3 interesting events and a show

Don't worry people, if i don't write one night it doesn't mean something bad has happened haha, infact yesterday was one fo the best nights yet!
A fashion show for "Arena" Magazine, featuring clothes from DKNY :D
for once i actually had cool clothes haha.
Oh and apparently me and one other model were on the news this morning "Channel 5" even :D
As you guys might know, i will be in Batam for the weekend with the relatives, so i'm probably not going to have internet access (I might but probably not :P)
Btw. . .. . i found this http://www.flickr.com/photos/cheeweng/sets/72157602416046402/
hahahha. . . wow. . .. that was my third show, i think it was saturday. . . .. remember the gay assed silver makeup i was talking about? well. . . .. here it is hahahhahaha embarassing :P
Well let's see here, what happened monday?. . . . .. i can't really recall. . . . well nothing important, that's worth to note has happened. . . at least i don't remember it so it can't be anything important can it? hehe
Oh shit wait.
Hahah oh right i had a Car TV commercial casting.
I had to pretend i was the good guy and that i was driving and just enjoying the scenery, i had to pretend i was racing, i had to pretend i just won. Then I had to pretend that i was the bad guy and that i was checking out the good guy's car, i had to pretend to race desperately and finally i had to pretend i lost.
hahahahha was really fun, but i'm not good at actign extremely pissed, pissed off i can do, but when it comes to extremely pissed i just start laughing haha >.< We had to retake the shot of me loosing once because the guy with the camera said i was smiling hehe
And if i get the job i'll have to drive a car :P but i told them i didn't really know how. . . so we'll see :P
Another interesting thing that happened during the week, was a farewell party of one of the female models. She also happens to be the model that the agency told to take care of me, that day i just came (Although i ended taking care of her at the club haha)
Anyway, we've become good friends and she was really sweet and bought me a notebook which she filled with some pictures of us and wrote some stuff, that was really nice.
The goodbye party was at one of the model's appartments, and there were 4 guys and . . . . .. not sure how many girls but like 7-8 or more :P
We drank, we ate, we went out, we took lots of pictures (Which i will try n get up as soon as possible) we went to a club. . . .. . and at the end of the night. . .. . around 4am, Me, Queenie and her friend went to grab soemthing to eat. . . And after that i went home with a cab!
The final interesting event this week was my 5th show!
I was at the casting for the show. . . i think the day before the actual show haha.
So i was told to go to the fitting at 10 (something) am at a DKNY outlett!
I was the first one there (Apparently it doesn't really seem like you have to be punctual in these jobs :P) and the next model came like 15 minutes later, and then about 45 minutes later the rest arrived haha. Once again 70% were from brazil, one girls was from russia and one guy was from Shanghai. I had met and become well acquainted with all the models at an earlier date, with one girl being the exception (ie. I'd never seen her before).
It was like any other fitting. We met the clients and coreographer and any other person involved with the show. Then we put on our clothes and got our pictures taken for reference during the actual show (So that we can look at the pictures and not walk out with the wrong combination of clothes).
The coreographer was named Daniel Boey. Apparently he's supposed to be somewhat famous, because i was talking with one of the girls later that night, and she told me we were only getting paid 150 sing dollars! Buuuuut she said she was alright with it because she was working for Daniel Boey and the clothes were from DKNY. So i guess this show was more for exposure. (And hey what do ya know, i ended up on the news right? haha)
Ok back to the story;
After we had tried out the outfits (3 outfits each) we were allowed to leave and were told to come to portsdown road at 3.45 pm.
Everyoen went back to their appartments and what not, and so did i. I just chilled for an hour or two, then i gave "Anastasia" a call (One of the female models) and we agreed to meet up at 3.25 outside of Buona Vista MRT station, i also told her to Bring the guy from shanghai "Jemmy". (Both of them i had met at the farewell party for Queenie)
