No to Photoshopped women on Magazine Covers!

Julia Bluhm, a young girl from America, started this petition specifically for Seventeen Magazine to stop using photoshopped covers on their magazines as it is affecting young girls body image and self esteem and also health.  I personally agree with this petition and hopefully if this succeeds, not only Seventeen will start publishing unaltered magazine covers but also other magazines will follow suit.  If you want to sign the petition then click here.

Before getting a new pet.

Throughout my life, my little sister has brought a variety of animals into our house, ending up not lasting with us for a long time either because she is not capable of taking care of them or because they have escaped.  Fortunately we are lucky that our dog is a great match with our lifestyle and has been with us for already 7 years and hopefully for a 100 more years as he is very dear to us.

I decided to write this post to maybe be able to educate and help readers to decide and choose the ideal pet for them. 

Before we got our dog, we did a lot of research on his breed and after finding a reputable breeder we finally got him.  Unfortunately our breeder wasn't the reputable, she had neutered the dog without telling us and gave him to us within less than a month after his birth and we didn't know that he was that young and could have easily died, if we hadn't taken great care of him.  So my first advice would be check the breeder well and also if possible talk to previous customers as well as they would be your best source.

However, before choosing a reputable breeder choose the breed well to see if it matches your lifestyle well. I suggest websites such as wikipedia which maybe helpful, however as many know wikipedia isn't t your best source as users can go and change entries whenever they want.  Therefore wrong information may be found. 

Also recently I have been watching a program on the Animal Planet Channel, called Dogs 101 and it has another one called Cats 101 and Pets 101.  Both shows talk about almost every breed out there of cats and dogs and other pet varieties and point out the features of such animals, such as their temper, the best environment for such breeds to live in, their health problems and so on; which is very helpful and it is correct as it practically nailed every pro and con of my dog's breed.  So how can you find these videos?  You don't need to have the channel, if you google or just go on youtube and type Cats 101 or Dogs 101 or Pets 101 (depending on what you are looking for) and also the specific breed you have in mind and you can easily find a video from the program of the breed you searched for. 

The series makes out a valid statement in every program they air, i.e. that not all dogs or cats from a certain breed will follow the points they mention on such breed throughout the program, there are always exceptions to the rule.  This doesn't mean it is a bad thing, if for e.g. breed X normally lives up to 10 years, it doesn't mean your dog won't live for up to 20 years if it is given the correct diet.  The same reasoning can be applied to other aspects such as temperament.  However, in regards to the grooming criteria I feel there cannot be exceptions to this rule.

And one final point, don't be deterred from what people say about certain breeds, such as pitbulls or bulldogs.  It is people who make such breeds behave like monsters, in reality they aren't monsters. If you treat such animals well and train them and don't provoke them, then they won't harm you and others. This video shows clearly my point;

Hope you found my post helpful in deciding in what pet you are going to get.  It is a great pity that people get pets and end up abandoning them or harming them because they are not capable of taking care of them.

RIP Amy Winehouse

Such a great singer, which makes it a great pity that we have lost her at such a young age. I hope her death can be seen as a lesson to addicts or anyone with a problem to seek any form of help, whether it is through an internet forum, a psychologist or a psychiatrist, family or friends or special groups. Don't be afraid to open up to someone you trust about your problems. No one is born perfect, so don't be afraid to take the first step in trying to better yourself.

Emma Watson; What were you thinking?

So I just read an article on Emma Watson's tough struggle in trying to handle both a University life and a career; which she eventually failed miserably at as her career won.

I'm all for education as I am a student myself and even Miss Watson in her latest interview on Vogue.  

In this interview Emma discusses how she struggled with juggling her career and her education and she eventually dropped out of Brown because of work and how she wished she could continue in her education, bla bla bla.

The girl should just shut up;  if she wanted an education she should have either;

1. put her career on hold - In her interview she referred to James Franco and how he helped her.  The thing is, Franco as far as I know isn't involved in a billion dollar franchise, as she is, and so I would have been slightly easier for him to handle.
2. waited for the Harry potter films to end and then went to university.  There is no age limit for education, so she could have went later in life.
3. while still at university, apart from being still involved in acting I wouldn't have added another burden, ie modelling gigs. It's one thing when you can barely keep up with both acting and education and it is another thing when while you yourself are finding it extremely difficult to keep up then you stupidly add another 'career'.

I don't mind that she actually tried to juggle jobs, etc... but it's not like she was low on cash (she has millions in her bank account) unlike other students who have to take up loans and still pay even after they graduated. She could afford putting her career on hold.  Taking Natalie Portman as an example; when she was studying she wasn't involved in many projects and wasn't doing that many magazine covers and appearances, she kept the right balance of work and study.  

Emma Watson was being too ambitious and trying to impress everyone that she is like her character Hermoine, unfortunately unlike Hermoine she doesn't have a magic watch thingy.  Emma failed and instead of trying to blame her bosses she should blame her self and just shut up; the more she talks the more stupider she sounds and the more she shows she was only admitted to Brown University because of her money.  People would have been more impressed if she actually finished school and not dropped out.

Emma dear, you don't impress anyone by looking too ambitious and then falling flat on your bum for failing, because you are a famous actress earning more than what 50 million people put together earn doesn't make you a super being, we are all still human at the end of the day irrelevant of socials status and income.