Appearance and impression

A few days back I had a haircut. The new hairstyle turned out great, it's the most stylish I've had (due to the fact that I've always maintained the army cut). It's slightly over the edge for a student though. But I'm positive I won't get into trouble with school authority.

The problem is that I looked into the mirror and saw the image of someone else. (No no, I'm not telling you a ghost story here) I mean, it's so not me. Has I pushed the envelope too far? I looked like um... a rascal. Sort of. My parents didn't comment much though, as they would with my brother's quasi-mohawk. That, I guess, means I'm okay.

I started gradually and consciously reshape my appearance since the last few months. Now all of a sudden, after that particular haircut, I fear I'm giving a wrong impression of myself to others, especially a wrong first impression. I would like my appearance to project me as trustworthy, intelligent and capable of leading -- that would be the mature, corporate look. Or the good student look. That was my style before, borderline nerdy. Nothing wrong with that, a lot of advantages even. That's exactly what I'm afraid to lose -- the advantages of looking nerdy...

Snapshots

As you can see, we went home empty handed from the robotic competition, Robofest Jr. A good experience nonetheless. We even captured some silly videos starring ourselves, which I wouldn't even consider making them available here.

Keep on blogging

Last post: 20 days ago

I've not given up blogging yet. Just that life was full of activities -- robotic competition, Chemistry quiz, additional class, homework, school sports -- enough to make me give up the satisfaction of blogging for the comfort of bed.

Result for Malaysian University English Test (MUET) is out. I got Band 6, the best possible band. I was happy, but not particularly excited. I'm just a mediocre writer at best and have trouble speaking English spontaneously. Until I can confidently say my English is good, I wouldn't be satisfied.

So that's it. I'll keep on blogging. I already have some posts in mind.

Something about love

I wasn't joking when I wrote in my profile that I tried courting a girl and failed. (In case you haven't noticed it already, the profile is located just beside this post, on the right)

It is obvious to myself that I'm not good at these things. Some guys seem to have it in them naturally, but MOST don't. The Love Doctor at AskMen.com proposes this theory of his -- a factor called Challenge. If we act like a wuss and no Challenge, we will never raise a girl's Interest Level. Consequently, girls are never attracted to us. I'm one such wuss.

I've read quite a number of Doctor Love's articles, but I just couldn't put his advice into practice, unless they're similar to what I have in mind. Take for example, never give gifts unless there's a special occasion. I didn't heed the advice. The result? This :

"Thou scurvy tickle-brained hell-hated lunatic stop giving me stuff for no reason and occasion...I loath it!"

I learnt it the hard way. My intention for giving her the "stuff"? So that she can have something sweet to munch on at home, while reading, surfing the Net or completing assignments. I thought it would be nice. It makes sense. But certain good intentions should never be acted upon, especially those that make us look needy, desperate, or worse, "lunatic".

There are many more occasions when I did all the wrong things. The failure was probably a result of them combined. Too bad the opposite sex unconsciously puts a lot of consideration on minor things like this. It doesn't really matter if we would give up the world for them, all that's important in the early stage is to impress them, the higher their heads are over their heels, the better.

That brings a lot of questions to my hardly inquisitive mind...

Note: I'll continue posting on this theme. Maybe this will turn into a mini-discourse...