The Pilot: If I Change Nothing Today, Nothing Will Ever Change

Hey every one! This is my second blog and I pretty much stopped updating my personal blog a year ago for some weird reasons. Something happened to me unexpectedly and to sum it up (for your own good), let's just say that I had an awakening. Needless to say, I am not new to blogging but
I am certainly new to embracing my new-found self. A vegetarian.

Hello old friends, you read that right! I used the V word!
My closest friends who know me really well know how I hate labeling,
Labeling myself, especially. And I have avoided the word vegetarian
for the longest time coz I have always thought of them to be uptight. Haha! Sorry.

It was funny coz I have been involved in a punk scene for quite sometime now, and you would think that you pretty much have an overview of what's wrong with the world and society, but no. I wish I could explain in details what happened to me last year but for your sanity, I'd rather not. Haha.

I am a meat eater my whole life and the universe knows how I love them. But this awakening had me thinking that I have to respect life and Earth. Not just that. It propelled me to use what I am good and then help other people understand what I had awakened from.

I was already exposed to PETA, vegetarian ethics, lifestyle, diet, etc., more than a decade ago. Even it was a very radical thing for me then, I tried it for 6 months.
I lost a lot of weight and decided to eat meat again.
Actually that's not the reason why I decided to eat meat again. When you're out drinking beer and there's a really good looking crispy pata that is untouched, you eat it, alright?
There, I said it.

That is pretty much my relationship with my meat over the years.
(Even just a few months ago).
Love and hate.

And then life happened fast. Chaos. Pregnancy. PTA meetings. Bands. Tattoos. Internet.
After years of being married to a vegetarian, I acquired a surprising knowledge in cooking meatless meals. And now that we have ended, I am grateful that I can use what I have learned to feed me and some people who are open and willing to change for their sake and the planet's sake.

And so last July 2013, I had this project. It's called...you guessed it, Veggie Takeout Army. It is my small way of introducing meatless meals to my community that mostly never heard of veggie meat or at least an appropriate definition of a vegetarian. To most Filipinos, fish is considered part of a vegetarian diet. You know what they say: Knowing is half the battle.

Why is this blog going to be different? I am not sure. But I will give everything I got to make this work so I can help a regular Filipino eat better.

I have read a lot of vegan/vegetarian blogs and yeah they are more than helpful. But most of their posts are not relateable to most Filipinos. We don't have kale here. We don't have freaking portabellos, tempeh, or even fresh basil, corriander or broccoli whenever we want. Most Filipinos can't afford broccoli, and that's a fact!

Enough talking. I will finish this up so I can think about my next post. Tata!