Be Happy With What God Gave You

"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."

The Book of Genesis 1:27


http://bible.cc/genesis/1-27.htm




Ever since I could remember I could always relate to the saying all form and no substance. An expression you may have seen me use in the blog was all icing and no cake. A saying I attribute to one of the many talk show hosts I listen to, Scott Van Pelt. I remember having a discussion with a friend of mine 15 years ago and the theme was be happy with what God gave you. And we were talking about hair color.


I was never a fan of cosmetic surgery. In most cases it is humans attempt to reshuffle God's deck. They conveniently forget God also made their inside. The inside can be worked on too.
 

 

One of the well known local attempts of reshuffling the deck is Pops Fernandez. I have included a mix of pre and post inflation pics. You can agree or disagree with me which is more appealing. Sorry if the word "skank" comes to mind in the post procedure pics. Not to mention the words ghastly, corpselike and trampy. And it's supposed to be an upgrade?


There are some of you who would wish that I leave Charice Pempengco alone. Well, it won't be today. Much was made of her botox procedure by that attention seeking hound Vicky Belo. I know someone who has known "Dr." Belo personally for many years and his/ her exact words were " she looks like she is made more by man than by God". Once again, what God gave is not good enough, let's get Charice's natural face and conform it to some man made ideal. 

Many of you have seen Shrek (2001). That climactic scene about "you find true love's first kiss and then take love's true form" really blew me away. It was an ending that will never happen in a Disney movie. If you were ever a fan of soaps or "daytime dramas" , Disney is the equivalent of soaps for kids. Everybody is attractive as long as they are good. When I was in high school, ET had a similar message. As my high school English teacher Brian Devenport once told us: "real life is not like that, everybody beautiful". That makes the climax of Shrek so powerful and ultimately better for the psyche of kids than all the Disney movies put together.

I have included two videos for your perusal:

1) ABC News report on some Hollywood casting agencies looking for actresses that are not surgically enhanced. A report that I consider the anti Vicky Belo video.

2) Cliff Richard and the Shadows doing their tribute to Pops Fernandez Lucky Lips.

I believe God meant us to take "love's true form".


Ed




Related links

http://cornholiogogs.multiply.com/journal/item/985/Vanity_talk_Audio_Blog

http://cornholiogogs.multiply.com/journal/item/704/Its_Better_To_Look_Good_Than_To_Be_Good


http://cornholiogogs.multiply.com/journal/item/611/I_Am_So_Beautiful_To_Me_


http://cornholiogogs.multiply.com/journal/item/336/Me_Myself_and_I_

http://cornholiogogs.multiply.com/journal/item/192/The_Emperors_New_Clothes_and_its_relevance_to_today_and_to_your_life_

http://cornholiogogs.multiply.com/journal/item/887/Is_There_in_Truth_No_Beauty

http://cornholiogogs.multiply.com/journal/item/1193/I_dont_find_Charice_Talented_But_Let_Me_Tell_You_Who_Is

http://cornholiogogs.multiply.com/journal/item/1194/Be_Happy_With_What_God_Gave_You

http://www.unwords.com/unword/skank.html


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvdvDREJ96c




http://katnip.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/lip-augmentation-is-not-good/



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-YXv9fuKLk&feature=more_related


http://antipinoy.com/in-the-news-charice-pempengco-undergoes-cosmetic-enhancement/

Tags: substance, vicky belo, form, lips, surgery, shallow, cosmetic, shrek, vanity, botox

Discrimination Can Cut Both Ways

"How come NO ASIAN candidate was chosen for the Top 15 in the Miss Universe Pageant? Could it be that Donald Trump HATES Asians?"

a quote on Twitter August 24, 2009.


That was from the Twitter of a friend of a mine. One thing about words and meaning is you don't need a lot to inspire a lot of writing and speculation elsewhere. What I am trying to say is those two questions are loaded. This is nothing personal but I feel I have to break down those two sentences. And any of you who have been long time readers will find yourself in familiar territory. First of all you only get 140 characters to say what you want in a single Twitter message but this is what I said in response. .


edrlopez@***** would you be asking that question if you were not Asian? What if no dark skinned in top15 would you question?


It really seems this person was slighted that Asians were included. As a mutual teacher of ours says " you have to come to your decisions with logic and not feelings". I am questioning perspective there. I would hazard to guess based on two sentences that my friend feels slighted that nobody from his or her race made it to the Top 15 so it speaks to the pride and self worth of that race. In this case the Asian race.


Another point that I am interpreting from those two sentences is the exclusion of asians is attributed to Donald Trump. He bought the rights and he paid the judges and told them not to pick Asians. I doubt that is a future Oliver Stone movie.

One thing about the notion of no asians in the Top 15. I can not verify that statement to save my life. I looked in the Miss Universe website and they do not even have the process. They don't say the Top 15 or even the runner ups or runners up however you say it. What kind of a competition is this? That does not record the winner's path to victory? I did a quick Google and I can see the score of every NFL playoff game from the 2003-04 season. But the official MIss Universe website just tells you the winner and the names of the representatives?

In the same class where I know my friend , our teacher had an exercise in the first class. Name your favorite book and why. Text books, religious books and technical manuals excluded. I forgot which one said it since everybody was new to me at the time. But someone said Little Prince which is a great answer.
The classmate went on to say because it's a book that stresses what is on the inside is what really matters. In case you were wondering what book I picked , it's this. Something tells me that the Miss Universe competition was not created and sustained with the ideals of the Little Prince in mind. Miss Universe is an exhibition and that's all it is. Why someone can bent out of shape over the racial composition of the final fifteen is beyond me? Besides a practice that inspires this creepy practice and behavior is truly something I can not get behind.

Somebody explain to me how this can be a competition? Dan Wetzel explains why it is not? How exactly do you compete? By how gingerly you wave? God gave us all a face. Some more blessed than others so I don't know why there is so much emphasis on this? Besides anybody know or care who Miss Universe 2006 was? I don't. But I am sure we can go back thirty years and I can tell you at least 2 out of 4 the winners of a) Stanley Cup b) Super Bowl c) NBA Final d) World Series.

Wow, two sentences and we can surmise concepts like racism, bribery, completion, self worth, shallowness and conspiracy theories. Sometimes two sentences can speak like an entire book. Does not necessarily mean the book will be something I will genuflect to though.


Ed











http://www.missuniverse.com/pageant/venue


http://cornholiogogs.multiply.com/journal/item/242 (Olympics judging)

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/torino2006/figure_skating/news?slug=dw-figsnosport022006&prov=yhoo&type=lgns


http://cornholiogogs.multiply.com/journal/item/518/Hes_One_of_Us_Thats_Why

http://cornholiogogs.multiply.com/journal/item/877/I_Love_Cute_Kids_But_Why_Does_This_Feel_So_Wrong_Video_


http://philadelphia-eagles.net/history/2003-stats.html



http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/mia/1994.htm

http://cornholiogogs.multiply.com/tag/protests

http://cornholiogogs.multiply.com/journal/item/285/I_got_this_intense_craving_lucky_my_gf_was_with_me

http://www.readingmatters.co.uk/book.php?id=116

http://twitter.com/edrlopez


August 24, 2009.

tags: competition, substance, discrimination, donald trump, bribery, beauty contests, beauty, superficial