The Hokkienlang blog is really funny! A cliche topic about student life which would normally sound whiny and typical in English sounds so much better in Hokkien! Ok most people probably know the Hokkienlang blog already but fot those who do not, it is on Links.

Life here is... floating by. As usual my life is full of ups and downs. Last week went to use up the 20 pound Mac voucher with my group and hardly uttered a word. Today during tutorial suddenly talked normally again. Perhaps that was because I did my homework and so was providing answers (again).

Last week was pretty eventful. Like life has picked up pace again. Had 3 CNY dinners in a row, all of which were surprisingly enjoyable. The one on Tue was with my flatmates (3 of us -_-) where we all got a bit overenthusiastic and each cooked about 2 to 3 dishes for 3 people to clear. In the end the amount of leftovers was pretyy unimaginable, all of which I was delegated the responsibility of clearing. After I had done my 1week plus worth of cooking. And done loads of grocery sale-shopping. Now I am all stocked up and ready for WWIII. Ok CHOI.

Surprisingly my bread had lasted me faithfully 1 week plus after expiry. I shall stop buying Bettabuy bread.

SO MUCH FOOD TO CLEAR. BUT! I dun have to cook for weeks! BUT! I cannot go out and eat. Ah, dilemmas.

Not that I eat out alot, but I have been trying a few outside places, which are obviously nicer than the same food I cook everyday. I have now taken to some lame attempts at throwing garlic, ginger, chicken and whatever else is small enough into my rice cooker together with my rice to cook and wishing that something that tastes vaguely different from my usual cooking will emerge. The rice cooker is a wonderful invention. It can cook ANYTHING. Which is why I have also started throwing meat, veggie AND rice into it at one go and voila! My cooking for the week is done, albeit being not very tasty.

Ok back to the topic.

On Wed I went to Peking for the Singsoc dinner, which was nice too! I was pretty lost initially but after that was ok. The food was really not bad. I suspect they make the food over-tasty to suit the ang moh tastes tho. If not for that, the simple dishes like fried veggie had the fire-come-out taste, which is a pleasant surprise. Den we had roast duck, chicken and chao shao (WOW), steamed fish (WOW), fried pork thing, another similar fried pork thing, a beef thing with gravy, lotus root soup, mushroom and cabbage, fried tauhu (weird but not bad), keropok, orange, smt that looks like mini butterfly and tastes like a doughy, sugary biscuit and red bean agar agar (sounds abit duh for dessert but I liked it alot!). There was Lion Dance (abit annoying, to be honest), contortionist and fire crackers (really cool).

On Thu we had a Nixon Court steamboat and the attendance turned out poorer than expected. :P
Good thing XY decided to go for our dinner if not EVEN FEWER PPL. We started off with 6 and I tink there was a point when it was tennish. Den went down to 8, 7, 6 and we ended up with 5. Was ME, XY, QY, Jian (groupmate) and Franklin (her friend), which is a pretty weird combination. Again, surprisingly, it turned out funner than expected despite my nearly setting off the fire alarm. Brilliant me made FONDUE (which has slightly more steps than melting a bar of chocolate over a pan) with banana, apple, strawberry, pocky, doughnuts and spoons to dip into. I realise milk chocolate fondue might actually be nicer than dark. Quite alot of chocolate left so I have been having chocolate spread with my expired bread for the past few days, which is not too bad, and half-boiled eggs before they spoil. Again.
Am about to go for this Vday thing at the dry dock (Boaty Bar) coz u get a free cocktail and drink for 1 pound. Hm that doesn't sound right. No matter. And I haven't been to a pub or bar here before.
Shall stop this entry before it gets too long. Cheeeers maite! Uh. Still can't do it.