We really have to count on each other...for food

I find it very interesting to see how my diet has changed over the weeks...ur diet keeps improving as u get to know more people.

The first week was sheer torture...it's cereal in the morning and energy bars throughout the day, even for lunch and dinner. That first week was horrendous...i think i can get away with it if i sue the theme park for ill-treating me.

Then came the 2nd week...where my roommie and I finally decided that we are pretty sick of energy bars. So we decide to move on to canned food and microwavable food. It's still pretty bad...but at least it's still convenient and taste to it. So it was like cold ham in the morning, and microwaved pizza for dinner.

And now, we are finally in the third week. Things have gotten way better. Now we have a big spread for breakfast, there's cereal, milk, bread, ham, sausages, eggs, peanut butter, blue berries etc etc. As for lunch, someone made lunch boxes for everyone to bring to work and we had fried rice for dinner as well (it tastes horrible but the chef spent 3 hrs on it...so must applaud his effort)

Alex's lunch box for yesterday...it really taste very good. I think he marinated the chicken on his own. So there's veg, meat and RICE (i miss eating rice:(

Anyway, things have gotten a lot better, at least in terms of food and nutrition wise. Got to know everyone around and learnt abt each others' specialty dishes. And it's more convenient for one person to cook in bulk and share rather than each person cooking their own stuff...saves time and money. Alex is generally very good with food so he's covering lunch. I rmb Kok's soup to be very tasty as well

So since i'm always the first to be awake, got appointed as the one in-charge of making breakfast. Like this job...have always been interested in making little stuff like cakes and cookies...very suitable for breakfast. And there's Alex who's making lunch boxes for everyone everyday (I admit he's a better chef than me...but i'm learning:)), and dinners is usually on our own (since we reach back at abt 10pm everyday, no one really has the energy to cook) but there might be surprises if someone came back early.

So i made this for my first breakfast. As u can see, i microwaved some ham and sausages, fried some pancakes and did scrambled eggs. Took less than hour to prepare all this. Need to think of new ideas for breakfast

Apparently, they were quite impressed with my scrambled eggs...were asking for the secret ingredient i added in to the eggs. Nothing special really...the secret lies with milk.

And so we have a lot to plan for the upcoming week. I am supposed to come up with something special for breakfast on my off-days. Currently only have waffles in my mind. But we are moving on to greater stuff...there might be Bak Ku Teh on the way. Can't wait to see what kind of dishes we will eventually progress to. But seriously, cooking is a hell lot of fun, especially cooking with and for others:)))

Mark, the budding chef

PS: There's potluck dinner on Sunday, so I need to brainstorm and showcase my fine culinary skills...gotta leave an impression:)