Confessions of a City Slicker

Mom was caught by the organic bug recently and started fermenting a drum of enzymes using fruit skins.

Of course, in the initial fermenting stages, you don’t wanna open up the drum because the stench will kill you

After that, there is the pleasant smell of alcohol.

There have been a few articles published about the uses of these organic enzymes, the most obvious being fertilizers. They can also be used to wash dishes, for hair care and skin care.

OK, I’m all for going organic and all that but I draw the line on the last few. There’s just something unthinkable about using garbage for hygiene purposes.

People have said that the enzymes can be used to cure age spots on the arms, so Mom can be found dipping her arms into the brown liquid once in a while.

Ewwww….

Mom saw this plant in the market and couldn’t resist adding it to her “garden”.

Isn’t it unusual?

I love the spiral leaves.

The people who sold it used some sort of leafy thing as soil, so hopefully, this is one pot where I don’t have to encounter any w***s. Ugh!

That’s Happy Deepavali in Tamil. If it’s not accurate let me know ya, because I Google that up

It’s Deepavali again. Time for muruku!

The neighbors invited us for their open house lunch. Their nasi tomato with curry chicken and mutton and fried chicken with onion were sitting heavily in my stomach when I went for belly dance practice after that.

No pictures of all that delicous food to share. I really wanted to snap a few pics but Mom wouldn’t let me, saying that it’s rude.So you guys are just gonna have to trust me that they were nothing short of spectacular.

I asked my neighbor how she always got her curry so thick. Coconut milk?

More than that! In addition, she’s also got condensed milk, blended almonds and hazel nuts and other spices all blended in it, thus giving it that thick consistency.

Sigh…so much work for the perfect curry.

These are what’s left of the cookies that they gave us. The containers were very much fuller when we got them. Most of them are now in my tummy

I just can’t get enough of their murukus. The smell of spices are not as overwhelming as the store bought ones and I just love the lovely aroma of butter.

There was also a few pieces of moist chocolate cakes and pineapple tarts. Haven’t tried the honeycomb biscuits yet, though. Never been a fan of them.

So again, Happy Deepavali, peeps!

My big performance is the next weekend and I’ve finally put the last stitch on my bra.

Phew! It took, what? Two months?

Almost, I think, sewing up till 2 am in the morning, 3 or 4 am during the weekends and skipping gym, locking myself in my room with my beads, sequins, needle and thread.

Here’s the result of my hard work:

I’ve avoided doing the tassle thingies because well, everybody else is doing it. Why blend in, right?

The girls in class all raved about my “fine craftsmanship” because I had worked with the small sequins as opposed to the big ones that most of them use. Eh I didn’t know they come in big sizes worr…(blush)

So when the guy at the shop showed me the 100 gm pack, I hentam lah!

“Eh how did you get all the sequins so close together arr? And so straight some more.”

Heheheheh….I can feel my ego expanding a notch here

Finally, the hardest part is out of the way. I can breath a sigh of relief. Haven’t touched the skirt yet, but I got ready assembled materials for it. All I have to do is put them together and I’m done!

Only question is how much time I’ve got to glam up the thing. Needless to say, I could be sewing until show time.

Gonna make an appointment for a pampering session for me peepers some time this week. They deserve it after all that hard work.