I miss cooking. Period. Now that I have two months worth of holiday, I guess it would be nice if I could just take my cooking and guitar skills to the next level and also spend more time playing football. Work you say? I don't know, I'm a lazy bum, seela, extra cash sounds nice. Finals... I had mixed feelings about finals, Calculus took more than 3/4 of my brainpower (very, very hard but doable), Chemistry was normal and for Biology, I feel unjustified doing it. Oh well, exams are exams. Now I'm at home, I resume my role as the chef and also caretaker for my siblings. Ahh, it's been awhile since I last cooked.

But I've got my uni application to work on, which means going back to that dreaded school and face the principal again. I thought I was done with them. Sigh. So where was I? Ah yes, cooking. I started cooking when I was uhh well, I forgot but that time I think I was 7 years old. Both of my parents were working so sometimes I'm home alone. My first try at cooking was Maggi Mee, well, I wouldn't call that cooking but it was on the stove! I remembered cooking Maggi until it was really dry because I don't like the soup and my parents would always tell me not to do that. Then when I was in Sibu, I had to cook for my younger siblings because my dad was a really busy man and my mom was living in KL, they were working really hard to make our lives comfortable. I started off with frying chickens and burgers, then my dad taught me about marinating beef. Once I was so into Nestum-coated Chicken, I tried making them on my own, without any guide from anyone or anything. It turned out good, maybe because it's fried but hey, I was 10 at that time.

My cooking skills grew exponentially during my high school years due to the lack of activity during school holidays and the fact that my parents needed me to cook for my siblings. This is the period when I learned how to cook masak kicap, masak merah, fried rice, vegetables (easiest), egg fu yong, soup and a lot more. I learned how to clean a fish (taking out innards, descale them), prawns, chicken (fat and skin are no good) and essential kitchen skills. Once I got tired of cooking masak kicap and masak merah all the time, I decided to try Prawn Sambal on my own. My dad didn't believe me when I told him I cooked it and he even asked my mom who exactly cooked it. I guess I surprised him at that time.

The sad thing is, my siblings don't know how to cook real food, they only know how to fry. I wonder how they'll survive without me around, my mom can't cook for them every single day, it's just too tiring for her to do that. Even worse, most girls these days don't know how to cook or rather, they don't bother. Call me a sexist but I think that girls, naturally, should be able to cook. Most girls I know don't know how to cook, and I thought I could learn a few things from them. The place I study now has people from different races, I was hoping I could get recipes for a few Chinese or Indian cuisine, guess I would have to look for that on my own. Most if not all will always be surprised when I tell them that I can cook. A normal conversation would go like this

Me : I can cook you know.
Friend : *Surprised look* Really? Oh you mean you can boil water?
Me : *Does a boring face and starts listing out what I can cook*
Friend : Are you for real? You're lying right?
Me : ........ I can cook better than all of the girls you know.

Such conversations are irritating and trivial. Oh well, since the holiday has started, I should look for new recipes to try out. Oh yeah.