Art of Groceries Shopping

ha.. tis is the 480th entry of my blog.. wow.. sounds like alot of entries ah...

yeah.. back to today's topic.. 'art of groceries shopping'. groceries shopping is part and parcel of overseas student life in Aussie. for every overseas student who need to settle their own meals, i think most of them will agree with wat i said. groceries shopping here dun refer to buying of snacks and junk food only. is the actual groceries shopping where most of our mothers will do. yep! in spore, my grandma will go to wet markets to do her groceries and sometimes when supermarkets have good offers, she will b there to grab the bargain too. as for us here, we r doing wat our grandma and mothers r doing. buying meat, vege, fruits, bread, rice, etc to settle our daily meals. and i muz say all of us students have different way of doing our groceries shopping and it is actually a leisure to look at how innovative pple can be. wat i referring to is the essential 'tools' pple will bring along for their groceries shopping..

trolley suitcase: juz a small one of cos. haha.. tis is a very typical tool to be used by many students, esp the girls. cos they are unable to carry such heavy stuff, so they will put all their stuff in the suitcase and pull it along the way home. last week, i juz saw a girl who was pulling a suitcase out of the supermarket and guess wat's in there? well.. is a 10kg rice. haha... smart girl ah!

environmental bags: very common practice here.. almost everyone who r out for groceries shopping will be equipped with two or three environmental bags. other than being environmental friendly, environmental bags r more reliable than plastic bags here. as plastic bags here r so thin, may torn any time. i have an environmental bag too. i bought it during my NZ trip to put my food stuff along my travel. till date, tis bag is my best partner for groceries shopping. it is actually a chiller bag so juz nice for me to put my wet stuff.

backpack: who will use backpack to buy groceries leh? me lor! haha.. my Deuter bag has been my faithful partner for alomost every of my groceries shopping trip. other than taking up the task as a laptop bag, it is a groceries shopping bag too. haha... i will try to squeeze watever i can into the backpack and try to squeeze only dried stuff. sometimes when i am crazy, i juz squeeze the whole loaf of bread into the bag. often the bread will be out of shape! but nvm la, i am eating mah. out of shape, still can eat ah. but i guess tis squeezing of stuff into bag has became a practice for me. when i went back to Spore previously, i bought a loaf of bread from NTUC. guess wat? i squeeze it into my bag. when i went home, my aunt and grandma were laughing at the loaf of bread which was totally out of shape. hahaha...

plastic bags: sometimes pple juz rely on the normal plastic bags given. is possible but when u have to take a bus, go up and down the bus with so many plastic bags is juz so clumsy. if the bus is FULL, seriously bless u ah. other than balancing urself in the fast moving vehicle, u have many plastic bags to grab onto ah. i tink is still better to 'strategize' when we r going for groceries.. esp for pple like me who shop like once every 2 to 3 weeks, & thus alot of stuff to buy. if i rely on plastic bags, i tink my hands will b numb at the end of each shopping trip. haha...

of cos those tat i mention above r for pple who has no cars. some students will have an easier time when they go for groceries shopping with their cars. previously, when Huiying, Tess and I rented a car for our oad trip, we did our groceries shopping with the car too. gosh~! is so much easier and groceries shopping is no longer a torture! haha.. cos we dun have to carry the heavy stuff such as 2 litre of milk, vege, meat, bread, etc to take a bus and walk to our house from bus stop. with a car, juz dump everything into the car boot. once reach home, juz unload all the stuff. tat's so swift and easy! of cos, i dun have such luxury all the time so i got to make use of watever i have to lighten my load. at times, i will oso take advantage of pple's car. haha... still rem how i got my 5kg of rice home. all thanks to James who was driving his car then. he advise me to get a 5kg packet of rice since he will be driving each of us home. and tis pack of rice is still with me till now as i usually dun eat much rice. haha.. i tink juz nice to last till end of tis sem.

anyway, the days of groceries shopping shld be over soon. real soon.. i wonder will i miss the times when i get back to Spore? haha..