My Perception of McDonald

        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.  

BANANA-PHOBIA

               The moment I was born in 1990 till today, 2013. I have never fully eaten or finished a banana in my entire life. This is simply because from an incident I got traumatize since I was 12 years old. My dad who was an ambitious and honourable person by friends and family, he taught me a lot to what I have become. As always, he wanted me to be in good health and take my daily dosage of fruits, vitamins and ensuring that I have a proper nutrients intake. Me being me as always, didn't like the idea of having fruits because of the idea of how fruits can taste mysteriously different from what you’d expect like somehow a durian can be intrigue because of the yellowish, slimy, yucky feelings you’ll have for it but the taste can be vastly different as once you take a mouthful of it, you’d feel the texture and taste of thick, succulent, scrumptious, enticing piece of juicy inner core meat of the durian as if you are eating  melting, mouthful of Kobe beef.

             However, my dad wished I could start accepting fruits since I'm 12 as Asian dads always hoping their children mature faster than others because of how Asian parents are always competitive. He came up with an idea of daring me up by eating a banana as banana contains lots of vitamins and fibre which is good for health and also good for cleansing my body as fibre contains some type of chemical which react to cleanse all the toxic in your body, he offered me RM5 if I do so. At that time, RM5 was a humongous amount of money. I reluctant to take the cash for a while as I didn't like fruits and I also didn't like the idea of me puking up from eating the disgusting, redolent, saporous banana. When I was a child, I was very brave and yet mischievous so I took challenge as I thought to myself that RM5 could really buy me some valuable toys that I always wanted since I was 8 years old. For a moment, I thought I really could've done it as I quickly took a squishy, skunky, stiff piece of banana and un-wrapped it and without hesitation, I quickly gulped it a mouthful of it. Never in my mind, would I vomit it out because of the sweet scent, spongy, smooth texture but once it hits back of my throat had me recalled why I hated banana so much. The slimy, soggy, stinging banana sting my throat as if the fruit trying to hint me “don’t eat me, I'm a disgusting fruit”.  The few millisecond, I couldn't take it and I vomited it out as if there’s no tomorrow for me.

          Until today, I never touched or eaten a banana which is sad and hopeless for me as  banana gives a lot of benefits for a grown up teenager but I do take other fruits like watermelon, oranges and many more. Moreover, I do take banana juice if I have to but not an actual banana. Nevertheless, I will never deplete my dream of eating bananas as I know me as a chef must try have eaten or taste all types of fruits and foods so that I could mix-well with others as if I'm doing chemistry.