2332hrs

she stands in front of me with a $3 plate i bought from Chinatown obscuring the TV screen. silently...waiting.

too used to blocking out her weird idea of "talking" i ignore it till she says,"Look"

i look...and I still don't get it. She says,"It's burnt!"
i look again...strange, i thought it was already sort of brown at the bottom when i bought it.

she says,"one day you will have no more home to return to. everything will be burned down. this is the 4th pot he's burnt. i tell him so many times he still doesn't listen." i go to the kitchen and say we should tell him not to use the stove anymore. she says he doesn't listen. tell him so many times not to...
i say next time just hide the firestarter, then he can't start any fires.
she says no use, he has a lighter.

i think it's quite unlikely that he'll be successful using the lighter, so i say just give it a try...maybe it'll be too troublesome and he'll use the electric steamer. the microwave. the oven. there are so many options to heat up food without using the stove...

so next time i see fried rice or chicken rice or noodles...i hope he'll use the microwave. or electric steamer...