Its been so long since I last posted something on this blog. Sorry, had been too busy with school. Poly is so so different compared to ITE, in ITE, I can have all the free time i want, but in poly, everyday is like will have something to do one...
SO NOW! I'm gonna blog about the happenings recently...
The first semester of my Poly life is soon coming to an end, and then its exam and on to semester 2, time passes soooooo fast!!!
I still remember when i first admitted into poly, i couldn't adapt to it, everything seems so different, its so much more competitive compared to ITE, everyone was sooo smart, and i feel so..... stupid back then, now still abit la...
(Thank God I Still Have MINGLONG With ME) hahahah! Because Minglong was admitted to the same course and school as me, he really helped me alot. THANKS AHHH!!
:D
But with good friends around, my days tend to get better as days goes by...
Without friends my poly life would be such a bore, really, thank you guys sooooo much!!! :D
Pictures are taken back then when we all did our Organisational Behavior Module Presentation! It feel as though we've graduated and are taking class photos. HAHAAH!!
Group Photo With our OB Tutor
LOVE THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE!!! THEY'RE THE BEST!!! They lift up my mood everyday in school, all those non stop laughter!!!
With Jeremy
With Celeste aka Burlesque!
With Mooi Suen
With Jiayu_uBiatch!!
HAHAHAAH! Couldn't stop laughing at my face! ACT YI GE "VOGUE! LOLOLOLOLOL!!!
TPC Choir Exchange - Sing Out III @ Greendale Secondary
Here's another group of people that made my poly life so much more interesting!! I wouldn't have joined choir if not for Victor's encouragement and persuasion, hahah!! sooo yea, and now i'm inside choir, i feel that my social circle suddenly increased by 10%! HAHAHAH!
The people over there are so fun, and come from all sorts of personalities.
Didn't really do much, but it was fun meeting the secondary school kids and knowing much more choir songs, cuz i didn't really have any choir background so it was all new to me...
With Zach, Daryl, and Yu Qian
With Zach, Daryl, Yu Qian and Yuan Teng
With Daryl again...
Took photos with Daryl and tried different poses...
Until we came to one point and wanted to take a "gay" shot! HAHAHAAH!!
and I thought of Dominique and Kayla back then from ANTM Cycle 17 where they pose on stilts!!!
AND HERE's OUR EDITION!
HAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAH!!!
To take into comparison, its actually quite FAIL HAHAAHAH!!!
To contact us Click HERE Ummmmmm...guys? I think I made a mistake. I decided to recap Britain and Ireland's Next Top Model, because I've enjoyed the show in the past aaaaaaand...they've changed the format. It's not good. Not at all. This may be my first and only BINTM recap.
The episode starts out with an introduction to the judges. First impressions? Elle looks beautiful as always, except for a terrible Toddlers-And-Tiaras-esque hair piece. Grace is a stylist but has trouble dressing herself (terrible earrings!). Charlie looks like a cute Pet Shop Boy. Then there is Julien McDonald. He looks vile.
Did you ever watch the show from a few years back called Project Catwalk? It was the UK rip-off of Project Runway, and Julien was a judge. I hated his judging. It was like he wrote a bunch of insults in advance (or hired writers) and was mean for the sake of being mean. He was trying to be a meaner Michael Kors, but wasn't keeping any of Kors' charm or his spot-on analogies. Julien is Tom Jones to Kors' Frank Sinatra. I also really am not a fan of Julien McDonald's clothes. He uses a lot of fur, which is not my taste, and seems to design tarty clothes for lame-os like Paris Hilton. Dislike. But...his 2011 Fall/Winter RTW show wasn't that bad, to be honest. So, yeah, I'm gonna try to keep an open mind about Julien McDonald.
One thing about UK reality shows that I have trouble with is the incessant "coming up" previews during the show. This show is brutal for repeating clips. Brutal! On the other hand, I love that they use pop songs in the background to let us, the audience, know what we should be feeling. They played Take That a bunch in this episode, so that we knew to be happy for the successful girls and sad for the losers.
The judges auditioned girls in Glasgow and in London. I'm not going to bother with too many details, because...who cares? Let's pick the top 12 and get on with things!!! Here's what you need to know:
Wearing a (hopefully faux-fur) gorilla-esque jacket and leather hammer pants is so hot right now. Wearing a fur hat with a bathing suit? Not hot right now. Snipped! In London, the casting is done at the Chelsea FC stadium. Grace doesn't care about the girls...she's there for the boys!
Hopefully not this guy!! Cheating on Cheryl?
