The weekend was one busy one.
Woke up at 5am to go swimming. No one else I knew was there! Gulp. Was told by the instructor that I'd been swimming the wrong way all this time. Was trying to practice swimming the correct way, but how do you suddenly change something you've been doing for 9 years? It is very hard. Old habits die hard...esp if they're the only one way you've known. Then he said like how come I always only swam breastroke. I said the rest were too tiring...and he was like, but it's SPORT! It's supposed to be tiring. So I swam backstroke just for him to see that I wasn't that bad after all. He said there was nothing wrong. I said it was not very fun cos I drank lots of water. But ok, I guess I should go swim the other strokes, though I don't like them very much.
After that, I went grocery shopping. Almost died under the weight of all the groceries. And I FORGOT to hand the cashier my receipt for the empty bottles! Arrgh. And I don't go to that supermarket very often anymore...so...maybe I'll have to wait till Friday again...hope I don't forget AGAIN!
Went to watch "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" with Steffi that afternoon. It was a tad cheesy, but I didn't really mind it all that much. Sometimes you do want watch kinda dumb, cheesy stuff. We polished off a bag of chips and a packet of sweets.
Went home and didn't feel like doing anything really. But somehow I managed to waste time till it was nearly 8pm. I guess in between I'd made sago with peach. The only problem was that there were some hard bits. Sigh. I watched an episode of "Home Improvement" and was thinking about getting ready to make the potato mushroom bacon gratin for Max when he suddenly came in. I was kinda surprised, since I'd expected him at 9pm. But ok, so he helped me make it...and decided to eat some raw onions. He somehow loves raw veg...like salads. It was awful! And he kept saying we should put more onion into the gratin! But anyway, it turned out quite good, except it was a bit salty. After that, we had the dessert.
The next morning, he wanted to sleep a bit more, so I showered very quickly and rushed to the train station to pick Lee Ting up. In rushing, I didn't have time to moisturize my hands. Max was like, "How can you forget! Do it as soon as you can!" But we rushed around the whole day, so I kept forgetting! We had breakfast at my place, then we went to see the sights in Dresden. We walked quite a lot. I kept asking them if we could take a break. I was really tired from walking. The weather wasn't great, but it was pleasant enough. We took some photos and all that. I took a photo of Max...he was showing me a mean face cos he didn't wanna be in the photo. But I think it looks kinda cute anyway. He said I was biased. But what's wrong with that? We went for lunch (cos I was complaining that I was hungry) at the branch of the Mexican restaurant we went to the last time. Wanted to eat at a Greek restaurant, but they were closed. Then we went to a supermarket and a bakery to get some food. We went back to my place after that. Max had his chocolate cake and decided that he really had to leave. He only intended to stay till 2pm or so, but it was nearly 6pm or later when he left. Lee Ting and I went to the Grosser Garten to walk...then after walking through, we went to Prager Str. to shop a bit. We bought some stuff from an Asian supermarket, including a fruit salad which turned out to be very nice! It was only 50 cents. We went into a bookshop, where I bought "Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod", which I have been tempted to read for a while. Lee Ting convinced me that it was probably worth the 8.90 Euro. She bought 2 books too.
We went back to my place and baked a cake together. Then we were hungry, so we made thai green curry. It was delish! After that, we were full and tired, so we went nearly immediately to sleep. I was kinda glad that Max had stayed over the previous night, so I didn't have to pump up the inflatable mattress by myself. He did it on Friday night.
The next morning, we woke up at around 9-9.30am. We had breakfast and decided to go to Schloss Pillnitz. The weather wasn't so great and we were freezing after a while, but it was still ok. We left at around 1.27pm and reached home at around 2.30. We stood outside Subway for a while and I got very tempted by the chicken terriyaki sandwich. But I didn't buy it lah.
We watched "The English Patient" but Lee Ting had to leave before the show ended, so I'll bring it to her when I go back to Singapore. She left some of her clothes here too...so I'll bring them for her as well.
Then there was this whole internet chaos...but finally we have Internet again! Turns out the Internet has been so weak that Claudia decided to buy a switch to make the connection stronger. It works really well, but when she turns it off, there's no Internet for the rest of us either. She turns it off at night and when she's gone because it's too loud. But that guarantees us at least a few hours of Internet a day, which is better than nothing.
