So, in the morning, I cut up lots of ginger for my cooking as right now, Gek Teng has to eat all that.. I prepared one dish while the other 2 dishes, I would cook at Gek Teng's apartment just before lunch. I cooked the chinese rice wine with chicken and black fungus first. It was my first time cooking and I must say, it tasted good. I roasted peanuts as well and added into it..just as my mum taught me.
The workers came at 8am and they started working on the pipes first by laying out plastic sheets over the table top to prevent dust from getting onto my stuff and all over the floor. They ripped out my top cabinets to get to the pipes beind the wall. After looking at what they do, it confirms my understanding of how flimsy American houses are..only wood and so easy to rip walls out. Sigh..
At 11 plus am, I brought all my food to Gek Teng's house to cook. We had a sumptuous lunch. I cooked fish with ginger and dried mushrooms, spinach with gei zi (wolfberries) and egg with garlic and ginger, and of course, the chinese rice wine chicken soup. Could see that Gek Teng loved the lunch cos every day, her husband has been cooking and it has been the same stuff- meat with ginger and veggies. Very plain and simple. So, she was glad to eat all that I cooked for her.
After lunch, I stayed behind a while more to watch TV together. Then, I decided to go back to see what my kitchen has become. I was glad that they were finishing it up. After they left, my house was dirty and I had to clean the cabinets to put back all my stuff into it. I did not dare clean the floor as the wallpaper guy supposed to come and patch back my wallpaper. SO, I did not want to wet and mop the floor in case they come as they wear their shoes in..
I also wanted the flood water to dry up so that I can first vacuum the floor of all the dust. So, thought I shall clean up tomorrow instead. I was only cleaning the table tops.
After dinner tonight, I finished up my watermelon which I bought 2 weeks ago!! The water melon was too huge for me and CT to finish quickly. CT's method of de-shelling the watermelon is so funny that I had to show you. I told him that I eat my watermelon if it is only in bite-size...cos it is less messy..so this was what he did.
He would use a spoon and just scrape the melon. I guess he looks for the fastest and easiest way to get almost the same result. Oh well..no complains as long he tries.
Watched DVD which I borrowed from library. It is a foreign film called ,"Picture Bride" about brides coming from Japn to Hawaii to meet their other halves for the first time after sending their pictures and communicating through letters...and their lives in Hawaii after that. It is a drama show, something like Joy Luck Club type of show..slow moving and lots of talk. I guess this show made me learnt that there are Japs like that, doing such things and immigrating to Hawaii for a better life.
So, the story is about this girl from city life in Japan, going to Hawaii to meet her husband to be. His real life and the photo is totally different. It is not a recent photo. So, when she met him for the first time, she was shocked as he looked so old and dark. Most of the Japs worked in the sugar cane fields. So, she wanted to earn enough money to pay him back so that she can go back Japan. This show is about how she grew to love him and eventually accept her life in Hawaii.
Would not recommend this show if you do not like slow moving movies. A very simple story on the life of this girl. But if you like shows like Joy Luck Club, Whale Rider..then, this would be almost the same type..
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