Surviving Uni 101

Now that summer holidays are edging closer, and we’re all heading home soon, we’re all trying to finish off our food to minimise wastage. Best way to do it? Invite your friends over for dinner or lunch or whatever meal you can think of.

It was lunch at TT’s place, then AA made dinner and we all had it at my place. Before that happened, I went running around pooling ingredients from TT and AA, so that Hills could make us chocolate chip cookies and lemon bars. SO YUMMY! Such things can only be done if everyone stays on-campus, or if everyone stays really, really close to each other. Or if you and your neighbours are pretty good friends. I mean sometimes we’re like, ‘We’re out of eggs, I’ll go ask if AA has some to spare‘ and then I’ll run up to her place to grab some eggs for whatever we were making. Like how I went up to her place 3 times today to get eggs, flour and sugar because we kept finding out we were lacking ingredients for the cookies and lemon bars whilst mixing everything together.

It’s always fun to share food.

But they made fun of my microwave rice cooker

SQUID~

Adelaide can be a little Zzzzz… at times, and doing assignments for long hours makes you just wanna sit and stare and do nothing. Okay, I’ve been told that I tend to space out a lot, but that’s not the point. Anyway, recently I just picked up fishing and whenever the weather’s good, we’ll head out to Brighton to catch some squid. Yesterday was the most eventful fishing trip. We caught 6 squids in total! Together with 2 squids from a previous catch, we had 8 squids for dinner last night. Haha.

Second Valley

Royal Adelaide Show

I have yummy apple and guava juice

Lots of people were talking about it. So AA and I decided that we would go and check it out. We spent the whole day on our feet walking around the show grounds checking out the rides and many various the stalls selling all sorts of things. We ventured from the stalls selling fruits, plants and what not, to the hall that had stalls selling show bags. They had tents up for food tasting, animal petting, goat shows, pig racing, cowing milking etc. The cows were taller than I am and I was pointing to the cows while telling AA ‘That’s the milk you’ve bought’ since Pura was demonstrating how they get their milk. She winced a little, hahaha.

The four of us made it back home with sore legs because we were walking so much. I slept really well that night, I was so tired at the end of the day. And, and, and… we’re going to attempt to fly the kite that we got at the show… one day. Haha. Not sure when that day will come though.

Hee.

(:

Thank you. I had an awesome time today.

:D

Pity we didn’t get any crabs, maybe next time.

I need…

Paper fasteners or treasury tags. I wished they had a wider variety of stationary here. People here need to see how Popular bookstore is like. And Popular isn’t even a shop that specialises in stationary, and their stationary collection would probably beat the collection of stationary they have here at their news agent, hands down.

Yes, I have a thing for stationary shopping.

And yes, I’m attempting to file my lecture notes and stuff in a bid to be ‘neat and organised‘.

The second semester has begun!

Orientation week just went by like that, and the first week of classes just ended. It was a busy a week for me and I’m exhausted.

The glasses scream NERD

Here’s a picture of me in nerdy glasses so that you’ll think that I’ve been a really diligent student (which I really am, honest!).

Now, I’ve got to go find myself some food.

South Australia, heaps good

JT and her Ant friend came to visit! It’s heaps exciting as they came armed with Krispy Kreme donuts as well as stuff from Singapore that I got my parents to pass to JT.

Yummy stuff (I meant the donuts)

Frustration is moving out

MCS is moving out! WOOHOO! And he mentioned that someone new is moving in to replace him. I hope the new housemate is a better one. I wonder who it is. Exciting stuff!

Yums

Hills and I made dinner together last night. I made baked chicken, and she made garlic mashed potatoes and veggies. It was yummy. Like, proper food at long last! I didn’t bother to cook much during the exams. Heh.

Oh, oh. And I managed to make the breast meat taste not dry. Which is the reason why I prefer the chicken thigh. Hee.

Dinner

Hills baked a carrot cake too. And it tastes awesome, I absolutely love the icing the most. Can’t wait for her to make those lemon slices again too. Yummy.

Time to catch up on all that sleep I’ve missed out on

Exams are over!

I was so excited last night that today’s the last day of exams for me, I couldn’t concentrate on studying! I was so happy. It may be only three papers, but the stress levels were as though I was back doing my IB again. I felt so scared and unprepared. Now, I’m just hoping that I’ll do okay and hopefully pass everything. Eeks.

So, now I have the time to get a life again! YAY! Updates!

Received a parcel from the parents! It took so long to get to me. Mail here takes forever to get to me. Sigh. But to get a parcel is so exciting! I love receiving parcels. So if you’re free and have nothing better to do, send me a parcel! Or even mail like a postcard would make my day!

Parcel from Singapore!