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Continued from Article 1
Posted by mrs phillippe at 10:22 PM 6 comments
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Expensive brands usually come with one thing besides high prices and glamour, they're absurdly hard to pronounce!! LOL Well, mainly because a lot of them are in French, so people like us Asians obviously struggle to get the right pronounciation.
Here's a few brands I've managed to confirm and sharing how they should be pronounced:
HERMES - In French, it's pronounced as air-mess (don't forget to accentuate the R for 'air'), but often known as Her-mees (also acceptable)
L'OCCITANE - lox- ee- tahn
LOUIS VUITTON - louie-vee-thonk (s for Louis is silent)
SALVATORE FERRAGAMO - Most of us would have gotten this one right, it's sell-vah-toe-reh-fair-rah-gah-moe (again, don't forget the strong R)
ESTEE LAUDER - This one's pretty easy too, it's es-tay-loh-der
GUERLAIN - ger-lahn (ger as in GARY's gar, with a strong R)
These are just a few. Do share if you have any others LOL
Posted by mrs phillippe at 3:25 PM 3 comments
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Let's call him Mr.E, my ex during high school. The thing that makes Mr.E special to me was, he was the first relationship that went so serious it involved my family, my closest sisters and every thing dear to my emotions.
We started off on the rough side. It was Form 2, and he was one of those notorious boys at school, who would occasionally prey on us, being the softies and sissies. I hated him at that point. Then one of my sisters became frens with him one day, much to our dismay. Anyway, one thing led to another, we too became frens, and sparks just flew around like fireworks.
I still remembered our very 1st kiss. We we at my house, and he was as usual being cheeky, fooling around, wrapping me in his arms. At one point eyes locked, and he asked "Can I kiss you...", we just did without needing my answer. That night I felt weird, I sort off gargled my mouth so long in the shower, as if I actually felt dirty, I couldn't believe I was lip-locking with a guy I used to hate so much. But I knew I'd always have a weak knee for cheeky, wild boys.
Right at dat point I was sort of starting another replationship with another boy, Mr. J. I quickly then used Mr.J as my distraction from Mr.E. I devoted all my attention to Mr.J and started avoiding Mr.E. I guess I just wasn't ready for such complications at only 14.
More than a year passed, fate brought us back again. Soon I was with Mr.E, very much in love. Despite his ruthless reputation in school, despite his wild escapades on his crazy motor-cycle, he remained one of the most romantic man I've ever seen.
He would make us candle-light dinners (with his mediocre cooking, grilled sausages and eggs). He would take me on his bike going off to ridiculous distances to nowhere, just us two on the bike, talking & laughing. He would jump out of the bed for no reason, performs his silly rituals like singing MC Hammer's Have You Seen Her to me. He sang to me all the time.
And there we were, me half naked and him totally. My mum went berserk. She slammed her hands on the door, shouting for us to open it. We had no time, and no choice but to open the door, despite not fully clothed yet. It was out. Her son was actually having a relationship with another boy. Her son was gay.
Mr.E was asked to leave the house immediately. Dad came home, furious with this discovery. Mum continued showering her face with endless tears, blaming herself, for raising a child to become this. Then dad gave his final words "You either change, or you get out of this house, I will have no son like this."Posted by mrs phillippe at 10:35 AM 7 comments
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This is one of the more recent songs which is in my daily humming and must-listen-tracks in my car ride home after work, That's Not My Name by The Ting Tings.
It's just so cool. Their album contains tracks which are just like this song, similar to beats like Toni Basil's Mickey and The Knacks My Sharona. Their style and vocals remind us of the once popular girl-band The Shampoo.
Posted by mrs phillippe at 5:48 PM 2 comments
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The Dark Knight was without a doubt one of the better comic hero movies for me. Unlike the rest which heavily relied on stunts and special effects, this one actually has a credible plot, and it got us feeling for the characters. Besides Heath Ledger who closed his acting career with style & splendour as the ruthless Joker, we also have a pretty alluring Batman.
What I perhaps like about Christian Bale is the fact that he is not a typical beauty, plus he chooses challenging and unconventional roles to play. Take for instance his excellent portrayal of a chronic imsoniac in The Machinist, where he reduced himself by 60 pounds (27 kilos) by living on a crash diet of just apples and coffee. The outcome come was hauntingly convincing.
(Above : The transformation of Bale - 1st in The American Psycho and 2nd The Machinist)
Christian is manly by nature. Although his looks may fit better in villainous roles, he remains attractive. I particularly liked his looks in Harsh Times and The Prestige.
Christian is a Welsh-born English actor, in 1974. He will soon star as John Connor in Terminator Salvation. He started catching the eye of the public when he acted in Steven Spielberg's Empire Of The Sun when he was only 13.
Recently he's involved in a rather controversial negative publicity, where he's facing allegations that he assaulted his mother and sister at a London hotel. Read about it here.
Posted by mrs phillippe at 10:25 AM 3 comments
Zac Efron is only like 21 y.o. Teen idol successfully emerged from the movie High School Musical, Zac has been hailed as the biggest teen star in US right now by Newsweek. David Beckham on the other hand, sigh who doesn't know him, no need intro. He's 33, about 12 years older than Zac, yet, equally good looking, if not better. Obviously David has been photographed and desired much longer and on a much bigger scale compared to Zac. 
His Emporio Armani's ads are simple eye candy...



(Above) This is my get-me-a-paramedic pic of him LOL

Now, let's move on to Zac for this battle of the hunks...

(Below) He's definitely got the body. Hmm Zac, wat yer doin' there thee hee...
So, my verdict, definitely David Beckham. Zac's too pretty-faced for me, but of course, still an eye candy. I used to rank David one of my Top 5 guys, until I heard him talk on TV. I was like "Eeeww...what a turn off!!" But I must say he's one of the most beautiful man photographed.Posted by mrs phillippe at 11:28 PM 4 comments
This week is another one of those weeks I had to stay back late at office everyday. Been staying back until at least 9pm for the past 3 days, and looks like tomorrow will be no different. Work has been slightly on the crazy side these few months. At least one week in a month I'll have to go through this cycle. And the worst part is, trying to sleep at night. You come home all worn out, can't wait to go to bed and crash. Take a bath, watch some TV while eat some not-so-healthy dinner since it's rather late already (no time to prepare fulsome meals), do the usual beauty regime (facial care), put on the eye-massager and wait to doze off. And guess what, half an hour later you realize your mind is still running on a treadmill. All sorts of topics find their ways into your mind, forcefully. Try as hard as you can to push them aside, it just won't work.

Posted by mrs phillippe at 10:44 PM 5 comments
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