Melissa Seymour

Blog Archive: November & December 2009

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November 02: Fashion Girl Reporting
November 02: Fashion phenomenon,
November 02: Pics of my favorite outfits from Derby Day
November 03: Fashion Girl...Oh the shame
November 04: You won't believe this...
November 06: More From The Old Site...
November 06: Taxis are back in the news
November 16: Oh the life of a professional sports player
November 26: Check out the new My Child issue
December 08: Boyfriend pillow

December 8 2009 | [ Back to archive listing ]

This may be old news…

But I only discovered it today! People – the Japanese think of EVERYTHING! Let me introduce to you the ‘boyfriend pillow’.

That’s not weird or anything, right? Everyone feels lonely... But, lonely enough for this?!? If you know anyone that might need a shoulder to rest their head on, you can find the ‘boyfriend arm pillow’ at the What on Earth website!

x Fashion Girl, aka not thaaaaat lonley girl

November 26 2009 | [ Back to archive listing ]

Check out the new My Child issue. My second travel story is in there - So rush down to your nearest news agent!

xMel

November 16 2009 | [ Back to archive listing ]

Oh the life of a professional sports player

Michael Jordan having retired, with $40 million in endorsements, makes $178,100 a day, working or not. If he sleeps 7 hours a night, he makes $52,000 every night while visions of sugarplums dance in his head. If he goes to see a movie, it'll cost him $7.00, but he'll make $18,550 while he's there. If he decides to have a 5-minute egg, he'll make $618 while boiling it. He makes $7,415/hour more than minimum wage. If he wanted to save up for a new Acura NSX ($90,000) it would take him a whole 12 hours. If someone were to hand him his salary and endorsement money, they would have to do it at the rate of $200 every second. He'll probably pay around $200 for a nice round of golf, but will be reimbursed $33,390 for that round. He'll make about $19.60 while watching the 100-meter dash in the Olympics, and about $15,600 during the Boston Marathon. This year, he'll make more than twice as much as all U.S. past presidents for all of their terms combined.

Amazing isn't it?

However... If Jordan saves 100% of his income for the next 500 years, he'll still have less than Bill Gates has at this very moment.

November 6 2009 | [ Back to archive listing ]

In light of the fact that taxis are back in the news - a new proposed code of conduct or something. Some of the things on the agenda are that drivers should 'drive safely', 'speak english' and should 'know where they are going' - please!! Aren't these are given? I've been thinking, 'why oh why do they need to spell this out? Then I remembered a blog a wrote a while back (on the old site www.melissaseymour.blog.com) and was reminded of why.....

Have You Ever Caught A Taxi In Melbourne?

I have, way too many times to mention and it is one of the most feared things to do in my life. Seriously. I’m shooting down there tomorrow for the day and considering - do I get a driver or RISK it and take a taxi? Expensive versus risking a nervous breakdown….. What to do kids? Before you judge and think I’m a lunatic, consider the following harrowing experiences:

1. caught a taxi from Crown (most prominent hotel/landmark in melbourne maybe next to MCG) to the airport. About 3 minutes down the road, the driver turns around to me and says “can you tell me how to get to the airport?” I kid you not. He needed only take one right and he would have been on the freeway and out to the airport. Instead I had him turn around and drop me back at the hotel, whereupon he decided I should pay him for the privelledge of being inconvenienced and when I said “ah, I don’t think so”, he actually got out of the taxi and started yelling the most abusive tirade at me. I actually thought he might hit me. The hotel called the police and he sped off when security came - his picture didn’t match the photo id and so couldn’t be traced. That was just splendid.

2. hopped into a taxi in the city with a mag fashion editor after a dinner. We asked to be taken to Crown again (note comments about it being a landmark). Driver had no idea where it was and so dropped us off at a spot where he told us it was a short walk through a deadend. This was at 2.30am and we had had quite a few wines (as you could imagine being 2.30am). Turns out we were about 3km and one very large wall that needed to be jumped off away. Surprisingly fashion editor had very sensible shoes on. I didn’t. That was… annoying and dangerous.

3. after a long Melbourne Cup Carnival campaign, we did actually have a fabulous driver (David is his name - if you’re curious) who dropped us by Crown (I wonder if they have frequent stay points?) to pick up our bags on the way to the airport. We jumped out and returned to the car with our bags. A taxi diver waiting at the rank thought David had just picked us up on spec and so jumped out of his taxi and threw poor David up against his car, had him around the neck and was yelling all sorts of abuse - well, I think it was abuse, he wasn’t speaking english - but he was very very angry. Bless Brad, he stepped in to help David and the taxi driver was chased away by Crown security. I must ask those security guys how often this stuff happens…

So anyway, you can see why I am anxious. I think I will call David to see if he’s available.

November 6 2009 | [ Back to archive listing ]

More From The Old Site....

Because I Like To Share…

Especially uplifting quotes that I think might put some pep in your step. Here goes...

From Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari & Chuck E. Cheese

“The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

Quotes are great aren’t they? I’ll be sure to bring you more.

November 4 2009 | [ Back to archive listing ]

You won't believe this...

