this post is going to be split into two sections: music and skincare. (yes, skincare!)
i've come into this page nearly every single time i log into the internet, with the mind to blog today. but as uninteresting as my life can be, i always end up quitting the browser at the end of the day. you see, i looked at my list of things-to-do for post exams and i actually see them all ticked, except for getting a job of course. which im pretty helpless about it. so my life has been reduced to developing lazy bones, aimless and clueless everyday. even my upcoming birthday brings no excitement to me, and i blame it on being over 21. but it's also partly because i've NO LIFE currently. i wrote a new list of to-dos but i think the days of being useless have partly consumed me and rendered me unmotivated to start being useful again. ):
i've been hooked on the song 'bella luna' by jason mraz for a while. finally i went to search for the lyrics because i don't have anything more constructive to do online. and i read his little biography too. i very much agree that he's a poet song writer. and quote from him:
"it's important that i try to make a life rather than a living." easier said than done. so i spent my days recently admiring accomplished people who are doing what they love without compromising their lives, their person as a whole. but it so happens that they (johnny depp, linkin park, jason mraz..) are such talented people that such bliss won't happen to me. or have i yet to discover my own?
read through while listening to the song, it's beautiful.
Mystery the moon
A hole in the sky
A supernatural nightlight
So full but often right
A pair of eyes a closing one
A chosen child in golden sun
A marble dog that chases cars
To farthest reaches of the beach and far beyond into the swimming sea of stars
The cosmic fish they love to kiss
They're giving birth to constellations
No riffs and oh no reservation
If they should fall you get a wish or dedication
May I suggest you get the best
For nothing less than you and I
Let's take a chance as this romance is rising over before we lose the lighting
Oh bella bella please
Bella you beautiful luna
Oh bella do what you do
Do do do do do
You are an illuminating anchor
Of leagues to infinite number
Of crashing waves and breaking thunder
Tiding the ebb and flows of hunger
You're dancing naked there for me
You expose all memory
You make the most of boundary
You're the ghost of royalty imposing love
You are the queen and king combining everything
Intertwining like a ring around the finger, of a girl
I'm just a singer, you're the world
All I can bring ya
Is the language of a lover -------> fav part of the song.
Bella luna, my beautiful beautiful moon
How you swoon me like no other
May I suggest you get the best
Of your wish may I insist
That no contest for little you or smaller I
A larger chance yet, but all them may lie
On the rise, on the brink of our lives
Bella please
Bella you beautiful luna
Oh bella do what you do
Bella luna
My beautiful beautiful moon
How you swoon me like no other, oh oh oh
i promised you it's a beautiful song ain't it?
now onto the second part, skincare! more specifically, today im going to blog about sunscreens. girly post ahead again.
i was reading vivawoman (singaporean beauty blogger, read this instead of brainless posts like xiaxue's or some big boobs xiaoxiao lookalike girl!) and i discovered a link to the 50 most popular beauty blogs online. i've linked it on the sidebar. and then while randomly surfing some blogs, i came across this link:
EWG. turned out alot of commercially popular sunscreens are actually not recommended by the ewg, environmental working group. i was sad to see that my neutrogena spray mist and lip balm didnt make it cause they contained oxybenzone. more on this ingredient in
vivawoman. but i found my avene face sunscreen to be rated quite highly at level 3. 0 to 2 being recommended by ewg. as i love my avene sunscreen(thanks to sf's recommendation), the results only proves my judgement to be accurate. and also, before knowing all about this, i've already felt that the spray mist wasn't doing a good job. im actually getting darker recently. so now im on the search for a good body sunscreen and lip balm that gets approval from this organisation. i singled out
purple prairie as their sun pdts are organic and are both highly recommended. problem is, their international shipping costs usd 25 when their pdts are actually below usd 10. so im sad. anyone interested to spree from them? i guess not, given my very limited blog readership. so the search for alternatives go on.
some blogs i like from the top 50 list:
beautyaddict - love the website layout and colour scheme and amazed one can turn blogspot into such a comprehensive website
stylebakerybeauty - blog posts accompanied with pictures, makes reading very much like reading magazines
vivawoman - singaporean writer who prefers organic skincare
haven't yet explored most. tell me what you think! (:
updated at 3:51 PM.
