Xandria Ooi's Love, Work and the Blahblahblahs in Between

WHO in the world is Xandria Ooi?

She calls herself a celebrity and a writer - which aren't to say, exactly lies. After all, she has done some modelling (I've seen her blown-up proportions on the billboard of a slimming centre), which surely is a celebrity thing to do besides appearing on TV and writing her own column for that astronomical newspaper, The Star.

But seriously, how many people know Xandria Ooi?

While it would be unfair to lump her in with the group of 'obscure' celebs, she isn't exactly up there on the Grade A list with the others like Amber Chia, Daphne Iking or Sazzy Falak, to name a few.

And perhaps, a reason why she has come to publish "Love, Work and Everything in Between", chronicling her life's experiences as oh, a celebrity. (It's for the publicity, we know.)

Unfortunately, Ooi's Love, Work and Everything in Between falls short of being the inspirational memoir it was touted to be. Even the tastefully designed pages (and 'bonus' pages of Ooi, the celebrity posing at glitzy star-studded events) failed to bring dazzle to the bland words of Ooi, the writer simply because it misses the three elements that make a celebrity autobiography so marketable: Glitz, Glamour and Gossip. And perhaps, a very sad, starving childhood filled with alcoholic relatives.

One review described Ooi's writings as personifying her to be "too sensible", a kinder way of saying 'boring'.

The whole book, is in fact, mostly about work. Not so much on love, but there's also plenty of blahblahblahs in between.

Buy it. It'll look pretty on your shelf.