Food for thought, ladies.

Exams are over. Once again, I’m back to the camera sets and reunite with my entertainment colleagues and friends. Coincidentally, fate has brought us together, for some of them we happened to meet coincidentally on the same shooting a number of times despite after a considerably long time not seeing each other.

The past few days had been the most fulfilling ones. Being kind of estranged from acting due to my hectic schoolwork and other goals in life, even though I still continuously acted in TV projects and rejected some reluctantly without much choices/compromises, getting back to the corporation film setting still gives me a sense of surprise and freshness. My interest continues to keep me going… after 2 years (on and off) being in here, it is probably now then I started to gain some realisations and reality check about what’s really going on here.

I had heard too much about agency spams and exaggerations, both by word-of-mouth and personal experiences. Especially the second half of this year, I had been approached by and met up 5 entertainment agencies with 2 of them specialising in modelling and the rest artistes, with 2 being portfolio fee scam which I never ever will fork out money to, as I always hold on to my belief that an agency which truly recognised you for your potentials will never need to resort to such. I never approve of having a representative agency as I have always been coping well on my own. I don’t need a manager to run my life too.

I also feel lucky that I had been  discovered and truly recognised of my potentials. I really do. But in the process, I also do find out that there are something needed to be sacrificed. Of course, Singapore entertainment industry is small and thus tend to be very much decent compared to the outside world. Still, instead of going to that extent, I had witnessed some less-decent ones who hope you could loosen up a little, bare some and shoot. There are also some who exaggerate about how they will groom you which are obviously empty promises which is hard to even listen up and taken in seriously.  In fact, for the former 2 requirements, many local agencies see this as a norm. Wearing bikinis, lingeries seem to be what the general modelling is about – a norm, which I think the actual meaning of modelling is greatly distorted. And definitely, the exploitation of a woman’s body and linking it to the socially-abused word ‘sexiness’. It makes me think whether most girls or women had ever thought about this issue, why do we have to bare in order to live up with the name of being ‘sexy’? For me, sexy is not about the amount of skin exposed. It is the attitude, the mind and the expressions you deliver in front of the camera or to the audience.

In which, in my opinions, many females especially young ladies have fallen prey into this so-called ‘normal’  trap. Can we put a stop to this social abuse and indecent expectations? Ladies, a food for thought.