Cooking and Denning

I cooked my first dinner here last night: whole wheat macaroni with veggies and mashed potatoes with eggs. I did not have the potato though. I gave one portion to Orla, then the rest to Stephy, Elian and Hini. I brought the food over to the girls and had a nice chat with them. At about 7.30pm, Stephy and Elian were still cooking their dinner. I've never enjoyed cooking but cooking (or in my case not really cooking) for others is a little less dreadful because there is a purpose and there is normally a desire to do it better. Cooking for oneself is tiring and it takes such a long time I was doubtful whether it was worth all the trouble halfway into it! I was sooo tired after cooking, probably because I was already feeling a quite tired before that. But talking to the girls perked me up a bit. The macaroni I made was quite badly cooked but I attribute most of the disaster to the bad taste of the pasta itself, probably because it was whole wheat and in a very dehydrated form before cooking. I should look up one-person-meal recipes online soon.

I didn't feel like going for drinks at Denning, but after getting the fb message from Adriana and some goading by Orla, I decided to go anyway. Since it was the first denning, it should be quite a fresh session. We also met up with Anne-Sofie's friend at a restaurant prior to that. Her friend treated us to shots which tasted like the awful cherry red cough syrup I hated. 4 of us cheered and after the other girls downed theirs, mine was still intact, ahaha! Well I eventually gulped it down anyway. The girls also ordered other drinks, which didn't taste good at all. Anyway, welcome to Canadian drinking culture! I felt quite incongruent with the culture here in this respect as I don't see what's so enjoyable about drinking...but it was fun participating in something that I do not usually do.

TJ's became so crowded and noisy I was literally shouting into the ears of anyone whom I was talking to. Got stuck at the counter on my way back from the restroom, and talked to a few people who happened to come by to get drinks. Haha. What a way to meet people. I met Joel (who happened to know Adriana quite well!), Erica (girl planning to go NUS for exchange next sem!), Dan (first year) and Vanessa (who took IO last year!).

We left at about 1am in a taxi. Anyway glad that I went. Although it was not exactly a lot of fun, it was a different way to spend a night with different people.