Doritos & Diamonds 💎
This Week in Review☕️: Apple postpones Return to Office | WFH Diet | Flaming hot Chips | Diamonds for the win | A larger than life experience in Dubai | The largest animals to have existed on Earth
Quick Bites:
WFH 🏡 : Apple postpones return to office until 2022.
Employees won't be coming into campus until January 2022 at the earliest due to a rise in cases.
Apple employees all day errday until next year👇🏻
We didn't need Apple to continue WFH to witness how the pandemic ended the American dream.
As soon as Brooks Brother's bankruptcy filing last year, it was clear to us that yoga pants killed millennials long before Covid hit town! 🧦
According to Bloomberg:
💡Apple is urging all staff to get vaccinated
💡Apple initially called for a return to office by September 2021
💡When offices open, employees are expected to come in atleast 3 days a week
💡The company is increasing its plan of Covid-19 tests at home for staff to as many as 3 per week
💡Other tech firms like Google, Facebook and Twitter have also delayed their return-to-office plans or cut opening hours
Our Thoughts💡: Tbh, we're all for being remote but #WFH has def blurred the boundaries between work and personal space!
However, a well-balanced diet of fries & 10 expressos a day has def helped!
*leaving McDonalds*
Food x Social Media 📲 : Doritos pays teen $20,000 for rare 'puffed out' tortilla chip.
Shorty sold a dorito to Doritos for 20k. We tired of making money the hard way!😭
Ok, so to get this straight.. some kid opened a bag of Doritos, found a poofy chip, posted it on TikTok, and got paid thousands.. Where do we sign up?
The 13-year old Australian girl found the rogue chip and put up the cheesy treat for auction on eBay.
Doritos "Puffs" for sale in 4-3-2-1..
Her TikTok video also went viral, with the caption "Is this valuable or should I just eat it. Tell me please."
We would've chomped it down without ever questioning its value
The tortilla chip company heard of the story and offered the Australian teen a bonkers amount of money.
PepsiCo, who owns Doritos, said hat they were incredibly “impressed” with the teen’s “entrepreneurial spirit”.
Our Thoughts💡: Us after watching a 10-year old get paid 20 grand from Doritos while we get ready for our 5th 10-hour shift this week 👇🏻
Luxury 💎 : Japan is the latest country to enjoy buying lab-grown diamonds. People in Japan are catching up on the idea of buying gems that look the same but cost half, Bloomberg reports.
Tbh, Diamonds are just lumps of graphite exposed to high pressure. If it's Bigger, Sparklier, Cheaper AND Environment-friendly? Count us in! 💯
“I doubt we even have 1% share because of the little supply and lack of resale market [..] It will grow from here.”
-Director of Japan Grown Diamond Association
This comes after the World's Biggest Jeweler- Pandora, announced earlier this year that it will stop selling mined diamonds and focus on more sustainable, lab-grown ones.
De Beers has already embraced lab-grown rocks as part of its future as well.
Our Thoughts💡: Synthetic or real, a gool ol' emerald cut is forever.
PS. Does anyone have any diamond-worthy pressure at home?
Art x Shopping 🛍 : Calling all art fanatics and/or shopaholics in Dubai!
Imagine walking into an art space that moves? Or staring at a Van Gogh masterpiece only to feel it coming to life?
A larger-than-life experience- Inifinity des Lumières, an immersive digital art centre showcasing works from the most famous artists in the world, is now open at The Dubai Mall.
Occupying 2,700 sq. m, the space is big enough for Van Gogh's landscape installations to Japanese artist Hokusani's iconic waves washing over your feet (digitally ofcourse).
The mission of the centre is to "democratise art" and make it accessible for everyone.
With its focus on technology and innovation, Dubai is the perfect place for Infinity des Lumières.
We can expect more of Dubai's cutting-edge vision on display soon when the highly-anticipated Dubai Expo 2020 opens, hosting 191 country pavilions, The Art Newspaper reports.
Marine Life 🐳 : In a rare sighting, 90-foot Blue Whales were spotted in California last week.
Humans out of the ocean for a year. And magnificent things happen. 🌊
Fast Facts on Blue Whales:
💡The largest animals to have ever existed on Earth
💡Measure up to 100 feet long (that's about as long as three school buses lined up end to end)
💡The largest hearts amongst animals (roughly the size of a bumper car)
💡They eat krill; require approx 4000kg of the little guys daily
💡Their 4-ton tongue can weigh as much as an elephant
💡They can live up to 90 years
Our Thoughts💡: "Most humans have never seen a blue whale."
Most humans have never seen a whale outside of an aquarium. Period. Lmao
PS. Feet, buses, football fields, cars. America will do anything not to use meters 🤷♀️
Quicker Bites:
Naomi Osaka covers Women’s Health magazine’s September issue.
US Regulators give full approval to Pfizer vaccine.
WHO urges two-month pause on booster shots in push for vaccine equity.
Louisiana sees 'astronomical' number of new Covid-19 cases, Governor says.
VP Kamala Harris visits Singapore and Vietnamm.
Sydney extends its lockdown to September.
New Zealand's Covid cluster spreads to Wellington.
CNN's Clarissa Ward departs from Afghanistan.
UN urges Afghanistan's neighboring countries to keep their borders open.
President Biden commits to evacuating US citizens and allies in Afghanistan.
US, Germany advise citizens against travel to Kabul airport.
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