Ice cream cake flowers

How to make potted ice cream cake flowers. It looks pretty!

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How stores get you to buy

From Straits Times today,

The magic number ‘9’
Studies show that we perceive a product priced at $19.99 to be much cheaper than one priced at $20, according to Iris Hung, consumer behaviour expert at the National University of Singapore. To save time and memory space, our brains are naturally programmed to round-up numbers based on the first two digits.

Conditional discount
The more you buy the more money you save! For example, buy three and get one free; or get 20 per cent off if you spend over $200. “This works most effectively with people who are very price-sensitive”, says Iris. “It gives people the reason to buy, to justify their buying behaviour.”

Time-constrained discount
If you don’t buy it right now, the price will go up! Retailers who use this tactic hope to provoke panic and urgency in the consumer and hopefully a hasty purchase! If an offer ends tomorrow, you might imagine losing it, and this fear is what drives you to buy it immediately.

Escalator detour
Some escalators in malls are so far apart that you have to walk the whole level before you can progress upwards. This gives you the chance to take in the bargains the stores have to offer.

Magic mirrors
You know your legs aren’t long enough for those hot pants, yet you bought them because you looked positively willowy in the fitting room mirror! Truth: if a mirror is placed up against a wall on a slant – this always makes your legs look longer than they are.

The never-ending closing down sale
A closing-down sale plays on consumer instincts to catch those last-minute bargains before they are gone forever – this strategy works on our fear of missing out and appeals to our sense of urgency.

Thinking of You - Katy Perry

I kinda like this song. It's really sad but touching.



Comparisons are easily done
Once you've had a taste of perfection
Like an apple hanging from a tree
I picked the ripest one
I still got the seed

You said move on
Where do I go
I guess second best
Is all I will know

Cause when I'm with him
I am thinking of you
Thinking of you
What you would do if
You were the one
Who was spending the night
Oh I wish that I
Was looking into your eyes

You're like an Indian summer
In the middle of winter
Like a hard candy
With a surprise center
How do I get better
Once I've had the best
You said there's
Tons of fish in the water
So the waters I will test

He kissed my lips
I taste your mouth
He pulled me in
I was disgusted with myself

Cause when I'm with him
I am thinking of you
Thinking of you
What you would do if
You were the one
Who was spending the night
Oh I wish that I
Was looking into...

You're the best
And yes I do regret
How I could let myself
Let you go
Now the lesson's learned
I touched it I was burned
Oh I think you should know

Cause when I'm with him
I am thinking of you
Thinking of you
What you would do if
You were the one
Who was spending the night
Oh I wish that I
Was looking into your eyes
Looking into your eyes
Looking into your eyes
Oh won't you walk through
And bust in the door
And take me away
Oh no more mistakes
Cause in your eyes I'd like to stay...
stay....

A Yacht

When I consistently earn $10,000 a month, I'll probably go buy a yacht. I'll call it "The League".

Women want 5Cs but men want 5Ms

Had a very silly thought today. Long long ago we always heard what every woman wants in a men, the 5Cs: Cash, car, condo, credit card and country club membership. Interestingly (or Boh liao) I thought of what men wants in 5Ms: Money, Millionaire, Mansion, Mercedes and MISTRESS.