Eating and Living!

I heard a speaker this morning using a phrase I used many years ago and even printed on the back of one of many self-designed name cards. I have not been using it for quite a while and when I heard that phrase being quoted again, it was kind of memory refreshing! What is the phrase?

"Eat to Live; Live to Eat" is a simple phrase that simply reflects our attitude in life. Basically, all of us know that we eat to live. Eating is one of the things we do to keep us alive besides breathing and drinking, I mean drinking water!. We eat because we want to live.

On the other hand, there are people who actually live to eat. They would probably be one of those who own a Food Directory that lists all the best eating places recommended and frequented by some of the celebreties or featured in some of the local papers, magazines or TV programmes.

Years back, a cabby related to me a story of a man from Clementi, who would just take a cab in the middle of the night all the way to Bedok North to eat just a bowl of Ba Cho (Minced Pork) Noodles and then return to Clementi. This person might hold a membership in the "Live to Eat" Club. I am not too sure what makes him so "crazy"!

Yet, it comes as no surprise as Singapore is deemed to be a Food Paradise with so many foods many of which are pretty "sinful" in nature. Many Singaporeans eat as if there is no tomorrow! Such people are always feared by the Life Underwriters of insurance companies!