So very painful, this.

Guy : Maximising our utility from this meeting would result in…
Girl : FOCs?
Guy : Let me get our coats!
[P.S. May I remind you that it's unethical to groan at jokes conceived during revision! ]

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I am Vertical – Sylvia Plath

But I would rather be horizontal.
I am not a tree with my root in the soil
Sucking up minerals and motherly love
So that each March I may gleam into leaf,
Nor am I the beauty of a garden bed
Attracting my share of Ahs and spectacularly painted,
Unknowing I must soon unpetal.

Compared with me, a tree is immortal
And [...]

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Mad about (Ptasie) Mleczko!

‘Intelligent googling’, a word undoubtedly very popular amongst most Econ Analysis students this year, would inform you that Ptasie Mleczko literally translates to ‘Bird’s Milk’! Before your mind wanders off to unorthodox scenarios involving lactating avians and such, this is a kind of Polish confectionery made out of very milky marshmallow covered in milk [...]

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