Saudi Arabian bride, 8, divorces husband aged 50

November 3 2009 - Fashion Girl...Oh the shame | [ Back to archive listing ]

If it’s for a good cause are fashion faux pas’ ok?

For those of you who work in Martin Place you are in for one hell of a day – wish I could be a part of it all (not).

On the 12th of November Australia will be attempting to break the Guinness Book record for a swimwear parade – current record is 281, the organisers are expecting 1000 participants. The girls are required to wear bikinis (yeah boys don’t get too excited!) and the men… Budgie smugglers…

Is this something that we Australian’s want to be associated with? (No)

As mentioned before this faux pas is for charity and a few rugby players have signed up… I’m sorry that still doesn’t make it right for me. Whether you want to see it or avoid it the parade will be held midday.

My verdict, donate some money – I don’t really need to see what you had for breakfast!

x Fashion Girl

November 2 2009 | [ Back to archive listing ]

I found some pics of my favorite outfits from Derby Day. Kate Waterhouse & Jodi Gordon. Mamamia!

Oh, and I wanted to tell you about a review we had in the Sun Herald yesterday for one of my businesses - www.beachmour.com. We have a beautiful beach house just north of Narooma on the NSW South Coast and this was reviewed in yesterday's paper which was fantastic. A full page for which I am so grateful. The only thing that was a bit iffy was that the journalist said that it took her 6 hours to get there. It's just over 300kms from Sydney, so unless she was driving the whole way at 50km per hour, or detoured via Canberra, I'm unsure as to why it took so long. The worry is that it is a popular weekend getaway for people from Sydney and so they may be deterred by reading that! The longest it has ever taken me to get there is 4.5 hours. Strange. Very strange.

We are running a promotion at the moment. We have some dates available throughout November and December. January is fully booked out though. So the deal is, stay 2 nights get 1 or stay 5 and get 2 or stay 10 and get 4. Rates during summer start at $450 per night plus GST, and go up to $595 per night plus GST. The savings on this deal are great. If you are interested in booking, you can email bookings@beachmour.com.

xMel

November 2 2009 | [ Back to archive listing ]

I just watched the Sex and the City Pilot. They all had bad bad hair - except Charlotte. Samantha has awful extensions, Carrie looks like SJP's character in 'The First Wives Club' - that wasn't good. Total trash. It's quite unbelievable how they got from this point to total fashion phenomenon. Just goes to show that Rome wasn't built in a day. And did you know that Samantha hit on Big? He turned her down. I don't think I ever knew that.

Speaking of fashion phenomenon, I've been checking out the fashion's from Derby Day on-line. The Melbourne Cup carnival used to be a huge deal for me. My agency ran the Motorola marquee in the Bird Cage for years. The first year was a co-branded marquee between my then model agency and Motorola for which we bought out a supermodel and the year after we bought out Chloe Sevigny. So the whole carnival was totally consuming and we were very much at the epicenter of it all, in the super exclusive Birdcage area. The year we had Chloe, we had the boys from Ksubi design the marquee interior plus DJ and Maurice Terzini oversee the menu and drinks. People were literally climbing in the windows to get in.

People still talk about that year as being the most fun ever and we're constantly asked to do it all over again. We've spoken to some brands about it, but it seems that more brands are pulling out than getting involved. It's an incredibly expensive marketing exercise but well worth the investment. The good news is that we just might - just might - get involved in a major way again next year. I really miss being involved! But back to the fashion's - I think this is the best year yet. My favorite looks on Derby came from Kate Waterhouse & Jodi Gordon.

So this year, instead of rushing around in Melbourne and spending yesterday at the Stoke House having lunch, I was celebrating one of my best friends soon-to-be nuptuals (that's my way of saying 'hen's day' - I hate that term) at North Bondi Italian. Martine (this is a pic of her and I from yesterday) is getting married in two weeks. It's such a special time. She's so loved up. Bliss.

November 2 2009 - Fashion Girl Reporting | [ Back to archive listing ]

A bruised forehead, bumps and bruises all because of a skirt? They do say no pain no gain… I take that back

Early afternoon Sophie had planned with her gal pal Becky to have a girl date, a movie and a lunch. After 3 outfit changes she decided on a skirt that she had never worn before a little daring, a little fun and a little avant-garde… the main feature of the skirt is the clever use of shoulder pads on the side of the skirt to create an interest clam like shape. This feature caused the following event…

A family – 1 male, 2 female adults and 3 toddlers disliked Sophie’s skirt so much they decided to verbally abuse the two girls. Sophie had never seen people so passionate about an outfit she had worn before! She was although use to people giggling and staring at her outfits. BUT, Becky wasn’t use to it; she felt the need to defend Sophie. After much verbal abuse and threats of physical assault… It happened! One of the women attacked Becky! She was knocked unconscious as the lady pushed her so hard she fell and hit her head on one of the steps on the bus.

The majority of their afternoon was spent in separate rooms giving statements. Becky will be pressing charges once the offenders are found – the entire thing was caught on 5 cameras on the bus! And I’m sure at one point or another you and I will be able to see the skirt too! Sophie is a little afraid to wear that skirt ever again!

Let me know if this has ever happened to you!