Strange world, no?

It has been a while, and I must utilise my time-tested excuse of heavy schoolwork, as my reason for not posting. This Chinese new year break is the only time I had for a long time to gather my thoughts and focus my attention onto something other than school.(No idea whatsoever, of course.)

Anyway, Chinese new year is a time where you can observe who is the leader in the beverage industry. You know, with all the people you have to meet everyday, and all of them holding a drink; you can tell roughly what's popular and what's not by what are snatched up and what are left untouched. From my unscientific observation, pokka green tea is leading the pack. I would say well ahead of cola and F&N. That's no question, I like it too.

An interesting and unexpected discovery I made from this study is that most of the major players in the drinks industry, make their orange and lemon drinks totally from syrup. Yes, not a drop of real juice. It's all artificial favors, all of them! Now, I know that you won't find this shocking nor interesting, and neither do I.

But! Consider this. I have right now, siting on my kitchen sink, a bottle of dish washer, that claims that it's made out of REAL lemon juice! Why, oh why, do we use real juice to make dishwashers and uses artificial favours for our drinks?

And to drive the point further, in my showers, there is a shower gel (brand name is a name of a bird) which states that it contains no less that 1/4 hydrating milk! I guess the world is divided between people with not enough food and people who showers with 1/4 hydrating milk.

Scotts has a funny blog on North Korea vs capitalism.

So we figure it’s better to send them money in return for – and this is the genius part – North Korea NOT doing something.
We’re pretty smug about our capitalism, where we exchange actual goods and services for money. But I think you’d have to agree that the North Korean system of agreeing to NOT produce any goods and services, in return for massive amounts of money, is a better way to go.

Remember Alice in wonderland? Where down is up and up is down?