Alan Heah

2026 Jun week 3

toxic carb no-buy

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Alan Heah
Jun 17, 2026
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2026 May 22 Fri 19:19. Bishan, Singapore.

Jun 15 to 21

1 - The processed carb infestation totally invades our contemporary consumption timeline of food and drink, like a maggot pandemic whose beginning is forgotten. Sugared fruit juices to luxury cakes and desserts. Savoury noodles and other heaps of grains like flavourful fried rice.

All sorts of grain paste flours, from buns to kueh to bao to prata to kway teow to ravioli. The canary in the mine is the recalcitrant diabetic whose blood sugar spikes wildly from flour syrups and sweet starchy gravies, from dried fruits to sweetener yoghurts.

You drown in the squirmy worms of heaps of solid and liquid feed clamouring to be spent on and craved for everywhere. Enjoy your consumption addictions, as the straggling little ones crawl away, all over and into you.

2 - I don’t just need to spend on you. You have to sell me what I really need. And if you fail to convince me, after my careful thoughts, then you lose profits.

I’m not just cheap, of course I go for best value. And certainly not at the highest prices! You give bulk discounts, present combo offers, make timed deals, so I just pick and choose. But at some level in return, you pay me a certain standard price at least for my goods and services.

And that is how money should eternally flow in trade and trust.

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