Naith's Myst

When you really think about the new year... nothing new comes with it; your age keeps growing, you make new resolutions - often not accomplishing them and setting them aside for the next year that comes... life's problems keeps growing one after the other, and basically, everyone is hoping the following months in the "new" year aren't as horrible as the last year they've gone through...

So the resolution I have and have always set every year for myself since 2004, was to "go with the flow... and that whatever happens, happens." here's why:

• You can't change unless you want to change, you can't move forward until you yourself take the first step forward.
• People see people in terms of weakness, more, than the effort to uphold such strength... so when it comes to promises, I'm not making any - as a slight mistake brands me as weak, and people seem to believe they are better in keeping theirs once they know of your mistake.
• Disappointment is just an excuse of your actions that society generally pin-points the blame on your self-conscious. If you believe what you're doing is right, then it is - even though it leads to more challenges to solve; because you knew it was right at the time.
• What you do defines you. Should you strive to be someone else, you are but a mere shadow of their personality. Those people you've tried to follow in their footsteps have made themselves an example for you - therefore, you need to be as unique yourself in order to set an example to others.
• Nobody is perfect... being perfect only puts you into extreme pressure... you're going to shoot yourself in the foot... or go mad, trying to.
• Others will only be happy for you, not happy because of you. So if you're trying too hard to make others happy... the only person that wont be happy is you.

Makes sense to me... I've stuck with it since 2004. LOL.

Happy 2010! Lets hope the new year isn't like the last one.

In my previous post I wrote about winning the Love Note contest by The Body Shop, during the time they were sponsoring the Twilight: New Moon screening. Due to some rescheduling - I made arrangements with Rachel to collect it at their outlet in Center Point Sabah.

Its a 30ml bottle of Love Etc... Perfume. Once I got home I took the opportunity to test my product profiling shots with my camera... (I haven't made a large enough light box yet so I took these shots out in the open) I didn't take long though because dwenchan and I were called to attend the Christmas event at Buhavan Square in Donggongon.

I received a call coming from Rachel from The Body Shop around 2.30PM today - and she announced that I was the winner for their Love Etc. "Love Note" competition!

The "Love Note" contest was part of the "Love Etc..." fragrance promotion that was launched together with the sponsored screening for Twilight: New Moon; jointly sponsored by The Body Shop and Breeze Magazine. The idea? To write a romantic love message not more than 20 words. Apart from this contest, I wrote two articles about the entire event on my blog located here and here.

I recall being indecisive about taking part in the competition... but took part in it anyway after giving some thought... the funny and pretty stressful part of this experience was - I had to rush because they were closing the booth; packing up and leaving the cinema premises - as it was time for the screening to show!!! I was the last person to submit my entry...

... but all that squeezed-up stress of an effort, paid off rather well; good enough for my entry to win! I am to call and pick up my winnings from their office or one of their sales branches tomorrow.


I am wondering if there were other winners for this... or is this competition results in a sole winner?

With the new security measures being introduced by FaceBook, one of the undocumented features was that your personal information on FaceBook will be indexed by google search engines... if you do a search on your name in google and click on facebook links found by the search - you'll find out for yourself whether this feature should be off or not. In case you want to keep your facebook privacy from google's prying eyes, here's how to turn it off:

Malaysian Airlines recently introduced their mobile phone equivalent for their online booking portal.

The mobile service is ideal for people on the go - using their Internet-enabled mobile phones.

Less than 3 weeks and Christmas 2009 begins...

I just wanted to write about some true facts about Christmas... mainly about the iconic figure: Santa Claus.

Historial Similarities
Santa Claus is said to exist; resembling the Bishop, Saint Nicholas (Nicholas of Myra/Turkey) who is known to the people of his time as a patron Saint of giving... so based on this fact, he does not give only toys to children. A well known story of his legendary deeds was that he was said to give dowries to help three poor daughters belonging to a very poor but devoted Christian family so they would get married legitimately without ending up becoming prostitutes (selling girls for money leading to underaged prostitution is practised even to this day in various parts of the middle east, India and Asia)

Saintly Cause
St. Nicholas is a saint often prayed to, for the protection of certain countries (Russian and Greek), children, sailors, prisoners, bakers, pawnbrokers, shopkeepers and animal creatures (mainly wolves).

Manner of Dressing
The only reason why Santa Claus looks the way we see him now - is because his appearance is a combination of old traditions and religions: Christian, Pagan, Old Catholic, Scandinavian, Dutch, German and English.