Wish i spoke mandarin :(

Moshi Moshiiii!
Watashi wa Alex-san to watashi wa singapore no modell desu!
Watashi no nihon-go wa warui. . .. ka sore wa yokunaidesu. . . watashi wa kanashii. . . watashi hontonii hoshii uhmm. . . learn nihon-go haha!
Have loooots of questions for you farfar XD
Alright anyways, guess i'll just explain the titel of this post first :P considering that i started out with japanese but say i wish i spoke mandarin. . . . only reason i want to speak mandarin is. . . .. my gooood the 2 chinese models in my agency are the two that i find most attractive hahahahhaa! both are so cute and innocent like. . . . kawaii ya kireina. . !
Haha alright nevermind me. . .
Ok. . .right. . . i left off before the shoot with my mom.
So, i think i had a casting early that morning. . . yeh i did, at shutterbug studio. It was for a shoot where only my sillouette would be shown. I had to stand with a paper menu in my arm and look very confident, i was supposed to look like the owner of a restaurant. . . . was fun i guess haha When i got there the woman holding the casting decided to cast me for another job as well. She said "You look more asian in real life than on yer com card (I had a badassed tan from sunway lagoon in KL hehe), so i'll cast you for this as well, we're confident that you can pull it off" Whatever that means. . . .made me happy anyway :P
After the casting i went to the gym, had a good long talk with Khai. . . . who i suppose inspired me to ultimately change the lifestyle i am currently living.
I need results. . . i need a 30 inch waist, or less preferrably.
So now my goal is to hit the gym at least every other day, watch what i eat. . . .. and worst of all. . . . khai told me to cut off the drinking :(
Half the fun of being a model is the pampering you get at nightclubs. . . .. gone for me now. . .. why? Becuase i wanna go japan . . . . and i think it's worth it. . . so i need to slim off the fat around my waist and tighten up the muscles in that area hehehe. Khai said, maximum 1 beer a week. . . . isch. . . i haven't been out at all for the past 3 weeks now anyway. . . .
After gymming, i went to subway and ate a tuna sandwich (Without cheese, without sauce, with all the vegitables), drank green tea and ate an entire packet of dragon fruit. . . .
Eventually mom came and i took her to the gym to meet khai and give her a tour.
After a while in town, we headed to a studio during the evening where we met Vik Lim.
Nice guy, heard from the agency later that he is supposed to be a really good stylist.
Well he started off by making mom change into a few outfits he had chosen (Btw, he apparently worked with mom when he was around 15 or something. . . everyone at this shoot seemed star-struck by mom :P)
Her first outfit was some beige outfit, top + skirt or whatever you call it. . . mom said from within the changing room "I look like a sausage". . . .
Her second outfit was some kind of dress which was well. . . kinda half finished, one side had a string over the shoulder to keep the dress from falling off, and the other side had a full on dress-piece-kind-of-thing-shoulder. . . uhm. . .
her final outfit was a white dress, kinda looked like those kind of dresses that lots of girls in sweden are running around in at the moment. . . kinda looks like they poked 4 holes in a påse and pulled it over their head, arms and legs :P looks pretty cute though.
Vik decided we would do it with the sausage outfit ;)
Then it was my turn. . . . a netted singlet. . . . .tight checkered pants. . . pretty badassed silvery shoes. . . that was it ;)
They then proceeded with attaching hair extensions on mom, interesting seeing her with long hair hehe. Then they initiated the makeup (The makeup artist came late from another job. . . he was wasted. . . worked out anyways :P)
I think mom was the prettiest somewhere in the middle of the makeup process, she was pretty afterwards as well, but i think it was deffinitely the best somewhere in the middle of the whole ordeal :P
My makeup? Niet, but they fixed my hair. . . .somewhat. . .
The shoot:
They sat mom up on a stool, i sat on the ground by her side. . . . all i had to do was look nonchalantly at the camera. . . i pretty much had the same look/pose throughout the whole session hahaha all the photos of me lookeed almost the same. . . . mom on the other hand, they directed her to tilt her head this way and that and smile and blabalbablalbalba, guess the focus was on the mother, whereas the child was just simple. . sit there and do nothing haha, easy on my part :D
I don't think we get paid, but at least after the mother-son shoot Vik said "Oh let's do a testshoot for alex, we may as well nwo that he's in nice clothes and what not" I gladly accepted and ended up with a few pretty nice pictures. . . i have yet to acquire them though!
I think it was a lot of fun, i thikn mom had a lot of fun too! thanks mom haha
Hmmm. . . what happened the day after that. . . . oh right, i had a follow up casting early in the morning for that shutterbug thing i had done the previous day. . . . i asked to postpone the casting to around lunch time. . . which i was allowed.
I headed off to the casting, walked into the room, there was a stunning eurasian chick doing the casting at the moment of my entry, so i just sat around for a while.
After her i changed from my shorts into my pants and proceeded with my casting. I had to stand on a pedestol and raise a camera into the air as if i had won a competition hehe.
Simple and quick, i left the studio and headed home to mom.
We ate at the coffee shop close to the appartment, then we spent the day at home pretty much, she was packing and i was at the computer . . . .
Later on i got a call from the agency, asking me to pick up a job voucher. . . UGH i jsut came from town. . . Luckily enough Kong kong drove me to the agency, i ran in grabbed the voucher and headed to the car again.
Me, Guama, Kong Kong and mom then headed to raffles club (Wyle's club) Probably one of the schtekigaste clubs in singapore hehe. Nothing new though, like mom said "The kids grew up here" Both me and kimmy have been here several times. Even vincent got a chance to experience it last year.
We met up with Wyle and ate a buffet. . . yummy (I stayed away from the desserts ahaha, i mainly ate sashimi, other types fo fish and salad :P) I did eat a lot though eheh
Well. . . . i said my goodbyes to mom who left for the airport :( Glad you got home safely.
The next day i had a casting early in the morning for fashion week with Daniel Boey. . . . .and guess who i meet there!
