Europe.. watch out for JOYCE!: Happy Belated Valentine's Day and Happy Advance Chinese New Year!!

Well, Valentine's Day was pretty un-Valentinish. I didn't see love-struck couples walking around hand-in-hand lovey-dovily. Nor did I see anyone at all holding roses or any other love-flowers. And my own pretty baby was far, far away. Well, Valentine's Day was just uneventful. Hm, just remembered, maybe it was because I was out only for 10 mins that day!

On a happier, yet sadder note, Chinese New Year is coming! Yippee! We're gonna have a Reunion Dinner on Saturday at Yixian's place and we'll also have special guests like two Delfters, two Dutch-who-were-SEP-ing-in-NUS-last-sem-ers, and a couple more friendly international housemates. And I've offered to bring plain rice (what would we do without our traditional staple) and also mandarin oranges (hope prices won't hike up at the market on Saturday!). Hope that there's gonna be LOTS of DELICIOUS food!

For the sad part, its my first time not spending CNY with family. *sigh* No visiting houses to get ang-pows, no yummy tidbits and free-flow cokes, and no seeing my cute little niece dress up in what-I'd-bet-will-be the cutest red outfit (but there WILL be pictures sent to me). Oh well, at least we're planning to head up to Amsterdam's China Town so hopefully I will feel the ambience still. And its coincidentally the Dutch Carnaval week so we have one week holidays and we girls are gonna go to Barcelona for a couple of days! Double yippee!

Ok, every entry has to have some pictures from now on. So here are a couple of random pictures unrelated to Valentine's Day or Chinese New Year!

From Schipol Airport to Eindhoven by train

Just arrived at Eindhoven by train

Once of our first meals + my housemate from China (I'm indebted to him for having a rice cooker!)

Bowled over!

Cute little car (all cars here are left-hand drives by the way)

Ice from 'The Day After Tomorrow!!' Just kidding, its just the icy remains of the ice sculpture exhibition that we missed. :(

One of my common lunches: Club sandwich with fizzy juice!

Retro!!

My 'hood

The first dinner I cooked all by myself. Edible.. except for a couple of burnt parts in the nuggets and some uneven cooked parts in the potatoes.. the cabbage was ALL edible though! Cos it was RAW, haha!

Did I mention already that I see this everyday when I get up?

And tonight's dinner. It looks better than it tastes. Fried rice was kinda bland, even with the pre-mix! And mushroon soup was kinda dilute, also pre-mixed. Cheater, haha!