Food we eat, how safe?
WARNING : These pictures shall not be viewed if you are eating and have sensitive stomach.
When was the last time you check your food, I mean checking it inside out before biting it? Or I may ask, are you checking your food first before biting it? No? Nolah? Hindi? Para pa? If your answer is yes, be very afraid. Read on.
My friend, who is a former colleague sent me these pictures which was sent to him by a colleague here in Singapore. He emailed me and told me that I don’t have to mass produce the email and it is just for my own consumption and the reason for sending it to me is to warned me to be wary on what I eat here and avoid the place were the food was bought. But I want to share these pictures to you my friends so you may be aware and be cautious next time you eat outside food. At first I did not bother to upload the photos and just view on the same main page, so I thought there is nothing unusual with the photos and maybe my friend is just trekking me. It was days after that I decided to download the photos and open it on my wide monitor did I saw the clearer picture and made me throw up almost! There are worms inside, I don’t know if they are still alive when the food was served. The food was ordered in one of the stalls inside a big supermarket in a mall.
This day last year
This time last year I was busy scouring crowded areas in Manila looking for firecrackers to bring home for the new year eve. You may ask why I have to scour when every corner of the street firecrackers store pop outs during this time. These mock up stalls pop outs in busy sidewalks in crowded places like markets, bus stations, near mall in Manila and other cities in the Philippines. These stalls goes side by side with fruit stands.
It goes like this. All these stalls carry the same pricing, usually pricing of their own regulation. These vendors normally purchased theirs in just one source which is in Bocaue, Bulacan. I know the whole stretch of the road carries the same price, what I always did is to stop in every stall and ask for the price and make haggle and pretend i'll be buying big quantity so that the storekeeper will give me good price. Then I transfer to the nearby stall and repeat the same thing and be observant with the storekeeper I just haggled in, chances are he might ask me to come back and offer me good price I can't resist. If I think it's the good price I grab it but if I sense it can be lowered more I continue haggling then close the deal. If not I continue doing it until I reach the last stall at the end of the road and assess which stall has the lowest price and go back to that stall and do the purchase. While doing all these I have to be observant of con men, pickpockets and errant vendors.
I can assure you it is very enjoyable thing to do especially if you are not in a hurry and you have all the afternoon. This is one of the things I enjoyed most doing after Christmas.
Today this all I can do. Have a prosperous New Year.
"Sorry Aquino"
When was the last time you said sorry? Why did you say it? Whom you say it? I asked this because just days past I was rattled watching on 24 Oras former president Cory saying sorry to Erap for her role in EDSA 2001 where Erap ended his stay in Malacanang abruptly and goes straight in jail. What the **** she was talking about, was my initial reaction. I was flabbergasted and though she was smiling, I end up cursing someone. There was nothing to be sorry about. How could she be sorry when everything that happened that time was right? Erap was convicted. The next days, her son explained that it was meant to be a joke, in response to Erap remarks before she was asked to speak and should not be taken seriously. Erap took it seriously and believed that he has done nothing wrong and by Cory saying sorry to him concreted his belief.
If she should say sorry of what she has done that time, it is to say sorry that GMA did not upheld her ideals and reasons of EDSA 2001, but that is another story.
Of course no one will take her seriously on that remarks, reading people’s reaction to her sorry proves that she should be the one sorry she said it. First time I heard her speaking in public was during her campaign sortie in Plaza Quezon in Naga City way back in 1986 and she was supposed to speak why Bicolanos should vote her instead of Marcos, but she talked only about Ninoy. That time by just mentioning Ninoy would be enough to get people vote her, in Bicol she won the election landslide. These days she can no longer get people rally behind her. I hope Cory would be more cautious now and maybe retire from politics if she wants history judge her right, or be end up sorry.
Now it’s my turn to say sorry to her.
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