Rapid Creek Business Village

I'm back! I've got a Skype interview at 11.30am today and its going to be my first Skype interview! Its for the position of a demonstrator for Dyson vacuum machines. Fingers crossed and I will update you later on how that goes. As for this post, lets look at how our Sunday went. Monday and Tuesday would follow in subsequent posts!

Sunday

Sunday was rather interesting. We headed down to the much talked-about Rapid Creek Sunday Market. We had no idea what to expect and thought it was going to be pretty drab. But as we approached the roads around the area, we saw loads of cars queuing to enter the carpark. It was almost like the CNY car wash frenzy in Singapore where almost every petrol station had a convoy lined up outside. 

As we hated queuing, Sang and I decided to park slightly further away and walk towards the market. It was a quick walk and brought us to the back entrance of the market area. Once in, we realised what the big fuss was all about. It was like a regular Singaporean wet market! Almost everything from curry leaves and dried chilli to tofu and sweet beancurd was for sale. I mean, what else do we need right? Everything we have wanted so far for cooking, we have managed to get from various stores and this market just topped it all. 

We were quick to get ourselves a bunch of curry leaves, lemongrass and a pack of Singapore (apparently) noodles. We entered the fishmongers stall which was air-conditioned and behind glass doors. Hmmm. Fish... Enclosed... Air-conditioned. All I can say is we weren't in there for too long.  There were other stalls selling food like laksa, pad thai, thai salad, Indonesian food etc. We were quite tempted to give one of those a go but with a hastily bought pack of Singapore noodles in hand, we decided that the market food could wait for next week. After all, they will be here every Sunday anyway.

As we headed out of the market, we came across two stalls selling plants. One was selling native Australian plants and the other was manned by an elderly Australian man who specialised in spice plants. OMG! We could buy a curry leaf plant and pluck at it for our cooking needs! What a brilliant idea! Unfortunately, he mentioned that his curry leaf plants are just getting out of the seedling phase and that we should come back in four weeks. No problemo! We already had in hand about a month's supply of curry leaves. He then asked us to take a whiff of his basil plant which we duly did. That was $3 dollars to him and off we went, pot of basil in hand. Wow! The market had been truly rewarding. We had no idea what was it like before but now know that we would find ourselves frequenting the market almost weekly.

Once home, we got ourselves to task by preparing the ingredients for the noodles. By about 5pm, we were all ready to get cooking. The annoying thing that really disrupted our cooking experience was the lack of a proper cooking pot. We were using a shallow frying pan that I had bought for the time being. I guess we were not being too clever when we dumped the entire pack of noodles into a shallow frying pan before realising that there was no way we could cook without tossing half the noodles out of the pan. Well... We all learn. Eventually we did manage to finish our kitchen experiment. The noodles looked a lot better than they tasted. But I am pretty sure that we would address that issue as we spend more time in the kitchen.

Anyways, this shall be the end of this post for now. Its 10.15am and I better get ready for my interview. I have to iron the one shirt I have and stage my hall so that my background looks presentable. For more Skype interview tips, refer to http://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/

I'll be sure to update you once I am done. Adios.