You Are What You Eat...Really?

I usually see this unusual quote " You Are What You Eat." A very "catchy phrase" and ambiguous to tell you frankly.

10:53 AM time to prepare something for lunch. I would like to have a bowl of noodle soup with thin slices of pork, beans, and carrots. I'm on a diet today. Ngayon lang. So heto while I'm typing this entry to my blog I'm also eating. Grabe di ba? Kaya slow ang publishing nito. Slow and painful ba? Ngek! Drama naman.

I don't know or not sure whether you are familiar with the TV travelogue " Departure" wherein two best friends travel around the world and tried to be familiarized with different culture and tradition in another countries. Most of the countries they traveled are those in the third world. People from all walks of life welcomed these buddies. They were friendly and accommodating to them. The last part of the series that I watched was two months ago and it featured Korea. They were invited to the site by an expert guide to that military area which is now a "war museum." They took videos and photos and tried to eat Korean food. One offered seafood cooked in a very clever way. The guide poured in gasoline to those seafood to cook them. What style of cooking is that? Wow! Unbelievable eh?! They ate those seafood anyways. What happened after that?

I don't know what happened because the series was cut off. We had a stormy weather here and the reception of that show was stop abruptly. All channels have that no signal moment. So I turned off the TV instead.

Next is the Amazing Race 17. The rest of the contestants went to HK after their race is done in Bangladesh where they were asked to do so many tasks: assembling rickshaw, delivery of meal inside the metal containers for the boaters at the pier or dockyard, then squeezing juice out from sugarcane. A lot of bickering and whining which is a normal situation in A.R. Mirrors every individual's struggle and how each one of us can defy and resolve challenges. Yup, the Amazing Race seemed to focus on how we have to conquer life's normal situation of dysfunctionality. For no one is a saint. You want to be a saint? I doubt it. You'll lose your resources and you'll end up like a limp veggie that withered and God knows if there will be volunteers who can help you.

On volunteering? Big. Huge problem to be a volunteer. To be a volunteer you've got to have resources otherwise those who you want to help will complain for what they really need is money and the resources too such as employment, food, clothing, shelter. Can you afford to share your home? Can you afford to share your money when you yourself is unemployed? Can you share your clothing? Maybe you can give some used clothes or used appliances and furniture. Can you share your money with them? Good question. When unemployment is already a problem in a small community and the price of commodities and tax is so way up high, each person can only afford a DOLLAR. Or a quarter? Or pennies?

Penny for your thoughts? Can't buy anything with a penny. Even a quarter. Unless of course they are in tons of coins. Tons! Like Million tons perhaps.

Not being greedy here. I am being practical and ....unemployed. But I tried to share my happy thoughts and sharing what life should be and how we are affected with the recession.

I know of all people here I think am being asked most of the time to donate money or cheques payable to >this and that. To the many charities. I don't know how much is too much. How many charity should Canada have?

Why don't you people go to church and just give your donations to them and let the religious organizations do the distributions instead. Just as suggestion because it works better that way for 500 years. It worked for five hundred years. At least with the Roman Catholic the crusaders knew where and when the donations go and you really can see the SUN and their conquest. Need I elaborate the conquest? Tag this as wit and humor combined.

My daughter brought home a kit from school. It was a small box of "how to grow your own tree?" I think that's hilarious. Four microscopic seed in a plastic bag and tiny pebbles inside another plastic bag. Quite astounding and hilarious folks. The instruction is even more funnier than I thought. Looking at the tiny seed makes me stare at the ground pepper in a small jar. Hmm---scary thought. Chia, chia hehehe. Getting paranoid here I should call the Jonas Bros. to perform at the party.