clearing out the fridge

"do they eat your food in the fridge?"

staying with friends and housemates, i'm always being asked this question by friends who are staying on their own or with their family. what they don't understand is, when you're staying with people who are non-family, you don't simply take things from the fridge that aren't yours. i can totally understand their little "concern" about this, though. when i go home to bear hill, i just take whatever i like from the fridge without stopping to ask whose is it. i mean, it's my family's things in there, and being part of the family, of course i'm entitled to it too! hehe...

anyway, with my impending move out of my current abode end of this month, i took advantage of the weekend to clear out the fridge. a task i thought to be rather difficult, considering the fridge is always packed to the max that sometimes it's hard to even find space for a can of coke, it turned out to be quite a breeze! reason being, most of the food stuff in there were past their expiry dates, so all we did was dump them into the bin! "expiry, 2007. throw! expired, throw! best before 2009. throw!"

not only did we not take other people's food, we even forgot to take our own food! seems like our hobby is to buy food, stuff them into the fridge and then proceed to forget all about them! we even found stuff belonging to ex-housemate M, who moved out more than a year ago! whole bars of unopened chocolates, a large pack of unopened hersheys' kisses chocs, jars of jam still 3/4 full, a whole compartment full of wet wipes taken from restaurants, another whole compartment full of McD chili sauce packets, a container of white rice from don't know when, bottles of carbonated drinks, dried up fruits, vege with some alien-looking things sprouting from them, etc... no wonder the fridge is full all the time. stuff only goes in, but none ever comes out! :D

me: hey, all these 100 plus are only 1/3 bottle left. do you still want them?

P: eh? i thought they're yours?

me: no, i've never bought 100 plus lar. i thought they're yours!

P: no ler, not mine!

see, we still fight over food, but not over who ate who's food... rather, it's more like who those food belonged to!

from this fridge cleanup exercise this past weekend, we've come to a conclusion: we'll never get to eat any chocolates in our next life, due to all the negative karma we've created from wasting and throwing away good (and expensive!) chocolates! :(