Sigh and Smile

The major difference between nowadays kid and my time when I was kid can be seen in this picture:



It's the lack of ability to pose in front of the camera. (FYI: I'm the little girl who looked like very annoyed getting her picture taken. Unlike my sister, who had a cute dress and pose like a model)

I mean, come on, you see that I was so totally unprepared for the camera. Now, compare it to children nowadays, when the camera is pointed at them, they automatically given their best smile and poses. Sometimes they even asked for the result first, then can ask for another shot if they're not satisfied with the picture taken. What about us? (I mean the kids who grew up not with digital camera) I think most of the time, our pictures were taken candidly by our parents and now we can only look back and "sigh" at what we see. hahahaha

Look Good, Feel Good

I remember the first make up kit that I bought with my own money was eyeliner from V.O.V. It got a recommendation from my colleague (a girl of course) to buy that eyeliner. That can be said, as my first encounter with make up haha. It was probably almost three years ago. I was just starting my first job, which of course no necessary daily make up needed, since we’re only doing a back office work anyway, but then these few colleagues were wearing make up to work. Not the heavy make up kind of thing. Just a daily routine such as powder, eyeliner, mascara, and blush on (oh, plus light eye shadow and lip gloss sometimes) and I was just this plain-jane type of girl. I wake up late most of the time, only had five minutes of shower, then showed up in office almost late (hehehe) then my hair were never looked perfect. There’s always the bed-hair look on my head. Haha.

Then one of the girl which were the same age as me, said that I need to somehow “represent my appearance” in a better way. Hahaha. She started to do a simple make up to me and encouraged me to buy some make up kit. And I did. It was first eyeliner, than mascara, then blush on. But still I can say, I’m bad at doing make up. Only the basic I knew.

Then I started to work in Singapore (and gain some extra money – hell yeah we all know how much we earn in Indonesia compare to Singapore) and I started to improve my make up knowledge. I started to know what is “Sephora” – make up paradise, you can get lost inside of it , cannot skip to enter every Watsons store you met and spend some time browsing at the cosmetic section and willing to take a one hour bus ride to buy a cheaper cosmetic products at Johor Baru.

I cannot say that I’m one of the make up junkie girl who buys a lot of products or addicted to some brand. I prefer to buy things based on my daily use. And you can see most of my make up is a drugstore brand hahaha. But yet, still, when today I was cleaning my drawer, I found that I actually have a lot of make up.


Why do I have three different blush on? Three different eye liners, two mascaras, two lip-gloss, and two lipsticks? How many lips and cheeks do I have? Hahahhaa. Let me defend my self (and some other girls in this world), it’s just the way it is. Once you buy a make up kit, you couldn’t stop; you want the different kit and tools to improve your make up skills. Hahahaha. Seriously, I think it’s also kinda addiction to buy make ups. You want to buy the new one again and again.

Well, as long it’s not killing your bank account and it helps you to make you look good, I say: Go for it! Haha. When you look good, you do feel good. Just make sure that you do make up properly and at the right time cause I believe that everyone loves beauty. I wouldn’t hurt to see someone who looks good walking around you right?

Seven Years

I was congratulating my friend on her 25th birthday when she said this: “Thank you, I feel old already”. Then I disagree with her, I told her,” No lah, we were born on the same year, but I still feel young anyway”, this time, I was trying to deny the fact that I AM getting old.

Then she add some more fact: “Yesterday, my friend came to my house with his girlfriend, the girlfriend is 18 years old. Then I thought, ah! Our age is not that much different. Then I started to count, it is SEVEN years difference. That’s a lot of number.”

Still I was trying to humor her (and myself), I said,” The eighteen years old girl eventually will become like us anyway, twenty five”

Then she replied,” and by that time, we’re gonna be THIRTY TWO”

LOL.

This time I cannot reply some more. The thought of me being thirty two scares me. Hahahaha. It is because when I was eighteen, when I was still studying in university somehow I imagined myself would be more “cooler” or “mature” than I am now. I may not be as mature or cool as the one I imagined back then, but I pretty much proud of what I can achieve right now. And of course everything I can get now is only because of His grace. There’s not a single thing in my life that happens without His permission.

Recently I just read the book titled “God Never Blinks” by Regina Brett. I read the Indonesian version; some of the translation is hard to understand in bahasa Indonesia I think. The book is divided in fifty chapters. Each of it had one lesson the writer wants to share with us during her ups and downs in life. We can see that the writer has been through a lot of things in her life. One of my favorite part was her thought about life:

“I used to think that life was hills and valleys – you go through a dark time, then you go to the mountain top, back, and forth. I don’t believe in that anymore. Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it’s kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad in your life. No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad to be worked on, and no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something to thank God for.”

I may not know what God will guide me for the next seven years. Just like when I was eighteen, I had no idea that I will be right here, sitting on a sofa in Jurong West, Singapore writing about this. It is just so miraculous on how I could get to the point where I am now; almost twenty five and being able to do things that I never dreamed of. I know that He will guide me for the next seven years, and then for many times of seven years as long as He allowed me to. Maybe someday I could also write something, my own story on how amazing His works for me :)