My flatmate the redhead (that's the half brit-half swiss guy), has an intriguing strategy where girls are concerned. He invites them to our kitchen and cooks a nice meal for them. Last week was one girl, this week it's another girl and next week is yet another "lucky lady" according to him. He says he only fancies the last one and the others are just very good friends. Man, this is so interesting. I never knew guys did this sort of "way to the heart through the stomach" thing. I can't help being amused. We shall see if his strategy works well.

The Iranian guy has recently developed a habit of telling me the strangest things.
1. Last week he told me that the reddish sauce he was cooking with was made of boiled potatoes. I was really intrigued and puzzled. How do you get boiled potatoes to go so red? Do you add food colouring to it? Then, he was confused and said no, you just boil the potatoes. Then I asked, " erm, do you mean TOMATOES?" Yes, he did.

2. He asked if I knew the biggest planet in the solar system.

Me: Yes. That's Jupiter

Iranian: No. It's Mars.

Me: What? It's obviously Jupiter, the gas giant.

Iranian: That's the one with the rings around it yes?

Me: No. That's Saturn. Seriously, Jupiter is the biggest planet. Earth is the third planet from the sun, Mars is the fourth. But Mars is definitely not the biggest planet.

Iranian: (looks like he is thinking really hard for a while) Oh. I think you are right. I was taking about Mars but Mars is not the biggest planet.

And the funniest thing is that what he wanted to tell me in the first place was that the head of the team in NASA in charge of the recent project that brought back soil samples from Mars was an Iranian. And was had to go through a whole discussion on the relative size of planets to get to the point.

Honestly, I don't know if the problem lies with him or me. Like when I say "American Psycho' He hears " Merica Cycle" Do I blame the Singaporean accent or the Iranian one? But communication problems notwithstanding, I quite enjoy talking to him because he tells me just the weirdest things out of the blue. Reminds me a little of Azeena in AJ a long time ago.

Yesterday, one of my colleagues in French class remarked that I spoke with an American accent. Weird...

But it is things like this that keep me amused.