hello! my week has been utterly boring aside from friday. all the rest of the days have involved moping for various reasons and room-cleaning. tomorrow my parents come back! now that they're coming back i sort of wish i could have my complete freedom a little longer. waking up at 1130, watching tv all day long, procrastinating my university applications -- just a few of the things my mother will ensure that i stop doing :(

but friday was good. i am So Pleased that lucas didn't run away from me! he actually let me carry him around a lot, and a free trip to see the elephants and the polar bears? MUCH better than national geographic, although i'd still like to go on a proper safari one day. with lots of insect repellant, chic safari hat and a very sturdy jeep, of course. so there was the walking around for approximately 6 hours in the blazing sun, moaning about a headache, and then rewarding self with very oily pizza and two large scoops of ben&jerry's which left me feeling very happy, disgustingly bloated, and hoping against hope that i put back less calories than i walked off. (i still haven't battled enough inertia to get myself to the gym.)

for a slightly more thorough, MEAN and hoots-of-laughter-worthy photo-filled account of the day, visit nasty's blog. yeah, for all those who are completely out of the loop, The Nasty One has finally got herself a blog. i don't know how long it's going to last, but it's lasted a week so far so maybe it will last longer, and while it does last she's filling it up with loads of blackmail-worthy videos, terrible photos (besides the ones i took), hilarious captions and Very Bad Grammar. go check it out. as soon as i have lunch and battle more inertia, i will put a link on my sidebar.

and when i get round to it, i will put up more photos here -- from last friday's dinner at my place, the zoo, and this friday's dinner at claud's place. a fat chicken, aparna in the kitchen, and even better, kitson in the kitchen (and not just eating, but actually STANDING IN FRONT OF THE STOVE AND STIRRING!)

the dear boy has jetted off to hong kong and left me an (incomplete) set of Sex And The City to watch, so i will say no more about him, besides that he was very chauvinist and told me that me in the kitchen was not shocking at all because i'm a girl. hnh.

the previous week when we had the pseudo-cooking at my place, it was almost all instant food and yet i managed to commit the mistake of dumping raw broccoli into the mac&cheese. then i left my maid to pick out the broccoli bits one by one and microwave them and then put them back into the mac&cheese. and last year in england, i could barely follow the instructions on a packet of instant soup, in fact i did misread the instructions or maybe i didn't read them at all, so we ended up with a bowl of orange mush which i made the boys eat. i can, however, make a decent pizza -- if it's frozen and all i have to do is pop it in the oven for 8 minutes. so that's how well i do in the kitchen. i'm also hopelessly afraid of boiling water and knives pointed at me. i like cutting things, though.

actually one of my secret ambitions is to be able to cook well. i will explain that another day. for now i shall go have lunch. that i did not cook.