A picture of topless female

Have you ever heard the word ‘Slutbucks’? Ok, some of you might have, but some may know nothing about it. For you who have no idea about the word, here is the chronicle.

‘Slutbuck’ is a combination of the words ‘slut’ and ‘bucks’. The sound pretty much resemble the blend of ‘star’ and ‘bucks’ which together combined you will have ‘Starbucks’; that famous coffee shop. And ‘slutbuck’ is indeed derived from Starbucks.

In the occasion of its 35 years of business, Starbucks, in 2006, put temporarily their old-original logo back on the paper hot drink cups. The original logo is quite different to that nowadays green circle surrounding a mermaid, which is actually not a mermaid but a Siren from Greek mythology. The vintage emblem is brown in color and the Siren is fully visible all the way including her breast and navel. Her twin-tails are splitting to her right and left. And for the reason of that logo, ‘slutbuck’ started to show up.

In 2006, a principal of elementary school in Kent, Washington asked teachers to cover up the retro logo of Starbucks if they bring the cups to work. Though at first I think this principal took this matter a bit too hard, but in some points I got the idea. If I were in the age of primary students sitting in the class while Mr. Johnson, my teacher, is bringing coffee with a picture of naked mermaid (once again, it’s actually a Siren) on his coffee cup and he put it on the table where everyone in the class can stare at it, and the mermaid is so naked that her (sorry, no intention to be vulgar) nipples are obviously exposed. Well some how I think that’s too intimidating for students in that age. In that sense, I can put myself in one side with that principal.

And so Starbucks released the modified version of its old time logo. In April 2008 Starbucks covered the nipples with hair. But still some people in San Diego on behalf of one religion (I will not mention any religion in my blog) criticize, even call for boycott. They regard that logo as a “naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitute” and the word ‘slutbucks’ came up for the company of brewed coffee.

For that reason, I think they take it beyond my understanding. I mean, it’s only fish-tails; they don’t look similar to legs, right?! But the word ‘slutbucks’ and the way they depict the Siren as a prostitute is quite funny, at least for me it does.

There is something about this ice cream

One of the famous ice cream is Häagen-Dazs. It has 52 flavors which are permanent, one extra, 15 limited edition flavors, and six flavors are out of the market. Of all those flavors, I think Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough is the tastiest one. Let me give the emphasis “I think” because I never tasted this ice cream before, just the name of this flavor make me want to hold a full cone of it (poor me).

If you read the brand, Häagen-Dazs, you might think that some long days ago Europeans made this ice cream, named it appropriately to their respective language and spread their business to America and all over the world. At first I read the trade name, I think of Switzerland is the base of this dense super-premium ice cream. If it is not Swiss, then it’s got to be any of those Scandinavian countries; Norway, Denmark, and sort kind of countries.

But I was wrong; this ice cream is made in the USA. The name Häagen-Dazs is not even exists in any European countries. It was Reuben and Rose Mattus who started the business in Bronx, New York and put the name to make a marketing strategy of foreign branding. In their first early product, they also included a map of Denmark on the carton to make it looks like a European one. But, why Denmark? Because Denmark is the only one who saved the Jewish in the World War II, and that’s why Reuben decided like that. To make it even more interesting, Scandinavian will find a hard time to get this ice cream because no Häagen-Dazs stores founded there.

Moreover about the name, since the words Häagen-Dazs are fake Scandinavian, but there are some words in Europe which are similar. Häagen is comparable to Hagen; Danish/Norwegian/German surname, German first name, and German town name. And Dazs is analogous to Darázs in Hungarian which means wasp.

Enough to be said in here. I’m goin’ to pack my things and grab myself a big waffle cone of ice cream at the nearest Häagen-Dazs store right now. Oooppsss, it’s still working hour, I can’t leave the Lab now. Oh well….

It begins

I am a student living abroad to get my degree after finishing one in my home country. I live with my wife in a house located in half floor; not considered as a basement but not a first-floor also, some houses are like that in here.

