Monday, September 10, 2007

Updates...

Saturday

We had a gathering with the student mentor group on Saturday, and it was supposed to be a BBQ session, but it became a dine-in session because of a not-so-good weather. Actually it was only very windy, but the student mentors said it'll be hard to start a fire... so... yeah. And we have one very interesting mentor, because she eats meat but NOT those from animals that have 4 legs! So basically she eats only chicken and fishes. No ham, no beef etc... And we also bugged them to teach us to make Swedish chocolate balls... yummy...

*nicely packed vegetables*

*trolley for kids*

*check out my new light-sabre*

*kai and huimin*

*student mentors - karin behind martin*

*one choco ball made*

*huimin, mylene, benedict*

*me & kai*

*posing with the meat*

*us with student mentors (sophia, martin, karin)*

After the gathering, we went to pluck fruits, basically just apples and pears, at a nearby area... Seems like everyone just comes and get fruits for free lah, so we aren't the only ones.

*check out the apple thief*

*our reward*

And in the evening, we prepared a feast for guests that we have invited. We had 2 from Hong Kong, and 2 from Japan. We prepared 肉骨茶 (bat kut teh) for dinner, and made apple crumble for dessert. FYI, the apples in the apple crumble are from our "loot"!

*apples*

*a total mess while making apple crumble*

*dinner*

*dessert*

*all of us*

Sunday

I went to purchase some tickets today! We're heading for Norway on Thursday. Yups... don't care about school work for now since everyone says not to care - even my dad says so -_-". Yups, and on the way there was this huge procession going on. It was for the battle, or an annual competition, that will take place in the afternoon among the different departments under what is known as Lunds Tekniska Högskola (LTH for short) - I guess it's some kind of engineering faculty.






And once again, we made apple crumble today. And on top of that, we made our own version of the Swedish chocolate balls. Changed some of the ingredients used and let the Swedish students in the dorm try and they love it! Singaporeans can make wonders too haha...

*the crumble is damn hard to make... do until sian*

*preparing the apples*

*don't they look yummy?*

*finger lickin' good*

*ready to serve*

*dinner*

*power dinner - full of carbohydrates*

*time for the dessert!*

Monday

It's a rainy day today... It rained from early in the morning till hours after my lessons ended... Okay basically, it rained the whole of the day until about 2pm, and I had to take the bus to and fro school. Oh, and check this out... something fell on the glass panel at the bus stop the night before.

*hope nobody got hurt*

I also went to IKEA in Malmö. It was a free trip organised by IKEA for students and we had a free meatball meal there as well! IKEA Malmö is 1 of 17 IKEA outlets in Sweden and it is the 3rd largest in Sweden. I didn't buy anything there because my own room here is basically an IKEA Showroom itself, with almost every single utensil and furniture from IKEA. So well-furnished already. I practically just went for the free meatball meal.

*IKEA*

*Entering IKEA*

*I like this one*

*And these ones*

*don't you all find this familiar??? HAHA*

*hungry...*

*the most impt thing for this trip!*

*for the free meal of cos!*

*yumz*

And when I got back from Malmö, it was time to head for dinner, and today we were invited by our fellow Thai exchange students for dinner. They prepared some Tom Yam dishes which were super duper yummy and I'm gonna learn how to make that Tom Yam soup thingy man... and on the other hand, we prepared super duper spicy chicken curry and maggi goreng haha. Didn't know initially, but 3 other Europeans joined us! And I'm so surprised they can take the spiciness so well... They looked so worried at first that they might not be able to take it haha.

*what a spread*

*us*

Yups, I guess that's all for now. Looking forward to the Norway trip, and also to the Pot Luck dinner with the student mentor group the week after!

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