Knew it. Still cannot sleep well without my bolster. Had a rather restless sleep last night and woke up at 9.30 only coz Shuang Ning's alarm had rung and we were to set of for the grantchester Orchard at 10 if we were to make it for lunch at least. The Orchard is a quaint little place near the riverside with pretty overhanging trees serving typical English food and more classically, tea/coffee with scones. Well, our main aim for the hour plus walk there was the scones and tea anyway.



So. We walked by the back of the colleges of Cambridge where we could see the river, countryside and cottages. I did not know English houses were traditionally named not numbered. No wonder I have been seeing houses with 'Pendragon' and such on the outside. Walked past a pretty and Enid-Blyton book-ish house wth a wooden sign that read 'The White Cottage' outside its little white picket gate. How English is that? Anyway, pretty houses, pretty fields, pretty river. The walk was over an hour long but it was surprisingly not that tiring. We walked through the fields by the river instead and saw many old people and their happy bounding dogs.



Finally we smelt smoke and saw some brick buildings so it looked like we were headed towards some sort of civilisation. Whoopee-doo.



Bought our scones and tea for 4 (unfortunately not served in a pretty floral porcelain teapot but in the chinese restaurant kind of metal teapot :/) and chose a seat under a tree. It was a big field with a wooden hut which was the cafe and the tables and chairs were scattered throughout the field. They had simple square wooden tables painted green and 4 beach chairs with each table. Sooo 3 of us ordered a fruit scone and 1 person ordered a plain one. No one got the cheese one :(

The scones were MASSIVE and were really nice! Of course, the prices were comparable with its size too. Still. The experience was worth it. We had a selection of tiny potted jams (raspberry strawberry apricot blackberry), tiny potted honey and small disposable container clotted cream to eat the scones with. Of course, had to pay for that too but I liked the pots! So we shared and got the clotted cream, rasp and blackberry jams. The jams were actually nicer than normal jam! I would like to bring Papa Mummy Yiling and Evon to that part of Cambridge 1 day. Fantasised about Snoozy rocketing happily through the fields and being chased by geese too but for obvious reasons that won't be very plausible.

Den went back to change money and found out that the money shown to me in my bank account is not the actual amount? Why? I do not understand. They said certain payments were still being processed but on my internet banking that amount had been deducted and I still had the amount I thought I had left! Why? Hm. Anyway, the point being I couldn't withdraw enough money to convert coz the said I only had 1.25 left in my bank. Shockshock. That is NOT true by the way. I think the branch here just has a different system of counting the money.

However, I do plan to cut down my spending probably by hermitising myself again this Easter and working more den can see the figures go up. Yay I did earn a bit more than I calculated, which is always good. Ah. I must say I do feel rather ashamed of myself tho. Still, I did see this coming seeing as I had been shpping for 4 (La Senza, Pimark...) ALOT. But the things here are really much much cheaper here! How was I to not broadcast it home?

Off to porto tomorrow. Am keen to try port wine (and get some if it is affordable), portugese toasty thing and portugese egg tart. Okok. I should stop showing off. Showing off somehow always ends up with something ad happening for me. Sai.

Haha I said I would blog about this.. Friday night. Last day of term. Archana, Qy and I decided to go to the union. Qy came back all the way from Northampton just to get drunk! Hoho. Me I had heard from Xy a few days ago that archie had planned to go so I hopped on board coz I had been wanting to go but the people I usually hang out with do not go clubbing (minus xy and paula who work there). Wanted to find someone as new as me plus someone somewhat experienced yet won't make me feel toot to go with so that was the prefect chance to finally go.

Did not expect the queue to be sooo freaking long. Was about half the length of the $6million Toto queue when we arrived at 10.10p.m. Which is never the case and the bar opens at 10 anyway. They had sold out of the cheap advance tix too! Which is never the case. Hai. Advance tix lets you saunter in like a VIP while glancng carelessly at the poor pathetic people queueing outside in the cold.

So we finally got in, got our 3D glasses (which were useless) and I got a bit intimidated by the expressionless bouncers. The floor was already sticky and it was reasonably crowded despite it still being early. Drank quite a considerable amount. Dun like any of the coke mixes. Bleargh.

