Happy Easter!!

Sorry, actually I think it should it's more appropriate to call it Belated Easter,
because Easter was yesterday.
Anyway due to the Easter holidays, some of us had last Friday off, and most of us are off today, i.e. Monday.
So basically just sitting around at home (other ppl's homes) and the school library chilling and studying.

Yesterday on Easter Sunday, woke up early and ironed my clothes.
Then set off to church after that.
Bumped into Esther and later saw Raymond pushing somebody in a wheel chair in.
Had no idea that they went to that church, I thought I was the only person who went there.
Was supposed to go with Pui Li and Grace to church for Good Friday, but it was soooo windy that I went back home to watch a French movie instead.
Anyway, Raymond invited me over to their house for Easter dinner, and he introduced me to the guy in the wheelchair- David, who was his landlord.
So, as I was walking out of church, I saw Raymond pushing David into the car, and Ray asked me if I wanted to go hang out at their place and help with the cooking. It was snowing and I was lazy to walk back, so decided to go back with them in the car instead.

Went over to their house, met Zhou Min who is Raymond's housemate and ended up having lunch with all of them and Eugene. Was taken on a tour around the house by Zhou Min.
Eugene made some middle-east salad which he learned from his flatmate, and I helped chopped the tomatoes. Had a simple but nice lunch of bread and butter, salad and salmon and crackers.
There are like 6 people staying together with David.
David's house is stacked full of books! Raymond showed me the books which David wrote.
David was actually a professor of philosophy lecturing in the University of Aberdeen until he met with an accident which left him parapelgic.

After that went to chill in Raymond's room and watch Pride and Prejudice DVD.
Poor Raymond was sick, so he had to lie and rest in his bed.
He probably caught the bug from David who is also sick.
Raymond's room is really nice.
It's separated from the main house, and it's got huge windows overlooking the garden.
Although his room was a bit chilly, but it has the best view in the whole house.
He also has a piano in his room.

Around 3pm, went to look for Zhou Min and Eugene and helped them to peel and chop potatoes, carrots, parsnips, onions etc.
Nearly cut my fingers in the process.
Hahaa.
Parsnips and carrots are really tough to chop!
Watched Zhou Min marinate the lamb with garlic, sea salt, pepper, chopped red onions on the bottom, and rosemary. Had to take the lamb out every 20 mins to baste it in its juices.
Then helped with stirring the pot of chopped peaches, sugar, and butter to make the peach cobbler.
The mixture of wonderful smells emitting from the kitchen was deliciously tantalizing causing me to develop hunger pangs which were subdued by glasses of port and beer.
The port was actually going to be used for the making of the gravy of the roast lamb.
Min went to the garden and cut some thyme, and herbs to make a dressing of extra virgin olive oil and an assortment of herbs and drizzled the yummy smelling concoction over the vegetables and potatoes before placing it in the oven to roast.

By that time, Raymond had woken up from his sleep and had taken a mixture of penicillin, vitamin C and bicarbonate for his acid reflux and was looking tons better, walking around the kitchen in his hyper state and singing and helping to lay the table and make mash vegetables with cream. There were also various people walking around the house, and they were introducing me to the other housemates. I think I can't remember half their names I know there was Weru who has the messiest room ever, and Francis who is from South Africa but surprise surprise! He's actually white! He's currently studying psychology and Francis's brother who is Thomas, and Andy who is working the satosphere at the beach. Err..that's all I can remember.

Had dinner around 7pm-ish.
There was soo many delicious food, the result of our hard labour :P
Tucked into all the good food and polished it off with a glass of red wine.
Also had dessert with coffee after that. Plus some good conversation.

After dinner, Russel and Eugene took out weiqi to play.
I was walking around randomly and went to talk to Weru and ask if I could see his room, hahaha. it's like super duper messy. The messiest room I have seen in my life, honestly!
It's got clothes and papers and books strewn everywhere and big piles of it here and there. I wonder how could anybody could live in such a big mess!! Also had a discussion with about the state of the political climate in Malaysia especially the Mahathir vs Anwar saga and about the economies of third world countries. I might have been a little high on wine cause I think I was talking a little too much.

Anyway, Raymond was nice enough to drive us back. I thought I was going to trudge back wearily in the unforgiving cold and snowy darkness. My housemate was actually invited to come, and I was hoping that he would come so I could get a lift back. haha. But he was too tired so he ended up not coming..

Anyway, Easter Sunday was a blast! totally didn't expect to celebrate it in that way. I thought I was going to go back after church to do some studying, and ended up unexpectedly somewhere else. haha. You never know where the day brings you!