bringing forth

Some statistics:
47 kilograms on the scale in the bedroom in spore
163 centimetres though this varies from here to there

They should consider using other means of measurement, namely clothes. Why? Because clothes can be just as exacting, critical, appraising, cruel and brutally honest as machines. Paired up with human eyes and any self-knowing individual's instinct, who needs to spend extra on some fuddy-duddy piece of technology?

The culprits:

• a pair of cornflower blue boardshorts I bought when I was 14 years old. found them in a pile today. putting them on I realised my hips supported them better than 7 years ago. having said that, thank goodness my thighs didn't squeeze the room out of the pant legs
• a padini authentics polo dress, dark blue with red and white stripes across the collar, and a bold USA in white on the front. parents bought this when I was like 12??? so proud to see it rise inches above my knees. proud also to say that when glanced in profile, the silhouette is not as pole-like as it once was. once more, the dress wasn't pulled taut.
• a pink checked collared shirt my dad bought when I was, say 13??? very very pretty, some donna girl brand I've never seen before or since the shirt arrived. I remember walking out of Takashimaya after work only to realise that one of the shirt buttons have popped open, and I was revealing more flesh than necessary. Embarrassing! This shirt so bluntly puts it across: lux your arms have increased in diameter, your torso has lengthened considerably, and you have to be thankful to puberty for at least one other thing. heh.

pssst: before you get too excited that you can still fit into clothes you bought a decade ago and want to strut it out for all to witness... ensure you actually look as fresh as you feel.