Kim and Vicky came, said well done for coming (that is what I heard over the likr, ultrasonic music) and took a picture with me (for evidence? being friendly?) which I did not look very nice in.

Took quite a few photos with archie and qy tho. I look nicer in a few of those :D

Did some head bopping and leg jiggling so archie won't be dancing alone. Learnt some things off her too. Made qy go onto the dancefloor too. I felt stupid dancing, obviously but the drinks and the loud noises people were dancing to covered the voices in my brain so I could not hear my brain very well. Actually, I just could not hear very well. Anyway I thought since we were there might as well do it properly. Wanted to wear nicer too. Haiya. Next time next time.

Drinking so many mixtures of drinks was not a good idea and we all knew that but we wanted to try as many as possible lah. Heh. I know I have mentioned this any times, but I love apple sourz! I still prefer drinking shots in 2 gulps instead of 1 tho. Maybe I just have a smaller oesohagus. Ah. So cool to have friends working at the bar. Alamak! Can only enjoy the provileges until end of next year! Ehhh

Yup so left the place a bit woozy (at least I was and I admitted it so it means I was still sober) and very deaf. To be honest.. it was a bit hard to walk in a straight line. Was left deaf for half an hour so tink the 3 of us were talking rather loudly. It is not because we were drunk! It was the music! Well I say music, I really mean noise.

Good thing qy walked back with me. I was bloated to puking and was kinda sick of the alcohol taste. But we thought it would be a good idea to have a kebab after that. Kinda to absorb the alcohol? So yay finally tried the AJs outside opal court! Mmm. Fresh hot kebab with extra sour chilli on the fries P:

We den settled down for a super dramatic jap hospital drama but I was too woozy to read the fan3 ti3 zi4 fast enough so I just nodded and chipped in random comments like 'Oh so that is the bad guy right' and 'Haha this doctor very cute' and 'Mm. The chilli quite nice' and 'Ha so drama' to sound like I knew what was going on. And for once I couldn't finish my food. Well, 2nd time actually. 1st time was the szechuan huoguo where the pot took so freakin long to boil that I just kept eating rice while waiting and felt like vomiting at the end of the meal again. Not very smart I know. Ah well I was full to puking to begin with but I happened to think it was a good idea to eat opal AJs. It was still very nice (and unhealthy) nevertheless. So I threw down my fork and surrendered and stumbled to bed with my hugely distended tummy :( Not very wise seeing as I still had a Primark appointment with Paula the next day.

Woke up bright and early and lai4 chuang2 til 9.30a.m. and although 3 people asked me if I was hungover, I am proud to say I was not. At least my brain felt ok. My digestive system was not agreeing with me however and I spent the morning releasing loose watery stools. From the general feeling of my gut, however, I conclude that most of that was credited to the chilli from the kebab and less to drinking. Hai. Seems my body cannot tolerate hot food! Everytime I take hot food have been getting stomachache the next morn. Shit lah (no pun intended). But I still take :D Worth it lah.

Mm den spent the day happily in Primark trying on clothes with my bloated tummy :(
Bought many nice pretty clothes and spent more :(
But no fear! I checked my bank account and found that I earned a bit more than I thought from work! (:

Daylight returning so slept 1h later coz had to turn the clock forward. Which means I ended sleeping at 3 plus instead. After which I slept for 4h upon reaching cambs and now here I am sleeping late again.

I know.. It sounds pathetic to get so stressed about computers but that is one of the things that I am really stupid at. Another is directions. People will go 'Ha? I cannot believe you are really that bad at it haha!'

Ok well they don't. But really, I have amazed a fair few people with my lousiness at these things. Just the other day I admitted to the friend I was cycling to training with that I don't like cycling and that I'd honestly rather run. You'd think people will be more sympathetic and say 'no lah! you are not that bad at cycling wad!' but no. People have graciously accepted that I am not a very good cyclist too. Ah. It's true tho. I have no stamina for these things. Looking at computers makes me extremely tired. I just don't like technology.

Eeks. My computer has a mind of its own. Hm. Not very smart of me to be blogging bad things about my computer (t.G.c) using my computer. Speaking of being not very smart, it all started with me doing some not very smart things with tgc.

