Had quite a fulfilling day today, not that I accomplished lots of things, but I just felt that it was time well spent. Went to school in the morning to practise, then I met Poot and we went to the city centre together. First stop was Argos, where I got a pair of headphones for studio composition this term. Now I can finally stop borrowing Poot's pair, so bad lor, though I only borrowed it from her to use on three occasions. Sort of regret forgetting that I should have asked whoever went back to Singapore for the Christmas holidays to help me buy a pair of headphones. Cos at the price I got mine, I could have been able to get a pair of Sennheiser ones for the equivalent in Singapore dollars, albeit a low-end one probably. Oh well...

Next, we were about to head to Gregg's, where we usually like to buy baguettes for lunch. And their baguettes are really well worth the price. For just 1.5 pounds, you get a very very long baguette stuffed so full that I usually have trouble eating it without stuff spilling out of the bread. That was when Poot noticed the offer advertised in the window of the KFC outlet across the road from Gregg's. It was a 2-piece chicken meal at 2.99 pounds. I know I know, it's really expensive if you convert it to Singapore dollars, but it was the temptation of something affordable after not having eaten KFC for dunno-how-long. So too bad, we gave Gregg's a miss and had lunch at KFC instead. Lots of people were having the 2-piece meal too. They only have the original chicken though, no crispy, which is what I'll usually crave for cos the chilli in the crispy chicken is just too hauntingly unforgettable. But it was still good, oily, tender and piping hot. Their fries are nicer too, it's a bit chunkier than the normal KFC/Mac's fries. So it was the kind of fries I like, crispy but with soft insides. Yum. Heh I'm like totally not even putting any effort into my plan not to gain any more weight this year. Damn.

After lunch we headed for the indoor market where I got some nuts and to the outdoor market where I got some grapes. Then we went to Allegro Music to get manuscript paper, cos I used up quite a lot of what Zhuomin and Ruth gave us, and left Poot with quite very little. Oops, ok, it's entirely my fault, now I feel so bad for Poot. At first I was going to share a pad with her since I think I might still do paper composition next year, but I guess it was more convenient for us to each buy our own. Just feel bad that Poot had to fork out money to get manuscript paper when I used so many pieces of free ones!

Our last stop was the Central Library, to borrow books for our upcoming essay dateline. Sighs. Trying to switch back to mugger/nerd mode. But it was quite irritating cos there were only limited resources and quite a lot of the books that we thought might be useful were in the reference section. Bleah. We're going back tomorrow, armed with laptops, paper, and cameras! Don't care...

For dinner, we cooked chicken rice at Poot's place. The packet says it's for 3-4 servings, but after eating a serving each, there was still enough left for probably another 4 meals lor. They were probably thinking of people with huge appetites. Of course we also helped Poot finish up her yellowing broccoli, but it wasn't really that much vegetables. So it was definitely the rice and chicken. I took pity on Poot and 'helped' her by bringing three packets of potato chips (ok, here they call it crisps) back to my room in the end. We originally each bought a 24-pack bag of chips last term, when we were super busy doing our second essay and totally craving for such things all the time (or at least I was). She still has some left (as opposed to piggy me, who finished all 24 packets long ago last term), and she just discovered that they expire this February. I was telling her that my flatmates might think I'm mad (if they don't already think so), like 'she went out with her bowl, fork, spoon, and a freezer bag containing some black thing (Poot's headphones), and she came back with her fork + spoon (I left my bowl sitting in her fridge with 3/4 of the leftover rice), three packets of crisps, and a book (my score which I left at Poot's earlier). Maybe she ate the black stuff and cracked her bowl, so her friend gave her crisps to console her!' LOL