prosperity.. or not?

The chinese will always have anecdote for every situation..some are spot on and some are really ridiculous.

It has been a couple of times when it rained heavily, my workstation was flooded...ok.ok..not exactly flooded but the ceiling above it just opened up. and a pool of water sprung up on my desk. When my colleagues know about it, guess what was their comment? "Prosperity is coming", they said.

When people talk about big belly and round face, what do the chinese says? They say its a sign of Prosperity.

For me big belly and round face means closer to the grave. Come on and stone me for saying that but I think it's the truth and nothing but the truth. The photo below was taken back in Feb'07. And the most recent photo taken with my baby girl was just last mth. Can you see the difference in just 2 years of continuous food intake and without even exercising. Scary right? Do you call that prosperity? I called it incidental suicide.

Last weekend during a visit to Youth Park while bringing my Gabby out to play, I met my frens, This couple with 2 children just came down from hiking up the hill. When I look at them, both of them look so energized. They do exercise on very regular basis. This fren of mine is preparing for his triathlon next year. This guy has 2 kids and still able to do it. I'm like, what the heck? what was i doing for the past 2 years?

So after a knock to the head last week, I realize that this got to stop and i got to start somewhere. So I decided to skip my usual heavy lunch of Banana Leaf Rice, "kay Pui" and the "not so" economy rice.

I thought of having breakfast and then some biscuits in between. The funny thing is that for the days that I was seating in my workstation during lunch time, colleagues were asking, "you on diet ah?", "you not eating ah, thats not you lah" and so on and so on.

I'm like look here, can't you guys at least support me here. I'm trying to stay healthy here..duh!!

Anyway, my point is I got to start somewhere and from here i will move on to like start exercising. Hopefully with my new gained determination, I'll be living a much healtier life..

Taken in Feb'07


Taken in May'09 with Gabby