Tried to download Inkheart online. Again. Why 'again'? you ask. Coz that was the first downfall of my computer this year. Attempted to find Inkheart online --> Kena virus --> Beyond help --> No choice gotta reformat --> Hell. This time, same thing, same movie, same situation all over again. I am The Computer Spoiler I am.

Back to my main musing, I really do think my laptop is alive. It can sense my fear and unfamiliarity with IT and it. Even after reformatting, bloody virus was still hanging around! Why? Why? I really dislike technology. Everything I touch gets screwed up somehow. Papa understands. He thinks he is like that too. Anyway, got super stressed over my laptop again coz even after reformatting everything kept going wrong. Every programme/software I reinstalled/upgraded... It was like a curse. Finally with 20min to spare before I had to go off to school (yes I spent the whole morning and woke up early for this too. how sad am i?) I cried out in frustration and reformatted it. Again. But not before I admitted defeat and finally smsed Paula to tell her that I may need her help saving tgc again. And then, miraculously, everything started going ok! Tgc KNEW I had complained to Paula. I am sure of it.

The last time when everything went wrong when I reformatted it I remember stressing over it for the whole day and finally asking Paula for help again. The moment she sat with me to handle the installations and things (I still did it myself she just sat there to monitor) everything went fine! Erk. 邪。。。

Made heh bi hiam springroll yesterday! Hence the colour. This is the closest colour I can find to the golden brown of my heh bi hiam rolls. Mm mmm. Turned out ok too. Not as hiam as I would like them to be and rather too salty (should I have added a bit of sugar?). The ones at the bottom of the container are coz that's where all the chillies are. The chillies did not get mixed in very wel while I was frying them. Anyway, I HAND-CRUSHED Xinyi's heh bi coz we didn't have any suitable apparatus to do so. Not very smart I know, but I was determined to make the rolls. Hee hee. I am bigheaded with success. Just shows how often I cook properly. Yes. Never.

I found a recipe for molten chocolate cake which actually looks quite promising. At least, it looks easy. I doubt the cake will stand tho coz it does seem more liquid than solid. Ah but who cares? Will just eat it from the container :D

Watched xiao yuan superstar and totally think Ai Jia should win man. In all fairness, I think the judges are clouded by their impression of Jia Min. Who is good, but so normal.

Broke my bruising record. I now have a new bruise on my arm measuring 8cm by 6cm.

Yupp so that's my update till now (:

I blog best when I am at home. And now I am in the library. But oh well.

Been suffering from bouts of insomnia and high-ness followed by fatigue. My other symptoms include reduced concentration and staring off into space. The diagnosis: homesickness. Hm. Should invent a cooler name for it. Homeaemia. Homerrhoea. Familitis.

This year homesick syndrome seems pretty bad. Keep spacing off and emo-ing and finding myself fantasising about what I am going to do and what I am going to eat when I go home. Yesterday after a sluggish me had a valiant attempt in the library I dragged myself home and fell asleep at 7p.m. Then I woke up (properly feeling high and all) thinking that if it was still 10 or 11 o'clock I would start studying since I was so awake. Unfortunatley it was 12 and so it made no sense to start at that time and end at what, 4? So I thought to myself that it was probably more logical to go back to sleep and wake up at 3 or 4 like last year and start then. Surprise surprise. I couldn't go back to sleep. I tossed and turned and almost fell asleep a few times but my body has this irritating mechanism of catching myself whenever I am about to doze off and say 'eh. wat u doing' In the end I think I probabaly fell asleep at 2 or 3 smt. No chance of waking up at 3 or 4 in the morning after that.

I was kept awake thinking of what I was going to do when I went back to Singapore. This was the feeling I was having during the last few days of last year just before I was due to fly home. The feeling of 'haiya going home already. nv sleep oso nvm' Ahhhhh. Cannot believe I still have another bout of revision to go through and clear the next round of exams before I can truly be entitled to such fantasies again. Oh man. Another 3 months to go.

X-fly has passed on.

Found him in my kitchen sink all drowned and soggy. He looked smaller than I remembered him too.