What are the seven deadly sins of Man?
Lust, Pride, Greed, Wrath, Envy, Sloth, and not forgetting, Gluttony.
Of course gluttony is. And for that, I committed one of these seven deadly sins today, with the company of sixteen others. SAKAE lunch buffet that was, and our initial aim was to clear sixty plates for the six of us. I must say, our table which consisted of Fenny Julie Pear Yongyi Jessie and yours truly, did a remarkable job of placing our orders in an advanced and systematic manner. All hail the pros!!! We actually went in ten minutes before three(according to our watches), so all of us thought of what we should order while waiting for the clock to tick.Our record? 45 in the first forty minutes! So Julie stretched our target from sixty to ninety. That was to say, each one of us must clear fifteen plates.
One hour later, we breached the sixty mark. There were two more hours to go. So they upped the limit to hundred! Can you believe it! Unfortunately, despite how optimistic we started off, the cruel Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns(ask any Econs student if you catch no balls) set in, and our rate of consumption started showing a reversing trend. So we took slower to finish what we ordered at any one time, and slower... and slower...
At this point in time I would like to emphasize on gluttony again. In the end, despite how much we groaned and moaned about our ever-tightening skirts and ever-expanding bellies, we managed to clear ninety plates in total! Kudos to our table! That naturally meant, fifteen plates each. Yet, we did not emerge the biggest appetite of the day because the title indisputably went to Anurad! Her appetite was alarming huge and when everyone's belly threatened to burst with any additional input, she was still casually chewing her sushi off her chopsticks without any expression of bloatedness! Applause everyone, to the biggest stomach of them all!
If you had seen how we pushed SAKAE a few steps further to the brink of making losses for the day, you would come to this conclusion - never gauge a girl's appetite based on her physique, no matter how small her exterior projects.
If you ask me, I think the SAKAE people must be so relieved that this bunch of TJ girls finally left before they really suffered losses. Well I guess that's the objective of a buffet for buffet-goers, isn't it? To eat all we can and eat back all our money's worth. Except that this time, we did not pay a single cent!
All thanks to the hostel for allocating forty bucks for each of us.
