Beyonce Sweet Dreams Live at MTV Europe Music Awards 2009 Berlin HQ

Red Carpet Buzz: BeyoncéSasha Fierce shimmers in Atelier Versace
By Erin Clements | November 06, 2009 11:00 a.m.


Beyoncé won big at last night’s European Music Awards, held at Berlin’s O2 Arena, nabbing awards for Best Song (“Halo”), Best Video (“Single Ladies”), and Best Female Artist. Sasha Fierce also scored a trifecta of fashion hits, wowing the crowd in the sexy red leotard she wore onstage, the embellished David Koma number recently seen on the X Factor’s Cheryl Cole, and this shimmering gown by Atelier Versace.




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LADY GAGA: THE FAME MONSTER

by MARK PILLOS


If there's someone who has revolutionized and still changing radically the face of fashion, that is the FAME MONSTER Lady Gaga.

She was catapulted as a fashion icon rejuvenating the dashed hope of the big names in the fashion industry. I love Gaga wearing all these outfits. She really has a good taste in fashion.

I really love Lady Gaga !!! =)

JUSTIN

MONEY AIN’T ALL FOR FLIPINOS

by MARK PILLOS


Realization perfused to me that there are good things being a Filipino.

Mr. James, a Korean friend of our Executive Director said that “I envy Filipinos because they can enjoy life to the fullest.”

It’s been a long time since I felt good things of being a Filipino. That was when I was young. When a candy or lollipop could cure anything wrong. But as I grow up and saw reality- where government is treated as a famous brand of a toilet paper- smile seldom suffice my ambitious dreams.



I thank Mr. James for letting me realize that life is not all about living in a mansion, wearing designer’s clothes, and splurging every convenience of lying on a bed of fortune.

...as I grow up and saw reality- where government is treated as a famous brand of a toilet paper- smile seldom suffice my ambitious dreams.


It’s about being happy. Not because you have that scrumptious food from Paparazzi or coffee from Starbucks.

Many typhoons have whipped Philippines. Many of these have paralyzed the country’s economy. But Filipinos can still smile despite of these.

Recently, Philippines ranked as the 14th Happiest Country in the world. It is the only Asian country included in the Top 20.

Now I know why I was easily affected by the words of Mr. James. After all, I’m still proud being a Filipino.

PHOTOS OF SOME OF THE COUNTRY'S FESTIVALS:

FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHER: TAMI BALLESTEROS

A DOZE OF TAMIFLU !!!
by MARK PILLOS



Have you gotten a shot of TAMIflu?

If oseltamivir phosphate, commonly known as tamiflu is a treatment and prevention for the pandemic swine flu that spifflicated many lives, there’s another type of TAMIflu that is inoculating a futuristic façade of art- that is TAMI BALLESTEROS.



This 22 year old (born on the 4th of November) photographer is teeming with endowments. He acts, had commercials and not to mention his being a visual artist.



This Manila-born hottie considers that his greatest achievement is to make a lot of people happy with his talent in the arts.




He wants to travel and to see the world to learn many things from people of different cultures. He sounds heroic when he said that he wants to help the underprivileged.



This creative person finds happiness when he sees his loved ones happy. He views that these persons are his treasures that he is afraid to depart them.



Today, he is proud of his B Glam project 5 Graffiti series (Just click to find more about this).



He says that passion is the key for his great works. That is he “lives and breathes art. It makes his world a more colorful and interesting place to live in.”

If you haven’t gotten a tamiflu, better have now!!! =)










PHOTO COURTESY: TAMI BALLESTEROS

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Transsexual Miss World contest aims to boost awareness

Winner Ai Haruna of Japan walks on stage during the Miss International Queen 2009 beauty pageant, in Pattaya, southeastern Thailand. Shimmering in a tight gold evening gown, a Japanese television host wept and called for greater tolerance as she was crowned the world's most beautiful transsexual at a pageant in Thailand.


PATTAYA, Thailand (AFP) - – Shimmering in a tight gold evening gown, a Japanese television host wept and called for greater tolerance as she was crowned the world's most beautiful transsexual at a pageant in Thailand.

Haruna Ai, 37, beat off stiff competition from 20 other glamorous contestants at the Miss International Queen 2009 who came to the Thai beach resort of Pattaya from as far as Brazil and the United States.

"I am very, very, very happy," a tearful Ai told AFP minutes after the previous title holder carefully placed a faux-diamond tiara on her head.

"I want contests like this to show everyone that they should love each other and live freely. The way of life in Japan is more traditional and transsexuals cannot live freely, but in Thailand they can do what they want," she said.

The contest, which was called off last year because of political turmoil in Thailand, is taken just as seriously as more traditional pageants in a nation famed for its sexual tolerance.

Millions of Thais watched live on television late Saturday as the statuesque beauties -- all of them born men -- strutted their stuff at Tiffany's Show Pattaya, billed as the world's largest transsexual cabaret.

The first round saw them in kitschy national dress, with a US contestant resplendent in a feathered native American costume and a British entrant donning a Beefeater outfit with black satin leggings and Busby hat.

The lights then sank low as the contestants paraded elegant evening gowns and later modelled pink swimsuits, while giant fluorescent kites soared over the stage.

Japan's Ai won 10,000 dollars, a year's stay at a Pattaya hotel and a 500-dollar surgical voucher after judges picked her over runners-up Karngsadal Wongdusadeekul from Thailand and Daniela Marques of Brazil.

While the audience may have whooped and cheered raucously, contestants and organisers said there was a serious side to the pageant -- boosting public awareness of transgender issues.

"An event like this for us is something I can only hope for in the United States," said US contestant Sunny Dee-Lite, 32, a party promoter from New York City who won the best evening gown gong.

Many participants had stories of discrimination.

Maggie Gao, from China, earlier this year won Miss World Shenzhen, a women's beauty pageant in the southern Chinese city -- but it then emerged that she was a man and the organisers withdrew her title.

"So I am very glad that Miss International Queen has given me the chance to take part," the 27-year-old ballet dancer from Shanghai told AFP backstage before the contest.

Camilia Dzelma, 22, from Singapore, said her Muslim family had accepted her as she is and called for more transgender beauty pageants.

"I am here to open up things and show the world that I am not a freak," said Dzelma, a children's dance instructor at a government-run school.

"These competitions reduce discrimination. My family is Muslim but they do not care about what my identity is as long as they know that I am happy. My mum just called me and wished me good luck," she said.

Thailand's laws have failed to keep up with the country's tolerant reputation.

Transsexuals in Thailand complain that they are legally discriminated against because they cannot change their gender on their ID cards, while new rules on waiting periods have been imposed for sex-change operations.

"In Thailand, after they operate they are physically a woman but legally a man. In the US and Britain and other countries they can change their passport so they are a woman," said Alisa Phanthusak, one of the contest organisers.

Thai contestant Sorawee Nattee, who won the domestic version of the pageant in May, said that she had been drafted for military service despite having had a sex-change.

"But when I went to the drafting centre looking like this, like a girl, with boobs, they told me to go away," the 21-year-old said.

Mark Pillos' Latest Style in LOOKLET

I named the style NATRE.

NATRE is the ghost in the movie SHUTTER, who even death can ne'er bury her love to a man whom she desperately loved.

Natre's innocent but spooky character drawn my goosebumps and haunted my night- the reason why I can't sleep well in a week. waaaaaaahhhhhhhh. LOL =)








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