Daihatsu Materia

In the midst of struggling with my Car Watch for this Sat, I suddenly realised that I've forgotten to post my last motoring review here.

Introducing the new Daihatsu Materia!!!!

http://www.mypaper.sg/myvodcast/20070511car_a/20070511car_main.html

This car had me at hello... it's super unique looking & drives pretty well too, love the huge backseat space & the super beng interior blue neon lights. Just that it's a little pricey and insurance for it will set me back $2800 a year... ouch...

Think i'll probably have to stick to cabs for a considerable while judging by the way COE is heading north....

in the meantime, i better concentrate on my review since i didn't manage to win the $6.2m toto (first time i bought toto on my own! but of cuz全军覆没...)

mortician-to-be

I think i really can consider becoming a mortician if I ever get sick of journalism...

Usually if I don't have to go out on assignments I don't bother with make up, esp on gym days like today... a colleague couldn't recognise me until I came up close and she said i looked plain. Guess i must have done a good job with my paintworks when I do it.

Don't get me wrong, I wasn't offended at all... but it set me off thinking why many women can't leave without makeup...probably cuz it works like a mask, shielding away all imperfections and to some extent hide emotions (puffy swollen eyes)...

Coinicidentally, one of my fav blogs, All Men Are Liars, touched on this topic as well...pretty gd read, check it out:
http://blogs.smh.com.au/lifestyle/allmenareliars/archives/2007/05/makeup_and_the_veil_same_diffe.html

Disclaimer: going by the title of the blog, i must set the record straight tt i'm no feminist and the writer is actually a guy...

excerpt:
"Women have a fascinating relationship with makeup, with many viewing it as a godsend, others an imposition and some, an unhealthy obsession.

We've all heard stories about (or dated) the insecure woman who couldn't go down the shops without first applying her lipstick and foundation, but what does it say about the world we live in that even female teens with flawless skin feel they're not complete without their Bonne Bell?

Keep in mind, up until last century makeup was known as "paint" and associated with either prostitution or the theatre. Respectable women did not wear it.

"Reddened cheeks and darkened eyelids were signs of female vice, and the 'painted woman' provoked disgust and censure from the virtuous," says historian Kathy Peiss.

In 1964, sexologists Harry Benjamin and R.E.L. Masters claimed that lipstick wearing had its origins with prostitutes in the Middle East as it was "supposed to make the mouth resemble the vulva and it was first worn by those females who specialised in oral stimulation of the penis."

There seems little doubt that women, at least in part, wear makeup to increase their sexual desirability to men and also to avoid the aspersions of "leso" and "old maid" associated with not wearing it....."


The comments are pretty interesting as well...totally agree with the first one, "I don't really care what anyone else thinks. It is my shield against the world."