im quite an eater myself, i love good food and i enjoy eating with people with good eating habit.  maybe its an age factor dat im easily annoyed by my surroundings but i really cant stand somethings when it comes to table etiquette, not dat i eat perfect or i use all d right cutlery for every lil thing, but its really important dat you ensure ur manners are intact, at least when you eat with other people, including me. 

first off, putting your hands in my food.  you know how sometimes you crave for a particular thing and when you see it, you put some on your plate before you go to the counter and pay for it?  some people just craves for anything they see on other people's plate.  didnt we go to the same place to get our meal?  yes we did.  but because its a force of habit, you just have to have what other people have.  masa tapau makan, tak teringin pulak eh??  plus, i really hate it when you try to grab some of whats on my plate with your dirty hands - dats a bloody turn off!  i guess its a matter of training yourself to stay within your territory; what's yours in yours, and what's mine is mine unless IF i offer you some.  even if you dont do it to me, i cant stand you doing it to others.

ok, how about favorite food hogging when you go dutch (aka tong-tong)?  think about it, theres the 4 of you, at a restaurant, and we've ordered a couple of dishes, and you happen to like one particular dish, and you scoop it onto your plate, and keep scooping it on and on, because you like it so much, without thinking of the other 3 people you're with.  bear in mind that d rest are paying too, shouldnt everyone get a fair share of the food?  it may sound calculative, but i was brought up to take considerable amount of food because we have to think of those who havent eaten or taken yet, dats at home, but when you're sharing food with people who aren't family, especially when everyone else is paying too and have a right to their food, nobody has to tolerate your nonsense.  food sharing is supposed to be fun because you get to taste everything tapi kalau kau sorang je mentekedarah satu benda tu org lain tak dapat rasa, jangan harap lain kali org lain nk tong-tong mkn dgn kau ok? 

by now you would've realized that this is basically real life experience and you might think im being petty, but i dont care coz i wanna get it off my chest.  here's another one...insulting food.  that's really intolerable because even as children we were taught to be grateful for the food we have, sbb orang kat Somalia tu nak makan pun tak ada kan?  and there you are insulting the food for not being up to your standards.  fine, if you cant down d thing then it must be really bad tasting, just shut up and push it aside.  its bad enough you're wasting food, but dont insult it and be so bloody ungrateful, because you'll never know if someday you just wont have anything to eat. 

i guess screw-glass-and-metal chewers aren't as bad in my book as compared to the ones i've mentioned.  up bringing really means a lot and it reflects in you as an adult.  please be good examples to your surroundings because we're not Gremlins for crying out loud!~