Poor people won’t die of poverty

I read the Sunday papers and found an interesting article written by the Sunday pull-out editor.

It talks about lives in reality, especially for those of us… not so rich people living in the city. This does not only affect the very poor. Middle income earners are suffering too.

OK. Lets go to the story.

In this day and time, we have to pay for almost everything. The air is polluted, so we need to pay for purifiers for clean air. Water is polluted too, so we need to get water filters. Our food often contain insecticides or other chemicals, so we pay a lot more for organic food and the list goes on.

When do we need to pay for air that is free for everyone to breathe? Our water comes from natural sources too. We don’t manufacture water.

The rich can afford to pay more for better things. What about those who cannot afford? The liver has to work extra hard to filter off all the toxins. So we will get some kind of illness, spend all our savings on treatment, then continue to live poorer or we die faster.

This is the reality for people who are not the hardcore poor. We won’t die of poverty but we probably die after suffering a series of illnesses. Those that we love will suffer with us too. There is no need to talk about quality of life when one doesn’t fall into the “rich” bracket in society.

Do not sleep with a full stomach

I had a good time tonight at the night market in Chow Yang, SS2. My mom and I planned to get some fruits and vegetables tonight. We thought our plan had failed because it was raining thunder storm at around 6.30pm. Luckily the rain stopped after we had our dinner. Then my bf came over and took us to the night market.    Thanks honey… muacks.

We ended up buying more than we’ve planned. The pastries looked irristable, Takoyaki was a bit disappointing, pancake is a failure, smoked salted chicken was yummy, cheap and flavourful Pan Mee… yum.

The bf and I ate a double dinner tonight. After that I made him a Enzyme drink from Lo Hong Ka. We are trying to watch our diet and bf definitely has to lose some weight. I will help him whichever way I can, so I let him try the enzyme drink. This is more for detox and losing some weight.

My tonic enzyme I keep it for the weekend classes. It is kind of expensive to drink that everyday. Mummy is drinking it more often than I do. What to do? She is richer than me.