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Chris Brown and Rihanna: What Do Girls REALLY Think?

Chris Brown and Rihanna

16 Apr 2009 19:44 Africa/Lagos


Chris Brown and Rihanna: What Do Girls REALLY Think?

New Survey Uncovers Interesting Results

NEW YORK, April 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new survey commissioned by GIRL SCOUTS OF THE USA through the BUZZ MARKETING GROUP has uncovered some interesting news regarding the reactions of girls to the highly publicized Chris Brown and Rihanna incident: 95 percent of girls surveyed say Chris Brown's alleged actions are not acceptable or justifiable for any reason, and 48 percent believe that low self-esteem will be the primary reason for Rihanna getting back with Chris Brown.


Girl Scouts of the USA commissioned the study to ensure girl's voices were accurately represented and to stress the importance of self-esteem among girls. The incident reportedly left young singer Rihanna battered and bruised at the hands of her singer boyfriend Chris Brown. Shortly after, it was widely reported by the Boston Public Health Commission that teens were believed to put Rihanna at fault for the alleged attack.


However, it seems Boston teens do not reflect the nationwide view among girls. The Girl Scouts of the USA uncovered that a majority of girls - nearly 59 percent - hold Chris Brown responsible for what happened, followed by 33 percent who place the blame on both Rihanna and Chris Brown.


"Girls are now telling us loud and clear - it is not OK to hit a woman," says Tina Wells, CEO of Buzz Marketing Group. "That doesn't mean they don't sympathize with both parties. The girls are looking at the situation from all angles and understand that no one knows what really happened. They like Chris Brown - he is an idol for younger girls - and it was hard for them to believe at first."


The findings did contain one disturbing trend among girls - it was the younger ones under the age of 13 who were more likely to blame Rihanna. Self-esteem is at the center of discussion for girls, as the study uncovered almost half of the respondents - 48 percent - believe that low self-esteem will be the primary reason for Rihanna getting back with Chris Brown. This reinforces the importance for parents to speak to daughters early and often.


"Overall, today's girls are more savvy than often assumed," says Leanne Gluck, Manager of uniquely ME!, the national Girl Scouts / Dove Self-Esteem Program. "The media attention surrounding this unfortunate incident presents an opportunity for parents and daughters to engage in open dialogue on the importance of self-esteem and healthy relationships."


In addition to being the voice of girls, Girl Scouts of the USA recently launched a new Girl Scouts Leadership Experience which aims to empower girls with a strong sense of self and critical thinking skills to tackle issues such as low self-esteem. This learning model engages girls in a fun, experiential way to discover themselves, connect with others and take action to make the world a better place.


Survey results from Girl Scouts of the USA / Buzz Marketing Group:
-- 95 percent believe Chris Brown's alleged actions are not acceptable or
justifiable for any reason
-- 59 percent hold Chris Brown responsible for what happened
-- 33 percent blame both Rihanna and Chris Brown for what happened
-- 45 percent believe Rihanna could have provoked Chris Brown

-- Girls 13-17 were more likely to think Rihanna provoked him in some way


The nationwide survey of 420 girls, not necessarily Girl Scouts, ages 8-17 was conducted in March by the Buzz Marketing Group and included questions on demographics and familiarity with both singers.


About Girl Scouts


Founded in 1912, Girl Scouts of the USA is the preeminent leadership development organization for girls with 3.4 million girl and adult members worldwide. Girl Scouts is the leading authority on girls' healthy development, and builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place. The organization serves girls from every corner of the United States and its territories. Girl Scouts of the USA also serves American girls and their classmates attending American or international schools overseas in 90 countries. For more information on how to join, volunteer, reconnect or donate to Girl Scouts, call (800) GSUSA 4 U (800-478-7248) or visit www.girlscouts.org.


