Deanna I

Deanna I , Malaysian
Age: 27
Height : 175cm

Born and raised with a balance of conventional and unconventional methods of living, Deanna blooms into an identity full of Life and wonders. Her curiosity, determination and love for adventure has proven to drive her dreams into a reality as she chooses a path in life that she feels will unleash her creative and passionate nature.

Appreciative of her authentic Asian looks , Deanna believes in the amalgamation of modern contemporary trends with her traditional Asian quintessence of living.

Her experience in the modelling industry expands from being in front of the camera to co-organising, choreographing and conceptualising art directions for fashion production showcases.

Deanna feels that Supermodelme3, would enable her to be an inspiration to younger girls. “I want to show them that with belief and determination, they can succeed in anything they want to. Dream big and keep it real.”

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Self Defence Task

11AM; We Evolve!
The name says it all! We all should evolve from conventional gym into something that benefits us in the end and add living skills. Not just taking care of our health but simultaneously protect us from being attacked.

I used to have the impression that in order to learn Martial Arts you need to be really fit and healthy first. Which meant that you have to go for consistent intensive training at the gym and then only be eligible to go for Martial Art’s training.

Anyway, I was wrong coz we can have both activities that compliments each other and we don’t need to be super super fit to learn something, in face, we can learn something to make us super super fit!

I’m very much impressed with Mitch. Now that I know what his role is and what he actually does for a living, and a passion! Learning self defense is definitely an added plus moreover if you are a girl.

I am definitely game to enrol once Supermodelme finishes! Please Evolve, open an outlet in Malaysia! I bet you this is going to be the next best thing in modern lifestyle living after the conceptual gym! You guys Rocks! I’m still in awe.

Ambushed Photo Challenge

Today’s photo challenge day. Wonder what’s going to happen and what the concept’s going to be. Our task yesterday was Evolve’s Women Self Defence.. Could we be fighting? Or defending ourselves somehow? What’s going to happen?

So we get woken up at 6.30am, I took a shower, then had my daily dosage of Nestle Fitnesse Cereal. I really need to start clearing up my living space! Everything’s getting so messy once again.. And we always are on a tight schedule!! So, anyway, we had to rush as usual and we scrambled downstairs to find an ipad that says “Press Play”. So we played the video with Lisa in it. She mentioned that we have to be careful because we never know when we could get shot.

Under the ipad was a briefcase that we had to bring with us. After the video, the hair and makeup team arrives and we got our hair done up and our eyes done in black-panda-eye-looking makeup. So there we all were, with panda-eyes and wondering what was going to happen….

The van had arrived now.. and it was parked up-front waiting for us to bring us to a secret location and we had to go INDIVIDUALLY!!……

Argh.. During the challenge, being pinned down by two men and still looking fashionable is not really something you can get anywhere except if you join this competition. OMG. I am still in shocked about today’s challenge. I think it’s the most shocking, most dramatic, most crazy thing so far (Even more shocking than doing a shoot underwater!)

You feel like you’re being forced, weighed down, full-strength by two men thrice your size! Worse was when even during the gimmick, I actually punched him in the groin, and I think he took it out on me during the actual shoot, making me suffer! It’s impossible that he wouldn’t take revenge right?

Well whatever that was, and whatever was captured, it was genuine! I think it was also my defensive reflex that came out, making me punch him hard! Flashbacks of my dark past was playing in my head during the photoshoot. It was not long ago when I actually had a real fist to fist fight with my elder brother (6ft3 in height) till i got hospitalised with a massive concussion.
I’m sorry if I did manage to hurt anyone during the shoot but it’s really due to my history and my past that I felt what was happening was real and familiar. I couldn’t help but try my best to breakfree.

The energy in me during the shoot was immense. I, myself, am amazed by the adrenaline pumping through my veins and the strength I summoned during the shoot.

I’m Ultra D! Oh, I’m so hurt, bruised and bummed about this challenge. But there’s no point regretting something that you already did. Next time, I have to be more careful, I have to separate my history from my work! Experience! Indeed learning from your own experience is the best lesson, but know the difference between your experience and your present!
I guess we just have to see what’s going to happen during elimination.

Elimination

Argh. I’m getting ready for elimination once again, I had a feeling at the back of my mind that I might be eliminated tonight, and I felt it even more after hearing the judges’ comments about how I’m not improving and that I am weak in my expressions yadah yadah yadah… In all honesty I kind of knew for sure at that moment that I was going to be the one that gets sent home and eliminated from the house forever.

