The possibility is there: I am a murderer…
What??!!
Allow me to elucidate the above mentioned statement.
Slightly more than one year ago, Raffles Institution Boarding School (RIBS), the place where I was (and am) staying decided to change boarding food caterer in light of the end of contract with previous caterer, Revada Food & Services Pte Ltd and relentless waves of protest from boarders who demanded better food (oh how I miss those good old days).
In short, for mysterious reason (allegedly because of a ludicrously low price tag), the boarding decided to award Continental Delight Catering Service (CDCS) with a contract to supply RIBS with their purportedly healthy, hygienic and most importantly edible food for undetermined period of time.
Humanely delicious food?
That’s a tough question. In my humble opinion, the answer depends on the strength of your mental resilience and ignorance as well as the soundness of your financial condition towards sub-optimal utilization and treatment of your taste bud.
I think I have digressed too much.
In the beginning of 2005, there was CDCS in the RIBS, and for a time it was good. But CDCS’s so called food soon fells victim to degeneration and repetition. And yet, since for some enigmatic wisdom unfathomable by everyone but the boarding administration, CDCS stays for good… or bad.
It was not long before seeds of descent took root. Though somewhat hygienic and edible, the food earned no respect from the boarders, these strange and rigidly studious mammals.
Soon, the cycle of déjà vu blanketed the entire boarding. The same menu keeps appearing again and again and again and… again. Namely stingray with all the funny colored sauce you can imagine.
One of the boarders other than me: “No stingray!!! I am sick of it”
Another boarders other than me: “Let me guess the menu for today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow after : STINGRAY!!! Bleagh”
Another non-Indian boarder: “Save the stingray! Cull the cow and sheep!”
Vegetarian boarders: “Stingray?”
Me: “…” (I decided not to say the same meme anymore due to unsurprisingly high number of representatives)
In short, due to brevity of the situation, CDCS decided to remove stingray from their menu for eternity. Consequently, the new era of cheaper-than-stingray chicken drumlets (much smaller version of chicken drumstick) has begun. While the same cycle of rejection continues, due to the lack of cheaper alternative, chicken drumlets stay.
Let’s back to Steve Irwin unfortunate encounter with this peaceful creature.
Due to the intense protest by RIBS boarders followed by ‘boarding wide stingray ban’ back then in 2005, it is highly possible for the population of this species to increase faster and thus, the chance of someone to get killed by stingray, albeit the possibility may be very slight.
The stingray that killed Steve Irwin might be the one that is supposed to be in RIBS dining table back then if we were not protesting.
In short, we, I kill Steve Irwin, indirectly.
I hope I will not hear any “Crickey!” in the middle of the night.
