house warming
last night we had our offical house warming (flat-warming?) party. my shanghainese flatmate invited one of our closest-living schoolmates to dinner, which in itself was not a bad idea. the bad idea was not telling me about it before inviting them. it irked me that i only found out the same time the guests found out. in short - she invited them in front of the uninformed flatmate. talk about respecting your rights to the flat. (which, if you get into the economics of the thing, is more mine than anyone else's, since i pay a bigger chunk of the rent.) but anyway. it was fun. mainly because i get to hang out with people MUCH more interesting than my own flatmates. hahaha. (i'd post pictures if this weren't such a public site. sorry, personal preference.)
the food, according to the guests, was excellent. and we cooked more than enough for six people. that's the chinese for you - always an excess in food. too much is better than too little. the FFH (flatmate from hell) did not do such a bad job cooking, i think. but she did not really do an excellent job, either. (she pan-fried the mashed potatoes, for who knows what reason. it did NOT improve the taste, i should say.) the other mainland chinese flatmate (the guy) did a better job cooking. i think he's a better cook than she is. but they are BOTH messier cooks than i am. i spent most of the time cleaning up after them, because if i had left them to their own devices, the whole kitchen would look like the aftermath of hurricane katrina. not kidding.
oh, and i had to do damage control when the guy used ceasar's salad dressing on the fruit salad. (holy cow, where do these people COME FROM?!?!) but it was funny, and we all had a good laugh about it.
the guests were just super. they're all attending the same school, and they are in the same three programs we are. the dinner table was populated by two m a's, two m sc's, and two m archs. two mainland chinese, one filipino (guess who, haha), one egyptian, one belgian, and one hongkong resident who studied in the united states, so she's sort of chinese-american. three girls, three guys. a great mix, don't you think?
dinner conversation was excellent. i did not get bored out of my wits, or insane with bad english. (by that, you can tell which people dominated the conversation. harhar.) we tried to learn a little dutch, which was close to impossible, but nevertheless entertaining. having these people over for dinner just made me wish i had cooler flatmates like them. as it is now, i'm the only cool person in the flat. okay, fine, the chilean guy is pretty cool, too. haha.
at the end of dinner, the guests even helped clean up. they are just really the best. but what i appreciated most was the decent conversation they provided. not exactly deep or philosophical or intelligent. but enough to keep my brain from atrophying.
now why do i have to be stuck living with such small-minded people?
oh, right. because they're chinese.
*sigh*
the food, according to the guests, was excellent. and we cooked more than enough for six people. that's the chinese for you - always an excess in food. too much is better than too little. the FFH (flatmate from hell) did not do such a bad job cooking, i think. but she did not really do an excellent job, either. (she pan-fried the mashed potatoes, for who knows what reason. it did NOT improve the taste, i should say.) the other mainland chinese flatmate (the guy) did a better job cooking. i think he's a better cook than she is. but they are BOTH messier cooks than i am. i spent most of the time cleaning up after them, because if i had left them to their own devices, the whole kitchen would look like the aftermath of hurricane katrina. not kidding.
oh, and i had to do damage control when the guy used ceasar's salad dressing on the fruit salad. (holy cow, where do these people COME FROM?!?!) but it was funny, and we all had a good laugh about it.
the guests were just super. they're all attending the same school, and they are in the same three programs we are. the dinner table was populated by two m a's, two m sc's, and two m archs. two mainland chinese, one filipino (guess who, haha), one egyptian, one belgian, and one hongkong resident who studied in the united states, so she's sort of chinese-american. three girls, three guys. a great mix, don't you think?
dinner conversation was excellent. i did not get bored out of my wits, or insane with bad english. (by that, you can tell which people dominated the conversation. harhar.) we tried to learn a little dutch, which was close to impossible, but nevertheless entertaining. having these people over for dinner just made me wish i had cooler flatmates like them. as it is now, i'm the only cool person in the flat. okay, fine, the chilean guy is pretty cool, too. haha.
at the end of dinner, the guests even helped clean up. they are just really the best. but what i appreciated most was the decent conversation they provided. not exactly deep or philosophical or intelligent. but enough to keep my brain from atrophying.
now why do i have to be stuck living with such small-minded people?
oh, right. because they're chinese.
*sigh*
posted by super inday at 6:29 am
2 Comments:
Great to finally see you settled in :-) Do tell us about AA soon --- and PLEASE post if ever you see Rem Koolhaas. Am not sure if he teaches there, but who knows, that's where he studied.
By the way, Dutch is quite tricky; it might give you a sore throat ;-)
Het Oranje Cocktail
we had a london-based project with dutch contractors, we had to learn the dutch terms for cladding, flashing, and curtain wall elements!!!
:P
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