Making the most of my break

I went to play in a table-tennis competition today, my last for this school year, since I'm starting my internship next week. It was a team event, in which I had already participated for the last two years, and which I described before. This year I only played against two other teams, the first one being one of the better ones from INSA and the second one from another uni. I pretty much got thrashed by the other girls...in the first match all three of us lost badly, so it wasn't that bad, but in the second one the guys were pretty close in skill, and my teammates passed the game to me after their two singles with us leading 44-31 (if I remember correctly) But I managed only 10 points against the other girl while she breezed past me to get to 66 -_- (so in fact she beat me 35-10 :/ ) But then if we were playing a normal game I'd probably have lost 11-2 or 11-3, so it was to be expected... (I was playing with the ranked players okay!)

But it was a slight consolation that I managed one nice smash with the ball barely higher than the net ^_^ (yep, only one...none of the other attempts worked! lol) In fact, the other girl was good, but not too good (which was why I had the chance to smash at all) but still too good for me! (hehe, getting a headache yet?)

Back home I made myself a pasta dish for dinner (there was a water cut this morning so I made sandwiches for lunch...and I was hungry for a warm meal!) It was a recipe I had on my calendar, but I adapted it to suit the ingredients I have (as usual :P ) It turned out pretty good!


If you're interested, the recipe called for mussels which were to be cooked with white wine, but I had neither, so I used prawns. I fried garlic in the olive oil, then added the prawns, and when the prawns were cooked, I took them out (and threw away the garlic, because that's what the recipe said...but maybe I could have just chopped it up and left it in as well) Then I fried the diced tomatoes (there was supposed to be chopped onions with it, but I didn't have any left), added in button mushrooms (sliced) because I had some left, and added parsley, salt and pepper to taste (the recipe only asks for salt to be added in cooking the pasta, but since I always cook pasta without salt, I had to put the salt elsewhere) Then I mixed the prawns in and poured the sauce over the pasta.

Well, simple enough...let me know if you have any other simple ideas to add to it (I can't be bothered with complicated ones :P )

By the way I'm kinda in a good mood, which is probably why I'm blogging :) I'm not quite sure why...call it the after-effects of the great performance I went to see last night, with Pei Xin and Mah (yay, this time I didn't have to go alone :P ) I wrote about the same performance last year...I didn't mention it in that post (probably because I was still feeling sore about it) but I was supposed to go on Thursday (they do the same performance three nights in a row, from Wednesday to Friday) with some other friends, but I didn't get a ticket in advance, and by the time I reached there there were no places left. So (for some inexplicable reason) I decided to forgo badminton on Friday night and go there instead...even though my initial reason for wanting to go on Thursday was because I wanted to play badminton on Friday! Call me crazy...

So this year I've learnt my lesson and went to get the tickets in advance. lol And it turned out that there were even more people I knew...I think the whole ex-ASINSA band went crazy over dancing :P