I had a lot of time on my hands today. Woke up early because I had an ID appointment at Heathrow. I finally got my airside pass for my new job, and finally have a start date. I'm so excited!
After coming back home and preparing breakfast, Pranav left for work. I thought I'd watch a movie. Yes, I can now watch movies alone. In the Cinema. Alone. (Well, I can't wait around for people to be off so we can watch together. I can't even remember the last movie Pranav and I watched together in the theatre). It was raining when I left the house, so I wore a jacket.

I decided to watch Hancock, because I'm a big Will Smith fan...and also because I didn't have much choice. Either that, or I'd have to watch Sex and the City again (which I don't mind)...but Will won over Carrie...and I enjoyed the movie! Yay, good choice!

I passed by the supermarket and bought some stuff I needed for dinner. Also, I was craving for Banana Cake, and since we have a surplus of now-over-ripe bananas, I thought I'd make a cake. The sun decided to come out, after this afternoon's rain, and boy, was it hot!!! why, why, why did I wear a jacket?! I was starting to get masungit, because I had (as usual) so much shopping to carry (got carried away again -- dunno why I can never stick to the list!!! Grrrr). The bus was taking ages to arrive, and there were so many people already at the bus stop (rush hour! ang galing talaga ng timing ko!), and -- if I removed my jacket, I'd have to carry that on top of everything else. After a long wait, the bus arrived, but because I'm such a smarty-pants, I decided to get off at the station and transfer to another bus which stopped closer to home, so I wouldn't have to hassle myself by walking so far. The other bus took even more time to arrive than the first one, and I was actually burning...my face was red as a tomato when I reached home. Na-sun-burn ako, hindi pa pantay-pantay!

After unpacking the groceries, I laid out and measured all the ingredients I needed. I remembered I wanted to use my new hand mixer Pranav gave me several months ago, which I pestered him so much for. I always bake, but I'd mix everything by hand (yep, I wanted 'lovingly baked' to have deeper meaning, and also because I have a weird phobia na baka ma-ground ako). So I began...in less than a minute, my kitchen counters (plus toaster, kettle, mug tree, glasses) and cabinets were covered in butter, flour, eggs and sugar...oh, and mashed ripe bananas! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!! the hand mixer had a life of its own -- like it was possessed! I couldn't work out the speed settings, and the more I switched between the numbers, the more messier my surroundings became, and the contents of the bowl in front of me disappeared - like one minute it was there, the next minute it was gone!... Mom, if you're reading this, where did I go wrong??? why did all my ingredients go flying out of the bowl? Why don't I ever listen to you? All those years I sat watching you bake, why didn't I ever take you up on your offers to try to work the mixer myself, at baket ako takot na takot ma-ground??? I had to re-do everything, and go back to hand-mixing the ingredients. I'm so tired na, and I still have dinner to prepare. I just hope the Banana Cake turns out good.