They weren't you

I am a tomato sauce lover. If I stopped by a Macdonalds or any western food stall for that matter, i would ask for extra tomato sauce and usually I am very very picky about which sauce i like to have cause not all sauces taste the same you know. Different restaurants provide different tomato sauces as well which is quite a bummer.

If you were to go and visit a cheap Ramly burger stall by the roadside, they would obviously not give you the best tomato sauce in the world (aka Heinze) but they use a cheaper "Malaysian-made" (and diluted as well) variant. However if you were to visit a more upmarket place such as Macdonalds, they would provide you with their own version of tomato sauce, which is quite good i might add, and if you were to climb higher up the ladder, you would find that TGI Fridays, Tony Romas and Chillies, which are higher up in the food chain, leave one whole bottle of Heinze Tomato Sauce on your table for you to use as you please :D , much to the delight of myself and my brother.

Now some of you might be wondering, its just tomato sauce, whats such a big deal? I mean as long as there is that kind of flavour right?

No! Every good thing is set apart from bad things by quality. Meaning, every good tomato sauce is different from bad tomato sauce in terms of flavour. If you choose to buy Heinze, it definitely will taste much more different compared to a cheap Malaysian-made diluted tomato sauce. Same goes for pretty much any consumer good that you buy. Adidas shoes would be much more comfortable compared to some made in china shoes. A 10K piano would sound much better compared to a second hand 1k piano.

But in order for something to be considered "superior" to the other, or otherwise "special", it has to stand out. In the sense, that no other brand is like it, no other brand taste like it, no other brand smells like it. There is no way that another company comes up with the same formula as "Coca-cola" without tasting different, nor will anyone come up with a 2nd KFC. Why? Because it was wonderfully and specially made. I am not kidding. It started with a recipe, and after much improvement, it became set apart.

I remember one time, I "tapau-ed" a Mcvalue Meal ( BIG MAC :D) and the lady forgot to pass me a bunch of tomato sauce i requested. So on the way home when i checked and nibbled at my fries, i realised the mistake, but i thought i had some tomato sauce lying around somewhere in the house. But when i reached home, to my horror, i was unable to find any. Not even a small packet or even a bottle of it. What would fries be without tomato sauce right? So i went berserk for awhile, and my dad suggested i use chilli sauce instead. Chilli sauce with fries ain't as good as tomato sauce with fries. So i said no thanks. I mean both are still sauces. But there is one that stands out more than the other in terms of flavour.

So onto a short story.....

Rama is a nice boy, he has all the makings to be a good husband, a good father, excels in his studies and in whatever he does. One day, he met this girl, who instantly stole his heart away. Just a glance, and he knew that she was the one. So he decided, he wanted to get to know her abit more. They started talking, getting to know one another, even started arguing about their favourite artiste but making up in the end. Eventually, things got closer, and it moved really fast. Rama was sure, she was the one he was going to spend his life with.

Love is a funny thing, it seems to last forever, but ends early. Rama never knew what had happened between them. It seemed as though he had made a mistake and did something to hurt the only girl he ever had feelings for, or maybe she found something better. To add insult to injury, it got harder to see her everyday. So later on, he decided it was time to move on, and that life would sort itself out. He started being more courages and outgoing. Meeting new people and making new friends. Even more girl-friends now.

Sometimes, he would chat with them through the late nights, and just think about them through the morning. After awhile, he realised that something wasn't right. It was fun getting to know them, and share secrets and have fun together. However, it just didn't feel complete.

This bugged him for awhile. He finally came to the conclusion that, none of the girls he could talk to would ever make him feel as special as this particular girl did. But why?????

Later on, this girl came back, not seeing or talking to each other for over a year, and now stuck together in the same place. Both having seen their own share of friends. They said to each other, "It never worked out with anyone else, cause they weren't you".

There was just something special about both of them to each other. Both were like a high quality recipe, which the taste could not be replicated by any other person on this planet. The contents of it are a secret, but the taste can be tasted. There is something special in each one of us, something that others lack or in food terms "can't taste like". And sometimes, to love, there is a small unique taste to both partners that make both realize that there isn't anyone else on earth who tastes like that.