How to motivate yourself? ;)

Feeling lazy to cook?
I do and many times.

How do I recover that feeling?
I imagine.

What kind of imagination?
Wild.... hahahaha!!!


When I was 6, I used to 'main masak-masak' with my friends - Kak Long, Eddie, Fuad and Bada. By the way, Fuad and Bada are my siblings. Ops! Bada was too little then. Tak boleh main masak-masak lagi. Dia kena duduk rumah ;).


Kak Long and Eddie are siblings. Their house was just next to ours and they were much bigger than us. Kiranya, kalau main masak-masak, Kak Long akan jadi chef dan prepare all stuff macam periuk, kuali kecik dan api. Of course, you need 'api' to cook right. Our port was at the back of Kak Long's house or at the back of my house - under pokok limau madu (no more limau madu now coz' my family didn't live there anymore *sad*).


Oh dear! Seronoknya main masak-masak though we only cook things like daun hijau and air. Bila daun hijau tu menggelegak (boil), rasa seronok sangat! Sometimes we fried egg! Yang tu boleh makan. It was like the best food in the world coz' we fried it ourselves :). Walaupun hari-hari main masak-masak dan hari-hari masak daun dan air, kami tak pernah jemu. Duduk atas tanah dan kacau tin yang ada air dan daun tu rasa macam privilege sebab tak semua dapat turn untuk kacau tin! hahahaha!!


But now... cooking is not a fun thing to do anymore. I don't always feel excited to cook walaupun sekarang ni jenis masakan yang perlu dimasak dah bermacam jenis dan bukanlah setakat daun hijau dan air :P.


Kenapa yek? ehemmmm... *think* *think* *think*

Ooooo.. sebab sekarang bukan main masak-masak lagi. Sekarang adalah tanggungjawab. Sekarang adalah rutin. No more friends untuk potong daun, no more kuali kecik (mana cukup nak guna kuali kecik) and no more masak bawah pokok limau. No more.. no more.. Sekarang masak didapur - kena lap lepas habis masak, tak boleh sepah-sepah dan tak boleh hangit sebab nanti sape nak makan kalau hangit kan.. membazir aje lauk-pauk tu.


Thus, no mood to cook (sometimes). Duduk kat dapur macam satu beban aje. Itu yang kadang-kadang masak entah apa-apa. Sebab spirit takde. Semangat nak masak takde. Macam mana nak dapatkan semangat ya?


Aha!! camana kalau kita imagine kita main masak-masak? hehehehh.. memang lah takde kawan-kawan lagi tapi we can imagine kan. Just imagine, ada kawan-kawan tolong. Just imagine, kita kacau daun dan air.. hehehehe!!


I did it today. Masa kacau sayur goreng tadi, I imagine myself stirring daun hijau dalam tin. Macam main-main aje. Seronok pulak.. Mungkin esok I can start imagine having friends around. Sambil masak-masak, sambil borak. Hehehee.. psstttt.. sape datang rumah dan dengar ada orang bercakap-cakap kat dapur tu, buat tak tahu je lah ye. Bukan orang gila tu.. hahahah!!


Anyway...... its easier to say than done (cakap senang laaaa!! kehkehkehhh). Mungkin once in a while boleh la kot buat cam ni. Kalau hari-hari, bosan juga dan betul boleh jadi gila sebab asyik bercakap sorang-sorang.. :P


Oh ya.. gambar dibawah ni takde kena mengena dengan entry di atas tu. I made the cheesecake 2 days ago - ikut resepi maklang tapi ubah sikit-sikit. Tak berapa jadi mungkin sebab sukatan tak berapa betul. Hangit pulak tu kat atas. Terpaksalah dibuang yang hangit tu and cover cela-cela tu dengan foundation (whip cream topping).