| | If I were to buy a house, I decided today, I will find one at walking distance or at least close in terms of driving to a supermarket/food market. I miss food shopping- slowly handpicking my favourite fruits as well as ingredients on a Saturday evening. I miss trying to barely make it on time to walk to Village Foodland before it closes on weekends, picking my favourite mushrooms and tomatoes, not to mention my avocadoes that I diligently apply to my sandwiches every single day for lunch at Seymour. And thereafter, I miss coming home and unpacking the stuff, and carefully preparing dinner. The cutting, the chopping, the simmering, the grilling. Even defrosting. Every single motion and steps were done in detail. It was fun cooking for others. An everyday hobby. And that made the savouring of the food even more fun.
What happened to all these? When did I stop enjoying doing all these? My cheese-baked salmon, my char siew, my stir fried veg or herbal soup? Or even my sushi or pan-fried steak? What happened to all of them and more? When did all these become an effort and a heavy task? I definitely cannot remember.
Today the rusty old key was accidentally found, it took a while to jimmy the lock, and the chest was finally unlocked. Food shopping isn't a task to be ticked off from my diary anymore. And cooking.. Mmmm.. The eating, yes, important as it is, is not the priority. It's the process of getting food out of my fridge and scrutinising the good from the bad, and every other detail you read from the recipe book down to serving onto the table. And of course, the company :).. Steamboat, char siew with kon-loh mee and ice cream and sweet and sour chicken.
Life is mundane if you see it as a task, a job to be done, a responsibility. Learn to see it in a way that you will learn or get something out of it, because everyday is special in its own way, and you will surprise yourself what you can discover about yourself, about God and about the world every single day. And oh it does help to look forward to the coming days. Keep yourself occupied with plans- I plan to bake a cake next week.the weekend after next :) And I have several plans for my annual leave, and it should be left undisclosed for now, lest plans changed at the last minute and I do not wish to disappoint the people I am visiting.
P.S.: by the way I am not personally listening to Stand by me, (of course I love the song).. it's played in the Social Bar opposite where I leave at the moment. :P
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