Fol and I are staying in Loughborough til the weekend, but we don't really know where we're spending Christmas and Boxing day. We're stuck. I want us to rent a car and drive down to London and spend time together. All he's been doing lately is cooking these honest-to-god delicious dishes that either I've never tried before or the food that I miss from back home. One thing I'm still waiting for is daging masak kicap. It's a simple dish I know, but I enjoy the idea of someone cooking it for me more compared to cooking for myself. :-) My housemates are out of the house, one will be returning later while another is probably still in London and the one I miss most is in Milan with her bestfriends.

I'm bumming around in the living/kitchen right now. If you really think about it (but you shouldn't....), the living room in my house is actually the dining area and my bedroom is actually the living room so it means this house is actually a two bedroom house with a small box room. But anyway, don't think about it if you've been here.. it's actually a nice cozy house. I'm not staying here during summer because if I do then I'd have to pay the full rent.. and I can't afford it because I could use the extra money to pay the rest of my rent for the year. Soo, during summer I suppose I'd either stay in London or go back home before the 1st of July and come back by September because that's when the full rent will start kicking in. Babe's sitting across me (and I bet he's blogging too) and the room is filled with rich food smells from his cooking. I think he's making roast chicken for dinner. Yum :-) I'm lucky, very very lucky. lol

The Loughborough Bruneians and I were in London over the weekend for the BSU Winter Games. We sent two teams, Lufbru A and Lufbru B. Unfortunately, team B didn't do very well but they were there for fun and I'm glad they did. The A team did pretty well but unfortunately they didn't make it into the quarter finals. I had fun with the guys and watching them play, I dragged Mustanir along with us to London and we ended up at Bayswater getting a Taza kebab each.

It's only 5 o'clock and it's already dark out. My studying hasn't made much progress so I think I bettter get started soon!

love,
yas.
xx

ps. no photos today! I didn't take very much :-(

Make that two lectures due to lots of cancelling. I saw the pair of boots I wanted, it's been marked down from £140 to £109. Though, I don't know if I want it so much any more. Fol and I were looking at them and he went all "are you suure these are the boots you wanted and not those funky coloured ones?" He was convinced that the boots I wanted were these colourful patch like boots by Timberland. Yes, those are nice too, but I can only afford to buy one pair and I'm still struggling with money right now. I've manage to put money aside for my trip to Milan and my rent money. I wish they'd take it out sooner instead of the day before Christmas, by then I'd probably be tempted to take it out and use it and spend spend spend. Damn you holidays, you make me want to shopuntil my hands drop. Growl.

I made Salmon during lunch for my housemates and I, and for some weird reason they decided to eat it with bread instead of cooking some rice..hehe Malas wah, but whatever, I think they enjoyed it, and then spent about half an hour trying to call a cab. Every taxi in Loughborough was busy from 3pm to 3:45pm, and I have no idea why. I mean, literately EVERY taxi. So I missed the train I intended to go on and went on a later train.

Christmas isn't far off. Am I excited? Yes because I'm exchanging presents with Souri this year and I'm determined to find her something pretty and useless because we were on a topic about how people always (and usually) buy others sensible gifts like the odd kicthen set or another bath towel, etcetra. I'm not even sure where Fol and I are spending Christmas since there are no train available on the day and the next, but I have a feeling we won't be spending it in Loughborough. He'd probably die of boredom. Haha!

Hao and I sitting on Yusri's lap, Syer and Fol

Mustanir paid the house a visit the other night, and that was nice of him considering he hasn't been spending much time with me. He stayed and watched Will and Grace with me and then drove me and Syer to tesco. That was the second night in a row that we went there. LOL but the night before we took a detour to McDonalds and had a late dinner. Masnur's last exam is today, she's probably going to be jumping up and down with joy once it's all over. lol.

My plans over this "vacation" is to study my ass off for subjects like Intermediate Financial Accounting, Probability theory and Managerial Economics. Those are the three out of five subjects I'm most worried about. So studying sessions must start on the first day of next week, but for now, I'm going to enjoy my early break and go Christmas shopping.

Love,
Yasmin.
xxoxoxxx
ps. POOP PEOPLE! start commenting :-P haiiyah

Yawn. It's 1130 at night, I've been to only one lecture this week.. and that was about a 'taste' of one of the third year modules, and tomorrow morning at 9am will be a continuation of it. I've written out most of my Christmas cards and I can't wait for the holidays to start so I can catch up on some sleep, regain my energy and actually try to make sense of all the things I've learnt from my modules during the 11-week duration that university life had taken over. I've been too busy to e-mail/IM/call any of my best friends, who at one point will eventually drop ME an e-mail to remind me that they are STILL my best friends, no matter what. I feel really really guilty about it, but not guilty enough to find time to sit down and write. They know by now that I won't be coming back for the December holidays and spend their summer holidays with them.. but the only worst thing I can think of is the idea of missing out on the things they're doing there, while I'm here. Boo.

Yas, Yus, Syer and Sek Hao on my lap. lol

Over the weekend, a group of friends and I (a group of 40+ is more like it) went to Cadbury world in Birmingham. On the same day, I managed to get my chocolate fix to last me the rest of the year and a couple of months after. It was a great day: we were given free chocolates, took funny photos and basically had a blast with one another. It had been eonks since Souri and I last went out together, and she was good fun. The boys and I went to SportsWorld and bought their 'jerseys' for this Saturday's BSU Winter Games in London. We didn't do much in Birmingham because there just wasn't enough time, but I did get to take some silly shots like jumping in the middle of band who were performing on the side walk, looking up the skirt of a statue. I'll post photos of those up on my flickr once Mustanir sends them to me.

With one of the Cadbury things :-P

Fol made a traditional 'Malay' lunch on Sunday, which was nice of him because I've been craving for something like chicken kurma or curry of some sort. He ended up making curry chicken that wasn't too spicey for me. But seriously, winter is starting to take its toll. I swear to god I eat like a mad woman these days, I just cannot stop eating. I'm always craving for something to eat, be it chicken soup, beef rendang or indomee. I just need to eat. People say its because it's getting colder and our body 'thinks' it needs food to keep warm, it probably does.. except I'm not doing anything to work off the excess calories I've been consuming.

I had a poster presentation on Wednesday with a group of friends for Management Accounting. I've never done a presentation before and everyone in the group insisted we wear something smart, business-like. SO, I ended up going to tesco with Yusri and buying a nice top there. That's just one more to add to my mass collection of tops. lol. The presentation went alright, we managed to answer questions thrown at us, and we were given positive feedback. Up to Week 4 of Semester 2, my group still has to meet up so we can type up our written report to send in to our lecturer as part of our final grade. Double modules are such a bitch. It gives you a longer time to study but it also gives you the same amount of time to mess up.

I'm running low on indomee and my ayam masak lemak packets :-(

love,
yasmin.
xxxoxoxx