EKKA - continued

How can there not be photos of beautiful ME? I'm so glad my housemate decided to go to the show with me. If not, there won't be anyone taking photos for me. Haha... This was taken outside the hall where we bought the super un-believably cheap pasta sauce.


Me and my Cleo show bag. I was very happy when I bought the show bag as just the magazine cost AUD$6.90. Singapore's Cleo cost only SGD$4.20 and I used to buy it religiously back then. What am I going to do without it?


These were some of the smaller cattle in the exhibition. There were some species almost two times the size of these. I didn't dare to go near them so didn't get any photos of them. By the way, those bags I were holding in the photos did not belong to me. Honestly, I didn't splurge too much money during the show, I merely helped a friend to buy those bags.

In the animal boulevard were all the smaller farm animals. There were chicken, ducks, goats, pigs, dairy cows and so on. Some of the animals were allowed to roam freely and you get to feed them if you purchase a cup of feeds at AUD$2. There was milking demostrations at certain times of the day and I saw some children holding little chicks in their laps for a feel. My dear camera had no battery left and so we didn't take any photos inside. What a waste!

After this, we also went to see a fashion parade. There were 8 female and 2 male models and they changed real fast. The 2 male models made the show really amusing by disturbing the female models whenever they walked past them. Towards the end of the show, they even made fun of themselves. One of them wore his shirt with the buttons at the back and purposely left his front zip open. The other wore a shirt and a pair of boxers with a fake bare butt attached to the back.

This was the first time I had sat down and watched a real fashion parade. Since young, I had always been fascinated by the modelling industry. There was a time I watched America's Next Top Model quite faithfully and idolised Tyra Banks. Too bad I was not 10cm taller. If I was, I would be earning big bucks now by modelling. I have the figure and I'm photogenic enough.

Then again, I might not be able to get onstage with my present weight. At some shows, models had to be weighed and they were not permitted to go onstage if they did not pass the minimum required weight. They are trying to eliminate the thought that thin is beautiful so that there won't be so many anorexic girls in the world, trying to achieve the 'beauty standard'.