Chapter 22

He loved pineapples, he decided to cook a meal that calls for pineapples; He started to work in his kitchen with his mushrooms, pineapples and red onions. He prepared his sauce out of garlic, ginger and chilies and added some tamarind paste and soy sauce. He loved the aroma when the flavors were combined. He knew this recipe so well, still he didn’t want to mess around with it, so wrote the instructions in a paper and started following the instructions. The rice was cooking on an electric cooker while his sauce and veggies were almost done.

He love shrimp, but will always eat in moderation especially after the time he had a reaction after eating a pound with his friends at a party. He just added a few and prepared his meal and sat down to watch some movie. He had three movies that he had picked up on his way and settled himself on his couch with his big bowl of Thai Stir Fried Rice and Pineapple, "Kho Pad Sapparot" as it is called in Thai. He had finished two bottles of beer by the time it all the three movies had ended and he went to bed without bothering to clean anything.

It was 5.00 am when his phone rang and unsuccessfully cried to the answering machine. So did his pager and his cell phone. This cycle continued for the next ten minutes until he woke up and picked up his receiver and hung up on the caller and the receiver was hanging like an abandoned child on the streets. The cycle continued with his cell phone and his pager and he tried to cover up his head with a pillow which didn’t do any good. At last he got up and grabbed the cell phone and was about to switch it off, looking at the name on the caller id, he changed his mind, and his face wore a surprised look.