- because, this solitary star: coolio glam shoot at the art studio

the title says it all! and - i've been blogging wayyy lot i realise - like a post a day or more (horror, have i turned into a no life somebody!). back to the main point. i forgot that i had a course today! was rushing insanely when i got the reminder from the reception.

okay, so headed to this i-forgot-what-french-or-italiano-super-duper-long-name arts studio feeling all hyped up and excited and nervous cos i didnt know what to expect at all. like, i was there becos i got picked out by the levi's sales-coordinate for this course two weeks ago when i was at one of their outlets (see, i'm photogenic please -dont live in self delusion, eh-). too bad i didnt take any picture of their main reception area. i mean, i would have looked so noobish had i taken out my camera and started shooting everyth there. but boy it was so sleek, everything was reflective and... white. i felt so out of place (hhaha joking?).

then i met the other four ladies and got to know them and stuff. jacqueline is cool: she's twentyone and she drives a ford, plus she has contact(s) only in one eye so her eyes' colours dont match. oh she is dang english and doesnt speak chinese at all (singaporean lei). the rest of them (ningxuan, amy, rachael) are just slightly older than me. and they are all very very chinese. fun people anyw haha, the clique five.

got to the intro of the basic modelling(is it?) course. davis (the main director who took us) is really gay. he's so gay, i - i really dont know how to describe him. yeah he told us about angular smiles and basic camera tricks. 45degree angled cameras really do make a difference when you take zilian pictures, you know. then he taught us to pose and showed (showed only, no catwalk down the runway, fortunately) us how to walk with poise. man, his gaywalk was so the gay, please.

finally got to the main part of the whole thing. glam shots! lights, camera, pose, shoot! they did nothing to my hair. not much done to my face either. they just moistened up my lips, brushed my face up a little, lightened my eyebags and done. ha, they loved my tan, "its beautiful"!

it was funny when we were doing group shots! like, davis said, "stick out your bums, ladies! you're doing a levi shot!" then we made this argh! face and sticked our bums out anyw. uh, ut was just a little too much so he went like, "well you see, if this shot was for a pin-up poster, IT HAS TO BE PG! au natural!" or someth like that, i cant rmb.

and cos i was wearing my very own eve's straight levis super low waist i couldnt bend down a lot or else, my pink undies would be exposed for all to see. so i was naturally trying to do stand-up shots as much as possible. then davis was shouting "variety!" "variety!" "variety!"

hiak, the one and a half hour passed really quickly. rather fun, i must say. just very embarrassing cos it was all about your body (and as you know i am not very happy about mine, sigh) and when they try to shape your pose up they really lay their hands on you.

and i earned money! shadnt say how. anyw, i might (might) post some of the glam shots taken at the studio when they mail it over. see how it goes, if i'm pleased with what i see, hahhaa. cant wait for jacq and the rest to come online, pictures to share! it was fun, made new friends, the high life/supermodel fullstop

treated my two grandaunts to dinner cos i got my paycheck. then met jeremy tng. let the pictures do the talking (though they dont do justice to the fun i had).