Hey all, just a quick post for the video of Carnival. I decided to do an Outfit of the Day and Face of the Day with Ashley, but I didnt thing to take pictures too, hahaha. Anyway, everything’s in the video.
PS: Don’t worry about when the camera zoomed in and out and my speech got cut out, I didn’t say anything important lol.
That’s all for now! ^__^
Hey guys another overdue post, this is on a short series of make up looks for valentines inspired by some crazy conversations my friends and I had. So we did two videos, one look was more sultry (Let’s Take This to another Level) and the other was more cute and playful (More than Just Friends).
There are different levels of love and the Greek words for love show these levels. (adapted from Wikipedia)
Storge means “affection” in ancient and modern Greek. It is natural affection, like that felt by parents for offspring. Rarely used in ancient works, and then almost exclusively as a descriptor of relationships within the family.
Philia means friendship in modern Greek. It is a dispassionate virtuous love, a concept developed by Aristotle. It includes loyalty to friends, family, and community, and requires virtue, equality and familiarity. In ancient texts, philos denoted a general type of love, used for love between family, between friends, a desire or enjoyment of an activity, as well as between lovers.
Agápe means “love” (brotherly love) in modern day Greek, such as in the term s’agapo, which means “I love you”. In Ancient Greek, it often refers to a general affection or deeper sense of “true love” rather than the attraction suggested by “eros“.
Éros is passionate love, with sensual desire and longing. The Modern Greek word “erotas” means “intimate love;” however, eros does not have to be sexual in nature.Eros can be interpreted as a love for someone whom you love more than the philia, love of friendship. It can also apply to dating relationships as well as marriage.
Eros was the Greek god of sexual love and beauty and sometimes was worshipped as a fertility god. His Roman counterpart is Cupid, also know as desire, the son of Venus and Mars. In some myths, Eros is referred to as the son of Aphrodite and Ares.
(adapted from Plato’s Philosophy on Eros)
Eros also called marital love, is passionate love, with sensual desire and longing. Plato refined the concept of eros. Although it is initially felt for a person, with deeper thought it becomes an appreciation of the beauty within that person, or even becomes appreciation of beauty itself. Plato does not talk of physical attraction as a necessary part of love, hence the use of the word platonic to mean, “without physical attraction”. Plato also said Eros helps the soul remember beauty, and contributes to an understanding of spiritual truth. Lovers and philosophers are all inspired to tell the truth by eros, the god of love.
As Plato suggests, learn to appreciate the beauty from within and let your beauty shine from the inside out and hopefully you will find that special someone, if you haven’t already. By doing that, I believe even an “unattractive” person can be ask beautiful as a beauty queen/king in your eyes.
More than Just Friends:
Hey everyone, another week has just flew past and another has just begun. Hope you all had a great week and weekend as well.. I know I did.
Well this week was quite hectic actually, lots of work to do. I had a Chemistry test first thing Monday morning.. what a way to start the week, sigh… but it went pretty well. Our tutors in charge of labs have been messing us up quite a bit.. returning books late and then marking them like crazy people, I hope it gets sorted out this week, my friend still hasn’t gotten their lab book from LAST WEEK! Talk about crazy late! On the bright side, the Chemistry labs were satisfyingly easier than the previous week’s labs… SCORE!
I finally switched the time of my Biology class (Yay no more late evenings!!!), but I couldn’t find it this week, so next week I’ll try hard to be there =). Biology labs from last week were also a bit stressful at the end.. time was running out and I started to panic because my results were coming out really weird. But thanks to my really cool lab partner and we were able to finish AND clean up in time ^_^.
On Saturday I finally cut my hair!! I had planned to do it earlier, like in September, but my hair still looked too short (it’s texturised, but my hair is really unruly haha). No one believed I would do it, not even my sister! But I showed them :P. I’m thinking if I should post before and after pictures here, comment before and tell me if I should. I was planning this change from long hair for quite some time actually, I’m pretty happy with the results and hope that my hair texture experiment comes out well.
Also on Saturday, my family (Dad, Mom, Sister and me of course :P) went to dinner at Sitar with my Great-Uncle and his family (cousins hehe). Sitar is a traditional Indian cuisine restaurant with an extensive menu worth the buck… let’s just say that by the end of the night it was a wonder how we were able to move from our seats. The food was really good and the service was just as good. Sitar is located in 2nd Street St.James in case you would like to visit it, It’s a bit chilly inside because of the air conditioning (although they did raise the temperature when we asked) so I would advise carrying a light jacket.
So for starters we had some Chicken and Vegetable Samosas, these were packed with filling and tasted amazing! We also had some Daal Vada (split pea patties), Onion fritters (can’t remember the real name) and a variaty of condiments: a tomato-based sauce (one of my favourites), yogurt and cucumber sauce (very nice), coconut and onion sauce, chopped onions, mango chutney (delicious!). And of course NAN bread! We also had Pappadums which is like the Indian equivalent to prawn crackers, but it was huge, bigger than my face! It was very light , like a snack but not too salty.
For the main course, I had Chicken Tikka Masala… yum, with basmati rice (not so much a fan of this type of rice but it went well with the dish).It wasn’t over overpoweringly spicy, just nice and mellow. Tasted great!
My dad, mum, great-uncle .. in fact most of the adults had Chicken Tandoori which came in a hot.. now when I say hot I mean so hot that sizzling and popping sounds were coming from the dish ( I think it was a cast iron dish), even the sauce was bubbling! see what I mean here:
My sister had some green goop… when not really green goop but it looked pretty um.. I’ll just let you judge for yourself. It was called Beef Saag (spinach-based sauce) and she seemed to like it…I didnt dare touch it.. for fear I would be taking in by it like one of those Calvin & Hobbes comics. hahahaha. Take a look yourself.
Yup and that was pretty much my weekend, excluding my many hours of catching up on notes, writing up biology labs and doing miscellaneous classwork and chores.
How was your weekend, and what’s your take on Indian cuisine? Like it, hate it, never had it.. couldn’t be bothered? Drop me a line anyway =) I’d love to hear from you. Until then,I’ll leave you with this fun blast from the past haha: Calvin Food Struggle !
BYYYYEEEEE!
Hiiii, I’m the Sour JellyBean, new to blogging, but I hope to share some of my experiences with others.
About me:
I’m female, 18 years old and I live in the beautiful island of BARBADOS!! (wow this is really sounding robotic 😐 ..ah well ). I lovvvve Asian dramas and can be kind sarcastic lol. I recently watched Gourmet and Autumn’s Concerto.. they were awesome!! I may do a review on them later.
My Hopes for this blog:
So I may just be using this blog to talk about dramas, TV shows, fashion, make-up, photography, techie stuff haha… maybe I’ll just go off in a rant, but stay tuned, I’ll try to keep posting about new things every week or more than that :). Comment whenever you’d like about whatever you’d like and I’m open to any suggestions for the content of this blog and appreciate feedback and clarification when necessary.
Here’s a picture of a bit of Barbados’ beauty. Photo credit: Sour JellyBean
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