The mil has extended her stay in Hong Kong until mid May. This means that I have to continue with the extra chore of cooking dinner.
These days, I am not as finicky as I used to be with food served to the girls. Back in the days when the girls were younger, we used to cook 5-7 times a week, twice a day. Those were the days when we had live- in maids and a part-time helper who came consistently almost every day. I really appreciate having the extra help with cleaning up after cooking an elaborate dinner every day.
Now that we have no more live-in maids but only a part-time helper who comes in inconsistently (only when she feels like coming), we cook twice or thrice a week and for the rest of the days, I get takeaway or order from Shopee Food or Grab Food 😬. Sometimes we’ll just eat the excess food from hubby’s kitchen, which are mostly spicy food such as chicken rendang, beef rendang, curry fish, fried chicken and other spicy Malay dishes. As long as we don’t have to cook and clean up a greasy kitchen, I’m happy with any food given to me.
I’m pretty much easily contented with eating humble and simple foods. I can even buy a pack of vegetarian food and eat it for lunch and dinner, or fix a simple sandwich without any meat. I can even eat steamed sweet corns, sweet potatoes and pumpkin for dinner. But sadly, not everyone at home can eat the way I do. And this often creates a lot of unnecessary stress in me! You see, the people in the house who love cooking are not bothered with cleaning up the mess they create and this is driving me potty! Because I have to clean up.
With 2 hours to kill and nothing to buy, I usually amble and dawdle in the mall, and always end up buying unnecessary stuff. This time I bought two eyebrow pencils from Guardian Pharmacy as they were on offer as well as some veggies and blueberries from Food Merchant.
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