The day I felt so brave...

For a person whose entire experience in cooking only consisted of cooking instant noodles, I was feeling very ambitious and surprisingly confident one day when I decided to cook an entire meal all by myself.ha..
I had planned a simple menu, consisting of rice, steamed fish, herbal pork ribs soup, a potato-and-carrot dish, and fried celery. Actually I had totally no idea of how to produce a dish of fragrant, crunchy celery, but well, I thought I would survive. Anyway..
on that fateful day...
I defrosted my meat, filled the crock pot with all the ingredients and filled it with HOT water (haha, I remembered this time) and switched it on. As I walked away I could even smell the faint aroma of the herbs cooking. Okay, one down. I took out my celery and almost suffered from a panic attack. The celery was non-existent. What remained was a plastic bag full of brown, murky liquid with some sticks of soggy vegetable, or what remained of it. This called for an immediate change in my menu. The only other vegetable I had available was cabbage. So...
being the highly flexible person I am, I decided to change my dish to boiled cabbage, which is healthy, not oily and most importantly, EASY TO COOK. However, I mixed it with the wrong sauce.
a note to everyone interested, cabbage does not go with oyster sauce.
finally, everything was settled. the fish was by far the best. the potato dish was passable, despite being quite weird as a dish. the cabbage.. ugh, don't even talk about it. but still it was edible. in fact, i finished most of it.
that was when i heard a shriek from my lovely roommate saying: you forgot to switch on the crock pot!!!
totally puzzled i was, not to mention a little freaked out. but lo and behold, it was as cold as ice. let me first tell you a little about the geography of my place. my pot was plugged into an extension plug, which was plugged to the main socket on the wall. me being the genius i am actually did switch on the switch... on the extension plug. well, i guess you know what happened. ai...
well. that was the first time i cooked, not the last, but hopefully getting better with practice. i just have to find people to help me eat it. and i guess that's what housemates are for. wahahahaaha (evil laughter) ;p