Soccer bento

This bento came about with the help of the little boy pancake which grandma gave. I got hubby to pick up the lian rong bao from the bao shop near my place and seeing the boy and the white bao gave me the idea of doing a football. The fillers include strawberries, raisins and pretzel fish.

Lately, I've found that she leaves some food behind, whereas before, she would clean out her entire bento. She says she doesn't have time to finish her food. I'm wondering if it's because these days she is in a hurry to go play with her friends. Since she started bringing a trolley bag to school, she has been putting her bento inside it, and I've told her that it messes up my 'work of art' ;P. Her answer was, 'Please don't make anymore nice bentos, just simple ones'. Gosh! Ok, I will try.

Last evening's dinner came about from thinking on the spot. My initial plan was to cook curry chicken with the half chicken that I had. However, at the last minute, I found myself attending the funeral mass of a dear old friend's mum, whom I've known since I was 7. Me and my friend lived in the same neighbourhood growing up. She was in the block beside mine, and we went to the same school and were even classmates. She as well as another friend of ours, M, are the oldest friends I have. We used to go to each others' house to play after school. I remember my growing up years as having lots of time for play, unlike kids these days, it's homework, homework, homework, and computer. We played imaginative games, and our favourite in those days was 'The Famous Five'. We will each 'be' a character from the books and my sis or one of the younger ones would end up as the dog. It was fun breathing life into the books we loved so much. I loved reading a lot, and my dad would take me and sis every weekend to MPH in Stamford Road, and we would be allowed a couple of books each. I 'ran' a little library in my home and loaned books out to friends complete with library cards, date borrowed and date returned. Those were very fun days.

It was indeed a very beautiful funeral mass and everything from the hall, to the church, to the music, to the singing, was perfect. Hubby attended the wake with me the night before, and I was impressed with how lovely and serene the church was. I told him that when I pass on, this is what I want my funeral to be like. I'm very glad that SS & I managed to be there for our old friend. She was very composed throughout, even while her sis was falling apart. I pray for God to give them strength during this difficult time. May you rest in peace, Auntie Jenny, as you prepare to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. And I will remember you always.

Coming home from mass, I knew I didn't have the time to prepare curry so I decided to quickly season the chicken with teriyaki marinade, butter some garlic toasts, and dumped some veg in to be roasted. It turned out to be a lovely dinner, hub's kind of dinner. The pasta is extra from what I cooked for the princess, so it went on his plate.