小土- 笨猪 and Pain

小土 is a columnist in i-weekly. From the description, this author is in France currently and writes short articles..

The first time I chanced upon his article was an article on 笨猪. He says that in France, people like to greet each other 笨猪 every morning. Everywhere you go, strangers will just greet you 笨猪 with a smile. Not like Singapore, nobody bothers to even smile at you while you do your morning jog. And he recountered an interesting encounter with a little girl where he and his friend were thinking if they should greet 笨猪 to the little girl first. In the end, the little girl greeted them first, and the 2 guys feel so embarassed to have let the little girl beat them to it.

FYI 笨猪 = Bonjour!

Today I happen to saw his article again. This time is on Pain. No Pain No Gain. Le Pain is Bread in french. This article has 2 parts, maybe will see the 2nd part next week. He talks about how much effort is needed to make bread in the past and that while he was holidaying, he and his friends were eating bread daily to save money. From loving the crispiness of bread till hating the tasteless of bread after eating it daily, it shows a cycle of the love we have with bread. Indeed when I'm young, I used to eat bread daily. Ok even now I still eat bread daily. But as we grow up, we get tired of bread, or at least I got tired of bread. There are times I will just tell mummy, can I don't eat bread. And she will ask me to check if got cereals, biscuits etc. But most of the time, I end up eating bread for breakfast because at the end, bread is still the best!