Beauty Secrets

Having a beautiful face and body is a gift from GOD. But the fact that your appearance can now be enhanced and change for you to look prettier is what technology made these days. It’s not bad being beautiful because it can actually make you proud of yourself and make you feel more confident. But don’t ever forget that like beautiful flowers in autumn it will fade away when spring comes. Same as beauty when we grow old it will definitely fade away. No matter what we do and even what technology can do to make us beautiful, the fact that people is aging cannot be change.

So, is it important that we’re spending lot of money for us to be beautiful? Maybe… it can buy you an imported cream with anti aging effects or maybe a drug that can make you sexy or even a bleaching powder that can give you a fair skin/complexion. Whatever it is you wanted to enhance to yourself the question still remains, is that really important?

I’ve listed my 5 simple tips that can help people to become beautiful without spending money to afford a “BEAUTIFUL SELF”. 

1. Accept who you are and be yourself.

Sometimes we think that we wanted to become just like our idol. It is not bad to idolize people but if you just imitate them and act just like them that is WRONG! Because it is not helping you to accept who you are and to show who you really are. It’s just making you frustrated on the things you don’t have because you are looking at the wrong picture. Acceptance of yourself and showing your true self is truly important because the first step to become beautiful is to know yourself. Be happy and satisfy of the things you have and “Accept and Love yourself first for you to be accepted and loved by others”. This way of thinking will help you to become confident and this attitude will makes you beautiful.  

2. Build a good character

People are just looking for beautiful faces. Sometimes people failed to look at people’s heart which is the most important of all. Nowadays, it’s very easy to change your appearance and to enhance your beauty but I ask you. Is that the totality of who you really are? People might like you because you are beautiful but when they get to know you and you’re character is not beautiful just like your face they might leave you behind. Building a good character is the beautiful thing you can achieve and have. You can change and enhance your character without spending large sum of money but just doing the right thing to do, helping, caring, sharing and loving other people. That will definitely make you “BEAUTIFUL”!

Say NO! NO! to these things.

3. Taking Care of oneself (avoiding drugs and alcoholic drinks)

If you really want to become beautiful you should take care of yourself. We all know that we’re not always young and healthy. So sometimes people wanted to experience and explore things (even if it is a bad habit) as long as they’re young and healthy but this is very “WRONG!” There is a saying in tagalog language “Kung anong itinanim siyang aanihin!” That means what you did when you’re young the result will be shown when you’re old. People are naturally strong and healthy when they’re young but when people grow old their body becomes weak. Our body is the most important thing we should take care of and this can be done when we’re still young and not when we’re already old. For us to become beautiful we shouldn’t forget that the system inside our body is most important than what’s outside. So if we care of how we look outside then we should care most of what our body looks like inside!

Simple and Easy

4. Practice good hygiene

Practicing good hygiene has been taught to us since we’re a child. Hygiene is important because if we smell and look clean people will like us eventually. It is not hard and it can’t cost too much when we practice good hygiene. Just take a bath regularly, brush your teeth and change clean clothes. Those things can make you beautiful and confident about yourself.

If you have problems about hygiene (body odour, bad breath, lice, dandruff, pimples etc) you should not take it for granted. Consult your doctor immediately because it is important to cure those problems right away before it’s too late.  

5. Exercise and Balance diet

We should not be too lazy. Sometime a 15 minute walk in the park or just riding in our bicycle can do you good. Simple stretching can do well to your muscles and can help your metabolism work faster. Engaging yourself in sports or recreational things can help you not only in exercising but also in having rapport with other people.

Balance diet is knowing the things you should eat and the things you should avoid. It is not bad eating the food we are craving and love the most but we should have control and we should know the limit. Even our stomach has its limitation. So we should help our body and our body will help us in return. Knowing the food we should eat or ingest inside our body will make us strong and healthy. Exercising and having a balance diet will make you stay healthy and beautiful inside and out.

