Of food and all that's YUM

So here's the thing... not ALL people who eat less are skinny, and not all who are plump eat like a giant. Our body has a pre-disposition to gaining weight, or for the more fortunate ones, a pre-disposition to lose in a flash. I, for one, belong to the former category, and know quite a many who'd happily sit with me and exchange woes about it.

Having said that  I would confess that food and I have an on-again-off-again relation. There are times when I would exhibit that sheer determination to not get tempted by that creamy Strawberry cheesecake, which seems to look at you with puppy-eyes, saying "I'm yum, eat me". And then again, there are times I'd say "What the heck, I'm gonna eat this". Yes, I do have a sweet tooth and the Desserts section of any buffet is my weakness!

After all, who could possible pass up on a delicious spread of food? As a general practice at a buffet, I enjoy the starters, skip the main-course and then make a bee-line for the Desserts. Looking at all those pretty looking things - quiches, tarts, cheesecakes, souffles - my heart melts. I feel a conscious NEED to taste each one of them! And I stave of the temporary guilt by telling myself, "You don't eat all this everyday, so it's ok!". Agreed, I would spend the next few days "compensating" by swallowing sprout-salad or a bowl of fruits for lunch and skip the "yum" factor, but then... that's my way of making my head AND tummy happy!

I believe that depriving oneself of such small delights will NOT help. What you lose by deprivation, you will gain by an unprompted-reckless-binge. That's your "food for thought".

I'll tell you what prompted this post.
A look at the Dine-out section in Times City. The food industry sure knows how to beckon to foodies!
The weekend's here and I know where I'm headed. Do you? :-)

Happy eating!

The Ear-phones-Club

As I was returning home from work, in my office-bus, with ear-phones plugged in, mild-head-banging to music, I see an image outside my window. A person - no, not just "A" person, but almost all people, in another corporate-bus, mirroring what I was doing. Ear-phones plugged, hooked to their phone screens, with swishy-finger-movements on their swanky touch-phones.

Gone are the days when these bus-rides would be a time for people to catch up with the familiar faces they see every day while commuting to and from work. Now, all one can here is the hum of the engine and occasionally, the screeching brakes. Are we using ear-phones (and the music too) as a tool to shut out the traffic sounds? Or to shut out other people who MAY make an effort to initiate a conversation with us?

I recollect that a few years back, I did not belong to this "ear-phones-club". I would be found enjoying the sights that my bus-ride took me through - vendors pushing their carts laden with fruits, weaving their way in and out of the traffic, men getting back home to their families, maybe with a bag of hot jalebis for their kids,  or if I knew the person sitting next to me, we would strike up a conversation about the most random things and at the end of the ride, hop off from the bus in a jovial mood that comes only from having had a good conversation.

Times have changed. We are becoming more and more withdrawn, weaving ourselves into a cocoon that has place for just one person - 'ME'.

I'm not saying all of us do this. I am not saying if we do this, we should stop it right away, or even that it is wrong.

All I am asking is...what did we do when our phones were a mere means of communication without FM Radio and MP3 players?

Just a thought :)