When it was time i left the appartment and made my way to the MRT station, as i suspected i had to wait for about 20 minutes before they arrived and we would not make it in time to the rehearsal at portsdown road. Anyway we took a cab and the cab driver kinda got lost until we finally found the place.
When we got there. . .. . . . . .we were the first ones there. . . about half an hour late. . . . like i said before, punctuality is not this business's strong side haha ;)
But Anastasia told me that one should always try and come in time because sometimes the coreographers are strict and they actual kick you out of the show :P
Well me Jemmy and Anastasia sat there, i talked with anastasia because Jemmy can't speak that much english so he was kinda wandering about checking the place out.
Ten minutes after we arrived, the coreographer and co. arrived, 45 minutes after we arrived, the brazillian gang arrived haha.
Let's see here, the people i know pretty well that were there are:
Anastasia
Jemmy
Egon
Bruno
Vince
Great people. . . all of them are just great haha
Well. . . .. we rehearsed and the stage was tiny as shit, so it was really simple this time (No goddamned platforms to f*ck up the finale this time haha!)
It was kinda like zigzag, walk out, pose, walk to the left, pose, walk to the right pose, walk to the bottom left pose, wait for next model to come out, walk to the bottom right, pose, walk backstage.
It was easy.
Anyway, about this time is when i got filled in a bit more about the catwalk and who it was for etc.
So put simply, a Magazine called "Arena" (With the lame slogan "The coolest men's magazine in the world") was having it's first anniversary. Apparently this magazine originates from the UK and is the first magazine in Singapore to focus on men's fashion. . .without all the girls like Maxime and FHM.
The show was sponsored by several companies, but the clothes were from DKNY!
So for once i had some nice clothes i'd actually not mind wearing in real life haha.
So after the short rehearsal. . .we were, as usual, left to rot and die of boredom for the next few hours. It was a really nice place though, kinda like a tropical resort. . . or i dunno how to explain but i have pictures so i'll put em up when i can :P (The place was amazing after nightfall)
So for the hours we waited between the rehearsal and the next thing we were gonna do. We just sat there, there werent many people at all at the place.
So we all sat there and some of us talked, some went backstage to sleep, some had laptops with them. We were provided with water and cocacola. . . .
Then we started with makeup, it was the same makeup artist from when i had my test shoot, and she was really happy to see me again, as was I. She's a really funny person haha, tiny and cute haha.
After the makeup it was time for hair, where i learnt that "Swai" or whatever it was, means "Handsome" in mandarin. . . maybe mom knows :P
aaand well. . .. . after that we were left to boredom again for another 3 hours. . .
I went to the bathroom and realized the basterds made my hair backslick again .. . which never freakin works cause it doesn't stay which ends up making my hair look retarded haha.
Ah well, their show :P I'll have to tell the stylists next time "NO backslick. . . . . .NO FREAKIN backslick"
Well, the models (Especially me and Bruno) were getting so freakin hungry it was insane, we werent sure they would server us dinner (We were going to be there from 3.45 pm to 8pm)
and Bruno was pissed because the price he had heard we were going to get for the show was 250. . . but now it's 150.
However, we got food, expensive assed pasta infact, AND they served us Wine and free refills. . .. . . ... That night i REALLY realized how much i was enjoying my life at the moment. . .. . Sipping Free wine and Eating Free expensive Pasta together with a group of models. . . . .we were pampered shitless that night. Bruno said later that night "F*ck the money, i'll gladly do this show for 50 sing dollars"
Wow. . . it was just great, when nightfall came. . . it was jsut amazing. . . . it was dark and they had put up moving spotlights and other light effects and the place was just beautiful.
And as we drank more, the more fun we had and we all were just enjoying the moment laughing and whatever ahha. Great great time.
