Sunday, September 02, 2007

Live life king size

Life is so wonderful that most of the time, however wonderfully we live it, we still could go back to it and feel we could have lived it better..

I remember there was this competition amongst our college bus mates as to who can eat the maximum number of pizzas in Pizza corner which had an 'eat as much as u like' offer for Rs 99(we really needed to eat the money's worth as those were the days when we could survive the whole month with that kind of pocket money). And just be seeing the sheer size of one of our friends everyone else let go of any little hope of beating this guy to it. And this guy was no minnow who would do injustice to his 'all-round' physique. He ate so fast that before people could start off with their second piece, he had done and dusted his plate after 12 small pizzas. I was backed up by two of my friends who did it just to see if that gundu could have some competetion. I had my sixth slice when this guy had completed and implicitly declared that he was through successfully. And to be frank, though I was looking small in front of this guy, I myself am nothing less fatter than Harry Potter's cousin. So six pieces of pizza made me feel like I had just started. But I never knew I would keep on going. In fact though I was pretty slow, I have always felt my stomach connected directly to the earth. How much every I eat, I always had some space for some more. And this day wasnt an exception. I had 13 slices to beat this guy much to his dismay as he couldnt even go back to continuing his act. I could have stopped,but I seemed I always had some more space which would unnecessarily be occupied by air. If I were to ask you if you want one kilo of air or one kilo of cheese,what would u opt for? Thats exactly what I opted for...CHEEEZ... and so my journey continued until i realised I was 16 pizzas heavier and 16 pairs of eyes gaping at me,waiting for me to complete so that we could leave. So I called it a day(so did pizza corner,that offer is now only available in pizza hut and I cant resist going there)

I remember Raghav telling me one of his experiences during his bus journeys from college to home. Each one was bragging about a person he knew who was a glutton. One guy seemed to have told that his friend used to eat too much that they started serving limited meals for the cost of unlimited meals. There was another friend who said that they increased the rate of the unlimited meals menu. And Raghav said, all this is ok but after my friend ate unlimited meals in a restaurant,they closed it down. And that friend was me. All his friends in his bus used to know me till date only for this as if I was working in our college mess instead of studying in the college.One guy seriously came and suggested me to go to symposiums which had eating competions.( When he first came to me with the idea of symposium, I thought he wanted me to present a paper on Nanocomputing and Nanoprocessing)


Those were the days when I used to eat like a king and sized like a baby elephant. Now I dont eat that much but still I had to spend so much of time and effort to bring myself back to the same weight as those days. Those were the days when I used to enjoy eating without feeling for it. Now every morsel of rice and every little cheese i eat seems to be sitting more in my head than in my stomach . I have become pretty diet conscious these days. Even if there is an unlimited buffet, I eat less fearing the few extra pounds that I would garner. Now when I think of it, I still think I should have made the count to 17 pizzas that day. In every star buffets we had , I should have grabbed an extra black forest cake or that mango pudding.Anyways I am never going to eat like those golden days when I used to live to eat-like a Roman Emperor!

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