".......I live life my own style......."


My Own Style Dancewear & Streetwear Blogshop is your online Blogshop that sells jazz, hip-hop and belly dance dancewear and costumes in Singapore. The designs of the jazz and hip-hop dancewear are unique and fashionable. You may use them for your streetwear to stand out from the crowd.

....My Own Style... is also a blog intended to promote a worthy cause - to help all of us in all ways to build self-confidence and to surround ourselves with what will encourage and uplift our spirits, with arts, music, dance..... Yes, and dance is one of the things closer to my heart because of what it can do to our mind, body, soul and spirit.

"For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."- Matthew 6:21

So let us start on this journey together...........

Monday, 29 August 2011

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Most of us have a comfort.......A comfort can be defined as something that bring forth a feeling of relief from worries or unhappiness.  It is a something that makes you feel comfortable and at ease.  It could be something that you enjoy doing which helps you to release your stress and forget your pains and troubles.
For some, it is a musical instrument like a guitar or a piano which you seek solace in by simply playing with it.  For others, it is a sight of someone or something familiar like a comfort blanket......
For me, it is dancing....the feeling of being in presence of myself....being completely and fully there just dancing........
This just brings me to the story of the dancing David in the Bible who cared more about his own internal experience than what other people think.  He was utterly fearless of what other people think.  His public act of dancing in fact cost him his marriage.  His wife despised him as she focused on what the people watching were thinking about him dancing in a an undignified manner, whereas he focused on experiencing the joy of being in the presence.
I think it is more important to care about what is going on inside our own heart than what other people think of our actions.  So, I often tell myself that my heart is made for bigger things that satisfy and enrich my soul like dancing.
Do you have a comfort, my friend?.....Find one that your soul identifies with.........  ;-)

Friday, 26 August 2011

"We live in a beautiful world"

I was thinking about how to start my blog.....should I talk about belly fats, or how to lose weight or how to set realistic goals when exercising... the list just go on and on.....until I stumbled upon this article entitled, "I couldn't afford to lose any more" from The New Paper, on 24 August 2011.

Tears welled up in my eyes when I read about how this Chinese dancer, Ms Liao Zhi,  who lost her legs in the Sichuan quake and  yet continued to dance and made a difference in the lives of many others.  I just made up my mind at that point to start my blog with her heart wrenching but uplifting story.

Just about 3 years ago, she was a dance instructor and a young mother of a 11-month old daughter,  who had just started to piece back her life together after an unhappy marriage.  Then the 8.0-magnitude earthquake happened on a fateful day and took away the lives of her loved ones and as well as more than 80 000 people in China.  During the long 12 hours ordeal in which she was trapped under the debris, she had to bear both the physical pain of her leg which was crushed by the debris as well as the mental torture of witnessing the death of her daughter and her mother-in-law happening right before her eyes. 

Her lower limbs were amputated and she could no longer do the traditional Chinese folk dance which she loved.  While she could have wasted herself in sorrow, she did not, instead she picked herself and  found renewed motivation to stay alive after finding solace in the kindness of an elderly stranger who left her S$2.25 under her pillow while she was recuperating in the hospital.

She said that she had lost many things and could not afford to lose any more. And she moved on to learn a new dance with a giant drum and performed in a Miss World event in Chongqing.  Not long after, she appeared in a public service broadcast and soon became a household name.  She even started to impact the lives of many unfortunate ones by starting a troupe for disabled artistes in 2009, mentoring students between the ages of 4 and 12.

She said:"I've learnt how not to focus on my problems and look on the positive side of things.  We live in a beautiful world."

Such  indomitable spirit ............and I was encouraged to think of the world as beautiful despite the difficulties in life.  We should all continue to dance with joy because we are so blessed to be living in this beautiful world.  And  I truly hope that you are just as uplifted as I am after reading this....................

By the way, do post your comments and feel free to give me feedback after browsing the blogshop so that I can understand your needs better and help you to increase your joy in dancing by working with you to achieve your desired image for your dance workout.  Anyway, so much for today, do come back to this blog for new products and postings............

Thursday, 18 August 2011

.......My Own Style.......

"We are not here merely to make a living.  We are here to enrich the world, and we improverish ourselves if we forget this errand." - Woodrow Wilson

My Own Style is an online blogshop that sells jazz, hip-hop and belly dance dancewear and costumes in Singapore.

We know it's very hard not to be happy when you dance....and we want  to increase your joy by helping you to do it with lots of attitude and style because you are aware of who you are and your style.
"Where your treasure is there your heart will be also"- Matthew 6:21

Which is why My Own Style carries a wide variety of dance apparels that are rather unusual and unique in design.  Indeed, you will be spoilt for choices.  Now, you can simply mix and match the dance apparels to express your own unique individuality.......