The Transgenders of the SNM and more unusual Thingamajigs @ 8:28 PM
So, it's back to another day of typing the What's Up magazine article. Got a special pass to the S'pore National Museum on Saturday to view it and write the article, which is currently being neglected in view of this blog post. WHeeee!!
Ok, yuck.
The place was so uber-cool!! Everything was so high-tech about it... this is what you'd call a super-lame-and-awfully-boring post.
Am feeling drained out. On a Monday morning. you can't blame me! Writer's block and i are getting back together.
So, the museum isn't officially opened yet. But i took lots of fab pix. And I think there were very funny people at the lobby. Just joking! I found this couple of 'cleaners' dressed in medicine-colour pink, had ratty blonde hair, vivid red lipstick (it possibly couldn't have been Chanel), blue eyeshadow(who the heck still wears BLUE eyeshadow nowadays except drag queens !), excessively arched (and plucked) eyebrows, and many other garish details, which sorta SERIOUSLY offend my aesthetic descriptive abilities. And they were armed with GIANT feather dusters. Which apparently explains they were cleaners!!
But, there's more than meets the eye. The cleaners actually spoke. And when they spoke - Haikerumpah!! - the taller cleaner sounded like a man, speaking in that husky sorta 'rich-baritone' voice!!! I was so frightened that i nearly jumped a foot in the air. I think i nearly felt the blood-red chandeliers skim my black (previously brown, according to Geetz, my kooky cuzzie) tresses. Or maybe i'm exaggerating. Whatever. I tried looking at the throat of the baritone-voice cleaner, but couldn't manage to. You know why right?
You don't , you gobstopper? For the Adam's apple!! as if anyone cares.
That's why i suppose the 'cleaners' were drag queens. but then i read the museum programme guide, and i found out that the cleaners were part of an act. And guess what---
Interval
I trotted over to my desk for the programme guide to find out about the act, and i've got my answer. EUREKA!
This is probably not a very 'EUREKA'-ish moment.
I'm gonna scan the page for the benefit, and i think because of these acts, the museum is gonna flourish . People are gonna like it because of its' creativity.
Ok, i've scanned the pix, and i'm gonna put it here.
And by the way, because of the picture quality, their coats turned out white. Pardon me.
it turns out their names are Trevor Stuart and Helen Statman! Told ya!
Enough talk about Trevor and Helen, even though they'll pop up later.
So there was this big purple 3D sort of screen, and dad and i took a pic infront of it. A tour guide of the museum approached us. She actually helped us to get to the meeting place of the what's Up magazine crew. I liked her because she was really understanding and kind. So she told us,''you know, when you go upstairs, there's this chair. you sit on it, then you press this red button that is on a big machine in front of the chair. After that, quickly go down and you can see your picture on the screen, yeah!"
So, dad and i did just that. WHen we were making our way down the escalators, Trevor and Helen came UP the escalators!
They started waylaying us! Brandishing their feather dusters at us,and saying 'sorry,man,sorry,man'. everyone on the landing was giggling!! Hahaha...btw Trevor and Helen's act is titled Cocoloco (quirky!) and they're from UK!
Ok, gotta go for lunch. tatatata....
ok, i'm back. so, we walked about the museum and i made notes about all the historical stuff. Love it. Then we went to paradiz centre for lunch.
My apologies to Wanie Bunniee, a friend of my sis Bhaffy, for plagiarising her ideas, but hell, i couldn't resist!!
1. Have you been pissed? Of course!
2. Have you pissed? Better scoot before i pummell your face.
3.How many rings do you have? Around twenty?
4. Who would you like to meet? God. Jason Mraz comes a close second.
5.What do you think of Xiaxue? Rather quirky.
6.Do you own a A-line skirt? Nope.
7.Do you wish you were a billlionaire? Nope. They've more problems to contend with.
8.What's your last meal? I've written down a whole list, and it's freaking long, but it consists of junk food, and you can't expect to see rice or chapatis in it.
9.What is the most offensive name someone has called you? I'm not gonna list it here, so why ask?
10.Star Cruise vs. Party with Cousins? Part-ay, of course!!
11.Stilettos or Attached-heel pumps? Pumps.
12.Pineapple / Longans stuffed with pineapple The longans.
13.Money / Fame I'm not in a position to decide, man!
14.Hoops or Studs? Hoops...have got 4 pairs at home...
15. John Galliano or Jean Paul Gaultier? Both!!!
16.Chanel or Hermes? Chanel, of course, even though i've only seen the exterior of the boutique.
17. What brand is your piano? Asahi..why?..wanna play it?
18.Are you cheap or expensive, as in terms of character? (this was a real question asked by someone)? Expensive
19.Hugh Jackman as Wolverine / Gabriel van Helsing? Both.
20.Kate Beckinsale or Anna Paquin? Anna Paquin.
21.Saris or salwar khameez? I'm not sure..but both are elegant.
22.Which is the best movie based on fashion? The Devil Wears Prada
23.Noir or Victorian? Noir...though i've seen only one example.
24.Patent ballet pumps. Inconvenient. One stain, one lot of scrubbing.
25.Stilettos Totally senseless. I don't see why shoes should be made with only a thin rod of material for support.
26.Favourite Fashionable Five Female Names Seraphina,Nicole,Bella,Allison,Stacey.