About Buzz Marketing Group


Founded by Tina Wells, Buzz Marketing Group, the premiere by-youth-for-youth marketing and communications agency specializes in market research, content generation, and trendspotting, with particular focus on viral outreach, focus groups, and lifestyle marketing. Whether it is through online research or immersion experiences, Buzz Marketing Group provides the solutions that enhance the clients' bottom line. Wells has relied on those invaluable insights to write Mackenzie Blue, a fun and entertaining novel for tweens that marks the beginning of an exciting new series. For more information on Buzz Marketing Group, call (856) 346-3456 or visit www.buzzmg.com.


Source: Girl Scouts of the USA

CONTACT: Joshua Ackley of Girl Scouts of the USA, +1-212-852-8038,
jackley@girlscouts.org


Web Site: http://www.girlscouts.org/

See Hollywood's Longest Relationships

"I wake up every day knowing I can walk out at any moment," Goldie Hawn has said about her longtime beau Kurt Russell. "That keeps things fresh."
Photo Credit: US Magazine

See Hollywood's Longest Relationships

I always tell lovers that only time will tell how true or how fake you are and not by your lip service or eye service.

Here are great couples in Hollywood whose long lasting relationships are good lessons to learn.

Will your love pass the test of time?
Like Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell.


See which long-lasting star couples defy the odds.
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Profitable And Unprofitable Relationships

Profitable and Unprofitable Romance

As I was editing this article, I read that Michael Jackson has started battle between Facebook, MySpace, Bebo users, but what you should consider is the success story of Bebo, the social networking website that began from the romantic relationship of Michael Birch when he met the American brunette Xochi at a college bar in London and their loving relationship produced the idea for Bebo in January 2005 and was bought by AOL on March 13, 2008 for $850m (£417m)! This is an illustration of the whole point of this topic on profitable and unprofitable relationships.

We have profitable and unprofitable relationships in life.
Some are caused by unforseen circumstances and others are entirely our choices.
The most important priority is to beware of unprofitable relationships and to end any unprofitable relationship.

Whatever you spend your time or money on is an investment.
How you spend it can make you successful or unsuccessful in life.
Your relationship is an investment.
Whether it is important to you or not does not change the fact that it is an investment.
Whether you like it or not, it is an investment.
It is either a good investment or a bad investment of your time and resources.

You need to sit down for once and evaluate or re-evaluate your relationship with the opposite sex.
Is it worth the time and money you are spending on it?
What are the "pros" and "cons" of your love affairs?
Is she worth it?
Is he worth it?

What are you gaining from dating him or dating her?
Sex apart, what is the benefit?

A very well known Christian minister died in a plane crash in Nigeria whilst visiting his other "wife" that was not known to his legitimate wife. His infidelity cost him his precious life and made his innocent children fatherless and miserable.

How many men have been wasting their time and money on extra-marital affairs?
In fact, many childish and foolish husbands have wasted their monthly salaries on pampering their girlfriends or mistresses.

Most girlfriends going out with boyfriends for the financial benefits can claim that they are having profitable relationships.
But are the boyfriends having profitable relationships?

In Nigeria, unprofitable relationships are responsible for the poverty plaguing the majority of Nigerians and making Nigeria one of the poorest countries in the world in spite of the enormous human and mineral resources.

Millions of Nigerian men waste their quality time and financial resources on unprofitable relationships with girfriends who are not contributing anything at all to their succcess.
A well paid Nigerian man often spends more money monthly on his girlfriend than his wife and children.
An unfaithful Nigerian wife spends more quality time and money on her boyfriend than the time and money she spends at home.
A sugar mummy buys a brand new jeep for her younger lover while one of her children needs medical treatment overseas.
A Nigerian husband buys a brand new car for his girlfriend, but his wife has to take public transport buses, taxi cabs and motorbikes to take their children to school and go to the market to buy foodstuffs for the family. She is risking her life daily for the love of her family, but her husband is wasting his life sleeping with a girlfriend whose high-risk behaviour in the city makes her a possible HIV/AIDS carrier.
The list of such unprofitable relationships is endless.
The relationships are useless.
If they confess what they go through in the course of chasing and dating another woman or another man, you would be shocked.
In fact, many of them have died in horrible and terrible ways.

