Settling down really well. :)
Had a big celebration for Eleena's birthday yesterday - seniors and juniors came, we whipped up beef rendang, kungpo chicken (fantastic!), curry and vegetables. It was pretty much enough for all, and we had a chocolate cake at the end to top it up. It was a fluke - I bought the wrong kind of sugar and the chocolate was more bitter than Hershey's cocoa powder... was totally expecting it to go wrong and even as we cut the cake, I was cringing and told my friends I didn't feel like eating the cake. "But that's a sign of no confidence!" Yes, I was totally ill at confidence... oh but praise God! When everyone tried it and said it was good I tried a small little chunk and was amazed to find the taste so totally different from what it was at my own kitchen! Cui and Ailin were with me when I was mixing/baking and they tasted the batter and fudge too. It didn't seem very nice to them... I thought it was utterly horrible too. but when it was served in Eleena's kitchen, somehow God changed the way it tasted? Haha. There were great reviews of it! Argh and it's definitely not my own doing 'cuz the cake truly sucked! Today's verse in Zechariah 3 - "Not by power nor by might, but by my Spirit" Hahahallelujah :D
Yeah then we all crammed into Jiamin's room to play a bonus edition of charades (courtesy of Lin) and polar bear, which was really fun. It's a different experience playing with different people, and it's so much psychology and politics within the group! Was playing with Ningsi, Emily, Evan, Jason, JM, Ailin and Cui. There was so much speculation and double-triple-? reverse psychology, 'twas fantastic to see our minds getting twisted by the whole thing.
Yeah. Had my first seminar... and it's a load of work. Tonnes of it, sigh. Just spent 80 pounds and more on my course books, which is crazy. The tutors are doing really weird books that other seminar groups aren't doing, and a few of them are out of print so I had to get them 2nd hand and each at about 20-30 pounds. Oh well... must be content with my lot ya? :) But yeah. It's going to be a stressful term...
Even my seminar mates don't seem as warm as the ones I used to get. Wonder if it's just blues of the fresher's week. But I think that was the first time I felt such intense scrutiny just because I'm a Chinese doing English Lit. Well then! I'm glad God looks at my heart and not my appearance...
Yeah I still get moments when I miss home and the people there. But yeah I think 2nd year will fly by really fast... guess it won't be long before I'm back home in July again.
ah well. Back to James Joyce.
