There’s always a jinx that hanged around the BBQ that were organised by my friends.
Some years back, I had a BBQ gathering with my secondary four class at a friend’s condominium. In the end, despite having a really perfect spread of food and an equally perfect weather, somehow we couldn’t start the fire for the BBQ the whole night, even though there are plenty of girl guides and NCC gals among us (hee..I’m from a girls’ sec school). Thus, the BBQ turned out to be a really big failure.
My friends and I had been planning for a BBQ since December and we finally managed to arrange a BBQ last Friday.
On Thursday, my friend Val checked the weather forecast and told me the gloomy news, “Heyz, the weather forecast says the weather is going to be stormy tomorrow. BBQ how?”
“Well…try our luck and see how things go.”
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On Friday afternoon, the weather is just right, not much sunlight, but it wasn’t cloudy either. Thus we carried out our plan of shopping for our BBQ food. After we left the supermarket and were carrying our food back, foreboding dark clouds were beginning to form in the sky.
Sadly, the moment we reached my friend’s place, rain started pouring.
We could only pray that the weather will turn for the better as we played our card games.
Amazingly, after half an hour of rain, it was clear sky again! Thus we began our frenzy of preparing the food (as in the course of rain, we were thinking that we might execute the backup plan of calling pizza instead).
The most embarrassing thing is, among us four gals who were there first, neither of us enters the kitchen often, thus in the end there were plenty of SOS calls to boyfriends and guy friends on how to marinate a certain food, and double confirming the way to start the fire for BBQ. Yes…erhm guy friends…looks like there’s really a role reversal these days. =P
Happily, after cutting up, marinating, and clearing the place up, JH, MS and I began carrying the food down, as three others were downstairs starting the fire. The moment we reached the lobby with the food, rain started pouring.
Yes..so it’s back to my friend’s place again, plus having the emergency to send umbrellas to the few who were stuck at the BBQ pit.
In the end, we had to microwave all the food that we had prepared.
Photo courtesy of Dopey. I was too hungry by then to take a decent photo. LOL
We were intending to have baked potatoes for BBQ, but in the end, we mashed the potatoes up. The mash potatoes prepared by MS and the salad prepared by Dopey were the best that night.
As for the sotong (squid) that I have marinated, I guess I had been over-enthusiastic in putting the pepper in them thus it came out kind of pepperish. =P
It was JH’s birthday in November, but we had delayed giving her the presents until Friday. *sheepish* As she had numerous food allergy (I think she can’t have dairy products, wheat products, meat products and yeast), some of my friends decided to give her a food hamper for her present. DT and MS had especially shopped for hours to prepare this food hamper.
12 items exactly. Exactly enough for her to have a new item each month!
It’s also my birthday in a few more days. Thanks to my friends for the presents that I have received so far. Dopey, I like the bear a lot! And to Val, Sh, JH, MS, and DT, I love the colours on the lipstick palette too! Thanks! 