Let me not prolong this issue, because every wise man and wise woman perfectly understands what is profitable and what is not profitable. Therefore, the choice is yours. I am only addressing this issue, because many of us are ignorant of the great damages such unprofitable relationships have done to individuals, families, communities and even to the rest of the country.

Public officials are misappropriating public funds to pamper and "spoil" their unprofitable girlfriends or mistresses who do not pay tax! Who do not even contribute anything to Nigeria than the fact that they are expendable liabilities.
They have been found guilty of breaking up marriages and leaving children in dire straits in broken homes.
They have given birth to millions of illegitimate children Nigeria did not ask or plan for and creating chaos in dysfunctional familities, committing thousands of abortions of unwanted pregnancies as they are perpetrating and perpetuating rampant corruption and wide spread poverty and also spreading contagious diseases all over Nigeria.
The sooner we get rid of these cankerworms, the better and safer we would all be.
If we do not destroy these evils, these same evils will destroy us eventually.
That is why those engaged in these unprofitable relationships in Nigeria must stop now before it too late.

The men should sit them and sum up the time and money they have spent so far on girlfriends who are not adding any value to your life.

Have you heard of a value-added life?
Any romance that does not add to your life anything of benefit to your family, is unprofitable and not worth it.
End it now.

Mama needs more attention and welfare at home, and you are here spending your precious time and money on shagging your so called girlfriend we all know would not even touch you with a ten feet pole if you could not afford her price.
Hello bro, wake up!
Can she discuss the routines of your daily log in the office?
Can you really sit down and ask for her advice on that memo you received?
Can she do more for you than going shopping, partying and shagging?
Is she your housekeeper and commercial sex worker or a true helpmate/partner?

You have spent N100, 000, N500, 000 or N1, 000, 000 on chasing and dating girlfriends while you have not contributed anything tangible to your poor village where only N500, 000 can give them a borehole for regular water supply or pay the school fees of poor boys or girls in your church or community.

America was not built on unprofitable relationships!
Go and read the history on how America went through The Great Depression and became a super power.
They spent more time and money on profitable relationships.

We are aping the America of today, but we forget that most Americans have paid their dues to their nation, but most Nigerians have not paid their dues to Nigeria. They are busy destroying Nigeria by their unprofitable ways of life, doing us more harm than good.

Is your relationship doing you more harm than good?
Then it is an unprofitable relationship.
End it and you will have a better and safer life.

How many times have you sat down with your sweetheart to plan for the future?
How to manage your salary?
How to manage your shares and other financial interests?
How to manage your health insurance and life insurance?
How to move on to the next level on the ladder of progress and success?

Has she asked you about any of the above?
Besides the cliché of "How now?", "How was today?" or "I hope you are fine?"
Any dummy can ask similar questions.
Has she asked anything more than that on your progress report at work compared to how many demands she has made for her selfish gratification?
She eats into your budget until your budget is no longer worth it.
She gives you stress until you lose focus and may even have premature hypertension at 35!
Hello bro, wake up!

My sweethearts and aunties need to ask themselves similar questions.
Does he care about your welfare and the welfare of your family?
I know boyfiends who do not even know where their girlfriends live!
They simply pick her up and drop her off after having their so called "Good Time".
I was guilty of this many years ago.

Forget all the lovey-dovey mannerisms, because in most cases they are mere impressionism or a game of wits to see who would outsmart the other eventually.
The lovey-dovey ends the day he has had enough and once to move on to the next target or the day she has had her fill of you and she wants to hook a richer target at first sight.

How much a man cares about you depends not on the time or money he spends on you, but on how much interest he has in your health, education, career, family, security and future.
He must want the best for you and he must prove his love for you by doing his best for you.
If he is not committed to the above top priorities, he does no love you.
End the unprofitable relationship before you are trapped.

