microwave/dissection

Wednesday, July 04, 2007

It was Tuesday, and like most Tuesdays I stay at home on my off-day and get busy with household chores like washing and folding clothes, sweep the floor, etc. Then, when I feel like it, like this particular Tuesday, I cook for my siblings.^^

After all the laundry in the morning I started my work on the whole chicken. Fortunately I asked the guy in the supermarket to cut it into small pieces first. So now I'm left with skinning and de-fattening it. Initially the word 'gross' crossed my mind. I don't feel like having chicken after that. =P

The agonizing process reminded me of my frog-dissecting class in Biology lab. Amen. I remember the Bio teacher dumped all 28 frogs into an empty aquarium and poured chloroform. One minute all frogs were frantically hopping up and down the next minute they were all knocked out. Then everyone was handed the frog and I couldn't help muttering prayers during the whole 'cut-up-the-frog-while-its-still-breathing' process. Then, as if God wants to punish me for my cruelty, the frog's legs suddenly twitched after it's demise. It made me jump. It took me a moment to recall this was the nerve reflex. -.-"

OK, let's come back to present time. When night came my brother came home for dinner. He put the rice into a big glass bowl and reheat in the microwave. The bowl looks something like this, the yellow being the brown organic rice.

Then when it sounded the 'ding', we both got a shock. The glass bowl broke. The rice was still cold. Is glass not suited for the microwave then?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

What kind of frogs did u guys dissect? hahaha mine was caught in my own garden, and the frog is so small and thick-skinned and it already died before we managed to slit open his tummmy. My then classmates bought "sweet chicken" frog, (hahaaha) and they could do it easily without much trouble. cos its so big n all :P My housemate is worse. He studied biotech, and he just cut open the frog LIVE at home! No cloroform, nothing. But the frog was first "crucified" using pins. poor froggie. u could actually see his painful reaction after each STAB. n its skin was quite hard to cut through as well.

*venNEe said...

It was easy for all of us to get a frog each, because my classmate's dad was in the frog business. All we had to do was just pay up and we get a easy-to-cut juicy frog.^^ Oh my god. Crucify and cut it alive? Let me quote what my sister said,"Tell him, that there is something called Karma on earth."

Anonymous said...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!! that's funny! ur sister reads ur blog ar hahahaha! gosh im imagining the frog crucifying him in return!!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHA!

*venNEe said...

No lah. My sister doesn't even know my blog address. I told her that.