Sing and Dance... And Win a Wife!
The Straits Times Pg 8 - March 17 2006
Life Imitating Reality TV
It is indeed apalling what people are doing these days to gain fame! A 20 year old chinese woman has offered her own hand in marriage with attractive prizes to the winner of a nation-wide song-and-dance competition. Even her parents have offered to chip in prize money in hope to make their daughter famous!
While I certainly understand her desire to want to be famous (who doesn't?!), I am utterly disgusted at her lack of self-respect and dignity! Surely there are better ways of getting famous? How about trying to rely on your own talents and gifts to make a name for yourself! I reckon that kind of fame would last longer and it would be a more positive kind of fame.
I believe one has to view the importance and severity of marriage more seriously. This woman's action is sending out the wrong kind of message to the youths of today. What does one look for in a husband or a wife? A special talent? Maybe juggling a few circus balls to the tune of Waltzing Matilda? How about the ability to burp out the melody of the Chinese National Anthem? Too cheesy? Ok let's try singing and dancing to a proper song & suitable song at the same time?! Honestly, it really takes more than that to have a marriage that works! I really don't know where this is going and what Ms Jiao Jiao is trying to achieve, but I would like to sincerely wish her the very best on her marriage and union with a circus monkey, i mean, husband.
Life Imitating Reality TV
It is indeed apalling what people are doing these days to gain fame! A 20 year old chinese woman has offered her own hand in marriage with attractive prizes to the winner of a nation-wide song-and-dance competition. Even her parents have offered to chip in prize money in hope to make their daughter famous!
While I certainly understand her desire to want to be famous (who doesn't?!), I am utterly disgusted at her lack of self-respect and dignity! Surely there are better ways of getting famous? How about trying to rely on your own talents and gifts to make a name for yourself! I reckon that kind of fame would last longer and it would be a more positive kind of fame.
I believe one has to view the importance and severity of marriage more seriously. This woman's action is sending out the wrong kind of message to the youths of today. What does one look for in a husband or a wife? A special talent? Maybe juggling a few circus balls to the tune of Waltzing Matilda? How about the ability to burp out the melody of the Chinese National Anthem? Too cheesy? Ok let's try singing and dancing to a proper song & suitable song at the same time?! Honestly, it really takes more than that to have a marriage that works! I really don't know where this is going and what Ms Jiao Jiao is trying to achieve, but I would like to sincerely wish her the very best on her marriage and union with a circus monkey, i mean, husband.
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