"Only the best is good enough for us."
~ Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther

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Forbidden Love with a Married Man: E-mail Diaries

Forbidden Love with a Married Man; E-mail Diaries describes one couple's journey as they struggle with sexual identity and how it conflicts with right and wrong. More than 4 million women are currently or have been married to either a gay or bisexual man. Often the gay spouse feels forced by societal and family pressures into marriage, suppressing his true feelings in order to be socially accepted by appearing "straight." However, in secret these men cheat on their wives by conducting affairs with members of the same sex. This day-by-day memoir diary includes actual daily e-mails and correspondence between the author, Dennis Schleicher, and his 14-year married boyfriend. Will his boyfriend leave his wife and confess to her his love and desire to live with another man, or will he be trapped in his own insecurities and not move to a side of life he has kept hidden all of these years, risking the loss of his potential "soulmate"? Every married and single woman and male and/or those engaged in a relationship will learn the truth about two loving people who are highly challenged to reveal their innermost souls in order to "survive."

5,400,000 Dead in the Congo and We Are Guilty

It is easy to live and pretend that all is well, but we cannot escape from the wrath of the earth that there are evils plaguing millions of people in different parts of the world, such as in the Congo where the devils have left 5,400,000 Dead.

Iraq is not the worst conflict in the world. Congo is the worst of all nightmares of human conflicts.

I have to remind as many people as I can that the greatest love is not what we waste billions of dollars for the lust of the flesh in our so called romantic and erotic fairy tale relationships.
Of course any dummy can fall in love and live in a fool's paradise.

Yes, I am very good at that and have put smiles on the cheesy faces of many dolls and bimbos. But I am not ignorant of my greatest passion which is my mission as a Christian. Charity, Charity, Charity.

Charity is not giving alms to beggars on the street.
Charity is not giving toys to children of the poor and needy.
Charity is not giving old clothes to the poor and needy.

Charity is not giving leftovers to those you think have no better choice.

Charity is not your vain Christianity of superficiality.

Charity is more than giving meal tickets to the hungry.
Charity is more than giving the clothes you cannot wear to the refugees.

Charity is giving the best to the poor and needy.
Charity is making sacrifices to save precious lives and transforming lives.

Go and see what you can do today for those in the Congo.

Dustin Hoffman Has a Secret

Q: Can you say what the secret of a long marriage is?

A: There's so much about marriage that's unnatural. I don't think it's natural to be monogamous, to be as in love as you were the day before. But does fidelity make sense? Yes. And I don't think that you can substitute honesty in any relationship.
~ Dustin Hoffman

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TWO FORKS, TWO KNIVES, ONE PLATE

TWO FORKS, TWO KNIVES, ONE PLATE
by Michael Webb

Have you ever watched Lady and the Tramp? If I ask you what is the
first thing that comes to mind, you probably would say the scene
where they are sharing a plate of spaghetti.

There is no doubt about it, food is romantic. It amplifies the senses
and fulfills one of our deepest needs. There are certain types of
food that are romantic by nature: chocolate, strawberries and small
pastries for example. Then there are foods that are romantic because
of the atmosphere: surrounded by candles, elegant music playing in
the background, or served on a linen covered table with a vase of
fresh flowers.

Who would have thought that a plate of spaghetti could be so
romantic? But Lady and the Tramp showed us that sharing one plate is
a perfect way to be united with one another. Have you ever eaten off
the same plate as your love? How often do you feed each other? When
was the last time you shared a strand of spaghetti or a baby corn
and ended in a kiss?

Everyone has to eat. But not everyone has to have their own plate.

And here are some more great romantic tips...

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My First Love and My Last Love and Other Matters

My first love knew me before anyone else
My first love kissed me before anyone else
My first love embraced me before anyone else
My first love knew me even before I was born
My first love comes before everything else.

My first love never makes excuses.
My first love never lies.
My first love does not hold me to ransom.
My first love never curses.

My first love is the reason why I am breathing
My first love is the reason why I am living.

My first love is also my last love
My first love is the deepest and the greatest
My first love is the highest and the sweetest
My first love will never leave me even when all others have left me
My first love will be there for me till the end.

Others come and go
And the sounds of their voices may no longer echo
But my first Love never leaves.
Even if your mortal eyes cannot see
My first love is always there for me.

The name of my first love and my last love is True Love.
For His love is why I live
No matter how time flies
His Love never dies.
His love is everlasting
He is the God of my everything.

