Good Food, Good Weekend

06-12-2010 Saturday

After being able to cook Pork Steak and Adobo, I almost cried with joy as I consider myself genius. 2 meals that I already know how to cook and yeah right of course there's more to go but heck, it's better than nothing right? I'm no longer a dummy when it comes to cooking, hurrah! Though, I'm still saddened with the fact that I still feel tired and worn out after spending a good quality time in front of the hot stove and I seem to have lost my appetite already even before indulging in the food that I prepared myself. I've solved my problem in cooking some basic food, but my problem of getting tired remains.

It's a Saturday. It's my day off and lo, would you believe, it happened to be Alex's day off also. Woo, things like this rarely happen so after I got home from work, I prepared myself for long hours of sleep. I can let Alex prepare the food and everything, I'm dead tired from talking to some dumb people all night.

When I opened the door to our room, I turned on the lights and saw him lying on his side, hugging the pillow tightly, sleeping like a baby. For a second I envy him, he was asleep all night while I'm beaten up at work, God I really wish to have a day job. I didn't bother waking him up, I grabbed the towel hanging at the back of the door, went to the bathroom to clean up and change my clothes, then I went back to the room and lie down beside him.

It must be an hour or so that has passed when I felt him waking me up. I forced my eyes to open, and I saw him looking down at me. "What.." I asked, my voice groggy.

"We need to line up your information for the doctor's appointment." he said.

Shoot. I forgot. I scheduled my first check up in Chinese General Hospital for this day. I cringed at the thought of going there half asleep but I dragged my ass to get out of bed.

"It'll only be a minute." he told me. "After you filled up the forms, we'll go home and just come back later around 5 pm."

Fair enough, I thought to myself.

Surprisingly, he's right. I filled up one small form and we're out. I almost crawled back home, that's how tired I am. I fell asleep again the moment my body touched the bed.

I woke up to the sound of Alex walking around the room. I opened my eyes. I saw him carrying our small pot, placed it on the floor. He went out and went back in, this time carrying our small plate that contained the Adobo that I cooked yesterday. The smell drifted inside the room and I'm suddenly hungry.

He sat on the side of the bed and gently tapped my arms, thinking I'm still asleep. I looked at him. "Wake up and eat." he said, smiling.

"W-What time is it?" I asked him. My head hurt a bit and it's still due to lack of sleep so I thought it's still around noon.

"4:30, hurry up, we need to go back to the hospital by 5."

I almost fell out of the bed, "4:30!!? I'm asleep that long?! Why didn't you wake me up earlier?"

"Well, you're tired and I was out anyway." He handed me a plastic bag. "Here's something I bought for you."

I unwrapped it-- siomai! Amazing. I can't believe he's really starting to care. I gladly ate and we headed to the hospital afterward.

After the check-up, he said that Doraemon (a friend of his whom they call Yao but I prefer calling him that because of his undying love for Siopao) will be treating us to a nice dinner because his aunt sent him money. Yay, more good food for this day! We met him up at Puregold Jr. which is just across the street from Chinese General.

They bought liempo, embutido and vodka. I like hanging out with Doraemon. He likes to eat good food, and the best thing about it is he shares it with us. Alex said he's our adopted mate. He eats with us every now and then, and I got used to cooking a rice enough for three people.

When we got home, the two of them prepared the food, while I took a bath. After the preparations, we ate outside the boarding house. Ahh, good food, good company, good laughs on a good weekend.

At least good things still happen to me here. And now, GOOD..night.

Labels: alex, Blumentritt, Chinese General Hospital, cook, food, pink crimson, weekend

posted by Monica-Lynne @ 3:02 AM