just finished seeing the last four ladies of my subzone out my door... we had our subzone reunion steamboat dinner at my place tonight... it was a messy but fun affair... being the host of this year's first subzone "outing" is a little stressful... not because i don't enjoy doing such stuff... it is because of the tight schedule i was keeping this week... everything has been a little chaotic... haha...
imagine... to the horror of my horrors... coming home after school this evening, half an hour before the scheduled time for everyone to be there, to find that there is no soup base for the steamboat... and i have no backup plan!!! so in my panic... i dunk everything that i know must go into the soup base into the pot... added enough water... and set it to boil... haha... thank goodness my mum has taught me well... and next... to realise that i have forgotten to cook rice 15 minutes later... and that i forgot to cut up the egg tofu... the crabmeat sticks... the yada yada yada... but thank God that being one family... we were not as unforgiving with each other... in fact... everyone helped entertained everyone... bottomline... i think everyone enjoyed themselves... the fellowship and fun shared over a meal often surpasses other forms of fellowship... i think that is why Jesus did most of His most important teachings and fellowships through sharing a meal... be it feeding the 5000... the 4000... or just His disciples... Jesus often choose to do it over meals... and i think tonight, though it was rather chaotic... we had fun and we fed each other... we enjoyed ourselves...
it was funny... how we start cooking, grilling food for ourselves and our friends... and then we put the food in each other's plate to have that piece of tofu... or meat... go full circle round the table... everyone seems to just cook... and no one was really eating... that is of course until it reaches the younger kids' plates... being children... they just eat... and as the older people of the group, we ended up being too polite... cooking for each other and not ourselves... children are rather obliging... even if the food do not taste that fantastic, they will still eat it... haha... kai and rachel are very good examples... the GB girls are a little less forgiving... being secondary school kid, they are a little more demanding... but still rather forgiving... the rest of us... just kept feeding the younger kids... haha... it is quite amazing how much yvonne and my estimation of food is just nice... though we had a tad too much crabmeat sticks... well we had not much of a choice... haha... it was 3 for $2.85... so we had to get 3 packets... when 2 packets would have suffice... apart from that... all other food was consumed... though the beef was a little lacking... din realise that it would be such a hit... haha... i guess it is in the marination... haha... i have good marination techniques... haha... masterfoods teriyaki sauce... that isn't that teriyaki... but works rather well on beef... haha... that's my secret recipe for tender and sweet beef...
val was saying that whoever marries me will have good food to eat... haha... guess i am not that bad a cook... haha... can be married off already according to sik... haha... guess the good thing that comes out of hosting such dinner parties would be that one gets complimented on her skills... =) and the rewarding thing to a good host is that everyone had an enjoyable time...
after eating so much tonight... hopefully i can still fit my new year clothes on sunday... =p
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