hello again! it's been a rather interesting few weeks and there were loads squashed into the space of a few days. seriously i think i'm doing much more than i've ever done in my life in one day when i'm in cambridge, also cos i'm surviving on 5 hours of sleep on average every night. me and my secret weapon: coffee! :)
several major happenings since i last came here:
1. MAHJONG! wahh our mahjong set finally arrived in the post. meng and i got duped into thinking it's the normal sized one, and it turned out as a little parcel that fit into his pigeon hole! oh well. we love it all the same. it's with me atm, heh cos somebody went to france to ski, leaving me and my mahjong set here in cambridge.
so do i listen to his plea to wait till he comes back to play? no, of course not. it's been rather well-used already woo :)
2. THE GREAT CAMBRIDGE ESCAPADE! from london.
oooh xiufang, whui, caroline, laura and cheryl descended upon cambridge for a whole weekend last week. i'm still feeling the withdrawl symptoms, which clearly shows how much fun that was. even though we didn't get much time to study for steeplechase after. but it all works out perfectly since i still managed to pass. don't know how though..
we did all sorts of touristy things that weekend, made me realise how lucky i am to be actually studying here. it's just too good for words. hmm it's weekends like this that kinda refreshes your perspective of studying at a top-notch university.
went for the customary formal at pembroke (where else?), punting, just having loads of fun. :)
3. SNOWWWW!!
ahhh pretty pretty snow, and proper snow at that! snowed from morning till the afternoon. and the snow actually remained on the ground till the next day! ahh nic and i went around cambridge early in the morning before lectures just to take pictures of postcard-worthy scenes.
view from outside my window when i woke up and opened my curtains to this vast blanket of snowww.. heavenly.
our secret garden unveiled by some magnificent photography (in my opinion haha) it seems so untouched, yet so mysterious. i love this shot. it's my backgroud atm.
nic and i trying our best to catch some snow. to the amusement of pple standing nearby. background's king's college.
and u can't have a series of snapshots of cambridge without a picture of the river cam. this is the view from the tit hall bridge. the snow just makes everything look so picture-perfect!
4. CNY CELEBRATIONS!
it's chu yi today! and we had our own little reunion dinner at queens' the night before. haha cooked up a storm i tell u! so many dishes yet we managed to finish them all! for the rest of the night: drinking games + karaoke = tons of fun and laughter! haha. it was one of the better cookouts/gatherings i've been to so far woooo. poor ian was hugging everybody at the end of the night and had to be escorted back to his room sans spectacles! which i hope has been found and returned to him.
looks like we didn't leave home at all eh?
look at all the fooooood! took us like 2 hours to cook everything but it was worth every single minute! ahh the claypot rice was like better than original! and my ha cheong gai! yummm. lady's fingers, lamb curry!
and finally, the people that made it all work! :) xxx
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