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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

project 355: colour me beauty, fool!

i have to admit that my secondary school years were very drab and damn blah. most of it is buried deep in the recesses of my mind, the way a serial killer would bury body parts of his victims. once in a while, a foul smell of memories will emanate from the ground, manifesting itself in my sudden outburst of immature teenage tendencies (eg. saying chee bong, which was the 'in' word at my secondary school back in the late 90s). that's 10 years at the same primary and secondary school for you. i remember telling people whom i thought were pretty chummy with me in school that i was gay, and eventually it spread like wildfire during class. news of myself having acquired a nipple ring also became sorta hot gossip amongst the guys (the first question: does it hurt? OF COURSE YOU MOTHERFUCKER, IT HURTS, but i like it). i hated my secondary school days, having brought only one very good friend out of there and plenty of bad memories.

but if there's one thing that i'm very grateful to my school for, it's got to be the ETIQUETTE COURSES. after the O levels, the school decided that we had a lot of free time and possibly a lot of remnant MOE money left to spend and thus, sent the graduating class of 2000 to these courses. i can't remember my class going for any excursions of any sort at during throughout the year. i think i vaguely recall a trip to the science center to study mold or bacteria or some shit. but that's nothing you cannot find in your typical MRT station toilet. other than that trip, there was no other school trips to anywhere.

i've always felt strongly about schools giving their students a taste of the high life and learning how to conduct oneself in public. in more condensed words, social etiquette. it's all great and brilliant that your students can devise the most ingenious formulaes and solve organic chemistry questions within seconds. but if they can't even differentiate between a soup spoon and a dessert spoon, how are they going to survive futures of Nobel Prize Luncheons and Charity Gala Dinners?

the course was organized by Jill Lowe International, a pretty well-establish image-consultancy firm situated around the Somerset MRT area. it's actually in the John Little building directly opposite Centerpoint. everytime i take bus no. 190 (which goes back to where i live), i never fail to pass it and it always leads to nostalgia. the course instructor that taught us this particular workshop was none other than Jill Lowe herself. just to describe her, she looks like a cross between Anita Sarawak and an air stewardess. she had the poise, the pouty lips, the natural look of someone who had undergone a Woffles' Lift and plenty of class. plus she had this really faux American accent which just complete the look. it's was very surreal, having a real high class tai-tai teaching us how to survive the social minefields of the rich.

the swatch (i bought it using my edusave account after the workshop; $25) you see in the picture above was something that really fascinated me when Jill Lower first introduced the concept of it. it really changed my life when she said to me the words 'You're an AW-DAHM'. it's not some cheem French or Tagalog word used to mean a private part or anything like that, no. Jill Lowe wanted to gauge our skin tones under direct daylight so that she could match them to the color palettes that flatter us best. her program, you see, endorsed this color scheme thing that says certain color flatter our skin tones best. if i'm not wrong, it was called COLOR ME BEAUTIFUL. during my turn, she gave me a mesmerizing 3-second look with her well-curled eye lashes. the seconds turned to minutes. and the minutes seemed like hours. everyone was anticipating her answer.

and like Harry having to take a turn at the Sorting Hat, she eventually shouted a gentle but firm 'You're an Autumn' in her psuedo-slang. everyone looked at me like that was a good thing. i guess it was because she basically classified nearly half of the crowd as an autumn and everyone felt like they prolly could share clothes with each other when they ever thought of doing so. apparently, the swatch is supposed to give you greater ease in choosing the colors that flatter you skin tone. but looking at my wardrobe, i have nearly nothing of my palette. i can imagine Jill Lowe wrinkling her flawless botoxed forehead now, sighing at her efforts gone down the drain.

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I remember enojying the session very much. Because it was an excuse for us to get out of stuffy classrooms.

jill lowe is the epitome of real class during that time. ya it was called Color Me Beautiful, amazing what the brain can remember for years of long ago. I think i was SPring. Some pple were Winter and they were supposed to wear bluey grey stuff.

apart from the orang and yellow, i've never seen u wear the other colours.

=sheena=
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