Family (+ Boyfriend) & Graduation Day
The past three/two days have been so tiring but fulfilling with the family dropping by in batches for graduation day tomorrow.
*Gallant dropped by this afternoon to help prepare a huge feast for them all. But our timing was horrible as we cooked beyond our 7pm mark well into 9pm. It wasn't that our preparation was slow... it was the six other family members, crowding around the very hot and sticky kitchen trying their best to help.
Goodness gracious.
There was the cousin who laughed loudly at everything, cousin's boyfriend who tried to help (because *Gallant was helping), mother and aunt who was fawning over *Gallant cooking and de-boning the chicken meat, daddy wondering if he can empty our trash/wash dishes/mop floor, and sis who really helped by washing dishes (I swear we used almost every one).
Of course, everyone just HAD to help cook. Truth be told, I didn't really end up cooking anything other than to organize, buy and prepare. Of course, everyone just had to prepare their own thing and so we really had a *rojak of a dinner. Here's our dinner menu and chef:
River Fish and Chinese Wine Sauce - *Gallant
Prawns with Mince Garlic and Chillies - *Gallant
Bean Sprout and Salted Fish - Aunty
Fried Bee Hoon - Aunty
Green Curry (Leftovers from lunch) - *Me
Beef fillets with Bell Peppers (Leftovers) - Me
Baby Kai Lan Shoots with Prawns - Cousin's BF
Vietnamese Rice Paper Rolls - Group Effort
Salted Chicken - Aunty
Cut fruits - Mother
Cold tong sui - Me
Hot Sweet Bean Curd and Gingko Nuts - Me
I'm glad my family was touched with all the effort put into dinner and decided to pitch in no matter how much I urged them to leave the cooking to me and *Gallant. He was of course a dearie too when he admitted he searched websites yesterday to seek the *perfect recipe for dinner today.
I have a lot more to say about graduation and graduating... but I guess I'm too tired to continue right now. Maybe more after the day itself!
In the mean time, enjoy your soccer game tonight.
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