, it became a tug-of-war between wills as I campaigned for Japanese as my Arts Major while Papa dearest looked predatorily at Chinese Studies and Mummy beloved insisted that I take Journalism.

Of course, all along what they said was: “We’re not trying to pressurise you into anything… just study what you like.” Then when the times came along at nights when they’d brooded long enough over it, they’d ‘casually’ pose statements at me: “I really think that you should take Chinese because it’s a very interesting subject and China will become a very important player in the commercial world”; “you’re good at English and Writing so you should just take Journalism and perhaps Creative Writing”; “you haven’t done Japanese before so you shouldn’t risk it”; “don’t take subjects that will be useless to you”.

Wth?? The only reasons why I have never taken up Japanese before this are: one, my interest in it popped up just before I went into Year 10–but that was transition year. Hello? Should I have risked my grades? Then in Year 11–wow SPM year!! Mmmm take up a new language at this adrenaline-pumped year? Lol; you’re kidding. Fast-forward to Year 12–new country, new finals. Nuh-uh; don’t take a subject that you don’t know.

If even uni life is dictated by this sort of judgemental sequestering, I’ll never ever be able to step out and actually start towards what I want.

I don’t want to major in accounting. I can of course take it up, but I don’t want to. It’s just not me… and hell, it’s not me that they’re seeing in that job either. Maybe no one wants to admit it, but well, that’s how I’m seeing it. They need someone to be in commerce, and I am the sacrificial lamb: brought up for the altar and about to be presented to the same god as she serves.

What choice have I, though?

Yes, I don’t want to be pushed into a mould that I can’t fit into, to be put on a pedestal that I can’t live up to. I don’t want to be forced to become someone that I am not, that I in my current state will never be capable of being.

But I also don’t want to let them down. I don’t want to let them to fail in this again; I don’t want them to become as disappointed again as they were those years ago when sis dropped out of business and dashed their hopes.

Call it a matter of pride, of conditioning, of I dunno, love? I want to strike out on my own, but… perhaps underlying all of my inner conflicts now is that even now, even at this moment when I can finally start walking the path that I want and have only to answer to myself, I still don’t want to fail them in their eyes.

Family is all that I have, and pride—lots and lots of pride.

If I had more confidence in what I am, who I am, what I want, and where I want to be… I would engineer more events to turn out with the results that I want. I would orchestrate events so that I have ‘no choice’ but to do the subject/course that I originally wanted to. Like setting an impossible course as first choice in Mel U so that I’d end up in Monash. Like giving half-facts about certain subjects so that the elders were convinced that I couldn’t take them and ended up compromising.

As things stand, well, they still aren’t happy about where I am and what I’m doing. But in comfort, they think that they’ll have the final say in what I major in. They still think that in the end I’ll follow through their plans all the way, and that… I’ll not fail them.

And the sad thing is, I don’t want to fail them, either.

When all you have to hold onto is the knowledge that you owe them this duty and this obligation and this much for all that they’ve ever given you and all that they have sacrificed for you, you don’t just walk away and dash their hopes on the ground. Maybe someone else could do that, but not me, not yet. I’m still too weak to just throw the past behind me in spite of what negativity I may remember; I’m still not cold enough that I forget all the warmth that they have showered on me.

Yet what can I do about my own wishes, then?

Thus continue do I to ponder, and continue do I to fret. The subjects I myself will have to undertake next semester must needs be settled upon soon… but have I the confidence to choose them, and choose them wisely, and choose them now?

…When personal needs and wants and yearnings and personal duty and pride and honour clash, the world as you know it shatters.

My world is shuddering now; when will it explode?

GFN-ing sushi pieces

Not quite sure what today was… it’s all a jumble of words by the time I’m writing this, which is… disaster for my brain. I think that it’s because I was tutoring Steph on Accounting while trying to keep EIL in my STM. Damned Final Exam tomorrow!!! I am so screwed for it… got another 2 chapters to go through but my concentration is just so bad at the moment that I really don’t think that anything will bloody sink in.

On a brighter note, tonight I went for the GFN and got to see Sharon in a yukata ^^ Serene got a piece for Clara too… awwww… aren’t sisters nice?

….

