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Monday, September 8, 2008

Impromptu barbie

It was just another lazy Saturday. We had half the mind to chill out at East Coast but were too lazy to pack everything into the car and the thought of having to unpack later made us change our minds. Eventually we fell asleep (me with my glasses, waist pouch and phone still on me) while deciding what to do. By the time we awoke, it was already 6 in the evening. Damn, the whole day had almost whizzed by while we were ding-donging.

Penny was craving for barbie food, so since we had some charcoal left, we pulled out what we could from the fridge- two pre-barbied sotongs from the streets of Taiwan, a few pork chops and some sotong balls from Nancy's barbie earlier in the week, a packet of NTUC cheese sausages and a few sweet potatos. A quick dash to NTUC for a packet of pre-seasoned chicken wings, Dodo Crab Stix, two ears of corn and some fizzy drinks and we were good to go!

As always, I fired up the pit while Vel and Penny prepared the food. Surprisingly, we had quite a spread despite using mostly leftovers! Vel, as usual, was eating mostly sausages and corn, leaving Mummy and Daddy to finish off the rest of the food. We had a nice slow fire and it was a cool breezy evening, so we took our time to cook our food. Fortunately for us, our neighbours weren't home so we didn't have to worry about bothering them with the smoke.

We called it quits at about 10pm when Penny and I were stuffed with so much carbon (carbonised food and carbonated drinks). Not surprisingly, we didn't manage to finish all the food (we couldn't pry apart, let alone cook, the pork chops as they weren't thawed enough).

God sent some rain as we were ending our little party to cool everything off. We fell asleep feeling gratified that God had once again blessed us with a wonderful day.

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