iitadakimas!

hellos hellos hellos!
oops wanted to blogg tht day but my blogger screwed up on me.
was about to blog about MR PIG!
mr pig is sooo cute. go youtube and search bahhs.

anyways, its mother's day once again!
i'm gonna cook this year again~
its amazing how after one year has passed,
my cooking skill has NOT improved one bit.

anyways, todayy after half a day at the library with siti and her fren(which i never got to noe his name but he's damn pro in dota)
i went to amk hub to shop for stuff to cook for tomorrow.
this time i'm not making pancakes anymore,
which turned out not as well as i expected.
i'm making sushi!!!
which i got the idea from what we did at minds tht time,
it was seemingly easy, but i was soooo wrong...

when i got to the lane selling all the jap food,
everything there was in jap!
yeahh i did learn jap before but i never took the effort to go memorise those characters,
so they were all one BIG blur.
there i was, staring dumbly at all the labels,
trying to figure out which one was the rice vinegar and the soy sauce.
it was only until i noticed that they had english translations,
but the print was so fine i had to practically pick up each and every bottle
to scrutinise what the words were.
after 10 longlong mins, i finally found what i needed.
great. ONE item down.

the rice section was terror mann.
i'm telling you, my new nightmare would be supermarts.
i am only familiar with the snacks and drinks lane,
the rest? i bet i'll confuse pet food with canned food.
maybe even mistaken detergent for flour.
okay, back to the rice lane.
they had thai rice, more thai rice, premium white gold rice, brown rice,
every rice you could possibly want, EXCEPT JAP RICE!
then i got panicky and started msg-ing xiangyu, who has been a great help to me throughout the day cos i keep bothering her with all the how-to-cook-the-jap-rice part.
okay, so i didn't manage to find the rice,
i went on to grab the fillings for the sushi.

i managed to find crabmeat, cucumbers,
but until the salmon part... urgh... i had to go to the fish section,
which is the section i hate the MOST!
they had dead fishes staring at you with those glassy eyes,
its so darn threatening.
their eyes are like saying "COME ON, eat me if you DARE!"
all big and round. yucks...
lucky the salmon, was this pinkish slab of meat.
no eyes or fins, thank gawd!
there was quite a crowd there, i managed to take a peek,
and saw "FRESH SALMON, $2.16 per 100g)"
andd all the aunties were like fighting for the best piece.
so i graciously waited for them to take their pick,
finally leaving me with all the broken styrofoamed boxed ones andd those with huge ugly fingerprint dents in it.
i grabbed the most intact one, when this auntie beside me started prodding around the other boxes.
well so i followed suit, maybe the squishier they are, the fresher they will be.
but they all felt the same to me, so i jus took the one with the LEAST fingerprints on it.
who'd wanna eat salmon tht has been poked around by so many ppl? ew...

denn i got to the question on how to cook it.
i can't cook the salmon, it wouldn't be sushi salmon anymore,
but my problem was easily solved when i went to the ready-made sushi section,
andd saw that they actually sold raw salmon, all ready to be eaten.
great, what a waste of my 20 mins picking that stupid fresh salmon.
andd it was there that i found the jap rice too!!
the description fits xiangyu's one perfectly, so its gotta be that one.

also went around to grab meat patties and hamburger bread,
that's plan B in case my sushi turns out wrong,
denn at least will still have hamburgers to eat wad.
i mean, you never noe. what if i overcooked the rice tmr or something.
finally paid for everything which amounted to a freakin $38.50!
i almost fainted okay.
they were selling ready-made sushi at $30 plus per box, andd it was enough for 2 times of my family to eat.
andd all i bought was some seaweed, RAW crabmeat, NO salmon, the jap rice, vinegar and some other stuff... $38.50????
grr....

denn i had to lug all those 3 bags of stuff to take the bus!
i was carrying rice summore! andd bottles of sauce.
but nvm, i'm sure my mummy will appreciate it.

finally reached home, never been more thankful to get rid of all those groceries!
denn i got down to doing a trial run on my sushi.
who knew 2 cups of rice could feed my entire family!
that goes to show how often i cook rice for dinner.
i ended up cooking so MUCH rice, i felt so sorry to waste it.

my crabsticks boiled perfectly, and i was so proud of them.
but just as i was tipping the water away from the bowl,
3 of those slippery crabsticks slidded out of the bowl and into the sink.
i swored quite loudly while my sister shrieked from behind me.
i wanted to pick them up and put them in the bowl but she stared at me with
those kinda try-that-and-i'm-literally-gonna-stuff-it-down-your-throat-first-before-i-take-a-bite kinda look, so i just threw it away in the dustbin.
wad a waste..

when everything was ready,
my first attempt at rolling the sushi failed quite badly.
my sushi swelled up to at least thrice the normal size you can find at any sushi outlet.
i was super generous and spooned alot of rice onto the seaweed.
my sushi roll was on the verge of exploding..
it was so horrendously thick that my kitchen knife couldn't slice it properly without rice spilling out on either sides.
2nd attempt: the size reduced by quite alot, but it was still freakin huge.
my third and last attempt(because i was running outta crabsticks) was the best,
although it was still big, the size looked quite okay.
so there it was, i hope it goes okay tmr.

the cleaning up part really sucks andd i have so much leftover rice i have no idea wad i wanna do with it.
later then think of a solution,
now i'll jus rest awhile first,
hahahah. how i wish i had this robot that will do all the clearing up for me.
i cann jus do the cooking and the rest the robot cann do.

i still dun geddit, cooking still ain't fun for me.
i prefer to be the one eating. hahahs.

anyways, todayy is dominic's birthday!
i still feel bad about forgetting your birthday until like 1 plus in the afternoon.
it kinda slipped my mind andd i still wanted to wish you at 12 midnight,
but my fone ytd low batt denn lazy to turn on again.
anyways, you're 18 now! OMG old..
hahahah. but 18's THE legal age.
which is unfair cos i have to wait ever so long more!
hope you had a very relaxing birthday~
andd may all things turn out great for you!
thanks for being the bestest pair of listening ears ever and for always beingg there!
HAPPY 18th birthdayy! =DD

lols bigg enough? hahahas. can't go any bigger,
that's the max that blogger will allow me`
oooh so tired.
ahh shall go rest early.
i gotta cook tmr!
worse than 2.4.....

JIAYOU TRANING FOR SBJ SHANYI!!
you cann do it!
i haven't been training my arm muscle but i will try!!!!
hahahas. add oil add oil. 2 more cm nia. u improve damn alot alr,
still cann improve de.

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