Anyway, the time for the show arrived, so we went backstage and started changing (Everyone was a bit tipsy, some were a bit drunk. . . . . Bruno was wasted. . . . .again hahahhahah that guy. . . .. ) So we were all just standing backstage having fun, messing with eachother and laughing laughin laughing, even the coreographer and the clients were laughing away (btw they were really really nice people as well, this was my favorite show so far)
My first outfit involved a jacket. . . .. . and the backstage had 2 FANS as airconditioning. . . . . . so anyway they told me to put it on when the singer (A girl who was going to sing before our catwalk) sang her first song.
She began, i put on my jacket. . .. . . . she sang some more. . . i still had my jacket on. . . . she sang some more. . .. . i was dying. . . .. . she sang somemore. . .. . .if she hadn't sang such calming and beautiful songs that everyone was enjoying this situation would have sucked. . .. but her singing and the people backstage, made me forget the intense heat under that bloody jacket :P
Well she finally sang finished and it was time for us to go out on the stage. We did our thing, a lot of people had arrived, i saw cameras and a huge video camera.
It was a fun show, i was so relaxed as well i didn't feel nervous at all, i just enjoyed the whole experience :P
After the show, we got back into our own outfits and continued to recieve free wine, free brugers, free pizza, free pasta and free desert. . .. . wow i ate quite a lot that night ahha. . . drank quite a bit as well :P
Anyway, some models were going to go home, then more of the models went home and in the end it was only me Jemmy and Anastasia left again.
So before we left we snatched a gift bag each (Contained perfume and a magazine :P. . . oh and one free yoga lesson haha)
What do ya know. . . the busses have stopped going and i was in jeans. . .. . .
I whined, i rolled up my jeans, i walked.
It was a pleasent walk though, i enjoy Jemmy's and Anastasia's company, and it was a beautiful night.. . . . . . i did sweat like niagra falls though. . . . .
Anyway we walked for like 20-30min until we reached Buona Vista's MRT.
We said farewell, i came home with mrt and then buss, the relatives were still up, YeeYee wasn't home yet. . . . i went to bed (It was pretty late. . . wonder what YeeYee was up to haha)
Well .. . . .i guess. . .. the next day. . . is today hehe.
So i woke up early and went to a casting at 11am, went to the next casting at 12.30pm, went to the gym, went to the next casting at 4pm.
The first casting was for catwalk at Tang's
The second was for levi's photoshoot (But we needed to take off our shirts. . .. and well i am not what i'd called "Buffed" yet hehe. . . so highly doubt i get this job)
The third was interesting.
For the third one I was told to come to the agency.
There i met a few other models, mostly female. I knew them all so it wasn't boring having to wait for the casting to begin.
Anastasia and Egon were there, so that was nice.
Well. . . . haha. . . the casting;
It was for a soap commercial and a candy commercial.
The whole casting was filmed with a videocamera.
First i had to show myself from all directions, ie front, 45 degrees both sides, 90 degrees both sides. . . and then they wanted me to do a creative spin + a pose. . . . .a creative spin. . . . ok. . . . hahahhaha
Well after that i was to tell them my name, age, where i'm from, my height and my agency.
Then they wanted me to make some looks. . .. . . . .
1st - Happy
2nd - Very Happy
3rd - Sad
4th - Very Sad
5th - Angry
6th - Very Angry
7th - Surprised
8th - Very Surprised
9th - Naughty. . . .

Hahahahhahahhahahhahhahha, you can tell i thought this was fun XD
Once again i didn't do THAT well with "Very Angry" haha i jsut kinda. . . . looked pissed a bit, then i started slapping my fist into my palm pretty violently (Like in entourage, Kimmy you knwo what i mean) buuuuut ofc i burst out laughing haha. . . . .And then Naughty. . .. . . i'm liek wtf. .. . . . hahahah so i just put on a cheeky smile and look like i just decapitated one of kimmy's dolls or whatever hahahha
Nah but that was really fun :D
after that i met up with the relatives and we ate at YeeYee's club. . . and now i'm here.
Well, now i'm packing for Batam and it's time to sleep!
Good Night everyone!

Love

Alex

(PS. i prolly won't have any internet in Batam. . . .so keep yer pants on till monday or teusday! Love, Alex)