Mia's attempts to be less introverted are warmly encouraged by her classmates. A fashion design college student is impressed by Mia's natural flair for fashion, and invites her to join a fashion show as a costume design assistant. However, the jealous Sofia forces with her cousin to compete against Mia! Whose Fashion sense will prevail?
Mia's attempts to be less introverted are warmly encouraged by her classmates. A fashion design college student is impressed by Mia's natural flair for fashion, and invites her to join a fashion show as a costume design assistant. However, the jealous Sofia forces with her cousin to compete against Mia! Whose Fashion sense will prevail?
Joni skips tuitionwith her big brother Julian to attend her favourite pop idol's autograph session with Mia. This makes Julian furious, and he forbids Joni from chasing her idols. However, Mia and Emilia say that being a fan is not necessarily bad, as it can encourage people to strive harder in their studies. Also, despite being discouraged by Mia and Emilia, their class mate Janie dresses like Joni, and even copies her every move! This all makes the Candy JEN members very uncomfortable... How will they clean up this mess?
Emilia and Carmen always score the highest marks in their class. Emilia uses internet to expand her knowledge, while Carmen insists that traditional learning by reading books is best as she believes that internet addiction will cause students to neglect their studies. To prove her point, Carmen challenges Emilia to turn their classmate, the internet-addicted Dennis, into a top student. Emilia angrily accepts the challenge; but how will she convince the class misfit to get a life offline?
The school health teacher's twin sons are a pair of notorious clean freaks. They are known for their strict disciplinary actions and surprise health inspections to ensure that the students always pay attention to their personal hygiene and grooming. The older brother, Anthony, is cold and strict; and the younger twin Andrew is a soft-spoken and gentle boy. One day, Anthony punishes Joni's classmate Alex with a demerit. Finding this highly unfair, Joni begins plotting to teach Anthony a lesson...
There were good times and bad times, but in the beginning there were more good times. When I first met Candy those were the days of juice, when everything was bountiful. Only much later did it all start to seem like sugar and blood, blood and sugar...It's like you're cruising along in a beautiful car on a pleasant country road with the breeze in your hair and the smell of eucalyptus all around you. The horizon is always up there ahead, unfolding towards you, and at first you don't notice the gradual descent, or the way the atmosphere thickens. Bit by bit the gradient gets steeper, and before you realise you have no brakes, you're going pretty fucking fast.' Candy is a love story. It is also a novel about addiction. From the heady narcissism of the narrator's first days with his new lover, Candy, and the relative innocence of their shared habit, Candy charts their decline. Candy becomes a prostitute, the narrator becomes a scam artist, and smack becomes the total and only focus of their lives. But this is not just another junkie novel: Davies is a very fine writer and Candy is confronting, painful, sexy, tender and at times darkly hilarious. A remarkable novel.
Miss Miyuki decides to rearrange the students in her class according to their class rankings. With their top marks, Mia and Emilia get to sit together, buy Joni is seated among the students with the lowest marks in the class. Their classmate Jane grabs the chance to take Joni's place in Candy JEM. Determined to sit with her friends again, Joni starts tuition lessons from her older brother Julian to improve her results. Will Joni succeed? Will Jane succeed in her sneaky plan to replace Joni?
If you’re passionate about eating well, you couldn’t ask for a better travel companion than Alexander Lobrano’s charming, friendly, and authoritative Hungry for Paris, the fully revised and updated guide to this renowned culinary scene. Having written about Paris for almost every major food and travel magazine since moving there in 1986, Lobrano shares his personal selection of the city’s best restaurants, from bistros featuring the hottest young chefs to the secret spots Parisians love. In lively prose that is not only informative but a pleasure to read, Lobrano reveals the ambience, clientele, history, and most delicious dishes of each establishment—alongside helpful maps and beautiful photographs that will surely whet your appetite for Paris. Praise for Hungry for Paris “Hungry for Paris is required reading and features [Alexander Lobrano’s] favorite 109 restaurants reviewed in a fun and witty way. . . . A native of Boston, Lobrano moved to Paris in 1986 and never looked back. He served as the European correspondent for Gourmet from 1999 until it closed in 2009 (also known as the greatest job ever that will never be a job again). . . . He also updates his website frequently with restaurant reviews, all letter graded.”—Food Republic “Written with . . . flair and . . . acerbity is the new, second edition of Alexander Lobrano’s Hungry for Paris, which includes rigorous reviews of what the author considers to be the city’s 109 best restaurants [and] a helpful list of famous Parisian restaurants to be avoided.”—The Wall Street Journal “A wonderful guide to eating in Paris.”—Alice Waters “Nobody else has such an intimate knowledge of what is going on in the Paris food world right this minute. Happily, Alexander Lobrano has written it all down in this wonderful book.”—Ruth Reichl “Delightful . . . the sort of guide you read before you go to Paris—to get in the mood and pick up a few tips, a little style.”—Los Angeles Times “No one is ‘on the ground’ in Paris more than Alec Lobrano. . . . This book will certainly make you hungry for Paris. But even if you aren’t in Paris, his tales of French dining will seduce you into feeling like you are here, sitting in your favorite bistro or sharing a carafe of wine with a witty friend at a neighborhood hotspot.”—David Lebovitz, author of The Sweet Life in Paris “Hungry for Paris is like a cozy bistro on a chilly day: It makes you feel welcome.”—The Washington Post “This book will make readers more than merely hungry for the culinary riches of Paris; it will make them ravenous for a dining companion with Monsieur Lobrano’s particular warmth, wry charm, and refreshingly pure joie de vivre.”—Julia Glass “[Lobrano is] a wonderful man and writer who might know more about Paris restaurants than any other person I’ve ever met.”—Elissa Altman, author of Poor Man’s Feast
Costume designer Alison Freer’s styling kit is a magical bag of tricks, built to solve every single wardrobe malfunction on earth. TV and film productions wait for nothing, so her solutions have to work fast. In How to Get Dressed, Alison distills her secrets into a fun, comprehensive style guide focused on rethinking your wardrobe like a fashion expert and making what’s in your closet work for you. She provides real-world advice about everything style-related, including: • Making every garment you own fit better • Mastering closet organization • The undergarments you actually need • The scoop on tailors and which alterations are worth it • Shopping thrift and vintage like a rockstar Instead of repeating boring style “rules,” Alison breaks the rules and gets real about everything from bras to how to deal with inevitable fashion disasters. Including helpful information such as how to skip ironing and the dry cleaners, remove every stain under the sun, and help clueless men get their sartorial acts together, How to Get Dressed has hundreds of insider tips from Alison’s arsenal of tools and expertise.