These five things are so simple yet people failed to follow it and they just care about what people see. But the most important is what people can’t see and that is our personality or simply our “SELF”. If you love yourself people will surely love you too. It doesn’t matter how you look, it doesn’t if you’re not perfect, it doesn’t what your status is, but what matters most is achieving a good self and helping your self in achieving good things as long as you’re living.

I’ve met some who’s happy and content to themselves although they’re not that pretty. People love them not because of their faces but because of their character. And thus our God love us and see us with equality. He made us not perfect for us to know what the most important thing we should look at and have… and that’s a good heart and spirit!

SMILE JUST LIKE HIM!

and.... don't ever forget to....

My Battles

 

I’ve learn that you should always be prepared of what lies ahead

You have to anticipate things before it happens

You have to always condition your heart and mind

You need lot of faith and hope to surpass obstacles in your life

90 percent of my life was spend in sorrow and grief

And 10 percent of my life was spend in 1 hour of happiness

I can’t escape my loneliness and heartaches even if I try to run it

And Even if I try to smile and laugh about  it

It’s just “My Heart Will Never Lie”

It can't hide the truth I feel inside...

I wonder if I’ll able to conquer all the things I’m going through right now...

But it hurts deeper when I think about it all time

My head is like a computer that’s full of virus that automatically shutting down

My body becomes weak and my eyes are full of tears every night

No one’s there to help me, No one can understand my pain

Until I realized that I’m not alone

Until I bend my knees and begin to pray

I realized that it has to be a reason why it is all happening

It’s not a dream but the reality I have to get over with

I know that this is a lesson for me to learn

Life teaching me lessons to be prepared for another battle I have to face

Like a soldier that suffering because of his wounds he gets in battle and yet still trying to keep his life “Trying to WIN his battle…”

Life teaches me these things:

LIFE……

Teaching me to be brave

Teaching me to never give up and not surrender

Teaching me to have faith and hope everyday

Teaching me that money can’t buy everything

Teaching me to love the things I have

Teaching me that life isn’t about the things I’m seeing and having

Teaching me that your life changes easily the moment you wake up

Teaching me that life here on earth is temporary

Teaching me that the important thing is to live

Teaching me the true value of my family

Teaching me not to put all my trust to people

Teaching me how to forgive

Teaching me how to love them

Teaching me to trust ONLY HIM

and most importantly....

Teaching me how to hold into HIM “my father/my GOD” all the times.

God is always good to his children. That’s what I say to myself whenever I feel down. Yes, everyday we are facing our own battles. We’re all struggling as life will continue to bring us sorrows, grief, problems and chaos. We can’t blame people for not helping us in our problems because we’re all having it. No one can say that they are always happy although they have everything in life. "Not only poor suffers from sorrows but also rich people and not only peasants but also kings."

So I always think that I’m not alone.... not alone if I’m so miserable. I’m not alone if I’m feeling lonely. I’m not alone when I’m crying at night. I’m not alone when I feel hurt inside, I'm not alone when my heart is aching, I’m not alone when I'm suffering and not alone when I'm trying to win all my battles in life.

That thought eased my pains, gave me hope, courage and strength to move on… and to move forward.

In the battlefield I realized that I'm just one of the soldiers... others were dead while others were still wanted to live... and yet if I'm covered with blood and can't see the light anymore... someone will whisper in my ears saying... "YOU'LL Never BE ALONE!"

Read My Heart Out: About My Self

Read My Heart Out: About My Self: "This is the first time I write something about myself. When I was first interviewed when I was applying for a job, the interviewer asked me ..."

About My Self

This is the first time I write something about myself. When I was first interviewed when I was applying for a job, the interviewer asked me “Tell me about yourself?”… and I was like “huh?” my mind goes blank! It’s just at that moment I had nothing to say to that person about myself and don’t know how am I going to answer it correctly.

Anyways that’s a Job Interview and I’ve learned that you should answer the interviewer properly by saying things positively. And well, you should know yourself first to be able to answer that question, or else your mind will go blank too! hehe!

Well about myself… I’ll just share some of the moments I had since I was a little. 

