This isn't exactly life-changing info, but guys, it's the halfway mark of 2021.
Carl the dense one looked up from his plate, completely horrified at this revelation.
True to form, Carl remarked loudly: "Wow, guys. I didn't realise!"
Stanley the sex bunny -- who's never stingy with retorts and sarcasm -- rolled his eyes and said: "Wow, I didn't realise too," adding, "thank you Sherlock."
"Why are you so nasty, Stan. What made you like this?"
Guilty, Stanley shrugged and blamed it on COVID.
"It's the virus, I swear," he said pointing upwards accusingly at unseen germs. "COVID and lockdown are making me very sarcastic with all this pent up energy."
Carl pouted emphatically and forked another piece of juicy meat that looks too big for his mouth.
I eyed Stanley cautiously to see if he would make any unsavoury joke about Carl's hand-to-mouth action and thankfully, the fella didn't bite.
Instead, Stanley carried on with the topic of the day.
Six months into what initially seemed could be a hopeful year, a year of vaccines and possible reopening, and here we are, still fighting the virus, still tied down by the effects.
I remember chatting with my boys -- virtually -- at the start of 2021, each of us hoping that the world would get its act together and finally get rid of this virus.
And though we weren't firm believers -- or followers -- of New Year Resolutions, we made them anyway.
I for one, have no complaints given that for me, it's a case of so far so good: Putting one foot in front of another, making slow but sure progress to the rest of my year, whether in terms of work or personal life.
As for Stanley, he feels relatively accomplished.
He had made it a point to eat more healthily and has, for the last six months, embarked on a culinary transformation journey, starting to buy nutritious food and meal-prep for the week.
"And I feel lighter and fitter," he said in his zoom window, crunching into his KFC drumstick.
Carl and I exchanged looks.
Stanley took two more bites of the crispy carcass, and breathed deeply.
"Stop judging me, Adam!" Stanley snapped without any provocation. "Why are you so nasty. What made you like this?" he barked.
Carl nervously pointed in the air at unseen germs.
Our dense friend's New Year Resolution progress is also stalled.
For his new year goal, Carl had painstakingly planned for bigger biceps.
But with his routine again disrupted by COVID lockdowns, his biceps have deflated as did his mood.
"I miss working out in a gym," Carl said.
"I seriously don't think I am disciplined enough to follow through these home workout videos."
So Carl shelved his beefing up plans and while waiting for the doors of gyms to reopen, has now found a new hobby: Watching Korean dramas on Netflix.
"It's actually quite timely you mentioned this halfway mark, Adam," Stanley admitted.
It's really important that we take stock of what we've achieved so far and what needs to be done moving forward," he said in between more mouthfuls of chicken.
"Because, okay, if you must ask, I've caved in to unhealthy eating once again."
Carl nodded with understanding. And then he let out a yelp of laughter.
"Carl, stop watching Korean dramas!" Stanley barked, showing us how halfway-chewed KFC chicken looked like.
Guilty, Carl smiled and reasoned "this is the cliff hanger episode."
"All Korean dramas are the same," Stanley snapped. "They all involve pretty but angsty villains who won't hesitate to slap or tear your K-pop hair apart. And they always have two feuding families -- one extremely wealthy, the other, dirt-poor but always happy for whatever reason. And somewhere in the plot, there's always a mixup of babies into another family, or someone trying to keep up with their secret identities."
Carl opened his mouth wide, impressed.
"Like I said, we need to reassess our goals for 2021 to see if we should review them," Stanley said, more for himself than me. Carl had gone back to staring and smiling at his iPad, fully mesmerised by the world of Netflix.
For Stanley the overachiever, any goal he sets, he needs to meet.
He's the type where if he could, he would study very hard the night before his medical exam just so he can ace it.
But it's more important in the current context, Stanley reasons.
When you feel like you're controlled by all these external conditions like COVID and lockdowns, you feel like you have to achieve your own plans with your own effort.
"Plus, we can't travel!" Stanley moaned.
"Yes! Korea! I want to go Korea!" Carl cheered.
"But first, I need to work on the second half of the year and get it right," Carl said, squeezing his deflated biceps.
"So that when I go to Korea, I'll be at my best. The bigger, the better," said the gym rabbit.
"I hear ya, gurl. Me too. Only the best in Korea. The bigger the better," said the sex bunny.
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