Miss World 2006

Miss World 2006 is fresh-out-of-the oven now. She is sweet and beautiful. No objection. But a look at her age astonished me. 18! And the first runner-up is 17 and the third is 20! I checked the Miss World website, but failed to find any criteria/requirements for MW contestants. I didn't watch this beauty contest thus had no clue why this Czech teenager won this contest. It is because of her appearance or both her external and internal assets? I have the urge to question what the result implies and what this contest implies at all. Miss America beauty contest has been viciously against by women in the U.S. since mid 1990s. Because more and more woman realize the sole purpose of this kind of contests is to entertain men in the U.S. by providing a new young female idol/doll every year. All assets the contestants need are their beauty. North American women have realized the deep underlying gender discrimination and they started to boycott all of them. Come back to the topic of Miss World 2006. At age 18, or 17, what assets do these girls possess besides youth and beauty? Isn't the newly crowned Miss World another fresh female idol/doll for the man-controlling world?

Health and Life Style

My latest blood examination shows that my organs are in great working condition, which is reflected in the red & white blood cell count and percentage of protein, sodium, calcium etc in my blood. When the doctor congratulated me on those great numbers, I was thinking"my life style does work in the right way!"

In the past several years, I have developed my own regimen including my diet and exercise rutine. The goal of my regimen has evolved from initially mere weight-watching to currently a more realistic one: keep fit and healthy. I used to be obsessive of searching for new and so-called effective dietary and exercise tips. But it seems I can pause for a while. At least my current life style works quite well. Hopefully, I can grow into an expert of healthy life style and someday publish some books on it:-)