Qing1 Ming1
for those who do not already know, these few days happens to be qing ming (ends tmr i think), so went with my parents to temple to visit my late grandmother.自度Business Centre
temples are frugal places where the monks/nuns there live with minimal luxury right? wrong. the vegetarian food sold at the temple was man expensive. one small plate of dumplings cost $6, and the smallest plate of beehoon costs $10! but for my grandmother to "eat", my mum bought a packet of beehoon with some vegetarian char siew, some half cooked cabbage and some pseudo goose. the liao4 is so little with mostly beehoon, and it costs $3. bet they're earning big bucks just be having that vegetarian stall in the temple.
i'm starting to think of monk and nunhood as a profession, a great one at that too. you get free food, free lodging, you don't have to slave your guts out and you probably even receive month pay and a year end bonus! if you don't believe me, you can ask my dad who overheard a nun saying that she bought a pearl necklace for $1.4k o_O I think soon the demand for labour as a monk will become so great that you'll need to hold an O lvl cert to be a monk
Monk Market:
KTC
after leaving Zi4 Du4 An1 Business Centre, we headed for KFC for lunch but somehow ended up in KTC, aka Kentucky Tuition Centre.
correct me if i'm wrong but kfc seems to have switched to selling assessment books, textbooks, stationeries. anything but chicken. if you didn't catch that, you just have to go to the nearest kfc joint near your house and you'll understand. no wonder everyone kept telling me kfc is very POPULAR (the bookstore).
ok enough of willy's nonsense and back to reality, half the kfc outlet was filled by teens who were mugging. most were not even eating and only a few more decent ones had a few empty kfc cups on their tables. i can never understand why students like to mug at kfc so much, it doesn't even sell mug, only pepsi. (ok not funny willy)
but i really can't understand why. i mean a fastfood joint is possibly to worse place to study. you'll be constantly distracted by the delicious aroma there, you'll also be distracted by the noise everyone is making, as well as the frequent angry stares of would-be patrons (would-be only cause you're taking up their would-be seats!).
but everyone there seems to be concentrating on their work pretty well. besides listening to their mp3 players, chatting with the person sitting opposite them, constantly chewing their fries, frequently looking up at the ppl who pass by, they are totally undistracted!
if i'm the boss of kfc, i'll probably start a study corner in all kfc outlets and charge a rental fee for usage. rental fee will only be $1++ an hour, and it'll even come with 2 FREE large drinks and a box of FREE popcorn chicken per person at no price of $10. yep, lots of ppl will come cause it only costs $1++, sooooo cheap. (idea with thanks to a certain provider of recreational singing facilities)
VEGETARIAN != VEGETABLE
after some REAL patrons of kfc finished their food, we finally managed to get a seat and ate lunch. we also ate the vegetarian beehoon we bought earlier. that got me to wonder about something, again. why do ppl become vegetarians? i can think of two reasons, 1) religious reasons to not kill. 2) think that meat is unhealthy and want to live a healthy lifestyle.
then again, vegetarians that eat at vegetarian stalls isn't really accomplishing their goals very well. for 1), vegetarian stalls sell mock meat. if you want to eat these mock meat, doesn't it mean you WANT to eat meat, no matter how bad it tastes or how artificial and unlike meat it is. doesn't this kinda defeats the religious part? 2) food sold at vegetarian stalls can be considered one of the most unhealthy stuff i've seen. firstly, the mock meat is so damn artificial you can't tell what's it made of, what has been added to it and how it has been processed! secondly, to make the veggity meat and the veggity veggie taste better (lack of fragrant meaty taste), an incredulous amount of seasoning and oil has been added to cooking the food. theres so much oil that if you place it in a display at a jewelry shop, ppl will think its some kind of gold noodle ornament.
so to all you vegetarians out there, this is not meant to be an insult to your belief, but rather a thinking point. is vegetarian meat all that nice? do you HAVE to eat meat? if not, why not simply eat healthier vegetables?
W toked kok @ 4/14/2006 03:30:00 pm
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