I am really never lonely, because I am always in the company of members of my family, relations, neighbours, friends and lovers. But I have found most of them wanting, because they are with me for erroneous and ambiguous agemdas, for the benefits of their relationship with me.

They do not understand the essence of our existence.
They think we only live for the sake of living.
They think we only love for the sake of loving.
They do not know that life is more than the gratification and satisfaction of the mundane.
They do not know that the essence of our existence is divine.
They bargain for everything in life.
They bargain for opportunities.
They bargain for favours.
They bargain for relationships.
In fact, they even want to bargain with God in what I call bargain Christianity.

I often look at humans not in astonishment, because there is nothing surprising about humans anymore.
I simply look at humans in amusement.
They are the most amusing creatures on planet earth.

Most of them think they are smart and wise. But eventually, they begin to manifest their true characteristics and become mere subjects of my writings. I simply tell their stories to teach others the lessons of life, because in most cases, history has shown that humans often do not learn from the mistakes of others or from the mistakes of the past.
They are often misled by their instincts or wits.

I really feel sorry for the species of Homo sapiens on earth, because they have become like chaff in the wind. They are often blown to and fro, according the tides of the times.
They come and go like the seasons.

Every season has a reason.
And every reason has a season.

Time will tell you the truth.
One day, the truth will be exposed before your very eyes like black-eyed peas.
The truth is why many girls and women end up with bruises and black eyes!

When they see that you have what they can get from you, they keep coming. But if they cannot get it, they move on to the next shop.
They are always shopping for one thing or the other.
Hello!
Yes. I know you know yourselves!
I am talking to you!
How much are you worth?
That you let men take you for a ride and you call it having a good time?
When boys and men take turns on you?
You have even lost count of how many of them have slept with you like dogs on the street.
Who is next?

Many humans are still trading by barter.
They barter themselves in exchange for what they want.
1+1=2.
There is, what I call the mathematics of human relationships.
These relationships depend on bargains.
What are the full benefits and fringe benefits?
These humans are mere opportunists of life.

I do not drive them away whenever they come into my private or public life.
I welcome them and do my best to share the knowledge I am sharing now.
My purpose is to make them wiser, so that they would become fulfilled in life and not waste their lives in haste as they are desperate to have what they assume are the trophies of their materialistic world.

They often come in-between my first love and my last love.
Most of them come for selfish reasons.
For their carnal pleasures and worldly treasures. But in most cases they are like empty shells.
Imagine an egg without any yolk.
That is their life without essence.

What they call love is not the Love I know.
Their love is not my first love and my last love.

Sex 'Short Time' Works

Sex 'Short Time' Works
Last week, 19th Apr 13:50

It looks as though men had it right all along: It doesn't take long to satisfy a woman in bed.

A recent survey of sex therapists has concluded the optimal amount of time for sexual intercourse was 3 to 13 minutes. The findings, to be published in the May issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, cast doubt on the notion that staying power is the key to great sex.

But take caution before celebrating guys,the time does not count foreplay, and the therapists did rate sexual intercourse that lasts from 1 to 2 minutes as "too short."

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Bad Sex: Is Honesty Always the Best Policy?

Why Women Cheat More Than Men

Why Women Cheat More Than Men

"Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place." ~ Billy CrystalI have always known that women cheat more than men, even thhough most of them will scream in denial.They are not called the weaker sex for nothing.Most women have weak knees.I have seen them groan and moan once men tickle their fancies.Only about 30 percent of women are faithful to their boyfriends or husbands.The following reports show the reasons they are more unfaithful than men.Most of them are most likely to go back and sleep with their exes. Jamaica Gleaner News - Do women sleep with exes to lower their quota? - Monday April 14, 2008

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Women Are More Likely To Be Unfaithful Than MenWomen are statistically more likely to cheat on partners than men. A study carried out at Oregon, Rutgers and Villanova universities, reported in the journal, 'Sex Roles', found half of women are unfaithful and are more likely to begin new relationships after cheating. Researchers think women cheat to "test-drive" potential long-term partners, but men are more likely to be opportunistic. Women more likely to be unfaithful than men Independent on Sunday, The Find Articles at BNET.com