A bit harrassed. I think it’s beginning to dawn on me that the exams are just around the corner, as in JUST AROUND THE CORNER. Hour countdown starts in three minutes…. Let the Fun begin!!

Anime Recoms, II

Saiunkoku Monogatari tells of a fictional kingdom, Saiunkoku, that is built up of 8 provinces ruled by 8 houses which are each named after a different colour. Upon the anime’s first introduction, I was inclined to think of anime such as Fushigi Yuugi and Haruka Hachiyou Shou, which both depict usually 8 guy guardians, one dumb-seeming heroine who gets sucked into the whole story out of pure incidence, and one likeable emperor whose kingdom is in jeopardy. So like anyone else would, upon hearing the words ‘kingdom, 8 protectors, emperor’, you’d assume that it’s gonna be ‘yeah yeah, same old same old’, and you’d be right, right?

Wrong.

Hehe Saiunkoku at least has a likeable heroine, and a VERY interesting Emperor!!!

The new Emperor, 19-year-old Shi Ryuuki, is rumoured to be uninterested in courtly matters and is said to prefer men. Mmmm… will it be a yaoi anime <3<3<3!!!??? Lolz with a seemingly tailored-for-disaster country like this and a guy who is more than he seems, the anime instantly grabbed my attention (or more likely, the hint of BL did). Thankfully for all you innocent ones out there, the anime is… straight T.T

Therefore feel free to follow the encounters of Kou Shuurei, temporary Emperor’s concubine, as she (yes, she) tries to turn him into a good ruler while trying to fend off his clumsy (or naive?) advances.

And don’t forget the (complementary) train of handsome guys and lovely ladies who appear in almost every scene ^^ EYE CANDY!!!!!!!

Believe me, Saiunkoku Monogatari (A Tale of Saiunkoku) is fun ^_~ and I even prefer it to Haruka Hachiyou Shou… which wasn’t bad at all, if my opinion on this is worth anything at all!!! (Don’t ask me why I’m using that as a basis of comparison ^^” I don’t know either)

Watch it, NOW!!!

(I’m currently borrowing it from MCAC, but methinks I’ll buy the set when I get home o.o I like it well enough for me to buy an actual hard copy, and that is saying something XD)

Blogging it, III

Today (Saturday) I started out with an 8am wake-up call, a 10am departure with Stephie’s dad to Boxhill, Puffy-shopping there, roast-chicken-shopping, veggie-shopping, then a 11:40am arrival by bus at SEF, had another shower then went for my final dance class of the semester, attended a 2-5:30pm 2nd date with The Crucible, followed by a search party for Gary around building 19, did some EIL revision there until 7+pm, then went home with the guys and proceeded to cook some bakchoi with salt and pepper AWA reheat the roast chicken, ended up serving Jon and Gary at 9pm-10ish, watching them do a ‘see who gets 5 games first’ pool competition, let them crash at my room, proceeded to DC-download a few movies for Jon until 1+am, then showered, did laundry around 2:30ish, fell asleep at 3ish with the lights on, was to later wake up at circa 9:40am to grab my laundry, and consequently slept in until 4+pm on Sunday. Fun ^^

Sleeping at Stephie’s ^^

Hmmm how did a simple night out turn into an overnight out?

Let’s do a rerun: tonight a few of the MUISS people and I went over to Stephie’s workplace to um, provide some support to her. ^_~ Moral support in the form of being there to observe her working conditions, and financial support through ordering G&S and paying for them!! lol it was fun ^^ Great uniform, too =P

Then, since we missed the bus going to Boxhill (which would take us to the last bus leaving for Monash Uni from there), lazy me decided against going home the long way (Boxhill –> Richmond –> Huntingdale) and opted instead to crash at Stephie’s. Was fun ^^ Our excuse was that we were going to do some studying together that night ^^ Hmmm ^^ That technically already answers the question as to how dinner became a pajama party, but let’s just go on with it o.o

Complications arose when we started forum-ing and MSN-ing instead of flipping through the orange textbook. It was inevitable though o.o Benji was being fun ^^ and Gary was so cute to tease ^^ and there was so much crap to check through ^^”

End result: we didn’t sleep until 2ish I think, and even then we were supposed to wake up soon to uh, do some accounting revision. You can guess what happened.

Ah well. The best laid plans of men and mice.

