Stuffed squid, vacant looks

'You never knew my mother, but you are lucky - you get to taste her best recipes, through me,' boyfriend Maiyuu told me.

Maiyuu last night made a dish of stuffed squid, just like his mother used to make it.

His mother, who was a terrific cook, used to make it when Maiyuu was a boy.

Maiyuu remembers how good it tasted, and last night set about making the dish himself.

In the afternoon, we went to the Central department store on Rama 3 to buy the ingredients.

Maiyuu says our local Tops supermarket did not have everything he needed. He cycled down there in the morning to buy the squid from a fresh market opposite. He bought the mince, coriander and other things he needed at the Central supermarket.

Like the Tops supermarket, the one at Central is also within walking distance, as Maiyuu discovered yesterday. We argued while I was there, which resulted in him having to walk back alone. He had run out of money to get home, and stormed off before I could give it to him.

I went home by taxi, while he walked. He turned up 10 minutes after me. We argued again, he locked himself in his room, but within another two hours, it was over.

Before making the stuffed squid dish in the evening, he whipped up a Mexican tortilla for us each. Those ingredients also came from the supermarket at Central.

Why did we argue? After finishing at the supermarket, we walked around the shops on the upper floors.

Maiyuuu reckons I was walking in a daze, which annoyed him. I told him I would window-shop in any manner I chose - dazed, fully alert, or whatever.

As I say, we put that argument behind us. It just wasn't worth dwelling on.