I am about to admit something pathetic. I miss Cambridge food. I miss Fitzbillie’s chelsea buns, jam doughnuts, fresh buttered rolls, full English breakfasts, cheese from M&S, caramel slices, flapjacks, melt-in-your-mouth pears and that gorgeous Moroccan chickpea soup from that German cafe. (What’s even worse is that they are all carbs.) I think that when [...]
Archive for December, 2008
3 Weeks Gone
Posted in Uncategorized on December 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Santa’s Scandal
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged christmas songs, mistaken identities on December 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You can’t escape any of the Christmas songs now. I’ve been going around with earworms like Winter Wonderland and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing for at least two weeks. Today I heard this song that I had completely miscontrued as a child and it tickled me to realise how my mistake was both so innocent [...]
Milestone
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged finally, work on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have finished my first vacation essay! I’m not totally useless after all!
Home!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coincidences, home, Singapore on December 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After a fourteen hour flight plus delays because of ice on the fucking runway, and after a day of recovering from the jet lag (fuck that was terrible), I’m sure you’re wondering why I’m swearing so fucking much instead of being fucking delighted that I’m back. It’s a damn simple reason. I am fucking happy [...]
Going Down
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged end of term, going home on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
That’s what I’m doing in a few days. Over here, you don’t say “I’m leaving on Monday.” and “I’m coming back on the 12th of January.” You “go down” and “come up”. My room is a total mess now, since I’m stuffing my things into boxes so that they can be put into storage. I [...]
Bastard Food
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food, marks and spencer's, Singapore, singapore food on December 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I was in M&S today buying rolls and cheese (they have really good single-serving portions of different kinds of cheese. Heaven…). I passed the ready-to-eat meal section when I saw a shelf of Singapore Noodles. Intrigued and missing Singapore food enormously, I went to have a looksee. That was when I felt so appalled and [...]
