bury me in this dress

I finally had my hair cut today. It’s okay but I prefer the old cut better. I usually go to Studio 546 but my favorite stylist resigned so I was forced to go to another salon. I was thinking of going to Hairbytes but I settled for David’s Prestige. I think it’s a wrong choice since the stylist made me wait for so long and he’s not that good. I’ll try Hairbytes next time or if I find out where my favorite stylist works now, I’ll go there. Studio 546 gives really good haircuts but it’s expensive there. Bing, my favorite stylist, is just a creative director (whatever that means in salon parlance) but it costs 600+ to get my hair done. Their senior stylist charges around 800 pesos. In Prestige, my haircut cost me a little more than 400 pesos. So that’s a lot cheaper. But I guess I really have to pay more for better service. My hair is really damaged from the bleaching and dye job I had a couple of months ago. It’s very course and dry. Always in a tangle as well. I really need to take care of my hair more but I don’t have the patience for it. I just yank the brush and leave the tangles there.

I just finished watching ‘Pride’. I like the last episode even if it’s really mushy and pa-cute. I wish a guy would propose to me like what Halu did. Speaking of doramas, GMA 7 started airing the bastardized version of Friends last Tuesday. I tried watching it yesterday but I couldn’t bear it. Their dubbing is just so awful. I’ll be surprised if it becomes popular in the Philippines. Maybe that’s a good thing because it might discourage the networks from airing doramas. Heh

This looks so hot. I want one but I won’t fit into it. I love the design and I think it’s really useful. You could maybe put your ipod, cellphone, and wallet there.

I just finished watching Shimotsuma Monogatari (Kamikaze Girls). It’s a movie about a loner who is into Gothic Lolita clothes who befriends a tough biker girl. I found it very amusing at first because of the lovely visuals but I became bored during the second half. I really liked the clothes though. So kawaii but if you wear those here, you’ll certainly be stared and mocked at. I had a Loli dress custom made for me but I don’t have the guts to wear it yet. I also don’t have the right shoes to go with it. It’s cotton candy pink and really frilly. I can probably wear that with white mary janes (which I don’t have) or cotton candy pink flats (which I also don’t have). Anyway, here’s some photos from the movie.

I’m freaking out! I went to the salon last night to have a haircut but decided to have it dyed on impulse. I’ve been wanting to have my hair colored for a long time now so I got into it last night since I was already there. I wanted some purple streaks done but my hair needs bleaching first since it’s brunette and the color wouldn’t be seen without bleach. The purple color was perfect but now my hair breaks so easily! I couldn’t even brush!!! The dyed strands are so weak that I don’t even want to touch my hair. The situation makes me want to cry and I’ve lost interest in everything. I don’t even want to read a book because I am just so worried. I’ll go back to the same salon tomorrow and demand that they do something about my hair but I am still worried that they wouldn’t be able to fix this. Waaaaaaaaaaah!!!

I read on the newspaper today that the Catholic Church of the Philippines seeks to ban from taking communion those who work and who are in support of ‘Ligtas Buntis’, a family planning program led by the Department of Health(DOH). I was raised as a Catholic but lost faith in their church but this issue still irks me because firstly, I am a woman, and secondly, it’s beginning to reek like the tribulations during the dark ages.

I don’t know why they are making a really big deal about using contraception. The world isn’t a safe place anymore what with the spread of STD’s such as the AIDS virus. Also, most of the people who have a lot of children are those below the poverty line and obviously can’t support raising many kids. It’s not as if the DOH is espousing premarital sex. They are urging the use of contraception to married couples so they will become educated and can have the option of living within their means. Let’s face it, people have hormones and most of the time, couples cannot just abstain from having sex. I’ve encountered women from the squatters area who bear children every year. The women are left to take care of the kids while the husbands look for a job wherever he can and they get to take home barely the minimum wage. We shouldn’t be also blind to the reality that a lot of Filipino women have roving eyes and resort to sex outside their marriage. Who knows what else he might bring home besides his daily earnings?

As for the sexually active citizens, they are the ones who are more in need of protection. They are the ones who are more prone to STD’s and unwanted pregnancies. These unwanted pregnancies also result to abortion most of the time. Since abortion isn’t supported by the Church and the government, pregnant girls have to settle with underground, unsanitary, and unsafe clinics due to desparation. If the Church doesn’t want women getting abortion, they should give them another option besides abstinence, a Utopian idea in my opinion. It would be a real miracle if the Catholic Church would come up with a way to surely control the sexual urges of the youth.

The DOH isn’t promoting abortion. It is promoting sexual education and the option to use contraceptives. By banning supporters of the ‘Ligtas Buntis’ campaign from having communion, they are turning their backs to basic human rights. Why don’t they just condemn supporters such as me as ‘excommunicated’ like the Church did during the Medieval times? It certainly feels the same way to me. I’m better off than my Catholic brothers and sisters because my conscience is clear. They, on the other hand, are being taught to feel guilty for seeking an option.