MODA

Laziness means this post is coming more than one week later than it should be.

Photos already all over FB so as usual, the blog was slightly neglected because it requires words, which are soooooo like ugh, incovenient! LOL kidding, I'd never say something that bimbotic ever. Would I???

It was something that Andy has been looking forward to and working HARD for months! As a result, all of us were also very excited to see how it would all turn out. It was very interesting to see everything slowly come together from pieces of fabric that were lying around his room & ideas that were just floated around to half-formed garments still with lots of pins and extra fabric and then slowly to actual clothes hanging on a rack and finally, seeing them down the runway on actual models. Wooot!

And it was 12 pieces, all hand-sewn! So ambitious! Although, not as ambitious as the original 24 looks he wanted but still quality trumps quantity I guess =)

We reached there early and the place was packed and Andy was running around like a headless chicken, he was sooo stressed. Said hi to his parents and then sat down to watch all the pretty (and not so pretty, some downright fugly) people milling about. OMFG some of the people looked as though they were let out from the circus hahaha.

Because I like to berangan that I'm some sort of undiscovered celeb, I was very disappointed when no one came to take my picture, except for that photographer who was a friend of Andy's. LOL!

Because it was so packed, it was really very hot and when I found out that there was FREE (ICE COLD!) Heineken going round, I was like, YESSS! Jacqueline began to wonder what it would be like to get drunk in a mall on a Tuesday afternoon. Someone later realized this fantasy for her.

As per usual Malaysian style, the show started about 45 minutes later than the scheduled time, which I think is really quite okay for a fashion show. Some keep people waiting for more than 1 hour! *gasp!* Plus, there're free drinks, it's not that hard to pass the time heh heh.

Finally, the show started and we had to get through 12 contestants and a karaoke singer before we got to Andy's section. Some of the contestants were okay. Some were blatant rip-offs (McQueen and Gaga seem to favorites when it comes to "inspiration") and some were just fugly. There were a few who were great and we spotted the would-be winner a mile away. The moment the collection walked, we knew it would win. I totally want those bags-that-turn-into-jackets-and-back-into-bags-things!

As usual, there are pictures but they are blurry because mycameraisstolen and we'reusingpaige'sblackberry and thereforetheonlyworkingcamerathereishalix'scrappyone pheww. I hate saying that. I also hate relying on Halix's camera, because one moment the pics are gorgeous and the next they look like shit because that camera has self identity issues; it seems to mistake itself for either a phone or a vibrator. Mofo. And well you know, Blackberries, they're not exactly the best devices to capture gorgeous detailing on a dress. Behold, examples:

I'm only posting pics of Andy's collection cuz I'm biased and also because the photos of the contestant's pieces are not only all over the place, they are also seriously really CMI. Andy's one pun bukannya I post everything, only the ones I like or those with pieces that I'm gonna steal from him mwahhaha.

My Bandy shoes!
The leather shorts!

Oh lord the jacket! The shoes! The heeless shoes!
Aaahhhh the shoes, I die.
Love the shorts, love the jacket. But not together.

I wanna steal this clutch heee heee heee.
Azura! Shame you can't tell because he covered her face with that crazy gas mask. She got the mostest fabulous outfit IMO.
What I wore. Thought about it for DAYS in advance hahaha, so obsessed like it's my show like that. Though, it's better than some who thought about it for weeks, and woke up at 7 to try clothes on. Hahahhaha!

Camwhoring, waiting waiting waiting for the show to start.


Andy, finally exhales after 7 months of stress!


Went to Wong Kok to chill out and bitch about all sorts of things while it was raining like mad outside. Super comfy! It was surprisingly, where most of the fashhyoonn crowd went after the show. Pelik benar.

Up until the very last minute (and even well past the starting time), Andy was debating whether or not to go to the Gala. He was obviously, tired as hell but the Gala... is the Gala! A fantastic opportunity for him to hobnob and network and for us to err, gawk at fabulous people. Fabulosity wins over rest & relaxation so he decided to get us in. We were like, should we go as we are or do we change? Let's go to the car and ransack through the collection and see what we can wear lalalala!
My Gala outfit! So pretentious! And so sad, I didn't get to change 'cept for the shoes.
Andy's total makeover! With those pants! And that jacket! I die again.
Look at that satisfied smirk on Paige's face. Very sai lei meh take picture with hottie??! Slap that smile off your face baru tahu hgnh.
Alco-induced posing.

