Lunch… or No Lunch
January 24th, 2006 -- Posted in deep | 1 Comment »“I don’t have lunch.”
And I usually get that “Huh?” puzzled expression staring back at me.
“How can you take it? How can you not have lunch? How how how???”
This lunch question has been asked by various people and usually the same reaction came when they learn how I prefer not to have lunch. Initially, colleagues at work would think I am being anti-social and avoid having lunch with them. Not true. I just choose not to have lunch so I don’t feel sleepy after food. That’s precisely it! I just don’t have lunch because I can’t work after a full meal. I will be sleepy and unable to maintain my focus.
“You’re on diet issit? No need lah! You so skinny liao…”
Hello?~ I am not skinny and I am definitely not dieting. These are the assumption from people who love to… assume. (Funny but this kind of reaction usually comes from people of marketing background. I wonder why…) I got so tired of denying the fact that I just go along with it. “Yah yah… I’m on diet. That’s why I don’t eat lunch but I munch on choc chunk chips.”
“But how did you actually do it? Not eating for so many hours?”
Well, I do eat. I just eat little here and there. I have breakfast, usually two slices of toasts with two pieces of ham and one egg to go with coffee. During lunch hours, I stay back in the office to either continue with work, or relax a little by blogging, just like now. During which, I will either have fruits (Sunsun usually packs for me apples, grapes or jambu ayer) or some bread.
True I will feel rather tired due to the lack of energy recharge from lunch, but it is still better than the sleepiness after a full meal. Furthermore, the nutrition from breakfast and dinner are usually more than enough for a person in a day. Most local food from hawker centers or food courts contain too much carbo anyway.
“Remember ar… Your first week with new colleagues, do not skip lunch. Get to know them a little bit more first. If not they will think you are anti-social.”
That’s true. For the sake of building connection with new colleagues (next week), I should mingle with my colleagues more, at least with my ‘buddy’. Lunch will be the only time I have during a busy day of work to converse casually with them.
Does it really seem so odd that I am not in the habit of having lunch? That lunch to me is just another reason to socialize? That lunch is not really a necessity?