Usually, I am the one in the house who is pretty positive about everything. I do try to think positive as I don’t like to wish negative things upon myself, but it was so hard because I just knew that it was coming. So during elimination, one by one, each girl’s face was lighting up and I was still left standing there. My heart began to beat faster and faster as a new face, that wasn’t mine, lit up.

Even though I had predicted what was to come, there was always that little bit of hope each time that never seemed to pull through. Finally, it was just down to two girls, Nansi and I; it felt like forever really- the time between the boxes that have already lit up and Now, just two un-lit boxes waiting patiently to learn the verdict.

I felt my eyes were just darting between the portraits of both of us. My heart was thumping so hard I thought it was going to explode. I really thought I was going to faint at anytime then. Eventually Nansi’s portrait was the one to light up and I knew that there was a slight hesitation before she exited the room.

Yes, I was there, alone, disappointed and upset. I was disappointed I didn’t do better in the photo challenge. Maybe I should have been more open and more serious about my posing. Maybe I should have been more focus and more hyped up about it. What exactly did I do wrong and how can I do better next time round, in my own personal career.

Of course I’d rather be in this competition rather than getting sent back home but what can I do now? What’s done is done. I have no regrets, I’m just thankful for the opportunity I had to come on Supermodelme.

Roller Derby Task

10am; Old school

As soon as we found out about the task today, my mind went straying on a lot of things. Could this be some sort of race? Well it has got something to do with speed tho but hmm girls? Noooooo…. it’s actually something like from the movie I saw before I came here. Damn, is this real? Roller Derby!! Definitely looking like they are straight off the movie. This time the girls are real professional players. HA-HA! This sport does exist! Ahh the mean look these girls were giving really scare the shit out of me. Concerned – are you girls ok?

11am; Whip it!
Yup! We are on rollerskates and the outfit given to us really makes my day. No, I’m looking just like the girls and it’s time to get into characters. It’s my first time ever in my life being on roller skates. I used to rollerblade a lot. Didn’t actually own one but I was riding my brothers’ rollerblade like as though it was mine. I still remember that I want to blade so much that I was doing tricks and riding as fast as I could to show everybody that I deserve one. I did it and earn one later. Almost got hit by a van for going downhill. Managed to do extreme bush jumpover trying to run away from a mad dog in rollerblade. So being in rollerskate after so many years kinda feel natural to me. I still remember my sister’s pair of rollerskate though. White laced boots with orange wheels! So all in all I like the speed but not the pushing and all coz definitely I hate going physical. Damn it hurts and I think no human should feel pain caused by another human.

12pm; Queen of the ring!- Sin Dee Crawford.
Such bliss and honour to see my name “Dee” written with gold glitter on a jersey. I feel so proud and I’m sure I will wear it out when I’m back in KL. It definitely feels so good and I gotta wear my name with pride. So I have to win this time. And since I am not so much into violence, I thought maybe I could use my skill on speed. So all I gotta do is run as fast. So fast that I did fall uncontrollably. HA-HA! On my own. Then I got up again and ran till the last thing I saw was beastly Jackie running after me. So I ran faster and speeding got her on her bum! LOL! Yay! Sin Dee Crawford won against Tyra Bangs!

Elimination

12PM; Elimination for the top 6 and make it 5!

Well hey guts, it’s me again and I’m still here. TA-DAAA! Let’s not celebrate too soon because here I am awaiting for the judges to be ready. It should be ON in 5 minutes. And just like any other elimination we are in bundle of emotions. This ritual is pretty scary actually as much as you guts probably laughing at it. OK, the judges for today are Anna R, Ase, Lisa and Daniel Buoy. They are quite influential people in the industry coz Anna R owns Model1 agency in HK which two of the girls are in this competition; Venus & Asha. While Daniel Buoy is the top fashion show producer in Singapore and I’ve been dying to meet him! Let’s see how he’s like. Well I heard too that he once walked out of a fashion show while it was still going on. Hmmmph!
1PM; and it got nastier!

The pictures turned out to backfire on me. The chosen 5 pictures didn’t actually follow the brief. And so they said. We were supposed to look FUN & Quirky while looking comfortable in rollerskates. Relevant to our task obviously. My picture seems to be too posey. Oh I’m sorry that they actually wanted not model/ fashion looking kind of FUN. And I’m sorry that my shots look like a model having fun with the poses and all. Which also means that I manage to have more that 1 pose as to compared to the rest since Daniel said my poses are off the model 101 manual book! And what is this that they gave Tiffany the best picture when there’s not even a sight of rollerskates in it? This is definitely making me confused!!! What is it with these people going against me?

Please just say it already and clear the air. Was I the one who give you a dirty look? When the girl who you awarded the best picture actually did! UGHH! I’m just so pissed to even proceed with writing!