chickens and fishes

first of all, i would like to wish chan tzu ken and wong keng yew happy birthday...

next is: how many of you just eat but have never cleaned your food?
i'm talking about cleaning the insides before you cook them...
i have... or rather just have...

my mom asked me whether i knew how to clean a fish or a chicken and i
told her (dunno whether i should regret or be glad) that i didn't know how to...
this morning, after our journey to the market, she told me to clean it...
i was mentally preparing myself for all the gory details that i would encounter...
i stood at the sink, going about cleaning the chicken...

please don't continue reading if you have weak stomach muscles...
let me borrow a tagline from BERK : you have been warned






first, i cut of the fat at the neck... there was soooo much fat there i thought
that it would never end... swt... i kept tugging and cutting and all of a sudden,
i felt as if t he world had slowed down and was watching me trying to cut with
what i thought was the sharpest scissors in the drawer... the darn fat from the neck
was finally off... now,




to do the butt... / bishop's nose (i don't know why they call it that... -.-")




inside cavity of the chicken near the butt was a whole lot of fat tucked inside...
my eyeballs nearly popped out as i saw the amount of fat that i had to cut come
tumbling out, near the chicken's rear end... i dutifully cut it off... marvelling that
i still have not made stuffed chicken yet... (which means: gave the chicken some
"filling" from my stomach)

when, i've cut if the fat from both sides, i actually pitied the chicken that i was about
to steam for dinner... i then stared at the butt... and was racking my head as to whether
my mom had cut it off before cooking it... i asked my mom to come and check on how
i was doing when she told me to use my own judgement and went to work...


i thought i was all alone....


no..... wait... i had my brother.... hehe.....


i asked my brother to 'teman' me through this process and asked him whether
the butt goes off or stays... he said off it goes... so off it went...

then, i peered inside... i still had to get the lungs out... i didn't even dare use my
hands as i was prodding and poking and trying to yank them out (there are two lungs
in every mammal as far as i know), and i managed to get one out... the other won't
come out because i'm a left-hander so which means using the scissors with one hand
will only manage to yank one side out... i put my brother to good use...

if you know what i mean... he stuffed his hand in there and triumphantly yanked
out a bloody mass of lung... i continued to clear the insides and wash it clean...
then, i realised that i could put my hands between the skin and the meat... i
chucked my hands in only for them to come out covered in some transparent,
gluey thing... was it gelatin?? i didn't want to risk it so i just cleaned it out as well...
i had my brother grip the drumsticks as i proceeded to yank out handful after handful of gunk...


then, i finally gave it a washover and a sharp inspection before giving the green light...
( i am a very particular person, especially when it comes to me eating my own food )





next near the sink was a fish which my brother said excitedly that he
wanted to clean it " Yea che, i want to clean the fish.... Oh..... my..... goodness...."

that was when he saw how bloody the fish looked....

the fish was more simpler as it had no innards... but i still had to clean
the main vein or was it the artery??... as my scissors punctured it, blood came
pouring out like it was...... blood......

i washed it off as best as i could and cut off the sharp fins and voila!!!


fish is clean...

my bro bagged it and sent it to the freezer...



so, the next time you wanna brag that you can eat 2 whole chickens a meal/day,
think about those people who cleaned it and cooked it, be it your mom, helper,
dad, sister, grandmother, brother, grandfather, people at the market, restaurant,
(the list goes on) and be thankful that they helped you clean it... don't waste food
either...




i really hope that you didn't coat your computer keyboard with your insides
after reading the above processes... lol...


but i was really happy with myself (and the help from my brother) and it all took
1 hour plus which i really slow... lol... still, i have more xp now...
(xp: means experience, if you play computer games, you'll understand the lingo)


on a happier note, i watched the king and i from a vcd that siti lent me...
it was quite good... i mean, for school students la.... i didn't know what keshinn
and naz were going on all about "someone's" abs when i saw them myself....
omgoodness... he was really fit man.... swt.... and also the yingest guy there.... haha...
sigh... so ying man... too bad he only came out for a few scenes only... ok...
the first guy is qayyum and the second guy is of course dharma... haha...

owh well, but i also saw saw my classmates and ex-classmates there too...
such as keegan... lolz... and boon hong.... and deepaa, siti, ming of course,
and her anna (zubin), zachary, nik, hiba, jason, amrit, keng yew, han kuan,
chin weng, chin meng, and so many other recognizable faces... nyeh nyeh...

too bad i couldn't go...

today's friday.... yay.... which means.... i can watch jack bauer!!! yes....
but wha the heck? he got caught on the last episode and got beaten up...
swt... sad thing... so ying and got his face rearranged...

and just heard from my bro that he got arrested yesterday for drunk driving....
silly... D.U.I. (driving under influence) sad la.... these people ah... waste their
money paying bail and fines... swt...