Had your breakfast?

Raised this way, I could hardly survive the mornings without breakfast.

Never realized its nutritional implications until last year, especially for weight management. The quality, ingestion frequency and total/individual quantity are all of massive importance. Learned that one the worst dietary patterns would be..unhealthy snacks throughout the day, then a huge meal in the evening. So quite on the contrary, I would argue (I do have scientific evidences) that a rich breakfast, followed by nutritionally balanced lunch, combining with a moderate or even plain and small dinner, would be the most adequate for those who care about weight/health yet do not want to try out weird fad diets.

Funny fact is, when I experimented the Baby Food Diet, their rationale kinda reverses the above mechanism - 14 tiny rations (4oz each) of fluidly, mushy baby food (ewww), plus one rich adult dinner. One thing I could argue about this though, is that the requirement for this particular 'adult dinner' is that it must contain enough green leafy veggies, plus sufficient amount of high-quality protein (e.g., fish fillet of the thickness of your palm).

Anyways, I advocate for healthy, adequate amount of breakfast! I normally have milk (preferably 1% fat) / soy milk (prefer the ones sold on streets in China though) / almond milk (hmmm much much higher Ca!), plus multi-grain cereal, bread/bagel with nutella/jam (raspberry/strawberry/lately wanna try the scary looking minty one)/honey+whipped cream cheese, sometimes juice or tea as well.

Would love to change back to the routine of 豆浆油条、馒头榨菜稀饭、包子、醪糟蛋、西昌米粉... But nutritionally speaking, I'll stick to whatever I'm having at the moment : )

"I am afraid.  Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been." 

<Flowers for Algernon>

Hot lil Mo (refused to be called Mamu, lol)

Young girl with eyes like a desert - Shikha

Canton, early morning

How much love and trust can we spare to strangers?

Economic growth =/= civilization?

'Catch a breath'

The rocker (I know I shouldn't put it, yet this one is my favorite hehe)

These photos are all taken by one of my favorite photographer: Ata Mohammad Adnan. Who makes mundane life so full of flavor. His camera view of China is also quite stunning. I have noticed that he has won some awards for several awesome pictures. I did not put them up here. The above ones are all about my dear friends/familiar scenes around SYSU, Canton, China.

Aadnan's Photography: https://www.facebook.com/aadnansphotography