Hair styles

Today: I went to work dissatisfied with my look coz I couldn't decide how to groom my locks. I usually wear them down with the parting at the centre, but lately Paris has been so windy and my locks fly in every direction of the wind giving me a sort of unkempt look. I enjoy this during vacation but not if am going to work. So to keep it in place I've been tying it back with a scrunchy - not my favourite hairstyle but there's not much I can do since my locks are short and not yet locked for me to pull and tease. Anyway patience is a virtue and they say good things come to those who wait so...


Yesterday: I forgot to blog this yesterday coz I was busy spring cleaning.


As I was walking to my appartment after dropping off the bus, I consecutively said 'Bonjour' to three people who live in my compound, but none of them had the courtesy to acknowledge. It always baffles me when people behave like that. Years back my brother told me a story of a next door neighbour - a foreigner - who used to snub him and his family until the day his car broke down on his way home one day. My brother who was also driving home spotted his neighbour looking miserable trying to fix his car in the pouring rain, so he pulled over to help him. Because of the kindness extended to him, the cold neighbour had a sudden change of heart and from that day they became friends.


But why should people have to wait for disaster to strike before extending a simple greeting or learning to 'love thy neighbour?' Incredible. And then we say we're civilized and educated creatures? Anywayz, we all have the right to behave the way we want until 'that day'...


My mind took me back to the days when I was a child watching Sesame Street and singing along with Kermit the frog and his mates, 'Who are the people in your neighbourhood... the people that you meet each day." Life seemed to be so much happier but I suppose it was coz I was a child unaware of many things. But then with the explosion of crime drama TV series we're more and more suspicious of one another. But I still think a simple 'Bonjour' is just common etiquette.