What do you do right after dinner?

Something struck me after dinner today. I recalled that as a 7-8 year old boy, I would take walks after every dinner. I was taught that walking after dinner is something important to my health; just like brushing my teeth is. My grandma was still with me back then.

If memory serves me right, she and our maid would sometimes take me outside where they would sit at the concrete slab on the kerb. They would watch me as I play with the boys in my neighbourhood. Too many times, I would go out before dinner was ready, only return with a hungry stomach when it’s dark. I would then scrape out the remaining rice in the rice cooker; add soy sauce, sesame oil and pepper to my rice and gobble it up.

Something happened along the way, and that habit wasn’t there anymore. I suspect it was the 6-7 pm Hong Kong dramas series. And later it was the computer. I got obese after that; so obese that running from one end of the street to the other would leave me wheezing and blacking out (it wasn’t that long of a street.) I think I got asthma around that time.

I should start walking again.