My room smells of mandarin orange. Bad habit really, of eating in my room. Come to think of it, I do EVERYthing in my room. eat/sleep/read/watch videos/etcetc. There's always the pantry outside but never liked to spend much time there. I like doing more than one thing at a time. So if I can eat and watch drama at the same time, why not?
Mandarin oranges - we have ample supply almost throughout the year here, though not too sure bout the summer months. Winter's when it seems to be season. Going grocery shopping here is about the only thing to do, esp at night. Basically everything else is closed and whats left is only Safeway and Coles (2 major supermarket chains).
Last week I had an interesting question put to me. We were at a restaurant. My friend asked "eh whats brocollini?". As I was explaining on about that, and some other things on the menu esp vege, I was quite bemused to note she didn't really know most of the fresh produce available here. And she's been here much longer than me. er it doesn't prove anything cept I prowl the supermarket aisles more often than her.
I don't really know where the vegetables and fruits I purchase come from. One flow of globalization - origin of goods are obscured. We don't know (most of the time unless its specifically labelled "produce of...") and the question is - do we want to know? does it matter to consumers? Many ppl "think" with their wallets not their heads. A uni-mate mentioned his mother checks the labels and tries best to purchase Australian made goods. But he disagrees with such practices and argues that it promotes inefficiency. Resources used to produce these goods at higher costs should go towards more efficient production of other products.
Whats an alternative view on that? An issue arises - just because we buy from where its cheapest, what happens to Australian industries when they compete against economies with far lower wages / different labour conditions / non-existent environmental controls / non-compliance with human rights etc etc. There'll be no industries.
Something to think about..
On other things.. tmrw PwC's coming to campus. Fellow blogger Jean from Tidbits apparently is going. hehe so I'll see her in a coupla hours. After that will have to go Clayton for another Desiyah meeting over the business plan. Time not determined, location not determined. I only have a vague idea of the expected meeting time. Not so good for planning, as I have so many other things to do besides that. There's a presentation for IB due Thursday morning. Plus all the catching up for ALL the units.
time oh time i need more of YOU!
up next - not sleep, but more on Vernon's theory (for presentation). Don't think I'll get to sleep anytime today :(
Mandarin oranges - we have ample supply almost throughout the year here, though not too sure bout the summer months. Winter's when it seems to be season. Going grocery shopping here is about the only thing to do, esp at night. Basically everything else is closed and whats left is only Safeway and Coles (2 major supermarket chains).
Last week I had an interesting question put to me. We were at a restaurant. My friend asked "eh whats brocollini?". As I was explaining on about that, and some other things on the menu esp vege, I was quite bemused to note she didn't really know most of the fresh produce available here. And she's been here much longer than me. er it doesn't prove anything cept I prowl the supermarket aisles more often than her.
I don't really know where the vegetables and fruits I purchase come from. One flow of globalization - origin of goods are obscured. We don't know (most of the time unless its specifically labelled "produce of...") and the question is - do we want to know? does it matter to consumers? Many ppl "think" with their wallets not their heads. A uni-mate mentioned his mother checks the labels and tries best to purchase Australian made goods. But he disagrees with such practices and argues that it promotes inefficiency. Resources used to produce these goods at higher costs should go towards more efficient production of other products.
Whats an alternative view on that? An issue arises - just because we buy from where its cheapest, what happens to Australian industries when they compete against economies with far lower wages / different labour conditions / non-existent environmental controls / non-compliance with human rights etc etc. There'll be no industries.
Something to think about..
On other things.. tmrw PwC's coming to campus. Fellow blogger Jean from Tidbits apparently is going. hehe so I'll see her in a coupla hours. After that will have to go Clayton for another Desiyah meeting over the business plan. Time not determined, location not determined. I only have a vague idea of the expected meeting time. Not so good for planning, as I have so many other things to do besides that. There's a presentation for IB due Thursday morning. Plus all the catching up for ALL the units.
time oh time i need more of YOU!
up next - not sleep, but more on Vernon's theory (for presentation). Don't think I'll get to sleep anytime today :(
posted by xaverri at 4:00 am
2 Comments:
hi Diana, i studied in Melbourne too :)
theres more to the issue of fresh produce - transported produce causes more environmental damage depending on the air-miles it travels. in addition, there was an article on bbc news a couple of days ago that said that produce that travels via land transport actually causes more harm i.e. land-miles are more damaging to the environment.
As such, I agree with you, and your friend's mum that we should strive to buy local - not just goods produced from our own nation. Some fresh points u have, too. I disagree though with your protectionist idea of that Australian industries would be competing unfairly against against economies with far lower wages / different labour conditions.
I believe that the fittest should survive, and that high costs are due to poor efficiencies. My personal view is that Australia lacks vibrancy beacause of its socialist leanings, which imposes high costs due to high social welfare, thus encouraging high inertia(laziness) and high inefficiency. So, ignoring human rights and the environmental aspect, if Australian industries can't compete, they should be left to die - which should be the case if we had a perfect market.
hahah... just my 2 sen worth
Interesting news on the environmental impact article..
actually I still "think" with my wallet not my head, most things I buy here are produced all over the world. Paying extra just for the sake of it being locally produced isn't so agreeable to me at the moment (as what I mentioned earlier - promotes inefficiencies).
An interesting discussion was when my uni-mate mentioned "could it be a generation way of thinking?". Many in class agreed their mothers behaved that way, but they did not.
Perfect market without any sort of intervention? nah don't think it'll happen anytime soon =)
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