Friday, April 25, 2008 @ 9:55 AM

hunger pangs

"The African children are starving.." The favourite phrase Garene would say whenever Felicia wastes more than half the amount of her food.

Alittle background about these 2 adorable TP friends:
1) Garene Tay - An independent woman. She works exceptionally alot, but claims to be broke because she spends most of them on good food. She is also a very straight forward person, who speaks her mind like nobody's business - but that's something which I admire, because not many would dare to do so. Our timekeeper, the choleric one among us.

2) Felicia Low - A crazy, fun-loving, enthusiastic and crazy vice-captain of TP Blazers (cheerleaders). Extremely rich, which allows her to 'throw' money away. Excuse to not finish her food: Lose weight to be a cheerleader. However, she is always the one who will organise 'outings', like dinners and stuff. She is noisy and dramatic most of the times, but it's good company!

Till now, you should be able to understand Garene's reaction to Felicia's food wastage? Whose side would you be on? I would definitely be on Garene's side.

Choir rehearsals ended 10pluspm today, got a call from Jeslin saying that there is dinner, so dragged my hungry tummy all the way from Somerset to Pasir Ris. The journey seemed extraordinarily long after Joyce and the rest left me all alone on the train towards Pasir Ris. The Forest Berries Lakerol sweets just wasn't able to satisfy the terrible hunger pangs. At that point of time, all I thought of were the African children, who didn't have enough money or food to fill their stomachs. I was also reminded of this picture shown in Media and Society lecture, presenting a vulture waiting by the side of a near-to-skeleton little boy who was finding food in the desert. How sad is that? I was just hungry for that short period of time, but those poor kids had to starve for days! Some to the extent of death.. man, yet we're wasting food which could be their one day's meal!

I understand that sometimes we just cannot finish the entire bowl of noodles or something, because I don't always finish all my food, but I do make effort to try gobbling them all up. Next time when you know you can't finish your food, ask for less rice/noodles, or share the food with someone else.

Once again, don't waste food, because "The African children are starving.."