I washed my scalp with Timotei yesterday. It's a great shampoo for scalp washes because it lathers really well and gets all over the scalp. I would be weary about using it on my length, but my scalp is happy with pretty much anything that is slightly moisturizing and that keeps it clean for a few days.
This weekend I am due for my fortnightly herbal washes, but since the Lotus Powder Plus was herbal TOO, maybe I'll do a moisturizing wash instead. Plus, I'm going to Bangkok on Tuesday, and I thought I would curl my hair before I go - to look nice as well as to make my hair shorter, because it's HOT there. And just-moisturized hair curls better for me than just-herbed hair; probably because herbs make my hair a bit stiff and thicker. Usually my moisturizing washes are completely natural, but I was thinking I'd mix it up a bit and use a commercial deep conditioner for once.
In the Drawing Room I was responding to a post about the mining incident. I was about to post this there when I realized I might offend someone if I did, so I'm posting it here instead. I do, of course, feel terrible about their deaths and their families; however, I couldn't help noticing one fact. In Bangladesh, we have about 9 deaths per 1000 people every year. It always takes a massive catastrophe when thousands of people die for our news to make an appearance in the news outside of Asia. Not only that - China suffers from droughts that kill something like 3 million at a time, and there are so many countless numbers of deaths in Pakistan and India. It makes our news, of course, but when just 12 people are killed in a mining incident in America, the whole world hears about it.
That leads me to two conclusions. One - our deaths just aren't important enough to make the news outside of our region (which is really sad!
) OR two - that other countries don't care to educate their audiences as to what is going on in other parts of the world. The second part particularly bothers me, because I was never one for nationalism, always globalism. It's because my "nationality" isn't really something I can proudly call my own - I have a British passport, I'm half Indian half Pakistani (crazy in itself, as you would know if you knew some of the background between India and Pakistan), and I've lived in Bangladesh almost all of my life. Talk about culture craziness. Not only that, but most of the kids in my small school are faced with similar backgrounds. We call ourselves "global citizens" - a name that fits me well. And my favorite thing to say when issues of nationalism come up is that "we all live on the same piece of rock." That is, instead of tearing each other to pieces because we don't share the same culture/religion/nationality/color, we should recognize that we all came from the same place, and we are all sisters and brothers. Nationality just helps you give yourself a home and an identification; i.e., I live on this
part of the big chunk of rock. I'm not saying that being proud of one's nationality is wrong - if it makes you happy, stick with it by all means. But it's when we start going to war, or saying "I'm better than everyone else because I'm Indian" (and believe me, that is NOT an unheard saying) that it hurts me. Because we're all the same, and we should be treated like that. (Now let's all hold hands and sing "Kumbayah." LOL)
Okay, so.....hair? Heehee, got a bit off track there.
Love,
~*Leia*~
Pic from December 18, 2005
*Special thanks to Carlynn for this gorgeous doll!*
2bMiii
Current length: 42"
Goal: As long as it will grow and still stay healthy!
Growing since January 2003; found TLHL at the end of June 2003 and was at 25". I am 5'4.5".
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Last Updated: January 5, 2006
