I’ve not been a good girl
I haven’t been a good girl lately. That’s because I’ve been…..skipping my breakfast.
Yes, I can begin to hear nagging right now, about breakfast being the most important meal of the day, or important facts about having to feast like a king for breakfast.
But the fact is, I hate breakfast, or rather, what I usually have for breakfast. I’m sorry to say, I hate the humble loaf of white bread which my breakfast is made up of for most days.
Why I hate the white bread can be traced back to my childhood. I grew up at my grandparents’ place in the Tiong Bahru area when I was young, and basically, that equates to glorious and delicious food. That’s the days before many of those delicious food stalls in the markets went missing. Breakfast to me means having delicious meals of Lor Mee, Fishball Noodles etc.
Thus when I back at my own home and have to eat the humble white bread with butter for breakfast, I simply refuse to do so because it tastes so relatively bland. So much that I told my grandfather that I had refused to eat my white bread because it’ll cause me to become a mute if I eat too much of it (….ok that’s a lame excuse that I’d coined up at age 4, and it’s still the “joke” during family occasions).
Come to think about it, there are many “very-Singaporean” food that I hate. I hate the durians and I try to avoid kaya if I can.
Then again, I love bread when it’s added with its “frills”. For instance, toasting and then savouring it with a thick layer of arteries-clogging butter (instead of margarine), adding tuna and lettuce to the bread etc. However, they require additional effort so I don’t have them often. Therefore, I’ll rather go without breakfast and have an early lunch instead. Otherwise, I’ll just grab a piece of bread for sustenance if I know that I’m going to have a busy day ahead.
It’s 11 am now and I have been up since 7.55am (yes…to watch the simultaneous US telecast of “The Amazing Race”…just to add with no spoilers, my current favourite team is last today but I’m really supportive and amazed by the team who has arrived first in this leg of the race). I haven’t had any food yet. So I better go get some now.
P.S. Sorry, there will be no food porn for the time being again. I had this major “nuclear explosion” yesterday when I had another computer failure. Erhm..that’s the case when the computers decide to turn against a lady who is having her exams while also suffering from PMS and a bad flu bug.
