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PSYCHOLOGIST'S
MAKE THAT HOT CHIC
TO
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Sugar
Does
really makes
you
FAT?
5P H O T O G R A P H Y
SECRETS
BECOME RICH FOOD-BLOGGER
ON SUPER LOW LOW BUDGET

T H E F I R S T E D I T I O N
CONTENTS
03
F O O D P O R N 1 0 1
Cheat that cheap food into million-dollars
Michelin. An ultimate guide to become a rich
food-blogger on low budget
13
E N S L A V E Y O U R C R U S H
Psychology introduces you the 6 things you
should be doing if you want your crush like You
back
17
F O O D D E L I V E R Y K I L L S
Lunch at your door or death at your face? How
our lazy meal murders lives and home. Start
packing your own lunch.
23
S U G A R M A K E S Y O U F A T ?
Why we are so addicted to sugar and is it really
the culprit behind the creeping number on your
scale?

E D I T O R :
L E S S O N
M U S T - L E A R N
FOODPORN
101
F O O D B L O G G E R ' S
C L O R I S H U A N G
Make Your
Food Gloss
H O W T O C H E A T T H A T C H E A P F O O D I N T O
M I L L I O N - D O L L A R S M I C H E L I N

Bro, that Matsusaka and Caspian caviar ain’t
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Fat Taste, Skinny Purse
CLORIS HUANG
food-blogger even on low budget with only
The aspiration to become luxurious deli foodblogger
may be legit, but sometimes money
single-digit-priced McDonald's or plastic
counts. After all, the business of updating
wrapped buns.
fancy dishes really depends on how much
budget you’ve got. If your taste is fat but that
A lot of the time, the popularity of your photo
wallet in your pocket is skinny AF, one day
depends on the way you photograph it
the reality will kick you hard on the derriere:
instead of what is being photographed.
Especially when it comes to food, people
ever gonna fly onto your plate! Then, your
more often click on lusciously provocative
penniless palate begins to shake: “How am I
shots of food taken with well consideration
gonna get that million-clicks foodie if I can’t
than one-second finished fluffs. This is how
afford million-dollars Michelin?”
ordinary food can go fancy, with the right
The answer? Use your weapon: the camera.
background, lighting, composition, and your
camera. Sounds like a more lucrative deal?
Every food blogger is equipped with a
camera regardless of kind, and as long
Let’s get straight into how to polish the
as you’ve got one, you can become a celeb
‘junks’.

true
power
lies
in your
hands,
not your
plate.

texture, movement, to the localized shapes of
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DIVE & GO MACRO
Masquerading lesson one: Only show the goodies of
your food. How to do that? Use macro photography:
zooming-in and getting real close-up with your food.
Simply put: macro makes the food filling the frame.
By zooming-in into your food, you can actually
discover a wide range of intrigue, ranging from
different parts of your food that would visually stretch
on abstractism. Thus, you don’t really need to care if
your food is brand-attractive enough to get the likes
because you are engaging your viewers on the
magnified intricacy of the dish, and fortunately every
food offers touch, movement, and pattern highly
individualized and unique to its own kind. If your take
is executed properly, the shot would just be as eye-
catching as those on GordonRamsay.com.
So the bonus: You may feel like an ignoble vagrant
snapping your hackneyed starbucks or humdrum
grocery noodles, but if you zoom in, no one’s gonna
know it! (Unless you caption it.)

ealistically, you only need 50mm lens for
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Because you are very close up to the food,
Before you start, get yourself a decent
camera and lens. You can technically just use
tiny movement of the camera could ruin the
picture. In this case, remember three points:
your phone, but if your goal aims for a more
striking impression, it’s really recommended
shutter speed, ISO, and light. Fast speed
to purchase a macro camera lens suitable for
accompanied by higher ISO or brighter light
your cause. Depending on your need, you
will always enable you capture the shot with
may choose from 35mm to 100mm, though
less blurring and shifting. If possible, use a
tripod to stabilize your camera; if not, make
food photography, because lenses of 100mm
use of your body! Right positioning of your
or larger are generally for shooting subjects
elbows on steady surface will help.
like wilderness animals or insects that
prohibit you to approach at near distance.
Lenses such as Sigma 30mm f/1.4 DC DN C
lens and Olympus Zuiko F/2.8 Macro lens are
excellent options for your trolley, especially
the Olympus, its offer of F/2.8 aperture really
provide some captivating effect in macro
frame.
Also pay special attention to the adjustment
of your camera

