My friend works in a big company and she hates uniform-style wearing, so after work she wears structured jacket, chic blouse. She also watches TV with a face mask on, buys super lightweight shampoo for her soft hair, wears bold lipstick to prettify her, together with her lacy bra, to make her look less than a Corporate-Barbie.

A girl said she had an affair with her coworker. She said she always did right things, but when she working with her coworker for a green life project, they traveled together, stayed in hotel, so she did things she wouldn’t do at home.

A girl said she encountered a problem. Since her friend experienced something strange because she found happiness outside her marriage, so she also started to think about her loveless life, which made her revisit another place whenever she needed something exciting.

A girl said she looked at her picture with a bikini pose, which took her back to her relaxed feeling that ended up into a scandal. She felt her face seems OK, but her skin looks almost twice the age of her face because of stress. Now she started to take care of her skin: she scrubs her body, just like she peels off the top dry layer of an onion.

My friend said she went to a party, met an actress, so they talked about travel, green life, and acting. She said she used to be nervous about dealing with sex scene, but she started in a small role. When it got seriously, she just stripped totally naked, said like, “OK, let’s do it.” They all laughed. 

A girl said she lived by herself for long time. When she started to date, she found some interesting things; she said her guy has low self-esteem, doesn’t want others find his secrets, which let her realized that no one is perfect, and she even appreciated him let her know his secrets.

A guy said he’s a regular person and when he starts to date, he thinking how to deal with girls, so he said he started the romantic cliches by giving his girlfriend roses. He said he feels happy when his girlfriend smells like vanilla, because it unearths his childhood: he was in the garden, carefree, very happy.

My friend said he likes green life and he still thinking his first lover; and he said he even went back to his hometown. He said though that place seems smaller than he remembers, he thinks it’s larger than life because it’s the place where he had his innocent days and memories.

A girl said she feels she’s a winner because she married to a rich person, but her friends say she’s a gold digger, which made her change herself. Now she’s interested in helping others: she uses her money, influence to make other’s life better.

My friend said he lived by himself for long time. When he started to date, his girlfriend found interesting things: he has low self-esteem, doesn’t want others find his secrets, which let his girlfriend realized that no one is perfect, and she even appreciated him let her know his secrets.

A girl said she feels she’s a failure because she was torn between going back to her former lover or moving forward. She left her hometown years ago and always looking for what she left behind because she felt life there was easy and she had her first lover there.

A girl said she’s very busy, and she has a lot to worry. She said she always feels tired and she just gets things done every day, then she goes back to home, then she eats, sleeps. She said sometimes she’s so tired, she falls asleep on buss, on a plane, even in an upright position.

A guy said his friend offers healthy food in his restaurant and lets his customers know about ingredients; his other friends also let their action, writing, view, reflect the insight through empathy; but they also think there is an ignored underclass there and they don’t know how to handle it.

A guy said he’s a night person because he gets many things done at night. He said he dating, parting, drinking and he staying with girls till very late every night; he said he hates getting up in the morning. When people sleep he start to sleep, sometimes he works also and feels day is too long.

My friend said she devoted her life to her passion because she wants to be successful, but she had setbacks. Once she met a guy, she dated him for a while but found he was sort of scandalous, so she left him. When she accepted a job, she felt she can’t see a clear path for her career, so she’s not sure to stay there for a long time.

My coworker said she started to enjoy her life. She said her civilized pleasures include: Buying fancy stuff, going to restaurants, and to look prettier. She said she used to be afraid of others words, feeling if she’d be labeled sexy, be putting in a category of not serious people, but now she doesn’t care about those words and she feels good.

A girl said she used to have desert-dry complexion, and since met her guy, she decided to change herself. So she bought stuff to make her look beautiful, sexy; and when she wants more, her guy was funny; when she bought sexy lipsticks, eye-shadow compact, fancy dress, she found her guy hooping up with another girl.

My neighbor said she had some success because she sold her artworks. When asked her future plan she said she still hasn’t made it big. It means she’s sort of those who had one-hit wonder, and she said she still has to works; so sometimes she working as a bartender, and she also tries online dating, making ends meet.

My neighbor complains a lot and she wants to look younger; but she’s scared of making her look even worse, because she fears a fancy lipstick makes her look vulgar and a skincare product makes her complexion weird, even saggy lines.

My friend said he’s curious, consider himself not loyal to any style, brands, groups. So his girlfriend is not happy, because his attitude made her difficult to have a long-term plan; she also accused him of flirting with other girls in the bar, but he denied he seduced them.

My friend said she still growing, because she feels she’s against the grain. She feels it’s very hard to be successful. Sometimes she looking at mirror, feeling she’s not pretty, so she fights with her siblings, yelling at her brother. She even pulling her hair back very tight, and people thinking she has a face-lift.

My friend said her coworker’s design is weird, and her behavior is also criticized by others, but she’s determined to do anything to get attention. When she getting into a scandal, she said she’s disappointed, because her hard work, year’s trying, all vanished.

My friend said she just divorced, experienced life’s up and down. She struggles for years and whenever mention her life she can’t hold her tears. When asked what she plans to do, she said her exes were not good at all, but she met a friend from high school, she liked him before, so she said she wants to give it a try.

My neighbor said her friend suffered a lot with her partner, felt she wasted her time, got nothing back, so she decided to go back to her hometown. She said her hometown is a small place, where only has one restaurant, one café, but she feels calm; she’s not struggling, has no misery, and she even finds a boyfriend.

A girl said she felt she’s wasting her time by staying with a guy who has weird behavior, so she feels she’s a failure. She said she’s torn between going back to her former lover or moving forward, getting rid of him and starting her life again.

A girl said she’s tired of superficial stuff because she learned a lesson about how to treat herself with respect. She said she met different men, some of them were really bad and she regretted for wasting her time with them. When she breaks up with her last guy, her friends say she’s sad, alone, but she said she was happy again.

My neighbor said she suffered a lot, had many struggles and misery. She said her life changed so much in past years because she was from a carefree girl, traveling around world, to started a business, envied by others, then, she worried about her business, lost money, till she was broken, had nothing.

My friend got married again, before she was struggling, complaining about her work, life, because she was a single mom. She said her marriage let her life changed, so she traveled with her kids, her lover’s kids together. She said her past still hunts her because her first lover loved her more, and her current lover seems better in bed.

A guy said he doesn’t like his job, because the job is temporary. He said he tries to find a real job and he got some interviews, but they went nowhere. He said he spent money, staying in hotel, and felt he wasted time and money; so he said it’s hard to find a good job.

A girl said her industry needed her to sell her beauty, glamour. She said she worked hard, had sort of success, but she encountered dilemma. Since she realized her aging, she had to make a decision, still working there or doing something else, and she met a guy. She said her onetime strained relationship had a nice ending because for years later people still remember her as his secret lover.