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WOMEN are far more unfaithful than men, a survey reveals.Women cheat more than men The Sun HomePageNews

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Why women are better at having affairs (and yes, boys, they do)How many married men at your office sleep around? Come on, you listen to gossip - one in 10 perhaps? More? Count them all: the shameless philanderers, the mid-life crises. Now do the same for the attached women. The list is a lot shorter, isn't it? Why women are better at having affairs (and yes, boys, they do) Independent on Sunday, The Find Articles at BNET.com

Most women lack self control in their interactions with men.They would be posing and posturing in their pretence of playing hard to get, but if you did not give up, they would eventually give in like the Nigerian housemate in the Big Brother Africa 2 in 2007. A little intoxicant and stimulant and she was throwing up her legs wide apart for the Richie Boy to have it all.

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In fact, I believe if you place food and sex before most women and ask them to choose what they would rather have, most of them would prefer to have sex and starve.

Two Truths and A Lie

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE
by Michael Webb
The Romantic

A few months back I shared with you a game that helps you to get
to know each other better (The Question Game). Here is another
one that I have played before.

I call it 2 truths and a lie and you can play it with one other
person or with many. You simply state three things about yourself.
Two have to be true and one has to be a lie. The others have to
guess which one is the lie.

I'll go first. I am an ordained minister. I was Senior Class
President of my High School and I've been to over 30 countries.
Which one is false?

With this game you can learn some very interesting facts that
wouldn't come up in your typical conversations. You might learn
that someone used to teach ballet or won a gold medal in a statewide
swim meet. I have discovered friends who play unique instruments and
have learned about Athena's most interesting childhood experiences.

The more we know about each other, the deeper our friendships and
relationships can be.


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N.B:
Michael Webb is happily married to Athena for over 17 years.

A Lie is A Lie and A Liar is A Liar, No Matter How or Why You Lied

My friend Linda Ikeji, called me to howl about the post I made on many Nigerian girls and women telling lies online, because of their insecurities.
She said she only lied to me and not to the readers of her blog and posted her "fantasy" on why she lied to me.
That she did not want to hurt my feelings.
As if I have feelings anyone can hurt?
Those who really know me only chuckled.

Most Nigerians mistake me for what they assume I am and forget that only God knows who I am.

can't believe u'll write a thing like this about me...ure friend for 11 years? shame on u...lol


I didn't lie on my blog, I lied to u. I just didnt want to hurt ur feelings by telling u i'm in love.

I am deeply in love with someone called Olu...I will introduce u to him when next u come to Lagos...kisses.

U've always had this fantansy that I'll be ur wife or some crazy stuff like that...

U really need to get ur head examined by calling everyone a liar.

~ Linda Ikeji

OMG!

I had a fantasy that you would be my wife?
I told you that?

I hope you still have the copy of the following e-mail of 4/18/07:

Darling Linda,

Congratulations on your recent engagement!

I am happy that you have been hooked.

Give my kudos to the lucky man.

I hope the man is enlightened enough to boost your dreams and won't make you give up your divine destiny.

Because, most Nigerian men have destroyed the dreams of the Nigerian women they married and it is amazing that the greatest woman in Nigeria today is Dr. Dora Nkem Akunyili who is only a civil servant.

Is it not a great pity that there is no Nigerian Oprah Winfrey or anyone in the same league?

The security situation is not good for my safety now, because of the violent elections and I am covering the elections for an American online news portal.

Give my regards to your family.

Cheers and God bless!

I had a fantasy that you would be my wife and I was having relationships with other women from Nigeria and America since my former publisher introduced you to me in 1997?

I had a fantasy that you would be my wife and I had a beautiful Nigerian actress I wanted to marry living with me until I ENDED THE RELATIONSHIP in 1999.

Do you want to see the photographs of the women I have loved and dare to compare to them from head to toes, tattoos and all.

