Professionalism

One day, a young boy was playing in his room. With his stereos on loud and TV on, he hummed along. Seconds later, he yelled out "OUCH". He got bitten by a bug. Little did he know that it was a showbiz bug.

God, that was lame. Remind me never to write intros for any book that I work on. Yes, I was bitten by a showbiz bug and today I relived what I have missed in the past five years. I had a professional photo shoot.

Professionalism.. yeah yeah people brag about how professional their community rely on to carry out tasks and bla bla bla. Yawn yawn slash shut the fuck up. I had a photo shoot with a girl today, who's currently topping some charts and who's also a good friend of mine. A friendly back to back interview with professional photo shoot shot by a professional photographer for a professionally popular magazine. No I AM NOT bragging but can I just say the magazine chick totally fucked up the word 'professionalism'.

First of all, I asked them how I was gonna have my hair and face done. I mean, yes I do have a bit of Jon Secada natural tan on me BUT it looks like kids in UNICEF ads when I have no make up done with the photo shoot lights. The magazine chick, let's call her THECHICK, said she has things taken care of and I would be using my friend(the other celebrity), let's call her "STAR", yes so she said I would be using STAR's make up artist instead of having my own. I was cool with that. Sharing is caring and STAR is a friend of mine and I trust her taste in good make up artists. So, today the plan turned out to be me going to the shoot with THECHICK(the magazine chick) to meet up STAR. I was like 'wait what about my hair and face?' . Then, THECHICK was like "you won't need them. your hair is short and you're a guy". EXCUSE ME... now I am someone who CARES about professionalism. I did directors, producers and choreographers videos for med revue and I did it cos I wanted to BUT I have ALWAYS made sure they were professional. I got Luke as a hair do dude and I even got Mel Lloyd(love ya mel) as my camerachick for the choreo video. Now, I know they're NOT in showbiz and all that BUT THEY DID A FRIGGIN AWESOME JOB in time and in order and dare I say it... PROFESSIONALLY.

Call me a diva but as soon as I heard that, I rung up my celebrities friends who would have a make up artist to do my face and hair to get ready in TWO HOURS. THECHICK was full of apologies as she swapped the 'he said' 'she said' bullcrap between people. "BUT STAR SAID SHE WOULD HAVE THE ARTIST READY" "BUT HE DOESN'T NEED MAKE UP.. HE SAID HE WAS OK"... NO I DIDN'T SAY THAT BI-YATCH. Go suck on a yacht stick and have a taste of how it feels to fuck up professionalism. I am not asking too much of her but once you're in the game, you have to do as you SHOULD and not back out just cos you fucked up. If I were a diva, I would have cancelled the shoot today but I am not. So, I volunteered to find my own make up artist for my face and hair.

The funny thing was STAR ended up doing her own make up cos her make up guy's shop closed today and I ended up with a make up artist, WHO was called on by THECHICK. I mean, THECHICK DID owe me a make up artist. The shoot was awesome. Sometimes I wonder why I ever quit the scene. It's not a bad thing to try to be famous again.. hmmm... fame... oh and if you're ever wondering, I forgive THECHICK. I mean... if it wasn't for her, there would be zero publicity for me.

On another note, my high school best mate, Hkunie, came over today to invite me to his wedding. I felt quite bad since I have been here for three weeks and I never made contact with him. Yes, I forgot his number but I didn't even try to find it via friends. Normally, he would get so pissed off. After I told him the truth about me being lazy and all and I apologized, he apologized back. He said that he had been lost with the scene (friends.. not showbiz) two months before this wedding he's planning for. Fair enough. But, as I saw him leave my house with his to be wife, I was reminded of how close we used to be and how grown up we both are now. He popped out his head to say goodbye again and all I could say to him was...

:"You know.. it's funny, man.. we're all growing up... it's creepy"

He gave me a 'I know' look and we looked at each other's face for about a minute and a half and he nodded and drove off with a "Let's catch up soon"