pork with sage

i am deflated, dejected and defeated. i always try my best to make good food for kimmy but he never appreciates any of it. Perhaps he's appreciative of my effort but whatever I make is always greeted by complaints of dislike.

I made pork with sage today. According to Gordon Ramsay, pork tastes great with sage and lemon zest. I tried my best, and I even made sides of mashed potatoes and roasted peppers and zucchini. All this in under an hour, while he was napping. Add to it a full day at work, rushing off to the supermarket at 7 to grab the items, and taking the train back in record time.

I understand kimmy's extremely fussy palate, something he subconsciously picked up from his dad (obviously) who doesn't eat anything except chinese food, and he's been eating that his whole life. I don't cook beef, buy cheese or do anything that's creamy. But whenever I make the same dishes like roasted vegetables and chicken chop, he complains I'm always cooking the same thing, and dismissing me as an inexperienced cook. Today I made something different, and my dishes got dismissed as weird tasting and bad. I dunno how to satisfy him. I cannot cook the same dishes as his mother and I never will. I cannot cook like a masterchef, and I don't want to cook the same dishes that he likes every single day. I cannot bring myself to "tabao" or eat out everyday too, although that seems to suit him fine, but that's not healthy to me.

I feel so sad. He's a great guy, and I doubt I can find someone else as nice as him. But he makes life so difficult for me sometimes, in a way that other women don't have to worry about, and which I envy. Everyone has their peeves about their partners I know, it's just depressing that it's a constant struggle to have to learn to live with it. There is a saying that women often think they can change their husbands after they marry them. Am I in a similar situation?

Playground - baby rabbit batch #3

My mom bought a lovely plastic house for the baby rabbits. Incredibly, they can all squeeze in at the same time. I love how their cage looks like a little playground now with the green mat which coincidentally looks like grass. Looking at them happily playing and eating in their home, you wouldn't suspect that all 3 of them are suffering from injuries at the moment.

Speaking of fun, the swimmers in Beijing are making the water cube their playground, rewriting world and olympic records at an astounding rate. Heat after heat, we're not even talking about finals here, records are smashed and fans are screaming. It makes a truly fun time for us viewers around the world. It's fun for the spectators too although apparently, most of them are volunteers who were given free tickets because there were too many empty spaces showing up on TV and it was getting quite embarrassing for the organisers.