In My World: October 2015

ARTWORKS: Woman From Mars

It was the first time that I used a canvas in painting. (And some oil paint).

The experience made me a little obsessed with passion and focus. I never wanted any kind of disturbance during the process, and certainly, I had to shoo away important people in my life for an hour. (Yup, this simple art was only done for almost an hour and a half or less than that).

I originally planned to name this painting, "Woman from Mars", but when I was done, I felt unsure, I wanted to call it something like, "Hidden" but then, let's just stick to "Woman from Mars".

(c) OriginalAS/Anamarie Soya

Point-Of-View: Love and Differences

It was hard to imagine watching two people so into each other. You could see them happy together, their tastes matched with each other and their differences only made them more interested with each other.

But these were only the disillusions of love. Sometimes, we would always find our partner's difference as something unique about him or her. We would start to love that about them, because it was a sign of their individuality. Their difference made them want them more for we believed that we are in love when we accept them for their difference, for who they are.

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Of course, that is what really love is, but how long could your relationship flow smoothly with your differences?

Small differences are no big deal. It would not matter if he likes the color blue and you like orange, if he is too tall or too short for you, if she is too ugly or too pretty for you, if she is smarter in Physics than you.

What about the big differences? What if the guy is a Born-Again and the girl is a Catholic? What if she wanted financial stability at the age of 35 before getting married and he wanted to get married at the age of 25? What if he wanted to live in their own home, far from relatives while the girl wants to live in a compound close to her parents' house once they get married? What if she wanted to work abroad and he didn't want her to? What if he wanted to put up a business managed by him and his future wife and she just wanted to stay employed?

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You may have different religions or beliefs, difference attitudes or personalities, but there will come a point that both of you have to compromise. And when we compromise, it would be either one would sacrifice their own belief for the other, or both would not do what they plan to do so that it would not make one of them sacrifice their own belief.

But there will come a time when one of them should sacrifice and give up their beliefs, their personalities, their principles just to make the relationship work.

Would you do that for love?

Could you give up your religion? Your beliefs? All the little pieces of your puzzle that makes you whole when they are put together?

Could you? Would you?

And would you still love a person when they could not give you what you wanted? If they could not do what you want them to do? Would you still love them if they refused to adapt to what you believe in? To what your principles are?

Could you? Would you?

For how long? To what extent?

(c) OriginalAS/Anamarie Soya

Point-Of-View: Free Taste Fail

I am going to share one of my recent posts on Facebook.

Lately, I have been inactive with blogging here just because it is hard for me to use a smart phone in blogging (call me old fashioned, but when it comes to long typing, I prefer using keyboards).

And so, here's my FB post last October 2:

Had three shots today-- three shots of different flavors of this juice drink in a supermarket. The sales ladies were offering a free taste at their booth so I gave it a try. Looking like an interested customer for them, they gave me two more free tastes o f that juice's other flavors.

Finally, I was pursuaded to choose which one to buy. I said I wanted the third flavor. To my disappointment, they said that the only available flavors are the first and second flavors. So, I reluctantly chose the first flavor. One of the ladies opened a cooler to get me a bottle of that juice flavor. And once again, I was disappointed to see some bottles of the flavor that I chose first. If I didn't pay attention to the cooler, I could have not noticed that. But I paid attention and saw that.

I accepted the bottle they gave me. I thanked them and left. As I approached the supermarket's cashier, I left that bottle inside the basket I used.
I will never ever pay for something given to me like that. 😂😂😂

My points are: One, why would they ever give a free taste of a product or a product's flavor if they don't sell it?

Number two, if their intention was to increase the sales of the two other flavors then why offer a free taste of the flavor that they claimed 'not available' because they ran out of stock.

Number Three: Yes, it is a smart move to cheat on a customer or the target market if it will keep the business profitable. But don't ever get caught. It won't leave a good impression.

So, what do you think about it? Will you buy for the same style of marketing that I experienced from the two sales ladies?

(c)OriginalAS/Anamarie Soya

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Your Text Dramas

Cellphones used to be used for communication, but nowadays, they are becoming one of people's primary needs next in line to food, air, clothes and shelter because of their new features. Cellphones nowadays are not just used for calling or texting, but also takes the place of DVD players, CDs, TVs and books because they can provide the same such as music players, TVs, movie players and ebooks installed in your android phones.

But then, the main use of cellphones is for communicating. I know everyone experience the following with the cellphone activities (making calls or texting). Some occasional and some everyday cellphone drama. Let the gifs that you'll see around the internet give you the feels.

When the person you like doesn't text...