Thursday, November 19, 2009
After 24 years of having prawns appear before her on a plate with their shells magically missing, the Ojousama has finally learnt how to deshell prawns on her own.
Thanks to Kevin's instruction today, I now can remove the shells of prawns (rather clumsily) with a fork and knife. Hooray! I've added another life-skill to the list of "Things You Must Know If You Want To Do Your PhD Overseas and Come Back Again In One Piece". Now I just need to learn how to cook more than 5 dishes, how to peel off the skin of fruits with a knife, how to wash my clothes, how to iron my clothes, how to do grocery shopping, how to clean the toilet etc etc etc...
kaoru said at 7:58 AM
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Wan Ching's right: I haven't posted anything on this blog since July! O___o
This is probably Facebook's fault. Who wants to write/read long passages of prose when you can just speed through one-line updates and mindless memes? Especially if your line of work involves reading and writing long passages of prose everyday.
Anyway, just to give a short update on what has been going on in my life so far. I handed in my ISM to Dr Y yesterday afternoon and then went out to Northpoint for dinner with Wan Ching and Priscilla. Gurpreet was supposed to join us but she had a bad migraine...
It was fun to be able to meet and talk to one another after such a long absence. I hadn't spoken to Wan Ching since the semester began, and although I had met Priscilla in the Cultural Studies seminar last semester, we didn't really get a chance to talk.
Hmm, not much else to say except that I'm taking a short self-given holiday to recuperate (not that I worked extremely hard in the past few weeks, hah) before I begin work on the journal article. Welcome to my boring life.
On a completely irrelevant sidenote, I now find Swensens' ice cream too sweet for my liking and that the crowds on the South-bound train from Jurong East in the evenings are scary.
kaoru said at 9:55 PM
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