Friday Frontiers

1) Only the Best Comeback To That Popular Kids’ Phrase, “It’s Not Fair”.

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2) Oh, to go forth, where you thought no person had been….. Until you find a Mc Donald’s there. Don’t know why I thought of that. With Rockstar’s learning unit about transport, we were following up on how you need good infrastructure – you can’t carry building materials, food, medicine without roads. At some point people need to eat…. When some big chain store comes in is when you know it’s a town 😀

And then there is the Mc Donald’s Happy Meal. Cheap little plastic toy people queue up for, resell on Ebay… Like, why? Some collectors’ stuff are basically junk to everyone else, but Willing Buyer Very Happy Seller Demand And Supply Curve Confluence = An Actual Market For This Stuff.

Again, WHY?

The answer is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. A real one. Cos you figure out turning junk to treasure (think of the markup!) and you’re golden. It’s in the arches.

And baby hedgehogs who become internet celebrities after losing a tooth.

Dis is Norman

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3) Harvard Student Invents Makeup Printer. Oh, to go forth, – oh wait I said that already. There we go: “The makeup industry… charges a huge premium on something that tech provides for free.” 

Thinking Outside A Box Looks Like A Box

Demo, interview and I Cant Believe She Pulled That Off all in link above. Just totally inspiring little girls who want to prettify themselves like the Disney Princesses, everywhere. (They can invent printers!)

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4) Another beautiful, inspiring one. (Wow there’s loadsa these this week!) Artist turns trash into homes for the homeless, in Homeless Homes Project.

Before.

After.

Also inspiring for Rockstar’s school’s Green Week – today’s Trashion Fashion day, all the kids are on Dress Casual day in green, blue or brown, or something made of recycled stuff – on school run I passed two little girls wearing really nice rosette brooches (as in can sell for money nice) and headbands with top hats. I couldn’t think of much because it’s been hectic and my inlaws and Kings’ siblings will be here tomorrow to celebrate my mother-in-law for Mother’s Day, so I just salvaged one of Rockstar’s recycled bottle submarines-with-propellor from a science club activity, and took two mins to cut up another plastic bottle to tape to it as an arm/ hand band…

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5) Dangerdust are two anonymous students who create chalk drawings. I mean, really, really nice drawings.

The quote is even better

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6) On the back of that quote, Mothership’s 5 Reasons Why I Left Singapore To Move To Korea On My Own. It’s not what you think.

It’s this.

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7) This week The Rockstars’ skit is titled How You Bring The Magic Into Your Ko-ko’s Comfort Zone.

Rockstar: Nuh-uh. No way. I’m on a Personal Space Issues Day. (Note the Miss’ pout)

Miss: Come on guys, a little help getting him down please?

“Fine I’ll wait until he’s asleep. …But darn, then so am I.” (Caveat: they can both kick REAL HARD)

“Success! QED!”

Happy Mother’s Day Weekend, dears.