Oh, talking about alco and Halix. There was one point in the afternoon when we were watching the competition that Halix suddenly got up and sat near Ruby, who was sitting in front and also, very very near to the bar. We thought oh maybe he wants to get a better view or maybe he wants to sit with Ruby, who was all alone. Mana tahu, when we went to join him, he was all chatty and giggly and underneath his chair there were like 5 or 6 empty green bottles. The rest of the afternoon he was walking around Pavilion screaming, posing, laughing, kissing, hugging, all the things he shamelessly do when he's tipsy/high/drunk/call it whatever you want.

Classy, darling.
Finally!! I get to feel like a celeb! Tak tahu malu betul la! I loooove this pic so much it's like my fave from that day! Hahahaha :)
Someone left a comment on FB, calling this picture a drag show. Hahahaha!
I was a bit tipsy and I kept thinking, what if I fall what if I fall? Bones will break, the heels will break and I'll never be able to come to Pavilion again. LOL.

In the end, it was like STYLO, another 13 hour thing. Tiring, yes but fabulous!

OMG I'm Missing the Beach Already!

Joceline says I sleep far too much. I said no. I told her that if I were in KL (away from parental supervision), I would sleep for like maybe 12 hours straight, like from 3 a.m to 3 p.m.

Back here, if I sleep at 3 a.m, someone would wake me up for breakfast at like, 8. Then I would have nothing to do. So I would fall asleep at like, 11. Then 1 something, someone would again wake me up for lunch. Then the heat and food would make me drowsy. I would sleep again at 3. 5 plus, wake up again.

I still sleep the same amount, just in smaller blocks of time. Whichever way it is, sleeping 12 hours make me come off as a pig.

So anyways, yesterday I was having my first nap (the 11am - lunchtime one) and when I woke up the house was FULL of Noise. Like it's the 4th day of CNY or something. WTF. Before I napped my dad asked me to take out a few extra chairs cuz he said a few people were coming over for lunch. Hello, that's not a few people lor okay. The dining room was full until people spill out into the garden some more. Kids pulak dominated the TV room pukimak.

I was feeling very anti-social so I put off going downstairs even though I was starving until I heard some people leave. But then, there were still some voices that I could identify as those of nosy people I didn't want to meet (shrill, loud voices yuck).

And surprise surprise, the moment I go down, I kena interrogated straight away.

"Wah, now morning or afternoon, just woke up ah?"

Excuse me bitch? My own mother pun tak tanya that question and there you are, sitting pretty in my house, monitoring my sleeping patterns? KNNMCB.

Lazy want to layan her, I ate and ran back upstairs, biarlah they all say I anti-social pun. Tak kisah.

Later I went to the beach with Joceline. Soooooooooooo puas the weather was like, perfect (or as Joceline would say, awh-suummm)! If only I had made drinks like say, a pitcher of ice-cold vodka lime, it'd be HEAVEN.

Took a whole load of photos and I'm posting them here AND on Facebook cuz beach photos make me sooooo damn happy. When I'm back in KL going to boring classes and it's raining one moment and scorching the next, I would look at these pictures, letak pillow tinggi tinggi, go to sleep and dream aahh =)

Super Poser Alert!

Talk to the Hand, I'm Tired!

I thought of taking a short nap and waking up just in time for a short walk to the beach at sunset.

Next thing I knew, it was cold dark and rainy and very late and my momma was shaking me up, asking me not to sleep through dinner.

I am very embarassed kay that my parents saw this side of me, this side that I pretend doesn't exist, this side that can easily ''take a short nap'' till midnight if awakened by no one.

I like to pretend to my parents that I live a very healthy, very 'student' kinda life; start the morning with cereal, go to classes and study hard, lunch with friends, more classes, more studying hard, a little bit of swimming in the evening, a wholesome dinner, in bed by 11. On weekends, watch a couple movies. Once in a very long while, I'd go to some bar and have a Heineken or two. NO Trainwrecking.

They don't buy it, but I still like to pretend.

I slept like, 2 hours last night and so throughout lunch this afternoon I kept yawning. I told my mom the exhaustion's because of the travelling as though I just made my way back from Africa on foot and/or camelback even though I was just sitting pretty for 50 minutes, cuz it sounds very celeb. Har har.

My Miu Miu [but nothing from Miuccia sadly]

Never, ever, ever, ever in a million years did I thought I would be a cat person!

*GASP!*

I have always been a doggie person. I love dogs. My dream is to have a house full of cute, furry lil dogs [with someone else to clean their poop of course, or all of them would be magically toilet-trained].

Cats, on the other hand.... hmmm. My neighbours' cats are always deadly terrified of me. My sister and my favourite pastime was Water Balloons and the Cats Who Jumped a Mile High.

