Korean Man Hunt?

What are metal dreams?

Being the show off that I am, other clients had a looksie of the new Korean Heart throb Mike. After a generous amount of laughter and insults combined, they too wanted to have a "foolish" photo taken of them.

Admittedly, some of our clients have male model figures with a higher I.Q. than Zoolander. It is the policy of the Centre to keep the clients happy so we had an impromptu photo shoot. Albeit we have really bad lights, the photos still conveyed the model wannabe look for our client.

Roy has a more "model" aura than heart throb Mike. Lets put it this way. Mike is the multi-talented superstar one who is as hot as Brad Pitt. While Roy is the "male model of the moment" such as Gemma Ward.

ROY'S PORTFOLIO


compare and contrast


Sell it to me!


Calvin Klein model?


I wonder where I left my phone...

Korean Heart throb

What are metal dreams?

My lil client claims he doesn't like girls. Me thinks it's on account that he couldn't talk to the girls in his class (ESL impaired) and has a bit of confidence deficiency. But that was before he got his fancy new haircut.

Awesome! His hairdresser totally knew what to do with the lil tyke. He was even taught how to use hair products (will be introducing him to hair putty soon).

He is a Korean Heart throb in the making. Move over Won Bin (Autumn in my Heart, Endless Love 1)! Eat dirt Lee Dong Wook (My girl)! Get a new job Jo in Sung (Memories of Bali)!

Make way for Mark*...


Poster Boy

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*Real name witheld for privacy reasons.

The Centre's Next Top Model*

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*The Centre is what I call my work place. Loosely based on ANTM

The Centre is a competitive non-television segment in my blog created by yours truly. Every week (I hope) will feature a new challege for the models (my co-workers) and the results will be featured in my blog. The winner for the week will receive a prize from yours trully of varying degrees of cheap-ness.

This segment promotes company unity and friendly competition among my co-workers. And of course, it also propagates my personal favorite mantra... beauty is in the workplace. We interact closely with our clients, therefore, it is important that we remain fabulous.

Here are the models...


(l - r) Kaye, Myrrh, Reyna
Loraine, Boni, Robert (Cloyd and Nery not in picture)

The Challenge - Look Happy

Since this is the first challenge, we retained the models' natural beauty maximizing on their natural talent. The task is to "Look Happy". Ok, there's being naturally happy and extraordinarily happy. But the task today was to look happy (not crazy) on digi photos. There's a catch. It must look a tiny bit candid. No looking at cameras for this one. And for some of the models this is indeed a challenge. What's a photo if you're not looking at a camera!

Wait and see...

Kaye's Photos


Long neck + high cheeckbones = glamour

Kaye has a natural goddess quality to her and really fine white skin that whitening product commercials only dream of. The downside is her dentals. For a lot of the models, smilling is what brings out the laughter in the eyes (rightly so, even for me). The challenge for her is to look happy without showing canines.


Gloss it up!

Primping, of course, is the other of her natural gifts.

This is Kaye's best shot...


Goddess Quality

Cloyd's Photos


Pose for me!

Cloyd lurvs photos. He has a jovial nature that shines through all of his photos. This challenge is a piece of cake for him. This boy has the versitility of a seasoned model. His photos are just precious. Since his smile brings out his eyes, we are looking for that x-factor quality that would just make the audience coo at him... even with that face (joke lang hehe).


Tease me (so adorable!)


Cloyd's pic really takes the cake for this challenge. This is the teasing side of him that is rarely seen in a strict corporate environment. I am seriously blown away. Top Model talaga!


Loraine's Photos


Loraine is also shining of all happiness in the world. She has a ditzy glow about her that just infects everyone with happiness. This challenge should also be a peice of cake for her... This is her initial test shot...



Smiles all around

There was an unforseen problem with Loraine, however. She wouldn't stop looking at the freakin camera! We, and by that I mean ALL of us, wanted to just nail her eyes steady lest it starts following the camera again! After a while, and I mean a while, and a help from Cloyd ("Tingin ka sa 'ken. Sa akin lang!"), we finally got a shot we wanted.


Pretty and Perky - Just the way we like it!

Myrrh's Photos


Sweet-safe-cutesy Myrrh

Myrrh is a wholesome person. She is also happiness-all-around type but not as much as the previous two . But this isn't a challenge for nothing. We wanted to see another side of Myrrh, apart from the sweet -safe-cutesy side of her. We love her yes. But she can be more sexy.

