Ni hao!

I'm sure lots has happened since I last posted, but for the life of me, I can't remember what went on!

Anyways, happy news is that I'm done my Israel/Palestine paper - you know, the one that got deleted? I'm not saying that it was done well - it's just done. Period. I feel happy about that. I pretty much cloistered myself this weekend in an attempt to get it done, and it paid off.

This weekend we had a potluck dinner at our apartment. Since Peggy's friend Pan was leaving to return to Taiwan, it was kinda a going away party. Before the dinner though, Peggy, Antonette and I went to Shatin to buy ingredients. Citysuper makes me weep. 3 items for $100HKD. Gah! Curse me and my salsa dependency! Anyways, Shatin has their Christmas display up. Apparently x-mas here involves butterflies. Look! I grew wings!

For dinner, we all cooked different dishes. Peggy and I collaborated and she taught me how to cook Sweet & Sour Pork (FROM SCRATCH!) and Spicy Tofu. Soooo delicious! Other dishes of the evening included chocolate banana cake, cooked in the microwave, something with spam courtesy of the American in our group, and pig's feet. Mmm. The latter were really tasty, but super fatty. It was a lot of fun!

Yesterday I cooked Peggy, Wenli, and Renee dinner. Mmm. Honey ginger chicken kicks ass no matter what country I cook it in. I also tried to make macaroons, but they aren't hardening properly, and they're still sticky. I'm kinda disturbed by them. We ended up watching the movie, Mean Girls, after the food. It was fun, but I felt bad because I couldn't find subtitles that would work on the file, so Peggy and Renee were pretty much lost throughout the entire movie.

And yay! HSBC phoned me and finally gave back my $1300! Yay!