The rest had to sit for an exam today, while I spent my time trying to study for the last paper. Since they had the paper in the evening and was scheduled to end only at 9pm, I did all the shopping and cooking alone in the house. Not trying to show off or anything, but it comes as an accomplishment to be able to shop, prepare and cook dinner in 1 hour all by myself. I never had to do everything myself back at home, given the fact that I've got 2 top class maids at home. So in that sense, it was never always something I did by myself, it was a team-effort. Over here, even if I hated chopping onions, even if I found peeling garlic tedious, even if I thought cooking rice without a rice cooker was impossible, I did them all.
Tom-yum soup without the looks (yea the stove is in bad shape too), but it still packed a punch. In the process of cooking, I realised I was missing out a key ingredient, but thanks to some quick thinking, I may have just found a perfect substitute unknowingly! It shall be a secret for now! Muahaha.
After almost 5 months of hesitation and personal discrimination towards cauliflower and its sibling the brocoli, I gave in today and tried cooking the former. Of course this was just boiling the vegetable, a subsequent process of stir-frying it with garlic, mushrooms and finishing off with starch was still to be done. Yeah I think the rest liked it. Well I'll just say that its good to have a change in dishes every now and then. Haha.
Efficiency in cooking. Time-saving production of dinner using multiple inputs at minimum costs.
Yea its the fourth last home cooked dinner before it will be twenty days of Mcdonalds, kebabs, chips, beer, chocolate and the like.
Somehow, towards the end of this exchange, everything just seems to get better, so much to look forward to, I think I just found the song of the moment to describe this too!
It takes two floors to make a storey
It takes an egg to make a hen
It takes a hen to make an egg
There is no end to what I'm saying
It takes a thought to make a word
And it takes some words to make an action
And it takes some work to make it work
It takes some good to make it hurt
It takes some bad for satisfaction
Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful
Ah la la la la la la life goes full circle
Ah la la la la life is wonderful
Ah la la la la la
It takes a night to make it dawn
And it takes a day to make you yawn brother
And it takes some old to make you young
It takes some cold to know the sun
It takes the one to have the other
And it takes no time to fall in love
But it takes you years to know what love is
And it takes some fears before I trust
It takes those tears to make it rust
It takes the rust to have it polished
Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful
Ah la la la la la la life goes full circle
Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful
Ah la la la la
It takes some silence to make sound
And it takes a loss before you found it
And it takes a road to go nowhere
It takes a toll to show you care
It takes a hole to make a mountain
Ah la la la la la life is wonderful
Ah la la la la la life goes full circle
Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful
Ah la la la la la life is meaningful
Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful
Ah la la la la la life is meaningful
Ah la la la la la la life is full of
Ah la la la la la life is so full of love
Ah la la la la la life is wonderful
Ah la la la la la la life is meaningful
Ah la la la la la life is full of
Ah la la la la la life is so full of love
The end of the 3 week European Expedition is topped off by this concert. How can it not be wonderful?
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