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Enlai-tening email reporter · email story · printer friendly version At the mention of thespian Chua Enlai and the couch potato image of a messy, harassed guy in the IKEA advertisement going " wo zhen de bu zhi dao" - (I really don't know) will surface. If you want to know what lies in the cupboard and mind of winner for Best Actor for 2002 DBS Life! Theatre Awards, then follow reporter Melissa Chin as she enjoys his email.
I'm not fussy and am no slave to labels but I do appreciate a Marc Jacobs or a Miu Miu when I see one. Casual labels? Totally dig Adidas and Puma. 2. What is the most essential style piece in your wardrobe? At the moment, my black Havaianas. We rehearse barefoot a lot, so these sturdy yet cushy flip-flops come to the rescue so easily, during that urgent loo and smoke breaks.
A Calvin Klein Boxer Brief for every day of the month, in impeachable tones of black, white and grey. Man's best friend, really… Oh?! Was I supposed to say my dark brown Gucci suit? OK then… that too.
4. What is your favourite accessory? I'm quite a bag person. Not so much by quantity, but by their recognisably humungous size! I always have a jacket for the theatre or cinema, diary, change of clothes, shoes, toiletry kit, hair goop, hand cream, kitchen sink etc… I actually have a car to put it all in yet I persevere in giving myself a bad back in my old age. At the moment, the culprit is a maroon Puma bowling bag, which is temporarily attached to my right arm. 5. Which is your favourite shopping haunt? I like shopping overseas because of the pressure of "quick buy now because maybe got no time to come back here!" And if you buy something real cheap somewhere out there in the great wide open, you don't have to admit you shop at Metro or This Fashion. I actually walked into Woods & Woods the other day. I don't own anything from them, but I like their stuff!! I think the vintage stuff you get in Newtown in Sydney or maybe New York, is really, really cool. By the way, I LOVE Urban Outfitters!! Let me say that again. I LOVE Urban Outfitters!!
Tom Ford always looks so irritatingly well dressed. While I wouldn't exactly raid their wardrobes, I think Bjork, Chloe Sevigny and Sarah Jessica Parker have the guts to look so fantastical and fabulous. By the way, who saw Mariah Carey's wardrobe in MTV Cribs Golly Gosh!
7. What was your best fashion moment? You can't be serious?! 8. What beauty item can't you live without? I use lots of Clinique stuff for my face like Total Turnaround and Moisture Surge Light. They're great. But I really can't live without hand cream. Kiehls and Neutrogena are the best! 9. Okay then, for someone who announces that he's "Handsome" in an IDD commercial, what's your secret beauty tip? Bathing yourself in milk freshly procured from a cow's udder… If that's a tough call, moisturise, moisturise, moisturise! Says someone who has eczema. I'm totally serious. 10. Which fragrance do you swear by? The manly, hairy aroma which emanates from my armpits… ok lah, ok lah! I like Clinique Happy for men and Armani Mania. 11. And your favourite way to start the day? You really wanna know?! It may be far too rude… ;-) OK, the PG version is… a glass of juice (mango or orange), a cup of coffee and a slow flip through the papers. That's why I'm always late! 12. What are you currently reading? A couple of scripts for some plays I may be doing later on in the year - can't really say what they are though, so what's the point?! So let's say this Taschen-issued coffee table book "Pop Art", by Tilman Osterwold. Love it. Lots of pictures and lots of words too… ;-) (Just joking, ok!) 13. Your CD player holds? Erykah Badu's "Worldwide Underground", and rediscovering Cassandra Wilson's "Traveling Miles". 14. Name your all-time favourite movie. Goodness! There are a million, but let's say… "City of Lost Children", "Dancer in the Dark", "City of God", "Amelie", "Baz Luhrman's R + J", "Drop Dead Gorgeous" and a whole host of Christopher Guest movies. Great! I like Mike Leigh's and Wong Kar Wai's work too. Anyway, I just watched "Last Life In the Universe" and it was sublime.
Hate to sound boring, but it's the Big Apple for the REAL big city buzz. But Marrakesh too, is a lovely place that I've had the privilege to visit.
16. Which restaurant left the best impression on you? Used to patronise Mezza9 quite a bit, and have tried Whitebait & Kale and Marmalade Pantry. They're great 'cos they've got the vibe I like. But I just like wearing my slippers down to Tango's at Holland Village for their chicken wings and wines at happy hour prices! Very casual and no fuss, and that's what's important.
17. Who would you like to meet? I want to sit down and have a martini with Richard Branson because I want to be a travel mogul in my next life; one who knows how to rip Singapore Airlines off!! 18. What will you never do? Bungee jump (even though I grew up in New Zealand), and wear pink and green together, in one ensemble. 19. Who is the person that inspires you the most? That changes all the time. If I find myself too drunk, too quickly, I'm totally inspired by the guy who's still sober. Seriously… Antoni Gaudi, Miles Davis, Mies van der Rohe, Arne Jacobsen, Lars von Triers, David LaChapelle, Mariah Carey, The Wooster Group, and Shri K Pattabhi Jois. 20. What was your most cringe-worthy moment? Plenty! Many involve various substances
regurgitating themselves through various orifices of mine at the
most untimely moments and another, is hugely ripped trousers (crotch
area) at a very glamorous awards ceremony. 'Nuff said. Can crawl
back into a hole and die!
Copyright 2002-2004 "The
UrbanWire.com" Ngee Ann Polytechnic Singapore
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