Um....

<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/29/walmat.spring.break.ap/index.html"> College student lives in Wal-Mart for 41 hours</a>

Um..... Okay. Why would someone ever want to do something like that is just beyond me. I mean, I considered "Supersize Me" a stupid movie. Do you really need to eat McDonald's for a straight month to proof your point? Isn't there better ways to proof it? If people can't understand empirical data about fat and calories. Well, sucks to be them. Perhaps they should just weight themselves and try to recall where they have dined in the last month. Regardless, at least there was a <em>point</em> to the movie, albeit a stupid point.

But this? And his associate professor of English thought it was a good idea? I swear, the mentality of an artistic, right-brained individual will forever elude me. Okay, perhaps he could do it just to say he has done it. For experience points for his future writing career. (Frankly, Fear Factor seems a better option.) But a movie deal and a book contract??

What is going to be <em>IN</em> this said book and movie? A 22-year old college kid wondered around Wal-Mart, watching DVDs on display and reading magazines in the magazine section... And I want to spend 2 hours watching this because? What is the point and the substance of this movie?

And, by the way, it has already been done. Funnier even, in "My Name is Earl." I don't even like the show, but the part where they thought it was the end of the world and they decided to live in Wal-Mart was funny. Maybe that's where the 22-year old got the idea to begin with? O.O

 

Kevin's Site in the Hot Zone

Was mindlessly browsing at work (yeah, busy day) and came across the Child Bride article on the Kevin's Site in the Hot Zone. It is a very powerful and disturbing article at the same time, so I thought I'd put the link here.

Because I don't ever see myself abandoning the comfort life in a modern city and becoming a solo travelling journalist, there are a lot of admiration for what he does. Travelling with a backpack of portable digital technology to shoot, write, edit, and transmit multimedia reports will, for me, always be a wild fantasy that'd never come true.

All of Kevin's cool gear can be find here.

The World's Best Blooming Onion Cutter?

So yesterday all of a sudden the image of a blooming onion enter into my head (see attached picture) and I, therefore, decided that I absolutely have to make one that very night, in my own house.

 

I proceeded to looking up recipes online (what can't you find online nowadays, huh?). Hubby came home from work and saw the floating onion that I soaked in ice water to get it to "bloom" and exclaimed, "do you know how to make it?" Oh man of little faith.

The experience, to my own surprise, though not successful, turned out to be much better than I had anticipated. :D So I decided that all I need is a better onion cutter to perfect my onion making skill. I went online and found this:

 

Wow! Isn't that the mother of all onion cutters or what? :D

And you too can have this state of the art onion cutter for the low, low price of $489 at amazon.com sold by kegworks.com.