I grew up in a moderate financial family and an average living
family you'd see in Malaysia. Being the youngest among my brothers and sisters
could be a pain in my shoulder. 2 of my brothers and 2 of my sisters were in
overseas finishing their bachelor in studies and searching for a new life over
there. However, there is still my elder brother who is 2 year older than me
lived with me and my parents in Kuantan. Our parents who are exceptionally
ambitious, most of the people based their theories on “live to work or work for
a living”, but my parents statement was “work for their own children”. My parents’
wishes were to feed us and at the same time present us with what we want as you
know children has a lot of needs and wants. Everyday you’d see my parents
worked 10 hours or more daily. My mom who is in charge of preparing us our daily
meal couldn’t even spend 30 minutes to get us a decent meal at that time
because of my mom’s business. Given that, my brother and I were nevertheless
the most independent children you can find on the street as we knew heap of
knowledge about the revolution of the world. Ever since we were young, we
started using computer at the age of 6 and that’s how we gathered the wisdom of
being street-wise. Nonetheless, my parents didn’t buy us food during the weekdays.
Despite that, my brother and I came out with an idea of contacting fast food
restaurant such as Pizza hut, Burger king, Dominos for their delivery services
but although we do ate tons of fast food; the most frequent would be McDonald as
their set meals were the most affordable and convenient. This is where it all began;
our favorite would be the McChicken Deluxe, Big Mac and Double Cheeseburger. It
started as our dinner meal and later on without knowing it became a habit then
soon became a venomous drug to us. We took McDonald meal as if there is no tomorrow,
lunch and dinner and as frequent as 3 to 5 times in a week. In 2004, a movie ‘Supersize
Me’ hits it on online, it became a Youtube sensation instantly without knowing.
I watched the movie and hence it touches me at the moment I finish the movie.
The intake of calories, the amount I’ve eaten for my meal is outrageous which
is unacceptable. Nevermore, I’m not going to continue to eat this insane
rubbish as what I’ve told myself but that what it seems to be. After entering
college, I’m still consuming this food that I once called it rubbish. Thus, I
felt very meaningless to be a chef that takes fast food as a meal.
