Sushi and Sentimentality...

Stephen, the resident db admin, brought in some deliciously looking sushi for lunch yesterday. We were quite impressed as the pieces were really well made and looked quite filling.

Tony and Margaret exclaimed : Wow!
(Seeing it made me realise how pathetic the lunch we bought from a nearby cafe was.)

Chris: So where did you buy them from?
Stephen : Ohhhh, mah wife made them fol me.
(Sorry Stephen, but I just couldn't resist.)

Jenita : Looks good, maybe we could each have one...

Stephen looks at Jenita as if she had just entered and executed "SELECT * FROM ALL_USAGE" from the new production server. He immediately dismisses Jenitas that idea with a wave from his chopsticks. Jenita reminded herself not to get between a DBA and his lunch in the future. (Stephen did let us taste his yummy lunch afterwards).

I shifted my focus to those small-fish-shaped-soy-sauce-dispensers that you get with your sushi takeaway.

Chris : Are you sure you didn't buy them?

Which totally changed the focus of the conversation to how Stephen's wife managed to get those dispensers.

"My wife definitely made them. But I'm not sure where she got these from. I think my wife puts them aside whenever we eat out for sushi. We have a bowl full of them now."

Jared : Your wife might have filled them up again by squeezing and letting the air pull the soy back in.
(a briliant idea, if i may add, which, come to think of it, is the exact same way Jared implements his Buddha technique)

Tony : Or you could use a syringe to fill them up.
(I'm guessing that's where tony uses his spare stash of syringes for. there really are some things you can't take away from rock stars.)

Jenita: Your wife sure is sentimental.
(yep, probably why he married an old man like you Stephen. Hee hee)

As the group changes to yet another topic, I think it's a bit fitting to hear that word as it's Valentines today (well yesterday anyway, when this happened). By the way, in Cantonese, "sentimental" = "gum sing". Thanks Margaret for translating that.