How to live poor in Singapore 10
eat like not before
Quick, toss frozen peas, corn kernels, and tiny carrot cubes into rice cooker, slippery sauce pan, breakable microwave pots, stir fried or boiled.
Fresh tasting meats are thawed from frozen straight into cooking, for that authentic flavour not destroyed by excessive over-processed traditional sauces.
Let humble tofu, basic mushrooms, and common sprouts soak and bulk up the flavours of leftover packets of chillies and sauces. When in doubt, add acids like lime juice, and spicy powders.
And don't bother with brown and red and black rice, country-style multi-grain wholemeal bread loves, and extra virgin olive oil and unknowns like flaxseed. Feed off the sty of white rice and white bread and white vermicelli and vegetable oil donated as rations for the poor. Yum.
Make sure you eat so full, that you won't touch caviar and abalone and wagyu angus, especially if they're piled heap high before you. Then you can somehow disdain for exquisite cuisine, because your appetite is not bottomless.
I’m sorry that you can’t get better quality food. It really doesn’t make sense as your health would be so much better overall if you could get away from relying on so much carbohydrates, and therefore it stands to reason that your country (and mine) would be spending less for health care and everyone would benefit. In the US, there is an underlying belief that everyone should be able to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” and overcome any obstacles, regardless of initial poverty or generational trauma, in if one fails to do so, it must be a moral failing and a sign of weakness. I call bullshit on that one. The biggest problem I see in my society is the wealth gap. Perhaps never before in my country’s history has their been more of a concentration of wealth amongst so few people. Here in the US, the ultra-wealthy have, through political lobbying, failed to represent the common people, but in fact are shills for special interests. Moreover, they have managed to obfuscate the real issues and have pitted people against each other through their political maneuverings. Right now, one of our former Presidents is facing 91 felony charges regarding his attempts to overthrow a previous election, but his followers have devolved into a cult of personality, failing to see that he has always been a liar and a grifter, and no doubt despises the very people he is currently begging money from to pay for his legal defense. It makes me sick, how deluded his followers are. Some of them are members of my own family, who I won’t even talk to now because they’ve been just too brainwashed. I don’t know about the social and political situation in Singapore, but I’ve been lead to believe that it is a wealthy, educated country, and if people are suffering, then I have to assume that a lot of the money is being overly concentrated into the hands of the few, as it is here.
So keep up the good fight, my friend. It is all you can do! Al least you will be remembered as being on the right side of History.