To everyone celebrating Eid, a blessed Eid Mubarak to you all. Hope you had a wonderful day!
In contrast to my dreadful last year Eid, this year is actually pretty good. Different, but good. Last year's was spent alone, in the nightmare that was the looming thesis submission date. This year, even though I still have quite a lot of assignments due in a week or so, I managed to enjoy the day as well as I can. My brother didn't go home this year so we spent the day together just trying to recapture that Eid warmth and ended up enjoying each other's company. We went to my Uni to join the Eid prayer in the morning and then went to my place to pick up some stuff, and went to his place to cook Eid food. We cooked
ketupat (rice packets),
beef rendang and
gulai kambing. The ketupat turned out OK, but the other two just barely made it. We didn't realise it would take so long to make the two dishes that we ended up grilling some lamb sashlicks while waiting because we were starved. It was pretty funny how clueless we both are in the kitchen, but in the end, the food still tastes good, albeit a little dry! I stayed the night at my brother's place and we cooked some more for dinner.
I went to work straight from my brother's place this morning and now I am smashed. I haven't been able to sleep well for the last week or so and it's starting to get on me. I keep waking up in my sleep every hour or so, and this causes me to feel exhausted during the day. I tried sleeping early, hoping that a long sleep would help me, but it just doesn't do anything. If it keeps happening then I am doomed cause I have exams coming up in November. Ugh, that dreadful dreadful time of the semester again. Meh. At least I'll get to go home after exams. I'm flying back to Jakarta for about a month and I seriously can't wait!
Oh, I watched Wicked last week and it was amazing! I've read the book a long while back and didn't really like it, but I thought I'd watch it because I like some of the songs and I wanted to see Millsy as Fiyero. The show I went to was the 100th show and as luck would have it, both Elphie and Fiyero was acted by the understudies. It was still great, but I would've loved to see Millsy :P Still, I had a wonderful time and had some lovely Ozmopolitan, and I'm thinking about going again cause they've just announced some new shows. On the other hand, I also want to watch Rocky Horror and Billy Elliot, and if I go to all it would kill my bank account, obviously. Oh decisions, decisions, decisions. It would be a little sad seeing it again, though, because the actor who played the Wizard had stroke yesterday and died this morning. It's very sudden and such a loss. He was brilliant on stage.