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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Lunch In School

To save my poor little tummy from hunger, I made myself lunch by preparing the food the night before just so that I didn't have to wake up early to cook. Since the weather gets really cold in winter, I decided that it didn't make much sense to bring food like fried rice or spaghetti bolognese. Imagine eating them cold, like fresh out of the fridge. [Yes, the temperature here is that low, the water I drink from my bottle is cold even though I filled it with hot water.] How disgusting can it taste right!

Thus, I decided to make salad. However, you can't prepare vegetable salad beforehand without compromising on it's quality and taste. If you were to add salad dressing to the vegetables the night before, the vegetable will turn out soft and soggy instead of fresh and crunchy. After much considerations, I decided to make seafood pasta. It's a no brainer dish that can fill my hungry tummy. It's easy to pack into a lunchbox and can be prepared beforehand without losing its quality.

I happily cooked my pasta, add in the right ingredients, pack it nicely into a lunchbox and store it in the fridge. The next morning, in a rush to get to school (as usual), I opened the fridge and swiftly grabbed the first lunch box I see.

During lunch time, I merrily took out my lunch box [Previously I used to skip lunch because eating in school was way too expensive.], only to realise that I took the wrong lunch box. The one I took was filled with leftover butter rice from the day before. Great. So now I have butter rice with no ingredients -.-''

All that hardwork and excitement for nothing. Since I still had classes for the rest of the day, it simply doesn't make sense for me to keep the butter rice in my bag and bring it back to hostel (which is a good 30 minutes bus ride away). Firstly, I've been keeping the container of rice in my bag and walking around with that 'excess weight' for the whole morning. Secondly, I'm starving. Thirdly, the butter rice is probably not going to make it till night. Why would I want to spend so much effort just to bring spoilt butter rice from hostel to school and back to hostel?

So, I decided to get some food to go with my rice. After much deliberation, I went for a big fat sausage that cost me AUD 2.70. Smells good, tasted awesome and goes extremely well with my butter rice!


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