i am me

I'M ON TONIGHT,
MY HIPS DON'T LIE AND I'M STARTING TO FEEL YOU BOY...

nenenenenene

yeah, i don't know the lyrics beyond that. hahaha...
i LOVE that song. there's just something about it and makes me wanna move.
but then i fail quite miserably in that department.
i was just watching the video clip and it never fails to make my jaw drop.
how does she move like that?
shucks. i wish i could do that.
it looks so sexy. hehehe


anyway, was taking random pictures of my sisters and i on the way home from church just now, so here're the products. thanks to lyn for adobe-shopping it. i can't do that for nuts. i'm quite the noob.

anyway, i just spent half an hour cleaning and de-inking squid. went to the pasar malam with mum and lyn and she was buying fish to feed my big fish at home and i saw some squid and i remembered i had this really nice recipe for squid salad. well, i don't know whether it's nice or not since i've never tried it, but then, you'll never know till you try right? so, i persuaded her to buy some and she did. so she told me i had to clean it before keeping it in the freezer, so i, in my gung-ho mood readily agreed.

until i got home.

here, i will give a blow-by-blow account on how to clean and de-ink a squid.

step one:
pull it's head out. make sure the whole head attachment comes out or you're in quite deep shit. if i had a choice, i'd just throw away the whole head and tentacly things. i mean, it looks icky! who's gonna eat that part anyway? but noooo....mum says can cook with something else. oh-kaaaaaay.

step two:
in the centre of the head attachment, there is a tiny, tiny sack that looks like a third eye that contains the squid ink. trust me, don't press it. gently tear it away from the rest of the head and throw away. before i got the hang of it, i ended up squirting ink all over myself. genius. a few times, i didn't pull the whole head attachment out and it got stucks inside. so the whole squid inside just turned blackish from the ink. yuck...

step three:
pull out the plastic looking backbone from the body of the squid. it comes out in one long strip so it's fairly easy an elephant blindfolded with it's trunk cut off and using it's feet would be able to do it.

step four:
peel the skin off the squid's body. if you don't know that it had skin, now you do. the squid's skin is the purplish-spottish colour and once that's peeled off, the squid looks white and clean and feels really rubbery. sorta like dolphin and killer whale skin. not like i've ever touched either sea mammals. but hey, i'm guessing here.

step five:
wash the whole thing properly and pack into a plastic bag and stick into the freezer till you want to use it.

and there you go! now i'm sure all of you will go out and buy squid and be able to clean and de-ink it all by yourself. i'm so proud of all of you.