long lunch break

lunch with my dear friend was a long one. i left from my office at 11.35am, reached the mall around 11.50am (thanks for tailing behind 2 cars which were hogging the road), had lunch till 1.45pm and finally back to work at 2.15pm. even so, we didn't get to finish our chat as both of us have lots of stories to tell! imagine we haven't updated each other for >2 months now :P

we didn't go to sakae sushi. my friend suggested wong kok restaurant when i called her before leaving the office. i had seafood cheese baked rice with plain water :( simply because the set that i ordered came with only 2 choices of drinks; coffee & milk tea. i can't take both at this time, and i didn't want to order other drinks which are normally too sweet to my liking. plain water was a right choice as it helped washed down the generous amount of cheese from the baked rice.

my friend has gone back to her normal shape, just a little extra fat here & there but i guess that's normal considering she's not a small frame person. she told me she's got 10kg more to lose. her baby will be taken care by her sister who is a full-time housewife, so i'm waiting to see how long does one who doesn't take care of the baby herself take to go back to her normal pre-pregnancy weight. :P

i can't wait for her to go back to work so that i have one more person to chat with during work. hopefully i can get helpful baby tips from her *wink*

gosh...my life is gonna be all about pregnancy & baby now. but i'm loving it!

lunch

i'm beginning to get sick of my workplace canteen food. for few months in a row, i've been eating in.

the reasons?
1) blame it on the weather - it's so freaking hot in the noon these days that i rather eat in to avoid myself from mr. sunshine. i don't like the feeling of feeling sticky & sweaty after coming back from outside lunch; it's hot one minute and cool another minute; i get headache & the idea of going home for a snooze would grow stronger then. no thanks

2) unless there's a special occasion to be celebrated, we would end up in the food court. it's always the same food court from a limited choice. eventually, i would end up eating the same food as i normally have for weekends (weekends are when i don't get proper home-cooked food; it's my mum's rest days). sigh...

3) if it's me who suggest to go out for lunch, most probably i'll be the one driving. the idea of not getting a good parking spot when i come back doesn't sound so appealing. more often than not, i gotta park far far away from the office entrance and walk all the way under the freaking hot sun to reach the entrance. by then, i would be drenched in sweat and my face, oh, don't mention it. the amount of oil coming out is enough to fry an egg. yucks!

4) eating out is so expensive nowadays, that a simple meal from the hawker centre easily costs rm5 the least, drinks included. whereas all i need to fork out eating in is just a mere rm1 the least as my company is so kind to give us a daily food subsidy of rm1.50 per head. isn't that nice? (fyi, the food subsidy has not increased since how many donkey years ago. only the food price increases over time...duhhh). how pathetic is that?

there are so many disadvantages of eating out. but still, why do i still want to eat out???

the nasi lemak that always goes wrong

the canteen in my workplace sells nasi lemak and other varieties of delicacies every morning. before this, i seldom buy any breakfast from the canteen and just do away with the free snacks provided for employees. save money ma. however, recently, i've been eating nasi lemak and fried noodles a lot. i know these are very unhealthy food but temptation is really hard to resist at times.

thus, this morning i indulged in a packet of nasi lemak. the taste is always not consistent, sometimes the rice being too soggy; the sambal being too spicy until you can't feel the nasi lemak taste at all except the feeling that your tongue is burning with the spicyness; not enough santan being used and all other things that can go wrong with cooking a simple nasi lemak. i wonder if the cook is aware of her variety taste of nasi lemak - daily-!!!

today's nasi lemak is ... tasteless!!! when the taste is not right, i always feel cheated for paying rm1 for something that is not up to my expectation. it's like paying rm1 for a bowl of white rice with some miserable amount of ikan bilis and a miserable tiny piece of egg. proabably they cut an egg into 12 pieces!!! nevertheless, sometimes it does feel good, with everything just right. despite all these inconsistencies, i still crave for it every now & then. i guess i have a very easy tastebud.

i'm too full to think about lunch now. probably will have something light during lunch, like noodles. i wonder what kind of noodles do they sell today.

it's only tuesday. arrggghhh!!! *start counting down to weekends*...

as you can see, i'm not in the mood of working today. i can't remember when was the last time i had the mood to work. heheheee....