A Gallimaufry of Events

towards the end of last year, i stopped writing consistently - in part due to my coursework, and catching up with all the supplemental reading materials (which up till now i still haven't gotten to). what's more, i was so engrossed in the senate debate on health care reform that i didn't have time to do much else. then there's procrastination and the holidays. so before the hectic lifestyle begins, it's back to my intermittent updates-o-meter on my blog. the stuff i'm writing will be (mostly) in chronological order.

hair-cut: a disaster
so you see, i've been wanting to trim or cut my hair since the beginning of 2009, but for one reason or another i just never got to it. i didn't realize how long it got, until it got in my way in everything i do. so on a crisp November day, i walked to a nearby salon to have it chopped. it was a decision made on a whim, without much thought, but i know when i cut it i wanna donate it. (which i did, and i got a thank-you letter few weeks back.) now the disaster began. that lady didn't trim my hair for me after she literally chopped off my hair. she didn't even attempt to try to make it look presentable! but worst of all, she really did seem contented with her work and thought i looked "good". (?!?!?!?) wtf! i didn't want her to mess up my already-short hair (which, btw, i requested my hair to be cut from shoulder-length downwards) so i hurriedly paid and left before she could do any damage to my remaining hair. decided i couldn't go out like this the next day to work and to class, so i walked to the nearby mall and went to this supposedly reputable hair salon for an emergency trim. just my luck that i had to get this girl who had no sense of symmetry and didn't know how to thin out my hair. uggghhhh. i let her "layer" (if you could even call it that) my hair and "fix" it for the next hour or so, but the end product was still not much better. alas, i had to dash or i'll be late for class so that's that. what a disaster! i'm swearing off non-asian hair salons. those people should really go back to cosmetology school.

thanksgiving
like i mentioned before, i went to blythe for the entire weekend. 'twas a long break, had ample rest. and food omg!! :)) pictures up soon! i want more eggnog with rum! ;)

birthday
that day itself was uneventful. just work, and menstrual cramps. gahh! but i had lots of facebook birthday wishes, and a few birthday cards from important friends, so i'm okay. didn't feel completely deserted or forgotten. am thankful for my family, my brothers (whose bday card just arrived yesterday!), my friends who took the trouble to get me a card and send them by snail mail because they know i love it. more on birthday-related story in another post soon! i'll have to take pictures of the cards i got, my friends are funny. :P

Christmas
finally! this year i actually did something as opposed to the past Christmases whereby i just stayed at home not doing much. this year's Christmas was surrounded by lots of love and coziness in the little cocoon out in the desert. :) i can't ask for more. pictures of Blythe Christmas will be up soon too, in another post.

two-timer
sometime during the long holidays, i found out about certain scandals that i didn't know about and that i wished i didn't know. apparently it's been on-going for quite some time now, but nobody wants to be involved in it and so everyone pretty much chose to turn a blind eye on it. there's much dispute whether we as friends to all parties involved should interfere and warn the victim about what's going on. i personally think we should, because first of all what the other two did was wrong, and secondly the victim would find out one way or another anyway. it's just a matter of time. that being said, i haven't done anything yet. but i now have an utter distaste for that girl who could have stop all these from happening. please do not fend for them and say "not all things are black and white". it doesn't apply here. and on another note, i heard another similar story happened to a very close friend too. i hope he's coping well.

love and heartache
love can be so blind it sometimes makes you do stupid sh**. one wonders where the hell does one's common sense go, when it comes to that four-letter word. love can be possessive to the extent that it becomes toxic. then there are those who said "better to love and be loved, than not at all". i'm sure there's truth to it, but only when it's not the crazy intense feverish emotion that might take complete control of a person. and while i don't dispute the goodness that love brings to this world and our human race, i do think that sometimes it really is over-rated. (p.s. the love i'm talking about is strictly between man-woman kinda love, not the family love or friendship love etc) yet if you look closely, it's precisely this fiery intense love that most people, if not all, yearn for. the unrequited love is almost always more exciting and interesting, isn't it - notwithstanding the heartache it brings, that is. talk about irony!