of gluttony and repentence

once in awhile (or, okay, more often than not..) we fall through the cracks of our self-restraint and commit the sin of gluttony. mine unfortunately, lasted for the most of the past week, beginning wednesday, when i had my first taste of rose pie.

those babies came in a myriad of different flavors all packed full of wholesome goodies and was so yums! my roommate (god bless her!) had her long-suffering boyfriend
bring it up all the way from taichung (god bless him, too!) and i decided to get the red bean mochi and chocolate flavored pies. the pies were not too cloyingly sweet and
the piecrust was light and crunchy - the red beans were -gasp- almost bland, except for a hint of sugar, which went exceedingly well with the sticky mochi center. i was particularly blown away by the fluffy sponge-like top of the pies and when opportunity came up on saturday to get my hands on one of those pies, i jumped immediately to the chance! ;) this time, i had taro and strawberry, and i must say, the strawberry pie was an absolute delight! i loved the texture and the fluffiness of it. im definitely a fan of rose pies now! whee!



and then comes today when, burdened by the stress of tomorrow's upcoming test, i engulfed an entire jumbo bar of cadbury chocolate with chocolate whip filling (to hell with melamine, i say) in one sitting. yup. i realize that i get into this hypnotic eating mode when im stressed. i just sit at the desk with notes in front of me, and then eat the chocolate cubes methodically, one after one after one, until nothing remains but the silvery wrapper. there is just something so comforting about having food in your mouth. hahah. can anyone say oral fixation, hmm?

well so i decided to work it all off with two hours of consecutive swimming, during which i attempted, amongst other things, to complete a 50 meter lap using butterfly stroke, but upon reaching the half-way mark, it became painfully obvious that i had to choose between drowning in exhaustion or stopping. and so stop i did, and boy did my muscles rejoice! still, it was a good improvement this week (i could do say, two in a row in the previous week) and im pretty satisfied.

then i decided to work on my kick-work, which needed alot of work because i was hardly moving despite kicking my legs around like a madman on steroids. a quick lap with flippers though, convinced me that my feet size was entirely too small to generate enough motorpower for me to move foward. of course, that is an excuse, but hey im pretty damn sure thorpe's incredible feet size did count for PART of that speed! or else ducks wouldnt have webbed feet!

10 laps later i was so wrinkled i could pass off for a sharpei dog, and off i went :P so much for today's guilt-induced workout ;) i would have played tennis, but only it was raining. taipei's weather is in no way conducive for intensive tennis training, i tell you!

alrighty, time to hit the books! tata