Bal en Blanc 2012

I attended the White Party a second time this year, three weeks ago.

As I had been overly delighted last year by the White Party, I must admit that I had high expectations for this year but I'm saddened to claim that they haven't been met.

I don't know to what that disappointment should be directly attributed but I think the fact that I needed to be at my tutoring at 9am after pAArtying all night greatly contributed to me feeling all over the place and not-into-the-mood that time.

I don't know what was in the air but it felt as if there has never been as many people present as last year and I also felt like more people were on heavy drugs as a lot of folks seemed far-fetched and outer-spaced! I myself tried speed in order to stay awake and active a tad longer but as I only took half a pill, it only seemed to have made me go berserk and paranoid at everybody approaching me or passing close to me.

I don't know if it's the color -white- that makes the White Party utterly cheesy and of seemingly bad taste but I felt like I was surrounded by no-class folks that were way too happy to pop unknown substances, walk around almost naked and barely know what kind of music, beat or DJ they're dancing to all night long.

This year the most famous DJs to be heard were: Armin van Buuren, Markus Schulz, Steve Angello, Fedde Le Grand and Jochen Miller. The best DJs are usually Dutch and this year we've only had the chance to hear two of'em which added to my disappointment!

Okay I'll stop complaining and give you the hightlight of the night instead of the dark ones: security seemed a lot more efficient this year, restrooms were less packed and cleaner, the dancefloor wasn't as sticky and nasty as last year, there was more hot jocks than last year, people were less dressed than last year and I got to dance the night away with Jizz one more time!

That being said, I'm really not convinced about me purchasing a ticket to attend the White Party next year as the price seems to double every year while my income barely stays constant! Bad economic situation or bad cash management? I dunno!

Prince William's Wedding and Modern Monarchy

As we ALL know, the whole planet was busy watching tv last thursday morning to see Prince William of Wales's wedding ceremony at Westminster Abbey in London.

At first I was confused about all the fuss surrounding that ceremony and I found it quite obnoxious that people would be so enthusiastic about it since it's only a marriage between two relatively unknown people who are not famous for being gifted with a particular talent other than having royal blood streaming in their veins. Of course, we all knew that it would be such a huge event and that Kate Middleton went from being a nobody to a potential future Queen. I guess the whole British people was moved by such special circumstances.

I have to say that despite the fact that Prince William used to be somewhat cute back when he was 20 years old, he's getting uglier and uglier as he grows old. Let's start by mentionning his lack of hair, huge teeth, long nose and weird mouth shape. The prince definitely has a "trout pout" and a not-so-pretty smile. Poor Kate! Let's hope she really is in love with him and won't go through all the same drama Lady Di experienced with the not-so-sexy Prince Charles!

I have to say that even if I despise Prince William and the Queen and pretty much everybody in the royal family, I worship Prince Harry! I mean he's so cute and adorable! I'm slowly beginning to fantasize about him lol! How cheesy?! It's so shameful but hey, me loves redheads! I wish he was gay!

Anyways, let's focus on the main topic of my article: monarchy. Does it really belong in the 21st century?! Like is it still something we should consider as a political system?! Just look at the Frenchies who executed Marie-Antoinette and their last King back in 1793; they got rid of monarchy pretty quick right? Maybe the Brits should have done the same...! My point is do you really find the Queen interesting or useful? What does she do aside from having tea all day long with other wealthy and noble people? Queens, Kings and Princes are not really involved in political decisions anymore, their roles are quite only about honorary titles and stuff. I don't think it's that bad a thing but it's sure not something we need. Everybody knows that they paid the wedding with the people's taxes so it's not even as if they would use their own fortune to afford it, it's quite a calamity, don'tchu think?!

My other big concern about this whole fiasco is the fact that all Princes and other nobles solely marry with other noble people to keep royal blood and stuff. That means they discriminate us, "normal" people. Of course in the case of Kate Middleton, that was an exception but still, it's pretty much the first time it happens and people still put a lot of emphasis on the fact that she might be crowned as "Queen of England and the Commonwealth". Not only do these royal fellows rarely marry outside their circle of nobility, they usually only marry other individuals who were born in the same country and are of the same religion and ethnicity. Honestly, would you imagine an European Prince marrying a black girl of any origin? Or a muslim, a jew or a Buddhist? I don't really think they are socially-advanced up to that point. Similar to the Pope and the Vatican, their beliefs and mores are of the past and do not cling to contemporary philosophies.

