pigging out at home

Today was the first day that i have spent more or less entirely at home in at least two weeks, i think, and while i definitely am for more days like these, one negative side effect that results is that i tend to eat much more than if i were out of the house. It's not just the good home-cooked food, but somehow i seem to have a larger appetite on days such as these.

For example, today i actually ate breakfast (or as close to breakfast as you would call it since i woke up at ten and ate at around eleven). Some people would know that i almost never eat breakfast, even during FOC, where i hear the breakfast spread was superb, cos, in my own words, my stomach hasn't woken up yet.

I think that the reason behind this springs from when i was still in school, and i had to wake up super early to get to school on the other side of the island (be it Barker or ACJC, the bottom line is that it was FAR), and didn't have time to eat anything worth any real sustenance. Then when i was in army, i either was too grossed out by the catered food (anyone heard of BMT cookhouse's infamous chee cheong fun? *gags at mere thought of it*) or too lazy to wake up at 530 in the morning just to eat mediocre food. Even when i had to bring my men to the cookhouse to eat at those unholy hours, i would never have the appetite to eat.

Oops but i digress once again... What i meant to say was, today i actually ate breakfast (although it was blueberry morning, something that i would never pass up...), and lots of it too (at least by my standards). Just more than an hour later (around 1230pm), i had three plates of my mother's fried rice, one of them topped by another dish of stir-fried pork. At three i felt hungry again, so i went downstairs and ate two more bowls ofthe rice, smothered with loads of hot habanero tabasco sauce, of course... Then i went to give tuition, then to the parkway area for a short while to buy some things, and then back to home when i ate a large toaster oven-sized tray full of my mother's pizza. I thought that that would be dinner for me, but just now, i realised that i was still hungry, so i went down and had two servings of rice with beef curry with lots of potatoes and straw mushrooms. To top it all off, i finished the remainder (around a fifth or so of it left) of a tub of ice cream... This all makes yesterday's big bowl of starchy mee hoon kuay at Clementi seem like a puny ant compared to the giant woolly mammoth that was today's food intake...

I think that the reason why i am so prone to pig out when at home is that there is a ready supply of good food at very close proximity, obtainable with minimal effort and cost. And being the lazy person that i am, home therefore provides the optimal eating environment.

This troubles me somewhat, cos as ludicrous as this sounds, i don't want to put on any more weight. I like the number sixty, nice and round, and wish to stay there (if not dip below ever so slightly...). And if i actually have to exceed sixty, it had better be muscle mass (but seriously, who am i kidding? i have a greater chance scoring As for chinese). So in other words, sixty is enough...

So this all means that i've found another reason to spend more time in school next sem, apart from being free from distractions to studying, which is that of being free from distractions in the shape of delicious, cheap and convenient food.

First piece of random stuff: Have been giving tuition for sec one maths and science recently, and am very amazed that i actually, by God's grace, have been able to teach and understand what is going on without much trouble (which is rather good considering that i probably am not much better off then they are at the subjects - no alarm though, it's for my church's community outreach, so there are little fees paid by the students, and even less paid to me - not that it means that i can put in less effort though...).

Second piece of random stuff: Have gotten the last of my five modules for the upcoming sem (intro to computing). Looking at my timetable, i will probably have a rather relaxed and spread out schedule, thanks to my classes being spread out over all five days *sighs*. But i guess that's a good thing too. Hopefully this sem i will be motivated to work harder, with all the time spent in school...