who's hungry?

we were told to bring a 10kg sack of rice in our army field packs so that we can do some fun exercises with it. so yesterday i ventured out to the supermarket to buy my rice and some sweets for survival in boring lectures.

on the way there i was nearly hit in the head by a low-flying mynah, and nearly hit by a car with a low-intelligence driver. so much excitement even before i got to my destination, maybe that's why people always say that the fun is the process of getting there, and not the end product.

anyway i managed to get to the supermarket unscathed, and went to the sweets section. after looking around for a little while, i discovered that the sweets kids have these days are depressingly terrible in terms of tastiness and selection choices.

i was trying to recall the last time i actually went shopping for sweets, and i realised that it was probably more than 10 years ago and i was with my parents getting sweets for chinese new year. and oh my, the sweets back then were wonderful. among my favourites were the chewy grape candies, rabbit sweets (poisonous), and those small colourful sweets that came individually wrapped in clear plastic.

kids these days are deprived of all that amazing goodness. they have psp, ps3, xbox live, free porn, plasma tv, they can have it ALL, but they will still lead sad lives as long as they don't have nice sweets.

in the end i bought 2 packets of kopi-ko, and now i'm leading a sad life too. and i also bought the rice for $14++ which is fucking expensive and a bad waste of good rice and money. it feels very wrong to be wasting so much rice (60 people x 10kg each = 600kg of rice) when there are many people who could do much better things with it, like EATING THE FUCKING RICE.