Merry Xmas

merry xmas.

if u'r reading this, consider this as a xmas card.

and seasons greetings too..

(i hate public celebrations.)

...melancholy...if the feeling you get...when you work hard at an assignment for 2 hours...complete a small part of it...look back, and realise, you've written 15 lines of code...

...yes...it took me 2 hours to write 15 lines...i hate uni...

from 2 night ago. just realised i had some pictures in my phone..

...in another random fit to cook me food....

found these in the fridge..so i said.....french toast...

...but i momentarily forgot how to put the egg on bread....

hmm...

then i remembered, and it all went fine, but my fingers were too deep in egg to pick up the camera(phone)...but the end product was

then i sprinkled some sugar, ate, and happily went to sleep.

i woke up not hungry. went to uni not hungry. came home not hungry. then it was 9:30pm at night, haven't had a meal in the day, and i was feeling slightly hungry...and taco commercial was on tv.......when you live almost alone, you sometimes have to cook....

so i went shopping.

1 box of taco kit + 600g of mince beef (which i couldn't find, so got 1kg) + 1 iceburg lettuce + 2 onions + 3 tomatoes + 1 avocado = $23.

Scrape 1/2 avocado out into bowl. Clean some lettuce leaves. Get tomato. Peel onion. Sharpen knife. Ready to dice.

Chop lettuce. Dice tomatoes and add seasoning (since both are added to frying pan at same time). Get 500g mince beef (1/2 what i bought). Dice onions and mix with mince....

...but after cooking for 2 minutes, the mince did what mince do (break into smaller pieces), and i felt stupid for mixing it with the onions beforehand. Wouldn't have made a difference if i put them in the pan seperately. Anyways, cook cook cook...

Add tomatoes and seasoning and water. Simmer simmer simmer...and now, for the taco shells.

Oven. Heat. Shells go in~

~shells come out. (5, since 1 kit-box has 10, and i used 1/2 kg of mince).

and after some fine-tuning,

wallah! Small green bowl is mashed avocado. Small red is the taco sauce (which i think tastes exactly the same as dorito dipping sauces). And i'm ready to eat.

Pack. Eat. (looks kind of small doesn't it..) (and i realised i forgot to buy grated cheese. So i checked the fridge, and i had NO cheese. So i ate without cheese)

....and the conclusion....

1. if the pack says use 600g mince for the 10 servings....use 600g, not 1kg.
2. 500g of mince beef is a lot. Mix it with onion, tomato, lettuce, sauce, avocado, and it becomes too much (for 1 meal).
3. They don't show you the biting part on commercials for a reason. The shell cracks and you get hot mince-sauce all over your hands. (Am i supposed to wait for it to cool down?)
4. If you're going to eat it in your hands...why did they make the shell-bottoms flat.?
5. 5 servings with overloaded beef is too much. (i only ate 3, and now i'm full and feeling sick)
6. packing cooked crisp shells with as much ingredients as possible without cracking it is very hard and not as fun as the commercial makes it out to be.
7. Buy cheese. (although i don't think it'd have made any difference.)
8. the camera on my phone sucks.

now i have 2 cooked servings left, and 1/2 the ingredients uncooked... hope i'm hungry tomorrow.

....hmmm....this is what my session2 timetable looks like at the moment....

....i just know that i'm digging myself a nice deep grave....deep...the only time i might be studying will be friday 12~2. Otherwise, i'll either be in class, or at home playing.

plus, i was told by a lecturer couple of years ago that it's generally a bad idea to do 3 or more COMP subjects in the same sessions... hurray for me.

(and it's only 18 units right now, so i'm looking for another subject that'll fit in wednesday morning..and it'll probably be comp too....just making sure the grave's deep enough...)

Plus the one subject that I was intending to do (and got the pre-requisite for), I've been told it was in session 1 this year, not session 2. (And probably will be moved back to session 2 next year). So I have to wait a whole year to do that one subject...

On the plus side...i get to play lots...rest lots...and not waste time on travel lots...

life is wonderful.