After the very much awaited wedding of Diana Princess of Whales and His Royal Highness Prince Charles, they went over to cruise for their honeymoon.
The honeymoon aboard the Britannia was horrible as Prince Charles told a friend, "That first night was special. It was special enough, of course. But she really was painfully naive." This shows that P. Charles was not really that attached to his mother because he wants a woman to be caring, nurturing, not to mention experienced. That is all filled by Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall (Camilla Parker Bowles).
Back to the cruise. Both were very different, Diana would be sociable, chattering with the cooks and the other personnel. While, Charles would would just sit like a hermit and read Laurens Van der Post's books. This also shows that their age gap was not 12, but was 40.
At these times, the Prince cannot function well without a phone call to Camilla.
When they reached Egypt, The couple joined Anwar Sadat, president of Egypt and his wife, Jihan, for dinner. Diana noticed Charles' gold cuff links that are entwined C's for Charles and Camilla on his crispy ironed cuffs. This event was called Affair of the Cuff Links.
The Prince was not insensitive, he was just absent-minded. It was known that the Prince was always pampered by servants to the point even his toothbrush already had toothpaste before he could even be inside the bedroom. It's possible that Stephen Barry - Camilla's 'friend' - had inserted the cuff links when the Prince was off to dinner and the Prince just absent-mindedly put it on. Perhaps Diana suspected of this, because by mid-October, the frost was on their relations was such that Barry had handed in his resignation.
So does that mean Chanel reminds her of that?
The worst of it was, she never had his love in the first place.
It is very sad how a small thing such as a cuff link would be one of the things that diffused the romance between the loved couple. That is why you should always watch out miniscule details.
In a more practical sense. There's another variation of the compact fluorescent light bulbs that comes in 'tornado' (as Philips puts it) design. I think it's really cool and somewhat futuristic, but the thing that blew me away, is that it can totally replace an incandescent light bulb.
This is an Incandescent vs a Fluorescent. You can see that Fluorescent gives out a more sunshine vibe but gives out 4 pillars of shadows, one time while I was daydreaming, I made a light vs dark story about a high council that gives light and dark creatures that hides in the shadows.
The Incandescent however gives a 360 coverage of light but detains you in the era of sepia prints.
The tornado or any helical shape lamp would deliver 360 light coverage without going back to sepia land.
However, there is a miniscule detail. According to a source the tornado 'is a very poor lamp in terms of efficacy,' because of a certain uncontrolled variable: gravity.
Accordint to the source; 'There are two ways to make it. The first is to coil the pre-coated glass tube. This causes damage to the phosphor (coating of the bulb that exhibits glowing after usage, yes it's not our imagination) layer during the deformation of the glass. The second is to first coil the glass, and then coat it. Owing to action of gravity, coating thickness cannot be uniformly controlled. It is too thick on the lower half of each coil, and too thin above.'
How does this little detail make the lamp so inefficient? Not much since tornado is 23W and Genie (the conventional design) is only 11W, but the light and energy that a perfect tornado may produce would be a monumental help even if it's just a miniscule detail. Let's just pray.
I think I really made my point here. Don't just ignore little details for they may be an object of big scrutiny and an opportunity to question your personality.
Remember, 'bahala na' will not always be overlooked. Especially in the ever competitive market.
Benjamin Franklin also said that a penny saved is a penny earned!
Take care and always checked if your collar is flipped.
Sources:
Images from Photobucket
Readers Digest Asia, August 2007, "Diana"
Wikipedia
Lamptech on Tornado
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