Saturday was Valentine's Day.... The second one we shared together... I wasn't expecting anything from him actually. First, he told me he won't give me flowers anymore, since it broke his heart to see the dozen of roses he gave me for last year's vday withered in a few days time. I tried my best to preserve it. In fact, i still have those (well, he did mention he will give me just a stalk if they sell one). Second, he's not a romantic person. Third, my birthday is coming in 5 days time (he said he had a present for me already, so it will be the vday and bday pressie). Actually, I just expect him to treat me to a dinner. That's all. haha...

But Saturday started rather early for me. I had to wake up at 9 am to help IOSA with preparing bala2 (vegetable fritters) as we were having International Bazaar. So half the day spent in the bazaar. Zhi came around noon to eat lunch, but he left earlier as he had to help his roomie's bro moved things. But before he left, he told me that he bought me a flower. It was such a pleasant surprise. A stalk of red rose means i'm the one and only one, he said, better than a dozen...

The next time we met again was in the evening. Since we were still full, I watched some drama series while he slept. Since the restaurants would be crowded, I suggested that we cooked our dinner. I made chicken alfredo pasta. I've been wanting to make the alfredo sauce. I had even bought the ingredients. Then, i had the idea of making a heart shape in the middle of the spaghetti with red pepper flakes.... hihi... We made our drinks from ice cream mixed with a little chocolate liqour. My roommate left the house a few minutes after zhi came... hmph... was it deliberate or just a coincidence? haha...

After dinner, Zhi suggested to go to the cinema, but I declined. Since it's weekend, the tickets are expensive and there will be streams of people lining up.

Ended up helping zhi's clean his room as it was dirty from the afternoon's moving. Zhi downloaded "Underworld" which we watched later in the night. I only managed to watch around half of the movie. I fell asleep. It was a long day. Nonetheless, a nice one :)

School has started for a month now and it was kinna fuzzy for the first 2 weeks as i was still on my holiday mode... went to classes feeling sleepy and unmotivated... The first exam for the semester was over and more is to come in the next 2 weeks... great!

I went to the career fair and what i got from the experience was nothing but escalated despair and helplessness... I've been feeling really forlorn and useless thinking of what to do after graduating this year and whether i will be able to get an internship this summer... but most or all of the companies don't sponsor or hire international students as full time employees and if they offer internship, you have to apply online through their website which they won't even see with the numerous application that they received. Can you blame me for being all negative about my future... i'm really thinking if it's a big mistake studying business as undergraduate course, but i can't go back, it too late. *sigh*

On a lighter note, cooking is indeed therapeutic, so does eating ( i've gained all the weight that I shed ). I've been baking cookies and tarts, cooking some dishes that I know (well, it's nice to cook for someone other than myself), making chocolate corn flakes... and making a valentine's day present for zhi and me... here's a sneak peek ....




But i think it's kinna girly for a guy... and i don't think he will put it on his cellphone, but he can treat it as a keychain.


And I really made these from scratch!!! I designed, hand-sculped, and put them together myself....
I hope you, whoever read this, will give me some opinion about these creations of mine, what do you guys think? May be I can start making this and sell it online, like many other people who open blogs just to sell things. hmph... just a thought.