adventures in cooking

the other day, with every intention of turning the burner on to cook, i took a match, turned the dial on the stove to turn on the gas, and tried to light the burner with the match. it didn't work - i wondered why for a good 30 seconds before i realised that the reason the burner didn't light up was because i had not lighted the match!

after i made the shocking discovery that to turn on the burner, you need a lighted match - i managed to turn the burner on. after that, i put the pans (yes, making more than 1 dish! hallelujah!!) on the lighted burners only to realise that i had not actually cut up anything at all to put in the pan. so with a deep sigh and many laments about why in god's name i was cooking to begin with, i turned the burners off and put the pans away and started to cut up the onions.

photocopying is hard

while photocopying one day, i looked at the copies that came out of the copier and tried to compare it to what i was holding in my hand. it took me, embarrassingly, more than several moments to realise that the reason they did not match was because what i was copying was still in the machine and what i was holding was the subsequent pages of the same document. 

in my defense, it was probably the 2561st piece of paper i was copying, AND, the document was in arabic!

08.37 vs 20.37

one night, while looking at my friend's phone, i noticed that it said 08:37. so i asked him, 'why isn't your clock at 20:37?' he's like, 'why should it be on 20:37, it's still the same time.' and i was like, 'well, how else would you know whether it's AM or PM.' (....)

irony at its best

this is what i get for making fun of other people's english. 'deep friend & minced' indeed!!