Posted by: Sonya Rehman on: September 30, 2007
By Sonya Rehman
Walk into any bookstore and the first thing to catch your eye would most probably be the display rack of thick, glossy, glamour magazines.
So you pick one up and skim through it, soaking in its fun, trashy content. And then you come across a series of photo shoots, some of which are brilliantly [...]
Posted by: Sonya Rehman on: September 19, 2007
By Sonya Rehman
Generation X has been lambasted for being far too frivolous, continuously labeled as the ‘internet technology generation’ – tagged as mindless, robotic media sponging little zombies…but the fact is, it’s true…but only to ‘some’ extent.
But does the older generation really know what we’re going through?
Ten years down the line, a majority of us [...]
Posted by: Sonya Rehman on: September 19, 2007
By Sonya Rehman
The first time I’d ever heard Fawad Khan’s name was a little over five years ago – when amidst a succession of harrowing A’ level days between ‘all-nighters’ – that involved law and literature, syllabuses and timetables – two of my batchmates confessed to having serious crushes on “that EP guy”.
Fast forward a [...]
Posted by: Sonya Rehman on: September 6, 2007
By Sonya Rehman
She’s short, dumpy, dons glasses, wears braces and dresses up like a human piñata…meet Betty Suarez from the current, most highly-rated American television series, ‘Ugly Betty’.
Above: ‘Ugly Betty’
Interestingly, the American series’ concept is derived from the 1991 Colombian soap opera titled, ‘Yo soy Betty la fea’ (meaning ‘I am Betty, the ugly one’) [...]
