i've yet to read Sophie Kinsella's 'The Undomestic Goddess', but that seems like an apt nickname. i really am a dud when it comes to house-keeping. i hardly help my mom with the cooking, except during raye, when she need the extra (wo)manpower to chop up bawang and daging and stuff. i have, at regular intervals, asked myself, 'what makes the kuah gulai/masak lemak yellow in colour?' and 'what makes kari into kari, besides santan?'. I cannot verify any type of fish at the supermarket except maybe bawal and ikan pari, and catfish. Whenever mom asks me to go ambik some daun kunyit from its plant we have outside, i have to ask 'daun kunyit yang mane satu ah?'.
yikes. i never planned on being a career woman who depends on her maid to cook food for the family, but at the rate that i'm going, i'm going to end up one of those people who sets the stove on fire whenever she attempts to cook. note to self: must learn the workings of the kitchen pronto.
music. As recent as 2 years ago, i don't think i really appreciated the aesthetics of music back then. i don't know how people like my sister or Kye source out their music, but at least i'm related to one of them, because if not my knowledge of music would have been limited to fallout boy and nsync. Kye, kalau anda baca ini, terima kasih banyak2 for recommending to kakak Greg Laswell, i looked him up and went on a downloading frenzy after. Thank you. if you come over for a sleepover again i'll let you have the good piece of chicken. Good music works like a drug for me. I don't know if this is dangerous, but i can literally drown in a song. You know when you find a song that just fits your mood perfectly, and the lyrics uncannily reflect what you're feeling?Aah. Sometimes you get the feeling you just want to float away with the tune. You play it over and over again with hopes that every time you hear the song, your problems(however trivial they are) just chip off and away. Sometimes i'd choose music over company.
I have a one week break before my next paper, and another week of break after that before i sit for my remaining papers. The Cambridge Board people are either very generous, giving us a lot of last-minute cramming time, or they're vey diabolical and want to prolong the agony of exam season.
note to self: don't analyse the papers i've sat for already. dum-dee-dum. think happy thoughts. SMILEY FACES GALORE. yeah. happy.happy.joy.joy.
Saw this on this week's batch of PostSecret cards, and i echo the comment that was sent in respond to it:i wish more desperately than anything, that this postcard was for me.
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atiqah...
I think im a undomestic goddess...I'll usually get the constant nagging from my mum that I have no clue of how to operate this n that (latest one was the washing machine) =.=
also the great idea of mine to tie the daun pandan together with a RUBBER band before putting it into the boiling jelly mixture. smart rite???
sometimes I wonder how am I going to cope when I'm no longer in my comfort zone =(
dat day i tot i wan 2 buy dat novel. diorang kate best. huhu. but ble pk2 balik ble la plak aku nk bc ni. x sempat wuwuwu. mmg best ke?
-juwa-
oh ateqs! masak? kan zaman sekarang banyak instant..instant mee, instant roti canai, even instant rendang pun ader. im practically living on instants here. the instant roti canai is soo sedap. dont mention the frozen foods. i can't believe i am one of those modernize women already. haha. oh well, despite me saying this, i also think that it's good to actually learned it by ur self how to cook. it's not hard, but sometime leceh. start off with simple things. like masak kicap or sardines perhaps. that cud boost ur interest. the next thing i know, i have ateqs posting on how good she at baking. see. cooking is way easier that physics. (apakah>..?)
anyway, i always dreamt of living in an apartment alone when i ve worked, and go back home and do spagetti. (i mean everyday!)... haha that was once upon a time when a go nuts about spagetti bolognaise. but no way im having that spagetti life. oh well, alot of people can't diffrentiate which is daun pandan and daun kari and stuff. myself included. so dont feel inferior or anything.
my exam is 1 week to go. yikes
oh btw, ni anna.. :)
the yellow in the masak lemak is the kunyit powder.
what makes kari into kari, is believe it or not, kari powder.haha! and assorted spices, which for the life of me i can't remember, but which smell really good when it's being tumis-ed.
and all this i learned in my 21st year! *sigh* i is hopeless. u still have hope, fret not!
and don't read undomesticated goddess.really.don't do it.it will just frustrate.
check out say anything's 'alive with the glory of love'!!!
shao:haha,shao!maybe you'll end up one of those people who put in too much detergent into the washing machine resulting in a house full of bubble foam :p i set my house on fire, you banjirkan urs.
rubber band?o_0 must watch out if i get the chance to makan ur cooking. 'is it just me, or does this jelly have a sorta rubbery aftertase?'. ahah,jk.
juwa:hmm,aku pon tak bace buku tu lagi juwa, so aku tak tahu. tapi i've read the first Shoppaholic book by Sophie Kinsella gak, one of my favourites. 'Can you keep a secret' pon is great.
anna:hurrah, anna has her blogspot up and running.ahah, betul2 anna, there's instant everything skarang! lagi2 brahims. siap ade stuff like korma and kari daging lengkap, all you have to do is tear the bag.
anna the spaghetti woman? lol, maybe not. well, either way, ur right. must start cooking simple stuff and work my way up. ceh. i'll start posting up my homemade recipes soon :p
good luck for ur exams!! :D
kakak:kari powder. ah. i wouldve never guessed that(literally). but sometimes when mom tumis-es something kan, bile die masak sambal ke apetah, the fumes are toxic!it's like...toxic.yeah. it goes in ur throat and stuff.
ah?the undomestic goddess tak best ka?woh. i almost bought the book a while ago. thanx for the say anything recommendation, good stuff! :) but it sounds so familiar.
it's not too late to be a domestic goddess now atiqah :p
touching on the music bit, 3 years ago, I thought Linkin Park was the best band in the world XD
tocix fumes are actually cili boh with bawang dah blend.
i can get very sneezy at the fumes
aman: yeah, i'll be a domestic goddess brandishing a kuali and a spatula,heh. it's not too late!
and i used to think linkin park was oh-so-cool too. what's that song?'it doesn't really matter',is it? i devoted a lot a time studying the lyrics mike shinoda sang for that song :p haha
nani:cili boh with bawang? yeah, that's it. sneezy? haha, i thought sneezy was wit habuk and cat fur je.
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