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Psychology of a Fatty

This post is inspired by Jamie Khoo's funny encounter that she posted on her blog. I feel for her... Sigh! I feel fat and I have always felt fat and I am told I am fat! I know I am fat by tipping the scale at 76kgs. On the health-ratio chart, my weight and height puts me on the zone of an obese person. Pah! Such charts are really nonsense sometimes. 

But I have hovered around that weight for over a year now and I have gone through phases of trying to lose it and then being indifferent about it and the cycle continues. Actually, I don't think I eat a lot but I love to snack. Don't we all in Kechara? Yes, I know all about the low-carbs diet, high-fibre, no snacking and don't skip meals. Well, my weight had stubbornly remained the same.  

Right now, I am just considering joining the gym again...

A Nordic Adventure

I just watched Thor last night (thanks to a treat by Tsem Rinpoche) and although before watching, I was not too thrilled because I was expecting some silly blond guy in Viking armour wielding an oversized hammer. Well, it turned out to be exactly that but this Viking guy turned out to be a Nordic god. 

It was an adolescent superhero movie after all but the involvement of gods and divine beings kinda makes up for a mundane movie experience. I love Heimdall! He is the black guardian of the Bifrost bridge. His stature, his skin colour - black, his piercing gold eyes, omniscient sight and booming voice makes him a rather interesting god. I didn't really think much of the other characters and unfortunately, that included Odin Allfather, played by the great actor,  Anthony Hopkins. 

The storyline is simple and engaging. The banishment and exile of the young Thor by his father, Odin for being reckless and war-mongering was heart-tugging and I resonated with his struggles of disorientation of being a mortal on earth and his subsequent failure to retrieve his powers when he tried to reclaim his war-hammer. Anyway, it was great entertainment but a friend said that the movie was not epic enough. I asked why and he said that there were not enough epic scenes within the movie. It was not grand enough for a movie on gods. Well, I liked the movie anyway and look forward to its sequel.