Dory Fish

There was once when I received an email from a friend, complete with pictures and descriptions about rearing the dory fish in Vietnam. The pictures and the details of how the people there rear dory fish are gross. Talking about injecting the fish with urine, feeding them with food which is not food, feeding them also with their own kind (comparing the mad cow disease where cows were being fed dead cows). In the email was also the pictures of where the fish was stored before they are being processed for sale.

It has been a concern for me before as my mom likes to buy dory fish due to its price and boneless features. No need to take out the bones or scales. Just defrost and cook them. Easy to prepare and tastes good. I asked mom not to buy Dory Fish anymore just for safety precaution. We are not really sure about how true it is the emails sent or the articles and blogs written about the production of the fish but somehow, it's not work a risk to take.

Until recently, there was a need for me to cook for one or two dinners and in need of protein, I decided to go to Ta Kiong, The Spring to get some fish for dinner. In nick of time, I rushed to the section selling meats and fish and finally put into my shopping basket a packet of frozen Dory Fish despite the reports that I have read about the fish. I was thinking, those are probably wrong reports else Ta Kiong won't be selling fish which is dangerous to health.

However, the more I thought of it, the more uneasy I became. I started again to surf the web for more information about the fish but not much information can I get about the safety of the fish except a few more blogs telling the same story about the danger of Dory Fish.

Thus, I decided to write an email to the staff at Ta Kiong who is in charge of the Frozen Food Section:

It has been a few days since I have sent Miss Andrea an email and she has yet to reply it yet. Yesterday (27th April 2009) I decided to send another short one expressing how grateful I would to have her prompt reply. So far, no replies from them yet. I start to wonder if they are hiding something or probably the internet is down and Miss Andrea does not receive my email.

What should I do next? Is Dory Fish really safe for consumption?

My Very First Post

I love to read as much as I love to write. Reading gives me the opportunities to learn a lot of things which I do not have the opportunity to learn while writing gives me all the chances to publish and share my thoughts to the whole world. Although I am a marketeer, I enjoy writing more to talking to people. I adore the capability to think, write and edit my thoughts, I love the thought of people reading through my articles, the fruit of my grey cells, arousing their minds, controlling their emotions. Call me a selfish person but where else can I pour out my thoughts freely and what other easier ways to do that if not here, my very own blog which I can access anytime, anywhere... (even with an Iphone at a place with a wifi connection, as if I have one)




It's not for fun that I name this blog '5haring'. Not that I have 5 'haring(s)' or whatever it is but because this blog is meant for me to share my thoughts to the world and the display name 'sharing' has been taken by some idiot (please click here to see who this idiot is) and all he/she ever did was to post this to the blog about 8 years ago:

"Wednesday, December 05, 2001

Posted 2:36 PM by D This is a first attempt at doing this blogg thing"

Naming his/her blog 'online collaboration' I couldn't catch the idea of his/her collaboration at all. What a waste. However, that punk might have started another blog filled with great collaborations, probably better than Einstein's.

Starting from today, this will be the place where I will write and publish all my thoughts, my complaints, my lamentations as well as my joy and little wisdoms (which I hope is big enough to inspire like the late Mr Norman Vincent Peale) who is one of my favorite authors.

However, as much the love of me to share my thoughts here, I'd love to listen also to the thoughts of you who are out there. What's the use of lengthy posts which beautiful idioms without any readers but the author himself. Thus, for those of you who would love to share your thoughts with the world with the hope of giving the opportunities for people to learn from your ups and downs, whatever your experiences are, I'd be looking forward to receiving emails from you and I will publish your thoughts here if appropriate. So please email to me all your joys, ups and great stories as well as grievances, sadness and complains to me as soon as you can.

Thank you for reading. Whether you like what I write here or not, do not hesitate to leave a comment or two here. Till then...