I remember during my school days the government used to air on the television some advertisements regarding the importance of controlling your sugar consumption. They then also mentioned that the daily recommendation for sugar intake is 8 tea spoons per day. We were not suppose to exceed this quantity. I also found out that by drinking one can of Coke, it contains 8 tea spoons daily limit.

This morning I received an email with a list of items that Malaysian consume on a daily basis with the number of sugar content in them. I was shocked to know that the average Malaysia consumes at least 26 tea spoons of sugar on a daily basis. And that we were also the 8th Highest sugar user in the World. No wonder Robert Kuok, the Sugar King is so rich.

The Malaysian govenrment are currently running campaigns to reduce the comsumptions for sugar in Malaysia. You can see that many drinks now comes with “Lesser Sugar”, or “No Sugar Added”. These are sort of drinks that we should opt for. Every morning I take a bottle of green tea that is branded Pokka, not realising that there’s at least 8 teaspoons of sugar in it. I will be stopping this drink tomorrow onwards and probably opt for No Added Sugar Orange Juice by Marigold.

Anyway, I’ve got a chart at the bottom to show us Malaysians what is the sugar content of our regular everyday drinks that we consume. My grandmother once mentioned that instead of using white sugar in our coffee or tea, we should use brown sugar instead which is healthier, not so sure how true this is. I hope this knowledge will be taken seriously and that all of us reduce the intake of sugar and live a healthier life.

Sugar Consumption

I am proud of being a Malaysia for certain reasons, but what ever we are trying to do, there are still flaws, there are still negativity, there are still a bunch of group who will never be united.

1malaysia

There are talks about 1Malaysia, where all malaysia are united, no matter race, age and background. You can see so many hundreds of thousands of ringgit being spent on the advertising. On my way to office, I see a bus advertised with 1malaysia concept, even in the LRT Train stations, most billboard spots are already taken by the 1malaysia campaign. But what is so great about it? and so I decided to visit their website for some details, www.1malaysia.com.my. Is there something wrong with their website or is it just not loading on my computer, disappointed and I’ll try again later.

How ever much the govermment tries to unite all malaysians, I do still think that without giving us equality, no one is going to bother even trying. Until the race issue of fairness is settled, I believe there is no use in even trying to come up with these sort of campaigns.

I’m not being racist, but when one race is given priorities in studies, scholaships, privilages we will never unite as one. Sometimes I just dont get it. We are all originally from another country so many years ago, the Chinese, the Indian and the Malays, just because one is a majority, they get most of the benefits?

My advice is, before talking about Unity and the concept of 1Malaysia, think about equality and fairness. Once this is achieved, the rest will fall in place and we will be the most united country to exist.

Malaysia just celebrated our 52nd Independence day last 31st August 2009. And I am really proud of being a Malaysia. We have many races living in this country, many languages being spoken with, many kinds of food that we can offer. Not many other country has these sort of variety.

With that being said, I was once really interested to come up with a website that speaks about all the beautiful places and attractive scenes that one could visit. Food, hotels, airlines, places of interes, anyone can visit this website for those details. But due to time constraint, I was not able to complete the site.

Today siting at my desk in office, thinking about what the future holds. Working a multitask job, nearly sitting here 12 hours a day, reaching home and only hitting the bed about 2am, getting up again at 6am, earning peanuts, keeps me thinking whether I’m at the correct path.

Viewing the website drafted last year, www.myvirtualmalaysia.com, far from complete but somehow wakes me up again and seems that this could be an opportunity to get out of this “rat race”.

Now to put on my thinking hats, work on gathering a good team of people and I should be in the path to success.