VUVU’S SOAPBOX
Vuvu’s
Soapbox...
I feel like a kid in a candy store –
QUACK! I mean, I literally cannot
choose...
will be jam-packed with no less than
two public holidays! So many hours,
so much to do...
For starters – I can really see myself
getting used to four-day work weeks!
Add to this the ridiculous amount of
caramel centered chocolate eggs
I have consumed during the past
long-weekend and I am sold to the
(utopian) idea of living the good life
– or EGGstravaganza, as I like to
call it! Just thinking about that heavenly combination of sugar, caramel,
cocoa and caffeine ... oooooh, I can
feel myself soaring in the open skies
like an eagle! (The fact that I also
– after completely overindulging,
momentarily felt like a teary-eyed
stuffed chicken, will remain our little
secret...)
Whilst looking for some more Easter eggs at Building 13, I met up
with (my very academically inclined)
cousin, who told me the most interesting news. Apparently – although
this sounds very far-fetched to this
goose, a recent study showed that
countries that eat the most chocolate
also have the highest number of Nobel Prize winners per capita! Quack!
Forgetting about the sheer bliss of
my recent eggstravaganza for a
while, I want to jump for joy when the
prospect of yet another long-weekend sets in. That’s right – next week
Apparently researchers say that a
group of antioxidants known as “flavonoids” can improve one’s thinking
ability... I tell you, if this is true I am
in for one serious bout of overindulgence... I was not the brightest gosling in our biology class, but I understand that