Forget those fancy, sweet-smelling perfumes sold at The Body Shop and The Bay; the all-new Macbook Pro perfume is the hottest new scent. Gavin Bell, Jarrah de Kuijer, and Simon McGlinn teamed up with Air Aroma to create a new perfume that smells like a brand new, just-opened Macbook. Professional perfume makers studied the unique scent…
I don’t know how many of you guys have seen this video, but since there hasn’t been a post on YAA for this yet, I figured that I would take the plunge. A new “musical” duo, dubbed Double Take, wrote the song lyrics in two hours and produced it via Old Bailey Productions, who say…
During the lovely, carefree days of spring break, MJ and I again got together to bring you this review of the Big Cheese Poutinerie. Location This cute store is located a short, two minute walk westwards down 17th avenue from Western Canada High School. Really close to school (almost directly across from Starbucks), and really…
I still remember my first time buying a puffed wheat square from the school vending machine. What looked like a delicious, chocolaty cereal square was in reality a tasteless, over-sweet mush.
Recently, I read an article called the Oil Cleansing Method (which will now be abbreviated as OCM). I don’t exactly remember how I came across it, but just know that I am kind of a “make-everything-myself” person and the idea of becoming as independent as possible really appeals to me. Anyway, after I read this…
After last week’s failure to investigate Crepes & Cravings, MJ and I finally managed to pay this little store a much-deserved visit. Before I start, I would like to apologize for the lack of pictures – we got a little caught up with eating and talking and then we forgot… but we will definitely remember…
Being Chinese in heritage, it was only natural that I watch the the annual CCTV New Year’s Gala with my family come Chinese New Year. In a nutshell, the New Year’s Gala is a ginormous compilation of Chinese art, dance, acrobatics, song, and comedy (with the occasional foreign act – this year there was a…
So the other day, MJ (another blogger) asked me if I would do a baking tutorial on making brownies. And since Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, I figured that brownies are somewhat appropriate for the occasion. You see, in my humble opinion, brownies are the single most sinful and enticing desserts ever created.…
If you, like me, have a love for good stories being read aloud to you in the form of an audiobook, the worst thing is not knowing where you left off and having to physically look through the hours of and hours of tracks the next day. Fortunately, this problem can be easily solved by…
I know that the name of fantasy has been somewhat defaced by the emergence of books such as Twilight (I apologize if I’m offending anyone with this statement) and various other dark “romance” books whose only selling point is that they take advantage of the teenage girl’s tendency to be attracted to supernaturally sexy/bad boy personalities.…
I’m not lying when I say that buying denim from Levi’s really changed my entire perspective towards jean-shopping. Their jeggings are amazing. I’m not even kidding. When I tried on a pair when shopping during winter break and it was like heaven opened up and God himself proclaimed: “thou shalt buy these.” The fabric was nice and thick and…
Well, it’s that time of the year again. And no, I’m not talking about Christmas.
December is the month when some teachers realize that they have spent too much time telling personal stories during
class time instead of teaching.
Are you sick of the songs on your iPod? Do you want to expand your musical horizons but don’t know where to start? Or, are you a stressed out high school kid like me who can’t focus on the social essay for more than 10 minutes at a time when you know that it’s due…
So the other day I was googling “human body wonders” (don’t ask why) and came upon an article entitled “18 Tricks to Teach Your Body.” After reading it, I decided that it was one of the coolest things that I had ever read and that it needed to be shared with everyone. So, in this…
Born in East London, England, Daniel Tammet was the oldest of nine children in his family. Growing up, Tammet had always been a little different. Instead of playing with the other kids on the playground, he would observe the numbers on the hopscotch squares and marvel at the patterns made by the spiraling leaves on trees. Then, at…