Waste Not, Want Not

Have been working hard today. Much much harder than at the office. Hopefully tonight I will just snooze off automatically as I put my head on the pillow. Sleep sweet sleep.

Before that, talking about sleep brings us to another favorite issue: Eating. You can never walk in the streets here without the talk automatically turning to 'food'. It's as natural as saying 'Hi'. It's always : 'How are you? Come, let's go to the Coffee shop for a drink'. For most people, the work routine is like: breakfast, coffee break, lunch, coffee break, teatime, pre-dinner drink, dinner and supper.

Finding a place to eat is also as easy as ABC. Just say what your heart desires: Korean, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Chinese, French, Italian.. It's all there. Just prepare the money. Other than you just have to plan on what, when and where to eat.

Alas, in all the facility of getting food, we sometimes have the tendency to waste food. Even me, I cannot avoid it. With competition getting stronger, the portion in each plate also becomes larger. And people like me just cannot finish off my plate. (Hope that mum is not reading this or else I will surely get a lecture on wasting good food).

But really..the only complaint that Malaysians have nowadays are having the stomach 'too full'. The best way is to cook your own food, knowing the amount that you can eat. But that is not always possible as most of the time we are working and being a part of the sales team, eating and communicating plays a big role. To eat or not to eat..that is the question. :) And when you eat: To waste or not to waste?

The packaging for most food also is tailor made for families.. A loaf of Gardenia bread is a week supply for me..and even that sometimes has balance that had to be thrown away because of the expiry date. Whereas the newspaper was stating that everyday an average of 14,400 children of hunger and in a year the total is a devastating 5.256 millions of children in Malaysia. That is not counting the whole world.

As a friend was saying: There's nothing wrong with eating well or eating richly. But there's certainly a difference between eating a lot of food and throwing away a lot of food. And all that thrown away food is not leftovers or scraps.

The food that I am talking about are those that were bought during a shopping spree but never consumed till it has to be thrown away because it can no longer be eaten. Let us just try to do our part. Don't laugh at me just because I ordered half a plate of mee goreng.

Let's start by using the part of the money saved from not buying too much food to donate to those in need. If a little bit can help one child, it would be sufficient. Everything starts with a small step. Waste not, Want Not...

Do you turn from your work with a smile?
Do you feel that it's all worth the while?
As you dream the twilight hours away,
When you come to the end of the day!