a normal sunday

The workaholic in me decided to take a few hours off on Sunday to show my Japanese friend the places to shop for jap groceries in town and a supposedly 3 hour lunch-shopping date turned into a 5 hour trip plus ice-cream making in the evening and also a late night rendevous in our kitchen to try out our homemade ice-cream =)

Normally I would have guilty pangs for lacking in discipline but for some unexplainable cosmic reasons, I woke up on my own at 10am which was unusually early for me on a Sunday morning and thus, did manage to put in some good 3 hours of work before we set off for lunch at Misato. Then we had so much fun browsing around the different grocery stores (first chinese then japanese), going around comparing prices, taking turns to translate and explain the different food types and discovering some food items were pronounced the same way in both cultures, for instance, na-tou is na-tou etc. (it's such a 'duh?' discovery I know, but we found that pretty amusing *LOL*) The highlight of the day for the both of us was when we saw some green-tea ice-cream sachets and then found out that they were on offer!! I told Haruko that MX loves green tea ice-cream and wondered if it was worth getting some back to make it for him. I have no doubt that there will be places selling it back home but there will be better things to do than going around the supermarkets hunting for green tea ice-cream sachets, so I decided to get some to try out and bring the rest back if they are good. If I see them back home then MX can be twice lucky. =)

By the time we were done and satisfied, it was already 6 in the evening so we rushed home to make the ice-cream which was really easy, just add milk, egg, flavouring and whisk them together, all done under 20 minutes. Haruko was amazed that I could separate the egg yolk from the whites without using some kind of egg yolk sieve (no doubt another brilliant jap invention but quite unneccessary if you know the technique which I remembered from my mom's baking days). I learnt that japanese household uses their own special kind of measuring cups for cooking which came in pretty useful yesterday when following the cooking instructions.

In the end, I didn't not appear in college as planned but had a wonderful afternoon wondering around chinatown with Haruko. Hmmm.... so that's what life used to be, or rather, ought to be if I was not so caught up in my work. Nonetheless, I'll will still try to keep to my work schedule because I have a clear picture in mind of where I'll like to be in a years time which is worth sacrificing for. =)

Oh yes, the ice-cream was very good yesterday.... very good indeed... =)