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Monday, May 30, 2011

A bullet or carrots.

I wanted to make a cake, a carrot cheesecake as someone suggested, so I went to buy the ingredients. As I was in the vegetable section searching for the main ingredient, carrots, I remembered that Europe currently cautions the people of E.coli infection in vegetables, particularly those from Spain. One death is reported, as far as I know.
12 deaths until now.

So when I was about to pick up the carrots, I read their origin on the plastics bags they were in and to my dismay, they were from Spain. I mopped around and aha! there was another stack of carrots. They were not from Spain. I rejoiced for a few seconds, before I reread. The carrots were from Israel.

Some dramatic line crossed my head. "Aku rela mati makan keret spain dari makan keret israel."
Then my mind went normal and I thought, I don't really need those carrots. I don't need to expose myself to unnecessary danger, just to support the Palestinian. I don't need the carrot cake.

So I went home.


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p.s
1. Just now I noticed a hair product L'oreal, made in Israel. Hmm, who bought that? tak perasan kot waktu beli.
2. I know carrot is lobak merah in Bahasa.
3. I think the moral is we don't need to be dramatic. Kah?

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