How Cupid looks like?

First and for all, I must at least introduce who is Cupid. Based on Roman mythology, Cupid is the god of erotic love and beauty. *Ahem, yes erotic god... He also known as Amor, in Latin. Cupid is frequently shown shooting his bow to inspire romantic love, often as an icon of Valentine's Day.

Cupid or also known in his Greek name, Eros was the son of Venus (Aphrodite) and Mars (Ares). He was often depicted with wings, a bow, and a quiver of arrows. When Venus got jealous of the princess Psyche, who was so loved by her subjects that they forgot to worship Venus, she ordered Cupid to make her fall in love with the ugliest and poorest man in the world. However, when Cupid saw Psyche, he was so overcome with her unnatural beauty that he dropped an arrow on his foot, and fell in love with her himself.

Following that, Cupid visited Psyche every night in his invisible form and told her not to try to see him. When Psyche incited by her two older sisters who told her Cupid was a monster, she tried to look at him and angered Cupid. After he left, she looked all over the world for him until the leader of the gods, Jupiter, gave Psyche the gift of immortality so that she could be with him. Together they had a daughter, Voluptas (pleasure).


Based on the description, Cupid seems to be a cute little kid with white wings, a quiver of love arrows and a bow. Just like the picture shown above. What curious me the most, how would he be look like after 20-30 years. When he became a husband, a father, and also addicted to his daily routine. Just like any middle-age men, in love with drinking beer, watching football and eating junk food but yet doing his job in match-making.


Perhaps, it may be some uncle looking with tummy, smoking cigar and say... 'Heelooo, looking for lovvee?'

History of Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day!

Valentine's Day is a day celebrated on February 14 by many couples throughout the world. This day, across the country, candy, flowers, and gifts are exchanged between loved ones. The holiday is named after two among the numerous Early Christian martyrs named Valentine or Valentinus. Question is, where does this Valentine's Day comes from? No one really knows the answer, but there are only legends and believes.


Legend #1
Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers, he outlawed marriage for young men. Valentine, realising the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine's actions were discovered, he was to put to death. In contradict, some suggested that Valentine may have been killed for attempting to help Christians escape harsh Roman prisons where they were often beaten and tortured.

Legend #2
Valentine actually sent a the first 'valentine' greeting himself. While in prison, it is believed that Valentine fell in love with his jailor's daughter, who visited him during his confinement. Before his death, it is alleged that he wrote her a letter, which he signed 'From your Valentine', and expression that is still in use today.



Last but not least,




From your Valentine...

Valentine's Day: Quotations

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

- Aristotle

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

- Lao Tzu

My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.

- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

- Anais Nin

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love has no desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires;
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.

- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

-Helen Keller

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

- Zora Neale Hurston

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.

- Leo Tolstoy

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.

- Dorothy Parker

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

- Alice Walker

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way
than this: where I does not exist nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

- Pablo Neruda, "Love Sonnet XVII"

There's no boundary for love,
There's no right or wrong in love,
Love is something that makes you so blind
where you would do anything for it.

- Isaac Wong

p/s: If you want to share your valentine's day quotation, kindly drop it in the comment box.

Why Hee left Pakatan

Just as the defection dust is settling in Perak, several Pakatan Rakyat state representatives have come forward to claim that the new Barisan Nasional state government is not done fishing for defectors.

MCPX

According to Pakatan sources, BN is in urgent need of non-Malay state representatives to cross over in order to avoid an overwhelmingly mono-ethnic BN line-up.

BN has 27 representatives from Umno and one from MCA. Of its three 'friendly' independents, two are Malay while one is Chinese.

One non-Malay Pakatan state representative claimed that an individual claiming to be a representative from BN made him a lucrative offer yesterday.

The package included a position on the state executive council (exco) line-up and RM3 million.

"All I had to do was become an independent and support BN without having to join any of their parties. He said that if I was an exco, I could service the people better," said the state representative on condition of anonymity last night.

He added that he was then instructed to approach another non-Malay Pakatan state representative in order to convince him to defect.

The second non-Malay Pakatan state rep was offered RM4 million. The RM1 million extra was because the package did not include an exco post.

Defectors face public persecution

A third non-Malay Pakatan state representative interviewed today said that he had received offers since March last year but offers intensified over the past week.

"They were telling me the benefits. They promised me an exco post but lately, there has been no mention of money," he said.

The state rep also said that he was once scolded for repeatedly turning down lucrative offers.

"My position is that the people voted for me and my party. If I were to take the offers, I would be betraying the voters," he added.

Should any more Pakatan assemblypersons choose to defect, they are likely to face the same public backlash faced by the three Pakatan representatives who defected to help form the new BN government earlier this week.

At a separate function in Kampung Simmee today, newly appointed Menteri Besar Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir brushed off suggestions that his almost mono-ethnic state line-up would cause problems.

"Definitely, I will take care of all three main racial groups," he said.

Additional reporting from Kuek Ser Kuang Keng

Malaysiakini: BN 'poaching' for more defectors

Penumbral Eclipse

Based on the source given by the media, there will be a penumbral eclipse of moon this coming Monday. It will be starting from 8.39pm and will be lasting for four hours.

According to the National Space Agency, the phenomenon would be easily visible as 89.9% of the moon's disc would be in the shadow of the earth's penumbra. It would also witness live through National Planetarium website, www.angkasa.gov.my/

The Star: Eclipse of the moon this Monday

Liquor or Woman?

If you ever to decide on liquor

or

a woman...

Always look at the age.

Windows Live Messenger 2009

I am pretty outdated, I just got to know about this new version of Windows Live Messenger. It is currently a month old ever since it was released (I am talking about official release, not beta).

Almost a total change of outlook than the previous WLM'08. No more green man at the side of the contact name, display picture is moved from the right to the left now and font size title is slightly bigger. Basically everything seem bigger to me, especially the conversation window. Haha. Anyhow, I guess you'll adapt to it once you used it for some time.

Oh yeah, they even took off the 'In the call' and 'Be right back' status. Left only Away, Busy and Appear Offline.

Download: Windows Live Messenger 2009