Ribs are the new breasts?

 

 Is it any wonder why more females are developing body image problems??

 

On an unrelated note.

Recently, my credit card has been used for unauthorised transactions. I’ve also been gettin calls from seedy, charge-by-the -hour hotels & seedy bust-enlargement companies over enquiries that i’ve supposedly made online (Inconveniencing the staff there,…..sigh…) . I’ve dutifully reported all this incidents to the credit card company (who has changed my card) & to the police as well, so i’m just gonna let them handle this credit card fraud and identity theft. (might be related to this guy, but I’m not sure…..    http://mathialee.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/wanted-female-police-officers/ )

 

What I’m really super amused about is this person’s multiple enquiries to bust-enlargement companies.

While our newspapers continually try to persuade its readership that one has to be big to be appreciated , it appears that he/she  hasn’t realised high street fashion has decided that ribs are the new breasts.

 

It appears that even mediacorp has been catching high street’s drift , with this very disturbing ad……

( http://imcms2.mediacorp.sg/CMSFileserver/documents/006/pdf/20091109/0911HNR013.pdf )

 

 

People with disabilities can do well, given the same educational opportunities everyone has

Hey I think this is really important! Too many people ignore the needs of people with certain disabilities thinking its futile to educate them.

 

Invitation to Focus Group discussion on Compulsory Education for Children with Disabilities
http://maruah.org/2009/11/19/fgdiscussion-compulsoryedchildrenwithdisabilities/
(Aim: children with physical disabilities to be included in Singapore’s Compulsory Education Act; also in line with the Convention on the Rights of Children)

 

 

When I went to the Vatican a few months ago I was super impressed. The guy who sold us tickets at the counter had 2 fingers only, and he was just handling all the transactions amazingly fast, no different from othr counters, and the queue was miles long but it cleared really fast.

 

The cloak room was run by just one guy and he had Downs’ syndrome (or some sort of other social disability) and everything was in perfect order, and so efficiently managed.

 

I was just so impressed with not only these 2 people, but with the people who hired them. In Singapore, even the enlightened people who hire people with disabilities tend to put them where their area of disability is not directly used in their job. There, I really learnt that your area of”disability” can be the primary requirement of your job, but it doesn’t have to matter at all!

(I mean, 2 fingers only & selling tickets much faster than 4x the speed of ANY movie ticket counter in singapore!!! )