doesn’t necessarily need to be superfluously eyecatching,
since you want your viewers essentially to
2. Complementary color always work well with
3. Light food subject on relative dark
emphasis; same goes with the reverse. Toffee
4. White and black go well with literally all sort
Aperture, such as F2 or F1.8 will do the same trick
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T W O
PRETTY UP YOUR
BACKGROUND
If you can’t macro, don't do it. But be aware when
you zoom out, find an attractive and suitable
of food, just don’t do pure black on black, you
don’t want power-cut on your post.
background for your food subject. The background
5. For table background, wood is a very
effective surface, the texture will enhance
focus on the food. While choosing the background,
your photo.
think about the following tips:
1. Consider the color of your food matter.
If you can’t find a satisfying background, try a smalldigit
aperture and play with depth of field----You
each other, find your food a complementary
may call it a blurred background. A narrow depth of
background (Red & green, black & white,
field will help you to blur out all the messy things on
blue & orange, yellow & purple).
the back and concentrate the focus on your nearground
food, and sometimes you can actually get a
decent effect when those distractions are smudgy.
background give a nice contrast and
chocolate on milky marble? Yummy!
just as well.

together, order a lot of cheap grease but arrange
diagonals, and power of odds are good ways to
draft, it’s helpful to increase the contrast and
recommended, although it costs you $8, but the
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LIGHT IT UP
T H R E E
MAGIC TIME
F I V E
Good lighting is insanely crucial to the
The ultimate thing you should do if you want to
turn crap into gold is do the edit. Because the food
presentation of your food. Whether it’s grocery
store jerky or Hokkaido urchin, a good lighting will
itself may be lackluster, applying attractive filters
boost the level of your photography to another
and just-right adjustment of color can strengthen
your food photo. And depends on the original
level.
When you’re taking the shots, find a spot with
exposure to create more dynamicity. You can even
natural lighting. Remember it’s always better to
avoid the jaundice-dripping electric lamp that
use photoshop to fix unwanted details! Editing
does increase the quality of your photo.
make your food fifty shades older. Get a seat
outside or simply take your food out on the street,
Apps such as VSCO and PicsArt provide wide
range of good filters for use, while Foodie Cam and
and a tip for ya: street as background can also
Gudak Cam are amazing food camera; if you want
adds color to your photo. If it’s at night, make good
a retro, film-roll effect, Gudak is highly
use of the electric light, not for the overall tone but
play with the shadows and contrast. You can also
stunt you can get from it really worth the bill. All
pull from other tips.
these apps can be downloaded with Android and
iSO. Why not try it out?
GET IN SHAPE
F O U R
Now you know the ultimate secrets of what it takes
to succeed in a food-blogger career even without
big money patron, you can start thinga trying out!
Heed that it’s totally fine to combine multiple tips
A plate of sandwich on a dining table, boring!
or use only one tip, as long as you have a passionate
Make’em into arts! Find your friends and eat
heart for food and a persevering mind to practice
the techniques, who knows if you are the next
them artistically. A good composition will not
‘slumdog foodllionaire”?
necessarily make the food itself seem more
appealing but it would certainly elevate the
aesthetics of your photo. If that everyday burger
bores you, build a burger pyramid with your
gourmand gangs! Rule of thirds, fill in the frame,
compose your photo. Add those in, the one-cent
bites become expensive arts.

