Day 7

Name of outfit: Miss Muffet

Self-Rating:

Destination: An audition

Notes: I don’t dress like that to go out, normally. It’s the blouse. I bought it for audition purposes and that’s what I wore it for today. I think it’s a really sweet blouse, but it’s not very me.

I had to look a bit more mature today, but I wanted to look cute and fun at the same time. So I threw in the short denim skirt to tone the maturity down. Well, I don’t know if the outfit worked but I seemed to have made an impression at the audition. ;)

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[Warning: Tons of photos! You might want to let them load first.]

For the benefit of people who have not been following my blogs and therefore don’t know of this event, here’s a brief: DXO celebrated its 2nd anniversary on 16th June 2007. Part of the celebration involved a convoy of Singaporean and Malaysian drift cars proceeding from Downtown East to arrive at DXO to wow party goers.

So, here we were at Downtown East. We were asked to park our cars here for five hours in the afternoon to make the resort look good. (Downtown East and DXO are managed by the same organisation.)

This car belongs to Crist of Ris Culture, the drift house that organised this part of the celebration.

I think it’s kinda trippy to have a drift car parked in a building full of kiddy themes. Sesame Street, Elmo. Haha. Incidentally, there was a Cookie Monster and Elmo show going on at the same time.

Here were the early birds of the convoy.

The Goonfather and I were late but we were still early. Duh. Singaporeans (and Malaysians) have no concept of punctuality!

So we went shopping at White Sands because Downtown East was too full of screaming kids.

When we returned later, the place had filled up quite a bit.

Strangely, none of the drift car owners brought stunningly sexy partners. I was looking forward to taking pictures of them but there were none!

I asked The Goonfather why and he said, “Bring girlfriend how to attract girls?? You drive a fierce, fast car, you don’t bring girls, you wait for girls to come to you.”

Er…….

Sad to say, I have to admit he’s right. Hahahahaha.

So here’s a picture of a stunningly sexy wannabe, instead.

Hahahahaaha. I didn’t really mean that.

All the car owners were given Ris Culture t-shirts and caps to wear. They gathered for a group photo just before moving off.

And then, off we went! It was quite exciting to be in the middle of 30 impatient cars revving their engines in anticipation. Here’s a video clip of the start of the procession.

.YouTube link.

The drive there itself was pretty uneventful except for a few minor things. People gawking at the convoy from the side of roads (funny), the procession at Orchard Road was sloooooow because of the Saturday night traffic jam, and Makkuro (our car) got cut off from the main body at one point because of stupid traffic lights.

But we all managed to arrive at DXO together. There were video cameras and a huge crowd waiting for us as we drove past the DXO entrance. Channel NewsAsia was covering the event, but I don’t think they’ve reported it.

From there, we had to proceed on to park at Esplanade’s underground carpark. How anti-climatic was that? There was a long wait at the carpark, I don’t know why, and finally we were allowed to park and join the party upstairs.

A row of about six show cars had been pre-parked just beside DXO to impress the public.

But nothing to see here. I was dying to go inside and pee.

The party started slow. There was nothing going on except this pair of graffiti artists showing off their art.

So, while we waited for the guys to get us our free drinks, there was nothing to do but take photos of ourselves.

We noticed many groups of girls also camwhoring themselves. It’s funny how self-photography has become a trendy social activity. I mean, girls (and some guys) derive huge amounts of pleasure doing this for hours. Holding a camera as far out as their arms can manage to snap a picture of themselves and their buddies. And then doing it again and again and again, not forgetting to giggle at each picture as they take them.

It was getting quite silly, so I decided to stop taking pictures of myself. I saved my memory card for the fashion show that was about to come.

Except that when the show started, I didn’t know whether it was worth my effort to continue taking pictures. Here are some of the better “models”.

The guys… well, the guys looked like they were forced to do this. Most of them walked with a slouch, with a half-dead-half-sullen look on their faces.

This guy took the cake because he walked really funny, too.

There was only one girl out of the 20 or so models who impressed me. She’s pretty, sexy and energetic!

After the fashion show… POLE DANCING!

Judging from my previous blog’s comments, most of you didn’t like the performance, either for the girls or the music. But I personally think it’s not bad. I thought the music and choreography were good and the dancers were quite pretty. They just need a bit more practice, that’s all.

If you haven’t watched the video clip, it’s here.

At the end of two hours (minus interruptions), the graffiti artists were done!

The art is quite nice, I suppose, only I can’t make out what that green thing is supposed to be.

Anyone can tell?

All performances were done by 10:30pm, which was when the public was let into the club to party! I didn’t party much because Nanny Wen and Porky left early to play mahjong (deserters!) and I didn’t really know the drift people.

We hung out for a bit at the VIP area where a “top secret” drift car was showcased. How the hell did they bring an entire car into the disco?

It was being used as a beer table. Hahaha.

The Goonfather and I left quite early. Around midnight or so. I was tired and starving. Not quite what I expected of a partying night, but the event was interesting on the whole.

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I don’t have time today to do a full report on the DXO event, so here’s a teaser.

I managed to capture about two minutes of a pole dancing demonstration before my camera’s memory ran out. Haha that was gimped. Anyway, here’s the video:

.Youtube link.

If I didn’t hear the MC wrongly, the performance was by the dance studio Groove, which offers all kinds of cool dance classes. I’m not sure if the dancers were students or instructors. I think students, because there were some moments they seemed a little unpolished. But it was overall a rather sweet performance.

They could have had better costumes, though, because they looked like they were just wearing plain white bras and panties. But maybe guys like that. Hehe… I don’t know, you tell me.

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Day 6

Name of outfit: Funky Punky

Self-Rating:

Destinations: DXO 2nd Anniversary @ Downtown East and DXO

Notes: This was quite a tricky one because I had two very different places to go to. Today was DXO’s 2nd Anniversary celebration and we had to hang out at Downtown East (resort) in the afternoon to gather the drift car convoy, and then proceed to DXO (disco) at night.

(If you don’t know what I’m talking about, read this blog.)

So, I had to wear something suitable for both venues. I decided that shorts and boots were the best compromise. As for the top, I think it’s casual, yet funky enough for clubbing. Besides, I wanted to try on my new black starry necklace and thought it would go well with this top in particular because most of my other tops veer towards sweet, white and pink.

Yeah, I know it’s the same top as my previous outfit, but it’s worn differently!

(Full report on the celebration coming up once I’ve had time to sort out the photos and videos. Stay tuned!)

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On the last day of my Method acting class, people wanted to take a group photo. So I set my camera on a speaker and got everyone to get into position while I set the timer.

I said, “Mike’s in the right spot, everyone gather around him, please.”

Everyone gamely squeezed around Mike.

I said, “There’s lots of space, don’t have to squeeze together.”

Everyone continued squeezing, anyway.

And then someone suggested having the ladies seated in front so they didn’t have to squeeze as much, all the while I was trying to tell people that we could line all eight of us in a row without squeezing.

Haha. People never believe the photographer.

So, here’s the picture. I didn’t crop off the sides to show what I mean.

Well, I guess people just like to be close to one another. Can’t fault anyone for that!

I love my class. I wish it didn’t have to end.

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