Driving back from our weekend in Melaka, Boyfriend and I stopped by Cold Storage to do some much-needed grocery shopping for the apartment.

I’ve always loved grocery shopping, you see. Even though I don’t do it very often because my mom handles the groceries for our household, but whenever I do tag along, I get to chose all the snacks and sweets I want :) while mom handles the fruits, veggies, meat - ie. the boring cooking stuff hehehe.


But about 45 minutes into running around Cold Storage and a fuller shopping cart later, standing at the cashier, I noticed that our shopping cart had no snacks whatsoever in it.

We filled it with only the bare necessities, which surprisingly still came up to a very full shopping cart: Chicken (for dinner that night); assorted veggies (’cause a meal without veggies is an incomplete one!); cili padi (’cause god knows i love my chillies); milk and cereal (clearly for him, not for me); assorted fruits; pasta sauce; shower gel (we’re running out); etc i can’t remember everything; and of course my Chinese cooking wine. My special noodley soup is not the same without it!


Standing at the cashier looking into our shopping cart, it then occurred to me. Somewhere along the way, I stop caring about the snacks and sweets, and grew up to love the boring cooking stuff.

Somehow it was less of a chore, and more of a good time, if you do it with someone special. Stocking up not even for my own household, but for his apartment, in which I spend a great deal of my time now anyway.


Though I can’t say I love that last part of grocery shopping quite yet. Damn, groceries can be expensive!




Currently listening to: Owl City - Fireflies ♫
(♫ genre: synth-pop)

1. Sarah Says:
   January 27th, 2010 at 4:06 am

   I somehow really love this post. says a lot :)