This girl is the "villain" of the episode. We see a clip of her being overconfident at least 4 times. Plus, they play the Spice Girls song Who Do You Think You Are over the top of her footage. Charlie thinks she looks a bit like Margot Kidder. The judges laugh at her when she leaves, and she doesn't make the cut. The sad Leona Lewis cover of a Snow Patrol song lets us know we should feel bad for her.
"I am a better supermodel than even Tyra Banks"
"Ummm..." (PS - I totally love Grace's reaction shots. She rules.)
I love this girl (Brenda) even though Elle totally pulls a Tyra-move on her and makes her cry while prodding her for information about her past modelling rejections. She's super cute so I hope she makes it to the top group. Overall, Elle seems fairly down-to-earth in this episode.
Lovely!
Julien? Not so much. So, if I do end up doing some more recaps of the show, I'll definitely be including a feature each week called...
What did we learn about Julien this week?
Julien eats only one piece of melon for lunch as he is on a diet. Julien likes to steal shiny things. Julien loves to be condescending! He calls one girl "Turkish Delight" on account of her big boobs (and being Turkish), and talks about how much he looooooooves this girl, because she looks totally different and has a man-body. He loves her confidence. I think she is totally fierce looking, but Julien didn't have to go overboard about how different she looks. She reminds me a bit of Serena Williams, who is a total fashion plate and looks amazing in lots of different looks. So, that's pretty much it for this week. Next episode? More lame auditions. Since I don't have much to work with, here is a picture of a girl that got cut that I would have enjoyed learning more about. Editors? XOXO, Emily
Julien & Paris pic via hollywouldnt.onsugar.com; Ashley Cole pic via chelseafc.com
To contact us Click HERE Whoa...you know that summer (and I guess "the party") is over when ANTM is back on the air. This season, Tyra has brought back her "All-Stars": the (so-called) fan favourites from the past 17 cycles. Won't you join me for a little episode recap action? I promise to bring my A-game; it is All-Stars after all.
I watched this episode with a bunch of friends and the only "favourites" that got cheers/applause/kind words were Laura and Allison. The rest got a good 'ole "meh". Oh, btw, ANTM becomes infinitely more watchable if you get together with friends and drink wine while you watch. We even had cake! Thanks pals!
I'm not even going to worry about "booty tooch" until I actually have to. As per usual, we don't see Tyra again until panel. It's a LIVE PANEL!!! In front of thousands of people!!! Even though it's in LA, it totally reminds me of the MuchMusic Video Awards in that it looks like they are trying waaaaaay too hard. Tyra comes out dressed like she is auditioning for a remake of Bugsy Malone. I hope she does not adopt this look for the whole season.
For some reason, Tyra has decided that the judges use an iPad at panel to judge the photos, but still has photos in her hands later on. If you're going to print up the photos anyway, why not use them for judging? Beh!
At the end of panel, Tyra informed us that the opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. Que? She also commends the girl who got the snips for being the CEO of her own life. Oh Tyra, you and your Harvard business talk. I bet your roommates in the dorm never get tired of it.
"...and after I trademarked "Smize"™, I became the CEO of my own life..."
Did anything else happen?
After Tyra goes crazy and we get a preview of some of the upcoming guest judges (Kardashians! Kristen Cavalleri! Pretend to be excited!) and prizes, the girls begin to arrive at their faux-home California mansion. This is starting to feel like Bad Girls Club to me.
Angelea appears first, and I immediately smell a rat. She is wearing one of the vile jumpsuits that Tyra wore all cycle 15. Tyra must have made Angelea wear her hand-me-downs because there's no other explanation for wearing such an ugly jumpsuit. I know she's from Buffalo, but come on! Angelea, get thee to the Walden Galleria stat. They have an Urban Outfitters there now, fyi. We get a little reminder of who each girl is as she enters the house. When Lisa shows up, Bianca says out loud what we are all already thinking: "She peed in a diaper". Yup. No living that down. Our first bit of fake drama comes in the form of Bre's entrance. Apparently Bre and Bianca are super-besties but Bre didn't mention to Bianca that she would also be on All-Stars. Bianca is (understandably) a little pissed her friend kept this secret. I'm sure Tyra had nothing to do with Bre's secrecy, hey?
Dominique looks better than I remembered and has just had a baby. Girlfriend looks amazing. Good for you, lady! Sheena & Isis: yay! No one recognizes Kayla because she is now a brunette. Allison tells Isis she's been doing some internships and freelance art directing, and Isis gives her a high five (cute!!). Isis also responds this way when Camille enters, and is quickly becoming my fave: Photo shoot! Mr. Jay arrives, dressed as Freddy from Scooby Doo no less, and tells the girls they'll be shooting in their back yard.