I cannot even remember ever seeing you in any of my romantic dreams and almost every night, I have someone I always dream about and her name is not Linda and she not Igbo or Ibo. She is HOT! The only maiden I have ever asked to marry me and even gave a symbolic ring knows herself and she is still my numero uno since July 7, 2006, to date. She will not need plastic surgery to perfect her beauty. God who knows what I want, sent her to me.
She is the one I composed the poem "My African Beauty" to honour her.

For the sake of your own future, I will not go further, so that this would not end up on the front pages of Nigerian gossip newspapers and magazines.

You do not need to lie to me.
You do not need to lie to anybody.
Be true to yourself.

Be honest and transparent.

Be happy and be proud to say you have loved and you have been loved.
Be happy to admit you dated Dan Foster for three years and moved on, to fall in love with Olu.
It your life and not mine.
You do not need to lie about it.
Admit the truth.
Have you read my Let your priorities be determined by your realities and not your anxieties
I like love stories and would have written about yours.

Those who tell lies have insecurities.

The Special Love Book for the Valentine

The Valentine comes up on Thursday February 14.
Have you sent your sweetheart the special Valentine greetings?
Have you bought the roses and chocolates?

I love to love, because I was born to love.
Love is the heart and soul of life.

"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."
~ Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Here is the special love book for the Valentine, "The Language of True Love" on Love, Sex and Relationships.

You can order for copies from anywhere by clicking on the cover image or the title.

If you are in Nigeria, you can get "The Language Of True Love" by Michael Chima on Love, Sex & Relationships, at the following places.

In Lagos.

Glendora Bookshops
Murtala Muhammad International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.
Falomo Shopping Center, Falomo, Ikoyi, Lagos.

Eminent Supermarket
3, Bajulaiye Road, Shomolu, Lagos.

Flonnal Limited
1, Bajulaiye Road, Shomolu, Lagos.

Port Harcourt, Rivers State

Rainbow Bookshop, 20 Igbodo Street, Old GRA, Port-Harcourt.

Bonny Island, Rivers State

Delight Household Goods Supermarket
Mongolo Shopping Centre, Finima,
Bonny.

Make A Better YOU in 2008 Natasha Talks Tips For Success

Natasha Darras

20 Dec 2007 11:20 Africa/Lagos


Make A Better YOU in 2008 Natasha Talks Tips For Success

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20 /PRNewswire/ --

People everywhere are making resolutions, says Natasha Darras, 17, a rising star on the high school golf circuit in southern California.


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For anyone, whose age ends in teen, Natasha offers these tips for 2008:

If you have a love life, evaluate it. Measure how happy you are and if your special person is good enough for you. Someone who is respectful, fun and thoughtful can make a big difference in your life. And if you add a dose of cute, well that counts a lot too.


Love life or not, Natasha recommends these great, safe places to meet people:


-- Concerts: Teens love them and you can meet people with similar
interests and tastes in music.

-- Paint ball fields and golf courses -- this is where the guys hang out.

-- Search Facebook or MySpace for cute
profile pictures of friends or people you just met.



Save a life. Sounds dramatic, yet bringing home an animal from your local shelter can help families bond and add a new dimension to your life.


Have a weekly dinner with your high school friends, same day, same time each week. Wednesdays are good because it makes the school week go quicker and weekends don't seem so far away.


Love your body. Instead of dieting, try simple things to feel better about yourself.


"When you are 40, you will see pictures of yourself now and be saying -- Gosh! I was hot! I cannot believe I was self-critical, when I was so beautiful," says Natasha.


Try these things to feel good about yourself:

-- Take a walk to a friends' house or just walk around your block.

-- Stop drinking soda. Have frozen yogurt instead of ice cream and go
without toppings.

-- Once a day have a piece of fruit.

-- Once a week, eat anything you want, all day long. If you are good all
week, your body won't reflect one bad day of eating junk.



"Dream a little," she says. "You never know where you can see your favorite star and sometimes, just keeping an eye out really helps. I am always looking for Chace Crawford, Chuck Wicks or any of the Jonas Brothers!! Often you see people in the most unexpected places."


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NOTE TO EDITORS: Natasha Darras available for interviews.