Thursday, February 21, 2008
I took off for today and yesterday to stay at home and help look after my cousins while their parents went to work. Normally it was my mother who was supposed to look after them. But she happened to find a part-time job working at the singapore airshow, so she was not able to look after my cousins for this whole week. So in the end, I took off to help out. Staying at home meant that I had to do all the chores like laundry and dinner! I think this was the second time I was preparing dinner for my family. And today is the third time. Haha. Anyway dinner yesterday was quite simple because I did not really know how to cook! So it was just boiled cabbage, baked beans with scrambled eggs and braised rib soup. Fortunately everyone was fine after eating my dinner although the taste might be less appealing. My cousins said it tasted okay! But I knew it was below average. And I went to put too much water for my baked beans so in the end it came out rather watery. Oops. I need to practise my cooking more. Actually I don't think I know how to cook very well. Most of what I learn were from observing my mother cook while I was young. Cooking certainly needs more practice in order to perfect one's skills. Well today's menu shall be scrambled eggs, steamed sausages and cabbage soup!
Staying at home without work was definitely more relaxing despite the chores that I had to do. Fortunately I managed to miss out on the 7.5 magnitude earthquake in indonesia yesterday. But still, there is the aftermath to look out for and this will mean more work for me when I return to office tomorrow. At least these two days have allowed me to take time off my work and get some long-needed rest. It's thursday again. I am missing out another session of sports with my friends at work. Time is passing very quickly. I can start counting my ord in months now. It's not exactly very near but it is still something to hope for. Haha.
Anyway I have been facing a backlog of songs to listen to. Albums just keep coming out and I can hardly catch up with the speed. But the album of gary cao and angela zhang never failed to disappoint. Even joi chua, our local singer, had a collection of nice songs. Haha. So I shall spend my day off listening to more songs! I am hungry now. I shall go and cook my lunch then - fried rice. Haha.
What a random post. =)
That's all for now. I am very hungry...stomach growls...
hellmos signing off...Labels: cooking, off
My mind's unweaving/ 3:23 pm