But OMG Y'ALL! Who wouldn't have fallen in love with this???

Presenting... Miu Miu!

Yes, I am now the proud new parent of this cute lil thing!
Soooooo OMFG cute right? Lalalalala~

I never thought I'd get another pet, especially after Sasha, who was Exhausting. But this poor thing took shelter at Jem's place one cold rainy night and Jem [who also hated cats hahaha] took him in, seeing him so kesian. He gets cuter each time I see him and after a few visits I was like, hmmm should I shouldn't I?

Then this other person said maybe perhaps they were considering adopting him and I was like Ohhhh Noooo You Won't! I took Miu Miu home that very same night.

It has been exactly one week now. And he is soooo fudorable!

At first we were worried. Would he like the cat food we bought? Would he shit all over the room? Would he know how to use the litter box? Turns out he was a bit dumb dumb, the first 24 hours, he didn't shit or pee at all. In fact, he used his litter tray as a bed sleeping on the sand. We were like, OMG if he likes sleeping in his litter tray so much, where would he do his business??

Luckily he didn't seem to be that stupid. He did do his business in the tray after that [without any training OMG! When did that ever happen with dogs?] and even know how to cover it all up =) We also needn't have worried about whether or not he'd like his food. In this aspect, he's a bit like Sasha. Also, a bit (sorry, a lot) like a pig. He wolfs down his food like there's no tomorrow. Pour the food in the bowl, he'd gobble it all up and then 15 minutes later he'd be mewing mewing mewing for more more more. OMG can bankrupt feeding this cat!
Lying on our comforters like he's king.

It's also very amusing to see Miu Miu amusing himself. The first game he was addicted to was chasing his own shadow. He could spent like 40 minutes running around the room chasing his own shadow and would always seem quite confused whenever he couldn't catch it. LOL.

After that he started to love going around the things in our rooms repetitively. Like his box for example. He'd run one round clockwise around his box, hide at the back for awhile, then come back out. And then repeat, but this time anti-clockwise.

Now his favorite game is wrestling with an empty tissue roll and batting my USB modem cap all around the room and then chasing it like it's alive.

It's true what they say about cats being very curious creatures. Anytime there is something that he hasn't seen before, like say a bag or a pillow, he'd go poke his nose at it, sniff it, touch it with a paw, back off like it's going to bite him, and then stalk and suddenly attack that thing. Very the LOLs. He seem to fancy himself a tiger in the wild I think. He'd often prowl around the room, crouched very low and moving very slowly, then all of a sudden he'd pounce on either some unseen thing, his shadow, a pen, his toilet roll, the modem cap, a blanket or our toes.

Right now he's honing his climbing skills. He has learned to climb back into his own box for the litter tray and food, up into the laundry basket and is now trying to climb the ironing board up onto the table. He has also climbed up my stacked luggage and onto the window grills. Very soon, I predict he'd jump out the window and go explore the Big Bad World on his own. Boo.

He's also a rude lil fella with no manners. He seems to think that I'm some sort of playground or an obstacle course. When I'm lying on the floor tengah online, he'd crawl onto my back or between my legs like it's a game. When I'm in the way of something he wants to get to (like food), instead of walking the long way which is around my body, he'd just walk over me. Like, crawl onto my body and proceed to walk ON me. OMG.
Miu Miu in one of his favourite hiding places.

If anybody's wondering why Miu Miu has such a sissy name, it's because.... I thought he was a girl. I mean, I never had any cats before, I don't know how to tell! And I've always had girl pets so I just assumed that he'd be a she. And I know I mentioned before how much I hate pets with names that repeat (e.g Fifi, Lulu, Dodo, Chichi), but I always had doggies in mind. Somehow with a kitten that I thought was female, Miu Miu seemed right. LOL.

After 3 or 4 days Seline came and said that Miu Miu is actually a boy, and those things are actually his lil pee pee and testicles and so now I'm still trying to get used to switching the pronouns. I slip up sometimes and scold him Bad Girl or You Naughty Bitch. Hahahahaha

Being a Big Bad Bitch

Recently I realized that I bitch Soooo. Fucking. Much.

About people especially. Old friends, new friends, best friends, friends that used to be more than friends, friends who want to be more than friends, fake friends, frenemies, the list goes on.

When I wanted to write this, I hoped I would be able to say, I'm gonna stop now, from now on I'm not gonna be such a whine and bitch about people anymore. Errr I don't think that's gonna happen anytime soon. I know, bitching is soooo mean and soooo childish, but it's also fun so hahaha sue me.

