2 weeks into my new home

Sorry dear blogie, parents and H came over for a week and i hardly had time to go online..its so wonderful to see them again..to have my mum fuss over me (okay i always tell her its irritating but its nice sometimes to have someone to fuss over you.. keyword: sometimes) to discuss news and latest happenings with my dad.. to show all of them where n what i have been doing for the past 4 months as well as discover new places with them..

Ahh they have only been back for a day and im missing them already.. the house is so quiet this morn.. thats ironic i know. i had to tell them to talk softly when they were here as the walls of the house are paper thin and auntie/uncle work from home. Personally i like the house to be bustling with life and chatter.. but its not my house.

So many things to talk about and i just dunno where to start. hmm..

im looking at my room now. Just changed my bedsheets this morning..packed my room yest after they left and its neater now. Daddy n mummy were awesome! they vacuumed and moped the whole house yest, mummy also cleaned the toilet...im really proud of my parents..and im thankful for the way they brought me up. Try not to impose on others if you can.. and if u do, make sure u dun leave a mess for others to clear. Clean up ur own mess and make sure its cleaner than before u use it. And equally important, dont wait for others to tell you. Mum always tell me this reflects on your upbringing. hmm..I have always been puzzled and even annoyed sometimes with the extreme cleanliness my mum always demands...But ever since i went abroad to study, i began to appreciate that. I hate waking up in the morning and going into a dirty, unflushed toilet. Or entering a toilet that looks like it has also been affected by the Orchard Road flooding.. Yucks. I think thats just plain laziness and lack of consideration. But i will have none of that here. Yay! :)

Ate so much good food during the week that they were here.. okay and junk food as well. how can dreamy ever go by a day without having some kind of junk food eh? omg.. looking back, i think i had icecream almost everyday!! *pokes fat cheeks* Just on friday, i even asked H to buy a second icecream cone for me after lunch cos i was greedy. my gluttony is endless. :(( As for chocolate, needless to say, i will have some form of it daily. Did i mention, mummy bought me a gigantic bar of toberone, 3x 400g bars inside the casing. Im refraining myself from opening it, cos i know once its opened, i wun be able to stop until its finished. so the longer i can hold out from opening it, the better it is. Speaking of which, im really amazed at myself. Mummy brought me 2 small tubs of pineapple tarts and i finished them in 4 days. They r my favourite brand of pineapple tarts n i so thoroughly miss them!! mummy was afraid that customs might not let them through so she only bought the small tubs so not so sayang if had to be confiscated. She also bought for me the chinese ingredients that i wanted so that i can make soups..They do sell them at asian grocery stalls but for a small fortune.. so i asked mummy to buy big packets for me!! hee..going to start making soups! am really excited. i really wan to brush up on my cooking n baking skills during this few months..especially all my favourite kuehs, steamed buns, dumplings, sambal chilli and chinese food..im still very into desserts n pastries but i think i wan to improve on my savoury foods and soups! cannot lose my heritage.. :) i have made agar agar n red bean soup last week.. today im going to make the traditional cny almond cookies (yesh i managed to find the right shape n size cookie cutter!! so happy!!) and tmr i think i will try the braised pig trotter recipe. Wanted to cook for my dad cos he loves pig trotter..but we have been going out everyday that i dun have time to prepare.. nvm poor auntie/uncle..they have to be my guinea pigs.. :p

i guess i will blog bit by bit daily of their trip here cos it wud be quite impossible for me to pen a whole week of events in 1 day..lol.