Here are some photos from our joint birthday celebration last night! We waited till really really late..cos Phuong had something on...and she got back at around 9pm. We were all like starving by then! But there was a lot of good food. Phuong brought back fried rice and crispy duck. The crispy duck was great! I ate a lot of it! I also made vegetable couscous, which didn't taste very nice anymore cos it was cold...so I have the leftovers to eat for today and tomorrow. It actually tasted quite nice when I heated it up again. I added some parmesan...which was good! I think I'll add some the next time I eat it again (tomorrow lunch and dinner, probably). The Reisfladen didn't turn out so good...but it was my fault. Oh, the Milchreis bit turned out fine! Milchreis is simple and tasty...am definitely going to buy some home and make it for my family. But the "fladen" bit was a bit tricky...I didn't read the instructions properly...so it kinda ended up wrong...I didn't manage to rescue it...but when I ate it this morning, I quite enjoyed it...I do kinda like the taste of yeast...haha! Ah well, the pandan cake I made for my birthday celebration last year was a flop too, but everyone's allowed some mistakes in their lives.

We also played with this grill-like thing that Fu Wei bought. I like cooked ham a lot!! But I didn't eat that much, cos I was too lazy to "cook". What I really really liked, however, was this banana sago thing that Mai made! I ate like 4 servings of it...I love anything with banana in it, actually. Banana is my absolute favourite fruit...next come pears, then canned peaches, then grapefruit, then Royal Gala apples. I love sago too...so banana, sago and coconut milk was simply the ultimate dream combination for me!

I'm probably going to bake chocolate muffins sometime this weekend, because I need to finish up the rest of the butter and the chocolate we used for Fu Wei's birthday cake a while ago. Also, it would be nice to give Fu Wei something to eat before she goes home to celebrate Chinese New Year with her family (she's leaving on 24th Jan). I think it's really fun to have other people to cook for. I am hardly inspired when I only have myself to cook for.

My family sent a package to me last weekend. I hope I get it soon...though I'll be a good girl and not open it till my birthday. Ain't getting many presents, so I really treasure every single one that I've got.

Oh yeah, my Anglistik Zwischenprüfung will be on 13th Feb...which means I will fly back to Singapore on 2nd March...right after my DaF Zwischenprüfung. I have to study so so so much harder over the coming weeks, but I will really really get to enjoy my time at home then! And boy am I looking forward to it!

Revised some Swedish today, but didn't get very far. There were lots of distractions. Will try harder tomorrow.

The weather here sux. It rained a lot this morning. I was considering ponning class, cos I hadn't slept enough either...but I went in the end, even if I already had my Schein...and I am glad I went. Today's class was super interesting. It's seminars like these which make going to university worth it! The class I am talking about is Intercultural Literature. Our seminar is on Indian prose. I've learnt so much this sem...I have to remember to thank the prof at the end of the seminar for a thoroughly exciting time! Even if some of the presentations, like mine, really sucked. We had a repeat topic today though...some girls happened to choose the same book...and the prof didn't realise it. I was like, "Erm, didn't we already have a presentation on this book?" And when I started giving a one sentence plot summary, the people presenting were looking super freaked out, as if they'd seen a ghost or something. Haha...turns out we DID have a presentation on this book, on 21st Jan..but the 2 presenters weren't there...and neither were half of the people present. That's the problem with a class that has no attendance list...but what to do? I know most people don't even come except for the day of their presentation. But it's their loss, really. This class is one of the more educational and not boring ones I've been to.

Ok, should go sleep soon...have Czech class tomorrow...then have to go see the prof about my "special topic" for my Anglistik ZP...then swimming, then grocery shopping! Phew.