Beauty myth

Today in our crisis lecture, my lecturer instead of telling us how to manage crisis, he told us about a crisis which is happening in Malaysia right now. Which is the beauty myth.
Beauty Myth is a book written by Naiomi Woolf.
What does Beauty means to you? According to ww.dictionary.com , Beauy is define as "the quality that gives pleasure to the mind or senses and is associated with such properties as harmony of form or color, excellence of artistry, truthfulness, and originality."
I guess its safe to say that its an ecstasy feeling which one has when one view another person or object etc.
But how do you measure beauty?How can you say that one is beautiful to this extent and the other is not?
Funny, our world right now i teaching us to be beautiful and too look at the contextual of who people are. you can see in Tv, Movies and even advertisement, that you have to be pretty with this figure to be called a beauty. song lyrics sings about people wanting to have Angelina 's lips, Jennifer Lopezs figure and Jessica Alba's sexsiness.
Is that what you want your next generation to see themselves? the context and not the contentual?
People nowadays are so conformed into being beautiful that they would go to the extent of starving themselves to be skinny, to have that beautiful figure, women would rather spent millions and thousand of money to do plastic surgery. in the end does this starvation, plastic surgery and torture to your body makes you beautiful? Is it worth it?
I believe that everyone is beautiful! Why?:Because you are specially made, by God's own hands, each of you.Yes! i mean YOU are made in God's image. I believe that everytime God finish making one person, He would look at you with those proud eyes and say that you are my precious.
Therefore all of us ARE beautiful and we should focus on the inside of a person than the outside. We should be contentual than contextual!

Life

Someone once ask me, What are the things that really matter in life? family?friends?money?career? etc etc etc... To tell you the truth,i have never thought of that before.
What things really matter to me in life? Have you ever tought bout it?

Darkangel

Its night again, where darkness surrounds you and evil comes out to harm. She put on her fighting black leathery suit and cloak on, a black cold metal covering her face but not long enough to cover her eyes, her enchanting everychanging eyes. Her long black sword straped behind her. yet another night to fight, fight for the peace of the world, ofr it to be safe from THEM.
She can smell THEM moving in the darkness, putting thier long shrap nails onto human flesh,consuming them in the darkness. Her heart race and her spirit moves in her making her wanting to draw her sword and push it into thier pathetic body.
She works alone, never believed in working with other. Too much hasle, got to take care of the other, too much feelings involved too, people may die and things will get messy.
Its time...She must move fast, into the darknes she soar drawing her sword to fight...

Promise

You promise to stand by me forever,
You promised to protect me always,
You promise to be the pillar to hold me when i'm falling,
You promise to comfort me when i'm sad,
You promise to laugh with me when i'm happy,
You promise to never leave me,
you promise, and you promised...
But now,
I got to learn to stand on my own two feet,
I got to learn to fight,
I got to learn to crawl back up on my own,
I got to learn to not shed a tear,
I got to learn to laugh on my own,
I got to learn to continue living by myself,
All because you broke your promises and left...

10.07.06's first reading

Hosea 2:16, 17c-18, 21-22

Thus says the LORD:
I will allure her;
I will lead her into the desert
and speak to her heart.
She shall respond there as in the days of her youth,
when she came up from the land of Egypt.

On that day, says the LORD,
She shall call me “My husband,”
and never again “My baal.”

I will espouse you to me forever:
I will espouse you in right and in justice,
in love and in mercy;
I will espouse you in fidelity,
and you shall know the LORD.

Too late?

I finally pluged the courage to go for confession today!I have been wanting to go for confession for months, but when i reach church, looking at the confession booth, my legs just suddenly have a mind of its own and walk the other way. I don't know is it because i am afraid, afraid to let God or anybody see the dark side of me. Or is the devil in me keeping me calling me away?
Anewey, after draging my feet and forcing myself, i finally made up my mind and went for confession. BUT...unlucky me, when i line up for confession, suddenly they tells me that times up, its time for mass so no more confession! -_-
Haihz...m too late again...
I wonder would it be too late for God to wash this dirty soul clean?

Willing to change

Jesus, I know that your gospel is meant to transform lives. Come, Lord, and let your word penetrate my heart, so that I can see your love and tender care. Lord, help me turn from sin and embrace your life. My heart is open, and my spirit is willing.
- Our Daily Bread 6/7/06 -

Amos 5:14-15,21-24 - Today's reading (5 july 2006)

Am 5:14-15, 21-24

Seek good and not evil,
that you may live;
Then truly will the LORD, the God of hosts,
be with you as you claim!
Hate evil and love good,
and let justice prevail at the gate;
Then it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts,
will have pity on the remnant of Joseph.

I hate, I spurn your feasts, says the LORD,
I take no pleasure in your solemnities;
Your cereal offerings I will not accept,
nor consider your stall-fed peace offerings.
Away with your noisy songs!
I will not listen to the melodies of your harps.
But if you would offer me burnt offerings,
then let justice surge like water,
and goodness like an unfailing stream.

I find that after i started to work in the corporate\entertainment\PR company, that sometimes i tend to be conformed to the world. To do things that they might think its ok like to cover up some figures so that we would not need to pay more, to do things or act in a certian way to please people, to say things which you know is not true, to cover up your mistakes so that you dont look bad etc etc etc. I realised that by doing so i lose touch of my real self and God.
This pasage reminds the importants of living an excellence lifestyle as a catholic, we have to seek good and not evil. This would include not to participate in any activities which i know is not good and may harm my relationship with God, or change God's perspective of me from good to bad.
It also reminds me that i have to stand up and seek justice, or not whatever that i do in church would be nothing to God. Heck it might even be a sore in God's eyes.
I pray Lord that you would give me the courage to stand up for You and for justice. Help me and remind me to seek good and to be good. Amen!