Tuesday, February 15, 2005

lesson #75: vegetarian

I'm turning vegetarian. I started today. It all began during lunchtime at Ficus (some random SMU cafeteria) when I consumed a vegetarian meal because I was sick of everything else that the canteens offered. The meal tasted pretty good and so I thought it wasn't that bad to be a vegetarian. And you can think of it as a commercial strategy. One more person stops eating meat, the market for red/white meat decreases in size, and the meat people will have to start doing hectic price competition in order to stay afloat.


I told G that I thought the veggie food was yummie and that it didn't taste at all like veggie food (past experience was that it's all soggy and mushy and bland, and the 'meat' usually still taste very much like flour). Then I told him I'm gonna try to be a vegetarian. This is what he said:


G: *snorts* Are you starting tomorrow or today? Because if you tell me you're gonna start tomorrow, then you're never gonna start.
Me: *deadpan look* Starting today. Right now.
G: You won't last 'til tonight.
Me: *stubbornly* I will.
G: This means no more minced meat noodle (my fav noodle dish) you know. Or Taiwanese chicken chop (they're selling it at our school for $4 a pop and it is pretty darn good. You can smell it from a yard away, not that I know how long a yard is. Trust me, it's delish.)
Me: Uh-huh...


Well anyway, let's see just how long this is gonna last, given that I'm not motivated by any religious / animal-activistic reasons.


On a completely different note, there's a new fragrance by Escada called Rockin' Rio. I just love Escada's perfume bottles. I'm so tempted to steal back the Magnetic Beat which I gave my mum for last year's Mother's Day. It smells so candy-like, totally yummy! The one I'm using right now is Island Kiss, but it's running out. I can't wait to try Rio. The bottle design is exactly like Island Kiss, just that the colour combi for Rio is pink and yellow instead of pink and ocean blue. Will have to go to some dept store and sniff it soon, so that I'll be in time to call my dad and ask him to get some (ok, one. Uno.) for me from duty-free.