I am BEAUTIFUL =oP

Recently, there was an advertisement on TV, TV mobile and MRT stations that really caught my eyes. And the only way for me to share why it caught my eyes is to let you see it. I manage to find one similar advertisment in you-tube that was shown overseas. Enjoy!

Interesting advestisment, right =) It is an adverstisement for

Campaign for Real Beauty

This could me into thinking........What is this campign about????

Went to the website www.campaignforrealbeauty.com.sg and found out this is a campaign started by Dove to raise the self esteem of girls and women.

"Every day we are bombarded by hundreds – if not thousands – of airbrushed images of “beauty”… images with the power to affect how we see our bodies and our selves.

But who defines these beauty standards? How can we turn the tide of such beauty pressures and encourage young girls and women everywhere to embrace a more positive body image? We believe it’s time to find the answers… with your help.

Too many girls develop low self-esteem from hang-ups about looks and, consequently, fail to reach their full potential in later life.
So, Dove created the Dove Self-Esteem Fund as an agent of change to educate and inspire girls on a wider definition of beauty."

(Taken from www.campaignforrealbeauty.com.sg/dsef/temp1.asp?id=6495)

Personally, I do agree that the media does affect our perspection of who we are and how we feel about ourselves. We may unconciously feel inferior or ugly because we do not measure up to the stars as shown on TV or movies. Honestly, I think the girls shown in the advestisement looks pretty. Yet they do not feel so because they feel they do not mesure up to what the media protrays as beauty =(

Well, I think we all need a change of mindset :

Look not at the outer beauty

but at the inner beauty!

Outer beauty will fade away but the inner beauty of a person in terms of his character and substance will last the ages!

Now the next important question I will like to ask is :

When they will start a campaign to help us guys get a true picture of manhood? =)

Q2

After posting about Queuing in my entry "Q Q Q Q Q", I was pleasantly surprised when an article came up on Sunday Times (28 Jan 2007 article) titled “Great Singapore Q” by Michelle Tay.

It was an article on Singaporeans who would queue up for their favourite food or die-die-must-have goodies. The twin national pastimes of shopping and eating have bred a third : queuing.

What caught my eye was this comment made by one of the people interviewed :
She stood in line for an hour and 45 minutes to buy 5 dozen donuts because she had read about the outlet in LifeStyle last week.
Her daughter was with her on her day off. Both stood patiently in line “just to find out if the donuts are as good as reported”. Unfortunately, “they were just so-so.”

How many of us have similar experience?

We follow the crowd and join the queue to get something everyone is raving about. E.g.

• eat a famous food, watch a movie,
• buy the latest model of car,
• get the hottest property

Yet when we get the thing we have been queuing up for, we find that it is not as great as people had made up to be. The food is so-so. The show is good but could be better.

This is called the follow-the-herd mentality. Well, there is nothing wrong with it. Sometimes, we do need to help us make choices especially in things we are not so sure about.

However, I think it can become a problem when you waste too much of your time, money and effort on it. For the things we are queuing up for are only temporal and the satisfaction they gives us are not everlasting :

• the food only tastes good while in your mouth
• the movies can bring tears or joy while you are watching it
• the car would be scarped in 10 years time
• the house may be nice but it is the people living in it that made the difference.
  

At the end of the day, let queue up for the RIGHT stuff : Things that last and have more lasting value !

Found a you-tube video that shows in a funny way what I am trying to say. Enjoy!