You mix those three ingredients together thoroughly, letting the chia fully be soaked into the milk and the sweetener to dissolve and give the pudding the flavor you desire.
First you add the chia seeds, then milk, lastly the sweetener and refrigerate for 2 hours or overnight.
If you would like you can top it with fruits, granola, coconut, honey, jam or anything.
I personally have this pudding as a dessert or when I need a very quick breakfast. I usually add date syrup, blueberries, and crushed almonds to add a sweetness and enhance the flavor.
I have has this pudding countless amounts of time in a little over two months and truly is the best pudding ever. This inspiration came from Erewhon’s chia pudding but not as many ingredients and certain flavors. After a few times of making it, I noticed it was made before.
This pudding is no Erewhon, but it is seriously delicious.
A fair society is a society where basic freedoms are protected, genuinely fair equality of opportunity is secured, and, beyond that, the economic structure prioritises the needs of the most disadvantaged.
The ten things that are normalised in this society which makes it worse are…
Having to be busy, lack of sleep, turn things into business, constantly connected to phone, working half to death, caring about celebrities, wasting food, smart phone at young age, paying extreme amounts on health care, the customer is always right.
Six ways we can fix….
Making it illegal for political parties to receive donations
Making it illegal for the media to report on what’s happening without impartiality
Provide state funding for partis, a law where if not a lot of people vote there shouldn’t be an election
Make corporation pay their taxes where they earn the money
Remove the tax burden from anyone not paid the minimum wage.
The more we notice how our society works, the social classes and what they do to contribute to the world (example:celebrities talking about certain issues), and we communicate with one another in this world… The more we will take it in and notice the faults and fix them, as well as noticing the good things and improving them.
I really hope I worded this in the right manner, and you learned a thing or two. I only wrote this because I noticed a downer/more negative society than usually.
I accidentally grabbed this book, but boy was it an amazing read. Its only 125 pages and it truly changes your perspective in thinking. It took me about 2-3 days to read it fully, but if you are dedicated more onto this book it might even take you one.
There are 11 categories, those categories are..
1) Big picture thinking
2) Engaged and focused thinking
3) Harness creative thinking
4) Employ realistic thinking
5) Utilize strategic thinking
6) Explore possibility thinking
7) Learn from reflective thinking
8) Question popular thinking
9) Benefit from shared thinking
10) Practice unselfish thinking
11) Rely on bottom line thinking
John C. Maxwell emphasized that…
Everything you do will begin with thought, What we think determines who we are, and who we are determines what we do (an example is if we think negative we become negative and we wont achieve as much). Our thoughts determine our destiny, and our destiny determines our legacy. People who get to the top think different than others. And the idea that we can’t change the way we think.
After a month of reading this book, I noticed I have been taking more time to think about more abstract, creative, and deeper thoughts, than I would usually. I would also take time to think about different categories and subjects that I never thought were interesting.
I definitely recommend you to go to your nearest library or even book store to get this book.
How Successful People Think by John C. Maxwell is available to check out from the Mission Viejo Library. It is also available to download for free from Libby.
2024 is already an abnormal year for marketing and consuming, why is that?
March 12, 2024 marks 4 years since the pandemic and approximately 3 years since quarantine was cut. Since we were all held in our houses, unable to live properly, and make enough money to get us what we want and enough to get us our basic needs, we now see a burst of spending because of us being trapped.
Why do we consume what we consume though? Because us as humans, we have put ourselves in specific groups (or to specific people) and are comparing ourselves with others in that group that we see ourselves in, so we would consume what they have and become them, weather we have the money or wealth for it or not.
That is an example of competitive consumption, which is the idea that we spend because we are comparing ourselves with peers that are spending, like celebrities, higher hierarchy, etc. In our society, we have structured things on social esteem which is connected to what we can consume. Which that in of itself means that we consume affects our social value… money measures worth and value, weather we like it or not that’s how people are viewed.
Humans aren’t driven by advertisements as well. Not in all scenarios though, some advertisements do hook people and get them to consume things they don’t actually need. Rather that people are just driven to things that compel them and make them more valuable by the people in the group they see themselves apart of, an example is if your whole family and some friends got a specific item, you are more in likely to purchase that item..
Us humans are also drown to cheaper stuff, which is what technology has began to market in the 1920. Another example are sales, we are drown to things listed as “–% off” or even that propaganda term “up too –% off”.
Consumerism has too do with hierarchy, and its burst right now is because we were unable to get products that make us feel/look valuable or be seen as the group you compare yourself to.
My English teacher suggested this book to me on Wednesday (Feb 28) and, in just four days I finished it. This book is over 400 pages but was such an easy read.
I’m not going to summarize the book, because there is no way too without spoiling it, but it’s basically a book about a school shooting and a deeper dive into the each person in that situation, including the shooter, and the legal issues behind it all.
The book has an insane twist at the end. You will be hooked at the start of the book and will want to read it all the way through, and possibly skip some parts to get to the “juicy” parts, but you should read every detail there possibly is.
In my opinion, this has got to be the best, most attention grabbing book I have read. It brings light to many things and aspects and uses specific moments and people to capture the reader. It also brings up the past to show a more in depth and explaining certain situations and who the characters are to one another.