Lalalalala….

Manifest is Sept 14-16 — any takers?

Hi there boys and girls!! The Manifest is on again this year–can I hear some cheers going around? (umm, couldn’t get any more recent pix so… deal with it for now >.>)

As shared around during today’s MCAC lunch session, Manifest 2007 will be at Melbourne Uni (as usual), from September 14-16, and MCAC will be organising a syndicate to go. (Meaning, we definitely have the numbers to apply for a group discount! =D ) HOWEVER, our committee is currently waiting for answers from the Caulfield main as to whether we can get a further discount since we’re going as a club!! [QUOTE Manifest webpage: If you are part of an anime club, please check with your club president if your club is eligible for a Manifest membership discount.] So hold your horses and don’t sign up for it just yet ^_~

I am now calling all anime fans to join us (the MCAC forumers) on our Manifest excursion!! Le Catch: you have to be an MCAC member to join our syndicate =P Therefore if you aren’t a member yet, JOIN THE CLUB!!! There are definitely more gains than losses here: for one, you get to watch animes that you never knew existed; secondly, you get to borrow anime that you’ve been yearning for forever from our club library; for a third, you get to socialise with other anime fans (and I do mean SOCIALISE!!); as a fourth, hey it doesn’t cost that much, and you won’t be alone at Manifest or Doujicon or any other activity that we’re going to! lol and of course there are lots more advantages, such as marathons, opinion exchanges, a fun and vivacious bunch of people to hang out with, etc… there are just too many to list and so I won’t bother doing so =P

Anyway, back to the topic at hand: Manifest, and the MCAC syndicate.

For those who don’t know, in the current lexicon, a syndicate is a “group of 10 or more people”, and the syndicate price of $24 (per member) is equivalent to a full weekend membership (which is usually $27). Single-day memberships are $15 per person per day. Note though that these are EARLY REGISTRATION prices!!! Early registrations are what give you a cheaper going rate than door prices (Weekend: $40, Single-Day: $30) and they also earn you personalised membership badges =P

As additional information, if you volunteer with Manifest for that weekend for a length of time exceeding 5 hours, you’ll get a full refund from the organisers for your entire payment ^_~ Best of all is, you can choose preferences on where you want to volunteer at! So while it is not guaranteed that you can work where you want to, there is a high chance that you’ll find a volunteering space that you can be happy at.

Well, what are you waiting for? Ask me more questions now, or vote an indication of your interest level (and sign up for updates from me on the event) at the anime club’s poll:

http://monashanimeclub.21.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=230

See you there!!!

Start of the Shopping Nightmare

Arggh… have to start shopping for the goodie bag that I’m bringing home… T.T

Every time I go home from Malaysia, I have an obligation to shop for masses of snacks and stuff for Friends and Family. I would have prefered to forget (hehe) but unfortuately… I was reminded of it today ‘coz I went down to the City with Han to get our flight tickets endorsed at MAS…. On the way back we got SO much junk food that I felt sorry for my purse (yes, it was that bad!)

Tried calling c’he about her list, but since we were underground (near BigW) it couldn’t get through properly and we ended up calling each another SO many times in attempts to connect to each other’s respective lines…. All was good in the end though since she got through =P

Got back around 5:30pm, and found to our amazement that MUISS was shut for the day. Wow. And here we were thinking that MUISS never shut on time XD

Split up the groceries and then I went over to the Short Courses Centre. Almost done with the course now… it’s a bit sad >.< Soon I won’t be meeting up with Cheryl, Steven and the rest… gonna miss them!!

But anyways… nothing much to report either today… which is all good =P (NB: oversleeping through MCAC lunch isn’t reportable >.> shhhhhhh!)

So then… gtg… catch ya guys in another post….!!

Double Play(s)

After an early dinner at the lounge (SAM were having a meeting there, and I caught the words ‘Barley’ as well as ‘Ice cream, anyone?’ lolz) then popped next door to watch two of MUST’s running plays–The Play, and The Crucible. The former was 6:30pm-7:15, :30ish, whereas the latter was from 8-11+pm.

The Play was quite interesting, I’ll have to admit o.o After all, ’tisn’t every day that you get to hear such… fast talking and orchestrated whoa-ness. LOL.

