Saturday

SHALLA GOES REALITY TV

Watching Project Runway is fun, that's why Shalla blogged at SHALLA GOES HOLLYWOOD: Project Runway.........





but now that the designer she's been rooting for (Keith Michael) may get auf'd, it became advisable to go broader,
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Monday

Shalla Watches Project Runway

Have you seen the latest on Project Runway?

Keith Michael--what a name for a designer!--won the first challenge. Super handsome, super charming and super talented.
(Alison Kelly is a great name too)
Some say Keith's arrogant, I say he's confident, he knows he's good.

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Then second episode, Malan--oh, I can't believe, I would have loved to find out more about your exquisite style and hear more of that laugh. (Heard it yet? He has this devilish laugh that's contagious.

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What a fun show!
So many talented artists, one of these days,
maybe Keith Michael will design a dress for me.
And Austin Scarlet (from season one) you're the tops too, I know you can make me gorgeous.
I would have considered Santino, except, well, I'm into "save the animals" and he hunts, so... Santino, we'll talk when you turn vegan or vegetarian's cool too.
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Oh, no! Keith Michael may get kicked out???
Have you read?
Fans of Project Runway and bitchy gay guys, brace yourselves: Season 3 contestant Keith Michael, he of the face like a bird (fine, a cute bird), may have cheated on his Project Runway application. A sharp eye over at Television Without Pity notes the similarities between many of Keith’s portfolio designs compared with those of some major designers...
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Thursday

Philippines on the News!

Okay, we all know the Pacman pounded Morales a few months ago (oh, and he's coming back for more this November) yes, I'm crossing my fingers--alright, they're both good but--Pacquiao! Come on, Manny Pacquiao the Destroyer!

Strike! Hook! Swipe! ...but I digress...

Emmanuel "Manny" D. Pacquiao (born December 17, 1978), aka "Pacman" and "The Destroyer" is the reigning WBC International Super Featherweight Champion (2005–present), former RING People's Featherweight Champion (2003 to 2005), former IBF Super ... Pacquiao started his professional boxing career in 1995 at 106 pounds... *for more

Anyway, can you believe, the Philippines is on the news again--okay, so we're not talking top of the page but it's good news :)

Vanuatu is world's happiest country: study

LONDON (AFP) - The tiny South Pacific Ocean archipelago of Vanuatu is the happiest country on Earth, according to a study published measuring people's wellbeing and their impact on the environment.

Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica and Panama complete the top five in the Happy Planet Index, compiled by the British think-tank New Economics Foundation (NEF).
The index combines life satisfaction, life expectancy and environmental footprint -- the amount of land required to sustain the population and absorb its energy consumption.
Zimbabwe came bottom of the 178 countries ranked, below second-worst performer Swaziland, Burundi, the
Democratic Republic of Congo and Ukraine.

The Group of Eight industrial powers meet in Saint Petersburg this weekend but have not much to smile about, according to the index.
Italy came out best in 66th place, ahead of Germany (81), Japan (95), Britain (108), Canada (111), France (129), the United States (150) and Russia, in lowly 172nd place.

Andrew Simms, NEF's policy director, said the index "addresses the relative success or failure of countries in giving their citizens a good life while respecting the environmental resource limits on which all our lives depend."

Nic Marks, the head of NEF's centre for wellbeing, added: "It is clear that no single nation listed in the Happy Planet Index has got everything right.

"But the index does reveal patterns that show how we might better achieve long and happy lives for all, whilst living within our environmental means," he said, according to British daily The Guardian.

"The challenge is: can we learn the lessons and apply them?"
Island nations performed particularly well in the rankings. But Vanuatu, with a population of around 200,000, topped them all.
"Don't tell too many people, please," said Marke Lowen of Vanuatu Online, the republic's online newspaper.

"People are generally happy here because they are very satisfied with very little," he told The Guardian.

"This is not a consumer-driven society. Life here is about community and family and goodwill to other people. It's a place where you don't worry too much."

"The only things we fear are cyclones or earthquakes."

Selected others: 17. Philippines; 23. Indonesia; 31. China; 32. Thailand; 44. Malaysia; 62. India; 64. Iceland; 70. Netherlands; 87. Spain; 88. Hong Kong; 89. Saudi Arabia; 99. Denmark; 112. Pakistan; 115. Norway; 119. Sweden; 123. Finland; 139. Australia; 154. UAE; 156. South Africa; 159. Kuwait; 166. Qatar.


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