Exhale.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I am shallow. Men usually get the blame for being shallow, but women are the same. I am almost 100% sure that every woman on the planet scan a new man and decide if she'd 'do him' within the first five seconds of their first meeting. Fine, the first ten seconds then.

January 23rd 2004:
"Imagine if you could change who you are. Change your whole persona and become someone else. Today that's actually not impossible. You can already get new fingerprints, new personal security number, change hair colour, eye colour etc. You can change your length, distort your voice or operate your face so that you don't look like yourself. Maybe you should take it one step further? Change your blood type or extraction. Or maybe you should just be happy with being the one you are? Happy about not being like everyone else without that extra something that makes you different? Do you really want to be perfect? I don't. I'm proud of my flaws. Even if I'm ashamed to admit it I would, if I had a child today, belong to the kind of poeple who would exclude certain possibilities. How would I exclude there? Well, with a certain kind of genetic engineering. It's possible to see, already before the baby is born, if it has some kind of damage, what gender it has, if it's more than one and so on... The question is only if you really want to know all this. Aren't you suppose to be surprised at birth and love your child no matter what it looks like?
Don't believe that I think genetic engineering is bad, because I don't - at least not in all areas. Research on stem cells that can help patients who suffer from haemophilia is very good, so is reasearch that helps people in suffering, for example HIV-infected. Research used to grow big tomatoes and other berries and vegetables does feel a bit pointless. So does cloning. I think you should let nature deal with that, like it does with for example potatoes, and not interfere.
No, let everything have its' due course. Although, you can change a little... Just a little..."

Did you know that it used to be fashionable to smoke? Doctors used to order 'a pack à day' - they even have commercials about it. That was about 70 years ago though. It's not really fashionable anymore. I think smoking is mostly seen as disgusting and a smoker is seen as someone who destroys him-/herself and the surroundings.
In the 16th century people used white powder on their faces. You've probably seen the pictures. Being pale showed that you were rich enough to stay out of the sun. Only workers got tanned. The white powder contained led, which was not only poisonous, but also irritated the skin and made it red. So what did they do? More white powder of course. I'm sure you laugh now, but think of all the people who have powder in their faces today. Oh sure 'it's tested', but you can never be sure. You can never know that in long-term it won't do damage.

January 28th 2006:
"I realised something when I brushed my teeth just now. People complain about today's ideals of the the 'beautiful person'; you're suppose to be tall, good-looking and have that extra special something. Reason number 1 to why people complain about this is that it's not a real ideal. Most people aren't tall, beautiful and grand and they don't have size 2 in clothes. The people who do are called 'models'. The thing about models are that they don't last very long in their business. Gotta be boring to be out after just a few years, well, if you don't become super-good. You know, get on covers, get booked for shows etc. etc. etc. into infinity. The fun thing about models are that it's the regular people who do something of them. Sure, they have to be 'discovered' by someone, but we're still the ones to decide. Let me take an example. Assume that an incredibly beautiful girl/boy walks somewhere. An agent sees this person and before she/he knows it, she/he is booked for a runway show and on the cover to a big fashion magazine's February number. Assume that the number sells incredibly bad. Bye bye model. With this I'm just trying to say, say - not defend, that today's regular people, you and me, really accept this sick, thin, strange ideal because we choose to buy the magazine. Did you know, by the way, that it in the old days was considered beautiful for a man to have a big stomache? It showed that he had welfare and wealth. If a woman had wide hips and break in the skin just where the stomache ends she was considered attractive, since it showed that she was good with producing babies. The world has come a long way since then some people say. I am not one of them.
/'New Maybelline Mascara - opens your eyes.' Yeah... maybe I should just stop closing them?"

Women shave everywhere and for who? Most of them claim that it's for themselves, but is it really? 'It's fresher without hair'. Says who? You? Why do you say that? The hair is there for a reason. A few thousand years ago you were completely covered in it. Would you have shaved yourself then too?

I suppose the only thing that never really got out of fashion are white teeth. A toothbrush and some toothpaste and I'm set for life. I think I'm gonna keep to that. That way I'll still be fashionable in a hundred years.