NOTE: Just to show you how WORDS can make ALL the DIFFERENCE.
Love, Work and Everything in Between by Xandria Ooi
NOT to be missed from the collection of Xandria Ooi paraphernalia by any Xandria Ooi fan is this: Xandria Ooi: The Book aka Love, Work and Everything in Between.
A collection of writings that made up her regular column for The Star newspaper, Ooi puts down her thoughts to words on various subjects, mostly revolving around her work, her experiences as a working woman and the pitfalls that come with having a career (like time and money management), her parents and a bit of love on the side (where her steady boyfriend is concerned and the trouble of dealing with aunts who take a big deal in when a girl should be getting married).
Every single page of Ooi's book comes alive with delightfully colourful graphics that tell its own 'story' of each individual chapter and fans will love the 'bonus' pages of Ooi looking every bit the celebrity at various star-studded events.
Unfortunately, Ooi's Love, Work and Everything in Between falls short of being the inspirational memoir it promises to be simply because it misses the three elements that make a celebrity autobiography so marketable: Glitz, Glamour and Gossip.
Followers of Ooi's column will delight in receiving Love, Work and Everything in Between as a gift. It will also look pretty on their shelves.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
from scathing to ass-licking
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.
