The Lenten season can bring a lot
of realizations especially what one has been spoiling one's own
"gusto"... literally am starving and been starving coz despite the
rocketing buying power, the streets are empty of the gastronomically enticing stuff...
alright! Time to think back and rethink... check on some friends from my wall
till I pass by some visually palatable wholesale restaurant pages... darn!
don't know whether I have lost my Franciscan ways or simply
have adapted to my new world long enough to complain about food... where can
you buy so much wasted food for 100 bucks? so many options but most of them are
crap! yeah! try it yourself, by 2AM you'll get 2 viands a side dish and a bowl
of rice just about 100 bucks! Here’s a bit of what I got::
I bought kare-kare thinking that
of GeeWan’s
(I badly miss Naga!!!)and palabok almost tasting the one from Taguig or the one
I had in Calabanga, Cam Sur.. or at least close… to my dismay all of them were
not only close to spoiling but tasted NOTHING! It’s not customary of me to
bring extra cash or card when I go to work so I couldn’t buy anything else (beyond
my daily budget) besides I was starving real big (and I know that my stomach
keeps its Franciscan ways
and wouldn’t complain even if the food is spoiled)… I still believed that it is
never good wasting food (many starve to death of hunger) so I mustered the
whole thing convincing myself that it could be my share penance after not doing
any for quite a while.
It was just disheartening that
when I gave it the second chance the next time but chose a different stall – I
got a lasagna made of a very thick pasta with ground meat and some melted cheese
for toppings and guess what(?) – also spoiled only at 2 AM! (the food is set at
around midnight and should it not last until well maybe noon at most?!!!) If
only Starmark’s
is close by or if Greenwich
is 24/7!!!
Gee… prudence is also a virtue
and one big factor to surviving the urban jungle! I have my values intact and
fully guarded but must admit that somehow I had become picky of what virtues put
affront…
