Posted On: June 3, 2011
I picked up this book partly because my husband had pointed out something I was already acutely aware of; namely, that I was displaying signs of emotional eating. The main reason, however, was because the author is Doreen Virtue. In case you don’t know who Doreen Virtue is, she is a highly regarded expert when […]
Posted On: April 21, 2011
When you open I’m Too Young to Have Breast Cancer, you will be faced with this statistic: “This year, approximately 11,000 women under age 40 will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and close to 1,300 will die.” Published in 2004, the author Beth Leibson-Hawkins wrote this book when she could not find a book about […]
Posted On: March 12, 2011
This review first appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine. Book Review: Shameless – How I Ditched the Diet, Got Naked, Found True Pleasure… and Somehow Got Home in Time to Cook Dinner by Pamela Madsen I fell in ‘like’ with Pamela Madsen even before I heard about or read her first book Shameless. It happened […]
Posted On: January 20, 2011
This article first appeared on The Online Citizen. There is a new beauty pageant in Singapore. It’s named TruMe, an online transgender beauty pageant organised by Action for Aids; it will be officially launched next month. The moderator of Sggurls, a transgender activist who identifies herself as Nicole Singslave, told me that she coined the […]
Posted On: January 8, 2011
What if you had a superpower? Because you just might. In a society where we are constantly bombarded with messages on how to think, how to feel, and how to look, it can be very easy to fall into the mindset that we are not enough, that we somehow fail as individuals. The truth is […]
Posted On: January 6, 2011
This article first appeared on Good Vibrations Magazine. According to a new research study in the UK, more than 60 percent of British women in relationships do not feel comfortable eating in front of their partner, and almost half get shy when undressing. Also, four in ten women feel as though they are ‘always dieting’ […]
Posted On: January 2, 2011
This article first appeared on Good Vibrations Magazine. For the second time this year, fashion magazine Elle finds itself caught in a racial controversy after reportedly whitening the skin of Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in the photograph that appears on its cover. Readers reacted with anger after it was suggested that the fashion magazine […]
Posted On: December 24, 2010
This article first appeared in the December 2010 issue of Ezyhealth. Click on image to read.
Posted On: December 2, 2010
1) Name Linna 2) Job title Director of Bobbi’s Pole Studio Singapore 3) Company name Bobbi’s Pole Studio Singapore 4) Website www.bobbispolestudio.com.sg 5) How long have you been teaching dance? Almost ten years 6) What type of dance do you teach? Salsa, Exotic Dance and Pole Dance 7) How do you think dance or movements […]
Posted On: November 24, 2010
This article first appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine. Last Sunday on 14 November, a Singapore paper reported how eleven plus-sized women have put together a nude calendar to inspire other plus-sized women that their body shape does not signify the end of the world. This is a brave, encouraging and positive move by the […]
Posted On: November 4, 2010
This article first appeared on Good Vibrations Magazine. There is a new campaign in Singapore that is getting people looking twice at the exact body part intended for discussion… that’s right, the breast. One poster looks like a woman pointing to a pimple on her face. If you look closer, you will see that the […]
Posted On: November 1, 2010
1) Name Ming Leong 2) Job title: Owner of Acro Polates Pole and Aerial Fitness Studio (I’m also an entertainer known as Suzie Wong which has a separate website 3) Company name Acro Polates 4) Website of company/ your profile www.polefessional.com.sg (www.suziewong.com.sg) 5) How long have you been teaching dance? I started Acro Polates two […]
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