ONE Girl's Weak.

That was my original lame idea for a column name, which would then constrict me to seven days of the week, and what that particular day had wrought.

You have to excuse me, I am from the land before Twitter, when Yahoo was a cheer; although I can't picture a future without Google now.

But back to last week.

MONDAY

The Ozcars, hosted by the Wolverine from Oz, Hugh Jackman, is basically a slumberdog affair.

I give you an X, man.

Between the '70s and '80s, I didn't even dare leave my seat for a pee when Bob Hope and Johnny Carson used to host the Academy Awards, I was so afraid to miss a joke, they were one-a-minute.

2009's was a tighter show, but bereft of laughs, though Queen Latifah's I'll Be Seeing You for the passing parade of stars choked me up. Paul Newman, gone.

The real drama, of course, would have been at the Vanity Fair party after, oh to have been there when Maddie met Sean, and the Jolie-Pitts met Jen and John.

THE OTHER DAY

For the first time in years, I went to a party where I did not know anybody.

Not. One. Person.

It was like a scene from the Peter Sellers film, The Party, where his character got invited by mistake to some soiree.

There were 400 guests, quite a few wore hats, a big band, food and drink, a lucky draw.

Thank goodness I did not win any of the many prizes, imagine the embarrassment, whoddad?

ANOTHER DAY

Today, I met a princess.

She is from Santo Domingo, she shuttles between New York and Italy, and she is named after an ice-cream, Melba.

Princess Melba opened BikeAsia 2009, an exhibition dedicated to two wheelers.

She is a working princess, hosting variety shows on Italian television. Comforting to know recession has hit even royalty.

TODAY

I may meet actor Edison Chen over a Carl's Jr sandwich or in the Adidas shoe shop.

What would you like to ask him? If he'd like an introduction to Elizabeth Wong?

If he is named after the American inventor Thomas Edison, who developed many devices that greatly influence our daily lives - the light bulb, the phonograph.

Who was also the first to apply the principles of mass communication, in particular, to telecommunications.

Lights, music, camera, well-called, Edison.

THAT DAY

Attended the wake of the first of our pioneer batch to pip the finishing post.

Forty years this month, a group of 20-year-olds, fresh out of school, fast friends well-met on the set of Singapore's seminal pop magazine, Fanfare.

It was a weekly tabloid, it had colour pages, it cost 40cents, and in some quarters, it was said to be the Rolling Stone of Singapore, high praise indeed.

It was the best of times, those free-wheelin' days of Elvis, the Beatles, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Lee, Star Wars.

Goodbye, Tony, another star shines in the sky.

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