comfort food

My arms still hurt from yesterday. Staffs of the 12th R.C had this mini-volleyball tournament, consisting of four teams. The results of the matches in this tournament are not important -not in this post, at least- due to the simple fact that my team lost :p

Anyway,

Makcik Siah, ever the rebellious makcik, broke a rule -a serious rule- by bringing to the court the wonderful, wonderful sardine rolls she prepared. So notorious was she that she did not even notice breaking the rule (now, this is a lie. Makcik Siah is a very, very nice person. She was just unaware of the rules, that's all. And these sentences in parentheses are not written just because she prepare meals for us staffs everyday and has every chance to put poison in mine. Honestly)

Anyway, sardine rolls. This is one delicacy I'm really fond of. I remember when I was in standard one -my family was staying in Johor Bahru then- and Ummi made sardine rolls, and us kids get to help her make it. Oh that was sooo much fun, never mind it took us nearly two hours to prepare the first batch of four -thanks to us kids 'helping out'- which is enough for both my sisters, my brother and I. Ummi passed. HAHA. We made lots more after that. At a much faster rate. I remembered thinking 'this is the best thing that will ever get past my lips'. Ummi, mother through and through, only ate a few after everybody have had some.

And to this very day, I get that same 'high' when eating sardine rolls. I just can't say how much I appreciated Makcik Siah preparing the sardine rolls and, well, breaking a rule :p

Terima kasih Ummi, dan terima kasih Makcik Siah. And not just for the sardine rolls :)