Like omg lol. Yesterday, we were having dinner at this seafood restaurant when my dad decided to order a jug of beer to share between him, my uncle and myself. And then, when this waitress aunty came over to serve the beer to us, she didn't want to pour beer for me because she didn't think i was above 18 years of age!! 0.0
I didn't bring any identification with me into the restaurant, so my mother had to clarify with her; something along the lines of how she wouldn't have allowed me to drink beer in front of her unless i was older than 18 years. The waitress understood - sort of - but then later on, the manager of the restaurant came over to our table to question us again because he, too, thought that i was a minor!!
Like what the hell. I'm not sure how he "spotted" me; whether on his own or if the waitress went to "tell on me" for trying to get away with drinking below the age limit.
But the whole point is, i'm freaking TWENTY YEARS OLD now! Like i'm turning 21 this year; soon, i'll be able to watch R(A) movies!! XD
And i'm still being mistaken for a minor. It's happened plenty of times before; like some time early this year, while at manga class, this 15 year old girl made a guess that i was 18-19, and another guy at the class who was having his NS (he was 19/20) guessed that i was 17 years old. Woots. People at the firm continue to be surprised when they find out that i'm not some boy fresh from JC and waiting to go to NS; i've been getting questions from everyone as to whether i'd gotten a place in the university yet and when i was going to enlist into the army.
Well, i suppose it's great that i look young for my age. Heck, it's awesome. Perhaps, in the future i could be one of those 30 year olds with 20 year old girlfriends and nobody could tell there was an age difference to begin with ahahaha. Still, i think i better bring my IC with me every time i go out from now onwards lol.
Then again, to be serious, that's the sad thing about identification cards. Sigh. Perhaps, long, long ago, people who looked younger could have longer careers or something because they could pass themselves off as a younger guy, but with my IC and IC number, i'm not going to be able to enjoy those advantages today.
Oh anyway i baked a standard bread loaf today which went really well. The crust was crispier than ever - with totally no burnt parts unlike in the past - and the insides were fluffier than ever before. Lol it really does keep getting better and better each time. The only drawback was that the bread lacked taste. I actually used more butter and sugar than usual, so i was a little perturbed. But that was only until i tried the bread with a little butter, when i realised why my bread had lacked the usual taste: that "butter" wasn't butter at all!!!
I had put that same butter into my dough, and when i tried tasting it, it was more like margarine. Wtf. I believe that this butter was the NTUC brand butter bought from - where else - NTUC. My goodness. My respect for their products has dropped quite a bit because of this. Like who're they trying to kid sia. Maybe it IS butter, but it is so bland that it should never be used in breads and especially pastries unless the baker compensates for it somehow. Plus i think the "butter" is very lightly salted too (almost unsalted), so extra salt would have to be added, since most recipes actually assume that your butter is salted normally.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Okay, turns out the "butter" wasn't from NTUC, after my mother went and got her memory refreshed or something like that. X) The "butter" was placed in our own plastic container, so i couldn't find out it's TRUE IDENTITY till later on! It's actually a brand called Buttercup, and the contents of the "butter" - as seen from the ingredients list written in tiny letters on the packaging - is, of course, vegetable fat with milk solids, etc...meaning that it's freaking MARGARINE like wtf. But the margarine is coloured to look quite like butter and feels a lot like butter too (when you try spreading it on bread), and it's packaged really well, in this shiny gold wrapping; the same way that lots of butters are packaged. Furthermore, the packaging reads "Buttercup: Luxury Spread", so it's not like you can sue them for faking anything; after all, they never did say that it was actually butter, did they? 0.o Of course, my mother didn't notice all of this when she did her grocery shopping; all she saw was the fact that this Buttercup cost $2+ each while the other butter slabs cost $4+ each, so she jumped at such a wonderful bargain! "Wah, so cheap, must buy!!!"...and she went and bought 2 slabs. LOL.)
Haiz...to think i actually reduced the salt i used for my dough from 1 teaspoon as recommended by the recipe to just a quarter of it, because i had expected the butter to have some salt in it (and because my mother has got some extreme aversion to salt lol). Ahwell. Lesson learnt. Next time, i should taste the butter i'm using before i add it into my dough. Just in case. Heck, i'll just taste my milk, sugar and salt too, to make sure they're the normal varieties. And the yeast and flour too, of course.
Just kidding about that last bit.
