today and yesterday have been spent recovering from the festivities of the past few weeks. i wonder why merrymaking always involves food and alcohol. do we not know of other ways to entertain ourselves? perhaps the reason God invented food was to prevent adam and eve from boring themselves to death in the garden of eden, which would be bad cos then abraham would never get to have children as numerous as the stars, and then you and i would never be born :( that, and the fact that we need nutrients to survive i suppose. the gastrointestinal tract is an amazingly efficient little gizmo when you come to think of it, so it's a good thing God thought of it. plus, imagine if we had to have all our meals intravenously: why would we even need a mouth? would there be a big hole in our face instead or would we just have a super big nose to take up the space? how boggling.

the first effect of the festive feasting is nothing surprising: pimples have invaded my face. this happens inevitably everytime i get to eat chocolate for more than 2 days in a row, plus the devil curries and salsa dips and roasted cashews certainly haven't helped. also, i suspect that cheek kissing when greeting friends/relatives is another secret culprit to my pimply plight (alliteration count = 2!) it's bad enough that you have to plant your lips on a stranger's face, but it's even worse when that fat grimey face reciprocates. this is disgusting and unhygenic. hello, do you know how many germs there are in a foreign secretion like saliva? it's like drooling all over your pillow and then rubbing your face into it while you sleep, except that you're wide awake and it isn't even your drool. ew, SICK! yet another hazardous holiday tradition that ought to be banished from the face of the earth, together with processed fruit cakes and eggnog.

the second effect of the season is that my stomach has shrunk. indeed! it appears that with all the visiting and spreading out of mealtimes, i've become accustomed to eating many little portions of buffet food instead of one great big portion like i normally have to. this adaptation has allowed me to improve on my food sampling skills, which in turned helped me to zone in on the really tasty desserts right from the start and not waste any more time on the lesser offerings. however, the suffering began today when i attempted to wolf down my dinner after a 2 hour long afternoon nap. oh, The Pains of Indigestion. it felt as if my stomach had a life of its own and was just expanding and stretching and bursting against my abdominal wall. it was a most nauseating and uncomfortable situation, mitigated only by the fact that i had access to my bed for the purposes of groaning and rolling. i guess you can't have your cake and eat it too. although, maybe you can have many cakes and eat them too... and endure indigestion later.

oh, and today i had lunch with my mom at the soup spoon in raffles city. i had clam chowder + asian tofu salad. i thought the asian tofu sounded like a funky healthy thing which would work well with my resolution to eat more veges, until i saw that the salad was actually 95% deep-fried tofu and 5% carrots and measly sunflower seeds. i counted there were like 50 cubes of tofu in all, and each was like 4 times the size of a regular dice. i hope it they used organic soy in the process, because otherwise i'd have upped my risk of breast cancer exponentially. incidentally, the soups there are always tasty, although if you don't like chunky creamy soup then you should probably stick to chinese food courts and stuff.

lastly: the donut factory has opened at raffles city! my mom pre-ordered a box of 12 but when she picked it up today they had run out of apple cinnamon. apple is like my 2nd favourite fruit in the world, behind watermelon or mango or longan, depending on the season at NTUC. so i was quite disappointed about that, but luckily the glazed orange donut was surprisingly nice plus according to my sis, so was the peanut butter hazelnut. i tried the glazed chocolate fudgey one too, but i was totally grossed out when i bit the middle and discovered that they had filled the donut hole with fudge. this is a perversion of donuts! people eat donuts because they obviously like the taste of dough, and if they wanted the taste of chocolate, they'd be eating a chocolate cake instead. d'oh! nevertheless, these have got to be the prettiest donuts i've ever seen:



Yummy Yummy Yummy I've Got Love In My Tummy