Marriage, awkward and food

In a car, conversation goes on like this...

Labmate: When are you getting married?
Me: (Silence)
Labmate: Are you at least planning to get married in few months?
Me: Not too soon
Labmate: Why not? There's no much difference before and after marriage. Life continues as usual with certain changes. In fact, you don't even have to spend a lot, expenditures shall be your husband's responsibility.
Me: Hurm.. There are more than just material. Life after marriage is somewhat completely different from life before marriage. I can't simply go out and meet my friends without his approval. To make it simple, I ain't mentally ready.
Labmate: You'll get used to it anyway
Me: To get used to it, I need a long time. Just like when I try to adjust myself to the lab. How long can you be awkward to your husband?
Labmate: (Laugh)
Me: I'm learning to be an adult so that I can get married. A kid cannot marry a man
Labmate: (Laugh again)
Me: I'm serious
Labmate: Good luck
LOL

Try so hard to avoid all those kind of conversation. That's y I prefer talking to Senior WS and Senior W since they are Chinese so marriage is not their main topic for mere conversation like this. We rather talk about food, and shopping, things like that. Talk about food with me more, I shall be happy!

Swedish Meatballs Recipe

This is a simplified version recipe. Fast and easy to cook. In fact, I actually make the sauce part only. I didn't make the meatballs, I purchased the ready-made one.

As for the meatballs, I used Marina Beef Balls.

For the first step, fry the meatballs in a pan with 2 tablespoon of cooking oil. On medium heat, toss the meatballs occasionally until they are golden brown (for about 5 minutes). Put them aside.

For the sauce part, prepare the beef stock by dissolving half beef cube with 200ml of boiling water. In a pan, melt 3 tablespoon of butter, add 3 tablespoon of all purpose flour and stir them continuously until the flour turns brown. Cook until the roux begins to turn light brown.

After that, add the beef stock and 1/4 cup of whipping cream and let it simmer and keep stirring. Add some black pepper and taste first if you need to add salt. I usually don't add salt cause the saltiness from the beef stock alone is enough. The sauce is ready.

An ideal serving is 8 to 10 meatballs per plate, arrange them with fries, pour the sauce onto the meatballs, and scoop few spoonful of some strawberry jam (it would be nice if you have lingon berry). I personally add some mustard cause I love to balance the taste. Enjoy!

My reference is from here : http://dairimama.blogspot.com/2010/10/blackout-meatball.html

Seoul Ahjusshi 나쁜사람아니요

Suddenly I remember this one ahjusshi when I was in Korea. That night, we went shopping at Dongdaemun. On our way back to the guesthouse from subway station, we met a strange looking ahjusshi. He stared at us like we're aliens. He kept being close and stare like there's no tomorrow. I thought he never seen pretty girls before XD.

After a few meters walking awkwardly with the feeling that somebody is looking at you, I was shocked by that ahjusshi's voice. He definitely said something but I couldn't hear it properly due to the strong wind and traffic. My friend screamed and run away, leaving me behind. LOL. I heard this ahjusshi said "나쁜사람아니요". I'm quite blur cause my friend was far from me, so i just nodded and say "네,알았어"

I also dun think that ahjusshi is a bad person. He's just find us interesting person to look at. Girls wearing scarf, walking in Seoul at night, that doesn't seems pretty normal does it? But ahjusshi, your words, I still remember until that day. As when I watched drama and met this line, I immediately remember that awkward moment. Sometimes, it's good to be there.. even though I was seen as an alien, I hope I'll be there again..for maybe a longer time~~