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Nutrient Water vs Vitamin Water

October 19, 2008 at 2:13 pm · Filed under Random posts ·Tagged ,

Well, actually this post is in part due to a question raised by someone else on my blog rolls. She is an undergrad and was looking at drinks other than coffee/tea though as I am updating this blog now, it was actually a blog entry talking about caffeinated drinks.

Though many advice was given including the lite and original Red Bull, she thinks its much better to stick with latte and tea for now. Which I agree. If you can avoid these drinks, even better!

I have relied on Redbull in the past, during my assignment submission periods a few years back. But not any more. Simply because as you grow older, relying on drinks like that can kill whatever beauty you still have. Or for some people who insist they’re ugly, it will make you uglier….( s_malfoy, you’re bloody evil!! muahahahhaha!!!!) Just kidding…. I don’t think anyone is ugly. And if you can’t see someone beyond their exterior then I don’t think you’re worthy enough for anyone’s attentions.

So being the curious person that I am, I suggested or rather asked if she had drank vitamin water. Since I have been dying to know if it actually works. And she hadn’t. Curiousity killed the cat, didn’t it? I decided to try tasting one as encouraged by my newfound blogger friend and also the weird chemical engineer friend who works with capers. I say weird because she actually recommended eating capers for tea. PLUS She supplements H20 with Vitamin water, Weird right? But that is only because she was delivered a relatively huge bucket of capers and I don’t find the supplementing part weird but I would prefer diet coke as an alternative instead. Anyhow I did taste the Water. But its a variant, Nutrient Water instead of Vitamin Water. It tasted of sugar and very very very diluted juice. I didn’t like it as a drink and would have preferred drinking COCA COLA. I then went on to post a comment on this friend’s site stating that I hated the drink and would never encourage it to people.

Vitamin water vs Nutrient Water
Vitamin water vs Nutrient Water

Picture taken from http://www.messandnoise.com/discussions/3035492, I donot own any creative license on the photo.

The funny thing is, today I researched on the actual products. Apparently the drink I bought belongs to a small company which could have originated from Aus as they have a website that ends with an au.

Visit www.nutrientwater.com.au for more details.

I tried the orange valencia flavor by the way. So the pic doesn’t really do justice to the actual drink drank. Its apparently for Immunity. And from the nutrients section, the drinks for immunity doesn’t look like it contains caffeine. So while it doesn’t really have juice in it and tastes more of sugar as there is fructose in it, it isn’t that bad a drink. I then changed my opinion of the drink and think it would be a great drink for people studying long hours or writing reports or just people who would staying up for events and things as such. Its not a regular drink but it could be a drink for people who just need some flavour to their water.

On the other hand, Nutrient and Vitamin waters for Energy apparently contains caffeine. And if you had some time, go google it and you’ll find articles and websites on these drinks. Like the one I took my pic from. Vitamin water is owned by The Coca Cola Company and is a relatively new-er drink. Nutrient water has been around since the late 1990s. I haven’t drank it so I can’t comment on how it tastes but I shall one of these days when I am utterly bored.

The post now has been updated.

XOXO, s_malfoy

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Who died and made you God?

October 18, 2008 at 6:35 pm · Filed under Random posts ·Tagged , ,

Now you’re interested with my post right?

hah!

Okay okay, no one died and no one has been made God. Well, God is there just…you know what I mean.

The latest question asked on the blog I visit is: WHO IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON/PEOPLE to you after God. Again, the question is paraphrased.

I said myself.

My post got rejected. I don’t think it was delibrately rejected, I sent it on the day the website was having traffic problems and I guess it didn’t turn up.

But for a moment there I did think the moderator rejected my post since I gave a rather selfish comment.

I am my most important person after God ofcourse since I do believe in one. I have realised alot of people put their bfs and gfs, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers as their most important people. While it is true they are very important, no one put themselves.

When I say that, I don’t mean it in a selfish way but in a very simplistic most logical way. If you don’t find yourself important, if you don’t look after yourself what happens? You end up being sick. If you are sick, then can you support all those people you list as your most important? I doubt it.

Facebook is getting very very interesting. Why? Because I met a person with the exact middle and last name as myself. Cool huh? Maybe our Dads exchanged Baby names when we were born. But I am 5yrs younger than this person so erm, I doubt that happened. But the funny story is both our Dads were responsible for naming us this way. Mine was actually more numerological while hers isn’t.

#UPDATED: The most important person in my life would be Amma for orchestrating everything. I’ve been a fool to see that.

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UPDATE of sorts #1

October 18, 2008 at 6:01 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

I just got news that a friend of mine is getting married and I feel weird. I am happy for her but OMG!! what the hell is happening with my non-inexistence love life? I am going to die a stalemate like Jane Austen. But even she loved once.  I have my exponential numbers of crushes and 0 love interest, I am going to die a stalemate without having loved.

If I have not panicked before, I am now.

Er….No, I AM NOT. I will save it for when I am actually dying a stalemate.

I guess with these things it happens when it happens. You might find someone now whom you think would be Mr Right only to find out 25 yrs later he is Mr Wrong. So you might as well take your time in finding someone. I’m guessing she’s found her Mr Right and  I hope she has a happy married life. She would make a good wife and a Mother because she was always very caring and since she was the eldest in our batch of friends in sec school, she was alittle bossy in a Motherly fashion.

