Can I cook?

When my sister's food store was close to my place, I frequently went there for meal. The food there weren't the best, but there was still a fish that I liked a lot. Food wasn't the reason I made the place as my primary food source, it was my sister. Because my sister works there, I could avoid the awkwardness when ordering. It probably was due to my over sensitivity to people interaction, I always got the feeling that the store owner disliked me when he or she wasn't trying to smile or speak nicely. I don't have that kind of feeling as often now, but still I want to avoid if I can. I always tried to check the people in the store before ordering to guess their attitude.

Now my sister had shifted place, I was left with two choices. Either I continue to go to stranger's store for meal or I cook for myself. I chose the latter. It has been quite fun cooking for myself, but it wasn't always the case. When things went well, I got to have a nice meal and be satisfied. When things went wrong, I ate some and throw the rest. I don't really like this. Because I was lazy to find and follow food recipe, I mostly ended with either a weird taste or bland dish. I was simply not familiar enough the basic of cooking.

I want to change that so I'll be able to grasp the basics and cook without recipe. I will try to look the net for recipe from now on.

Bread or Plain Water

Everyday, I usually sort of have a "plan" for what I'm going to do for the day. I open my eyes, prepare breakfast for myself, eat it, practice Japanese, guitar, drawing, Photoshop, exercise, writing, surfing etc. Those are the things I enjoy doing and will feel good when I completed them. I will try to follow my plan when I can, and I usually can.

Today is probably the first day since last November that I'm having a hard time catching up my routine, and I'm not feeling top pleased about it. I woke up at 8am to prepare breakfast and lunch for work. I left home for work at 915am and knocked off at 6pm. After that, I hit the Gym at 7pm for roughly 2 hours and reached home at around 10pm. I spent 30mins to clean myself and I planned to sleep at midnight. It is already 1230am now. I'm halfway done writing, there is still a couple of tasks I skipped today. I don't think I'm going to do them since they are probably going to take me two more hours and I don't like to sleep late.

So, I'm thinking, between the 8 plus hours I spent on work, maybe I can squeeze in a few tasks. I always work alone so if  the task aren't going to interrupt the work I should be fine. I also need to make sure they are done efficiently.


I always think, if my work are related to some of the tasks I'm doing everyday, it will save me a lot of time. I can work and learn at the same time. Get paid practicing your hobby, how wonderful.