Dumb Charity People

Recently one of my friends came to me and asked me to help starving children in third world countries by chipping in a few bucks to raise a fund. The title of this fund is Hungry for Hope and what i especially find disturbing about is what's written in the donation leaflet itself. Besides from the usual self introduction like what all other charity funds would do, they also stated their intention to make their peak event this year even bigger as i have highlighted using a highlighter that i could instantly dig out out of one of my female coursemate's stationery bags (its really convenient that gals have all kinds of stiff in their stationary bags ranging from markers, highlighters, cutting tools, rulers, pens and pencils these days in contrast to guys whose pencil cases [note the use of pencil instead of stationery in this case] which you would be lucky of you could even find a highlighter in it) and highlighted the phrase which i find amusing. It reads "To mark this milestone, the famine will be bigger than ever before -5000 participants- combining Chinese and English in one exciting camp!"

Here is a picture that i took to prove it to you readers that those idiots actually said that:


Before I start telling you why this shit is worrying let me quote the definition of famine. In my dictionary that i have here, they defined famine (noun) as "a state where there is an extreme scarcity of food. A shortage or archaic hunger". So when my friend handed me this donation leaflet and asked me to support the charity fund, I donated RM 3 (hey what the heck if its for the starving people rite?) but after i gave her the money, I got curious about the whole thing so i read through the leaflet and what I saw made me burst out in laughter. I really dont know whether its about the wrong usage of the word famine or the other "implied meanings" that that sentence held. But whatever the reason, I told her that i actually donated RM 3 to make more people starve.

Of cause she defended her actions by telling me that people that reach the target RM 100 would be able to join the "famine camp" *LOL!! on a first come first served basis and only a "LIMITED" number of "privileged people" (5000) could join it. She says its good for her as she was planing to lose some weight anyways. In this "Famine Camp", people will get to gather at a place and not be served food but only water for 30 hours!! WTF!!! My other friend quickly rebutted that statement by telling her a medical fact that shook her decision. When you starve especially for 30 hours, your body goes in to starvation mode. Once in starvation mode, whatever proteins or carbohydrates that you eat while you are still in this mode will ALL BE TURNED IN TO FAT AND STORED IN YOUR BODY. This means, the big delicious and hearty meal that you are bound to eat after the "Famine Camp" will top up the glycogen stock in your liver and the rest of it ALL goes under your skin. So much losing weight huh?

What in the world are those people thinking? What does that line actually imply? It can actually be interpreted as the "charity foundation" shall use the money and make more starving people or it could also be interpreted as this charity are actually going to round up 5000 "fortunate" Chinese and English nationals and starve them to the point where they experience famine & cannibalize each other in an exciting game of survival of the fittest. *LOL the language used here is kind of disturbing la... Can somebody please tell the person who designed that leaflet to go back to school? Marketing is one thing, this leaflet is exaggerating. If you really wanna help starving kids i think there are other more productive ways besides starving yourself and making yourself wanna eat the person beside you. Why don't you use this day, WORK HARD, EARN about 50 BUCKS and support a child in South Africa for a whole month!!! Your RM 50 will proide a child with basic necessities for a whole month man!!! Think about it!! Wouldn't that be the better way? Wouldn't that help you lose more weight than starving the shit out of your self and in the end put on more weight and then whining bout the flabbier arms that you just gained?

*Sighs people these days help crazy charity funds because they are radical and crazy instead of helping them because they really do their business. The whole famine camp must be a marketing ploy to get more people to join. My praise goes out to the person who thought up this bright idea but at the same time, i wished he or she would think about the consequences i.e. giving gastric to people who bought this "Famine Camp" shit. Wah 3am ade better go to sleep ade lu~

P.S. I am glad that i am blogging again!!