It was really desolating to read the newspaper article on little kids showing signs of eating disorders this morning. Unknowingly, such abominations are pitiably condoned in our  society where benchmarks of beauty have been prescribed by singers and movie stars with their larger-than-life sense of fashion and ever-shrinking waistlines. My heart aches at the thought of a girl, at such a tender age already indoctrinated with a pessimistic notion of being skinny is equal to being beautiful. This girl is supposed to have the purest of thoughts and the least of worries, she should eat, live, laugh and play without any inhibitions but she is instead starving herself and exercising excessively.

But if you think about it, not a single person, nor community can really evoke a change large enough to reverse such a state of society. Sure, there are many campaigns aggressively advocating real beauty from within but the effect is minimal due to the limited reach and influence. It has to be a concerted effort by every single one of us.  Every voice within us has to call out to stop it. We ought to open our eyes to such incidents and understand the grave future that is looming before our young.  A healthy lifestyle should be propagated instead of getting that number to drop on the dreaded weighing scale.

Yet as always, there are two sides to each coin, as the issue of eating disorders also stares face-to-face, the problem of rising obesity rates on the boxing ring of worldly conundrums. I can almost hear Mother Earth crying out in quiet desperation for some form of balance in this world of confused, delusional beings. Perhaps, MLK should have included in his inspirational speech that he hoped that his children would be judged by the content of their character and not the colour of their skin OR how fat they are for that matter. Oh dear, I am simply at wits’ end to such a predicament

read about it here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthadvice/3356623/Anorexia-too-young-even-to-understand-the-word.html

I would show my liking for:

• pancakes with lots of maple syrup on a Sunday morning
• someone who can at least tell me who the father of Aragorn is
• red mango froyo with lotsa granola and someone to eat it with while i go on and on abt how tasty it is
• empty carparks with no other car to rush me
• a perfect view of fireworks
• someone who explains something to me till i get it
• chicken satay with lotsa of peanut sauce
• running when there is a slight breeze
• a nice photograph of a place in Singapore
• hot baths, lights out on a rainy day
• someone holding my hand (since when was this action left for couples only? open invitation to everybody to come hold my hand!)
• when i wake up and realise i have 2 more hours to scheduled waking time
• traveling to anywhere with nice company
• looking thru old pictures of my life

=) school’s in yall!