Y SO susah study so hard when you can open a pan mee stall?
All you need to know is hao to boil ikan bilis soup, cook the pork sauce and knead the dough into perfection. No need to bother 'A' grade whatnot and difficult lecturers
(Lecturers as in the person not lectures as in the lessons because I am smart and can handle them wahahahhaha rub it in I must). Y SO susah lah. Some fella selling pan mee at a hawker center mah also drive a Mercedes?
HAHAHAHAHA kidding lah. We'd probably kena chop into pieces like the pork by our parents if we gave up our studies to sell pan mee.
Ever heard of the saying
"Kids are always dying to grow up while adults are always trying to retrieve their lost childhood?" Indeed, young kids love to do grown up stuff like wearing mom's high heels or putting on mom's lipstick and all that as though they can't wait any longer to become all grown up. But when they do grow up eventually, they do childish stuff to grasp whatever remnants they have of their childhood in vain. Children Y U SO rush!!! Slow down lah.
I really rike this picture. Sums up the saying really well because the two Kambings in their early twenties find themselves playing with dough not to chase their childhood, but to make a perfect bowl of pan mee!
If only life was as easy as kneading Play-Doh, just like the good old days when I was 10 years old! I get to play with 'Play-Doh' and not think about the yucky stuff that adults fret about all day.
But alas, making pan mee is not the same as Play-Doh. With Play-Doh, you didn't need to consider how much of eggs and flour and salt and water to put into the mixture, but with pan mee, you do.
Really, making pan mee is just like juggling real life. Making pan mee is NEVER easy. You need the correct amount of this and that to knead that perfect little dough. Similarly, you need the right amount of everything perfectly so that you can strike an ideal balance in life, which is never easy.
How I wish I didn't have to make any difficult decisions at this stage of life. Stay? Leave? Work where? Work how? Work for whom? Work WHERE?!!!!
But I have got to tell myself regardless of how difficult decision-making is, everything is going to eventually fall into place and turn out alright, just like this bowl of pan mee, where all the ingredients mesh together to form heaven-in-a-bowl. Prospects in life will turn out as bright as the carrots in this bowl of noodles! Just imagine if I stood there fretting over how much salt should I put into the soup - if I stood there and hesitated forever, I wouldn't reap any outcome and missed the chance to eat perfectly cooked noodles. Similarly, if I don't make a choice fast, I'm going to let prospective opportunities fly past me.
So it's time to put that dash of salt in life and keep going! Life is never in measurable terms, that's what makes it just a tad more interesting than this bowl of pan mee.
Gosh I'm making metaphors of life out of food. Wtf!