During the between-play interval I wandered around campus awhile before finally settling down at -surprise surprise?- Wholefoods. Tried the piano out but determined that my fingers have become too stiff to play (lol). Just can’t manage to play Canon in D properly anymore (or maybe I’m still playing too fast? Hmm.)

‘Neways, after that was The Crucible with Amanda. Fantastic show that had me dropping tears during Act 4 >.< Embarrassing since I was surreptiously wiping away salty liquid from my cheeks all through the last 10 minutes or so of the play….

Hmm that’s about it for today. Other than hunger pangs because of lack of nutrition, that is =P

Battle Royale — not just a killkillkill movie

“This year’s game is said to be more blistering than the last… Oh look, there! There she is! The winner’s a girl! Surviving a fierce battle that raged 2 days, 7 hours and 43 minutes… the winner is a girl! Look, she’s smiling! Smiling! The girl definitely just smiled!” -A reporter at the beginning of Battle Royale (2000); text quoted from IMDb.

*Ahem.*

All rejoice~~!!! After ages of wanting to borrow it, I’ve finally finished watching the movie Battle Royale (thanks Chris for lending it to me!!) by Kinji Fukasaku. However, it is now… 2007… and wow that movie was filmed in… 2000 =.= gah I feel soooo outdated!!! (Read about it here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266308/combined) I can’t be blamed for being ‘slow’ to get the disk, though, coz the film was banned in Malaysia >.>

Overall primary comments on it is that I really enjoyed the film, and not just because it is a Mature-Age gory-seeming movie supposedly full of blood, angst, murder and war. Lol.

…Okay, so I can’t deny that it’s a eerie movie about poor innocent 9th-graders being forced by a sadistic and wrong society (propelled into madness by their terror towards the looming generation) into killing each other off in order to survive, and that there are a lot of flashy, descriptive, blood-splattering killing going on in there, but Battle Royale (Batoru Rowaiaru) is definitely more than another cheap horror flick that thrives on scaring the shit out of people in cold cinemas.

It is deep.

It tells viewers about human nature. About how the world will collapse if logical reasoning is no longer applicable because of the fear of a population towards forces that they can not control. About how the desire to live or to protect can drive people to turn their back upon former beliefs and turn against former friends and close ones. About how the Pandora’s Box is not such a myth as it is, when there are no longer any shackling restraints to hold back all the seven sins (and more). About how despite all odds, there actually is Hope left, and that people are not all baser in nature.

Some may (politely) query why the producers couldn’t present all of these messages in a more user-friendly way. As in, maybe less blood? Less killing of friends? Less depravation? *arches an eyebrow* (Why don’t they just ask Hollywood to stop blowing up cars and shattering glass windows?)

To tell the truth, this film has caught my attention much, much more because through the use of such an extraordinary, gore-filled and distaste-compelling storyline (ie BR), the scriptwriters and brains behind the production still managed to portray the best qualities of men.

I mean, hey the movie packs a great deal of what some people would term ‘gross ickiness’, ‘sick happenings’, and more. It doesn’t really seem to be a very nice, attractive thingamajiggy that crowds would flock to, get touched and inspired, and cry to.

But then again… who’s to say that crowds did not get touched and inspired, and cry to the plot?

Note Sugimura Hiroki, who told his killer to run because others would hear the gunshots and come hunting for her. That scene where Kotohiki Kayoko passionately exclaims that she could never have suspected so because he’d never seemed to notice her is… so damned true =.=” (I actually thought he liked Chigusa Takako–note all those damned flashbacks and that touching ‘Hiroki…Chigusa…you’re the coolest girl I know’ scene in the middle of the movie! Even when he said ‘no’ to her question: ‘It’s not me, right?’ I was still puzzling over what that really meant. ‘No, it’s not you’, or ‘No, it IS you’?? Arghhhh….)

Observe ‘Beat’ Kitano, who used a water gun against the remaining students instead of the real gun that he sported, so that they could all escape together. His actual compassion towards them (or maybe just Nakagawa Noriko) had been evident from when he passed Noriko the umbrella in the rain. Perhaps it was due to the happenings during Noriko’s first appearance? Hmm. He’d obviously already suspected something when Kawada Shougo pretended to turn against Noriko and Nanahara Shuyo, since he’d ordered his men not to go certify the deaths as procedure warranted. The painting was another ‘oooooh’ factor, I guess o.o blah.

