ENDLESS JOURNEY: Famine 30

Famine 30 - Hunger No More! 你我童行，饥饿不再！

Yes, after so many years of THINKING and HOPING to join this world wide event/activity, I finally did. This event is held from 4th-5th of August at Taylor's Lakeside Campus by World Vision.

Just in case you don't know what is Famine 30. Famine 30 is a worldwide event/activity where people join and not eating in anything for 30 hours. We are only allow to drink water, plain water. We don't do this for FUN. It's a charity event. The main purpose is to help the poor, malnutrition kids especially.To join this activity, we need to gather rm80 from people (outsider) as a donation to the poor kids and families from the poor country like, Indonesia, Cambodia, Ethiopia and so on. The money we gathered is to get them food and a better life of course! Also, we can adopt kids from the poor country. Fyi, there are 925million of people starving outside there! It is not a small number. Check it out more from World Vision website.

If you think not eating for 30 hours is nothing. You are wrong. 30 hours without food and only survive with water is SUFFERING. Plus, we are doing it for only 30 hours, from the activity I got to know that the kids tend to starve for 3 months when the country is having disaster like lack of food resources. 3 months, THREE FREAKING MONTHS. Just imagine it...3 months with no enough food. Ohmygod isn't? :(

Since I just came back from Famine 30, I can tell you how it feels like living without food for 30 hours. The last four hours when we went Stadium Melawati for countdown was DISASTER. I felt so damn freaking weak. I can't think. I can't open my eyes. I just sleep in the stadium ignoring half f the performances on stage. For the first time, I felt dizzy and I can't stand still. The last 2 hours I know I cannot take it anymore, the tiredness is eating me up. So I asked for sweets from friends. I am lucky enough, Kai Yen brought some sweets along. So, for the first time in life, GINGER SWEET tasted like heaven. I never like ginger sweet, I tried before and I think I gave it to my mom. GINGER SWEET TASTED LIKE HEAVEN. I ate two of them! Yes, I was that weak and I need that so much! Then, half an hour before the 30 hours ends, camp leader gave each of us a Massimo bread (Corn flavor) and Vsoy! Before the they countdown for 10 seconds, I already opened up my bread and start to smell it since I cannot eat first. I smell it with Phaik Yan and shared with my friends. Pathetic much? We were that hungry, I was that hungry! Perhaps not hungry, I don't feel any gruu-gruu-gruu in my stomach, I just feel like eating! Another first time in life, CORN bread tasted like heaven too. I never like corn flavored bread, I swear. I hate it. I hate the smell, I hate the very strong and fake corn smell but not this time, not this time. It tasted like I have reached heaven. My goodness, so damn gooooooood. Even my friends said, this is the best-est bread I have ever ate!

Now I know how it feels like for not eating for 30 hours. I am lucky. Perhaps too lucky till I tend to forget how to appreciate things I have around me. Time to wake up.

Famine 30 is indeed a wake up call for everyone. There are really very very very poor people outside there. They got nothing to eat. The kids have no enough nutrition to live healthily. The parents cannot afford to bring the kids to school. They have to cook and eat mud cookies. They don't have a proper shelter. These are all the scenes we saw on TV and might be thinking they are all fake, just trying to touch people's heart. I thought of that too but not now, not anymore. There are such people in this world, at a corner that we all forgot about them. One of the lady from Ethiopia said, 'Don't forget about us".

"I am not gonna join this next year!" - this is what I said after the activity. I really ought to think thrice before I join next year. Haha! It's not easy okay. There are people took part in this activity for 15 years STRAIGHT. *Salute*