Yes, the topic is correct...i am literally rotting this Sunday...Because, as i said yesterday, i am today's DOO! So...i had to drag my tired ass out of bed at 0630 this morning when my handphone began to play The Great Commandment by Camouflage. I think my phone has this really wicked sense of irony...hahaha...Great Commandment, indeed!
And so, half-awake me and my folks went down to Khatib (sigh. They're wonderful people) for breakfast, and then back to camp! Melvyn was the complex DOO (which means mounting and dismounting guards, staff parade, etc...that poor sucker) and so he told me to go to the armskotes at around 0830 because he had to dismount the guards. He also told me that i should call a certain Calvin Seah...our S4...but it twisted around in my head to become Kelvin Chua...our beloved dy S3...so i was quite shocked when the person who answered the call sounded disoriented and wasted. Damn...dumb mistake of the day man...haha...hope he isn't pissed...he didn't even sound 40% awake. hahaha...
Taking over the Armskotes was a bit troublesome, because the guards wanted to send their arms while we were performing the handing/taking over process. I'm not too sure about melvyn's double arms certs because i only saw one, but i've been told they're correct, so...i don't know. i guess i will have to check them later again. Don't want him to sign extras too...so if there're disrepencies, i'll have to get him to come down and make another arms cert ASAP, if possible tomorrow first thing in the morning. Arms is an issue which no one can afford to fuck around with...if you've heard of the Infantry Sword of Honour who was decommissioned and thrown into prison because his men lost some arms in the jungles of LANCER...you'll understand...
Just had lunch, and now here i am writing my blog...haha...man...the boredom is beginning to seep in...but ohh wells...a weekend once in awhile ain't that bad...i'd take weekends...it means...less work to do...which is really good sometimes. Haha. And it also means saving money! Because you can't go out! What do you spend on Sunday in camp...the canteens are closed...maybe you spend about 2 bucks on canned drinks with lunch/dinner. Voilà!
And last night was Project: Cosmopolitan II. This time, i used limes which were already orange, in contrast to the first one, when i used limes freshly picked from the lime tree in my garden...i reduced the Cointreau accordingly and upped the volume of Absolut Citron. Also shook in half a shot of cranberry juice instead of one shot in the first attempt. The results was a sweet Cosmopolitan. Sigh. Something is wrong...maybe i shall persist in using fresh limes and maybe dilute the cranberry a tad...half a shot and half a shot of water? Well, basically, if you drank last night's attempt directly, the alcohol'd get to you really quickly. But if you held it in your mouth for a bit, the sweetness would begin to permeate and well, you wouldn't feel the alcohol that much.
The Bols Cocktail Guide lists the Cosmopolitan as a very strong, sour cocktail. Most would rather have it sweet. Jason said that if you diluted cranberry juice, you'd first taste the sweetness before the sourness came...maybe i'll experiment on it with just the juice. Or maybe it's the shaking? Maybe stirring will concentrate all the sourness at a certain portion of the cocktail...ohh well that's experimentation...i'll use fresh limes next time and maybe up the cranberry a little more...hopefully i'll chance upon the magic key to the problem soon...
The Magic Key
It's not obvious to see
Yet there for you and me
Searching for a magic key
It lies across the sea
Go on an odyssey
All just for that magic key...
Chancing upon the pot of gold
Lying at the beginning of a rainbow
A wonder indeed, one to behold
The stuff of legends once before told...
posted by quatscherei @ 12:20
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