What is the deal with Low Fat?????

Right,

I LOVE ICE CREAM,

.....and butter, and milk, and any other confection that i can get my hands on. My roomie and I have survived on nothing but jars and jars of this stuff for weeks (breakfast and the occasional lunch):



Ok, lets face it people. When we eat confection, its for personal enjoyment. We simply melt into that feel good feelings that overwhelm ourselves with every bite (sound a bit like a cadbury ad here).

I honestly do not see the point of going low fat, or low sugar or whatever new low thing that has hit the local candy shops. Its downright criminal. You're going to eat something that's so obviously had zero nutritional value, why lie to yourself and pretend its healthy by making it low in something?

that being said, i am so tempted to launch a hate campaign against the following products:


What is th deal with this????? Its much more expensive that Coke Original and it tastes like crap. I mean, you buy a damn coke and you expect it to be healthy???

The chaps at coca-cola got it right with vanilla coke. I am one of those folks who love that stuff. You pay more for it...cos they give you damn vanilla!!!

This on the other hand....this low sugar rip off.......

I do know i have supporters out there, enlightened souls who share my views on Coke Zero. I bought a coke and took it into the labs the other day with a few friends of mine. There was this phycisist in the lift we took and the conversation went along these line:

Friend One: Bro, why not try Coke Zero....?


Me : Dude, you're talking to a full cream milk guzzling machine. Now why on earth would i feel guilty from drinking coke and try to hide that by drinking that zero stuff?

Friend One: I dunno, cos its healthier?


Me : Since when is Coke healthy? I mean, i buy the stuff to enjoy myself, why
deny myself the full package, sugar and all...for an additional 20 cents?


Physicist : *wide grin*


SEE! SEE! Physicists support me!!!!!!





Curse the dude who came up with this stuff. Come on people, milk is good as it is....why on earth do u want to reduce its fat content? Its already naturally balanced and is a healthy source of calcium. Its as criminal as this:


Bloody idiots think they can replicate mother's milk. Same case as with natural milk. Don't bloody tamper with it and make it low fat, high calcium and such. I mean, come on, it tastes better full fat and it makes a perfect cuppa.

You want to be healthy?

Stop using bloody condensed milk in your coffee or ideal milk. Instead use good old fashioned cold FULL FAT, CREAM milk! And may i add, its cheaper than the low fat stuff....and tastes much better.


Same case with these:

the utmost cardinal sin has got to be done by folk who substitute this:

with this crap:

I mean, yeah, margarine is crap. Its unhealthy for god's sake (its saturated not unsaturated lipids) and it tastes worse. I absolutely hate it when people use it in cakes instead of good old butter.

The Wrap Up


Let me get one thing straight here. Its not all about low fat and low sugar and such. Its all about control. You want to indulge yourself, go ahead with the full sugar and fat stuff. The important thing here is not to overeat the stuff.

There'e no point in purchasing low fat/low sugar/low whatever stuff on health grounds if it only means you're going to consume lots of it. Do enjoy, and go the full 9 yards, but control it.


AND FOR GOD'S SAKE DON'T SUB BUTTER FOR MARGERINE. I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU IF YOU DO.


Cheers !

matrix

I do not understand Mediocrity

I get this line a lot lately.

"All i want is a stable job and a steady income....oh, and a nice car"

Well, I may piss off a lot of people with this retort.....

"For you that is, you mediocre ******"

Mediocrity is by far( in my highest opinion ) a disease of the human race. This mentality of doing "just enough" or "cukup makan" is disgusting and should be stamped out once and for all........and so must all the monkeys in Parliament, ...but that is another story.

Please do not get me wrong here.

Having enough to get by and having enough to survive is not a crime. Quite frankly, the economy functions to allocate resources in such a way that in the end, not everyone gets into the top bracket.

No, I am not talking nor promoting elitism in any way. What i want to nail is the MENTALITY of a lot of people these days whom are just satisfied with attaining the bare minimum.

"Oh, as long as i pass university and get my degree and get a job, i've done it"

"I want a 9 to 5 job, steady pay, bonuses and a good pension plan"

May i ask these questions?

Why not just pass out of university, but FLY out with a First Class Honours Degree with an overseas attachment plus a portfolio of university projects and be head-hunted by Goldman Sachs (if you're from Business) or Norman Foster (if you're an architect) or be assigned to the latest AI hydrogen powered fighter jet project over at Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works?

And after that, why not take the experience you have gained to start up you're own rival company to Goldman Sachs and Lockheed Martin?

And after that, why not buy up the rest of the oil reserves in the world, close down all those oil reserves and promote usage of an alternative fuel/ energy source produced by a company you started 2 years ago, which will be used to power vehicles designed and mass produced by another company you started 5 years ago, vehicles not only technologically superior to the computer on the latest Evo 9, but with the price tag of a 1940s VW Beetle?

And when you're 100 and you look back on all those companies you started, you cannot help but wonder....."what if i had merged all those into the next Tata Industries?......oh never mind, will leave a memo for my latest recruit from MIT, now finishing up at Harvard to do it.

It sounds far fetching, but why not aim high? Why be satisfied with the bare minimum?

Do you honestly think the technological achievements of the past century was by people satisfied with a 9 to 5 job?

For those reading this post on your brand new PCs, obviously containing at least a 80Gb SATA hard drive, do you honestly think you could enjoy that hard drive had it not been for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance by Peter Gundberg back in 1988?

Or maybe the chaps at home relaxing and watching a boring EURO 2008 match on the telly, do you think it would be possible without the satellites up there?

Those people never wanted anything but the best and they went out for the best. 100% commitment and effort, not a half hearted attempt at life and then justify the current status of affairs with the lame line:

"Its enough and i'm happy"

The human race is doomed the day mediocracy takes over. Its the day human innovation, grit, wit, ingenuity and the thirst for a better life ALWAYS ends and so begins our extinction.

Not from our destruction of the earth, not from a form of T-Virus accidentally released by the Umbrella Corporation (watch Resident Evil for an explanation),

but from our laziness and unwillingness to push ourselves to continue to be ingenious and to always look for something better.

For me, mediocracy is not a luxury i want. I have no intentions of working at a desk from 9 to 5, running someone else's company, making a few million. Money and comfort is not an issue here. Its how far i can push myself to, what and where i could be in the next one year, in the next one decade, in the next 50 years....

IT IS ALWAYS ABOUT WHERE AND HOW FAR YOU CAN GO.

And then where else to after that.


Cheers ,

Matrix