Cooking away!

Went to the veteran's home again this morning. Our supervisor worked us but good. She made us stay a whole hour longer than we were supposed to - doing paperwork! Paperwork schmaperwork. Anyway, although I'd rather be working with kids, I do rather enjoy reading the files of veterans. I am SUCH a sucker for war stories. I love reading about which wars they fought in, for how long, which division they were in.. blahblah. These are people who have fought in real wars!!! How cool is that (Not that war is cool, but you know what I mean).

Sadly.. from their files, it seems that a lot of them kindof fell apart when they returned home after the war. It must be very hard to grow old and not be able to do so many of the things you took for granted when you were young. Like speaking, socializing, seeing, hearing...!! I don't wonder that they are depressed. (Apparently the SLP at Tan Tock Seng had reported that my paternal grandmother was depressed too before she passed away, although my family fervently denies it!)

Been cooking quite a bit lately. Today my new Japanese friend Erisa-san came over to our place and we made tempura for dinner, which was very very good. :)) Meeting different people is fun - from the little preschoolers to the 90-year-old veterans, people of different countries, cities, religions, ethnicity... It makes me realize that there is so much about life that I still don't know. I guess I will never be able to explore and learn it all, but I can die trying. ;)