Jun 12, 2004 (Sat) Sunny

Jeff went out late night to see a football match with his friends in pubs. Men do need happy hours sometimes, and I have diplomatic enough to compromise with it. However, I have missed him already before he closed the door. I thought I would feel lonely until he comes back home in the midnight. But in another second, My feeling was fine, I had my own time to do whatever I like.

I took out my lovely brand new nail polisher to do the manicure. The shiny rosy orange colour reflected on my ten nails and made me delightful. Then I jumped in front of the computer to do my new piece of My Secret Diary (this one) and listening to my favourite song. I felt alone but not lonely.

When I was making this piece of diary, Jeff sent me couples of icq messages. I wonder how come he could send me the message when he was in the way to Tsim Sha Tsui. He told me he sent by his mobile phone, and he took a snap shot with his mobile phone camera and conveyed it through internet. Didn't it romantic and lovely?

Checking the calender, I found that we have married for almost nine months. Sometimes, I could not believe this young man in front of me, who I did not know until 1996, eventually became my husband, the person I will depend on in my life. Do you believe in destiny? I believe. At least destiny determines where you were born, who are your parents and anyone you would pass by. To make is short, destiny equals to probability, but destiny is a much more sentimental and romantic term.

I have worked in my new job for a month, so far everything run smooth. Colleague are very nice and helpful. Eventhough the working hour is rather long, I do not feel totally exhausted. I have confidence to face any challenge.

I am a devoter of beauty rituals. I love to pamper myself with different kind of masks and facial treatment. For example, if I felt tired after work, I would like to take a hot aroma bath, and moisture my face with hydrating mask. After the bath, my skin would be recharged and become radiant.

Sometimes, I wonder whether all those skincare products do have effect to improve our skin. Most brands use natural ingrediants as their selling point. We comsumers believe those essense from plants and flowers nourish our skin.

However, many people who stuided chemistry told me the main ingrediant of moisturers and mask are petrolum,chemical stabilizers and preservatives. There are also many urban legends and hoaxes state a well-known brand moisturer contains acid to erode the most outer layer of skin, then the next layer of new skin will reflect a glowing appearance. It would lead to fasincating result at the beginning, but if users continue to apply it from day to day, the skin will become too thin and fragile to aging and bacterial infection.

If skincare products only bring a series of chemical reactions to our skin, does it mean we use a load of chemical weapon to combat ourselves, to acquire the short-term glamour only? I hope this is not correct. I want to be a natural beauty, it will sound so 'Michael Jackson' if women beauty are merely transformed from terrifying artifical reactions, and that enormous skincare market is the freakiest market in this planet.