LABUBU. Looks cute.
And sounds cute—can be a term of endearment for the love of your life: Love Bobo.
Oops!
But sometimes love can indeed be bobo. Try to recall past relationships and there you’ll see: Aha!
By the way, Panginoon ng Kababawan’s favorite expressions at the end of his videos are “No, you’re wrong” and “Bobo.” He’s on Facebook, in case you want to laugh at his jokes that tend to make you think first. And if you don’t get his jokes, perhaps that’s a sign of bobo-ness? Hmmm.
To lessen the bobo-ness, the right diet and lots of exercise may help.
And if you’re still going to the gym in this season of Christmas parties, noche buena, and media noche, congratulations. Because the usual is to rest for a while—it’s Christmas, anyway. The New Year’s resolution will then be diet and exercise: join a gym on January 2. And then, find excuses to be absent from the gym starting January 3.
If I’m having an on-and-off relationship with the carnivore diet, other people are having an on-and-off relationship with the gym. So, which is the better non-relationship: diet or gym?
In every Christmas party, though, the dieter may be too drunk to contemplate about diets and exercise. Contemplate is the English translation of konting plate, which can be the best diet ever. Haha.
But the diet that you can live with forevermore is the best of all. If that diet is high-carb and it allows giving in to food cravings, good luck na lang.
Every Christmas party always has carbs, starting with rice. The gym’s party, though, didn’t have rice. I think that’s the only party—and I’m referring to all kinds of parties—I’ve ever attended that didn’t have rice. Gym rats always focus on proteins, thus, the tiptoeing around carbs. But the gym’s party did have potato salad, maja blanca, and donuts.
At another Christmas party, I brought donuts as a gift for the host. That’s the party where I couldn’t stop eating the biko turon while trying to look for the other flavors: ube and camote.
But my low-carb Realization 101 is this: beef, pork, chicken, fish, and seafood dishes, even if only salt is added to them, are much more delish than carbs.
Rice tastes like glue, plain bread tastes like paper—that is, if you’ve ever tried to eat glue and paper.
Still, food choices are to each their own. Kung saan ka masaya, suportahan ta ka. You may experience side effects if the food choice is wrong and that’s when you have to decide if indulging in that food is worth it.
Aside from the carbo-loading at Christmas parties, ‘tis also the season for high-carb food as gifts. Since it’s politically incorrect to ram your Christmas wish list down anyone’s throat—lechon!—there’s the dilemma: to eat or not to eat the torta, apple pie, ensaymada, etc.
Christmas happens only once a year. That’s already an excuse to forget about diets and exercise. Although the season starts in September here in Pinas, the parties begin only in the last week of November, and will end in January. If you’re still having a Christmas party in February, better celebrate Valentine’s Day, too, for a two-in-one party.
