COOKOUT 2008!
I guess this Sunday’s BBQ was a success cos the weather was really cooperative and everybody who was supposed to come, came. Yay!
Friday nite, before all the mayhem on Sunday comes, tubs and I went to Pierce Reservoir to spend some quiet time alone together and just talk. After that, we went to pick Chixy up from Sandilands and went to Xin Wang and stayed there til early morning. After that was home to sleep til late afternoon.
Cooked instant noodles at home for lunch and my master chef screwed my noodles up big time. It was so damn salty I could barely eat half of it and it made me feel so sick after that.
Went to Giant at nite to buy stuff for Sunday’s BBQ and we chalked up quite a bill. Grabbed stuff until it struck midnite and they were closing and it is times like this when I really wish I was still staying at the old place where we would have to lug everything from the car, to the lift, then to the house.
Once we got home, it was unpacking, defrosting, preparing the meats and marinating. By 2am, we decided to take a break and head out to Macs for a late dinner. Haha. More like supper actually… Did a quick dinner at Macs, then it was home again to continue and we slogged in the kitchen all the way til 5am. Bravo.
Hit the sack and thought we’d only wake up the next afternoon but I had a dream about Grandpa and I couldn’t sleep again after that. I dreamt we were all at Granny’s old place and I was supposed to take a photo for mum and Grandma (at that time, Grandpa had oready passed away). Just when I was gonna snap, I realized that on the camera screen, I see a gap between mum and Grandma and Grandpa was sitting in between both of them. But when I looked up, he wasn’t really there. It was only in the photo that I could see him.
I woke tubs up to tell him about it and then we decided to go for breakfast. Haha. So we went for Macs drivethru and then went home again. Relaxed at home til afternoon, then we went to the BBQ wholesale shop at Frankel to get more stuff. Got home, brought everything down to the pit, set up the table and chairs, and my master chef started the fire going.
Soon everybody came and even though the food came very slowly and I ate very little, I was bloated like hell after awhile. I hope everybody had fun. I had wanted to take a picture of our hard work but I guess I was too tired to even bother.
*Update Thanks to Mandy, we'll never have shortage of photos so here goes..
Missing in action are pictures of the prawns, beef, drinks etc etc. But I'm sure you get the idea.
Like tubs said – “Never again”. I kinda agree. Haha. And Sunday really isn’t the best of days cos there’s work the next day. I think one of the main reasons why it was so tedious is bcos my master chef can’t just buy food and cook them. Marinating the chicken, peeling the prawns and marinating them, cutting the beef and marinating, making potato salad from scratch etc was so damn tiring and time consuming.
But I’d rather have a solid BBQ once in a long while and everyone get decent food to eat and not worry that there isn’t enuff food to go round. So in good fun and for the sake of a good gathering, it is all worth it.
By the time we cleared up, went home, showered etc, I managed to crawl into bed at 2am, which isn’t considered late at all but bcos I was so tired, I expected to fall asleep immediately BUT I tossed and turned for the longest time before being able to fall asleep. WTH.
Thank you darls for being a great help this weekend. I really couldn’t have managed without you. And I gotta say the boy was a big help too. Thanks everyone for coming. Next outing will NOT be a BBQ at my place. Haha. I think steamboats are so much easier to handle. And I just realized that the BBQ was held at my place cos it was belated housewarming. And……. At the end of the nite, nobody got to see my house. Haha.
The cleaner aunty just told me that the mad bitch called her on Saturday to ask her about stuff regarding the office. It’s been like how many fucking months since she has been fired and she still acts like she owns the place. OMG. If I see her, I’ll give her 1 tight slap to wake her up even though I know it’ll be useless cos she’s beyond redemption. She even told ther cleaner aunty she knows what’s going on in the office and that I dunno anything and she still checks on the aunty to see if she’s doing her job. She says she has insider info from head office in Dallas. How absolutely fucking crazy can a person get? Whoever employs her next is in for a rude shock I swear. She better not piss me off further cos if she does, I’m gonna make sure she gets it so bad she won’t be able to get another decent job for the rest of her life. And if other people have to bear consequences bcos of her, I dun give a shit cos it’s just their bad luck for being so dumb and feeding her info they shouldn’t even be doing.
But I’d rather have a solid BBQ once in a long while and everyone get decent food to eat and not worry that there isn’t enuff food to go round. So in good fun and for the sake of a good gathering, it is all worth it.
By the time we cleared up, went home, showered etc, I managed to crawl into bed at 2am, which isn’t considered late at all but bcos I was so tired, I expected to fall asleep immediately BUT I tossed and turned for the longest time before being able to fall asleep. WTH.
Thank you darls for being a great help this weekend. I really couldn’t have managed without you. And I gotta say the boy was a big help too. Thanks everyone for coming. Next outing will NOT be a BBQ at my place. Haha. I think steamboats are so much easier to handle. And I just realized that the BBQ was held at my place cos it was belated housewarming. And……. At the end of the nite, nobody got to see my house. Haha.
The cleaner aunty just told me that the mad bitch called her on Saturday to ask her about stuff regarding the office. It’s been like how many fucking months since she has been fired and she still acts like she owns the place. OMG. If I see her, I’ll give her 1 tight slap to wake her up even though I know it’ll be useless cos she’s beyond redemption. She even told ther cleaner aunty she knows what’s going on in the office and that I dunno anything and she still checks on the aunty to see if she’s doing her job. She says she has insider info from head office in Dallas. How absolutely fucking crazy can a person get? Whoever employs her next is in for a rude shock I swear. She better not piss me off further cos if she does, I’m gonna make sure she gets it so bad she won’t be able to get another decent job for the rest of her life. And if other people have to bear consequences bcos of her, I dun give a shit cos it’s just their bad luck for being so dumb and feeding her info they shouldn’t even be doing.
Asphyxiated at at 11:01 AM