I'm digging deeper and deeper into the plague of royalty and all the scandals related to that and I'm aiming for a specific target: Homosexuality. What if a Prince is gay? Even though gay marriage has been legalized in countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Sweden and many others, these countries still have monarchs. Therefore, my question is: why are casual folks granted with such liberal rights and their royal counterparts should not? The latters actually bribe their own rights by imposing such molds to who can marry who and the how to determine who can be crowned Prince, Queen, King, etc.

Back to the gay thing, imagine a Swedish Prince finds out that he's homosexual and that he wants to fully live his life as a gay man, which implies that he wants to marry another man (per say). Although that sounds a bit peculiar, who knows; it could happen. Okay so let's say he wants to marry another man, whether his partner is of royal blood or not, what would that lead to? They would get married and both become Princes or Kings?! Could you have two Kings at the same time?! The same thing could happen for a lesbian Princess. Do you think one day things could evolve in that sense?! I'm very skeptical but I wish they would consider these matters eventually because as time goes by and as people become more and more open-minded, these sort of things will have to be discussed and accepted. You know what I'm sayin'?!

Anyways, enjoy the pics of the wedding and especially, the sexy Prince Harry:

Kate Middleton and Prince William



Ouhlala

I think this pic is a fake but still,
it's nice to imagine him with such a hot body!

P.S.: My friends Terrine and Cherry both watched the entire wedding ceremony starting at 4 am here in Montreal, how crazy?! Oh and Cherry actually didn't sleep during the whole night since she went clubbing with me and headed straight to Terrine's house to watch the royal wedding with her! How fucked up?! I would've never done that; I prefer to sleep than watch such a cheesy thing!

Them Missed Shows

Here I want to demonstrate you how disappointing and restrictive it is to go to school and to work at the same time.

Can you believe there are PLENTY of amazing tours stopping at Montréal's Bell Centre and I can't attend any show that's scheduled?!

Indeed, Enrique Iglesias, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Lady Gaga and my all-time Aussie favourite Kylie Minogue are all about to be performing live in Montreal. Enrique came here last month and got bad reviews (lol!), the newly out dad of two Martin was there last week (April 12th), MC Gaga will be there on the 25th and Kylie will be performing here for the first time EVER next thursday! I'm so so sad not to be able to make it for any of these events!!! Can you believe it? Like seriously, I'm here in town, I love all of these artists (some less than others though), I have money but I can't attend because my agenda woudln't allow me! What's even more ironic is the fact that I'm walking next to the Bell centre every day to commute to school! Miserable me!

Okay I have to say that the only three ones that I truly would've been willing to pay to go see would be Kylie, Ricky and Lady Gaga. Rihanna is no singer and performs like an amateur (I think she's definitely over-rated) and annoys me way too much. I won't say I dislike her music but she ain't no Mariah nor Céline. Unlike Ricky, Enrique hasn't come out yet which makes me resent him. Just like Rihanna, I think Katy Perry sucks live and I wouldn't be willing to spend a penny on her Californian gurl's ass. 

Lady Gaga seems to love Montréal (and Montréal loves her back) so I'm not too worried or disappointed not to be attending her show since I know for sure that she'll come back; she gave like 5 shows here in the last 2 years and even went to perform live at Star Épidémie (real name: Star Académie). If Gaga still comes here even after meeting Julie Snyder, that means she's one hell of a persevering sista! Oh I also need to inform you that Lady Gaga celebrated her 23rd birthday in Laval two years ago... I guess she pretty much affectionates Quebec and the Montreal area! It will be Gaga's 3rd time holding a show in Montréal for the same tour: The Monster Ball Tour.

Ricky is so sexy and so generous (two must-have qualities; you must be generous enough to share your sexiness with me) that I'd clearly pay to go see him live. I used to be such a huge fan back when I was 8 years old! I saw him perform his best songs like "Livin' La Vida Loca" and "She Bangs" at Véronique Cloutier's successful show "La Fureur" when I was younger and made a mental note to myself to be him when I grew older. I can't really claim I've been successful at becoming Ricky since I'm not Puerto Rican, didn't release any album yet but I have several similarities with Mr. Martin; I'm a modern gay man, I'm livin' La Vida Loca, I know plenty of girls who "bang", I like to shake my "Bon-Bon", I don't want to be lonely, I plan to adopt or have twin sons via surrogacy and the best thing about me is you (my readers :-P)!!! LOL, enough "folies"!

