How should we judge a government?

In Malaysia, if you don't watch television or read newspapers, you are uninformed; but if you do, you are misinformed!

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." - Malcolm X

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience - Mark Twain

Why we should be against censorship in a court of law: Publicity is the very soul of justice … it keeps the judge himself, while trying, under trial. - Jeremy Bentham

"Our government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no
responsibility at the other. " - Ronald Reagan

Government fed by the people

Government fed by the people

Career options

Career options
I suggest government... because nobody has ever been caught.

Corruption so prevalent it affects English language?

Corruption so prevalent it affects English language?
Corruption is so prevalent it affects English language?

When there's too much dirt...

When there's too much dirt...
We need better tools... to cover up mega corruptions.

Prevent bullying now!

Prevent bullying now!
If you're not going to speak up, how is the world supposed to know you exist? “Orang boleh pandai setinggi langit, tapi selama ia tidak menulis, ia akan hilang di dalam masyarakat dan dari sejarah.” - Ananta Prameodya Toer (Your intellect may soar to the sky but if you do not write, you will be lost from society and to history.)

Sunday, October 05, 2008

You are what you eat...

'I eat so little, yet I am fat' seems a common complaint.

Incidentally, SP used to work as a Dietitian in UK and her last post was as Chief Dietitian at Seacroft Hospital, Leeds, way back in 1982!

For weight-conscious British, knowing you are a dietitian, topics on ‘weight-reducing diets’ are likely to be asked at social meetings. In hospital, her frankness in telling off some over-weight women who gave all sorts of reasons for not reducing their weights had made her someone to be avoided, if possible. Some actually asked, ‘Is the Chinese Dietitian on duty today?’ while hoping for a negative reply.

Some ‘reasons’ given were ‘I drink only dry wines’ ‘I eat so little at lunch and dinner’ and when questioned further about tea and coffee times, ‘and some chocolates, but just a bit’.

Unlike her ex-boss, Nikki, the District Dietitian, SP had been rather lax with me, which explains my over-weight size. On our last trip when we met, Malcolm described his wife as ‘Gestapo in drag’ and he whispered to us that he used to have ‘fish and chips’ at work (when Nikki is not within hearing distance)!

But as they say, ‘you are what you eat’ and we have to accept the effects of what was eaten, no use in explaining otherwise. Someone must have took the trouble to compile the following:

Notes on Dieting
1. If you eat something, but no one else sees you eat it, it has no calories.
2. When drinking a diet soda while eating a candy bar, the calories in the candy bar are cancelled by the diet soda.
3. When you eat with someone else, calories don't count as long as you don't eat more than they do.
4. Foods used for medicinal purposes never count. e.g. hot chocolate, brandy, toast, Sara Lee cheesecake.
5. If you fatten up everyone else around you, then you look thinner.
6. Movie-related foods do not have calories because they are part of the entertainment package and not part of one's personal fuel. e.g. milk duds, buttered popcorn, junior mints and Tootsie Rolls.
7. Cookie pieces contain no calories. The process of breaking the cookie causes calorie leakage.
8. Late-night snacks have no calories. The refrigerator light is not strong enough for the calories to see their way into the calorie counter.
9. If you are in the process of preparing something, food licked off knives and spoons have no calories. e.g. peanut butter on a knife, ice cream on a spoon.
10.Food of the same color have the same number of calories. Examples are spinach and pistachio ice cream, mushrooms and white chocolate. Chocolate is a universal color and may be substituted for any other.


These two cartoons borrowed from Randy Glasbergen seem so appropriate.

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