See Kawada, who helped Shuyo and Noriko survive up til the end. Nice guy. Though I wonder what his dad actually was o.o” Doctor? Chef? Fisherman? Huh? Make up your mind, kid XD He was pretty good with the weapons, too ^_~ and a very nice, intelligent guy.

And… and… and I’m too lazy to write more on this today. Go watch the movie, you slackers!! After reading all that in my blogpost above, though, please remember that you’ve been warned that this creation contains a lot of disturbing images that might not be aesthetically pleasing to certain viewers’ eyes *coughcoughSerenecoughcough*.

Highly recommended, still. No, make it ultra-highly. (For a teaser, look at some quotes for it!)

After all, it has a few cute girls in it (note: ‘cute’ as in physically attractive) who wear REALLY short skirts, flip over and under tables (falshing off a lot of ruffling cloth), and have great legs.

Kawada is pretty hot to some if you prefer guys, and there’s a cool computer-hacking guy if intellectuals turn you on (I wanted him lol).

And it has a great, sweet, sappy-like ending that will make you coo ‘awwww’.

…Combine all the factors above that I have expanded upon… and… well, what more can you ask for?

Mumbled Irritations, II

*groan* Gah… my favourite pair of casual trousers have just been ruined. The gray ones that I’ve been wearing everywhere. The pair that’s most comfortable to me now that my knee is kinda scraped from that stupid careless fall on Thursday night. Argh… IRRITATED!!! Now I need to either wear rough jeans, which will scrape horribly against my scrapes, or wear the white/black longs that are quite tight a fit and potentially dangerous to the scabs, or the blue elles that are loose-flowing and comfy but are cold in this weather, or a skirt which is impractical with projected rain and cold winds for this week…. Diudiudiudiudiu…*

…I solemnly swear, that I’ll never take-away spaghetti again.

While I’m on the subject, I won’t ever go to Blue Hills Cafe in Boxhill again. It just isn’t worth the *headshake* food or after-memories to do so >.< (though KS’s dinner was pretty tolerable in small 1″x1″ bites, and mine wasn’t totally FAIL grade. But still. Pissar!* Only half a bowl of soup for the price of one? Serene was almost ripped off, man!! Lousy service!!!) It spoilt what had been a lovely day out at the Japan Festival with KS, Serene, Stephie, Nic, Alex, Clara, and Dixon. And my brochures/pamphlets were destroyed. Ding…*

I am so frickin’* irritated by now.

*random swear words >.<

Not even Puffies or cheese sandwiches can placate me tonight >.< so yeah. GAH.

520, I Love You ^^ Best Wishes!!

今天是5月20號啊!! 是520耶!!
祝大家有老公老婆的, 長長久久白頭到老!!
沒有的, 就早日可以跟喜欢的人在一起!!
趕快在這特別的日子向人表白吧!!

在1314秒(21 分鐘)內把這個傳出去給30個人
你就可以獲得一生的幸福~ <3

Meeting my Gippsland partner-in-crime =D

Wow… I finally met my Gippsland friend!!

She’d DL-ed some manga off my account and left a thankyou note on DC… then (many hours later) I opened my window, saw the message, looked at her name and was like, ‘hey wait a minute I KNOW that name….’ ^_~ And so I was up until 3am-ish talking to innocent_angel on DC… btw she’s the other yaoi fangirl from MCAC, the one studying in Gippsland but joined the Clayton anime club anyway just for the heck of it even though she’ll never be able to attend screenings and such =P

Over the hours we… exchanged… a number of… illicit files… under the filename *innocent* (LMAO) and WOOT I got Gravitation Remix + Megamix off her!!! lol now that was… in my words, ‘interesting’, in her words, ‘nasty’. So glad that she’s in MRS too… now we can swap files without worrying about DL-ing costs!!

After showering (and chatting abit more) I started reading some of my unread yaoi manga… and boy was it absorbing XD

Hyper now ^^ going 4am ^^ can’t sleep ^^

Just for Kicks, V

大姐二姐三姐，好想念你們啊！

Remember when we used to sing during breaks in class during final year? Every time I hear this song, I remember your faces and how close we were. Missing you guys dearly and wishing you were here with me…

May 19th. Happy Birthday, Maya!