(She’s not pregnant by the way, I am talking about the future!!!!)

So it starts…..ONE BY ONE THEY GET MARRIED.

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When the past haunts you

October 17, 2008 at 12:25 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged , , ,

You know life isn’t always peachy and I hope everyone knows that. I still have unpeachy moments as you can probably tell from my previous enteries.

There is always problems associated with 1) school, 2) friends, 3) work and even 4) religion. And the reason why my blog sounds depressing sometimes is because if every single time I only wrote posts relating to happy news then it would mean my life is smooth which is not, my life is beautiful which is not as well and it would also mean I have no challenges in life which erm is so not true.

Having no challenges in life would be great but then where would your motivation to succeed come from?

This post is about my fears. My fear of not being able to move on. I have literally moved on from honours in every physical aspect possible. I am in a new course, a new supervisor, a new coordinator and everything should be thrilling and happy for me. Except its not quite all the time. Mostly yes, I am happier, I am less trouble free, I have things to look forward to but ITS NOT PERFECT, its far from it.

One of my biggest obstacles I have to face is my fear of my Supervisor. Trust me, my new one is far from the old one. She’s very nice, very patient and she would forgo her lunch for you if you have a question. This is good right? But I am actually scared.

Why, let me tell you.

My old supervisor was someone I was utterly terrified of. Because she had this thing about alignments, grammars, presentation and what not. She won’t look at your work and give you feedback if  the presentation itself was bad. For example, she may not look at your drafts if there is a) no references, b) no 1.5 spacing between each line, c) no appoinment in the first place to look at it. That was how she worked and while it was utterly horrible for a person’s mental health, I learnt the hard way from her about these things. Work presentation is important though obviously the content is far more important and I am slightly grateful to her. NOTE: SLIGHTLY. If I was eternally grateful to her, I must be in some alternate universe.

When it came to me to showing my new Sup my drafts, a) I thought I needed to book an appointment, b) I spent three hours working on the alignments of my figures and tables and references and c) I referenced every single journal I had manually instead of using endnote. And to make matters worse, I thought I was going to be yelled at for not doing a good job, for not knowing things and I couldn’t sleep the day before I handed in my drafts.

ER……not only did my Sup check my report in ten minutes that very day, but she skimmed through my entire work and gave general criticisms and comments instead of shouting them or yelling them out. She made suggestions on writing alittle more instead of the downsizing comments I used to hear from my previous Sup and she was basically quite contented with my work. And my colleague handed her rather longer report wihout references and wasn’t yelled at.

AND I WAS HAPPY FOR 10 mins until I started taking her suggestions very very seriously and started working my butts off, this is because from previous experience any good feedback is usually shortlived. She suggested I should search on something and I seriously took 3 days to look for it with very little sleep since I thought if I didn’t find it, I am dead. And when I couldn’t find it, I cursed and sweared until I found my miracle, an alternative. And when I returned to tell my new Sup I couldn’t find what she told me to look for, she said that it was okay, we could just say those things didn’t exist, I wanted to scream for joy because I wasn’t stupid, am not going to be yelled at and was praised for finding an alternative.

SEE HOW PYSCHOLOGICALLY AFFECETD I AM BY MY HONOURS EXPERIENCE?

I thought I would be classified stupid for not finding something. I must be nuts man!

I am still this way, I stiil think this contentment (NOTE, I AM CONTENT NOT HAPPY) could be shortlived but I am aware I am alittle too worried about the situation. I also realised that I am stupid for thinking I am stupid. But that’s how affected I am by the bloody previous experience.

Life is peachy? YOUR HEAD LA! I am not crazy right? Since I am aware that I am abit worried?

#UPDATED

PS: A PEACHY UPDATE WILL BE UP ASAP. Probably the next one.

PPS: HAPPY WEEKEND TO ALL WHILE MINE GETS BURNT BY MY DATELINES AND TEST.

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Update #1

October 16, 2008 at 8:55 am · Filed under Uncategorized

Okay, I am alittle too busy with 1 assignment, 2 lit reviews and a test coming up next week, if I survive all of them, I will be relived.

HOW IN THE WORLD DID I GET MYSELF SO BUSY?

I have no idea, I am only supposed to be attending one lecture but my project for the summer has now become super duper interesting as I write the lit reviews for them.

I have already exceeded over 33% of the word limit for each one of the reports and before I started writing, bare in mind I was complaining paper wasn’t scientific enough. Apparently I am bloody wrong! If this invention/creation succeeds, you might be eating paper stucked with drugs…

Imagine, you’re writing on a piece or paper or rather scribbling, drawing etc and you suddenly get hungry? And you don’t find food on the library table, what do you do? You need to walk out to the vending machine, put in money and select a packet of chips to eat.  BUT YOU’RE LAZY!!

WHAT DO YOU DO?

EAT PAPER!!!

Plus right, it would made of proteins, and they might even stick medicinal drugs like vitamins to it!!! SO HEALTHY!!

Okie people hope everyone is well. I haven’t heard from my friend, or ex-friend…But erm, if she/he is reading it, please just email me or something.

And if I am free, I shall post up the question for this week on ammachi’s site.

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