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Farewell Zairis
Just said my goodbye to Zairis. She'll be leaving tomorrow morning at 0400hrs. That's 4 o'clock in the morning! The taxi is going to pick her up from here. Wished her a safe flight back and of course, the customary good luck wishes. And gave her a huge bag of freshly baked cookies to munch on while waiting for her flight. She'll return in September, but I won't be around. It was my pleasure, good fortune to have met her. Oh well, we can always keep in touch via email.

Evening Fika
Made three types of cookies today for the fika; chocolate chip, cornflake and rasins, and cornflake coconut cookies. And I have to say they were rather well received.

"Umm... Delicious."
"These are great!"
"Can I have one more before I leave?"

I'm glad. But as usual, I made too much. Somehow, I just cannot seem to estimate the right amount to make. There were too much left over. My cookies plus Jana's two cakes were simply too much for the people at fika this evening.

My cornflake cookies seemed to be more well received than the Famous A chocolate chip cookies. Don't really know why. But I'm glad as well, since the new (and better) recipe was created only today by yours truly. Then again, the base for most cookies is the same; flour, sugar, egg, butter, and of course, the all important salt. It's amazing what that tiny little bit can do to enhance the taste. I have to thank my grandmother for teaching my mum that, who then in turn taught me.

There were lesser people than usual. Only about 12 compared to the 18 and more usually. Plus, half the the 12 who turned up today are newbies. And they didn't eat much. Good thing some so kindly took the cookies back with them. And I only had to a little left to take back to the apartment. Well, that meant Zairis had a little more cookies in that already huge bag I gave her.

Sunday Mass
Today is Palm Sunday. And I took the first reading and the Passion as well. I was the 'People' in the Passion; the one who took all the speaking parts except those of Christ; the one who shouted "Crucify him! Crucify him!". It was fun really. My first time doing the Passion like that. I never would have the chance back home. Only the official lecterns can read.

Research
Well, those who follow my posts will probably know thing aren't going very smoothly, but I'm still cautiously optimistic. For fabrication, I think things will turn out ok. I hope. While for the Machine... It simply didn't read the in-house ladder (IHL). I checked it and the commercial ladder on conventional gel and both looked good except that the IHL bands were weaker. So maybe it's the concentration that affecting the Machine. Hopefully, it can read the IHL when I increase the concentration of the rungs. Fingers crossed. Otherwise, I really don't know what I should or can do.

Weather
It's much warmer now, mostly above 0C. This evening it was 10C when I left for Church. This is considered freaking hot to me now! I even brought out my thinner jacket to wear, instead of using the thicker fleece jacket.

I noticed one thing though. Almost everyone here wears jackets of only these colours: black, dark blue, some brown, a few grey. No one seems to have what I have - beige. I stand out so much wearing that. Feels odd. But, who cares. I've grown to be thick skinned here. Thicker...

Not thick enough to request for a new chair at SLU. The one I have now is so uncomfortable. It's like sitting on a horse. Very bad for your jewels. I've managed to find a position that is slightly more comfortable, but still... I ought to take a picture of it and show how bad this chair is for men. Heck, even the women there don't like sitting on those chairs. I seem to be the only one using it. Maybe it's because I haven't made any complaints about it.

I digressed.

Most of the snow has melted away. In fact, I don't see any snow on the steets at all now, and the gravel is also almost all cleared off. Excellent.

I kind of miss the snow though.

South Park Mood Characters
Seeing how I've been entertained by South Park here, I present... My own South Park character. Modelled after me, of course. I'll place one at the end of each post (if appropriate) to reflect my current mood. Today's mood is 'Happy'. Pretty obvious, ain't it? The angel wings, heaven. What else can that possibly be? Died and gone to heaven? That's a happy thing as well!