i ate black and white m&m's today. SO COOL!!! the packaging says, "help us find our colours" and there's apparently this contest of some sort at mms.com which has typically attractive prizes that no one is really keen about cos no one expects himself to be one of the 6 lucky people IN THE WHOLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA to find a packet of m&m's with colour.

so i wasn't particularly disappointed when i opened mine and found out that i just helped clear another non-prize-winning packet off the shelves of the Green Dragon at Sibley Hall. What was surprising was the number of people i know (in architecture) who really like the black and white m&m's and pray to heaven that the original ones never come back to our beautiful planet. I'm one of them :)

It's just like how a black and white photo immediately captures my attention. not because it brings me back to my grandparents' days when everyone was still wearing loincloths and running around with clubs and bludgeons. ok that's pushing it a little....:P but well, it's because there's just something about a world in grayscale that is so emotive and elegant, that makes colour seem so additive sometimes. you look at a black and white portrait and see nothing of the make up or adornments that people love to hide behind. you see a stark reality, a bare soul staring back at you.

but we aren't used to seeing bare souls. so we retreat back into our comfortable world of colour and make that our reality.


i guess i'll probably last about 3 more weeks before i start pining for coloured m&m's again :P