The Tan Tans' Life Begins

The Tan Tans love green tea ice-cream. But who makes the best off-the-shelf green tea ice-cream in Japan? They decided to conduct a blind taste experiment. Experiment 1 - Green Tea Ice Cream Conducted on: 8 Oct 2008 Premises: Owase, home Experimentor/ees: Mr and Mrs Tan Tan Test Subject 01: Premio Green Tea Ice Cream by Glico (pack of 6 cups at approx 320 yen) Test Subject 02: Haagen Dazs Green Tea Ice Cream(per cup at approx 235 yen) Methodology: Blind taste test. Test Result: Test Subject 01 is sweeter and has a more intense favour of green tea. The green tea is also more fragrant and tastes like the green tea had been fried before processing. Test Subject 02 has a strong milk presence which complements the green tea taste but that kind of overpowers the green tea taste. The taste of green tea is also not as intense and fragrant as Test Subject 01. Test Conclusion: Subject 01 (Premio) won the Test! And it's a lot cheaper too!

Well, Mr Forest, life is not a box of chocolates but a box of bento. Basically, it has a mixture of tastes and colours. You know what you are going to get. You expect the taste to be what you have chosen. But yet again, everytime when you have a mouthful of rice, a mouthful of vegetables, a mouthful of meat and a mouthful of everything, you get a different taste. Be it the same bento set, the same ingredients, it will still taste different. The composition of different ingredients gives rise to a different flavour with each bite. Sometimes with more than ingredients than expected, sometime with less. Sometimes with freebies. Sometimes, you can only hope for one. Enjoy your every bite and treat it as more than just a bento set. This is life. Everyday is different. Though you know what you are going to do. Everyday is still different. The path you take, the transportation you use, the place you visit might be still the same. But take a step back and observe, it is actually so different a...