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I just finished reading Veronika Decides to Die.. and I hated the ending. Don't get me wrong, I love the book until that part.

Some points I've noticed:

1. Feminine worship is a common theme in Paulo Coelho's books - By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept and Veronika Decides to Die

2. It can be discerned from his books that Paulo Coelho is a romantic (aaww... I'm just not sure if he's a hopeless one =D)

3. The first Paulo Coelho book I loved and hated was Eleven Minutes. I loved it except for the ending. This (Veronika Decides to Die) is the second (I just have to reiterate this, hehe)

Labels: books

I've recently decided to switch my beauty regimen from using a hypoallergenic baby soap (yes I know, it's not my age group anymore, but it works - well, before anyway) and Mary Kay moisturizer to well some products that are more suitable for my age group (I'm not pretentious anymore), products that can easily be bought from stores (Mary Kay products can only be bought from direct sellers and costs an arm!) and are of course, more affordable.


Since I'm hearing a lot of good things from The Face Shop, the Korean beauty line who recently opened shop here in the Philippines, I decided to give it a try. For facial wash, I decided to try out their Organature line and got the one with detoxifying nuts. Tried this out for a few weeks and well, it was good/ok in the sense that I didn't break out or anything. Next, for moisturizer, I tried out their Dewy flower emulsion

(seen here in toner, can't find the emulsion one), which didn't really satisfy me. I didn't break out or anything (thank heavens!) but it doesn't seem to do much for my skin, or the little pimples I'm prone to having (unlike Mary Kay before). Also, I'm not really sure if the product has SPF protection, which is a must-have for today's season (or even any season for that matter). So I then gave this to my Mom, who seems to be quite hiyang to it and switched to

Olay Total Effects. Yey for the powers of advertising. But so far so good. It seems better than the Dewy Flower Emulsion (or is that pyschological.. hehe)

I'm still using Face Shop's Organature cleanser, Phytogenic face powder and cheek tint though.

Labels: beauty

I'm currently reading Paulo Coelho's Veronika Decides to Die. And it seems like all of us have to be a little crazy in order to really live. It makes sense in a weird way.

And wondered why the QWERTY keyboard is like that? I've always wondered why the inventor/s of the typewriter did not arrange the keys alphabetically to make typing easier. The book explains it too:

The first [typewriting] machine was invented by Christopher Sholes, in 1873, to improve on calligraphy, but there was a problem: If a person typed very fast, the keys got stuck together and stopped the machine from working. Then Sholes designed the QWERTY keyboard, a keyboard that would oblige typists to type more slowly.
Source: Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho, p. 167

And the QWERTY stuck because if they changed it now, no one would buy the product because people just got used to the QWERTY keyboard. And they can type on it fast now too.

I wonder if that's true. If it is, its kind of weird, because whenever we ask why keys on the keyboard are not arranged alphabetically, we would always just assume that it's arranged in a way that would enable persons to type faster. And not the other way around. Crazy huh

Labels: books, trivia

Before anything else, let me introduce you to my weapon in blogging:

lookie lookie

I know it's a sucky picture, but whatevs. I love the subject, hehe

It's my baby: HP500. Features include a 14" widescreen, wifi and scroll touchpad. It's quite obvious I'm not a techie

Labels: laptop