Heroic Rendezvous Launch Party

I went for the launch party of Hong Kong fashion brand, Heroic Rendezvous last Friday at Zouk. The event was in celebration of the official launch of its label in Singapore by opening a second outlet in Suntec City mall.

Where’s Gillian?

The guest artiste for the event was Hong Kong celebrity, Charlene Choi (蔡卓妍), of Twins fame. As expected, during the press interview, she was hoarded with questions regarding the absence of the other half of the Twins duo, Gillan Chung (鍾欣桐). In case you have been living in a cave for the past few months, Gillian Chung was one of the seven female victims involved in a sex photos scandal with Hong Kong playboy celebrity, Edison Chen.

Charlene did not mention much about Gillian, except that she was taking a break from work. You can read more about the media report on omy HERE. She was calm and composed throughout the brief interview session. I thought she looked extremely gorgeous.

Here’s some photos I took of her.

Autographing and posing for cameras

Talking about Gillian

Looking good!

Still looking good even though her partner is missing.

Giving out prizes

Posing for picture with all

A good crowd was present on that day btw. Check out the pictures below. Don’t ask me why there’s a cheeky looking uncle there in the second picture, I also did not notice him till I posted this here, haha (maybe he was expecting Gillian instead of Charlene).

Young crowd at Zouk

Why the uncle look so sian?

Twins Alliance Singapore – a very large group of fans showed up to give support

Back to the Heroic Rendezvous brand – it is easily recognised via the hand-painted doll on their clothings. They are designed by a lady called Vanessa Chan. Here’s a brief description abut her taken from the press release:

While designing, writing and drawing are hobbies of Vanessa Chan, these are also a form of livelihood for her. Her belief, that pictures accompanying words convey a deeper meaning, led her to fully immerse herself in the fashion design industry since 1998. A woman of few words, she expresses her thoughts and inspirations in the graphics seen in her works.

Her previous works have been seen in Hong Kong and Taiwan’s publications. Apart from designing clothes for her brand Heroic Rendezvous, she has a range of accessories, posters and has worked with many Hong Kong, Mainland and Taiwan celebrities like Andy Lau, Joey Yung, TWINS, Jay Chou and many others.

I am not much of a fashion person lah, so I shun comment too much about the designs. Shall let the pictures do the talking. Enjoy.

If you like what you see, you can go buy them at their outlets in Central Mall or Suntec City mall.

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VOTE for my paper Executive Look 2008

I blogged about this beauty pageant some time back. Well, the audition rounds are over and the list has now been narrowed to just twenty finalists. Is your friend among one of them?

Voting is now open to pick the Reader’s Choice Award – you can vote for your favourite contestant HERE.

Result of the Reader’s Choice Award will be announced at the my paper Executive Look 2008 Grand Finals on 4 April at Raffles City Shopping Centre. (I will be going down to take a look, do go down if you are free too)

Limited to 3 votes per day per participant. Result of the Readers’ Choice Award will not contribute to the final score of the contest. Winners of the voting contest will be drawn from the pool of participants who voted for the winner of the Readers’ Choice Award.

1st prize : $1000 cash
2nd prize : $300 Clarins Hamper
3rd – 5th prize : $100 Clarins Hamper
50 Consolation prizes: Makeover from Clarins

Not bad right? Even voting also can get to win prizes. Do take a look at the list of contestants and vote for fun lah, even if you do not know anyone in the top twenty.

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Off to Taipei!~

Taipei101 Tower, picture taken from Wikipedia

My flight is at 1pm later in the day, and I should be in Taipei by around 5.40pm, local time. This is a much awaited break from work. I haven’t travel anyway outside Singapore since my trip to Bangkok in August last year.

Travelling together with me are Rachel, Mark and Meiyen.

This will be my first visit to Taiwan and I hope we will have a rolling good time there.

PERSEPOLIS

I read the graphic novel and watched the movie. Both were intense stuff, worth spending money on.

PERSEPOLIS follows the story of Marjane Satrapi.

Satrapi is a strong-headed lady who grew up in a progressive Iranian family. Her family was involved with the communist and socialist movements in Iran, prior to the Islamic Iranian Revolution. She witnessed, as a child, the growing oppression of civil liberties and the everyday-life consequences of Iranian politics, including the fall of the Shah, the early regime of Ayatollah Khomeini, and the first years of the Iran-Iraq war.

Satrapi was sent to Vienna by her parents when she was a teen, and grew up there before returning to Iran in her adulthood.

PERSEPOLIS trails Satrapi’s life story from when she was a rebellious anti-establishment little girl in Iran to her transformation to an angry and lost teenager in Vienna, torn between her traditional Muslim beliefs and city values, and finally, to the strong, matured modern woman she is today who can reconcile both her traditional and modern values.

Put simply, it’s a coming-of-age story of an girl who lived through the major milestones of Iranian history.

Here’s the movie trailer to get a better picture of what PERSEPOLIS is about:

What I really like was the clean, black and white drawings together with the matter-of-fact, straightforward narrative. There’s no excessive dramatisation of the war and neither did Satrapi seek to portray herself as a vulnerable victim like most war autobiographies tend to lean towards.

For those who can spare the time reading, I highly recommend the graphic novel rather than the movie. The movie though enjoyable, had to sacrifice some depth and details in order to condense a whole life story into a 95 minutes animation.

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No Flash vs No Photography

I visited the National Museum of Singapore a few days ago and was really surprised to see this new sign:

For readers who visit this humble blog on a regular basis, you will probably remember this entry I wrote in December last year, lamenting on not being able to take photos in the museum. Here’s the photo evidence:

I am not sure if my blog entry played a part in providing constructive feedback to the authorities at the museum (I would shamelessly like to think so because I won second place in a PHOTO blogging competition organised by them). If so, it appears to me they are people who are in touch with the people and willing to listen.

Kudos to this bunch of civil servants!

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