for my two-month anniversay here, i had initally thought of blogging about things here that make me excercise my facial muscles upwards. but a sudden bout of nostalgia caused me to switch directions and i have decided to focus on the things i miss about singapore instead.
my family. saturday evenings at sushi tei. steamboat galore. discovery travel and adventure channel. my girlfriends back home- ade darr den diana zhu. teh halia for breakfast and supper. brunch at lazy gourmet. red bean bun. my cousins. windows on bukit. coffee bean's cranberry muffin breakfast set. orchard road. 8days.
so it has been a rather uninspiring school week but things are bound to brigthen up! so says, miss optimistic here. kiku and i prepared another asian dinner where we prepared chicken soup and hainanese chicken rice rice -vanessa!, i swear this is a coincidence-
as kiku was stuck at the taiwanese embassy, settling visa application matters, i decided to chop the chicken first so that dinner would be served in time.. what can i say? the meat was almost resistant to my blunt ikea knife and by the time i got to the seventh drumstick, defeatism took over and a new-found respect for butchers surfaced. i am frankly surprised all ten fingers of mine are still intact after that trecherous wrestle.
using a recipe g-mailed to her by her mum, kiku took charge of the chicken soup with black mushrooms. the authentically asian chef-d'oeuvre was pungent with flavour and a winner in hot-soup-for-winter-nights department. as if one mother isn't enough, i have mine to thank for the hainanese chicken rice mix. unfortunately, my culinary skills were not proficient enough for quantity-control and the rice ended up slightly charred on the bottom.. nonethless a spoonful was enough to send me lusting for more native delicacies.
best of all, i am so full.. the fullest i have ever felt in my entire stay here. i feel like i should be expecting contractions soon. NEEDS-TO-LIE-DOWN.
i had a great night. but it was tiring. physically and to a larger extent, psychologically.
today there were eight of us, a number which swelled from the original four. i'm not complaining about the numbers as long as everyone leaves the table tum-tied but it felt awful to exclude others, especially since the two of us could only handle so much. above all, i cannot handle the look upon the faces of those who stepped into the kitchen, bewildered by the commotion and puzzled by the lack of invitation. it makes me wince. unable to face them, i often find myself staring into the granduer of half-eaten mess. of course, i would dislike it even more to be in their position yet sometimes i wish there weren't so many social obligations.
anyway, while the others went out to play (i.e drink at the school bar), i poured over numerous wallpaper websites to find a new background for my blog. no kidding.. haha..how happening.. instead of partying my two-month anniversary away, i would rather google interior design websites to locate wallpaper designers. sigh, but i could not help but fall in love with the designers guild website, at the risk of drooling all over my keyboard. ooo and i tweaked a little here and there to personalise the right bar. and finally after two hours, i'm satisfied at last.
designers guild
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