This is a much harder task to pull... had I told her that it's what we wanted hehe. She had no idea what we wanted from her apart from deviate from certain cutesy poses. That way, she wasn't intimidated at all. She was cooperative and everything went smoothly. We were very satisfied with her best shot...



Move over Alec Bovic/k

Neri's Photos


Nery's kinda cranky.

She is the most photogenic of all my co-workers, says the HR/IT head's second. He has uhm fairly decent taste so I didn't bother to check it out for authenticity. But it seems he has a point. We didn't have much time for her as she needed to work (unlike me? hehe). She also came a lil late so the entire concept of it wasn't explained to her as well as the others.


Kagagahasa-lang look.

It didn't bode well that she's didn't wanna participate on account that she hadn't gone to her stylist yet. But it worked to her advantage in a sort of kagagahasa-lang look. heehee.


Angelic (virginal? joke lang)

The Boys' Photos

The boys prefered to have their photos taken in the spot that makes them happy. I must admit that I agree completely as this place also gives me happiness...



Boni's happy day (without the plant)



This is Robert. He is happy. Walang kokontra!


Robert's happy place. Reminds us of the rehab days, don't it?


Visitation Day - Sharing a lil happy!


Boni's special spot, away from second hand smoke. I'll kill myself, thanks.

Sadly, Reyna was busy so she wasn't able to participate. The photos shall be deliberated upon for a few days/hours. The winner shall be announced on Friday. Stay tuned...

Happiness

What are metal dreams?

If you need to spread a lil happy amongst your co-workers, do what I did -- BRING A DIGITAL CAMERA in the workplace and have a PICTORIAL with your co-workers.

Needless to say, my co-workers were very pleased about it. But compared to my academic organization back in college, it took some time for them to warm-up to the idea. Well, they haven't seen my new found skills in photography (hehe).

Although I was rather demanding with the girls and guys, they were as professional as they can be. The lights weren't that good in our office, so we had to make do with what we had. It's a good thing my people were always primped and perfect that retouches weren't necessary cutting down in prep time.

As you will see my people were born models and with a bit of couching, we were able to churn out pretty good shots. I feel like Tyra Banks in America's Next Top Model heehee.

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In other non-happiness sections, I've reconsidered trying to get an invite for the blog parteeh. My friend strongly disagreed with my plug (It's sooo NOT you!) and that I wouldn't FIT IN anyways. Whatever that means. Still, those were merely unsolicited advice and I still would go if only I had all my appendiges working.

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As usual, I woke up late this morning. Well, I slept around 1am so go figure. I spent the night talking with a severely stoned friend who kept on about wanting to date my mother (who is hotter than I am, I must admit). It got really gross that I had to hang up. Good riddence.

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I haven't spoken to my family in a while. It must be because I did a bad thing which I shall not mention here lest I see momma (not genetic) bangin on my door demanding that I get reprimanded for my less than wise actions.

My roomy might be back tonight so I wouldn't have to spend the night alone... again... for the nth time.

Another chance to be a WALLFLOWER

What are metal dreams?

I detest dances. My Junior and Senior Proms were two of the worst moments of my life. I think I went to the dances for my mum. You see, my mum was a hot young thing -- the prettiest girl in Dumaguete City circa 1960s. It was a disappointment for her that I didn't turn out with as much pretty-ness as she had. I guess, I lost the gene pool contest. (My lil brother won)

Why am I even talking about this party?

Well... my good friend is going. Another friend is going. Thus, if I wanted to hang out with my friends, then I would have to crash on account that:
1/ the pary is invites ONLY; and
2/ STRICTLY one person per invite.

I might not like parties, but I do like to hang out with buddies over happy plant or something. My scheduled people for the 27th are both going to the party. So it's either stay home or crash. Stay home or crash. Stay home or crash. Or I could do the unthinkable. Try to get an invite.

Logically, this is the least painful of the choices. So... ok... here goes.

BLOG PARTEEH 07

*Cue opening theme song, lights, camera, action ... cue really high and perky voice*

And you think bloggers are resigned to writing and cyberspace... of course NOT! We bloggers can bring the house (the one by the river?) down!

