yet another weekend story

last sunday i decided to cook something different from the boring basic dishes that i usually make since i fail at complex cooking =P. so on saturday we went to Tesco Mutiara Damansara to shop for junkies. when i say junk, i mean j-u-n-k. if you let Significant Other push the cart, before long it'll be piled high with goodness knows what. and that's not including the healthy stuff yet. lol.

we decided to go window shopping first at The Curve before heading to Tesco. i finally found the FFY colorful bowls ieta was talking about in Metrojaya, so i bought a set. i figured it'll be a while before Dayana feeds herself, so i'll get her own bowl later. and for the first time Dayana fell asleep in my pouch. hehe. we were halfway towards Ikano when Significant Other saw that Dayana had dozed off; i didn't even notice. so we took her out of my pouch and placed her in the stroller so she could sleep more comfortably. after thoroughly exploring The Curve from top to bottom, we headed to Ikea for dinner. me and Significant Other were craving for Daim cake, but unfortunately for us, they were out of stock. what a disappointment. so we only got the Swedish meatballs to share between us, and we tried this funny looking tart which did not even come close to the yumminess of Daim cake. sigh. but when we passed by the mini Swedish food store at the exit on our way back, we grabbed a box of Daim cake for rm25. luckily they still had that in stock. frankly speaking i could eat a whole cake all by myself =D.

so off we proceeded to Tesco. Dayana was awake by then so i put her back into my pouch. we had to wait abit for the trolley carts as they were out. wth? the crowd got bigger and bigger as we waited for the trolleys to arrive. so i pushed the stroller, while Significant Other maneuvered the trolley into the ever sesak Tesco. Dayana couldn't wait to get her hands on everything. we were checking out the yogurt aisle when we stumbled upon some kids accompanied by their mom and grandma. one look at me and they were like shreiking, 'mommy come see this lady, got baby!' i think they were amazed to see Dayana in my pouch. i agree that not many mommies out there wear their babies, especially in a pouch sling like mine. the kids seemed to excited to see Dayana like that, each time they walked past they kinda cuit Dayana, or grasp her hand and shook it (you know how kids love to see and touch babies, and sometimes vice versa =P). luckily Dayana didn't seem to mind. hehe. even the grandma asked me how old Dayana was, i think she found it amazing that she could fit into the pouch even at 6 months old. lol.

thanks to KY, i went looking for some french beans and dried shrimps in the vegetable section. while waiting to have them priced, the two ladies behind the counter, like the kids before, were also astounded at the sight of Dayana in the pouch. haha. they said Dayana was sooo tinyyyy! and a lady waiting in line asked me if she was in any pain or not being squished inside like that. i was about to answer when Dayana chose to answer herself by opening her mouth and giving one loud baby babble. hahahaha! anyway, i was saved by a phone call from Juney saying that our planned brunch on Sunday was cancelled - for the second time in a row. cheese =P. i guess i got the occasional stares from other people wearing Dayana like that, but i didn't really notice. i had to readjust the sling from time to time because the sling was a little bit big and i kept leaning to one side.

by this time we were almost finished with our junk shopping and Dayana was getting cranky. the sucky part of grocery shopping is during checkout time, when you have to bag your groceries yourself. hmm... i was thinking to myself at that time of how i wished i had bought envirosax... =P imagine having to unload your items onto the conveyor belt, have them scanned by the cashier, and then you have to bag them up into proper plastic bags, load them back into your trolley, pay for your purchases and juggle your kid(s), all in record timing? jergh. i can never seem to master this so-called art. it doesn't help if the person behind you seems impatient for you to gather up your stuff and move along. and it doesn't help if you're kid's patience seemed to have dried up at that point of time. arrgh (to be fair, it was almost midnight and time to schleepy schleepy for Dayana, poor thing).

so the next day i woke up and decided to prepare 2 new dishes for Significant Other. one was a recipe i got from my college friend's blog, and another taken from KY's blog. after cooking the rice, i chopped up the french beans, cili padi and dried shrimps, and marinated the chicken. i decided to do KY's recipe for french beans with dried shrimp first because i wanted the chicken to be served hot by the time i finished with everything (and i wanted the chicken to be marinated longer =P). i made small portions just in case Significant Other didn't like it (he's very particular, this one). but i made a bit of modification to the french beans recipe because i wanted it to be spicy, so i added some chilli boh to it. which was a bit of a blunder really, because the chilli already had seasoning added to it, and since the dried shrimp itself was already saltish, the dish ended up a bit salty. but the dish finished anyway =P.

the second dish was ayam masak kicap taken from che ah's blog. i marinated all the ingredients together and fried them in a pan. add a bit of water and... voila! finito. i should've added some potatoes to it though. i totally forgot. maybe next time. i had imagined the dish to be a bit more kicap-y, like how my mom usually makes it, but i enjoyed it all the same. yummy! no photos though. i totally forgot to take them =(. what if i took photos of them and they turn out to be a disaster? wahhahahahahah...!

so i guess i pass for basic attempt. i should write these receipes down somewhere before i forget them. i'm such a forget-me-not lately. next week i'll probably try negri's favorite masak lemak cili api, provided Zal remembers to post the recipe. anyway, this weekend i might start Dayana on solids (she'll be 6 months old on Sunday, yippee!) so we'll see =D. i'm excited to see how she'll react to solids. and she's overdue for the 5th month booster shot.

i purchased a so-called getaway last weekend. it'll be my first trip after a long while. let's hope things go smoothly =) (let's hope my leaves get approved!). i just wished i booked the return a day later. i tried calling to reschedule, but i would incur extra charges of RM180+. wth??? i'd rather come back home first, then purchase another return ticket, which would cost me only half the price! *pengsan*

i suck at my job. i realized that it's just not me. i've come to a point where i'm blanking out now and nothing seems motivational. what should i do to overcome this? any opinion out there?