Thursday, April 3, 2008

You love Chinese food

I got a surprise today from one of my favorite kiddies at the daycare. Lucas gave me a fortune cookie! It was no surprise for his parents I guess for their little boy to be fond of me - mind you, because of his allergies, he can't eat any food at the daycare, has never eaten any of my cooking - wait, ah, he ate some soup one time 'cause daddy forgot to make his lunch and he was running late for work. Anywho, mommy would usually tell me what new antics he's up to and how he would say my name out loud on their way to the daycare. Mommy told me jokingly that she was jealous! Haha. That was when he was three. He's four now.
So, on with the cookie, I didn't open it right away since I was "extremely" busy prepping the lunch for the little monsters. But I got curious. I thought, "hmm...what else could possibly make it more interesting.." So, with my low EQ (emotional quotient people! - sheesh!), I opened it and started munching on the cookie, and pulled out the paper - and it read "You love chinese food". Just that.
I love chinese food. Could there be some Dalai Lama -profound meaning to that? I wonder. So, I continued on puttering in the kitchen while thinking of what deeper meaning that it could possibly say. I began extracting each word. It says YOU, means...ME. Hmmm...it can also mean "you people of the world" or maybe "you, yes you, dumb twit" or perhaps, just me - the simple one, or the chosen one. Hmmm..and then comes the next word LOVE. Ah, the word that sailed a thousand ships. The word that killed millions if not billions of people all over. I thought, finally, a word with deep seated meaning. Love, as the online dictionary says, is synonymous to affection, attachment, devotedness, devotion, fondness, and passion. I liked that last one, passion. So, the chosen one has passion. Ha!
Third word, CHINESE. Hmm..nothing much to it really, like the Chinese people populates like three quarters of the entire world. But hey, what about their characteristics? Chinese people is also known to see opportunity over crisis. They are resilient people (like Filipinos too you know). So, to attach the first two words... the chosen one has passion and is able to see opportunity in every challenged faced. Sounds absurd, but what the heck.
Last word, FOOD. What deep meaning can food have? I dug into what limited vocabulary I have, and thought of food as something that fuels your body. Food is fuel. Food is energy.
Hmm..as you can see here, I did a lot of thinking, made my head ache bad. No worries, motrin is just in the drawer.
Now, let's see what we got here. You translates to the chosen one. And love into passion. Chinese into seeing opportunity in every crisis. Food translates to energy.
So therefore, the small piece of paper I got from that fortune cookie that read: YOU LOVE CHINESE FOOD = The chosen one has passion in seeing opportunity in every crisis energetically?
I think I'll just go with the original one. You love chinese food. And yes, I love chinese food.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I think it's just subliminal advertising so you buy more Chinese food.

And why are these word verifications so long? I'm leaving a comment on a blog, not opening a bank account.