Before we settled here in Bulacan we were living at Kalye 4 Caloocan Quezon City, our house was just near at MCU where I’d took up my kindergarten. I became the youngest when my little brother named Jose Crisanto (JC) died when he was just an infant. I had a sister who’s five years older than me. My father then was a komiks writer and he worked as a security guard at night. We had a small store and we were living under the roof of my grandma’s place where my cousins were living as well. And we were the only INC in our family because my mother and father were just converted.

My father was the one who had taught me how to write and read… and I tell you he was a strict teacher! Well, because of that I think I’d learned fast. My first experience at school was not that great because I had few friends. The reason was that I’m timid and unsociable that time. My hobbies that time were playing LEGO, drawing anime pictures and playing “family computer” which I love playing “Tank” “Tetris” and “Mario Bro’s” (heck! I couldn’t save the princes! LOL!).

I remember some other things that standout and I will never forget. And that of course was my happy and embarrassing moments.

My happy moment was when I received my first wish gift from my auntie. And that gift was a mini bicycle “a yellow mini bicycle” that was given to me because I envied my cousins who’s playing outside riding their own bicycles. The moment I got it I didn’t remove my butt on it!

My embarrassing moments were many.

The first one was when I wet my bed because I can’t control my pee at night! *blushing!* I was embarrassed when of course there’s someone beside me and that person will getting wet as well! Believe it or not, when I was 4 yrs old and I started to learn how to pray I included that to my prayer and I asked GOD to not let me wet my bed anymore and just like a miracle the moment I’ve included that on my prayer it stopped! hehe!

Second when I was being fun of my cousins when I can’t pronounce letter “S” instead I replaced it to letter “T”, so they’ll tell me to say “Kay Susan Tayo” to make fun of me and to enjoy themselves with those stupid words!

Third was when I got hit by a tri-bike! I only got small bruises but it’s kinda weird because the man that was riding on it got strained and got more damage than I am. It was embarrassing because I remember there were many bystanders who saw that accident. It was painful and kind of scary on my part but now when I remember it I think I should be thankful that nothing bad happens to me.

Last but not least, when I was covered with “papel de hapon” by my teacher inside the toilet because I got uncontrollable bowel movement that time! My sister was laughing at me when she sent me home and my mother was laughing as well! They did not stop until they’re satisfied.

When we moved here in Gumaok San Jose del Monte Bulacan, I was 6 or 7 years old then. I continued my studies in grade 2 in Francisco Homes Learning Academy which was a private school but due to financial problem we had I transferred in Gumaoc Elementary School which was a public school when I was in grade 3 until I graduated in grade 6. In high school I was transferred again in Francisco Homes Learning Academy that’s now known as “The First City Providential College”.

During that time we had tough times because we moved in Bulacan and my father has to look for another job. But still we’re happy because we’ve got our own house and I got new friends.

Happy moments here in Bulacan were I finally can play outside and I got new friends and playmates in the neighbourhood. We had a big backyard and playground where we were playing “Shato”, “Batohang Bola”, “Bahay-bahayan”, “Taguan Pong”, “Mataya-taya” , “Taguang Shinelas” and a lot more. But my favorite was when we’re cost playing and we were playing the role of our favorite anime character. I remember my character were always a boy “Prince Zagato” of Magic Knight RayEarth, “Kenshin Himura” of Samurai X, and “Dennis” of Ghost Fighter. I really love it thou. hehe!

I don’t know why but I’m not “kikay” before as I am today! I don’t like wearing dress and don’t even know how to tie my hair properly that’s why my mother always cut it shortly. And I was playing basketball with my grandpa and he always became a loser at the end of the game! Well, I think those were just childish things I love before and that’s nothing to do with my gender.

But that time I was “Lampa”! Whenever I ran and played outside I always got bruises when I got home. I remember one time when I got big wound on my left knee when I fell down on my bicycle that runs out of control. I was afraid to tell it to my mother and father because I knew they’ll just get angry at me so I decided to hid it and I managed to hid it from them for about 3 days. I was the one who’s curing it by means of herbal medicine. I was applying “dahon ng kutsay?” I don’t know if it’s the right name but it was like a grass. I’d learned that it could heal because I saw my neighbourhood applying it to their wounds. I covered my wounds with a handkerchief just pretending I love tying handkerchief on my knee but then one of my playmates discovered it and told my sister about it. Well, of course my parents eventually will know it. I was nervous, afraid and don’t want to go home that time… because I know they’ll got angry at me especially my father who hates seeing me got bruises and wounds on my body. In the end, I was scolded by them but I got a proper treatment and my wound healed faster.

