campbells tomato soup

Now. You know I've been toying with the idea of adopting a sustainable, organic, local, and ethical diet, which thus far I have yet to follow through on simply because it requires conscious effort and I am lazy. However, after reading this article, I am seriously considering throwing all canned and processed foods out with the trash. Or at my sister when she's in bitch mode.

The problem for me is not so much the fact that the curry powder or cinnamon I use may have bug bits in them - after all, a little bit of dirt is healthy, sterile food is bad for the immune system and all that - but that, as the writer asserts, "we don't really know what we're putting into our mouths". For all the ingredient lists and ticks from regulatory agencies on food packaging, we don't actually know much about what is inside that microwave meal. Chances are, tongue-twisting chemicals and plant/ animal derivatives couched in scientific terms make up half the list, obscuring the true nature, sources, and usage of these 'ingredients'. And by extension, the effects they have on your physical and mental self. More disturbing than this is that the use of these ingredients/ chemicals is approved by the agencies (USFDA being the no. 1 culprit) we look to for nutritional guidance.

The verdict: cut down (if entirely eliminating is not possible or practical) on packaged and processed foods.
Sigh

*gasp*

I LOVE green nails!

midnight munchies

hey.... they didn't scrap the little packet of seasoning in Mamee noodles after all. They just don't include them inside the individual packets. How do I know this? I'm awake at midnight once again because that's the only time of day (night) my intellectual brain is actually malleable enough for me to push in less frivolous directions. And I woke up from my pre-work nap hungry. Say what you will, but coffee + carbs + MSG saves the day.

:)

CNY excerpts and then some

she pored over my palm
"hmm... your fortune is exactly like mine. Lots of broken relationships"

"KL boys are such dufuses. Or gay"

"so she's thinking of turning it into a novel, with gung gung's death and the big secret as the finale"

"DIDI! get off the car"


on to the news:
2 weddings (both in July, both in Sg. Consider yourself forewarned-forearmed)
2 jobs (fine, one is a 2 month research project I'm supposed to be working on from today. the other starts proper in April (May hopefully))
Sydney in April. I'll be there for a few days before the hurricane of a family hits.

A close friend sent me a piece on solitude after he found out that I actually enjoy it. I was on one of my KL diatribes, all loathing and nostalgic for Sydney and he asked me what I missed there that was absent here. Solitude ranked quite highly. Other, less mentionable factors went unspoken. And I forgot to say that I felt more fully of myself there than I did back here. That only occurred to me in the taxi.