Today we had our research class. First of all, I'm not in a very good position to question/criticize/laugh/whatever because I am very lazy and therefore I missed like, 35 percent of the classes and therefore I am not a very good student with a very good topic.

But some of the students, reaaaallly, when you see their topics, I think you'd go all WHUTTT?! too. Mine is not the most creative or inventive or original or the smartest topic around but I try to keep it in the realm of Mass Communication seeing as we are indeed taking the subject MASS COMMUNICATION RESEARCH.

The first one that made me go What the Huh? was this research that wants to study the factors influencing the purchase of mobile phones. Seriously? Do you even need to carry out a whole, entire study to find out why people buy the phones they buy? I for one (superficiality alert!), buy phones for design. Geeks go for specs. Label whores and loyalists go for brands. Some sebab ikut trend, some sebab friends and family influence. I would have thought this one topic is more suitable to those 350-word essays, probably for a subject like EST or something. A whole research with a questionnaire, objectives, hypotheses and all the works? Hm.

Then, there was this one who wanted to study the factors why students work part time. OMG. Really? Why students work part time? Whyyyy??? Let me tell you now, right away, why students work part time. There's only one reason and that is Cash, Moolah, Money, Dough, Ka-ching! That is all. Why else would students work part time?

OK lah, maybe that is just my opinion alone. Maybe there really are students who work part time because they want to gain experience or learn new things, or have too much time on their hands, or really, really want to help out at that particular organization or for some other reasons that escape my shallow, money-obsessed dirty mind. I am sure there are many, many of those students around, right? Right???

It's just that $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ was the first thing that came into my mind and stayed there, distracting me for the entire presentation.

Also, her title said factors that lead to students working part time, but after that she said she wanted to find out things like whether working part time affects students' performance, like what are their grades like, do they get too tired after work and miss classes, things like that. I immediately thought of The Perfect Candidate to be one of the subjects of this study. HAHAHA!

Ooooopsies, did I just make a dig at someone else, again? Ah shit, I gotta stop this very bad habit of mine ;)

Behind the Scenes of Fabulosity

Who knew that something that seemed so fun and full of glamour could be so darn long and exhausting?

And I wasn't even in charge of doing anything. I was just milling about being a nuisance to everyone haha.

It was the day that Andy and Joel have been working on for the past couple of weeks; the video shoot for Andy's new collection of chic shapeless dresses, things that dozens of animals died for ;p

The video was only supposed to be one and a half minute but we spent the entire day shooting, from 9 a.m to 7 p.m. Footage that would only amount to several seconds needed hours to be set up.

Before this, I never knew that things that seemed so simple can be soooo complicated one lor.

Like lighting for example, I thought it'd be something like, OK turn on all the lights, make sure the model stands in the light and snap snap snap. But noooo, the lights have to be tweaked endlessly to highlight this, make sure it hits the right spot there and like, the lights have to be bright enough to cancel each other out so that there'd be no shadows on the wall or something like that. Whoa, complicated!

Make-up and outfit changes are the other things that take forever. Flawless and perfect takes a long time to achieve! Like, you gotta blend the colors to get the right shade, texture then match the colors, then match it with the clothes, do they look good together, is it the right contrast, rub baby oil onto all exposed skin, tuck ALL hair under the wigs etc etc.

The clothes needed to be pinned here, tucked in there, adjusted every 30 seconds, the wind must be blowing it at the right angle so that it flows nicely (I would know being the unofficial fan-holder, among my other jobs), not to mention SELLOTAPED! 60 percent of the collection consists of Sellotape which is such a bitch HAHAHA!

Talking about my other jobs, Andy said I was like, the Ugly Betty of the shoot. No I didn't have to run around and get that bitch coffee thank God but hello, they should be thankful they have me for all the other things that needed an extra pair of hands! LOL kidding I wish! I was totally extra sangat on that set.

I would run around and play while everyone else is busy up to their noses. You would keep on hearing things like,

"Jeffrey ah, the glasses don't really suit your face lah. Take them off and put them back k?"

"Jeffreeeeyy, don't play with the shoes lah. Later break or something"

"Jeffrey, that fur is the model's next outfit. Can give to her or not?"

"JEFFREY YAN! STOP WEARING THE SHOES!"

Not the exact words lah, but you get the idea. Hee hee. I was bored what!

There are sooo much more fierce pictures I wish I could post but Andy made me sign a confidentiality agreement and made an Unbreakable Vow not to leak any pictures of his fabulous garments so I only posted those that didn't show too much, which is mostly Halix at work. Hahaha ;p