bag woman March 18, 2010

i bought a new handbag! i didn’t intend to. in fact, i told myself that i wouldn’t. at the cashier, i saw it looking at me. it looked so old fashioned, but in the coolest possible way. it was a rich red brown handbag, with faded gold buckles and a vintage aura about it. i succumbed.

oh my. it’s mine! :)

i bought 3 yummy books that i’m going to be lost in for the next few days! two my murakami and one cat book. i have a feeling i’m going to really like this author (based on a few very promising flips in the bookstore).

yum! nice bag and nice books. i’m happy.

on irrational fears March 13, 2010

yesterday i got my first eyelash curler.  you know, those things that look like instruments of torture from the medieval ages.

don’t be fooled by its pretty golden sheen.

i don’t know about you ppl out there, but i’ve always had a fear of these contraptions because they look like they could cause a lot of pain if you accidentally crimped your eyelids along with your eyelashes.  ow.

well, i bought some makeup yesterday and this curler came in the set that i bought so i decided to try it out.  i don’t think my eyes are particularly big (thanks to my genes..) and to top it off i have dark eye circles (concealer rocks) and apparently curling your eyelashes makes your eyes appear “wider, brighter and longer”, though i’m not sure why i want my eyes to look longer.

this is an example of  successfully-curled eyelashes:

but mine ended up looking rather different coz i didn’t dare to clamp too near to the eyelids.  wordpress is not allowing me to upload a picture i drew on paint to illustrate my point.  just as well, so no one gets to laugh too much at my expense.  haha.

well, since we are on the topic of irrational fears, did you know that there is such a phobia as a fear of flutes?

it’s called aulophobia.

if anyone who is reading this has aulophobia, please forgive me, but i found it rather amusing that a person can get tunnel vision, jelly legs and rapid heartbeat from this musical instrument.

and since i didn’t have anything better to do (well, actually i do.  but i’m digressing) i decided to google “phobia of pianos”.  well, it turns out that nobody is afraid of pianos (or maybe they’re too terrified to admit it) and there isn’t a name for “fear of pianos”.  i guess i should be happy.  haha.

ok, i can’t resist this but did you know that there is a phobia of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth?  don’t believe me?  it’s called arachibutyrophobia.

do you have an irrational fear?

on being loved March 8, 2010

sunday was a pretty full on but great day! as usual i had to get up early and go to church for sound check and practice at 815. on my way driving to church i felt so much love from God. it was a really good feeling. :) wow, how do you describe love?  it wasn’t because i felt that i had a really spiritual week or anything.  i think my week was filled with the usual ups and downs.  it wasn’t because i was going to serve Him in church, or because i woke up early to do it.   (kind of not so easy for me to do, to put it mildly)

i think it was because my mind and heart was finally quiet enough for me to sense my Father’s approval and love for me.  have you ever been loved unconditionally?  i highly recommend it.  :) it has nothing to do with how good i am or try to be.  (thankfully!)

well, my hypothesis is that to understand something, you have to go to the source, the person that invented it, whose idea it was in the first place.

This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.  1 John 3:16

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.  John 15:13

Did you get how amazing that was?  Jesus laid down his life for me and calls me his friend!  He paid a terrible price for the freedom and love i now experience.  i don’t know a lot of other people who would do that for me.