International Day was celebrated today in Loughborough. :-) Unfortunately for the Bruneians, we didn't have a Brunei booth because we didn't organize one due to lack of response and responisbility and not to mention laziness. SO. Since I am the treasurer for the Malaysian Society (don't ask me how I wound up there), I helped man (or woman) the stalls.. the Student Union was packed with people from all over the world, familiar faces EVERYWHERE so it was really cool.

I tried my best to explain what a ketupat was, with the peanut and chilli sauce.. and the cekodok, which to me is really cucur pusu (anchovie fritters???!!) and cucur pisang (i.e banana fritters). The kueh koci, pinapple tarts, etcra.. lol people coming up to me and saying, "I wanna take the photo with the Malaysian girl". The guys just laughed because they knew what my nationality was and I had to gently break it to some people that I really wasn't Malaysian, just Malay :-P I tried on one of the outfits the Malaysia Tourism board gave us, and people were going, "This is an example of what a datin looks like in Malaysia". See photos below.

One of them and I made a finger promise to wear our national costumes today, which we did. I wore my blue baju kurung, will post photos of that once I get it off one of the guys who took streams and streams of photos of us. This guy who sat behind me drew a map of the world and tried to get me to explain to him where Brunei was. Funny chap. I remember last term people thought I had a huge crush on him, which I didn't. I just found it remotely embarrassing that whenever he talks or looks at me, they gave me nudges. Like Ew.

Since this blog is really actually about me, I'm going to talk more about me. Today was sufficiently nice. I managed to get through the whole day ignoring the boyfriend, didn't exactly work because I ended up ringing him anyway adding to my already vast phone bill. I ate two bananas, which I didn't enjoy because they weren't ripe yet and I am almost finishing my supply of chocolate M&S sandwiches. I have football in an hour with the guys, but I don't know if I'll go yet because I don't feel like walking there alone. I visited the Japanese stall with Ko Kev, and he drank like two cups of sake in front of me :-\ and Gav drank it like a mad man who's gone without alcohol for a long time. Heh. I didn't drink any, promise :-) but I did get my name written in Japanese which is ultra cool.



I wore make up today, got called girly for the first time in eonks and managed to snag lots of comments on my "bright" and colourful dress :-) I even talked to the Mayor of Lboro and his wife (HOW COOL IS THAT? They wore gold necklaces and everything! The necklaces were huuugee *blinngg*) about the Malaysian food that was served at our stall. He asked about the Wau, which was the traditional kite. woo.

Anyway, I'm off to have a quick dinner and clean up my room. I'm sleeping in late tonight because I have no classes tomorrow morning!!! I'll post up the other photos tomorrow. xx

plugs: Jo, Adeline :-)