Friday, January 21, 2005

Today, I was finally let out of the house. I took the rabbits downstairs for a walk. I like my meat lean. After dumping the rabbits on the field, I proceeded to ignore them as they tried to jump onto my lap. And the sky was so blue. I had almost forgotten.

After dinner, my grandmother took Hubert and I out to Toa Payoh Central to get groceries. Seems like she'll only let me go out when she needs free labour. I think this period of time might have been more stressful for her than I thought. With my parents abroad, maid gone home and me sick, she's been doing most of the work.

Here's why I think she might have finally lost it. It also gives you some idea about how much I had to carry. She bought vegetables. 4 bags of celery, 3 bags of big leafy stuff, 2 bags of small leafy stuff, 2 boxes of dou miao, 2 packs of french beans, 2 packs of baby corn, 2 ears of corn, 2 packs of baby corn, 2 boxes of pea pods, 1 bag of 10 tomatoes, 1 bittergourd, 1 yellow mellon thing, 1 cabbage, 1 head of lettuce, 1 big brocolli and some more green stuff that I can't remember. She is obviously overestimating how much we and the rabbits can eat. Is it stress? I had a hell of a time trying to pack everything into the vegetable compartment of our fridge which is saying something as it is a big fridge. The top of the lettuce got chopped off by the fridge door when I tried to close the vegetable drawer. At that point, there were anout 2 more bags of green stuff still not packed in. I rearranged everything and tried again. I don't give up easily but when the tomatoes began to look a little like what you find on spaghetti I realised I was fighting a losing battle. I solved the problem by stuffing all the greeen stuff that wouldn't fit into the main compartment of the fridge. Then, I held everything back with one hand, counted to three and slammed the door shut as I retracted the hand with superhuman speed.

You know the TV advert that tells you how one serving of vegetables is about 1 cup? I swear I have the vegetable equilvalent of about 20 litres in my fridge.
Now, don't laugh. Seriously. I need to know if eating too much green stuff will make a person turn green. The situation here is not vegetarian,it's far worse. (there's a difference between "no meat" and "all veggies")

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