Written by lainie at 12:53 PM on June 15, 2009 in melbourne, Daily Life.

One of the things people told me that never really registered, is that all the foods I liked back in KL aren't crazy pricey here. Ergo, grilled bacon, egg & avocado sandwich (with a bit of mild garlic and chilli mustardseed spread) on multigrain bread.

Groceries are subsidised here, making it affordable to cook more at home. I usually ask friends online what I should be doing. Meesh, Alia and chi too have been asked questions along the lines of "What is a garlic bulb?". I need the kind of recipe website that assumes I am not equipped with "common knowledge" when it comes to cooking.

Now I'm off to Safeway (tis Monday, the regular markets are closed) to pick up some veggies for tonight's cooking. Eventually, we'll ask my cousins over for dinner. When I can figure out how to fry an egg without screwing up (not an exaggeration), it will be time. Meanwhile, my sister and bro-in-law remain my experimental subjects.

I need to eat at home more I can feel my body rebelling against the cumulative unhealth that was Prita's one week visit to Melbs.

My thumbnail is bright red because something about sober girls around my drinking self, that gives them the compulsion to paint my nails. If I stay over, they want to groom me and do my hair. T____T