"...in the MYSTERY MACHINE!!!"
They will be styled as their past Top Model personas. Shocker. The shoot is pretty snore-town. Bianca gets grumpy about having her ugly red extensions put back in, because she is a lady now. Brittany tells us that she now models and "hosts" in LA. One of my pals immediately questioned this, as sometimes when ladies say they're "hosts" they really mean they are prostitutes. I don't think she's a prostitute, but it is a bit of a thing that makes you go hmmmmm.
Oldie Shannon won't pose in giant lace underwears, but doesn't mind wearing a teeny bikini bottom. She must have taken logic with Tyra at Harvard.
#waybiggerthanmostshorts
Panel! Live Audience! Screaming! Time lapse photography! Nigel has hair! Miss J is back!
Miss J = business on top, party on the bottom
Guest judge this week is...Nicki Minaj!! I really like her. You know who else likes her? Anna Wintour. I wonder if Nicki got in with Anna thanks to my bff, Andre Leon Talley? Perhaps ALT was so smitten with Nicki after meeting her on ANTM that he introduced these two? In my head, I'm picturing ALT and AW at their weekly Tuesday night supper club (at Ma Peche...no, wait, ALT would totally take AW to Daniel, no doubt) where ALT would keep talking about how funny his new friend Nicki is, how well she judged the photos at panel, how he'll totally bring her along to Blaine Trump's next Hamptons party. I also picture Tyra, nose pressed up against the restaurant window, looking at ALT and AW like this:
Eating food without me? Tyra don't play that. Pop off!
Sorry...back to the task at hand. Nicki Minaj was a great guest judge. She had lots of sass, great critiques, and you could tell Tyra was pissed that she got upstaged.
Here's a quickie live panel recap: Lisa tries to outdo Alexandria's bonnet from last season by wearing one of Blossom's hats. ALT thinks Allison's expression of personal style is brilliant & all love her photo. Nigel reminds us all of Angelea's awesome Hammer-dancing skills and gives her a "Oh no you didn't" when he sees her photo. Tyra thinks Camille's legs have gone to "amazingness" since she competed 7 years ago. Nicki thinks Dominique's photo would be sexy to a man or a woman and Nigel thinks she looks feminine. Tyra calls Oldie Shannon an ANTM OG, Nicki likes the styling of the picture and yells that Shannon's bikini bottoms look like panties.
"Thanks for helping Shannon learn about clothing Ms. Minaj. Kudos!"
Alexandria gets booed! It's totes because she's not wearing her bonnet and has styled her hair to look like Molly's beat up old weave from last cycle. She's trying to have her time, y'all! Stop making her cry. The judges don't like her photo, but think she looks beautiful in person & know she can take good photos. Sheena! Tyra and ALT love her vintage jumpsuit and I think she looks great too. Brittany comes out yelling like she's on wrestling and ALT can't hide his utter disgust:
"Happy thoughts. Happy thoughts. Caftans. My Salon. Tuesdays with Anna at Daniel...."
The censors blur out Isis' side-boob, no idea why. Her photo is great and ALT thinks she looks like a 21st century mermaid. Fabulous! ALT thinks Bianca's photo is too vintage. Nicki doesn't like Bre's short hair but thinks everything else looks dope. Kayla's photo as a super-gay gets mixed reviews. Nicki loves Laura's dress made by Laura's grandma, Wanda Sue. ALT thinks Laura makes Hee-Haw look high fashion and likes Wanda Sue's dress too. At the end of panel, Tyra announces that in addition to judging the photos, the judges will be judging their personalities too. The Jays poll the audience and will report their findings back to Tyra.
Judging! They yimmer and yammer and I doze off for a bit after eating cake and a custard tart.
Photos in Tyra's Hands! Isis gets top photo, and Brittany & Alexandria are the bottom 2. Brittany gets the boot this week, because she is not memorable. Aaaah-duh. Of course she isn't. The only thing memorable about her cycle of ANTM is this:
Next week: yelling! fights! an emergency!
Nice to see you again! Hope you come back next week for more recapping fun happy times.
Our first bit of fake drama comes in the form of Bre's entrance. Apparently Bre and Bianca are super-besties but Bre didn't mention to Bianca that she would also be on All-Stars. Bianca is (understandably) a little pissed her friend kept this secret. I'm sure Tyra had nothing to do with Bre's secrecy, hey?
