Impatience can cost you

Don’t you hate it when someone rings the door bell continuously and when you rush out, the person  is already getting ready to “cabut” (leave)? ARRG!! I shouted for him to come back and told him that he had to allow time for old people to respond lah. Instead of giving me a smile or acknowledging what I told him, he stared at me as if I was an alien, or perhaps he thought this old aunty was talking too much and was wasting more of his time? His stare told me to hurry up and sign the receipt. I felt like being naughty. LOL!Know what I did? As I was taking my own sweet time signing the receipt, I gave him some advice. I told him that old people's hand shakes a lot so cannot be fast and I also have to take time to think what my identity card number is. So he has got to be patient. I could see his face by then, it was soooo looong that it could have almost touched the ground. He had no choice but to keep silent and wait patiently. I guess he wished he had not hurried me in the first place. Hopefully, this guy learned not be so impatient and realised he did not save anytime by being so. On the contrary, he had wasted more time setting off this long winded, slow moving Aunty Lucy. LOL! 

Let me make a confession. I used to be a very impatient person myself but as I grow older and wiser, I have improved because I learned that impatience can cost me.

In the past, I often tried to engage in more activities in the allotted time than I could handle. By the same token, I did not allocate enough time for the things that needed to be done. I did not like to wait for things to materialize so I failed to spend adequate preparations to have a satisfactory result. I got upset easily if things did not happen soon enough. When I got impatient, usually, I appeared curt, abrupt, hasty, and presumptuous when I spoke. Due to my impatience, it appeared to others that I was impolite and not a nice person to be around. Not a good way to win friends.

So, to be patient is definitely a better choice in life. Due to my being patient that day wondering how to use up the "hitam masak" paste given to me by my good friend, Arthur of Still Crazy All These Years when I went to Sibu few months ago, I took time  to carefully look through what ingredients I had on hand and came up with a delicious fusion dish for lunch. This resulting dish satisfied both Asian and Western paletes so Quay Lo and I were happy. With a little more patience, I managed to take some nice photos of the dish to share with you. Being patient does draw positive energy and emit the same, agree?

Saffron Risotto with chirizo and hitam masak prawns

This dish is featured on Asian Food Channel (Official) Facebook page on 10th Octobeer 2012

Ingredients:

1 box instant saffron risotto

4 chorizo

1 medium onion, sliced

6 medium prawns, deveined and remove shells

1 heaping tablespoon hitam masak paste, 
1/2 tbs for marinate prawns

Stir fry vegetables of your choice

Method:

Marinate the prawns with 1/2 table spoon ofr hitam masak paste for 1/2 hour in the refrigerator. To make the Risotto, follow the instruction on the box.  Pot some holes in the chirizos and fry till cooked. Heat the wok with 1 table spoonful of oil. Add onion and fry till translucent. Add hitam masak paste and stir well with the onions till fragrance.  Add prawns and stir fry till cooked. Add cooked risotto, fried chirizo, hitam masak prawns and stir fried vegetable to the serving plate and serve immediately.

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