As the title states ^^ Happy birthday, my dearest 老公!

It’s been a few days more than two years, but we’re still together and still going strong… HOWEVER!!! Let’s ignore the fact that we’re in a perfectly loving relationship at the moment and start about finding you some nice, decent guy who doesn’t double-time us like a certain someone did last year, hmm? *^-^*

Wishing you a great year with life and love; also hoping that you manage to find someone (of the opposite sex) that you can cherish and love for this lifetime! (Chill, I.Can.Share, and I’m not going to 3rd-degree all the guys who are interested in you even though I’m compelled to do so. After all, we both know that we’re too deeply ingrained in each other’s hearts to be separated, ne? <3<3<3 So why bother watching you like a hawk?)

P/S: Yes, I’ll be jealous, but then again… you’re my best friend too ^^ Love you lots, luv!!! Counting down to our 25th-month-together anniversary!

P/S: In retaliation for you not sending me a similar message last year for my birthday, I’m not going to send you a Happy 19th letter. So there! =P Missing you heaps though ^^

Batch 1 of curry chicken done… now for Batch 2!!! =D

“Darn… should have brought Noriko along to carve the chicken up!” –collective moan.

Tonight’s dinner was to be between KS, Han, Nic, me and Serene. Stephie and Kawa couldn’t come because they had work; Sharon didn’t show up because she wanted to finish off other food first. We waited at the lounge until 6pm-ish for all dinner-ers to turn up (sans KS) before progressing on to my place to grab the chicken (10 drumsticks and one whole chicken) as well as two spice packs and some santan + veggies. Adilah had gone shopping earlier on so I had enough curry chicken packs to work with ^^

Nic led the way to KS’s place since he’d overnighted there (as mentioned). I forgot to bring KS’s can of chicken stock with me, though! Whoooooooops. ^^” (Passed some cookies to Han since he hadn’t eaten since waking up @.@”)

Upon arrival… uwaaa KS’s place is neat leh… lolz… he was already peeling and sectioning potatoes, so (eager not to lose to him) we started out defrosting the meat and washing the piled-up dishes at the sink. Once he could, Nic set about chopping up the whole chicken while we got the drumsticks into the pan along with KS’s pack of curry whatchamacallit. Special request by our head chopper was for the curry to not be too spicy since he couldn’t take that kind of food e.e” Oh well… he’s the one carving the chicken, so we might as well… right?

Meanwhile rice was being steamed in the cooker and… Han was providing musical entertainment while… Serene was missing o.o” I do not want to know what she was doing without us… >.> poking through KS’s files, mayhaps? XD

-Random insertions of more meat and/or more other stuff into the curry; eg cummin seeds, curry powder, curry leaves, more cummin seeds, salt, water, etc-

-Extra: called Adilah to tell her that I wasn’t going with them to watch the Crucible since I hadn’t finished with the curry chicken yet >.<” She said, “oh okay… it’s fine… have fun.”-

50 minutes later we were done and sitting down to savour the first batch of curry for the day. Mmmm. Tasted quite alright, but… totally not enough T.T Serene wanted to go back for badminton… Nic wanted to catch the bus… Han wanted to get some sleep… so the three of them left almost immediately after dinner O.O

Ah well.

Thus KS and I proceeded to start on Curry Chicken: Batch 2 with gusto—hey, more food for us, right?

This time we took more than an hour, since we wanted the chicken to be really cooked. Added tons more cummin seeds and curry powder, also some tomato slices (which sweetened the spicy flavour, yikes!) and the extra potatoes/carrots. Sat down for SUPPER… which was amazing. Aaaaaaaaah.

