can someone be absolutely happy on love alone? i wonder......

i was just wondering....can someone be absolutely happy on love alone?

i mean blissfully happy happy..... ?????

when i look around me and see the people around me...generally its a no. but then when i think about it, i'm like why the heck not????

Why can't someone be absolutely happy on love alone?

some possible answers are no money no talk, love doesn't pay the bills etc. and the only thing that stared right back at me - MONEY IS ROOT OF ALL EVILS.

I mean 50 years ago, our grandparents survived on minimal sums of money, grew their own food and reared their own meat. They only spent on luxuries when they absolutely felt they NEEDED to and they were happy. and generally if they were unhappy, it stemmed from the situation where someone couldn't do something for another person. It was always about contribution for or to someone else.

Fast forward to now, everything is about individuals. spas, salon, credit cards, house, cars, you name it - everything was about individuals and their worth to other people's eyes. I started thinking like this many years back, and now i'm wondering whether its the right thinking. Why is it that i need materialistic stuff to prove myself to others? why is it the car i drive or the house i live in is chosen based on how others will judge us and view us?

Of course, convenience and growing is definitely part of the plan, but why can't we do it without destroying all our traditional values and ethics? I'll be hard-pressed to name a few people that actually retain views from our forefathers. of course they are that handful of people but to what level? and why do they pick and choose only some rules that garners them "old fashioned" tags.

I think personally that it is love that makes us or breaks us. we are all humans but we behave as if we are better than our peers. even i have that attitude that i sometimes feel that i am better in so many ways. but when an actual situation happens, its not every damn day i perform to my expectation. someone that i totally underestimate will perform better than me. then i question myself, where did i get that idea that i was better? is it because i love myself too much that i can see my faults? i doubt that. or is it because i judge a person by how they carry themselves and deliver my verdict at the same time without taking the time to actually find out whether my verdict was right?

i think its the latter. i think we were given this opportunity to be on earth. we are just passerby s. we do not own anything here. everything is on loan. everything, including our body. so taking care of everything should be our duty, whether we like it or not.

And i think the only way we can do this is by loving and not judging. Even though it might be hard at first, it wouldn't hurt to say hello to people standing in the lift with you. it wouldn't hurt to smile at the guards that is guarding you when you sleep. it wouldn't hurt to give money to beggars on the street. we might say its a conspiracy, its a syndicate, its a ....anything that justify making us feel better.

Face wash - Using only NATURAL ingredients

I have bad skin....haihsey....no i mean ...really really bad skin... its really dry, it flakes because i always "forget" to drink water and i always buy very expensive face wash because my skin is sooooo dry that i can't use soapy stuff else its dries up even more. so every month i go to L’Occitane, spend RM82 bucks for a 100ml bottle of almond cleanser - no soap, oil based and very good in general and smells lovely. But RM82 every month just for a cleanser???? its really pricey for me as i still need to buy moisturiser, toner, body lotion, body wash, toothbrush, etc...you know the drill. Also i found that after six months of using the product, my skin started becoming dry again, and i had to buy their almond moisturiser for better effect. yeah, my skin was really moisturised but it costs RM143 for a damn moisturiser , 100ml....to last a month!!!

That totally spurred me to research the best natural cleanser for my face that doesn't burn a hole..make that a deep one...in my pocket. I found this website http://www.theoilcleansingmethod.com/ that was very informative.

So i went to my supermarket, got a 500ml bottle of pure olive oil for RM15.90 (i don't like extra virgin as the smell is too strong for me, a matter of preference i guess), a face sponge from Watsons for RM5.90 and i was good to go.

What i am doing to cleanse my face :-

a) dip up oil and spread it over my whole face and neck. Rub the oil gently around and into the skin.

b) Dampen a cotton washcloth well with very warm but NOT scaldingly hot water. Lay the warm washcloth over my well-oiled face and let it set. Relax while allowing the steamy warmth to work on my skin. As the cloth cools, repeat this several times.

c) Then i gently wipe the excess oil from my skin using the face sponge. (Somehow it feels more cleaner) Rinse and wring out the washcloth and sponge - Since my face is dry i very rarely use toner so i just dab two to three dots of olive oil as my moisturiser and I'm done!

For the first one week i didn't like my skin at all- dry skin was no longer a problem (Thank GOD) but my skin was splotchy, my skin looked uneven and i broke out in 2-3 pimples. the only reason i continued was because i knew that my skin was trying to get rid of all the toxins in it and that was the only way to clear it. so i stuck to my gun and continued. Fast track into the second week, i notice that my skin started clearing and i felt much better. it still didn't look perfect to me but was a vast improvement. And surprisingly, my skin didn't feel greasy at all. it really felt smooth and soft to touch all the time.

So i guess this is gonna be my cleansing regime as dry skin "NO MORE" and not to mention i save tons of cash :p

So, i'll keep you updated next week. maybe i should take a picture.. before and after....hmmmm

A new hobby

for some reason i feel that i am going too old too fast!! or being too matured or something....sometimes its so frustrating to be in the same age group and not feel connected simply because we enjoy different things. i get bored easily when conversation get centered around gossips about people i don't care about, or the lifestyles of celebrities. but i immediately perk up when i hear about malaysian politics, money making ventures and slimming techniques. :) i guess my last area of interest applies to all women no matter how thin :)

And i've realised, beside working hard and playing hard, i need to do something to occupy my time so that i don't feel like i'm wasting my life away. for some reason, i have a compulsion to fill my time with errands, work, gym...or anything that makes me do SOMETHING!!! And i realise i need a new hobby coz facebook just doesn't cut it anymore. i'm officially bored.

Hence my return back to the blogging life (after almost a year) as i have decided to venture on a quest to create beauty regimes using only natural products ("back to basics") and to try my level best to compile as much traditional or ancient ways of taking care of myself. i am sort of a guinea pig for now so all test and tried method only will be posted on this blog.

I did a lot of research for this past one month and i am trying to convert my passion into a business. so an idea from my very close friend and my sister have allowed me to put my dreams into action. We are going to have a meeting, hopefully tomorrow to get this idea on board, but this time i am absolutely serious of making this a successful venture because :-

a) the amount of junk i am putting in my body is atrocious
b) i have adapted the attitude of "whatever words or ingredients that i cannot pronounce stays OUT of my house - that includes you SODIUM LAUREL SULFATE"
c) i'd like to think i am doing my bit in preventing more damage to mother nature. i think i have done a lot of damage *sobs*
d) it will be extremely cost effective and i will save bundles in the long run - once i get over my experimenting stage.
e)find a way to educate the public to reduce to totally eliminate stuff that uses dangerous substance that is harmful to our body.

I guess going back to basics has its cons such as i forgo convenience, less mess (think sterile), and wonderful smelling stuff. But i feel that the pros WAYYYYY outway the cons as the alternative is beginning to be unthinkable.