Mid-semester break

It's the end of the first week of the second half of the semester (and the first week of school after the mid-sem break), and I'm already longing for the holidays to start again soon. I had a good, productive mid-semester break. Productive not just in the sense that I got lots of school work done (well, I think I could have done a bit more but oh well), but I also got to do plenty of other things I've been wanting to do as well.

• I started on a new anime series - Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Awesome show, 2 more episodes to go (awww!). You know this anime's a hit when there are so many anime figurines of characters from the show flooding the market!
• I ate at some new places that have been on my to-eat-at list for some time, including this Nepalese restaurant in the Paddington suburb called Kathmandu Newa Chhe'n. Pretty good food, I must say, Nepalese food is similar to Indian food. Gotta go back to Paddington again to try some more of the eateries there that have received good reviews.
• I prepared and shared dinner with my neighbours. Three times. First time was penne pasta with pesto and garlic bread, next was spaghetti with garlic bread, third time we had a mix of Indonesian and Chinese food - Tahu Telor by my Indonesian neighbour (which I requested cos that's my fav Indonesian dish) and sweet and sour chicken (which I made, cos that one's a popular and well-known dish) and vegetables with oyster sauce (another dish I made). It was so much fun, sharing a meal together and talking over good food. We should definietly do this more often.
• Finally got to meet up with a good friend of mine, who was from the same primary school, secondary school and now university as me. We went to West End where we had Indonesian food for lunch, then we wandered around West End and then decided to have dinner at a Persian restaurant together as well!
• Highlight of the holidays - I finally went to Movieworld! With some of my neighbours and my neighbour's friends. Movieworld seems a bit small to me, but nevertheless, I had fun! I shopped, sat on the highly recommended Scooby Doo ride, watched a 4D movie, snapped lots of photos of the 4 o'clock costume parade and gaped in awe at car drivers performing jaw-dropping stunts. T'was an enjoyable da indeed!

Not bad, I must say, I got to do so many things in just one week of holiday (and it wasn't much of a holiday, I had some assignments to work on over that one week!). Now, if only the next holidays, the summer break, would roll around faster ...