As for Miss Minogue, I just LOVE HER WITH ALL MY HEART!!! I'll never be able to get that bangin' flawless lady out of my head, la la la la la...!!! I've pretty much followed her career path since 2001 when she released her incredibly outstanding single "Can't Get You Out of My Head"! I mean the clip was so futuristic with all her Jean-Paul Gaultier outfits and stuff that were very "5th Element" reminescent. Kylie has numerous unforgettable hits (and raunchy music videos) such as: "Slow" (next to La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona with a cute diver wearing a speedo), "Red Blooded Woman", "Chocolate", "All The Lovers" (yummy), "Get Out Of My Way", "It's In Your Eyes", "Come Into My World", "Love At First Sight", "2 Hearts", "Wow" and so many more!!! Kylie is a queen and a true diva and is more respectable than Madonna if you ask me. My dad doesn't agree with me on that; he thinks Madonna is a much better artist but even if I don't disagree, I'm a bit saturated with Madge so I'd rather stick to Kylie. Plus I'm going to the United Kingdom this summer and she's HUGE out there, even bigger than here! So sad I have a Marketing exam on the 28th that forbids me to attend her show!!! I'll never be able to forgive Wendy Keller (my professor) for that!

--> The following pic-list displays the six tours that I mentionned in my article in order of the least interesting (according to price/quality and my taste, of course) to the most interesting:

6. Rihanna: "The Loud" Tour

5. Katy Perry: "California Dreams" Tour

4. Enrique Iglesias: "Euphoria" Tour

3. Ricky Martin: "Musica Alma Sexo" World Tour

2. Lady Gaga: "The Monster Ball" World Tour



1. Kylie Minogue's "Les Folies" Tour

--> For the record: This is my 100th post!!! How exciting?!

Montreal Fashion Week : Dinh Ba Design

I attended my first Fashion show ever last night during Montreal Fashion Show woo!! I was Fashion Show virgin before that. Of course, I had watched so many ones online that I had a fairly good idea of what it was but still, nothing beats the real thing!

The Dinh Ba Design Fashion Show was held
at the Marché Bonsecours on February 8th,
image provided by Journal 24h

Since I'm always late in the news and always learn that I missed the Fashion Week, I decided not to take any chance and play safe by purchasing a ticket in advance! I'm very proud of myself! For once! 'Cause it's been like 3 years that I want to attend "La Semaine de mode de Montréal" and I always miss it. But once again, I wasn't that much in advance and when I arrived to buy a ticket, my top 4 Runways were already sold out! How sad! I wanted to attend whether Yves Jean Lacasse, Ralph Leroy, Denis Gagnon or Marie Saint Pierre. Since all 4 were sold out, I picked my 5th choice as quick as possible to make sure I wouldn't fall lower than my Top 5 lol! So I ended up with 2 tickets for Dinh Ba Design. By looking at the official website of Montreal's Fashion Week (http://montrealfashionweek.ca/ ), I checked the designers, the schedule for the runways and Dinh Ba Design's website (http://www.dinhbadesign.com/ ).

Dinh Ba himself (provided by
his website)

I felt like Dinh Ba shouldn't be such a bad choice since he's got experience, is authentic and original. I had checked his previous collections and liked it. The designer himself, Dinh Ba, has quite an interesting journey; he was born in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) in Vietnam and then moved to Montreal when he was 8. His mother worked as a seamstress and by assisting his mother, he discovered his passion for clothing and Fashion at an early age. He went on to study at famed Montreal Collège LaSalle at its school of Design and gratuated in 2000. Prior to his graduation, Dinh Ba represented Canada in Paris at the International Young Creators back in 1998.  He's been selling his own creations since 2004 and has launched his own brand during the same year. Since his arrival in the Fashion industry, Dinh Ba has created 14 collections for women and 7 for men. His collections are usually prêt-à-porter, modern with a sense of business elegance.

