its 1.40am [friday now] london time and i shouldnt be blogging..HAHA..

my day [thats thursday] went superb! had a lecture, after the lecture i had lunch at melissa's place, which conveniently is where my lecture is..by the time i reached her kitchen, the cooking was like 99% done, all i did was help served the rice, its chicken rice! smells really good and i brought the black soya sauce i bought at chinatown.. photos will be up as soon as i put my mind to save them and upload them :)

after lunch me and ives went to borough market, while melissa decided to go with guoyuan to the bank..apparently they had alot of problems with banks, banks reject their applications for opening of bank acc, i have NO IDEA why..while mine was done super super fast, with the bank draft cleared within afew days..i'm glad.. i went to borough market and i bought nuts [AGAIN] and turkish delights! oh the turkish delights are superb u noe..i love the lemon flavoured, the chocolate covered and the pistachio covered ones.. i was supposed to meet raquel at borough, but she left her hp on silent non vibrating mode, so even when there's calls or messages she wasnt notified -___-" then i got a bag of 2.5kg of potatoes at 1pound, super cheap la..but carrying them was making me teary..haha..

ives helped me carry those potatoes from the sainsbury to the auditorium where we listened to a seminar given by a professor from NUS..what a joke..hahaha..we dont go to seminars in NUS which were given by professors from overseas, and when we are overseas, we decided to go to a seminar given by a NUS professor..so he was talking about singapore and NUS and i was so amused..a very very good professor..he was talking about antioxidants, free radicals and the link to ageing..a very interesting titbits to share: dark soy sauce has amazingly large amount of antioxidants, consumption of dark soy sauce decrease the amount of free radicals in our body within 3hrs..amazing right? it has like afew times that of the antioxidants in red wine and its a way to find out which dark soy sauce is real, and which is fake [dark due to black food colouring]..just by using the amount of antioxidants in it, we can find out if its real fermented dark soy sauce..hahaha..

then i lug back those potatoes, knocked on raquel's door so as to make her feel that wee bit guilty for not accompanying me to get the potatoes..HAHAHA..and we started preparation for the japanese curry that we planned for dinner..i got back earlier than 6pm, but tobias could only reached back at 8.30pm, so we took our own sweet time to cook dinner..like seriously own sweet time..raquel taught me how to skin potatoes and carrots and how to cut them [i know, i'm super lousy..i dunno how to skin using that peeler or cut using a knife] the potatoes and carrots were really hard, so i tried to poke it through then cut and raquel was like: "NO, u do not stab it, its not meat! dont stab stab stab it..CUT it!!" and there u go, my first culinary lesson from raquel, and she says it wont be the last! i'm glad :D finally dinner was done, tobias was back with a bottle of wine from sainsbury..so i had jap curry, with rice and with a 1/4 cup of wine? haha.. at the end of dinner, i have drank like 2-3 small mouthfuls of wine and i was feeling far too warm already -___-" then i brought out the turkish delights i bought earlier, and we polished those off..they were like "its good!!" hahaha..and i drank a wee bit more wine, and helped to clean up..anyway by then, my head was slightly spinning and i was feeling sleepy -__- should wine have that effect on ppl?!

then raquel and i watched a movie "the kingdom" on her laptop, its GREAT..seriously..and i was trying not to think about my spinning head..hahaha..by the end of the movie, my head isnt spinning anymore! yay..then we played our nintendo ds, dueling each other in taiko [the drum game] and bomberman..HAHAHA..we had so much fun la..

summary of today: i ate good food - great singapore flavoured chicken rice and great curry [no thanks to sok ee and much thanks to raquel], i had lotsa entertainment..

friday's plan: wake up at 7.45am [that means i will only have a maximum of 5hrs slp], watch federer's semifinals of australia open, then roam west hampstead with guo yuan, then meet raquel at oxford circus and we will have a girly evening out with lotsa window shopping [i think its window shopping cuz i hope i wouldnt be tempted to spend]..

ok i think i will pour away that 1/8th cup of wine away..goodnight everybody!