Lipstick

So i've finally have taken a little step further in the grown up woman work and purchased a couple of lipsticks. I bought a Coral & a bright red one labeled "Moulin Rouge." It's actually pretty fun to play with and adds some pop to any simple outfit. I definitely think every girl should own a lipstick to add some jazz and a rockin' pair of heels that make them feel like they own the place.

I'm still more of a lip balm and gloss kinda girl, so all this color is kinda crazy for me but I do definitely want to experiment with lipstick some more. I'll probably only wear the lipstick when i'm going out at night once in awhile, but I decided to try out the coral one in the daytime today. With my leather jacket, lipstick and pale skin, I kinda felt like a bad @$$ goth girl. Not really the look i'm going for but whatever, that's cool I suppose....hahaha  Anyways, I snapped a shot of myself with my phone while I was waiting for my friend in the car.

Kind of a lame update on my life...but at least you get to see my face? ^___________^ hahaha Ok as you can tell, i'm still as lame as ever.

Hair

Why can't my hair do something like that? I want to try that out someday, but too bad i'm too noob.

The Learning Curve

Oh man, i'm learning a lot these days. These days i've been observing more, people and their interactions and what they mean. Basically people watching, but up close. It's interesting. And I really want to start dressing up engineers and match making them. That would make me the happiest. It's seriously my dream job, especially in this land of Man Jose. I could call my matching making business D2M, Date 2 Mate. hahaha Okay, I could use a little more work on the title.

Magic Letdown

Sometimes I wish the Magic 8 ball could just answer all my questions, maybe if I shook it a little harder...

Haters Gonna Hate

So i've noticed that multiple people on Facebook have been posting the same Youtube videos. And what do those videos have in common? Cantonese girls.





Say whaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?! I know Cantonese girls do get kinda loud, but we're not like this! And actually the second video was staged because there's another clip out their of the same people doing basically the same thing in a different location. Weird.

I mean it's great that Cantonese girls are getting to be a little more known so it's not all about the Koreans, but this is just bad publicity. We used to just be known for dim sum and that Dim Sum lady song but I guess the Cantonese rep isn't really going anywhere up. People just be hatin' cause they jealous.

On a real note though, these videos were pretty entertaining to watch and there is a little truth to it from what i've seen when I studied abroad to Hong Kong. haha BUT THERE IS SO MUCH MORE TO CANTONESE GIRLS.

Uh....Cause I'm AWESOME?!?!

I have been referred to as the female version of Barney before. I am also labeled Robin in a group of my friends and we all know Robin is technically the female version of Barney. But being a female Barney is basically being a female douche. How awesome... hahaha But we all know I am not a female douche. O=) Perhaps it's my love for inappropriate jokes, corny jokes, dressing up, coining terms for the most absurd things,trying to make the most mundane things the most epic, having a hard exterior but soft interior, having a black brother or my love for laser tagging that has (laser) tagged (harhar) me a female Barney. I brought my women's small group  and brother small group to laser tagging once and they all loved it. They also all created their alias names as "Tiffany Wong #__" It wasn't fun getting shot by 23something different Tiffany Wongs. -____- I tried to choose "Mother Tersea" as my name,  but was sadly denied because religious figures are not allowed so I choose "Mommy's Home" instead. And just like Barney, I didn't restrain myself from shooting the little kids that were in the game with us. Hey, all is fair in love and laser tag!

On the another note, i've started to write "The Ho Code" in response to "The Bro Code" (which I have thanks to J.Tang who got it for me for my birthday). I'm not very far on it so if anyone would like to help contribute, do let me know!

Sympathy Vs. Compassion

"May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in."

- Mother Teresa

The one quality that i've always admired the most about Mother Teresa was her compassion for people. People are self indulgent and at most times, the most we can feel for one another is sympathy. With sympathy you are able to empathize with a person. Compassion is a whole other level of care, it's not only empathizing with a person but being able to share their pain as part of your own and doing something about it. Compassion comes from God's love. Compassion is this crazy love that our world could use. In today's world we are numb to each other's said and unsaid needs, the pains in each other lives. Abandoned children, single mothers, the bullied, the homeless, the neighbor with the daily bruises on her arm, the boy from the broken family, but i'm not saying that everyone must have an extreme case or a story, even a friend who holds this unshared shame in their heart, or the person who feels lonely or empty . Everyone has some sort of pain in their lives, we just don't take the time to care. We don't find the need to do so. We don't know how to love one other as God loves us.

The beautiful thing about compassion is that there is no hierarchy involved. It is pure love. I read this in a devotional I did awhile back and it really touched me. "God made His own Son 'to be sin' that He might make the sinner into a saint. It is revealed throughout the Bible that our Lord took on Himself the sin of the world through identification with us, not through sympathy for us. He deliberately took on His own shoulders, and endured in His own body, the complete, cumulative sin of the human race. 'He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us. . .' and by so doing He placed salvation for the entire human race solely on the basis of redemption."

Is that not beautiful? He did not feel sorry for us, but he wanted to identify with us. That's what made Jesus' death so meaningful, through him we are able to have a relationship with God because he died for our sins. As much as we want to feel unique and special in the world, we're ultimately looking for a connection. For someone to know what we're going through and not feel sorry for us, but to connect from it. We want someone to know who we are inside and out and still love us. God called us to be compassionate people. Compassion is not something you can learn or be taught. It's a heart matter. It's being transformed by God and living out His love in everyday life.

Mother Tersea is such an inspiration to me and I hope one day to have even a quarter of the compassion she had in her heart. 

Open the eyes of my heart Lord, break my heart for what breaks Yours.