Ba claimed his inspirations for his latest collection for February 2011 was a warrior, modern woman as portrayed by Angelina Jolie with a touch of glamour and hotness. The show also featured three male models clad with modern "patchoworks", tweed sweathers and Arabic pants. I was a bit disappointed by the colours though; they were very drab (black, grey, cherry red, offwhite and navy blue). The show was quite short (about 20-25 minutes) but run with high professionalism. I suppose some models might have been amateurs but they all worked their magic and impressed me. I LOVED the music! Lolz! The mixing was über-delicious and reminded me of my night out in an underground club in an abandonned public pool in Berlin last summer! I wish someone could send me the tape! What was a bit obnoxious though is I wanted to go along with a friend to the Fashion show but my mom seemed intrigued and curious about attending it and wanted to come with me. I agreed and thought we'd have a good time but she didn't appreciate it at all! She said it was too expensive, complained about the models' skinniness and found the clothes hideous. I promised myself to go back but with someone else than my mom!!! Oh and damn, there was so many hot men out there! I could barely breathe! There was a male model in the audience (haha how hilarious) whom I recognised since he was featured in the ads of notorious Quebec-based male stores Ernest. Lemme tell ya one thang: brotha is fine! Pics of him are posted below the pics of the Fashion show! Enjoy!

This model was so ugly! I couldn't tolerate the bitchy grin she had on her face!
Plus she walked very oddly: he torso and head were leading back way too much lol.

I love me some black models

I kinda like the clothes but I'm not a big fan of the stained fabrics with white
nor the weird-looking boots

One of the three male models of the show : brotha is fine

Left: the "Patchwork", middle: the dislikeable stained fabric, right: much better

--> Oh and here are the pics of the hot male model who was present (he was my present lol) and who posed for the Ernest campaigns:

--> Images for the Dinh Ba Design Fashion Show are courtesy of the "Mode Montréal" Blog (http://www.modemontreal.tv/) and photos of the Ernest male model are from the Boutiques Ernest website (http://www.ernest.ca/)

Black History Month

I just learned today that February is the "Black History Month". I mean I knew there was a month entitled to commemorate Black History but I didn't know it was February lol. That's exciting! I'm sure black people accross the U.S. and Canada are very glad to have that month dedicated to their ancestry and history. I think they deserve it after all. I'm not really sure about what I should do in order to celebrate that aside from telling each black person I know or befriend that I love him or her for being black!

First off, I'll start by telling that to myself since as everbody knows, I might look white but I'm all black deep inside! Just think about it for a second, what would be the American culture without black people? Not that much right? The blacks have brought the best music there is and their culture and mores have enriched the nation as being the "Eldorado" country. I think blacks are definitely part or subsequently are the American dream; they've all come from such a long way to where they are now.

The election of Barack Obama as a president engraved a major step forward democracy, freedom and respect for minorities. What's really ironic about the "racial profile" and "racial minorities" issue in the United States is that in some counties, blacks represent the majority of the habitants and this, from the West coast to the East Coast. That implies that they're not genuine "minorities" and in fact, they're heavily consist of the American workforce and people. African-American people are also highly involved in the Military forces and serve their country. Coercively, they should not be labelled as "African-American" as they're real Americans; they were born and raised in America from American-born parents whose parents were also born and raised in the USA and who all speak English as their first language.

Anyways, I'm writing this down to tell you that I just love black people! Whether they're from the African continent, from South America, Central America or the U.S., I think they're all mighty fine. This is a good occasion for me to tell you that I went out with this Cameroonian dude last week. His name was Billa and he was über-entertaining. His journey was very intriguing as he was born in Cameroon, moved to Orlando, FL when he was a teenager and then moved to Sweden to study in Environmental Sustainability in Stockholm and now resides in Copenhagen, Denmark where he works for Maersk and is doing a certificate in Danish Litterature. He was a brilliant brotha with a good sense of humour and a nice "pâté". Oh and I want to point out the fact that he spoke 6 languages : Cameroon's Pigdin, French, English, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian.

Of course, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish are very similar languages but still, I'm speechless in front of such linguistic knowledge! I wish I could master my English and German more, learn Dutch and Spanish in order to be fluent and take Swedish and Portuguese classes. Actually, Chinese (Cantonese) and Arabic seem cool to. I love learning new languages, it's a child's play for me.

--> Nota Bene: Don't you forget to tell all of your black friends and acquaintances that you love them this month!!! Or else Rodzilla will come and destroy your town!