Hear ye! Hear ye! Ol Ed has found himself a new pad with 4 other dudes. Too bad there aren't any girls around =(. Destiny has yet again denied me of some female company for this semester. This time round the housemates are older, most of them being at least 24 and doing their postgrads except for one 22 year old. And yup I'm the resident fossil again at the ripe old age of 32. Once again I have taken in disciples for lessons in cooking. This time round I have got 2 housemates apprenticing me. Makes me feel kinda like the Master Bai Mei from Kill Bill Volumes. Haha! So over the past week I have imparted breakfast dishes, chinese stirfrys, pasta dishes and steak. One of the guys is so enamoured of good food now he's beginning to search the web for recipes to hone his cooking skills. The other day he came in after his meal of seafood marinara and said "Ah..zhe jiu shi sheng huo.." In French that would be C'est La vie aka That's Life. I'm a true beliver of leading a quality life, maybe because my job as a quality chemist rubbed off on me lol. Seriously why eat a plate of horrible food when you can eat a meal of much better quality?! And so I just had to rescue them from a dreary student's life of bland & unimaginative meals!Onward to culinary greatness! How did I do it? Seduction with plates of steaming steaks, flavored rice and sphaghetti. Like what my housemate said "Pao mian shi wang shi le" meaning "Instant noodles is a thing of the past".
People have often asked me that since I cooked pretty ok and have a great interest & knowledge of food and drink, that why I'm not opening an eatery or restaurant. When you open a restaurant, the economics come in. That's when the soda bicarbonates comes in to soften beef of inferior quality, the half eaten lobster shells going back to the pot for tomorrow's lobster bisque and roast chicken leftovers going into the curry. I'm have a humanitarian nature, I cant do this to people. If I open a eatery it will have to be on my own terms and with a significant amount of capital because I'm not compromising on quality. Eventually I will open a beach pub cum eatery serving quality meals. A place where you can have real roast beef sandwiches with a good Belgium/German beer and bask in the warm glow of the sun. It will be a pub where you can eat crispy bbq chicken wings with a tangy dip sauce and zone out with a cocktail. Soft music help people drift off an oasis of calm. However I need my first pot of gold or some financial support so I'll need day jobs.
It is my dream to give people and myself a piece of paradise. Life is too short for wars, famines and poltical repression. A mere 70 years shouldn't be wasted on these acts. I always recall how happy people are in the company of good friends, great food and drinks. Life should be good and even more wonderful if I'm able to offer people that. I'm not going to just sell good food , I'm going to sell fond memories. That'll be my life's business!
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Back in the Land of the Dreaming
Took a hiatus from blogging and now I'm back. Here I am in the land of the Dreaming again. WTF?! Land of the Dreaming... what the heck is that?! Well the Dreaming is a a term used by Australian aboriginal people to describe relations between the spiritual, natural and moral elements of the world. It relates to a period before living memory or experience - a time of creator ancestors and supernatural beings. Yea and before you say anything, white man don't own this piece of land down under no Sir/ Madam the original owners were the aborigines. Captain James Cook was an invader to the native australian aborigines like Columbus was to the American Indians. Thousands of aborigines were driven out of their ancestral homelands and forced to become slaves. Yep and thats Australia's dark beginnings as a British convict colony, but whats past is past and with the new times the Australians are beginning to look into the aboriginal rights. And that is cool.
Anyways these days I'm kinda marooned in a cheap motel with no internet access until the 8th when I can finally move into my room down in Kingsford. Apparently the previous tenant needed some time to pack and scoot off. So these few days I had to survive on Maccas, sandwiches and pasta from the UNSW eateries and instant noodles. Gonna cook myself a big bloody steak when I get to the kitchen! The weather's been dissappointing, its been god-damned warm and I was expecting a cool autumn coming in when I arrived. Apparently according to the weatherman there's been a warm front which is bringing in a week of warm weather to NSW. The bad thing, I packed thick clothes for autumn and winter zzzzz....... The good thing is eye candy in the form of skimpily dressed babes.Nice.....
As I wandered about UNSW in this Week 0 busy with subject enrolment and getting a renewed student card, I was surrounded by truckloads of freshies parading themselves on campus. Saw a couple of them who had their feet tied together and were trying to climb the stairs to the library. Public humiliation, pretty funny stuff. Reminded me of my Army days when instructors called our names, called out the time while we had to position our arms in the correct positions like clocks and if we failed we were given 20 pushups. Orientation Seniors were dressed in yellow T-shirts and were leading group tours around the campus. Gave me the impression of chickens leading chicks to the academic slaughterfest. The walkway from the main entrance to the stairway of the upper campus was crowded with the stalls of the different clubs and societies trying to sell themselves to the freshies. It was like some medieval gauntlet the freshies had to go through. Me being a moldie scuttered to the shaded sidewalks and alternate paths to escape the hard selling seniors.
This semester is even shorter than the last as UNSW cut the term by 1 week so basically next week we'll start Week 1 and end with the exams in late Jun. Pretty fast I would say. Graduation ceremony would be late July at Shangri La Singapore. Hopefully I'll be able to join that session! Shouldn't be a problem considering the fact that I'm only doing 4subjects this semester, compared to the 6 I did last semester. Ok time for lunch! Will write some more again soon!
Anyways these days I'm kinda marooned in a cheap motel with no internet access until the 8th when I can finally move into my room down in Kingsford. Apparently the previous tenant needed some time to pack and scoot off. So these few days I had to survive on Maccas, sandwiches and pasta from the UNSW eateries and instant noodles. Gonna cook myself a big bloody steak when I get to the kitchen! The weather's been dissappointing, its been god-damned warm and I was expecting a cool autumn coming in when I arrived. Apparently according to the weatherman there's been a warm front which is bringing in a week of warm weather to NSW. The bad thing, I packed thick clothes for autumn and winter zzzzz....... The good thing is eye candy in the form of skimpily dressed babes.Nice.....
As I wandered about UNSW in this Week 0 busy with subject enrolment and getting a renewed student card, I was surrounded by truckloads of freshies parading themselves on campus. Saw a couple of them who had their feet tied together and were trying to climb the stairs to the library. Public humiliation, pretty funny stuff. Reminded me of my Army days when instructors called our names, called out the time while we had to position our arms in the correct positions like clocks and if we failed we were given 20 pushups. Orientation Seniors were dressed in yellow T-shirts and were leading group tours around the campus. Gave me the impression of chickens leading chicks to the academic slaughterfest. The walkway from the main entrance to the stairway of the upper campus was crowded with the stalls of the different clubs and societies trying to sell themselves to the freshies. It was like some medieval gauntlet the freshies had to go through. Me being a moldie scuttered to the shaded sidewalks and alternate paths to escape the hard selling seniors.
This semester is even shorter than the last as UNSW cut the term by 1 week so basically next week we'll start Week 1 and end with the exams in late Jun. Pretty fast I would say. Graduation ceremony would be late July at Shangri La Singapore. Hopefully I'll be able to join that session! Shouldn't be a problem considering the fact that I'm only doing 4subjects this semester, compared to the 6 I did last semester. Ok time for lunch! Will write some more again soon!
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