My elementary days in Gumaoc Elementary School was great because of my friends whose always their to make me happy. We were playing after school and had a lot of funny moments together. We had a meeting place then and that place was breath taking for me before! It was near to a farm where we sat on the grass and had our picnic there. There was a river that we could soak our feet and we could get tadpoles living there. I wonder why I hate tadpoles now when I was I actually playing them before. Maybe I realized just now that they’re not cute after all! LOL! I never told my parents about that place and I even lied to them that I’ll go somewhere else when I’ll just went there to play with my friends.

I was actually an entrepreneur that time when I was selling my drawings to my classmates just only for 5 pesos per picture. I drew anime pictures which I copied from playing cards or also called “Teks!” that time which has many anime pictures. I also love playing “Teks game” but I always lost from my friend “ToTo” when he always beats me and took away all my playing cards at the end of our game! I’m “Teks loser!”! LOL!!!

When I went to high school there’s nothing much fun to tell because it was a bit serious and it was the time when I making myself used to being a teenager. It was kinda hard for me at first to get out from my childish attitude or ways but I successfully done it well. High school life for me became fun when I met my two best friends “Diandlee and Aj”. They both share happy memories and they put smile on my face. I think my third and forth year on high school were the year I love the most and the year I met many wonderful person.

Believe it or not my love life on high school was “Empty”! I don’t why but I never thought of things that normal high school girl would thought of. What I mean was having a boy close to you or simply a boyfriend. It’s not that boys never crossed my path it’s that I was not really that matured enough to get into a relationship with the opposite sex. I was more of studying, being with my girl friends and fulfilling my church duties. And when a guy was courting me I really don’t know that he was actually courting me! For me it’s like he was naturally kind to me and it feels like he was just one of my friends. I didn’t thought that guys were acting kind just to a girl they want. And when I became matured of that thing I realized that having someone when you’re not on a certain age or you’re not ready enough to have a relationship with someone will just make you’re life miserable. I guess I have that way of thinking because there are lots of story around me and their story been all the same. I mean many teenagers today were just having life they haven’t prepared of because they went into an early relationship. It just I realized that if you went into that kind of serious relationship you have to prepare yourself first because it would be to late to turn back time and to late for you to correct your mistakes.

That’s why now when I think of it. I think I should be glad that I survived my teenager days that I able to focus more on my studies and career. Though I never experience a “teenager’s adventures life” I am thankful that “I have no regrets” and I think I should be glad about that.

Now as a college student I’m still struggling for lot more of things. My only regret now is that I failed to choose the right course for me in college. But life teaches me a lesson of searching the things I really love to do the most but sadly that until now I haven’t found those things yet. I think I’m still in the process of knowing myself more and learning more things about life… but one thing is for sure that if I’ll able to find it I’ll be happy for the rest of my life because these things are priceless and only few can have it. 

Right now I could say that I'm happy. Although I won't able to finish my course in College =( ... well still looking forward to finish it... but I always thank GOD for giving me many opportunities in life. I had experienced working with 3 different companies and I will proudly say that it made me stronger and prepared me to become more competent on my future career. Now, I'm looking forward, to my next job experience and hopefully I'll be able to find a job that I'll be successful at and I'll love.

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“Well, for me the important thing I had learned in life is that everyday life teaches you a different story. And it’s the matter of learning the values of that story. Be able to prepare of what’s ahead of you and be tougher as life will continue to give you new things you’ll have to learn. It just have to sink into “your heart and mind” because GOD gave you both for you to decide for your own future. It’s just how you choose the right one and to know that everyday you’re living a better life you’re happy and proud of.”

"SMILE!" (^^,)