Met Candle and Yenn to watch Supersize me just last night, and Candle was regaling me with tales of shopping in Thailand. Argh... I can't wait... That wholesale market she visited is especially tempting...

Of course, something else compounding the problem is that I may potentially be out of work around oct/nov/dec, when the exams end, and I don't know if the parents want me to tutor their kids in dec, in prep for sec. sch/O levels/N levels. Now I'm considering all kinds of wayward options to earn money during that time, including:

-Selling T-shirts again, coming up with new designs, and using the old stock from the last venture.
-Setting up some kind of holiday class in my house, like creative writing.
-Starving during those 3 months, and concentrating on other creative ventures, like writing or drawing
-Going to Thailand around mid-end Nov, find some funky stuff, buy back in bulk and sell to people in Dec. :p Anyone needs cheap Xmas presents to give to other people? Hahaha...
-Do everything on my list. What have I got to lose?

So which do you guys think is a more viable option?

Incidentally, after doing some research on the Net, I think I'll be able to go to Thailand for about SGD600, which includes airfare, and accomo for 3N in Chiangmai, and 3N in Bangkok, though I'm thinking of 4N Chiangmai and 2N Bangkok instead. I'll probably aim for mid-end Nov, because of above plans, and I've decided that party should consist of no more than 4 people. Anymore, and decision-making goes haywire.

And I hope to make day trips into Cambodia or Laos too. Apparently it can be arranged from Thailand. Hm...

Ok, need money. Fast. Hard. Any old ladies with gold jewellery around my estate? *Peeps out the window*

SuperSize Me

Watch this show.... and never eat fast food again.

By now most of you know the story of Morgan Spurlock. Spurred on by the lawsuit against Mc's by 2 obese girls, who claimed that Ronald McD was responsible for their obese condition, he went on a 30 day McDiet, eating nothing but Mc's meals, 3X a day, and supersized if they asked him if he wanted it.

And by God, the supersized McMeal? Will probably feed 4 of us. The fries are gigantic and the amount of Coke is about half a gallon. In fact, on the 3rd day of his diet, he threw up the supersized meal in the carpark, because it was so damn much food.

Yes, he's probably insane. There's only so far you can go in the name of artistic license, and in this case, it would have probably shot his liver to pieces, ruined his sex life, and made him gain over 10 kg in a month. ( which he actually did )

And it's good. In fact, I met Candle before the movie, and we ate at BK. I jokingly told her that this would probably be the last time we ate fast food after watching the movie. And in fact, during the movie I suddenly had strong cravings for broccoli. Because Spurlock looks so gross while he's eating Mc's that you just don't feel like eating anymore. Bleah. Thank goodness we didn't even buy popcorn in.

But in the end, the movie is just one side of the Blame Game. Mc's puts the onus on parents to teach their kids. He says Mc's doesn't provide information for parents to teach their kids. The govt is under too much pressure from the food companies to provide healthier food in school canteens. The corporations say they're just doing business.

Yeargh. Please. Everyone knows that fast food is bad for you. If you refuse to believe that, buy chicken from KFC and squeeze the oil out onto the paper. There's no blotter paper absorbent enough to absorb all that oil. Lookit all the mayo BK and Mc's puts on its fish burgers. Check out all the salt on the fries. [Jul has this habit of asking for extra salt from BK and sprinkling it on his fries. Eek. Like they're not doused enough already]

The thing making it worse is that most Americans don't exercise much anymore. Take the average day of an office worker. You wake up, walk to the MRT, go to your office, and you sit there for the whole day, till lunch, and then you sit somemore, till you go home, and sleep. There's not much exercise time in there. Experts say we should have at least 30 mins of exercise a day to keep fit, but face it, who has that time?

Gods. Our office and fast food culture is making us all fat and unhealthy. And who says progress is good for us?