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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

In SMU I have a few foreign professors. They come from America, Japan, UK, China, and etc. I’m beginning to enjoy the different style of teaching from different professor and especially, their point of view.

There is one of my prof teaching me Analytical Skill. He is American. So this prof was explaining about Venn Diagram concept by using example.
He said, “No fat Singaporean”. We had a good laugh about this but at the same times it strike me about his point of view.

In fact, it is almost true that in Singapore, you could hardly see fat people around. I find it quite weird. Singapore is a rich country with a high living standard. If you are comparing with developing countries like Indonesia, Africa, India, etc, it is make sense if the majority of people there are skinny. The large number of people could be malnutrition, hunger, and no appetite due to sickness, but how about Singaporean??

We agreed that Singaporean lifestyle is identical to the entire resident in Singapore. I believe one of the main reasons that there is no fat Singaporean is because of the lifestyle they have. In Singapore, you could hardly find the wife/woman be the housewife. A high standard of living does not balance with the income received. As the result, nobody take care of the house work. Nobody cook, nobody wash, nobody in the house that can help you unless you are rich enough to hire a maid.

Due to that, Singaporean would rather skip their breakfast, or even lunch, just because they are too lazy to cook, or to buy food. Some people also believe that to buy food home is cheaper that you cook yourself because you don’t have to waste time and effort to wash, cook, and clean.

Secondly, the advertising concept of “skinny mean beautiful”, is the image of Singaporean have. The advertising does a good job changing all these people mindset and creating a whole new image of beautiful. What I believe is that people making this image for their intention of making people buying the products, to make you slim, to make u think u look beautiful when u are skinny… bla bla bla. But in fact, I don’t really think that “skinny mean beautiful”.

For me, healthy is beautiful!! When you are healthy, it is because you are happy and definitely when you are happy you look beautiful.
** HAPPY = HEALTHY = BEAUTIFUL

ps: This is just my 2 cent worth of thought. I don’t mean to offend anyone at all.

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