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Food At Your
Door Or Death At
Your Face?
roasting, the sun is pan-frying eggs on the road, and you just
bonuses: plastics. Your pizza in plastic box, your soda in plastic
bottle, and plastic straws and plastic utensils, and they all end
credit:
UberEATS
P A C K Y O U R O W N L U N C H T O S A V E
T H E W O R L D
The following scenario cannot be more typical in a lazy, casual
Saturday noon: We woke up by that annoying 12 o’clock alarm,
slid our phone and check out what’s good on food delivery app
since it’s too late for a homemade brunch, then place some
fried chicken orders and wait in the couch like a starving dog.
No more than 10 minutes and your scrumptious, delicious
déjeuner will come at your doorway, ready to enjoy the feast,
maybe with CDs of film or two! It’s a pretty common way to sort
out your weekend lazy cravings. The weather’s goddamn
don’t bother to go outside your AC-sufficient apartment. Who
cares if I don’t put on my shoes, with food delivery APP you can
literally get your favorite treats in less than no time.
"But convenience often comes
with a price."
Maybe you haven’t notice it yet, but every time a delivery
knocks on your door, you will always get a few pale and ashen
up in a white screechy plastic bag! That’s hell lot of plastics, it
may seem like a day-to-day trifle to be ignored, but the real
matter is that you will have no idea just what nefarious deals
they are doing to the place you are living in, right in this
moment.
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non-biodegradable, which basically means nothing
WHITE
IMMORTAL
ZOMBIE
CONNOISSEUR
INTERVIEW
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credit: Susan White / U.S Fish & Wildlife Service / Ocean Conservancy
Your lunch plastic survive on average about 25
And think about this: 295 million Chinese has
minutes before you trash them---maybe even lesser-
ordered takeout via food delivery services in 7
--but for that piece of light material to get
months(more than Ariana Grande’s instagram
decomposed it takes 450 up to a thousands years!
followers!), and 12 million orders are placed every
(You grand×10children may find the takeaway bag
day via a major takeaway company(more than all
you’re using right now) Another thing, plastics are
the New Zealanders!); If each order is shipped with a
plastic bag and a plastic lunchbox, that’s a insane 24
organic can kill them! And it’s hella EW, because
million plastic consumption ON A SINGLE DAY! And
it’s ONLY in China. Can you imagine the number if
your faeces are biodegradable and the nonbiodegradable
plastics are literally like
we add up the global total? ---- Absolute lunacy. And
indestructible poop that stuck in the soil who break
the absurdity will soar onto another level if we are
down into bits and bits of toxic matter that poison
calculating how long will all of these undeads go to
the earth, the water, and all the cute animals you’re
hell.
ever gonna loved! I know you’re already pretty
disgusted, but that’s not it.

plastics, cuz well, you WOULDN’t want that thing in
dementor, once the animals mistakenly ingest it, it’s
BUTCHERS
THESEA
ON
Dolphins are cute, turtles are adorable, but with
Perhaps you should consider boycotting the
plastic pollution, you’re just gonna see thousands of
floating corpses in horror aesthetic. Believe it or not,
your stomach, and here’s what happen when the
animals are on the rollercoaster of massive
animals eat plastic. Because plastic is like unkillable
holocaust dying thanks to of human’s massive
addiction to plastic packaging, and hey, your
gonna stay in the gut. The digestion will be
delivery takeaways proudly counted as one. We
interfered and food cannot be broken down, and
can’t blame the evolution, but animals cannot really
instead of instant death which eases on the mind,
differentiate crusts of food from plastic snippets,
the animals are suffering from a long and
they are going to eat those plastic left by you, and
excruciating process. If you don’t want to
the scale of that population is about 100,000 a year,
experience that yourself, don’t do it to the cute
accompanied by 100,000 death a year.
seals.

PAGE 2 | COMIDA
PACK YOUR
OWN
can’t obviously save the world or ditch
You
the plastic at once, that’s just impossible.
all
you do can start from small bits, such as
But
the food delivery orders and pack
quitting
own lunch with your own box. And you
your
love it for these reasons: it’s more
will
friendly, it’s healthier, and
environmental
actually save more money in long term.
you
out some lunch box ideas you can
Check
on your own to brighten up the planet
make
a little bit more.
just

