Pots & Pans

The next moment when I am awake from my sleep, will be the start of Thursday. Yeah, weekend is near, moreover its a long weekend because next Monday is Columbus Day.

*Phew* I just got myself out of the kitchen for preparing tomorrow's dinner. This is the 4th consecutive day that I am in the kitchen. Looking at my massive stock of canned food on the shelves, had determined me to start cooking everyday, in order to finish them up before my end of tour. I don't want to throw them away nor neither do I want to bring them back. Some of the food in the fridge (bought by my room mate) are already rotting. I hate wasting food, so I planned to consume them all up by this week.

Almost everybody in the squadron prepare their lunch/dinner and pack it to work. Firstly, it is not as expensive as dinning out everyday and secondly, not everybody can take those kind of American fast food as daily meals. I seldom or can even say that I rarely cook and pack food to work, because I am not a great chef... I am a regular fast food drive-thru customer.

I still can remember when I was young, I used to get a stool to stand up high beside the stove, so that I can see what my mum is doing to the food in the wok, whenever she is cooking. To think of it now it is kind of funny, I will always be in the kitchen with my mum, looking at her stirring up our sumptuous meal and my brother will rather go watch the cartoons on TV. It is an irony that I have so little knowledge of cooking. Lolz.

Before I came over here, I never have to bother about what should I have for the next meal everyday (when at home). I just eat whatever my mum had prepared. Now I have to do it myself. Living on myself... First when I came I was like only at the level of cooking instant noodles. Subsequently, I had improved as time goes by. I called up my mum to ask about the ingredients, try & error, learn from those better "chef" colleagues and do little experiments. All I can say is that it's not easy. Preparing the ingredients takes time, putting them all together takes skill, upon finishing, one got to clear up all the utensils used in the process. Now that I understands what are the hassles of preparing a meal, I will even more appreciate what is being served on the table by anyone else. Those that are married with their wife here, are blessed because they are not handling these hassles after work. Whereas the single guys like me have got only 2 choices, to prepare food for tomorrow or drive-your-way-thru tomorrow...

all gone, just like that... 6:36 PM