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Hang on, how can you even explain the silkiness and the absence of wrinkles, pimples and acnes on their skin from head to toe?
One word: Photoshop

Okay, but what about their perfectly positioned breasts?
Photoshop

No way, I mean look closely on their body as a whole, you won’t see any extra fat, right? It certainly took these people months of hard work and huge commitment at the gym!
sigh, Photoshop

Okay, but look at how they pose in front of the camera. It takes years of professionalism to accomplish that!
Photoshop can even fix their pose, ladies!

Yeah blah blah blah blah, as if you've got any proof you can show us right now?
Make yourself to http://www.iwanexstudio.com/ and click on 'PORTFOLIO'. Then, click on one of those photos below. Once you’ve done that, use your mouse to direct the cursor inside and outside the photo window. Here's one example.

Beyonce 'Before and After"

Oh my god!.. I guess the moral of the story is...
Yes, we all look like celebs! =)

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Men’s Summer Scarves: Yay or Nay?

May 21st 2008 02:19

First and foremost, what are they actually called?
I thought it’s ‘Morocco Scarf’.
My posh friends however gladly corrected me and said it’s ‘Prayer Scarf'.
Then, an anonymous poster corrected them and said it's ‘Keffiyeh'

Either way, you see them very often hanging on young men nowadays, even during scorching summer. Possibly to your dismay, the fabric isn’t necessarily thin either and it also has frayed on the sides (itchy alert!).

Women wear them out and can easily say it’s a fashion statement. Men? At least a few eyebrows are raised. But of course, many of them don’t care anyway.

So, why would men, gay and straight, wear them?

- If they’re narcissists, we can say scarves make their shoulders/neck/chest look firmer and more built up, hence more attractive.

- If they despise boredom, scarves are terrific substitutes for necklaces that are becoming tedious and timid for today’s fashion accessory.

- Perhaps it’s written in the Bible. Fancy Jesus and His 12 disciples wore them around the town and inspired men since 2000 years ago.

-Or simply two words: David Beckham.

If the supposedly ‘sex god’ fancies it, why wouldn’t you as well? Well, I won’t.

Heck, even the Hollywood bad boy, Colin Farrell, and Hip-hop icon, Jay-Z, wear them too

Now, Why I would NOT wear them:

1. Duh, it’s sizzling HOT outside!

2. You look like you’re punishing your grandpa for stealing your cookies, so you decided to raid his attic and cut up his old sofa.

3. You look like you just robbed a bank and not ashamed of it whatsoever.

4. At a restaurant, you’re a giant toddler wearing a napkin around (not in front of) your neck.

5. I never even saw hippies wearing them.

So, what’s your say?

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Travel Ethics: Getaway to Absolutely Nowhere

May 21st 2008 02:01

We often criticise immigrants for not embracing and blending with our culture. How is this much different from most of us who, when planning to travel to other countries, tend to look for hotel rooms that are provided with soft beds and soft pillows instead of the traditional bamboo mattresses, along with its restaurants that serve omelettes and cereals every morning?

“Let the nature come to you!” says the thirty-something host for the third time, as he’s sitting on a red sofa inside a villa in the middle of a jungle. Then there’s a giraffe standing just outside. Slowly, its head slides through the open window to approach the host’s hand that has a handful of diced carrots. The giraffe of course indulges itself with it. Then for the fourth time, the host looks back to the camera and reprises: “Let the nature come to you!”.

Henceforth, “Let the nature come to you” =

“Dear couch potatoes,

You need not worry.
We will spoil you like royalty!

Kind regards,
Mother Nature”

This is what Channel Nine’s travel program, Getaway, is entirely about. Travel gradually becomes exclusively about tourists’ convenience, not necessarily the culture they visit.

The next time they feature an episode on Mount Fiji, Japan, the host probably once again will be sitting in a mansion built right next to that mountain. Then, Getaway somehow finds a way to blow up the mountain, so those broken rocks will roll down into the open window and bury him alive. The next thing you know, his head pops out of the piles of the rocks and yells to the camera, “let the nature come to you!”.

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Getaway typically starts an episode with a glib packaging of historical and cultural information of a chosen tourist site, but only to be glossed over quickly so that the program can move on to an emphasis on how the place is ideal for relaxation. The scene follows with the show’s host in a bikini speaking to the camera: “It could be you out here!”. The scene then ends with one of the locals merely appearing as a waitress, handing the host a glass of cocktail.

Where’s the traditional dance? Do we even get to see a big scope of how people there look like?

Not to mention several accommodations nowadays are even also facilitated with cable TV and video games. Some resorts even have a swimming pool right next to a safe beach. These are often the accommodations Getaway promotes. What’s the point spending all that money to experience ‘pseudo-places’ that make you feel at home?

I am not insisting tourists should be marooned in the middle of a crocodile pond, but they need to acknowledge it is a chance of a lifetime. There are millions of things they would never manage to find in Australia. It’s very unwise to just always run to the security of pure cliché.

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Sooner or later, locals of tourist spots might consider sacrificing their own authentic culture only in order to attract Western/Westernised tourists and ensure they won’t be excluded from global tourism and capitalism that has become universal. Soon, travelling to another country will be as culturally shocking as gliding to the nearest McDonalds.

Well, Getaway manages to attract an average of 3 million viewers across Australia each week, which practically suggests many believe ‘authenticity’ only subsisted in the past. They choose to enjoy the already contrived tourist space and be grateful to be in a place already slightly different from their hometown. Getaway successfully brainwashes prospective travellers to believe that just stepping out of their hometown is already considered as the ultimate getaway.

The definition of ‘getaway’ is no longer getting to taste another culture, but literally just… getting away temporarily from your mean boss, from your useless employees, from the job you love to hate, etc…

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Divorce from a little kid’s perspective

April 24th 2008 08:48

PS: If any of my family members reads this, yes this is an honest piece but I'm totally NOT depressed or anything. This is all fun and worth of laugh! I will roll my eyes if any of you took this and me seriously.