Tamagoyaki: Japanese omelette serves you
Dorasik” literally mean “lunch box”, with
palatable. And of course, some korean healthy
Kimchi: this is a must for Koreans
good. And here are some Indian dishes you
#1 Japanese Bento in Purple Geisha Bento Box
Creative Lunchbox Ideas That
Japanese has got some real aesthetic and
ingenuity with their lunches. One creative
lunch bento you can take from the anime-
lovers is Geisha bento box. The bento box has
the shape of traditional Japanese figure, the
three-tiers container allow you to prepare
Will Save Your Tomorrow
delicious sushi even to miso soup----the lid of
Even if the policy don’t change, you can
the bento is an inverted bowl for liquid or rice.
Some Japanese food you should try in bento
change to save the world. So here’s a challenge:
set:
this weekend, ditch that lethargy go getting up
and kick yourself into the kitchen to make your
own delicious, healthy, and new lunch!
the daily protein
Apple rabbit: apple slices cut in rabbit shape, a
boost in Vitamin and ultimate cuteness
Onigiri: triangle rice ball with nori seaweed,
yummy carbs.
#2 Korean Dorasik in Stainless steel Lunchbox
stainless steel lunchbox, you can skip the
plastic and go pretty Asian old-school like
with your lunch. Although not watertight, the
steel box will keep you food fresh and
noon delights:
Braised Lotus roots: Get your veggies ready
Ojingeochae Muchim: Literally means spicy
dried squid, super tasty
Brown rice kimbap: he Korean version of
“sushi”, you can get things like crab meat,
cucumber, and carrots in the fillings.
#3 The Indian Tiffin
If you want that super-size castle-like box,
Indian tiffin is your best choice. It’s also made
from steel but with multiple tiers layer on top
of each other. And it’s not plastic, no plastic is
must not miss in the carrier:
Kathi rolls: Paratha flatbread rolling chicken
and veggie for a savory bite.
Dal Makhani: Fibers-up with lentils, beans, and
corianders!
Mutton Masala: Spice up the lamb.
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ugar!
E N E M Y
O R
F R I E N D ?
“Sugar” is literally hitlerized in the modern
weight-loss campaign. And agree if you dare, we all
have heard the famous media portrayal of “sugar
makes you fat”. Google online, and you will be
bombed by harangues written by health experts
and bodybuilders on just how bad sugar is for you:
“It’s evil”, “It’s heinous”, and most terrifyingly, “it’s
fattening!” Then, humanity’s alarmed innovativity
creates surges of dietary laws like “you can’t eat
any sugar if you wanna be fit,” “carbs are bad cuz
they contain sugar”, or “go paleo if you want to
cut”, and so on and so on.
I S S U G A R T H E R E A L C U L P R I T
B E H I N D Y O U R C R E E P I N G
W E I G H T G A I N ?
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And as self-conscious and mating-driven as
humans are considered, we all have struggled with
our weight at some point in life. And almost
immediately we started doing this--at least in the
beginning----cutting off every single grams of
sugar from our diet.

