I HAD TO SEE FOR MYSELF!!!

 "Friends, I've got friends!!"

Was that Shalamar, or Kool and the gang? I forget. But whoever it was, it always makes me jump up to "boogie" when oldies are played at parties. Friends, I've got friends!!! This picture is a new and favorite one. It shows my friends who cry, laugh and pray with me. My sitars!

I read on the social media last week about a chef that lost about 50kg because his friends started a hate campaign aimed at him. From what I surmised they all started bombarding him with e-mails, tweets and texts calling him derogatory "fat" names! He was so mad that he lost over 50kg. Friends are the real support that can get one to do or not do anything. I guess this chef had friends that knew what would work with him. He hates taunting...

I was incensed once when I was doing my power-walk past a few school children.They must have been an average age of 4 years old. I had gone past when the chant started, first like a whisper, then a deafening loud chant, "Orobo!!" (That's slang for "big size" anything). I didn't look back so it is possible that I was not the object of their wicked attack, what worked though was that I walked even faster just to disappear from their wicked sing-song. The taunt was painful, but it didn't change much!

But I digress.

 Friends, I've got friends!!!

 A "friend" once visited my house. She rushed in and when I came downstairs, she looked at me and said, "Kam si kwa!" (I for say [pidgin] or I thought so [English]). "What is it", I asked, to which she said, "I saw your new DP on BBM and I was scared that you had lost a lot of weight. I had to come and see!" "What do you mean, you were scared?" I asked. "Hmm, I can't have you get as slim or slimmer than me oh! I would have had to go into starvation mode!" We both laughed hard... mostly "ochi-eze" (didn't mean my laughter) from me. But I made a mental note of it. People are threatened by all sorts of things! Why would my being slim or fat steal sleep from someone who has her own life to live? Why would what "might be" cause anxiety by someone that has her own husband? 

Friends, I've got friends!!!

I think I am at that point when I want to REALLY break hearts and cause real agitations! Well, I am nearly there... Good motivation to drop a few dress sizes, don't you think?