Lent: May the National Diet Begin.

It's Lent today and that means everyone in school would be restricting themselves from the usual three Cs - Cheese, Chocolate and Coke. While everyone else would happily continue their days with half-empty plates of leaves, I'll look at my plate (possibly bread and some heavy cream soup, a side of greasy vegs, 3cm^3 of cheese and a bowl of pudding all lathered in custard.) and wonder if i should have eaten a little less, spend the rest of the week struggling to resist buying another candy bar and give up the whole 'lent' thing by the fifteenth day. I just don't get how people can do it. Nearly 80% of my classmates are exceptionally slim, can run 2-3 laps without being breathless - I lose my breath by just 'trekking' up the stairs to my room. - and easily survive a month or more without eating any comfort foods. Yet here I am, a muffin-topper who can't even jog for 3 minutes. I know all this sounds way too exaggerated but seriously? how the fudge do people even do it??

Though I'm sure I wouldn't be able to go through the whole 40 days but I've decided to set some Dos and Don'ts for lent:

1. stop snacking ('starch' nor 'sweets'.) 

Being a sweet tooth, it's irrational to think I could ever live without chocolate so I'll let that slide but I know I could survive from other candies for a month or so. Plus, I could switch my usual dose of milk chocolate to dark chocolate - giving me an extra dose of anti-wrinkle cream! (chemical wise, not literally.) I already started eating fruit as my main snack source so I could continue that to replace the lose of sucrose.

2. stop swearing

'Wait, whuuuuut? Since when do you swear??' Oh I swear. A lot. even around my parents, 'shit' and 'fuck' spills out my mouth every minute or so. Even worse, my swearing has influence my friend - who is from Shang Hai, so her engrish is so-so - to use 'fuck' in a daily basis. She only uses 'fucking' though, which made me wonder if I should stop or try to teach her to find more creative ways to express her anger to geography and biology. I concluded that if I stop myself, it'll probably stop her from saying 'fuck' as well. hopefully. 

...And there you have it. I've told you what I'm sacrificing during Lent. Normally, I would ask back what you are planning to give up but since this blog is a virtual version of talking to a brick wall, I'll just end it here. Bye!