Now, let’s share a second of rapport:
We all have dropped that chocolate
bar or ice cream for a bowl of plainbitter
salad, sometimes even shoving
the bread and pasta away for the fear
of simple sugar, only in venture to
shed a few pounds off. Yet it sounds
pretty convincing, Eh? All that
decadent sweetness and guilty
pleasure entailed sure does
something as screwed-up as weight
gain. And plus you’ve seen all these
obese kids munching on Reese’s and
oreos, there got to be a cause-andeffect
between the word “sugar” and
“being fat”.
But is sugar the real culprit behind
your lurking weight gain? Well, the
truth is: Sugar does not cause you to
gain weight. Okay. Hold on. If your
reaction is ‘BS’ or ‘F**k No!’, I can
totally relate. But let’s just be a little
bit more skeptical than just the plain
old “sugar makes you fat”. Before you
ditch all sugar and go paleo, read the
following, and you will be
overwhelmed to be enlightened that
sugar is not that EVIL after all, and
eating the correct sugar as part of
your diet will not hinder the weight
loss----it's totally Okay.
IT'S EVERYWHERE
Sugar is a pretty abstract. You may
think of it as Haagen Dazs or
Cheesecake factory, but it’s way
more complex. The term “sugar” is
like a big-ass family surname, and
under that there are three big-ass
headmasters: monosaccharides,
oligosaccharides, and
polysaccharides. Simply put,
monosaccharides are simple sugar
found in food like doughnut and even
fruits; oligosaccharides and
polysaccharides are found in veggie
and starches. So basically with
exception to raw meat and water,
EVERYTHING contains some form of
sugars, even the healthiest stuffs like
avocado.
EAT OR DIE
There is a legitimate reason behind
why you crave for sugar so much
after staying away from it for a long
time, and that is, you need sugar to
survive. Without sugar, your brain
goes ‘dead’, that clumps of neurons
and brain cells inside your head need
sugar to fuel your thinking and
creativity. If you ever had a brain fog,
you know now that was probably
because of low glucose level.
And that sugar-lust gene is also in
your DNA. Where ancient times held
fullness unaccountable, your Stone-
Age millenarian grandfather grabbed
on sugar and fat whenever he could
to survive the ‘Hunger Game’. Who
knows when’s the next meal? We love
sugar, and we need it, because
evolution says it help us stay ALIVE.
You wouldn’t want to torture your
body by dumping the main source of
energy you need. So chill-out, you’re
allowed to eat sugar.
GOOD N BAD
I bet 100 dollars that most of you
would somewhat arrive to the
resolution to eat only the “good
sugar” or “good carbs” and not the
“bad ones.” But bro, what do you
really mean by “good and bad”?
Because the truth is, there isn’t really
a “Good N Bad” distinction!
Let’s kick in with some shocking
chemistry.
First call for all the healthyorthodox:
Pineapple, cashews, and
sweet potatoes contain sucrose, a
type of simple sugar that’s got a
fructose and glucose; Second call to
the dessert-slaves: That corn syrup
contains the same sugar but only
breaks down faster.
Now the picture is clearer.
Chemically speaking, the “good” n
“bad” are just as similar. Whether
they are naturally occurring or
artificially made, they all end up in
glucose and absorbed by your body.
Now looking at it, they’re pretty
similar right?
But it certainly doesn’t mean that
cakes = fruits, and you should quit
the nuts for muffins. Occasional
dessert in moderation is fine. Eating
sugar is not problematic, the real
deal is how much you’re eating it.

THE
REAL
Killer
Dessert doesn’t make you fat, but lots of
dessert certainly does-----overeating is
what makes weigh heavier than
yesterday.
Famous dude from the Yale University
Prevention Research Center called David
Katz says that "we actually need sugar;
it's our body's preferred fuel, but we eat
too damn much of it." He is right:
American heart experts (AHA) tells us not
to eat more than 24 grams of sugar if
you’re a female, but in reality, we crush
ourself an average of 18 tablespoons. You
should still eat the sugars, but you’re
eating way too much. What’s overeating?
Feeding yourself with too much energy
from regardless types of food, whether
it’s protein, sugar, fats, or even fruits.
Consider this scenario and guess
who’s gonna gain more weight: a
person who eats one cookie but
followed with a balanced, nutritious
diet, or a person who eats just 20
plates of 18 oz steak with absolutely
no sugar? The answer is obvious.
Taking from research conclusion from
University of Hawaii, what you should
take away is that: “It is important to
state at the outset that there is no
direct connection between added
sugars intake and obesity unless
excessive consumption of sugarcontaining
beverages and foods leads
to energy imbalance and the resultant
weight gain.”

