am back after surviving my midterm =P ok not that it was that bad, but the terrible me didnt do many of the readings still... so when the section on readings came out i had to guess the answers... =P had the luxury of enjoying nice home cooked food the past two nights; on wed nite cooked ;'liu4 wei4 tang1' for dinner cos he happened to buy some herbs and stuff when he went to SF chinatown that morning... the soup really reminded me of mum's soups at home... and also made me ashamed that i didn't 'specialise' in cooking any sort of decent soup... now everyone thinks that when i cook stuff i just make use of all sorts of ready mixes =( so this weekend i shall attempt to cook something original... besides my tofu last week =) and yest nite we had a sumptuous dinner at chin tah's place; cos his parents were leaving for sg and they whipped up many yummy dishes...and i think today we are prob going to zuan yi's place for dinner... .haha quite nice to get free dinner every night!
we watched hao er hao nu yest nite cos chester's mum recorded the serial for him in a dvd and sent it to him... and somehow it feels pretty nice to be able to watch something from home.... and once again i am reminded of the issues confronting many singaporeans, family problems, which though are all so familiar to me, just suddenly really 'take shape' in the show.. hmmm i dunno what i am talking about actually... but i think this serial is a pretty realistic portrayal of families in real life... the ever suspecting and poke-her-nose-into-everyone's-business wife, the independent 'new woman' who has to postpone her family plans to pursue her career, clash in values and beliefs between the older and younger generations.... and the vulnerability of relationships, the ability of even slight mistrust or even slight understanding to just tear apart a relationship. i sometimes really wonder why is it that many a time, we take such a long time to build up relationships with people, but it seriously takes just so little to break it all up. or upset it. i think its mainly because many of us are insecure creatures... well least i think i am quite an insecure creature... but i dun think it's that possible to correct that? haha anyway shiyun and i were still going strong at about 130am while ziyang had already "concussed" on the floor beside us; felt a little guilty... if only my laptop could play dvds too =( shall go back to add a dvd combo drive when i go back in dec..