Thursday, February 15, 2007

love never fails.

happy valentine's day everyone!

honestly, happy the-
most-commercialized-where-a-bunch-of-roses-go-for-USD22 day!

ok i'm so cynical. i'd rather express love on a more frequent basis rather than just once a year. y'all know what i mean?

but all things being said, i still miss spending the day with sam. this is the 2nd time we're spending it apart. last year he was in sydney. this year i'm in seattle. the only time we were together on the same piece of land mass is wayyy back in 2005.

my favorite description of love comes not from poems or sonnets or prose or movies.


anyway school's been just trudging along, dragging me at its feet. i miraculously passed my lab exam, which was something to thank God for. i passed! not with flying colors. barely. but still happy. now just gotta study harder for the midterm coming up. argh.

movie pre-valentine's date night with the girls of patricia place (that's the name of my apartments). 7 girls ordered subway/mexican wraps and went to watch because i said so and it was not too bad! i love romantic comedies/chick flicks. love diane keaton and lauren graham and mandy moore. haha the movie was quite funny and i had a really good laugh. =) seeing diane keaton being the mother to 3 daughters make me miss my sisters and my family EVEN MORE. sigh. i miss my sisters actually. i never thought i would. the hours of talking rubbish and talking good food and going shopping. i'm very glad that i've grown closer to them, because i was never close to them due to our huge age difference. and God really works in wonderful ways to bind us together. *smiles*

the weekend that just went by was a pre-CNY gathering of the patricia place and 5 NBS students from the other apartments, campus heights. that saturday started out with a huge breakfast of pancakes, waffles, scrambled eggs, french toast, hot cocoa with coffee. satisfaction followed, leading to my friend and i carrying 2 big backpacks and heading to chinatown to buy groceries for our steamboat dinner while the rest of them went shopping! hhmmpphhh. i wanna go shopping toooo! but we had fun grocery shopping. i love grocery shopping. esp in a chinese supermarket. on the way back we were loaded with very very heavy backpacks and 2 big bags that we carried in our hands. and as we began our tiring walk to the busstop, we started seeing CNY songs. hurhur. it was so funny. i think people thought we were mad.

we got home, sorted the groceries, rested abit, and proceeded to cook at 4pm. the other girls were supposed to be back to help with the prep. but those shopaholics didn't come home till like 5pm. (and one of them actually had the nerve to proclaim that she was the main cook! ok i'm just ranting but i can't stand it when other people take credit for what they never did.) so we washed everything and cut everything and prepared the 2 types of soup base for our steamboat. we had a LOT of food. and it was goooodddd. love how my 2 soups turned out. decided that red dates and shrimps just wouldn't be right. and that dried scallops should go with shrimps while red dates go with chicken broth. perfect.

(ps. ohmygoodness the cute seth-cohen lookalike guy from my graduate class is here in the library! hee. he's cute.)

the excess food was cleared by many many rounds of zhong1 ji2 mi4 ma3. and many many laughs. we washed everything and proceeded to snack on mandarin oranges and egg rolls. took crazy pictures using the multi-burst function and it was hilarious. reminds me of the neoprint days.

after saying bye to the campus heights people, after bathing and checking emails, it was girls night in and another round of gossips and rubbish games and getting-to-know-each-other and truth/dare games. and yes snacks. we finally dragged our tired feet back at 4am.

therein ends another weekend of fun.

looking forward to this weekend! its presidents' day holiday and i'm going outlet-shopping on friday and vancouver for the long weekend. yayyyyy.

but first. midterms. argh.

Labels: life in seattle, love, sam, UW

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