Xiaxue vs Dawn Yang

Okay i confess, i read their blogs. And maybe i can learn a thing or two from them young things.

I think Xiaxue is a better read. She admits she's ugly and uses it to her advantage. Ok correction, i don't think she's ugly but she often calls herself a tranny and i think its funny. She's also more honest and real, says exactly how she feels, and i admire that. Dawn's really just a pretty face, u wonder which part of her (including her sincerity) is real.

Anyway, they've been having this feud. Xiaxue's as usual, bitchy and honest and proclaimed her dislike for Dawn, said some "untrue" things about Dawn. Dawn's manager threatened a lawsuit and forced Xiaxue to retract her blog and post a public apology. She did as told to avoid lawsuit, but then later she got pissed off even more and .... i dunno i'm waiting to see wht happens.

Check out their blogs at:

Xiaxue: http://xiaxue.blogspot.com/
Dawn: www.xanga.com/clapbangkiss

Did You Know?

THat King and Queen of pop dated?

Interesting Celebrity Weddings...

I came across these pictures today. I'm still in wedding mood cos April is getting married next week!!

Pretty Brides...

Nicole is wearing a Balenciaga gown.

This is my favourite Jen bride look. Too bad it's not her favourite marriage.

There's something very royal about this wedding. It's like a fairy tale, the soccer star marries the pop star... She looks very good here without very heavy make-up. And i'm glad they are still going strong now.

Did i ever mention that i've seen Bill Rancic IRL (in real life)! He's quite the suave. I like his wife's (E! host Juliana DePandi) Monique Lhuiliier gown.

I didn't know Mini-me attended the wedding.

Kid Brides

Honestly, they pulled this off... ON THE DOG.


"Hey, hey, you, you, i don't like your girlfriend... "


Slutty Brides

Tori's a homewrecker, and she dresses like one. Her husband just looks psycho, i bet he's in it for the Spelling inheritance.


Well it's Pam. And when u've been married a dozen times, u know u'd get a next time to do it right.


The Oldies Brides...

The Clintons. Hur hur hur... Hilary still has tht sneer.

I didn't know alien headgears were ever in fashion?

Rockstar Brides

Heather Locklear and Tommy Lee did it the punk way. This photo can also be filed under Slutty Brides.


Our Rock Glam Queen on her wedding...

"Dammit Gavin, stop pulling the fork away..."

Beach Girl's Weekend (In Shanghai)

Sorry the post is very delayed. I've been busy. But i've had such a exciting weekend it's a sin not to report it.

First of all, i stayed with Aileen, so it was a BLAST. She even prepared sample bottles of Crabtree and Evelyn toiletries and laid them neatly on my bed to welcome me.

We ate lots, shopped lots, and we played chor dai dee, something we haven't done for a long time.

Cut to the best part. We visited this furniture exhibition along Nanjing Road. The exhibits were not bad, most of the stuff were imported and really really expensive.

So i was walking walking and i saw this cool looking magazine rack. Its just 3 pieces of perplex glued together stylishly. So i bent down and tried to play around with it, it was kinda elastic so i figured "oh cool! A foldable magazine rack!" And then... Kreeaaaak...GASP!

An angmoh man rushed over...
"Oooohh.... (like he was in pain so i assume he's the designer), why did u have to touch it..."
I was like "I'm so sorry i thought it was kinda elastic i didn't mean to"
Then this ABC woman rushed over to join the crowd "Oh, yOu're dead, u gotta come with me to the front and you have to pay 500RMB!"
Then she and the angmoh man started arguing. The angmoh didn't want me to pay the damages cos he clearly saw that i didn't mean to, but the girl on the other hand was CHAMPIONING for me to pay the damages. Apparently another chinese guy broke one the day before too...

ABC woman " I don't care u have to come with to the front and pay for this, you didn't have to touch the exhibits"
Aileen " HEY Excuse me, if you don't want people to touch, u shd put a sign which says PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH. Have you been to China? People TOUCH".
ABC Woman " Yeah it's our first time here and we're never coming back"
Stella " Okay then don't come back cos china don't welcome you. And your design is a failure, how can it break so easily!"

