They are beautiful people...or so it seems

This post is unintended. I'm just waiting for the bathroom to take a warm bath. But my kind beautiful, gonna be ex-housemate is currently in there...hope she won't be too long.

Speaking of beautiful people...it still amazes me how some people can dress-up so prettily outside, smells great too, adorn herself with only satin pajamas, lacy undergarments etc...but it only takes someone who lives with them to realise all these are just superficial.

Such beautiful person (which convincingly is based on my description above) you can hardly tell that beneath those pleasant looks :
- lies a pile of laundry forever lying in the bathroom,
- untidied bed every single morning (with bedroom doors wide open which also means no sense of embarassment of her untidiness),
- entire maids room hogged by her piles and piles of shoes and countless luggages,
- cooking that leaves stains, oil and grease behind the table top,
- bras and undies hanging indiscretely,
- numerous pairs of only her heels left unarranged right at the doorstep (making it such an irritation to step into the house...and the list goes on.

So much for physical beauty. Too bad, one will never know until you really live in with such a beauty.

A metaphor worth sharing...

In life we often wonder or ask WHY bad things happen to us, why we have to go through heartaches and dissapointments, why people changed, why people don't change, why are we treated unfairly, why are we being taken for granted or taken advantage of. All the many WHYs.

No one genius has an answer to that. But having been through hell and out numerous times(mostly from the aspects of personal relationships), I could probably say there are reasons why things don't happened as we wished for them to happen.

So don't beat yourself up if you have been led on, shortchanged, cheated or unjustly treated. This is probably nature's best way to teach us life lesson in recognising the right person that comes along, or cherish the good things in life. How else can one really acknowledged the goodness in life and value every drop of it, if he/she has not seen the worst or even come close?

A friend spontenously shared a metaphor with me today, and it makes complete sense.

"You light up a fire. It was really pretty. A sight to behold. You love it! You want it to last, forever if possible. You wanted to touch it, but each time you get burnt and blisters formed. So what do you do?"

For many (including myself was guilty as charged), will keep lighting the fire and try touching it time and again, hoping one day we will not get burnt. When we gave up trying to touch the fire, we tend to light it up and look at it still harboring hopes. Foolish as it sounds.

So the friend said, why not look elsewhere and start appreciating other beauties around you. Look at the rain or the sunshine that have their own beauties. They deserve to be appreciated more than the fire you lighted up that's untouchable and can never make you happy.

My take...we have a choice, to either emerge as a victor or victim in any given situation. I choose to be happy ;)

Avatar...what's the hype?

Before there was a big hype about Avatar, especially the 3D version...I was one reluctant friend who was asked to go watch Avatar...geez another sci-fi movie.

Then comes this hype and everywhere people's like talking about how Avatar was an idea conceived many many years ago but coz of technology limitations they can't produce it...bla bla blaa...so what the heck, i'll watch it. Provided it must be in 3D...i'm a sucker for 3Ds.

So here I am, a couple of hours after Avatar. Well...it's very original (apart from the fact that I can't help relating to The Matrix where one's in another dimension guided only by the power of mind). I'm impressed by the technologies, but not so much of the storyline. Pretty predictable, saving mother-nature of another planet so on and so forth, with some love touches added here and there.
3-hours is pretty long to put me through a 3D movie with that heavy specs on.

Gimme another 3 hours, I'd still prefer LOTR. But it's a brand new experience in movie watching I'd say.

Popping the cherry

My first time Blogging. This is something that I've wanted to do for the longest time, but never get to it. Procrastination we call that.

Blogging...generally defined as putting our thoughts and opinions into words...well in a more sophisticated mode of course. Else what's the difference btwn bloggers and columnists.

A new chapter...or is it so?
For popping the cherry of blogging...yes it is.
But for our day to day life...we shall see.