There aren’t enough words to describe this book and I don’t know how to make you want to read it, but just do. Trust me you will be shocked, amazed, confused, happy, angered all at once with the many plot twists Jodi Picoult has put into this book.
After reading this book, I will begin to read Small Great Things by her too and will let you know how it goes.
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult is available for checkout from the Mission Viejo Library. It can also be downloaded for free from Libby.
Ramadan is a known Islamic holiday amongst the world, but how is it celebrated and how can you support/help out a friend who is celebrating it?
Let’s start off with an introduction to what exactly it is. Ramadan always begins during ‘Daylight Savings’. It is a 30 day long fasting period, because during the period would be the 9th Islamic month. People might ask, why does the time change every year? Well that is because the month is determined by the moon setting. The moon has be at a thin silver crescent fo the month to begin (symbolizing the prophets attribution to his fast) and at a full moon when the months ends.
Why is it celebrated? Well, its a month for spiritual discipline and the deep contemplation to a person’s relationship to God. Some might like to add that it brings you closer to your family because the meals are usually/supposed to be consumed with close relatives, parents, and/or family members.
During this month you consume your first meal before the first prayer of day (before sunrise), that is called suhoor, meaning consumed early. As your biggest meal,which is when you break that 12-14 hour long fast, at the second to last prayer of the day (after sunset), that’s called Iftar meaning break-fast.
If you know or acknowledge your friends fasting during this months, you should be mindful and not eat or drink around them or at least don’t offer them bites or sips, if you’re having a dinner party or are having a fancy dinner, invite them, and or wish them a “Happy Ramadan” and if its near the end, wish them a “Happy Eid,” as that follows right after for three days.
If you haven’t been on the reality side of life right now, you would know that Palestine and Israel are in a war which is slowly becoming a whole middle east against the west war. Besides wars, inflation is reaching an all time low of 3.2% and apartment/house rent being in a funky situation. Beyond the economic and world part, in my opinion, we are entering a new era in the cinematic/music/entertainment industry with movies from the 70’s to the early 2000’s coming out with sequel musicals,and new popular music.
Looking back 76 years ago you, can see so many similarities between these two years; 2024 and 1948. Are we going back in time? Have we truly entered a war and a great depression?
The answers depend on how you would like to view what’s going on.
For more information about the similarities between those two years, we have have to go back to 1948, and see what went down.
We can all agree that war has a lot to do with money and inflation, which is why the USA dealt with post World War 2 inflation dropping down to 10%, with its highest rate (that it should have been at) being at 20%. With a democrat leading 1948 and a democrat leading 2024.
But we aren’t in a war, why would our percentage drop to 3.2% in the present day? The answer to that will have to be, the pandemic aka Covid 19. With business shutting down, even the government shutting down, people losing jobs and such, the inflation began to decline and it is getting worse and worse with how the current economy is working during (a soon to be) war.
Speaking of war, looking back to spring, more specifically, May of 1948, the Palestinians welcomed jewish settlers who escaped the holocaust from Germany, and some parts around Europe to get to the middle eastern country called Palestine. Their settlement began as a UN and UK agreement for the jewish to have some part of Palestine for them to call their own (being Israel). They began to go past that agreement and ended up killing about 110 thousand Palestinians with a good portion of them escaping to countries around, like Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan.
Which is very similar to what is happening now with in just 5 months of the Gaza vs Israel war, over 27 thousand have been killed and 73 thousand displaces, under rubble, or missing, as the USA and UK funding the killing and bombing Palestinian safe zones.
Besides the War and Economy time, Hamlet, Oliver Twist, and the Fallen City releasing and getting big, we got musicals as old hit movies like Mean Girls (2003), Wonka (1971), and even The Color Purple/book (1982). With artist Taylor swift dropping her new album soon and making her own name, Lana Del Rey dropping a tour, and new music genres on the rise, 1948 came out with “all I want for Christmas is my two front teeth”
To conclude all of this, This year is extremely similar to 1948 and is possible we might be going back in history, rather than how some would hope it being similar to 2014 and party 2020.
This might be a known topic by all adults though us teens and children younger than us won’t fully comprehend that fact since we have been raised on the internet and most of our entertainment, hobbies, inspiration, and style comes from the internet more specifically social media.
But as time goes and the more trends and entertainments arise on our screens, the higher our dopamine levels are drawn to social media which feeds our social media addiction.
The more addicted we are to social media the less sense of reality we have and we begin to see the world in a different shape, because we would much rather escape the world by going on a screen than by escaping the screen and going into the world.
That might have sounded cliche but its so true. For example those ten year olds getting skin care products, the wanting to go on horrible diets to be like certain people, or the opposite, eating something that looks so good but is to harmful to your body, and so many more examples.
To conclude all the statistics and my own personal opinion, Social media rots a person’s brain. It not only decreases your attention span which changes peoples focus therefore affecting success.
Social media may be artistic, comedy based, etc but it changes people’s true artistic behaviors because of what is being presented to them on their screen vs what is actually going in reality.
Beyond art and the brain, social media turns people into rude being, uninteresting, and selfish people. Even though we all think we are kind and authentic people, social media is such a trend based place that gives out only certain peoples opinions which is then paced all around the world till everyone has the same opinions making everyone un-authentic and a bunch of copy and pastes.
If you dont believe anything I wrote, check your social media screen time.
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