To cut or not to cut

[thanx heaps Du... 4 bein my onli fan XD. Hehe... my blog's fading away slowly... but u make it alive! Hehe... new post today, FINALLY! hui hui]

To cut or not to cut... that is the question.

Advantages of having long hair/keeping current hair style:

1 It's cool (according to Du).
2 I can play with it, do awesome stuff with it, style it.
3 Keeps me warm in winter.
4 Keep my awesome curls & colour.
5 Can bun it for dance performances.

Disadvantages of keeping long hair/current hair style:

1 Boring image- had long hair since Year 6.
2 When the wind blows, I go blind.
3 Like a blanket in summer.
4 Might regret cutting it right after, because it has taken so long to grow this length.
5 Gets into my food and touches random stuff without me noticing.

To cut or not to cut?!?!?!? SO hard to decide right now. I've found a few styles from Belle's magazines which I really like and they're mostly short or heavily layered. I could keep the long hair and just change the style? I could cut it a bit shorter but still keep it as 'long'? I could go for a total change and make it shortish? Or totally short? SIGHz... can it not be so hard? What do you reckon?

Hui Hui ^^b

Dwelling in Your Happiness

[been realizing some negative stuff abt pplz lately... juz thought i'll share it... then i can help myself stop from doing the same... =S Hui]

So a friend of yours comes running up to you in the most exciting fashion, out of breath and totally stunned with words upon breaking some good news to you. Finally when they do, you'd comment on what happened to them for a bit... then... the conversation turns around- you have moved the spotlight onto yourself.

I guess this is human nature, as everyone does it, but when I do it, I try to stop myself, as that point in time is not about me, it's about you. A lot of the time when I share something interesting with someone else, I can never be sure that they appreciated what I said to the full extent, as the dialogue somehow moves onto a similar topic, but of their own personal experience- and I'm expected to comment on that instead, rather than on the initial good news that I brought to share.

I guess when we converse, we share personal experiences as part of relating to others, to the subject, to the conversation itself. The only difference, at this point in time, is that someone else has something that they are exploding inside in wanting to tell the world about, but all you can do is tell them something else and make sure that they dwell on that instead?! I find that absolutely selfish and quite inconsiderate- without giving the other person time to share something joyous with you, you rob them of their excitement, as if trying to out do them in bringing up something that is "even better" on a similar subject.

Please, give the other person some time in the spotlight, share their joy with them, and then move onto something else. When it is obvious that they have had their good time in sharing, then relate by sharing your experiences, of course, never forgetting to revisit the initial happiness. Feel good for other people too- not only yourself.

Hui Hui ^^b

You be the Judge

[hehe.. been sooo busy lately... finally.. Friday!... ^^.. have time to blog! hui hui]

Judging. Why must we judge everything we come across? Consciously and even subconsciously, we all seem to have the need to label something as something. Why?

Having thought about this questions over the whole week, I still haven't found an answer. I guess it's part of the way we were made... being so much more intelligent, efficient, innovative... that we become competitive and feel the desire to stand out. It's also a type of survival mechanism- competition only allows the stronger and better side to survive, to thrive, to move forward.

However, we also have feelings. This is the nasty part about all this. Despite the survival mechanism, despite the need to improve... we still all have feelings to consider when we judge. When you judge subconsciouly though, the damage isn't that great, as you only think about it and not communicate it. Just like when you walk past a beautiful shop display, you may think "Oh, that's nice" or "Oh my God.. how weird is that!?"- this doesn't affect anyone directly, but may affect the appeal of that particular shop. When you actually judge something or someone to another, that's the bad part. That's where all the back-stabbing, rumours, hatred and such events are generated, turning into a vicious cycle.

It's quite uncontrollable though, this judging power in us. Society today has become like that, the democracy in our country has allowed us to further this power- afterall, it's freedom of speech right? The contradicting personalities of the human... fascinating, yet, not totally supposedly "moral".

Hui Hui ^^b