Mr Bad Media Karma

A cursory peek into my fucked-up life. Rants and raves, musings and madness - come get your piece of me.

Saturday, March 31, 2007

Do Your Thang Honey!



I haven't done this in a while, for obvious reasons, but would you just look at Ms Spears...over the past 2 days, celebrating her divoce settlement and at a Lakers game. Of course this has all happened before. And then she met Paris and exposed her beaver to the paparazzi, partied excessively and shaved herself bald. But hey this is another chance at setting herself up for a great comeback. She better not screw it up this time! You go girl!

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

What Have You Done For Me Lately?

9 days into the job. It's been sweet. I've attended the Singapore Fashion Festival press conference with Vivienne Tam and Ai Tominaga, the River Island and Tangs Playlab runway shows (and will be going for Woods & Woods this Saturday - so excited!), free tickets to The Hitcher (you can read my review at www.trevvy.com), complimentary Elton John Greatest Hits CD, VIP entry at St. James Fabulous Sundays, and met some really interesting people from music labels, theatre production, the media at large - actually I'd love to be in PR or media-related work but unfortunately I have already chosen my course in life. Only thing is, while the official working hours are from 2.30 to 6.30, I'm working a lot longer than that. Meetings at 11 in the morning, fielding phone calls while I'm having sex (in the morning of course not at the office), checking e-mail, editing articles till 2.15 AM in the morning. It can be stressful at times. But it's very satisfying. Besides, if I'm going to be working 16 hour days at Drew & Napier in the future, I sure as hell better be ready for some stress. Anyway here are some pictures from the River Island and Playlab fashion shows.
I love that outfit from the River Island show. And the model. But that's another issue.

Models making their final walk at the River Island show.

Pics from the Playlab show. I was in the second row and was able to get better pictures than River Island.

On the personal front, I'm newly single again. And happy. Been doing so many things with Meng and Wei Ren. Wine tasting at MOX (love the Reisling), talk on being gaily single at MOX (again), dancing the night away at St. James, embarking on an aborted mission to The Loof (all thanks to the rain), apart from the usual gym and dinner routine. Also met NENA CHEE for the first time in weeks la. Terrible that girl.

So I'm sitting alone here in the office now, looking out the window at the city skyline and typing this out (it's already past working hours la), waiting for Meng to finish whatever he's doing so we can attend some fashion industry event at Play. Haven't been to Play before so should be great!

That's about it from me for now. Catch you guys another time!

Sunday, March 18, 2007

It's been too long

God I've been one lazy motherfucka. A 4 day 3 night cruise, a weekend of mad clubbing, a new job starting Monday (which I'm terrified I'll screw up but we'll see) and a couple of movies (300 and The History Boys) later, and this is my first post. I've been watching so much TV for the past few days - including one crazy session till 4AM on Friday morning - which is kinda sweet but somewhat of a distraction at the same time.

Exciting times ahead. And scary. But in a good way. I'll post some pictures from la cruise one of these days la. Haven't even uploaded them yet.

On another note, my wardrobe is depressing. I can't find anything I really want to wear. The purple FCUK t-shirt didn't get good reviews from anyone - gay or straight - who saw me in it. According to the Choo (who as we all know is an authority on all matters pertaining to fashion - he is in retail after all) it looks like fabric cut from a curtain. I think I might never wear that t-shirt again. WEI REN YOU BETTER BUY ME A SHIRT FROM RAOUL! Haha.

More updates to come soon hopefully. Toodles for now!

Sunday, March 04, 2007

I don't know

A few days ago the trinity descended on Mox for a workshop on relationships organised by Safehaven. Let's just say that there are lots of queer people in Singapore who are still romantics at heart - I won't judge - and hold fast to the most cliche and banal views of love. Or maybe I'm just being cynical.

But I did get the feeling that certain participants were simply saying what they thought others wanted to hear.

At the end of the day, I was left with more questions than answers. And a question of my own. When it comes to matters of the heart, why do we make things so complicated? I have this theory that humans have an inner mechanism that never allows us to be content, to settle down for long - indeed in this case, it's really about the journey instead of the destination. Unfortunately the time is 0930, I'm supposed to leave for my cruise in a couple of hours, I haven't finished packing, and I only had 3 plus hours of sleep last night, and so I shall spare you all the details of my theory.

Anyway triumph or tank, I did enjoy attending the workshop because it was an opportunity to meet other members of the community in all its diversity.

Last night(or should I say early this morning) we watched The Lives Of Others, a German film about Stasi surveillance of a celebrated GDR playwright which won many awards culminating in the Oscar for best foreign language film. At some point in time the fact that I was reading the subtitles - something I don't like as it distracts me from actually watching the show - no longer bothered me, and that's when you know you're watching something good. When the language no longer matters. I'm not going to bother writng a review or giving a summary. Haven't got much time to waste. But it was certainly well worth the $9. Damn I've been watching a lot of great movies recently. Perhaps I just have very low standards when it comes to movies, but I've actually enjoyed all the movies I've seen over the past month.

Ok I really have to go pack my shit now. See you guys in a few days!

Thursday, March 01, 2007

A GOOD look better yet a HOOD look

"All I can say in the meantime is beyonce please don't pull a britney on us anytime soon and you're on your way to cracking my top 5 female artistes ever!!!"

When I read that on SAMAZOZI'S blog I went 'bitch!' but it's true that Beyonce is steadily clawing her way up my own list of favourite female artistes ever. Maybe not the top 5 just yet but her manicured nails are certainly making their way into my top 10. To coincide with the release of B'day(which I am SO going to buy), B girl has released 2 singles, Beautiful Liar ft. Shakira for the pop market and Upgrade U for rhythmic/urban. Now I haven't heard Beautiful Liar but I've been raving about Upgrade U since I heard it a month ago. It's probably my favourite song from B'day so far - and bear in mind that I LOVED 'to the left, to the left', 'RING THE ALARM' and 'Deja Vu'.

And so Ladies and Gentlemen...and flamboyant Gentelmen, I present you with the music video for Upgrade U. Enjoy!!!

Beyonce
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