Okay.
So, I have been bombarded with different kind of a typical question of late.
What exactly do I do at home now that I’m on a super long break?
I’m kinda busy. Most people will raise their eyebrows when I said that. Most would think I should be goyang kaki-ing at home.
But, that’s not my main purpose of coming home. I have a mission when I come back. Some asked me whether I’ll be getting a job in Kuching. Problem is, I seriously do not know. It’s not that I don’t want to work. As in, I’m stuck in the middle of the South China Sea. KL or Kuching? KL? Kuching? KL?!!! KUCHING???!! ARgghhhhhhhhHHH… I just bloody don’t know. Can I split myself into half? Nah, that’s not a wise thing to do.
What do I exactly do at home?
It’s mainly about food food food food food food food food food food food food. Nope, I’m not in the F&B industry, nor am I starting one.
Since my dad can only eat certain kind of food, we have to make sure he’s taking enough nutrients because of such restrictions.
It’s either washing, cutting, cooking vegetables, washing, cutting, cooking meats, washing, cutting, blending juices, cooking, blending nutritious meals. Easy job? Now I know how it feels like to be 30% of a housewive. Yupe, 30% is enough to create that awareness in me. Thank you very much.
The things that are taking MOST of my time would be:
1) Peeling the skin of a kampung duck.
Dun play play on this man. The kampung duck have some sort of a rubber super power that make sure the skin is sticking to its meat, like it’s 2nd meat, not skin as in skin. Point is, the kampung duck don’t have much meat, hence the the removal process is kinda prolong. Why should the skin the remove? To cook an oil-less and healthy duck soup.
Luckily, I don’t have to kill the duck myself. Imagine, half dead duck, with half-slit throat, blood sprawling around, duck running around for its life, messy crime scene. Just because it has a rubber super power skin.
2) Sour sop fruit (Angmoh durian)
Ahhh, sour sop, my good friend. Good for health, no doubt, but a big sour soup fruit will take me approximately 1 hour to remove all it’s seeds. Handling 2 at a time? It happens. I can’t control when it wants to ripe. The seeds are sticking to its flesh and its flesh are like sticking with each other. Sour sop is kinda hard to come by, depending on its season.
Whenever a big, fat, juicy sour sop fruit is stumbled upon, it will be stocked up in my house immediately and the necessary procedures are applied when it’s ripe to be refrigerated.
Why should the seeds be removed? To be blended into a healty, goodylicious sour sop drink. We can’t blend them together with the seeds, eh?
Believe me, it will be troublesome to remove the bit and pieces of the seeds from your mouth.
3) Water chestnut
Ahhh, another good friend of mine. Good for cooling down the body. Peeling of the skin is necessary and will take a long time if there’s alot of them. Why should the skin be removed? To be blended into a healthy, cooling water chestnut drink or can also be used for any soup.
Remember to properly wash the water chestnut first before peeling the skin. Don’t want no dirt as extra nutritious value in your drink/soup.
Those food are the main food busy-ness of all food that I’m handling.
Other than that, running errands at times when needed – buy groceries, bank, pay bills, cars related, hospital related, settling things for my dad, buy Toto, buy 4d and other adhoc stuffs.
Yeah I know, routine work and kinda boring. I have more free time at night. And thank God mum don’t work on weekends.
Another question, how about myself?
I don’t know. Maybe someone care enough to sponsor a spotlight or crystal ball for me?
I know you guys are kind hearted enough.