me, myself and my first blog

Goodness gracious. I am like 3 posts old and I havent talked about this cool obsession of mine. Just so you know in real life I would normally introduce myself like this "Hi, I love frappe, my name is ...." No kidding! Its pretty ironic that I chose now to talke about frappe(and froth). But I guess I shall have to continue albeit with a rather heavy heart.

Dont really know what came over me(moi , muaah ) last Saturday. Guess you could call it a cosmic issue or whatever. I walked down to this fav coffee pub waiting for a friend to turn up and then start off the most fruitful business of whiling away time. Needless to say I ordered for the regular and sat dow flipping pages of some magazine. When the guy served me, I said something and I guess I didnt realise what I said, the moment I said it I knew there would be drastically servere and absurd consequences. I felt like kicking myself. I asked "How many calories are there in a serving of frappe?". The guy gave me a you-really-dont-wanna-know look and although he knew it would hurt his cause he tried to be ambiguously accurate and brutally honest."I dont know exactly mam, but its quite a lot."

Ok big deal huh? As if you didnt already know about the calorie thing all this while is what you say. Well I have being trying to convince myself its after all coffee that tastes good and makes you feel good. But only recently did we realise that feel-good factor doesnt last for more than five years and after that you might want to have something more to show ....

Why do the calories in a simple harmless frappe worry me. Two reasons :
1) I watch my weight. Yes I watch it the mirror.. I watch it comfortably settle down wherever it wants. Best part is it doesnt complain much, feels at home anywhere and doesnt like to leave in a hurry.
2) I watch what I eat(n drink for that matter). Might enlighten you to know that I do not eat(n drink) in the dark. I watch for an average of five min before I dig in and gorge.

I wonder if I would be asking for too much from the Almighty to kinda review the design of his flag-ship product the "homo-sapien" and add some kind of a metre to keep track of certain tangible properties (Guess it would be very helpful for intangibles tooo) like weight, calories consumed (at the end of a meal), calories burnt(at the end of every exercise), miles clocked, frappes consumed ..... That would only reduce us to glorified treadmills maybe. If that were present my frappe reading would leave the miles reading with a huge Inferiority complex.

Back to the coffee pub, I sipped the frappe really really slowly making up my mind that I shall not be lured into the frappy mindset anymore. Yes guys better believe it I shall only introduce myself as "Hi, I am ....". Maybe I shall formally start something on the lines of AA and call it Frappe Anonymous ....

Certainly helps one to remember that what tastes great need not always be good for you. Just occurred to me that Frappe rhymes with Trap. So I called off my affair with a cool cofffee drink before things got really out of hand. So as you would expect I am going through this withdrawl phase and it will take me a while to get out of. Wish me luck!

As I walked out of the coffee pub, I looked at the colourful board and whispered with moist eyes "Till Frappe did us part"

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