Xianhong and I went to town to buy his birthday present and surprise surprise, there was a spanish fair but we aren't going to try anything because we would be going to see the real spanish stuff after exams! Anyway, shopping with him is always a role reversal, I (the girl) would beg to leave and look terribly bored while he (the guy) would try on clothes and strut around =) so it was a SACRIFICE on my part to go with him to choose his bermudas and t-shirt (it is that warm now on some days).
While others prepared the barbeque later in the day, which included the birthday boy who insisted on being involved (I would have sat back and lazed), I baked a chocolate mousse cake for him and drew a picture, a sort of birthday card using cornflake box!
The barbeque started late but it's alright because at 9.00pm, the sky still looked about 5.00pm. We had fried beehoon, chicken wings and fillets, sausages, satay and chocolate banana... yummy! In between, the birthday people received their presents: traffic-stopping jacket, wallet and polo t-shirt for Xianhong and bunny girl band and dunnowat for Yuen Mei.
We barbequed until really late, night has fallen and it was chilly! No wonder we saw people barbequeing in the afternoon the other day, we thought that was an odd hour but now we know why. We scampered off as soon as we cleared up and went into the common room to sing happy birthday song and cut cake. Then we played polar bear and it was hilarious to see Xianhong, who sat beside me, insisting that I was one of the polar bears but nobody wanted to kill me (i really was one of the polar bears).
The next day, I baked cupcakes for breakfast! and sesame bread for lunch. Lucky guy, he gets all his favourite food on his birthday! 
In the afternoon, we went to the swimming pool. It was my first time in an indoor pool and it was cool! I meant the water was warm but the place had huge timers and after a while, water polo players had a practice session (now is a good time to add that Loughborough is a famous sports university, having won the track nationals and female football and a rugby team so powerful that even a Wales under-21 was not included in the starting line-up).
Unfortunately, no photographs were allowed except those we sneakily took!
No fair! All the food did nothing for merger to occur!
Hurry before the lifeguards pounce on us!
The guys were fascinated with the blow-dryer as it showed how long their hair had grown... too expensive to cut here
We were famished and had a sumptuous dinner (as usual) before watching shows. I can't believe this, but I was hooked on Return of the Condor Heroes. It was a China production and the girl acting as Xiao Long Nv was ever so pretty but what a pity, I liked the character Cheng Ying better. Then we had Vienetta ice-cream cake before retiring for the night feeling satisfied.
But I did read about Versailles and determined to see it. The queue there was super long and anyway, the garden alone was impressive enough. At the top of the stairs, one could see a long path stretching ahead with a central man-made lake and gardens at the side.
