Drowning in chocolates

 

What is it about living/going overseas and buying chocolates when we balik ‘kampung’? I think since I was a student kot, everytime balik kampung during the holidays, mesti tak tinggal belikan all the chocolates. At that time, I can understand sebab all my adik beradik kecik2 lagi so chocolates memang lah jadi kegemaran budak2 kan. And chocolate overseas pulak tu, sure lah rasa dia lagi spesel kan even though masa student dulu yang termampu cuma beli chocs yang murah2 aje, hehehe…

But, until sekarang ni, the ‘tradition’ of buying chocolate hasn’t stopped at all. I still buy loads and loads of chocolates everytime we all balik bercuti ke M’sia. If you don’t believe me, look at the photo below, this bag is choc-a-block with funnily enough, chocolates. All types of them… Ini baru 1 bag you and I still have 1 month plus to buy more chocs, hahahaha. I tak boleh tengok chocolate sale langsung lah, mesti punya nak beli! Tension betul I, hehehe. I like buying them but I don’t eat them much. Hari tu balik in July pun we all dah bawak balik 1 big box of chocs too. Bukannya I saje2 nak beli, kalau I tak beli, adalah nanti yang panjang muncung bila jumpa we all ;-D. Almost half of these chocs dah kena booked by ‘people who shall remain nameless’ and then half lagi has already got ‘names’ on them. For those people, jangan ngences ye bila tengok gamabr kat bawah ni :-D. If suddenly, the blood sugar levels in my rellies’ blood naik mendadak2 after I balik, you tau lah who to blame kan.

Nasib baik my parents ada chest freezer so boleh lah we all sumbat segala chocolate ni in it until the right owners come along to claim them :-). And kalau masih ada lagi saki baki chocolates in that chest freezer kat kampung tu berbulan2 after we’ve come back to Perth, first come first serve, sape cepat dia dapat…..

I blame our chocolate fixation and addiction on my late arwah Atuk. When he was alive, he loved chocolate so much. But he wouldn’t eat the el cheapo chocolates sebab dia kata taste tak sedap. He would only eat imported chocolates and chocolates made with cocoa butter not vege oil. Masa dulu I selalu belikan dia chocolate when I balik kampung from OZ which he would keep in his room and eat a little bit at a time all to himself, hehehehe… Everyone knew at that time not to touch chocolate Atuk, hahahaha.. But he was very healthy and lived past his 90s. I guess sebab dia tak overindulged and dia makan the chocs sikit2 at a time as a treat (unlike his kids and grandkids nowadays :-( ).

The Little Misses pun sekarang dah tau which chocolate brand taste nice and which chocolate doesn’t but kalau dah takde langsung tu, they’ll eat anything and everything jugak! Takde diskriminasi langsung, hahahaha…

But tonite, our dinner takde langsung berunsur2 chocolates. Cuma nasi goreng sayur campur and baked chicken wings n telur goreng aje.