We got away with it. Geez but i wish i had done MORE to embarrass them cos i actually had a MEDIA pass, which means that i could have pretended i was journalist and threaten bad press on them.

Seriously, my greatest despise goes out to ABCs who has this white complex. Not all are bad, but i hate the ones that treat their own people like dogs, and yet their brains are inferior to dogs.... In the first place, a magazine rack isn't suppose to break, its a piece of furniture tht is supposed to endure a bit of mass (and i wasn't using any force). And the fact tht another guy broke it the day before says a lot right? Secondly, its a furniture exhibition, people need to touch and feel materials. Thirdly, writing out china? Yeah good luck. I hope u can sell 2 pieces of your sorry magazine rack per year.

Mountain Man's weekend (in Beijing):

Saturday went by relatively quiet, but on Sunday Les went to give English tuition! The company ahyi asked Les if he could teach her son English, and in return she'd cook him jiaozi (dumplings).

Les packed some jiaozi home and i had them for lunch today. It doesn't look tht great here cos i kinda mashed it up, but its uber yummy and healthy, everything made from scratch and ingredients were fresh.

This is my first time eating real homecooked jiaozi. Les shd have traded for the recipe instead of just one meal.

Anyway, tuition didn't happen cos ahyi's son had something on- he is 30 years old by the way. So Les got away with a free meal, and on top of that ahyi gave him chinese tuition!! He learnt that that it's very insulting to call someone 文盲 (wen2 mang2) cos it means "uncultured". And then ahyi told him that it's even worse to scold 白痴 (bai2 chi1). Obviously, Les was like... "i use 白痴 all the time".

Honestly, the chinese are relatively polite when it comes to swear words. We've been here for almost 2 years and haven't learnt anything. Not say we want to swear, but gotta at least know when someone scolds you right? =P

Anyway, i did learn one very rude phrase, it's apparently so rude that girls don't say it. This is not Chinese swear words 101. But there's an interesting reason behind it that's why i'm revealing on the blog.

我日死你 means "I want to F*** you". "日" means F***, and the word originated from 日本 (Japan). And basically that makes 日本人(Japanese) a very rude word because you F*** 本人 (yourself). Follow?

日本人(Japanese)= 日本人 (F*** yourself)

Talk to any older generation chinese (like taxi drivers) and they'll tell u their hatred for the Japanese. In fact the japanese are often referred to as 小日本 (Small Japan). It doesn't sound rude at all at first, but its actually very der0gatory because it's juxtaposed with China being called Big China. So it's very belittling. Then again, i think the English calls the French much worse names... tht's why i say the chinese are actually quite polite when it comes to swear words.

Goodness how did i get to this topic.

Shanghai madness

I'm back in Shanghai... Here for a training program i'm conducting for the first time, a conference, and also some R&R with friends i haven't seen for 2 weeks and miss badly.

Shanghai indeed lives up to the adventures i had anticipated. In fact it started on the plane on the way here. This women behind me put her toes up to my elbow, and i only realised it was her toes when i felt it wiggling. Eeeew..... And then this lady by the name of Wong Lili spoke so loudly on the plane (therefore i know her name) that everyone turned to stare. And on the way home i saw this woman on the bike wearing work clothes with mickey mouse house slippers, the fluffy kind.

Anyway i'm sitting here, munching on snacks that i've bought for the training tomorrow. I'm worried that it'll make me an embezzler of company funds, and also that it'd ruin my appetite for dinner, so i'll stop. Now.

oogiiieboogiiewooochiiiieee...

Photos by Gabriel Mendes


I love love love these shots. This baby is 1 week old and mommy looks hot already! If memory serves me right, chinese women are not supposed to bathe 40 days after birth, so i think i probably won't look like this. Plus i have the XL genes so my arms would be 5 times the size of this woman (i'm scaring les away).

Well done Gabriel!