Les œufs avec du boeuf, des tomates et une saucisse

I woke up Monday morning to a disastrous display on my laptop – colours were wildly off where orange became blue, and blue became a tangent of odd white, and I’m confounded: did the heater in my room melt the liquid in the LCD? Did my leaving my laptop on 24/7 nearly everyday has finally taken a toll on my LCD screen or my graphics card? Or is my laptop just dying of old age, considering that I’ve recently replaced the DVD drive when it refused to read or burn discs?

Sigh. I thought of replacing my laptop (I thought I can survive with these exceedingly ugly graphics for a semester, but now I’ve second thoughts), but for the same model in Australia (at least, for the Dell Studio 15 laptop that I looked up), it’s at least RM1k more expensive than purchasing in Malaysia, no thanks to the extremely unattractive exchange rate right now. What should I do?

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And here’s a tour of my ‘house’! I took these on Monday while I was about to leave to head to the city and use the Internet in my uni’s computer lab.

My room! The curtains were rolled up just for this picture – I normally had them rolled down.

Um yeah, I don’t plan on rearranging the mess that is my bags near the door.

The hallway right outside of my door. I forgot to snap a pic of my toilet & shower (yeah they’re both.. separate, for some horribly odd reason – means I have to break away from my routine of crapping then shower wtf), but they’re to the right as you walk down a bit from this hallway.

Staircase.

And right after the staircase, you’ll see the kitchen which doubles up as a “common room” – no television, despite what Jessie (the staff of Rooms International) told me, but it’s not like I’d watch the telly anyway.

The opposite angle of the kitchen.

Outside of my ‘house’ – the first blue door you see in the picture (roughly in the middle of this pic) is where I live.

The exit to the streets.

The laundry area, where you can also park your bikes, and at the end of this path is a shack.

The shack contains an ironing board, a coin-operated washing machine ($3) and a coin-operated dryer ($2) – all of which I’ve yet to use, especially since I’ve been washing clothes while I’m showering now.

Walsh St – where I’m located at. It’s a pretty quiet street (and a quiet area too), and it takes only about 5 minutes to walk to Queen Victoria’s Market, which means it’s kinda scary to walk back at night but I was told it’s a relatively safe area, so we’ll see about that.

My place – Walsh West Residence.

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My forays into the world of culinary delights saw me eating toast bread and boiled beef and honey sausages for three nights straight – Monday night (the third night) saw me eating the same food while watching the 2nd episode of the first season of Nip/Tuck, with the additional ingredient being the chilli sauce I used from my housemate without permission, and just as I was about to finish my meal, I realised that the sausages were actually only half-cooked fml.

Then this morning (Tuesday), Ethan came over to my place after purchasing some stuffs at Woolworths, QV, and started whipping up spaghetti for the both of us – it wasn’t restaurant-worthy, but I must say it was quite edible and I’m not complaining, and it beats eating cereals for a change (my lunches these days were mostly brunches).

And so, with the knowledge of spaghetti-cooking (or rather, minced beef) from Ethan and omelette-making from Matt, I fused the two ideas and I present to you les œufs avec du boeuf, des tomates et une saucisse:

My signature dish coming to a diner near you. Ingredients used: sunflower oil, minced beef, Italian spices (peppered a little on the beef), two “extra large” eggs (looked pretty normal-sized to me), cut cherry tomatoes, and toast bread.

The way I used to eat it – with toast bread, what else.

Clem approved!

I was actually worried whether I had done it properly, ‘cause the beef that I peppered into the egg (mixed with soy milk, as per Matt’s suggestion since I can’t ingest milk) was still pink and not brown.. until I realised that I had to flip the beef over to get the entire thing properly cooked. And it actually tasted kinda good. ^_^

..except for the fact that I had intended my eggs to turn into an omelette and it ended up as scrambled eggs instead wtf.

So in the end, I took about an hour and 20 minutes to prepare the thing, eat it, and wash up – a waste of good time if you ask me. >_> And I’m still light years away to becoming even remotely good in cooking.