Saturday, January 31, 2009 @ 9:00 PM
Enchanted Youth.


I was at blogskins.com, looking for a nice lay-out to use for this blog when I came across this and its meaningful quote. It made me ponder for a while, whenever I looked at the mirror, do I always like what I see? I'll be the very first one to answer no. Of course, for some, it might be a yes, or even a maybe. I would never know for sure since the world is so full of different faces and structures. I wasn't blessed with golden blond hair or long, lean legs or blue eyes. Sometimes I really hated myself for it.

Then I came across the quote above. "...the enchanting youth that is the real me." I may not be the skinniest girl among my friends or the prettiest but really, if I did have the qualities I wanted, would it change who I am? Would it suddenly make me a better person? Smarter? Happier? Leave me with more friends?

So let me leave you to wonder for yourself. I'm still waiting for my own answer too.

Until the next time,

Nadine.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009 @ 6:47 PM



Google any of these people and you'll probably see lots and lots of images of them, all looking glamorous and spotlight-ready. Gosh, if every girl were as gorgeous as them, low self-esteem or awkwardness will just be a myth!

Even so, both of us know they aren't myths.

I wonder how many of us don't like our physical selves. The shape of our eyes, our height, weight, etc. How many of us would much rather trade places with the names mentioned above, or some other media personality who you really thought was beautiful, sexy or even perfect?

Personally, we really wouldn't mind if we traded places with people like Angelina Jolie. Being famous, being the center of attention at any event, being the envy of every girl's attention.

(We can't even get our teachers to remember our names sometimes, much less pronounce it correctly!)

Sometimes we're so caught up with outward appearances, ours and others, that we feel down sometimes. We feel like there's this standard of looking pretty. You have to be tall, slim, have big eyes, be fashionable, and so much more. So what happens to the rest of us who aren't so tall, aren't so slim, whose eyes aren't so big or those of us who don't know a thing about fashion or the latest trends?

We feel left out. Our confidence goes down. It's all basically negative, negative, negative.

We can't change the features that we are born with. I know that, you know that, everyone knows that. Cosmetic surgery can't change everything we have.

Our mission? Self-esteem. To find out anything about it, find any way to deal with it and basically anything under the sun about it, you'll explore it together with us- Nadine, Hian Yong, Doreen, Venus, Shireen and Chireni of the Girls' Brigade 28th coy. We really hope that this journey would be as meaningful to you as it is for us.

God Bless,

Nadine and Hian Yong
(Group Leaders)




From left to right: Nadine, Chireni, Hian Yong, Doreen, Shireen and Venus :)