I guess I'm pretty much affected by Eat, Pray Love philosophies (not exactly by the book, as I've never read it). Elizabeth Gilbert's journey to reclaim her life reminds me of my own effort to reclaim my own life by quitting my day job as a university lecturer. I notice how many people look at my job as sort of prestigious, not to mention that I got the job at the age of 22 (while I had only a bachelor's degree), not long after I graduated from uni.

To my observation, people--or women, in this case--cut their hair short, lots of times, because of 'pain' and/or big happiness. One close example, my best friend cut her hair real short after she broke up with her boyfriend. She even changed her tomboy style into a feminine one. And I did cut my hair short recently, not long after I quit my day job. I wonder what's going on with us, women, and our hair, and our feelings. Don't you feel some kind of mystery in it?

It's been several months I practice a greener life in almost everything I do, including when shopping. When planning to buy many goods or only some goods but they are big in sizes, I always bring my cotton shopping bag. When I go to some stores at the spur-of-the-moment, I use my old plastic bags that I always carry inside my work bag. It is so true that lots of times it's pretty hard to be different. It's pretty hard to be the only woman who wears headscarf while others around you don't.

I watched the rerun of the "Going Green" episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show on the previous Earth Day. Just like Oprah used to say, everything happens for a reason. There must be a good reason why God let me watched that particular episode, don't you think? The episode still motivates me to do at least one good thing to participate reducing the global warming effect.

Never, in my 23 years of living, I have seen camels. But, still, I'm going to talk about that animal. An Islamic preacher once said something about camels. Camels are different from other animals. They are picky in having sex (is this even the right terminology in the world of animal?). I mean concerning the place for doing it. They prefer to have sex in a special, provided, hidden place. Well, it's logical for me--having sex is a personal, private stuff, after all.