The rants of a tiny girl

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  One thing that you will get from the title of the blog and my first post is that I'm small. I'm quite tall but extremely lean, even after those millions of talks and write ups about how beauty and everything else lies inside you, I've never been able to get out of the fact that I'm terribly lean. I have constantly been reminded by my friends that I was too small to fight and too small to defend myself. Then I  read the Bible,  well I've read it before but this time in a new light and it said " God has ordained strength out of the mouth of babes" (Psalm 8). Although in a very different context, I took it to my heart and well I thought let me get my strength out and start a blog.
               So  even if one day,  in a very distant future I gain a lot of weight and look like a happy cookie, I'm not going to change the name of my blog because
a) it is a major part of my identity at this point
b) I think it is a really cool name.
               So please  bear with me if at times this blog gets unfunny, because it might just teach you patience to deal with a lot of boring things in life. (Did you really expect me to say that it'll get better with time?)
I guess this is the first chapter from the diaries of a lean girl. Not so bad, huh...


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