giving birth

Just spoke to my wonderful friend who decided to share her experience as an intern at A BIRTHING SUITE. zomg. She said she heard the woman scream, ‘kill it’, repeatedly before yelling out to ‘kill me kill me’. It doesn’t sound particularly pleasant.

Mum, I can’t believe you went through all that THREE TIMES! I would have given up at Leanne.

left-wing

Just quickly..

I remember when I did a government unit and tilted slightly to the left and how my loving family dubbed me, “comrade”. Obviously, being called comrade wasn’t fun and so my left-winged mindset soon dissolved.

On Tuesday, during lecture, we were shown a youtube of the story of Shell and the Ogoni people. Though you must think by now, I’ve grown out of my death-to-big-businesses mode, but I find it hard to progress from that, because when at uni, this is what we are told and taught! Big businesses normally whilst going on with their business, produce negative externalities. Hence, they should compensate the people who are affected by the externalities! Doesn’t it make sense? Maybe this issue is like an iceberg, and we are only the tip. So trying to fully comprehend it fully would just hurt my little brain.

I’m no where near understanding majority of the political issues that arise and don’t worry, I’m also no where near turning into comrade again. Therefore, I’m not sure why I’m so wound up. Well, not really wound up. Anyway, I know being left-winged means more than just frowning upon big businesses. So this rant, does not give my family the right to christen me with another horrible nickname.

I guess my point is quite stupid. But yeah, go search youtube for ‘Shell and Nigera’. It’s really sad, I bet you’ll swing in the same direction as me!

for mum.

made two bunches of hot cross buns this easter using two different recipes, nigella lawson’s and mummy’s. mummy’s turned out really well, nigella’s not so much. i promised mummy i’d post up some pictures of the buns (her recipe), so here they are!

i was too lazy to follow mummy’s cross recipe so i made a variation of nigella’s and piped it out. needless to say, it was too liquidy. doesn’t matter, i always peel the crosses out before i eat them anyway.

heehee, ate too much food so must hide faces.

i think i need a sunrise

i’ve been so busy with the mountains of odd things that find their way to the top of my to-do list that i haven’t really had the chance to sit down and complete my thoughts. and when my mind is blank food creeps in..

i saw this entry on simply recipes which reminded me of nanna and her version of sloppy joes which is made with a sandwich maker and with normal bread instead of the buns the recipe uses. also the recipe itself is quite different from the one on simply recipes. nanna put a hint of curry powder in her beef mince which gave them nice kick and probably didn’t use as many ingredients as they do. i don’t remember nanna putting tomato sauce in or red wine vinegar or celery. actually on hindsight, i doubt the recipe even vaguely resembles nanna’s recipe. oh well.

back to nanna and her recipe (and my tummy). i used to slip in some cheese just before nanna closed the lid to let it toast which would always get her cross because the cheese had a tendency of oozing out of the bread and getting messy. but the result was always fantastic with gooey melty cheese on top of a brilliant beef mince in a perfect sandwich triangle. it made getting nanna cross very worth it.

how wonderful it is that sometimes though a recipe differs so much from how we know it to be, they still bring back memories and a good chuckle.

hmm, now i feel like going out and getting one myself.. along with a cake mixer..

okay, i m done! have a good weekend!! (for the lucky few with three day weeks or who just don’t feel like going to uni)

dadoo