Stop eating detergent

This is an issue that annoyes me constantly since I moved here: Not rinsing your dishes after washing them in a soapy water. I know, some people wipes them after washing (still not enough) but I know that a lot of people out there are not bothering with wiping. They leave plates on the rack to dry with washing liquid on then serve food to their family in them. Imagine the amount of detergent you eat in all of your life! In my theory, that's the one of the reasons of cancer spreading among people rapidly.

Eating out... It's another story. Since I moved here, (as an immigrant doesn't matter what is your qualification in your first country, you have to start from cleaning jobs which I also have done) I work at cafes and restaurants. Witnessing the way of washing up in the kitchens where I used to work was a real shock to me. Washing all the cups and plates in a soupy-soapy dirty water and then wiping them with a smelly tea towells!!! I used to complain to my boss and asked him if we can rinse them after washing. He wasn't bothered of course and I was the one who blamed on as a weird person with the weird requirements.

I can hear (not really), some of you say 'what about the dishwashers'. That's another subject and here is the truht: They are as dangerous as the way you do handwashing if it is not more. Dishwashers (not the domestic ones) don't rinse the plates and cups, just wash everything with a previously used hot enough water that kills organisms. The water that dishwasher uses contains bleach and harsh detergent which stays on the plates and the cups. Worst than that, tea pots and milk jugs always got a little bit bleachy-soapy water left in them because nobody bothers to dry them thinking, water is hot enough and kills the germs. So, in any restaurant (doesn't matter how luxurious it is), when you have your lovely meals, you also have a bit bleach and detergent. If you have a tea, you already have your tea pre-brewed by bleachy water in your teapots waiting for you. Milk jugs... same. Oh, I must mention the food smears that from diswasher happly sticking in your tea pots and jugs too. Bon appetit.

No, I am not paranoid. I just reduced down the amount of eating out and I always rinse my plates after washing them as I have done all of my life. I am suggesting it to you. It is easier than wiping them with smelly tea towels and you don't have to wash teatowels because you won't own them because you won't need them.

Gift Aid

Here we are. The Christmas and New Year left behind once more again. Without causing any serious family trouble, not yet... All these craziness of buying presents, worries that if somebody who you bought a present won't like it or the presents you bought are not expensive enough... left behind once more.

I have to confess, I hate it. Simply, I hate the social pressure on me that forces me to buy presents. It's not that I dislike giving, it is the force that doesn't leave me a choice to give presents to who I really like or who really deserves it or the choice of times that I can give presents at. Every Christmas time, I get depressed, because with a little budget (that I earn really hard) I try to keep everybody happy.

Yes, I receive presents in return but who wants that exchanging of presents!!! I prefer to buy whatever I want and whenever I need it. Yes, we do ask eachother for what they want as a gift to avoid the unwanted presents but where is the surprise of receiving and giving gifts if you do that? How mechanical and emotionless is this?

Now, Christmas left behind, with a new year there are birthdays waiting in their places for the right time to attack on us. It means presents, again. Presents for the peoeple that have got everything and whatever you buy won't make them happy. Not just that, what is the point of celebration of ageing anyway and, why people assume that it is something everybody celebrate happly?

I am going to send an e-mail to everybody in the family saying, from now on I don't want birthday and Christmas gifts and I won't be giving to anybody in these expected times. I will do it whenever I want. End of it.

'The Beginning'

Beginnings are usually difficult for me. But once I have done it, the rest will be as easy as a pie (I hope).

Who am I ?: An immigrant who lives in the UK for last quite a few years, enough to work out the way of life here and the differences between my original culture and the British Culture. I am going to write my opinions and ask some questions about most of things as I experience. As English is my second language, there will be possibility of some spelling and grammar mistakes in my posts that you blog readers should be aware of. This is one of the reasons for starting this blog actually, to improve my writing in English.

Anyway, as it took a long time to make a decision about to create this blog, here I am, at least.