Moving house

Our new place is just across the road. And we've decided not to hire a ute/van. So we will just be carrying our stuff to and fro. Hrhr. Lots of stuff to carry. And i still haven't finish packing. I've been sick as well. Now, just left over with a sore throat which apparently everyone has. Its the season i guess.

Welcome back dinner tonight for mai. Yum. At Ahmet's, this turkish restaurant at Southbank. I wonder what should i order tonight. We'll see. That's it for now.

Harry Potter Mania

The latest and last Harry Potter is out at 9 am this morning here in Brisbane. Long queues at Borders as children and adults alike wait patiently for the book. I just watched Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix last night. It was a great movie. Awesome, fabulous movie. Obviously the director can't fit the thick book into a movie and so many bits got compressed and some bits thrown out altogether. But it all turned out well, i think.

On another note, tutorial has been cancelled today and we are having the session tomorrow. I still haven't packed any of my stuff for the moving out next saturday. I definitely think i need boxes even though the new place is just across the road. Will definitely finish packing by friday.

My sister, Itri, is back in Brunei and still sleeping at 9 am there. Maybe still jet-lagged and all. She's going to do her project there. Chai yo. Ooh. Raven is on tv right now. Gtg.

Spaghetti Carbonara

I felt inspired to make spaghetti carbonara after watching Anthony Telford, smart man, on the 9 am show cook up traditional and westernised versions. The traditional version was made in a bowl cooking the eggs gently with hot spaghetti only. The westernised version had a bit of cream and was cooked in the pan but off the stove. I made my own version without the bacon of course.

Ingredients:
1/2 a pack of 500g dried spaghetti
2 cloves of garlic, chopped
1 red chili, sliced thin
olive oil
tsp of mixed herb
2 eggs beaten up
salt & pepper
parmesan cheese

How to:
- Cook the pasta til al dente.
- Heat up the olive oil and fry off the chopped garlic, chili, mixed herb til golden
- Add cooked pasta to pan and remove pan from stove
- Add the beaten eggs, mix well. Add some pasta water if a bit dry.
- Season with salt & pepper and sprinkle some parmesan cheese over the top.

Yummy yet simple. My first ever try at making spaghetti carbonara. You could add some beef if you so wish, frying it off with the garlic.

Be Happy

I've been given a challenge (failed exam) and i'll rise to the occasion. I'll just have to be positive, work hard and do everything in order to pass this year. Amin. Thinks happy thoughts and you'll feel happy. Have courage. Chai yo.

Exam results

I failed my exams. Failure can be defined in a number of ways. It is the act that fails/an event that does not achieve its intended purpose/a lack of success/a person with a record of failing/an unexpected omission/bankruptcy/the inability to function normally. I've felt depressed because of this. I feel everyone is better than me. And as always, have done better even though i've studied harder or it feels like i've studied harder. Maybe i'm missing a vital ingredient that makes others score.

Depression is defined by at least 5 out of 9 symptoms and has to include anhedonia (lack of pleasure) and depressed mood. The 9 are Sleep changes, Anhedonia, Depressed mood, Appetite changes, Fatigue, Agitation or retardation, Concentration problems, Excessive guilt, Suicidal ideation (SADAFACES). I have been eating a lot and sleeping a lot. More than what is normal for me. And i've been depressed, yea kinda blaming myself for my sucky results, and during our depression case week. I think everyone in our group was depressed during that time as we were influenced subconsciously by the case.

I have to move house soon. The owners want to renovate this lovely apartment and so we are in the process of trying to find a new place. Me and fats went house-hunting yesterday. We saw one apartment close by but the price was a bit steep, maybe we can negotiate on that. The others don't seem keen though. Hrhr.. Back to house-hunting all over again. Packing, moving, unpacking. Organising phone, broadband, electricity and gas bills.The list goes on.

BBQ

The barbeque on saturday was great fun. Lots of barbequed chicken wings, excellent mee goreng (supplied by chun yen) and yummy shepherd's pie (by elle) to eat. We took a lot of photos, played cards and reminisced about our childhood and memories during ubd days. The next day, we took the maxitaxi with them to the airport. Sat around drinking hot chocolates and coffees, took some more pics. E and m hugged everyone when it was time to go board the plane. And e cried. We are going to miss you guys very much. We waved to them from the waving/watching area and did a little mexican wave.

Then it was off to the city where we had lunch at indian odyssey where everything was salty. And back to st. lucia for tutorial with bibi at uni. And after that coles to buy a few 'necessary' stuff like dark chocolate. Haha.

I'm piss-broke right now. I have enough for eating out at cheap places but not at expensive restaurants where i can't even eat the meat for lack of halalness. So i'm opting out of the pbl dinners this week where one is at Mongolian Dynasty and the other at Ouzeri's. I don't think i'll be missed much anyways as i'm pretty quiet. Plus the fact that i need to buy black printer ink and get a card for my little brother's birthday which is coming up soon.

Be Happy. xxoo, Huda.

Nothing

Nothing interesting has been going on in my life. Back to school, bla, bla.. We are going to watch transformers later at the Myer Centre. I had my pbl mane. It was the usual. Listening to other people presenting LOs and presenting your own. I was kinda shaky just then, i'm not sure why, its not like its my first time talking in pbl. I've also been eating a lot of junk. I finished a whole big bag of chips all by myself in less than two days. Not good. Yeah, when i'm bored, i eat. I really should try and stop that habit.

I am also loving Robin Thicke's new song 'Lost without you'. Its a really sexy, romantic song. Nora and i saw him singing on Oprah and we were blown away by his adorable cuteness and his justin/george michael-like voice. But he is so not gay and happily married to his beautiful wife who is the lovely gal in his video.

Tommorow, elle and minah are having their farewell barbeque and we are sending them off on sunday. And mai is coming here arriving here on tuesday. You lose some, you gain some. Be happy! Peace to all.

Gold Coast

We went to the GC yesterday and the journey took longer than usual as the tracks were having some maintenance work done and so we hopped off at Yerongpilly, took the bus and hopped back on at Kuraby. Thankfully there were buses available for the transit. And it was a comfortable second half of journey in the train as i sat in a 2-seater which also had a 2-seater facing it so i could stretch out my legs. We all arrived in GC ~2 hours later, had a late lunch and then it was off to the beach.

Everyone took a lot of pictures. Walked along the beach, wet our feet in the water letting them sink in, enjoyed the many seagulls flocking about, the cool sand, warm water and salty breeze. Plus there were many people around enjoying themselves and parents letting their babies crawl on the pale sand.

Even though it was cold, most of us had ice-creams from Gelatissimo. There were so many chocolate flavours, Death by chocolate, the selection was named. I had the Mocha Nut Crunch. Yum. The Belgian choc was also exquisite.