Woke up at 5am to go swimming. No one else I knew was there! Gulp. Was told by the instructor that I'd been swimming the wrong way all this time. Was trying to practice swimming the correct way, but how do you suddenly change something you've been doing for 9 years? It is very hard. Old habits die hard...esp if they're the only one way you've known. Then he said like how come I always only swam breastroke. I said the rest were too tiring...and he was like, but it's SPORT! It's supposed to be tiring. So I swam backstroke just for him to see that I wasn't that bad after all. He said there was nothing wrong. I said it was not very fun cos I drank lots of water. But ok, I guess I should go swim the other strokes, though I don't like them very much.
After that, I went grocery shopping. Almost died under the weight of all the groceries. And I FORGOT to hand the cashier my receipt for the empty bottles! Arrgh. And I don't go to that supermarket very often anymore...so...maybe I'll have to wait till Friday again...hope I don't forget AGAIN!
Went to watch "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" with Steffi that afternoon. It was a tad cheesy, but I didn't really mind it all that much. Sometimes you do want watch kinda dumb, cheesy stuff. We polished off a bag of chips and a packet of sweets.
Went home and didn't feel like doing anything really. But somehow I managed to waste time till it was nearly 8pm. I guess in between I'd made sago with peach. The only problem was that there were some hard bits. Sigh. I watched an episode of "Home Improvement" and was thinking about getting ready to make the potato mushroom bacon gratin for Max when he suddenly came in. I was kinda surprised, since I'd expected him at 9pm. But ok, so he helped me make it...and decided to eat some raw onions. He somehow loves raw veg...like salads. It was awful! And he kept saying we should put more onion into the gratin! But anyway, it turned out quite good, except it was a bit salty. After that, we had the dessert.
The next morning, he wanted to sleep a bit more, so I showered very quickly and rushed to the train station to pick Lee Ting up. In rushing, I didn't have time to moisturize my hands. Max was like, "How can you forget! Do it as soon as you can!" But we rushed around the whole day, so I kept forgetting! We had breakfast at my place, then we went to see the sights in Dresden. We walked quite a lot. I kept asking them if we could take a break. I was really tired from walking. The weather wasn't great, but it was pleasant enough. We took some photos and all that. I took a photo of Max...he was showing me a mean face cos he didn't wanna be in the photo. But I think it looks kinda cute anyway. He said I was biased. But what's wrong with that? We went for lunch (cos I was complaining that I was hungry) at the branch of the Mexican restaurant we went to the last time. Wanted to eat at a Greek restaurant, but they were closed. Then we went to a supermarket and a bakery to get some food. We went back to my place after that. Max had his chocolate cake and decided that he really had to leave. He only intended to stay till 2pm or so, but it was nearly 6pm or later when he left. Lee Ting and I went to the Grosser Garten to walk...then after walking through, we went to Prager Str. to shop a bit. We bought some stuff from an Asian supermarket, including a fruit salad which turned out to be very nice! It was only 50 cents. We went into a bookshop, where I bought "Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod", which I have been tempted to read for a while. Lee Ting convinced me that it was probably worth the 8.90 Euro. She bought 2 books too.
We went back to my place and baked a cake together. Then we were hungry, so we made thai green curry. It was delish! After that, we were full and tired, so we went nearly immediately to sleep. I was kinda glad that Max had stayed over the previous night, so I didn't have to pump up the inflatable mattress by myself. He did it on Friday night.
The next morning, we woke up at around 9-9.30am. We had breakfast and decided to go to Schloss Pillnitz. The weather wasn't so great and we were freezing after a while, but it was still ok. We left at around 1.27pm and reached home at around 2.30. We stood outside Subway for a while and I got very tempted by the chicken terriyaki sandwich. But I didn't buy it lah.
We watched "The English Patient" but Lee Ting had to leave before the show ended, so I'll bring it to her when I go back to Singapore. She left some of her clothes here too...so I'll bring them for her as well.
Then there was this whole internet chaos...but finally we have Internet again! Turns out the Internet has been so weak that Claudia decided to buy a switch to make the connection stronger. It works really well, but when she turns it off, there's no Internet for the rest of us either. She turns it off at night and when she's gone because it's too loud. But that guarantees us at least a few hours of Internet a day, which is better than nothing.
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