from green to black

initiated

thanks to nic who got me to try something i've had
up my sleeve for a long time but never really quite
got the motivation to do.

today was a great day, after thursdays talk with nic
i decided that i could go for a loaf of bread diet
too. and why not? it saves me cash, it saves me
finding a seat during lunch hour in this overcrowded
campus and i get to eat smaller sized but more
frequent "meals" because i'll be carrying my food
with me. i also went for a swim today instead of
landwork. hopefully it will help my tired legs
recover after the punishing session i gave myself
yesterday.

so i guess the bread was a hit in class. great for
tutorial introductions. joked about government price
hikes and how we are all expected to live more cheaply
and things wont get much cheaper and sustaining after
bread. so imagine a loaf costs $3 and a loaf lasts
you a day. (yes, today is my first day, i tried) thats
the sum of 15 bucks a week on food alone, and assume
that it saves you 30 bucks off your food bill, thats
a cool 900 bucks in a 30 week year. neat. wonder what
we can do with an extra 900 bucks.

but that wasnt so much my main point of the experiment.
i mean, a famous man once said that man shall not live
by bread alone and i agree. thats why mine has banana
and walnut added. pure enriched white could cost as low
as $1.50!! anyway i figured that the point of this
experiment is to see how long i can last eating like
this. we may want to scrimp to save cash when times
arent great but i'm pretty sure we dont want to make
it a lifestyle. the implications being that, theres a
limit to how long and how much we would tighten our
belts. i'd admit it was great for the first day, but
really, how long more?

joking around in class i introduced myself as an energy
scientist, ironically of course, in the social science
faculty. but food security is a tactical energy need
that we usually take for granted. much as i am assured
that i would get my rice and meat, i wonder if i am at
the mercy of import price inflation. i'm pretty sure
our farms cant cater to everyone and we'll run out of
frozen food given time while trusting 'other' sources
to bail us out. but in the interim, what would we buy
and eat to survive.

today was also great because of lunch, hung out with
gerry and her friends. but the funniest part was when
she was driving. its amazing how girls drive. and when
you're inside the car and experiencing the emotions
you crack up doubly hard. like how they get kan cheong
and drive too aggressively, beating yellow lights and
running zebra crossings when there's pedestrians because
their foot was on the accelerator and they stepped on
the gas because of shock, only to go "oh shit" later.
or how braking to stop feels like an emergency brake.
but what was funny was when she went round the round
about at science. oh my goodness, you could practically
see both the bus and the car stop in shock when they
saw that it was a girl driving. (i think she didnt
signal the turn so both vehicles crossed the double
broken white lines already) i just cracked up.

chauvinist.

yeah i know

posted by green unseen @ 7:29 AM