Basically I’m just another guy who struggles in Lab just to get a molecule of phosphazene substituted with methoxy poly(ethylene glycol) with molecular weight 350 and glycine benzyl ester for delivering anti-cancer drug paclitaxel; complicated words they are and the work goes the same too.

This blog is dedicated to my spare time sitting in front of computer waiting for that clock reaches 6 pm so I can get my free dinner with average menu and I can go home to play guitar while my wife laughing on it. So if you find yourself got nothing to do, confused of which websites to go, or just waiting that download bar to complete, just click the link on my messenger’s status and you will be redirected to this blog of mine. Hope you find this blog a lil’ bit useful to kill a minute of your time, or else you can just open youtube.

Regards,

Suhaeri

Honestly, I don’t like toilet paper

We Indonesians are using soap, water, and, of course, our lovely skilled left hand after we go to the water closet. Meanwhile, some people in Europe, America, and some Asia are applying toilet paper to wipe their bottom part of their body. I wonder which is better of these basic techniques that people should have.

For the sake of efficiency, toilet papers seem better. For example, if you go to a shopping mall and you suddenly feel some thing is not right with your stomach that you just can’t hold the struggling time taken for the journey to your house or wherever you live, public rest room and some plies of toilet papers would be a blessing. Toilet papers avoid you from getting wet all over in the lower part of your anatomy(at least that happens to me). While using soap and water is the right choice if you want to wash your feet as well.

But as a scientist-wanna-be, I just can’t ignore the fate of those bacteria spoiled our anuses in the process of releasing the waste of our meals. I don’t think that toilet papers would assassinate them. Unless the toilet papers are armed with disinfectant, but I never found them in any public rest rooms. But by using soap and water accompanied with the hand skill passed on from each generation to the next, most of those bacteria will vanish.

Besides of that, I just don’t feel comfort using toilet papers. The friction happened between papers and the soft skin in the anus was making an irritating feeling. And for me, the practice of toilet paper technique is very awkward. But things just have to be like that in here, hardly i find a water closet which provides water to clean up. So, as a way to tackle this problem I always armed myself with a glass of water and soap if I find nature call is too hard to resist.

And I think people in here know it best how to master toilet paper technique. From the time i took in that toilet cubic I know how fast they deal with this cleaning issues. Drop the the waste, wipe some, push the flush, and out they are from the cubic. Seriously, they are very fast for this matter.

In the end, a glass of water is pretty helpful for people like me who never experience the education of mastering the toilet paper. And for those who experience a comfortable process of this method, just make sure you don’t forget to make a thorough clean up in the shower.

History of a signature

You know this logo, right?!

Yes that is the emblem used for Converse’s sneakers. On the shoes it is attached on Converse All-Stars series, the most successful selling basketball shoes in history. You can find this badge only on that shoes, while in other products published by Converse would have not this kind of logo.

That star-in-circle emblem is so common for people from many generations dated back from 50’s, even before that period. In that emblem you can find a typical signature of Chuck Taylor. But some of you might wonder, who is Chuck? And here the story goes.

Chuck Taylor was a former high school basketball player who started using Converse shoes in 1918. Then on 1921 he went to Converse Shoes sales office in Chicago to get a job, and he got himself a career as a salesman.

Within a year in Taylor’s profession he contributed ideas regarding the shoes, fabricating the shoes differently for greater flexibility and support, and providing a patch to protect the ankle. And by 1923 Converse added Chuck Taylor’s signature on the All-Star patch and the shoes became Chuck Taylor All-Stars.

He was not only a salesman; he was the “Ambassador of Basketball”. He started his 35-year journey across America to introduce and teach the game. In 1935 he invented the modern day basketball, the first “stitchless” leather basketball to improve the sport through a more true bounce. And for his lifelong devotion in advancing the sport, in 1968 his name earned a spot in Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.

So, if you see the Converse All-Stars shoes, just remember there is a signature of a great man lies on the logo. Chuck Taylor is an evangelist who started as a high school basketball player, a salesman of Chuck Taylor All-Stars shoes, and a contributor to the history of Basketball.