A few of the models i hung out with 6 months ago when i first got here have returned to singapore!
Bruno, Marcella, Vince etc ahha it was great!
The casting, well we had to do a walk and the males had to strip down into their underwear and have their picture taken for a casting regarding an underwear show :P
I didn't have to walk though mwah, i've worked with daniel quite a bit now so i usually just barely have to go through half of what the other models do at his castings. . . love it. .. .
I then headed toward the mrt, went to the gym. . . . and i've now upped my time on the treadmill to around 45 minutes. I don't consistantly jog though, i've found that i enjoy it more when i walk at a rapid rate, then after a while i'll up the speed to jogging pace and finally i'll up the speed to running speed for maybe a minute or two (Can't last longer haha) then i turn back to rapid walking and repeat the process over and over again :P
It REALLY works. . .. i get soaked. . . . hahahah, after that i hit the gym.
I also do three different exercises for my mid area now. . . . sitting here in pain everywhere hahahha. . . ah well. . . as chris would say "You gotta earn it to burn it" or maybe it was the other way around. . . .. you get the point ;)
After the gym. . . i headed home. Guama made misou soup that evening! haha
The next day. . .which is today.
I had to wake up at around 8 am (Would've been a lot earlier but Cathy offered to drive me to my rehearsal .. . . so nice, i was very thankfull)
Today's show waaaas. . . .. OMG ANOTHER BRIDAL!!!! jeeeez. . . .haha
Well it was exclusive for Carrie's models so they had casted the models at our agency. . . . i did the casting before i left for KL. . . i got the job ;)
It was. . . well it was me and chris. . .. then like all the girls in our agency. . . or almost all the girls haha me and chris were the only two males. . . don't even know how many girls there were :P
Wish i had brought my camera, the stage was really nice, lots of chairs and well it looked professional . . .
Simple coreography, almost just walk back and forth, it was nice. . .so fed up with the cp störda coreography :P
As usual. . . the guys barely had any makeup or hair, but we still had to sit around all day waiting for the girls to finish up. . . it was pleasant though. I was sitting with Chris, The ever so great marcella and . . . . one of the chinese girls. . . soooooooo cute! Chris is into guys, but even he said "I want to marry her" hahahah, don't really know how to explain, she's not the hottest woman on earth but she's so. . . . i dunno :P She's really quiet and she doesn't speak english -.- she'll just sit there and kinda giggle every now and then when we are laughing or do some stupid gestures :P
Anyway we were having lots of fun, i was laughing till the tears poured out, we were talking about our dear Barbara with marcella and me and chris were just taking the piss out of everyone hahaha. . . loved it.
The show began;
1st outfit:
slightly striped brown suit. . . . i looked like i could be in the cast for "That 70's show" haha wunderbart. The sequence was easy, back, front, right, left, back, exit
2nd outfit:
Black suit with black lining (Did i mention this was a bridal show? If not. . . now i have)
Looked like a typical james bond kind of suit
Sequence was easy, back, front, middle, front, back, exit
3rd outfit;
Black suit with maroon lining. . . . reminded me of hugh heffner. . . . this was a pimp playboy suit in my opinion haha :D
Sequence was easy, back, front, back, exit. . . HOWEVER! We had to walk according to music and the third and fourth sequences were the same, and we had to walk SOOOO slow (During the rehearsal i did a kind of slow-mo imitation and pretended to swim up and down the catwalk. . . . i also did a slow-mo version of Barbara's chicken dance. . . haha)
Anyway. . . it's sooo wierd walking slowly on the catwalk. . .. you don't really know what the hell to do with your arms. . . i felt retarded. . . .
4th outfit:
Same sequence
White outfit. . . .the kavaj jacket stretched down pretty low at the back, i looked like the ghosts in the movie "The Matrix". . . .
Finale
2 girls walk out, i walk out and join one of the girls, chris walks out and joins the other girl, the rest of the girls come out, designers walk up on stage, everyone claps, we exit. . . punkt slut.
Was a simple and nice show, nice to be back at work actually hehe, back in KL i was kinda longing for singapore :P (Ofc was awesome being with the malmö people. . . but i luv modelling in singapore :P)
After the show, the devil tempted me with a free flow of. . . . BEER. . . WHYYYYYYYY!!!! they never give free flow of beer :'( If i hadn't had that epiphany with Khai i would have drank quite a few beers! Instead i drank 1 half glass of red wine :P
The other models ate, but i wasn't really hungry, i had stuffed myself with chicken and vegetables when they gave us lunch (It was the best damn chicken i have ever eaten. . . LOVED it, i think i ate most chicken of everyone XD Greedy :P)
Eventually, everyone started leaving (There were quite a lot of guests, it was at the compton hotel) i said my goodbyes and headed for the buss stop in the rain.
Caught bus 51 and headed home.
Sat down by computer with Cathy playing on her computer oposite my room. . . she's still trying to become ceaser. . . . still no success hahaha.
Anyway, later on we headed to IMM (I wanted to buy the Men's ´Folio magazine and look for the wedding pictures) and ate. I ate a steak with mashed potatoes and a ceaser salad with strips of chicken. . . niiiiiice.
I also succeeded in finding the men's folio, i was delighted to see myself in the magazine hahaha 10 pages. . . wow! :D
Btw, the man on the cover is Jemmy, he came with me to Bali.
The man who had the spread before my section, is from australia, perth, met him when i first met Chris and Ryan.
If you check out the Raoul catwalk pictures you will see lots of my friends, Bruno and Daniel amongst others. . . oh and Tommy ofc! love that guy.. . . in a totally heterosexual way ofc.
Also, if you see the zegna campaign somewhere in there, you'll see Baptiste, a french guy who was with our agency a while, we got along when we met anyway, he only stayed for a short while though.
Also on the last page there's a brazillian guy i knew from when i first came here.
WEll. . . that's about it! Gonna scan the pictures tomorrow. . . hit the gym again :P and have a photoshoot at 8.30 pm. . . at least i get to sleep tonight hehe.
Alright Lotsa Love

