Cooked panfried breaded chicken! It was a pretty epic cooking adventure: forgot to defrost the chicken so I had to do so in the microwave and did it for a tad too long so I ended up half-cooking the chicken, got my fingers messy with the flour-egg-breadcrumbs dipping/coating stations, used up way more oil than any other dish trying to panfry these ( Read more... )

Described this week as having been a good week because:

1. The weather has been largely fantastic thus far, particularly today and yesterday. Temperatures have been rising to a very comfortable air-con range and when the sun is out I can even wear a shirt + jeans combo out and not shiver. Big plus: the spring flowers are starting to bloom! Was so ( Read more... )

I'm probably going to end up editing bits of it even after this, but I am so glad that I'm done with my GV101 essay! Took forever to pen it down, and then get past the multiple rebuttals of my own arguments in my head, and took even longer to come up with my introduction...I just hope that any editing I may have to do after this is limited to ( Read more... )

Hurray I feel better! Note to self: when you're falling sick, sleep is very helpful ( Read more... )

Air cargo project is OVER(-ish; because we got suggestions on extra evidence we can look for to improve our findings, but anyway the presentation is OVER) what. A. Relief.

Now back to other issues.

Felt very happy making my PowerPoint slides today (just realised I missed out a section though). Partly because I get to design a little, partly because it made me focus on the data I already have instead of the data that I have not found.

Dinner with Val and vodkalimey tomorrow! Finally meeting ol' pals.

Wore my new pants today (they fitted really well, looked good and were comfortable), attended an interesting meeting where I learned quite a lot of things, did a report and simultaneously consolidated some of the things I have learned, had a good lunch session with the other interns, found a classmate (what are the chances?!) and added more ( Read more... )

I think I've gotten my old, quirky, high, insane, dorky, chirpy, bouncy self back, and I love it (:

Just got a crash course on Malthusian theory and natural population control and some stuff on the DTM! I feel like a Geog student all over again, and the best thing is I had awsm Geog friends to help me out. Thank you vodkalimey Randy LY and YC for being so generous with your knowledge!

Love learning something new every day.

Today I went on a TIME-reading spree and re-read past issues of TIME that have been sitting in my room for quite a few weeks. Still need to read up on foreign aid amongst other things, but I've re-read an article on Afghan women, read one on Burma, one on Russia and one on Germany's war efforts in Afghanistan and Kosovo. I don't understand some ( Read more... )