cff dinner.

We (manhua) had cny dinner on sat. And here was what my mom prepared for us:

cold appetisers -
prawn and mango salad
egg salad
cold tofu

main -
vegetable stew (cream base)
spaghetti with tomato base and german sausages
shephard's pie
grilled chicken with rosemary and lemon herb sauce

And who could forget dessert? A lovely raspberry and peach trifle that stole my heart with it's creamy but light concoction, topped with tart raspberries to balance the sweet cream and tinned peaches. And my mom finally perfected her double choc brownies!!! They were exactly like mrs field's brownies - super fudgy in the centre with generous chunks of milk and white swiss chocs. Sinful indeed, but worth all the calories and future exercises. Of course, being herself, my mom was worried that we would get sick of all those creamy, chocolately goodness, so she prepared a light almond jelly cocktail as well (much to our delight, then dismay as we couldnt possibly finish everything).

Ah, back to our manhua activities. Well, all i remembered was moving around my room bringing out Clamp works, then appleseed, then more Clamp works, a bunny suicide book, petshop pf horrors, Clamp again... and the 2 mokona plushies (from Clamp; photo above) for my group members. It was a rather quiet evening spent as they were all reading comics, other than 3 hardcore Clamp fanatics who spent their time taking photos of the 2 plushies. But after dinner, i decided to teach them taiwan heart attack (ha!)... it was chaotic (2 members had small cuts on their hands due to someone else's fingernails). Haha, i almost thought we wouldnt be able to start discussing about our project, but eventually we did, over desserts. Jiaming deserves special mention for being such a dear to come down all the way frm jurong east after doing a news article at 2100 (aka late. but then again he had a gd reason.) Hehe, thanks man.

kudos to my fantastic mom again for being herself. I feel so blessed (as always, i swear). =)