so last night, while watching DISCOVERY TRAVEL AND LIVING at 2 am in the morning, i discovered my almost immediate [being in about a month's time] calling in life!

not something grand to do with theatre, books or anything. but rather, to work in an ice cream store! have been thinking about the various things i want to do after the As and getting a job includes one of them. was thinking ice cream store, free labour at SRT or borders/second hand store at serene centre and was wondering how to fit all these aspirations - 3 months ice cream, 3 months theatre, 3 months books? notice what my life revolves around?

so i've decided i will do the ice cream [until further notice]! because ICE CREAM IS FOOD MAGIC! i never much used to be interested in making ice cream as much as i wanted to scoop and sprinkle things on it but watching the mixers last night work with the ice cream - how beautiful! it's like batter except that it's cold and yet they have to mix it without it melting so the store must be VERY VERY COLD! how interesting! i'm not looking for work at big chains like B+Js or Haagen Dazs [do you KNOW that it's a fictitious name? that it isn't some scandinavian brand - but really just an American company coming up with a weird name to make themselves sound interesting?] or Swensens [ick!] but i'd like a job at the 6th avenue Venezia or Island Creamery and of course the dream would be Estivo [but they seem to have a permanent staff]. will have to start hunting for obscure ice cream places who need help, maybe i'll try the Daily Scoop. i want to work for Homemade Ice Cream people, not Big Franchise people.

anyway it was really interesting because there's this ice cream place called Mitchells in San Francisco that boasts the most exotic flavours in America and well, YAM and LYCHEE included. and i just think, gosh to these people YAM is something they've never seen before and to us we buy it off the ice cream man for one dollar along orchard road! it's just amazing how different life is all over the world. and the owner was talking with such enthusiasm about a new flavour, 'soursop'! and people were trying it for the first time in their lives and trying to figure out what it was like ['kind of like sorbet ... it's a bit strange']. i want to try some exotic flavour i've never tried before and have it melt on to my tongue and be floored by it!

it's funny, how every time we encounter something new we always try to connect it to something in the past. we always try to make things familiar because we all carry 'baggage' [as whitby puts it]. i wonder if it's human instinct ... this constant need to always feel like something is right, something is comfortable, something is familiar.

but i find that the times when i don't try to make those connections, the times when i view something as itself and not try to make it part of a past something - those times are the most exhilarating.

+ posted by M @ 12:31 PM