Raoul@Merz Centre

This show is just like any other shows.

Get the hair done.


And the face made-up.




Have dinner.
Yes, people on-stage do eat, you know!
This is PROOF!!


Then WAIT... and WAIT... and WAIT...


Time to get to know people.


Like Bebe, the Mongolian. <-- As per Emiryo's request mah!!
She's 21 and has an economics degree.
Her eyes are brown and look green under the sun.
If I have a wife, I want mine to look just like her!!
Chio!!
And funny too!!
She didn't believe I'd be 30 this year.
So much that she asked for my ID.
So, I showed her my driving licence. Heh heh heh!!

She's like the 5th disbeliever this show.
Seriously, this looking-younger-than-my-age thing is funny socially, but it doesn't help at work.
In fact, it's a curse!

Also take pics of the surroundings.


Eh... the off-stage people arrived oredi!!

Get the acrobats to entertain the gathering crowd first.


Then FINALLY!!
It was time to get dressed and for last-minute touch-ups.


Yes, that's the Cabbage Girl. Cute right?! Only 17.
She borrowed the guy's rims. =)))
Told you it was AVANT GARDE?!

Like I said earlier, I was the shortest.
1.7m and yet the shortest. Win Oredi.
And they made me wear pumps, to contrast against the other already tall people on heels.
So, I was some sort of Little Swan Girl. <-- Dun ask why. I dun understand either.
I mean... How bizarre is it for the Little Swan Girl to be the oldest of the lot?!

Wait Wait!!
Lemme put on the SWAN first!!

At some point, I started to think that we looked like a NDP or Chingay. But it's way cooler than that. You should have seen the show.

I like this costume the best.
It's made of a few shirts and ties.
All bundled and shaped by a white corsette!
And it's damn heavy!!
WOO HOO!!
COSPLAY!!!

Btw, she's 18.
What was she fed as a child?! How come so tall one!!
Nabeh!!

'Good Fren' was late, so I couldn't pass him the camera.
Hence, there are no pics of the show itself.
*BOOOOOOO!!!*
Heh heh heh!! =))))

Anyway, regardless of on/off-stage people, such occasions tend to bring out the bitchiness very apparently.

For example, Girl X was supposedly told that she would be wearing the swan headgear because she's the prettiest.
"The Swan for the Prettiest Girl!" said that someone.
Somehow, the swan ended on my head, while she had to wear a sofa.
[I had nothing to do with the Swan battle hor!! I just went there and they put it on me.]
She got damn upset, and refused to speak with anybody amicably since last night's rehearsal.

I mean... The Swan isn't the most glam thing on Earth lor...
Why the unhappiness?! I dun understand.
Shows are about the clothes, and never about the models.
Nobody is a princess on the runway.

While I was on the runway with the brights lights and music booming in my ears, I could hear a couple of chicks exclaiming uber loudly,"OMIGOD!! CAN SEE HER UNDERWEAR!!"

Erm... Firstly, what you saw were micro-mini-SHORTS?!
Secondly, it's a TUTU lor...
You don't exclaim at ballerinas, do you?!

Strange people...
And judging from that all-so-familiar accent, they were definitely Singaporeans.
I would bet if they were watching a show in New York, or even on TV, they would not even whisper silently in their minds.
=_=

Anyway, I didn't have time to take pics of the off-the-rack Raoul range because I was too busy taking pics of the Avant Garde group.
But hor... I think the female range is really very classy.
Heh heh heh... Die OREDI!!!

You can probably find the pics in the papers or some fashion mag soon.