Plugging: the BLOG PARTEEH! 2007 (applause and hooting)

What's this you ask? Well, it's only just the meanest and biggest party of all time! It's a meet and greet for bloggers AND by bloggers themselves. Wow! Super Wow! Most Awesome Wow! Can you say lucky? Better yet say PARTEEH!

Move over Oscars, coz this is the most happening event of this season! What are you waiting for?! Haul on those fab and possibly studded asses onto the red carpet!

This party is brought to you by the coolness of the sponsors...

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See you there!!!

As of 0 hour, I've received confirmation that my buddy got his invite. He goes on to chide: Asa pang makakakuha ng invites. To which I replied: Gagooh!

And last but not the least... I've to do that tag thing... this is the best I can do...

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BIKE WATCH: Dakar Rally

What are metal dreams?

I was about to post a really good article about the Paris-Dakar Rally... unfortunately, i clicked something wrong and the entire article DISAPPEARED! WTF!

The Paris-Dakar rally (aka Dakar Rally as it doesn't have to start in Paris) is one of the most extreme races in the world. It's a rally, so as they go, it runs across six countries. It starts at Lisbon (Portugal), then through Spain, Mauritania, Morocco, then ends in, where else, Dakar (Senegal). This is a 15 day (Jan 6 to 15 2007)race with only one day rest period. The sched.

This annual race was established by a French guy (Thierry Sabine) for cars. A few years back, motorcycles and large trucks. This year: 88 Large Trucks, 187 automobiles and 250 motorcycles raced in the 2007 Dakar Rally. Of all these riders, only 40% will make it to the finish line. I don't blame them as this is a 5,000 mile run through rock, sand, riverbed and potholed roads. This year, there are two deaths (one accident and the other a heart attack, yikes).

The winner this year is *drumroll* CYRIL DEPRES (Dakar 2005 winner).

Depres: winner of the Dakar Rally 07 motorcycle division

Woohoo...

He clocked in for about 51 hours, 36 minutes, 53 seconds, ahead of the next rider by 34 mins. He rode on board a KTM off road, an ausie manufacturer.

KTM article coming up tomorrow.

BIKE WATCH: BMW K 1200 R

What are metal dreams?

In reference to my previous article, this is the BMW K 1200 R...

BMW K 1200 R

The BMW K 1200 R is the most powerful naked bike BMW offers as of this moment. Ergo, this is the most powerful naked bike the planet EARTH could offer. She was released on 2006 in the international market and was the creme dela creme of Biker shows everywhere. There is no biker show without this baby.

As for specs, wikipedia has this to say:
"a 163 hp (122 kW) @ 10,250 rpm from its 1157 cc 4 cylinder motor with a torque of 94 lbf·ft (127 N·m) @ 8,250 rpm, a mind numbing explosive acceleration of 100 km/h from stand-still in 2 seconds and a top speed of over 163 mph (260 km/h). There are many other features in this bike from its styling to layout. The cylinder block is canted toward the front wheel by 55 degrees to reduce the entire motorcycle’s center of gravity, permitting innovating packaging solutions. The optional ESA system allows the rider to adjust for different road conditions and varying loads for a very individualized riding style. At the touch of a button, the rider is able to choose between three settings (Normal, Comfort, and Sport) for front and rear suspension as well as adjusting for suspension preload, a three-way catalytic converter in the exhaust to ensure more environmental friendly low emissions and anti-lock braking system to ensure rider safety in extreme braking. Fully sequential cylinder-specific fuel injection with integrated anti-knock control mean that peak torque is available from 3500 rpm all the way to the 11,000 rpm redline and wheelies are just a touch of a throttle away!"

Awesome.

However, there is no such thing as a perfect bike -- especially if you are trying to please everyone... sports and naked peeps. This bike is essentially a naked bike. Duh. Thus, it tends to be on the heavy side, like most nakeds. My good friend is totally pleased with this bike on account that it's so comfortable that it seems like you're driving a car. Another good friend said that he wouldn't go out on that bike on account that there's no thrill. "It's like a friggin' car!" says he.

Weight issues. The naked peeps absolutely adore this bike, giving them a taste of the sports while still on a naked. Ok, nakeds are veering towards cross-county more than race track but still, it is in their blood to enjoy speed once in a while. The sports peeps think that the bike is way too heavy for sports to the point of maybe hacking off some of its muscles. I think not.

Since I am naked leaning to cruiser. I think she's fine the way she is.