Worm-filled rice, anyone?

Yesterday, my mom and I had a little argument because of dinner. I got upset because I slept at around 7pm since I was already starving and no one's home yet. I woke up at around 9pm and went downstairs. I found my mom dressing up to go to bed. Apparently, she left money for me to buy my dinner since she'd be a little late. I didn't look at my money all day since I got too lazy to buy my own lunch, as well. So we had a little argument and she ended up storming out of the house and bought me dinner.


I went up to my room again and didn't go down till an hour later when the real pangs of hunger hit me. I saw that she purchased food from Andok's, which I actually appreciated when I saw it. My tastebuds are on a coup-de-etat against McDonald's already. There were two plastic bags. I opened the first one and saw two steamed rice. I checked the second one and saw barbecues. I was shaking from hunger already that I immediately took on of the rice and opened it.


Voila.


I almost puked. The moment that I touched it, it was actually really wet. I thought it was just because it was NEWLY cooked. When I opened it, to my disgust, the rice is yellow and green colored already. What was more, there were molds, the smell's really foul and the worst of it, there were flies. I immediately dropped the rice. I was so scared to look at it a little longer because at the back of my mind, I was so sure that if I poke it, maggots would come out. Disgusting.


So I immediately went upstairs and asked my mom if she had a receipt. She said no. I suddenly remembered that one bad thing about that store is that they never issue any receipts. EVER. I know that it's our fault, as well, since we should've demanded receipts from them but they we never do. So we can't blame them wholly for that. I went downstairs and stared at that rice.


What I did was I threw it out. I know that I might regret not taking a picture of it but I just consoled myself with the fact that the more I stare onto that foul thing, the more that I'm challenging the capability of my stomach, which, I might add, is not that great. I just made a mental note to never purchase anything from that store again and to, of course, write this blog.


I know that some people might say that I might just be a hater of that company but honestly, they're nippa huts compared to the mansion-like McDonald's, Burger King, etc., so what will I gain if I wrote this blog out of nothing but pure hatred? Anyway, it's not as if I'm begging you to believe me or anything. But once you experience that kind of stuff in your food, I don't think you'll ever get over it. Seeing things like that to stuff that you put in your mouth, it does things to you.

Why you shouldn't talk to strangers.

Talk about freaky people nowadays. I had to learn the hard way from this. As you can see, when I was young, it didn’t really matter to me as to whoever I add up on my social networking sites. As it turned out,  that’s the biggest mistake I ever did. Check out this creep for example:

Uh-huh. That’s one weird guy up there. For those who can’t speak Filipino or those who just can’t understand whatever this retard wrote down, he was actually asking me as to why I’m not replying to him. To add up to his insanely freaky question, he’s telling me that he’s good looking and that WE (whoever those we are) don’t have manners for not replying to him.
I mean, c’mon. Are you seriously asking me that question? I don’t speak retard, freak.

Ignored, deleted, blocked.

Crisis.

So what’s going to happen if the price of oil will be doubled because of the non-stop fighting of people in the Middle East?

You can’t say that I’m a fan of current events but all of the nonsense stuff that are being rolled every night (not to mention at daytime, as well) on the news are being ridiculously headache-inducing.

I live in a third world country so commuting’s a much preferred way for travelling instead of buying your own car. Besides, you wouldn’t feel all mighty and rich driving your own car in a country like this. I’ve always made up my mind about this since I was young. I’d never learn how to drive if I’ll just get stuck in this country. I’d always live in fear that I might get into a car crash or something with the undisciplined bus and jeepney drivers here. There are also gangs here who’ll pretend as if one of their members were hit by your car and they’d ask money from you. I’d also fear for my life because of other selfish drivers who only think of their own appointments without thinking about the lives of others.

If you’re thinking that it can’t be that worse, well then, you’re wrong. No matter how nationalistic you are, when you’re here, you wouldn’t even think twice about this fact. It isn’t about how well your parents raised you. When you live in a selfish country like this wherein life leaves you no other choice but to do bad just to survive, you can barely look at yourself in the mirror for what you’ve done but you continue to do whatever that is, anyway. Every single bad thing done is because of poverty and corruption.

Lately, I’ve drifted away from my riding a jeepney routine and stuck with waiting for cabs instead. Why? I really don’t feel safe riding a cab alone so I only get to do this when my boyfriend’s here in the Philippines. I can’t get him to commute all the way to where I work because he might have a heart attack from all the dust that he’d have to inhale going to my office and back. So, for the 2 months that he’s been here, we were able to ride more than 50 cabs already, I think. And they all have something in  common. They always, ALWAYS, ask for additional money aside from what’s on the meter. I know that it’s just common courtesy to provide them with a LITTLE tip from time to time especially if they drove on for hours without any complaints whatsoever, but it’s a different thing when they’re asking you for a 50Php additional even before you sat on their reeking cab seat. That’s just a little too selfish, right?

So what my boyfriend I are doing now is that we ride MGE taxis. It’s not a company known worldwide. But it’s well known in our city. What makes this different from other cab companies is that when the driver asks for any additional money, refuses to take you where you want to, or is complaining all throughout your ride, you can report them and trust them to give out the right sanction for that particular selfish driver.

I personally have nothing against the drivers itself. I understand that driving can be really stressful but, hey, who chose that job, anyway? It wasn’t as if you were forced or anything, right? And don’t give me that sorry excuse wherein you’ll say that you’ve never had any proper education, thus, you can’t find any other job other than this. DUH? Be a construction worker, be a darn grocery bagger, whatever. Just stop pretending as if you’re the ones who are being mistreated here. For all I know, once the oil prices have been doubled, you’ll triple yours, as well and ask for 100Php additional.

Yes, lately, as our economy plummeted downwards, the humanism of people came down as well. We often forget how human we are. We’re supposed to be on top of the list of all living things just because we can think. But lately, are we? Or we just thinking about how we’re supposed to be BETTER than the other people around us? Pathetic. It’s tiring to rant about it and everyone’s just turning a blind eye on this just because they know that one person can’t make the bad things go away. But one person is a part of a big crowd, right? If no one’ll stand up, there’s no bright future ahead. I can bet on that.