Today was the first day I cooked something independently without anybody's help!
All thanks to the fact that Liz had to go back to Pasir Ris to do some cleaning and that godma is sick and ate her own porridge so Claire and I had to cook instant noodles!
I am very happy with myself =)
So first we put water in the pot and let it boil and I cooked Claire's noodles without any problem (except that I forgot to put in the chilli powder but it was okay with her because she didn't want it too spicy) So SUCCESS NUMBER ONE!
Then it was my turn and I ate this ramen thingy so it was damn easy cuz like Claire's noodles were like all broken up whereas mine was one round piece of thing. But after opening it up I realised that there was no seasoning so I thought maybe the seasoning is already like encapsulated in the noodles or something. So happily I put it in the boiling water where my egg broke automatically because silly Claire left it near the sink where it rolled right in and broke but I saved it in time and plopped it into the pot!
Then after awhile, the pot started bubbling very weirdly and there was alot of foam and stuff and I thought there wasn't enough water so I poured more in. Then like in 10 seconds or so, 1 orange and 1 white plastic packets floated up and I was like OH SHIT THAT'S THE SEASONING! So I panicked and switched off the fire and decided to throw everything away. (Claire: "Nvm still can! You just take out the plastic then can still cook!" I tried very hard to explain to her that I cannot drink soup which had just been boiled with plastic flavouring because it's poisonous.)
The throwing away part was funny because I made Claire hold open a plastic bag while I scooped noodles out of the pot with my chopsticks and threw it inside then the hot soup kept splashing on her HAHA. Then the small remaining bits had to be thrown into the sink (together with the egg) and the drain thingy was clogged up and I think the draining thing is very very disgusting.
Me: Eeeee now we have to get the noodles and the egg out from the drain thing. You dare?
Claire: I daarreee!
She started complaining after awhile.
So we had to restart the process of me cooking my noodles the second time by which I made sure that I took the seasoning out before dumping everything in. (Sometimes I don't blame some of you for thinking I'm stupid but most of the time I am really quite smart.)
Put in the egg and seasoning and waited for it to cook! When it was done, I put my bowl in the sink to get ready to pour the noodles in (I put it in the sink cuz I was afraid that I'd dirty the table if I misaimed or something.) and it was perfect! Except now it was too hot to carry out of the sink. So I came up with the bright idea of using a plate as a "tray" for the bowl but it wasn't bright enough because I still had to transfer the bowl out of the sink onto the plate. SO Claire came up with a brighter idea: "I know! You put the plate in the sink also la then can carry the bowl onto the plate easier!"
I have taught you well sis.
But then there was another problem! It was simply too hot for me to lift it up =( I hate hot things. I don't even like bathing in hot water. But Claire was very daring! She volunteered to lift it for me!
Claire: I do I do I can
Me: No you cannot it's too hot!
Claire: YES I CAN!
Me: NO YOU CANNOT!
(This part kinda reminded me about that scene in finding nemo so I decided not to be like Marlin and just let her try. Isn't it funny how just ytd I posted something about Nemo? Haha. )
Claire: You see ah I carry....
TADAH!
So we high fived!
Me: GOOD JOB SIS!
Claire: GOOD JOB TER!
And I happily carried the plate out and started eating.
This was a very fruitful experience and what I've learnt from this experience is this:
soup is merely very tasty water.
9:44 PM