/Alex

Love the female chinese models. . . . hence the title. . . wish i could speak with them. . . .ah well! I'll go look for girls in japan instead haha ;)

PS.
Gabby och freddan.
Klart det syns att vi e kusiner, vem vet? Om nåra år kanske ni befinner er vart jag är just nu?!
Får se vad jag hittar åt er ;)
Love

Farfar
hahahahha, hur gåre med bilen nu då? vad anser pappa om saken? Är han och lackar på gubbarna hos lexus nu eller?. . . låter som något han skulle göra XD
Aja hoppas allt löste sig iaf hahaha, och angående Men's Folio, så har jag köpt en kopia som jag ska skicka hem ;)
Lycka till nu, håll blodtrycket lågt!
Hahah Love
btw, ska skriva om allt jag undrar om japanska sen ^^ Du får gärna skriva lite basic japanska till mig också. . . så ska jag se om jag kan förstå nånting haha!
Puss å kram!




Pictures:
Pic1: Mom getting her hair fixed up

Pic2: Mom looks like a little girl!

Pic3: This was just taken with my handheld camera from the computer screen so the proportions are completely off hahah looks really wierd, but at least you guys get an idea of how the shoot was. The pics turned out great, too bad i couldn't get a better picture :P

Pic4&5: Also just a picture from the computer screen, but these are of my testshoot i got after the mother and son shoot.

Btw, Theses pictures will come out in May, as a mothers' day campaign in STYLE magazine (A pretty serious magazine) I'll get a hold of a copy as soon as i can and let you guys see ;)