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its so weird how my blog's been turning up in strange searches..like google germany for "love takes time but you've"..uber google!
we went out last night to mexicali around midnight but it was closed so we went to esquires coffee instead. i think its st patrick's day today..but i'm not sure. i'm feeling a bit dizzzy but i dont know why.
anyhoo,
i wanted to say something but i forgot.
oh yes, what do you make of people who put up pictures of their bf's up as their primary pic (obviously its FS i'm talking about here) and have the caption as "my hubby"? i dont know about you, but it makes me go "EEuugghh"
I FEEL SOO OFFENDED.
there's this gathering thing later and we're (as in the mara tesol bunch) are supposed to cook. it just so happens that me and aud are in charge of dessert. now bear in mind that we are non-muslims and they are muslims (my, my..the dominant group and the "others") now it was a very unwise choice to put me and aud in charge of such a thing as food because there are some of them who are very particular about what they eat. but we thought, oh, dessert would be fine. we'll just buy fruits and serve that. aud suggested we make jelly, but i said we cant because the jelly here has gelatin in it. and a salad? who knows what the salad dressing has that we dont know they cant take. so we thought, fine, we'll stick to fresh fruit and fruit juices. cant go wrong with that right?
WRONG!
last night during the uber-redundant group meeting before we went to food town, chuckster asked us "what are you guys preparing for dessert?" i said "Oh, fresh fruit and juice" then she said "why dont you guys buy tinned fruits? there's an offer at foodtown and bla bla bla bla bla bla" now here's the thing: are you so afraid of what we serve that you have to dismiss our ideas on food? and she even had the foodtown promo brochure to show us. so..oh-kay. aud was just staring at CHUCKSTER in disbelief and i just went "aha..oh..ahha". the tinned fruits are already in syrup, right? chuckster got the nerve to say "buy syrup to put on the fruits because it may not be as sweet as the syrup back home". URGH...forget it.
so we bought the tinned fruits, and i even said "Oh, we need to use your bowls to serve them in. who knows, some of you may be very particular about what we eat in our bowls..who knows what we eat in our bowls." and CHUCKSTER (damn you chuckster) went "AHhh..." geez.
so this morning, as in a few minutes ago, aud went to check on whats going on with the lunch thing. and zebra asked her "what have you guys prepared for dessert?". aud said "fruits in the can" and then zebra said "fruits in the can?? susah susah kite masak, korang beli je fruits in the can?" something along those lines, i wasnt there to hear it. so aud said "well, mimi (thats chuckster's preferred name) said to buy fruits in the can and who knows, some of you might not be comfortable eating what we've prepared".
and she came back and said she was so offended. i am too.
here's the thing. if you want us to be in charge of food, when you're so particular about it, TELL US WHAT TO DO. dont ask us to come up with ideas (that were not bad to begin with) and then say, "no no, you do it like this. your idea sucks".
oh and by the way, lets just make me and aud NOT an option ever again when it comes to food preparation. we already volunteered to clean up after, why make us deal with food when thats such a sensitive topic for you?
rosemary (our lecturer during summer school) felt quite offended when she handed us out jelly beans during summer school and they couldnt eat them because
they werent halal.
of course she didnt know about that, so it hit her hard la. she was still talking about it the next day.
ugh
lemme eat my gelatin jelly.