It was a pretty fun week I must say. Thursday I cooked the Malaysian dinner for the young adults. I actually took half a day off from work. I started prepping and cooking at 1:30PM and things were pretty much ready by 6PM. Once both curries were in the pot, I just left it on low and let it cook. I even had time to go to Mass that evening. The beef and chicken were bought from Costco and it was very good and flavorful. As soon as my friends through the door, the first comment they made was that it smelled good. I have to say that everything really turned out well and we had more than enough to eat. Everyone was stuffed beyond belief. No one brought appetizers. They all brought dessert. I actually had three waves of people come over the course of the evening due to people’s schedule. That worked out well and everyone had a good time eating and conversing. My dvd player had difficulty showing the photos that were on the DVD-R and the CD-R so I had the photos on my laptop. Brian was the one person who wanted to see the photos and asked me a number of questions about different things. He and his brother, Bill were the last to leave but they are such fun guys. They brought some food back for their mom whose never had Malaysian cuisine before. Bill cracked me up because while he was in Boston, he went to a Malaysian restaurant and as soon as he stepped into my apartment, he made the comment that it definitely brings back memories and the smell of the Malaysian restaurant. It was indeed a fun evening.
On Saturday, Carola and I went to the cinema to watch a live HD showing of the NY Metropolitan Opera (MET) “Salome”. Salome is based on the biblical passage where John the Baptist was beheaded and his head served on a platter. I’ve been wanting to go to an opera performance for quite some time and when this opportunity presented itself, I was not going to pass it up. I joked with Carola that this is the only time people can watch the MET live and chew on popcorn at the same time! There were some minor hitches during the live broadcast, but that’s to be expected with a HD screening live via the satellite. Overall, I would definitely go to other performances at the cinema in a heartbeat. I’ll definitely try my best to make it to the live opera next year in Indianola which is 30 minutes south of DM. What’s really neat about the live broadcast is the fact that you really get to see the performers up close and personal. If one were to go to the MET to watch the performance, the tickets would probably cost close to $350. Carola was happy I thoroughly enjoyed it. We then went to an Italian restaurant close to the cinema for a late lunch. The weather was downright spectacular albeit a little windy, but even the wind did not last long.
Later that evening, I had left a message on a friend’s phone asking her if she wanted to join me at the World Food Festival, but I never heard back from her. I was keen on going and probably should have just gone by myself, but after we got done with lunch, I started watching the fourth season of Boston Legal on DVD and I was too engrossed in it that I really did not mind spending time in my apartment. I had leftover fried rice for dinner and it was more than enough. I have two more discs left to watch and I’ll be done with the fourth season.
That’s kind of how the weekend went for me.
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