Friday, October 28, 2005
next time, whenever your friends tease you and get you annoyed, never never never use the phrase,
'leave me alone!'
because, right after you have said that, your friend will ask you to get out of his house.
that was what happened to me.
marcus, albert and wai ling would not stop teasing me (as if it was part of their survival reflex actions and without doing that, they would die). i couldnt take it any longer and so i used that forbidden phrase mentioned above. (we were at marcus' house fixing the puzzle). and so you should be able to guess what marcus, the owner of that house, said.
so, you should say,
'leave me alone - verbally!!'
but then, again, it is not entirely right to do so as your friends will still ask you to get out of the house or they will choose to totally ignore you.
which is better, i dont know.
haha. yeah and so i had been going over to marcus' house to fix clarence's puzzle - the one which was supposed to be his last year's birthday present but is gonna be carried forward to this year's simply because that 2000-piece puzzle was not completely fixed.
people might think that fixing a puzzle is as simple as feeding the goldfish in the tank, but really, it gets very tough when you have to fix the background (which is ALL brown). all remaining 500 (i think) pieces of jig-saw are ALL BROWN. like how do you complete it?
trial-and-error? that was what we did - trying to fit a single jig-saw into the three-quarter-completed puzzle by trying to force it to fit into one of those empty spaces.
we started on monday(for the background) and we completed it today(thursday).
that sense of achievement when you stand up staring down at the wonderfully-completed winnie-the-pooh puzzle is simply overwhelming.
you would want to have a celebration with loads of chocos and ice-cream.
but honestly, i would never want to go through this again.
though it trains one's patience, it highly demoralizes you at the same time, when you cant seem to find out where that teeny piece of jig-saw actually belongs to. (and when you have friends around you declaring the number of pieces they had fixed so far, yet you had only fitted one in.)
yeah, nonetheless, i thank god that it's completed!
besides fixing the puzzle today(though albert was the one who did most of it today), we bought vegetables to make ourselves dinner. this decision was led to by the fact that marcus and i were broke and could only spend our coins which added up to a total of $1.20. being nice and kind, albert offered to pay for the remaining cost for the vege. we bought baby corn, mushroom, kai lan, toufu and potatoes. it was a vegetarian meal! wahahaha!! so considerate of them, right?
but anyway, marucs did the cooking and albert did the fixing of the puzzle.
what was i doing?
i was learning culinary skills from marcus and occasionally helping albert with my trial-and-error skills.
so yeah, i have learnt how to cook! (i hope)
i seriously think i have talent in cooking!
i shall make myself a very nice dinner some time soon.
and i shall invite my friends over! (if they are willing to and if they do not demoralize me by telling me that i would burn my house down or they would die after eating my food)
yeahh!!! after i have fully mastered the art of cooking, i am qualified to get married and to cook for my husband!!
then, my husband and children will have nice and nutritious food everyday!
i shall go to the market and i shall cook everyday!!
oh wait.
that sounds kinda tiring and a bit too housewife-y.
i dont really like cooking that much actually.
i saw the way marcus cooked and how stressed he got when he found the gravy 'disgusting' (quoted from his mouth. even though i actually found it nice).
hmms, maybe my tastebuds arent working that well.
well, maybe my husband shall do the cooking and i shall do the dishes afterall! =)
great! we separate the duties!! =)
loves pretty things
- 1:45 AM