We were left with a bit too much curry, though ^^” Didn’t want to bring any home since the meat wasn’t halal and I didn’t want to tempt Adilah T.T (see what a nice flatmate I am? lol.) Thankfully, KS’s housemates started to appear around this time… =D naturally, we let them have the curry… and trust me, it was so gratifying to watch Frank (the only other undergrad in the house, who incidentally couldn’t take spicy foods) continue digging in even though he was sweating like mad from the curry!! KS’s indian(?) housemate commented that we’d done a good job, and the others all gave positive reviews as well *^-^* All in all, even though we didn’t engorge ourselves on as much curry chicken as we would like to have been able to, the night was most fulfilling~~

Gossiped with the residents about random stuff and procured information about how KS’s house usually looks like XD Apparently the smaller the rooms are, the more messy they are!! (With Jon’s room as an example, I’d expected the opposite =P) LOL and the jokes about the fire extinguisher… the security cameras… the dishes in the sink… ^^ those guys were fun ^^

I hung around at KS’s place until past 11pm since I knew Adilah wouldn’t be back until past 11:30pm and I didn’t have my keys with me (Serene had took them so that she could retrieve her badminton stuff, and then her dad came for her before we were even done cooking the chicken, so I’d asked her to leave the keys on my table top but lock all the doors). Reluctantly returned since I’d been imposing upon them for too long….

KS walked me back and since I had time to kill he considered waiting with me so that I wouldn’t be alone (awwww). To spare him a cold 20 minutes or more, I went to visit 1-1 (Tae’s flat) and to my relief found that there were still people up. Let KS go home, then chatted awhile with the guys until maybe 11:45pm? Had to leave then because Tae was sleepy and I didn’t want to impose on him, lol  ^^”

Luck however was still on my side. As I was dialing Adilah to check where she was, Amanda came up the stairs ^^ Yay, got into my place safely.

Thanks, KS, for letting me use your kitchen… your housemates were very accomodating and I’m glad that our cooking seemed to turn out well! <3<3<3

The next session is on the 18th of June… stay tuned!! lol.

EIL; in on time!!! YAY!!!

Okay so the sleeping arrangements were 5 girls in my room: Noriko, Kawa and Serene dominating the bed, Stephie at the foot, and me next to Stephie in Serene’s sleeping bag (Nic had mine so I had to use Serene’s).

I first woke up at 8+am because Noriko-chan’s alarm clock woke her up, and the diligent young lady actually got up to go to class @.@ The others woke up then too and we sleepily implored Noriko to join us in our lazyness. She declined XD We didn’t bother getting up though; bed, warm covers, and lethargy after a well-spent night were combining to force us down on our backs/sides (whichever counts).

And so we just… randomly… lounged about on the beds/sleeping bag until 20 minutes to 11am, whereby Serene managed to rouse herself to start cooking lunch whereas I busied myself re-establishing my rapport with Dell and starting anew on my poor, neglected Final Essay.

After some more ‘resting’, Kawa went off for a shower first since she had a class at noon. She’d already skipped one class, I think, and this coming one was a 2-hour French tute that she didn’t want to miss. Or wait, maybe that skipped class was Stephie’s o.o Hmm. Confused by now; won’t bother checking XD

Stephie, who was surprisingly energised given that she’d only gone to bed at 5-ish thanks to Dixon and Noriko both, started to rummage through my sparse collection of hard-copy manga. She got really engrossed in the one by Shiumi Saki-san o.o (same mangaka as for Elite-sama Koi Shiyou, the manga I’m supposed to be translating for Lovers-Dream >.<”). I think she quite liked the book =P

Moving on.. Nic called sometime after that, and when he heard that we were making lunch, he informed us that he and KS were coming over (Nic roomed with KS and apparently the two of them started DOTA-ing soon after waking up)!! hehe finally we get a group lunch.

Introduced the girls to ice-cream-on-nutella-on-toast… it’s incredible; anyone who hasn’t tried it must!! (Converted a fair few to this =D)… then we had noodles with fishballs and fishcakes in chicken soup by Serene and KS… followed by Nic washing up (awwwww)… followed by the mass desertion of everyone except me and Serene for class and for the library.

Exhausted-from-lack-of-sleep-after-wild-partying-Serene had a fitful nap while I continued typing… typing… typing…. x.x

Finished my essay at 3+ when Nic called up regarding what time we were meeting later to go to KS’s for dinner… answered him and did more double-checking of my dear essay and started referencing documents/books… went on to collect all the MUISS trays and spreads and sauces before going to uni… deposited everything uncermoniously at the lounge at half-past 4… then went to library to get my references photocopied and my essay printed… got to the Menzies at 4:55pm I think… submitted the essay just on time… WHEW. Now to wait for the results x.x

Next up… dinner post ^^