Online Orders ♥

I think my online shopping has officially gone out of control, after months of encountering strangers inquiring where I purchased my Zigi flats. I have decided to share my other similar purchases, they're a nice twist from the typical "ballerina flats".

Its terrible how I use my 4hours lectures, but it keeps me awake. Im so excited for spring!...for now here are a few of my new fav: Spring Nudes♥

Downfall of Urbanization

Waaa!

I FINALLY figured it out.

Back in 2007, my family and I took a 2.5month vacation to Asia. It was my first time stepping foot onto Asia-Pacfic soil. Among the many places we visited, Thailand left a particular lingering taste in the back of my head, enough for me to go back for a second taste this past summer.

Picture of the floating marketing back in 2007

River side local children jumping with joy waving at the tourists floating by

Mangos are one of my all-time favourite fruit and when I stopped over in Bangkok's world famous Floating Market....I HAD to try some. I can remember it as if it was yesterday, floating around in a canoe...sliding between boats of tourists and local natives. Each canoe offered different items for sale, mostly fresh fruits and cooked food. After turning down over a dozen of Thai-speaking ---of what I assumed to be salesmen insisting me to buy, I finally gave in to this little old lady, with one hand holding a knife peeling a basket of fruits and the other hand swotting flies away from her goods.

She handed me a plate of the-most -saturated-yellow-pigmented mango flesh, she freshly chopped up (With her mango-cutting-fly-swotting-hands). At that point, it was too late to say no. After I paid, my sister insisted me to not eat it, somehow wipe it down, or wash it before eating it. But from looking around, the only source of water is the mucky brown river water in which the boats and canoes floated in.

The little lady who sold me the BEST mango I've ever had

So I took my chances, and bit into till-this-very-day the BEST mango I have EVER eaten in my LIFE! Wow, it was so good I went back and bought 2nd's and when I left I even tried to go back to buy some to take home. It was by far the best mango I have tasted in my life. I've always wonder, why was it so good? Why cant I get that great tasting mango in Canada? even buying premium mangos, thai-mangos, or sweet ripe mangoes they cannot compare. What was missing?

As I am franticly studying for my kinesiology final exam, I found my answer. In Nestle's What to Eat (One of the most interesting and educating school material I've read), He talks about the "Price of Fresh" addressing sustainability of fruits and vegetables. One of the sections he talks about the question of taste, how clueless we are until we experience the real flavours. Fruits and vegetables travels thousands and thousands of miles just to get to our local supermarkets. The miles travelled consumes time; days and sometimes weeks, reducing its freshness as each second goes by. Truth is we don't know what the fruit really taste like in Canada, when we buy mangos, or any other import fruits, they have already lost their "fresh-ness" from the week it took it to get from Thailand to Safeway. The mango I ate was the real taste of a fresh ripe mango. Picked from the tree, peeled, and eaten by me all in the same day, it was heaven. Who would of ever guessed, I was scammed my whole life on what real fresh mango tasted like. lol.

Who has this?

Over the week end, I procrastinated from my 3 reports by reading random blogs. Somehow it ended up reading about "THE best blowdryer" After watching a few youtube product reviews, it has me tempted...but I can't really justify a $180 blowdryer? I mean.....can it make THAT big of a difference? Flat Iron experts is currently having a promotion until Saturday for free shipping + 3 free gifts. I will have to decide before then.

Does anyone own the Velecta Blowdryer ? Or have friends who has tried it? What do you think?
I cant make up my mind. Help me : (

The "Golden Arches" takes over the World...

At the beginnging of this semester, I was in need of an elective course out side of the Business faculty. I was left with a Kinesiology course on Food and Society. Who would of guessed that it would be such a interesting course? It has really got me thinking...about food. Not just eating food but especially how we, as human beings allow our family, our children to be exposed and trapping into the multimillion dollar marketing campaign of fast food corporations.

For one of our midterm prep-material, we were required to read the NewYork Time's Best seller Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. Being a part of the first generation who was fully exposed to the multimillion dollar fast food advertising targeted solely at adolescences, all I can say is that it's disgusting. Educating myself on the fast food industry's practices on luring children in from a very young age, brain washing them to live, breathe, and eat their products makes me questions: have they gone too far?

One of my marketing TA's wrote an article on McDonald's Marketing strategy. Its pretty interesting check it out, McDonald's: Lovin' It To Death