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

This is soooo good

Drool now

What I was presented with when I got back from driving.

So yummy!

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.

Random food cravings

ice cream

I also miss the bubble tea that we use to get while we were in Taipei.

Winter is here, I think

I think I have a thing for balloons that can float

What it’s like

I called Singapore for the first time since I got to Adelaide today, and my mum was working so she couldn’t talk, called my grandmother’s place and found out that my dad wasn’t around to take my call either. I think my parents have abandoned me!

Anyway, so I spent the past half an hour whining to my grandmother about how the rice here isn’t as fragrant as the Thai rice that we get back in Singapore and how I’m starting to run low on cash to get food and how I don’t get yummy Cantonese-style herbal soups anymore. So she told me to bear with it and she’ll make loads of soup for me when I go back at the end of the year . She also told me that I should learn how to boil them myself, but I don’t think they have the chinese herbs here. And I complained about a whole bunch of other stuff which I can’t remember now.

I need a helmet.

I’ve concluded that if I want to survive till the day I graduate from university, I might need to get myself a helmet. No, wait. I might need a full body armor. The number of cuts and bruises that I’ve gotten ever since I got here is unbelievable, and the numbers are increasing. How have I managed to survive more than a month in Adelaide, I don’t know. It’s amazing. It’s like my parents have sent me to Adelaide, not to study, but for war.

Long random blabbering ahead, click below to continue reading.

First assignment done!

I’ve survived my first uni assignment and I hope that I’ll pass. Hehe.

And I finally have more than AUD$17 in my bank account. THANK GOD. I was going to starve because my food supply was start to run low and would probably just last me a few days more if the money still didn’t come in. Thank God for people like AA and TD and my housemates who’ve been feeding me food as well. Ok fine, TD only gave me ice cream and cookies but it’s still food. And I’ve been having random ice cream cravings recently and have expressed them to AA who’ve also caught on to it. WAHAHA. For the past week or so, I’ve been texting her messages that expressed my need to get ice cream into my system and made her walk all the the way to nearest Mac to get some ice cream. Hehe. Poor AA and TD were victims of my ice cream needs. Can’t help it that I’ve got a sweet tooth!

Anyway, my next assignment is to be due soon, but I’m procrastinating, obviously, since I’m here blogging. And I just cleaned my room today! My study table finally doesn’t have a layer of dust on it. It’s crazy dusty here.

To celebrate the fact that I finally have money to go grocery shopping, AA and I headed out to Central Market yesterday, which is in the city. And we finally got some yummy Japanese food. Did I mention that the portions here are huge?

Just one of the things

Frolick frozen yogurt craving.

yums

Photo credit: Flickr

Wish I could have some now.

Gah.

So, I have carrots, cabbage and potatoes in the fridge and chicken in the freezer. What do you think I can cook with all those to make a decent meal with that? I’ve had so much pasta lately that I should detox all that pasta out of my system.

Something really simple would be good.

Maybe just soup with some rice or noodles?

Hmm…

And the right side of my body is aching from playing badminton yesterday. Need to exercise more.