a) New ABC friend and hulky, happy first-year Arthur's dinner - yes, that's all his. Wah, that's all newbies are - food, hyperactive crazytalk and most annoyingly masculine competitiveness.
b) My new bowl. It vanished from the kitchen cupboard the day after purchase and with much wringing of hands I decided to storm the boys' kitchens (on the first and third floors - girls on the second). First floor - I knocked on someone's door to ask for door code and the very very stoned occupant just STARED at me for about five minutes as if he had never heard anything so audacious (speak for his sex; the week before there was a boy in plaid pyjamas knocking on our door asking for a can opener). Third floor - "We have a kitchen?" After I got in, I realised that boys do not own bowls, or utensils for that matter. No effing wonder.
On unrelated note, my mum's emails are joy to read (attempting to bolster my burgeoning cooking career she is sending me a food parcel) -

I took out the Horsin sauce and put in 3 packets of Instant Udon and a ladle. The following are in the box:
1 pot
1 ladle
4 pkg of biscuit
3 Japanese curry: I pack 2 of the same kind into 1 box
1 Thai green curry
4 instant porriage
3 instant udon
2 pkg of fruity sweet
I will send it on Monday. Enjoy your meals!!

Exhibit B is football, or Whitest UVA Tradition I have witnessed thus far.

For starters, we were there to raise concession funds for S'pore Club activities, if we wound up wiping ketchup and mustard stains at condiment stands - what's more Singaporean than bitching about possible race marginalization and shutting up on hearing we'd be earning five hundred dollars? It's also brainwash-amazing to roar and wave fists for dear old UVA once you don some orange.

"Traditions" - (top row from left) types of attire; tailgating - have a picnic from the trunk of your car because.. (bottom row) all food stands rip you off (don't know how much this American ice kachang would cost but I'm guessing nothing under four dollars); kilted security.

This one is "Weaned on Football", self-explanatory.
And still productive weekend! Have been assigned to the Albermarle High School Adult Learning Centre where I'll be helping adults from varying immigrant backgrounds practise English as a second language every Wednesday from the week after next. And first independently pitched article for tableau will be out on Thursday. Suddenly - this is exactly what I want to be doing.