Intoxi'Kath'ing Whispers

Do you know what's the most important thing you can have for yourself and which no one can take it away from you? Self-esteem and self-motivation. It's certainly not easy when you are constantly being bombarded by annoying gimmicks and advertisements depicting thin women with two huge melons as being the picture perfect beauty. I mean, it's picture perfect alright but not necessarily real-life perfect. Heck, it's not even real. Being called fat or being poked fun at is definitely not helping either. I have a healthy BMI value, I look good and yet people are saying I am fat. What the hell??!! I am not being vain and yet I am not being self-delusional. I know I am not fat and neither am I thin. But then again, it's also a relative judgment. Hey, if I stood next to Naomi Campbell, then for sure I am fat as hell. If I stood next to Queen Latifah, it's a different story altogether. So? Who gives anyone the right to say who is fat or not? Or rather who has ...

I love the tune of this song!!! Sung by Guy Sebastian and Paulini. This was the theme song for the World Youth Day 2008 which was held in Sydney. It's an event where Catholic youths from all over the world gather together to get to know each other, have fun and of course to praise and glorify God!!! As usual, me being me, wanted to go but let something else withheld her back. Third year of studies. Sigh. Now I think of it, could I still have caught up with my studies had I left for Sydney for that two weeks??? Maybe... But it's hard to say. Well, fret not. WYD will be held again next year!!! This time in Madrid, Spain! I plan to make it one of my goals to achieve. Work hard, save hard and play hard. I hope I can get to go this time. Yes, I can do it. :)

On Thursday, I felt humbled by a simple yet a great experience. A customer entered our shop, looking at the variety of workout that gloves we had. His back facing towards me, I greeted him courteously and informed him that we had more variety of gloves at the other side of the shop. I was ignored. A few minutes later, he turned, smiled at me and walked to the back of the shop where my other colleague was standing. As he was looking at a particular product, my colleague informed him of the promotions we had going on for it. She was also ignored. Being ignored the first time, I was a bit annoyed. (I was wondering why was the customer a bit rude.) But I continued to smile and put on my cheerful expression. (Haha, don't we all??). He suddenly grabbed a shaker and looked towards me. I said, "It's 20 Ringgit, sir." Immediately, he used hand gestures to indicate he couldn't hear. Realization dawned on me and I quickly went over to where he was. I answered him usi...