NOW
what to do
Get A Bowl
Do you find it hard to count how much your stomach has embraced in
your family dinner, where everything just lay out and you can take
whatever you want? In weight-loss or even for the sake of health,
portion control is the key. Use a small bowl or a plate with divider to
limit the amount of food you are supposed to eat, this way, you know
how much you’ve consumed and you would not try to fork more.
Go Natural
You know you can’t skip carbs nor the sugar, but you can decide which
sugar to eat. Natural sugar found in unprocessed food such as fruit
and grains are okay to eat. Not only provide you the necessary energy
to work, but they also provide you nutritions to boost your health. You
can also choose slow-releasing sugars like complex carbs or starches
to keep yourself fuller throughout the day.
Remember, natural dietary sugar is entirely
legal to be added onto your plate, they
won’t build a bulge on your abs.
Eat Like A Strategically
Get a phone app that helps you to track
what you eat throughout the day. If you
want to track your calories to ensure
you’re not feeding yourself more than you
needed, app like MyFitnessPal is perfect
for you. They provide caloric and
nutritional value for almost all the food
you can possibly find, it’s always good to
know how much energy, sugar, and sodium
you’re delivering into your body, too. If you
occasionally get one piece of dark
chocolate, DON’T FREAK OUT, it’s okay, as
long as moderation guards your mouth.
Learn up these tricks and tips, and you
are taking one more step to a healthier
and much more manageable progress
towards your weight.
And don’t blame the sugar, humans need
sugar, we are genetically and
evolutionarily predisposed to live
dependent upon it. Even if you look around
the fit and thin people, they still eat that
swiss rolls and drink that frappuccino. It’s
the amount of sugar you consume every
day that you need to heed upon. Don’t let
the sugar overwhelm you, but let yourself
take control of that cravings and sweets,
that way, you can safely satiate dessert
once in awhile without worrying up that
number creeping on the scale.

WEET
¿
çomes
truë
?

probably dying to know just HOW those
You’re
and cute couples who always show off their
sweet
of love’ on Snapchat got together,
‘moment
in the end, aren’t most of us---including
because
stuck in an endless lane of
yourself----always
one-side crush? And ‘ouch’, that part of
miserable
story always hurt the most: You really, really
the
someone, you’d always peek at them and pay
like
attention when their names are mentioned;
extra
they’re ten meters away walking towards
when
direction your breath get defenestrated by
your
nutty heart rate; and all you ever long for is to
your
that one special person to be part of your life!
let
bitter truth, they don’t even give a damn
But,
you! (*silent heartbreaks*) And that’s the
about
ending for a sad high-school crush
classic
How To
Your
Enslave
Crush
tell y’all, as long as your crush is not being
But
or hospitalized for fatal illness, there is
deported
no reason you should give up now
absolutely
be the Éponine who could only watch that
and
Cosette snatch away Marius. It’s
thin-skinned
possible to reverse the swampy dilemma
totally
your unrequited love. In fact, if you’re sharp
of
to manipulate what you’ve got well,
enough
could even make your crush to have a crush
you
you! And don’t ever allow yourself to be
on
by the assumption that just because
defeated
not the hottest girl or guy around the
you’re
you’re never gonna get the
neighbourhood,
spot in your heart(because it’s only one
sweet
of it, there are other chances). After reading
part
you will obtain the full manual to get the
this,
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recollection.
hottest heartthrob fall head over heels over you!

