My Fluffy Life~

Do you sometimes feel envy of your peers that seem to be much better off that you today? Whether it was in term of career, financial, family, love or personal achievement? 

My mother said “Do not compare between people or else you’ll never be happy” and how true it is. I heard of an ex schoolmate that earned twice as much as me in other country and it makes me green with envy. 

Did she put more effort in her career or does she trades in more time than me? However it is of different industry and I guess I should be grateful of what I have now. After all, I have many friends who are not even at my level yet. =)

As I was walking home from work, I was thinking how unfair it is that some people just look so beautiful and others are ugly. And don’t you tell me that appearance is not important at all, what matters is the heart. All of us know that to a certain level, appearance does matters, in fact a lot in this materialistic world.

So I was thinking that if everyone looks equally beautiful or equally ugly, then the world is not going to be interesting at all, right? And yeah, I got a point there, or so I thought.But hey, if you are the ugly one, how interesting could the world be? It would only be interesting if you are the pretty one and get more attention than others, no? 

So, conclusion is, the world is unfair after all. Some people are born with silver spoons in their mouth, the others? Not even a spoon?

I have been using my hometown mattress for almost 15 years, since I moved in to the house. I remembered my parents bought it from the lorry that roam around selling mattress. Thus the quality wasn’t a good one.

For the first few years we moved into the house, I slept on a lower bunk of double decker bed. As the weather was hot, I couldn’t really feel the wind from the ceiling fan as the upper bunk was hindering the wind from getting to my body.Thus I slept at one side of the mattress, the outer part as it was warmer on the inside.After a couple of years, one side of the mattress is flattened while the other side is not which made the mattress uneven. I have not slept under on the double decker bed for a long time as we have dismantle it, both side by side now. But I was still using the uncomfy mattress for a long time, many years to come.
My mother called me just now and told me that she has replaced the mattress for me with a good quality mattress! I am happy to hear that and felt touch that she cares after all. =)

An old schoolmate buzzed me in messenger and we haven’t been talking for a long time, since she got married last year. It was nice to update with an old friends about lots of stuffs. We talked about our lives, jobs, travel and others. She suddenly told me that she wants to learn soft skill, people skill.

I asked her how she intends to do so. By experience, she replied.

What she meant by soft skill was being pretentious and I was surprise to hear that.I hate pretentious people who are faking all the time.

She said it is essential to survive in big company as she always thought that capable person was good enough but she realized that it isn’t true. Well, I just hope that she would use her ‘soft skill’ in her career and not to the people around home or else she wouldn’t survive friendship and family. =)

Over the weekend, I went shopping with both of my two best friends, looking for tinted moisturiser. I went to many counters like Estee Lauder, Shiseido, Clinique, Stilla, Bobby Browns and some others. Only three has tinted moisturiser and I had the promoter tried the for me. 

It is the first time I see it and I felt that it is not up to my expectation. I mean I suppose it will works well but somehow I felt that it is almost same like foundation but perhaps more moisturising. And I have to apply loose powder on it as well and remove with make up remover. 

Which makes me think why do I want to have it at the first place? Why don’t I use my existing foundation? Well I guess I am just lazy and I thought tinted moisturiser is a way out. Apparently not. And I have not buy it yet. Maybe I would. Maybe not. =)

I realised that I have been grinding teeth in my sleep and this freak me out a little. I do not know how long it has been going on but I’ve been told that I’ve been grinding for 3 consecutive nights.Is this due to stress, fatique or braces?

I am not so sure and thus I googled about the condition and found that it is labelled as Bruxism. It can cause fracturing, loosening or even loss of teeth! My goodness!

Apart from that, it could also affect jaws, result in hearing loss and change the appearance of the face.Some tips that I found out on how to prevent teeth grinding is as below :

- Avoid or cut back on foods and drinks that contain caffeine, such as colas, chocolate, and coffee.

- Avoid alcohol. Grinding tends to intensify after alcohol consumption.

- Do not chew on pencils or pens or anything that is not food. Avoid chewing gum as it allows your jaw muscles to get more used to clenching and makes you more likely to grind your teeth.

- Train yourself not to clench or grind your teeth. If you notice that you clench or grind during the day, position the tip of your tongue between your teeth. This practice trains your jaw muscles to relax

- Relax your jaw muscles at night by holding a warm washcloth against your cheek in front of your earlobe.

The only time I wear a glasses is when I am using the computer. I made a pair of computer glasses to prevent radiation five years ago when I started working and have to face the computer for a minimum of 8 hours a day and sometimes I face it for more than 12 hours! *gasp*

Thus, I try to minimize any impact with wearing glasses, although I am not sure if it really helps with the amount of time I use the pc. In the middle of the glasses there are two rubbers that support the glass by the arch of your nose.The other day, one of the rubbers dropped and lucky thing I saw it. So I put it back myself and used it as normal for about a week. Whenever I used too long, I felt uncomfortable around the side of the nose, where the rubber was pressing it. I have to take it out for a while.

Today again, I felt uncomfortable after using for 2 hours and I took out my glasses, only to notice that I put the little rubber the wrong way!!! No wonder the discomfort..

I climbed up to my bed early yesterday night at 10.30pm, which was more than an hour earlier than usual. I wanted to get more sleep as I felt that I was lacking of it.

Though there were some noises from outside which prevented me from having a sound sleep before midnight, nevertheless I felt that I have slept enough by 8am the next day.

However my mind is not as active as I expected it to be today. I made some silly mistakes and thinking the system is wrong instead! Only to find out that it was my carelessness when I checked with my colleague and I felt so embarrassed. Well, apparently more sleep doesn’t make me more alert and active!

Have you done something bad that you didn’t realise? For example throwing something precious of someone you love without knowing it?

Well I did. It makes me so guilty although it was a pure accident. I didn’t expect it to happen and I didn’t even know about what I did until it was way too late. It’s like a Black Friday. =)

I felt so guilty after that and I couldn’t bear to tell her about it as I fear it would make her even sadder. Oh, what am I to do? 

Have you ever noticed that if you do not monitor the date/day, it creeps very fast without you realizing it? Yes, in just a whoosh, it’s already Sept 2008 and ending of it!

Man, I thought 2009 has just arrived the day before and now it’s already end of the year without having me doing a lot of stuffs and appreciating the days. And so my age climb steadily and the time flies really so fast, I don’t know what it is chasing after. Christmas, again? 

I wonder if I take one day at a time, will it still pass me by so speedily and greedily?  I read that time seems to pass faster when we fall into everyday routine and doing nothing new. Maybe that’s true and well, I don’t know how to stop it.

Time ain’t waiting for no one..