Day 1: Cooking

Today was a cloudy day. It was one of those days when the sky was a uniformly dull grey & you couldn't see where it ended. There was an uneasy feeling of enclosure, of being masked.

We were planning for a Barbeque outing, but decided against it due to the impending weather & consistent laziness. Instead, we went grocery shopping @ the nearby Jurong Point to prepare a home-cooked dinner. There wasn't supposed to be much cooking involved; the trick was to get something that can be made in 5 minutes, then add lots of side ingredients & decorations to make it look cooked up.

So we ended up with spaghetti & sauce, & 2 tubs of ice-cream for dessert. The preparation was a mess; the tiny veggie things need to be rinsed 2-3times to wash off the shells (much like beansprouts), and they keep clinging on to my hands. The fresh shitake mushrooms were fragile & in my regular habit I scrubbed them and pieces broke off. The only part that was easy to handle was cutting the black olives. I just picked them out of the jar using the small knife, like how a pirate would pick his food. So after much tossing & cooking, the fragrant smell of the tomato pasta sauce & tingling sweet aroma of ready-to-eat salmon mix meant it's ready to eat. & this is what we had for dinner:


Looks like we grew some veggie hair on our spaghetti, & that yellowish soil works really well. Whatever, it was tasty & filling. & if one wasn't enough:


A while after that, we dug into our tubs of Wall's ice-cream (which was on offer, $5.60 for 2 1L tubs). The Apricot & Peach was smooth & nice, the fruit bits were soft & edible. The Chocolate & Strawberry is just the usual sweet stuff. Get the A&P, it's nice for the price.

And later that night, I managed to spend 5 hours on my homework (while surfing forums & chatting), & dutifully completed my Physics online assignment. Cheers! One down, more to go.