your crush doesn’t even know you exist, how do you suppose
If
will be your BF or GF, ever? In contrary to our daunted
they
the must-take step is to get close and spam your
self-instinct,
on your crush’s face: “Hey, It’s me.” Whether it’s
presence
on a group project together or attend the same
working
you should let your bae know that the
extracurricular,
between you two is not far away, because proximity,
distance
geographic nearness, is the very most powerful indicator of
or
and relationship. Think about this, if your crush is
friendship
a major heachache and in urgency of asking someone
having
help, would he more likely to run himself towards his math
for
tablemate or someone he’d come across in hallway
class
once per month? The answer: no one would bother to
roughly
a faraway stranger.
trouble
the science and chemistry aside, “opposite attracts” is a
Throw
lie. You might think the girls who will like whatever the
big-fat
lead finds interesting stupid, but similarity actually
male
the people together. Look your besties circles: you and
brings
friends share the same passion, gossip over the same
your
and enjoy the same desserts. All these things you guys
celebs,
in common build up the close relationship. If you
have
to find the same interest as your crush, go for it, don’t
happen
you purchase an expensive but highly risky plastic
Unless
it’s very unlikely your face will change. But you can
surgery,
yourself more attractive by dressing your smart, clean,
make
chic. If makeup makes you look better, do it! Don’t hesitate
and
unnatural”, because the more attractive your impression is
“it’s
other people, they will perceive you as healthier, happier,
on
even more successful. And that’s all due to the Halo Effect,
and
tend to think pretty creatures more positive. So make
people
beautiful, make yourself fashionable, sometimes it’s
yourself
to be a little extra with your style.
okay
want really want your crush to hit on you even faster, go do
If
exercise, because the same logic with physical appeal
some
apply to fitness. But do not mistaken that you have to be
also
Cristiano Ronaldo if you’re a guy or Miranda Kerr if you’re a
like
Get some muscle training to get the curves and lines and
girl.
we like fitter people, and your crush surely does too.
muscles,
secret weapon you are going to learn from here is
Another
through association”. And in human language, it
“liking
means the following scenario: If your crush really like
basically
you’d better show up whenever she eats Godiva. And
Godiva,
these principles are derived from Behaviorist Ivan Pavlov's
all
of conditioning. Because when your crush will have a
theory
mood when she enjoys her favorite dessert, if you’d
happy
up every time, she will naturally associate you with the
show
mood. So find out what your crush like, and prepare to
good
off a lucky coincidence out of it.
pull
you have come as far as good friend, it’s time to let your
If
know your feeling. You may feel like ‘Wow what?! That
crush
just make the whole thing awkward AF and we will just
will
to square one’, but psychology says otherwise. The reward
back
of attraction will do the explaining: we like things that
theory
us feel rewarded, and it’s the same with relationship.
make
you voice out your affection, they are gonna feel good
When
and in turn they are more likely to keep going back to
about,
and treat you better because of that sentimental
you
So when the time is ripe, let it out!
satisfaction.
ways to make that
hot chic turn to you
S T E P 1 : T A K E T H E ‘ N E X T - D O O R ’ S E A T
S T E P 4 : G E T A S W E A T Y W O R K O U T
S T E P 5 : L I K I N G T H R O U G H A S S O C I A T I O N
S T E P 2 : ‘ S A M E H E R E ! ’
make yourself ‘unique and special’ by voting for the different.
S T E P 3 : G O S H O P P I N G
S T E P 6 : S A Y I T O U T L O U D

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in his 60s who happens exactly to be the lawyer
of Mr. Donald Trump and bleats about White
House top secret? That actually happened.
This Monday, report from the Washington Post
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controversy of “Trump-Russia collusion” has
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lurking around in the political scene for some
been
it is like a huge mist that shadows the White
while,
and as President Trump leaves a chain of
House,
one more ridiculous than another, it
messes
leads the guys sitting in the US
eventually
Community decided one day: Hey, let’s
Intelligence
someone to clear this fog away.
get
there’s Mr. Robert Mueller with his “Russian
Then,
searching for “any links and/or coordination
probe”
the Russian government and individuals
between
with the campaign of President Donald
associated
in particular to the matter of Russia’s
Trump”,
on 2016’s US presidential election. Yet,
interference
expected, the Trump gang and the president
as
have been busily denying the matter of
himself
if you follow the news till now, certain
However,
and rumors regarding to president Trump
events
jump to mind as high suspicious and
may
Could there be a potential drama inside
irrational.
political opaqueness between Trump and
the
Russia.
Firing FBI Executive James Comey
Trump
you could have the power of a president, would
If
did, apparently he fired the FBI director
Trump
Comey for the “Russian thing”, and the
James
within his perfunctory explanation
ambiguity
skepticism towards his motive. According to
leaves
Flynn investigation which searches for the
stop
connection between Trump’s security
possible
and the Russian hackers. Comey also
adviser
that Trump has “put pressure on him to
claims
the investigation”, but obviously Comey did
drop
succumb to the president’s threat, which got
not
fired. This poses a question: Why would Trump
him
Comey to drop the investigation with Flynn?
want
SPY?
COLLUSION?
convenience.
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you randomly fire a FBI executive?
Comey’s testimony from The Guardian,
James
fired the former FBI director in attempt to
Trump
there’s absolutely nothing behind the scene,
If
might still have his position in FBI.
Comey
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