Merry Christmas

I’m a hat aficionado. Sophia Chen is a makeup artist and hair stylist. We met with each other at Grand Toastmasters Club in late 2007. Being helpless esthetes, we became instant friends at the first sight. When Sophia knew I was crazy about hats, she told me secretly about her dream to have a designer’s hats exhibition in 2008. Our relationship began.

On Christmas day, I got up early. I was invited by Sophia as a model to wear her designer’s hats, to pose for United Daily News. But when the editor-in-chief saw me, she questioned Sophia coldhearted immediately why she invited a middle-aged housewife in stead of a young and pretty girl to pose for one of the major newspapers in Taiwan and if Sophia wanted to ruin her editor-in-chief’s career. Sophia was shocked and speechless. As a hat designer, Sophia thought I was the best model because she designed the hats specifically with me in her image. 

The professions and talents prevailed. Complaints aside, Sophia started converting me into a supermodel, and I exerted every effort to put on my best possible smiling face in front of the lenses. In the end, we won the trust and acknowledgement from both editor-in-chief and the photographer. I am happy for Sophia for achieving her goal to hold an exhibition of designer’s hats in 2008. It was not a small designer’s hats exhibition for a few hundreds of visitors, it was a special report of her designer’s hats on a big newspaper during the Chinese New Year holidays, for tens of thousands of readers.

As for me, I am happy for myself to expand to a new category of modeling successfully. It was another milestone for my newly-begun modeling adventure. On Christmas Day, Santa Claus sent the biggest gifts of self-esteem to Sophia and me, because we dare take the challenge to realize our dreams.

What a Merry Christmas it was today!