Late Nights

27/12/04

everyone woke up late cos of the late night we had the night before from playing risk. ken and i decided not to go out today cos it was already rather late - something like 2pm by the time everyone was up, plus it was raining. we had some leftovers for lunch and started baking an apple pie at about 3pm. we split the work evenly - ken did the pastry while i worked on the filling and deco.. haha~ it turned out nicely except that the pastry was a little too crumbly possibly cos of excess butter. looks pretty good though. =) will upload the picture soon on my online photo album.. everyone had a huge slice of pie each with some vanilla ice cream, tasted really good. the pie proved too much for my small appetite and i skipped dinner. (anyway, it was already past 9 after we finished the pie). ken decided not to cook the stuffed pasta and had another slice of pie instead.

28/12/04

was up rather early today compared to the previous days - woke up at about 9. (everyone was still asleep as usual.. *gosh, these pple really sleep a lot* waking up at 12 is considered early to them..excuse that it's the holidays doesn't work for me=P) we cooked stuffed pasta and scottish sausages for lunch.. hmm..ken's cooking skills are starting to impress me... think he can cook more dishes than i can.. i'll have to buck up some time. oops, can't let him see this if not his ego will go sky high. haha~

sam aaron and his wife alethia came to pick chris, ken and i up to go shopping at braehead at 2pm. braehead was the largest shopping area in glasgow until glasgow ford opened a month ago. braehead doesn't have as many shops as takashimaya ngee ann city though it spans a 1mile radius. braehead's not the usual shopping place for students as it's rather far from the city centre and u need a car to get there. it's more for families and those who own cars i suppose. students usually shop in town, around buchanan. though glasgow ford's the largest shopping area now, according to sam aaron, it's near the area where a lot of NED's (non-educated delinquent) stay so ford's usually flooded with them. it's because of this and the fact that ford's much further from the city centre than braehead, braehead still remains the more popular of the 2 places. i managed to get some stuff from gapkids (hey.. i can fit the large sizes ok..=P). more than reasonable sale prices.. =)

we left braehead past 5 and asked sam aaron to drop us off in town. ken and i planned to catch a movie and intended to watch The Incredibles initially but chris had already watched it twice. though ken had already watched it once, he still highly recommended it and wanted to watch it a second time. for chris's benefit, we decided to watch national treasure instead. we headed to UGC cinema, the largest cineplex in the world. it houses 18 screens and each theatre is much bigger (seats more pple) than lido 1 (at shaw ciniplex). cool! since we had 2 hours to kill before the movie started, dinner was a good idea. after dinner, we checked out the glasgow royal concert hall before heading back to the cinema.

the movie was excellent but i shall aviod giving a movie review here. =) we took the subway and reached home at about 11pm.