Thursday, 10 January 2008

How to keep down your body weight

Get up at six.
Don't eat, you feel too sick so early anyway.
Cycle your one hour trip to the city. Keep up the tempo, otherwise you'll be late. Try to avoid buses and trucks.
Start your working day with a soy cappuccino and destroy your stomach for any further eating.
At 11 drink another coffee against tiredness.
Eat hot soup.
Finish at four.
Change at work and go running in Regent's park, raining or not. Push the limit, tomorrow you maybe won't have a chance to come.
Actively search the city to have a cosy tea somewhere. Never use the metro, only use your bike or walk.
At six cycle to the most trendy restaurant in town. When you realise you have a flat tyre, accept this and walk the rest of the distance by foot. Walk fast, in order not to come too late.
Eat a great prawn risotto.
Leave the restaurant and fix the flat tyre. Do not wait for any handy men to pass by.
Fight the head wind and cycle home.
After 40 minutes realise you have a flat tyre again. Walk. Keep up the tempo.
Arrive home.
Sit on the bed and relax at least 10 minutes.
Indulge in roasted sunflower seeds. Eat yesterday's dessert.
Fix the tyre again.
Sleep before one.
Get up at six.

I was curious to found out how my sister did it. Supermodel looks. Now I know. I even tried it for 4 days. The coming 4 days:




Honesty

Once upon a time a woman went to live in London.
She wanted to learn about food, so she started to work in EAT.
That seems very logical to me.They showed her how to make sandwiches, they taught her how to heat up soup. Above all, she learned how to smile to customers. Do you like turkey-cranberry, homous-carrot, bacon-lettuce-tomato, crayfish-lime-coriander, chicken-aioli, tuna-red-onion or prawn cocktail? Eat-in or take-away?
She served busy people with important jobs. They came in decent suits and elegant coats.
They had money to pay 5 pounds for a crappy 'smoked mackerel superfood' salad.
Yes, crappy. She tried it and could only identify a broccoli from the form, not from the taste. Water wrapped in the form of a vegetable. Chemical experiment that tricks the eye.
The clients got cute bags to walk their food 50 meters from the shop to their office.
In the evenings the woman threw out 50% of the food. Label: 'not sold' connected to 'food with a one-day shelf life'. At least, one-day before it enters the shop.
After work she walked to the beautiful square in front of the shop and sat down on a bench.
All buckets were full. Cups, boxes, napkins, cutlery with only one label: EAT.
'So far for this experience', she thought. 'Let's mmooove on'.

Wednesday, 9 January 2008

Nodig

Guillaume Apollinaire wrote: "We took them to the edge and bade them to fly. They held on. 'Fly!' we said. They held on. We pushed them over the edge. And they flew."

Guillaume Apollinaire schreef: "We brachten hen naar de rand en gelastten hen te vliegen. Ze hielden zich vast. Vlieg zeiden we. Ze hielden zich vast. We duwden hen over de rand. En ze vlogen."