Miss Universe + Entertainment News + The Opposite House

Happy Children's day! Those of you who have children, please do take good care of them as they are gifts from God!

Tommorrow 28th May is the Miss Universe Pageant, which will hold in Mexico city, I'll post pictures from the pageant for y'all to see. Meanwhile, here are pictures of Nigeria's rep Ibinabo Johnson...

Ibinabo

In her swimwear. I don't like her look in this picture

In her evening wear
In her traditional costume...Does she stand a chance? Not to win of course...just to be in the top ten?

Here also are behind the scene pix of the contestants...

Now to Entertainment News!

Madam Tussauds just created life size replica's of orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp...the resemblance is uncanny

Introducing new kid on the block. 17 year old Lil Mama. I havent heard any of her songs but I hear she's hot!

Actress Scarlett Johansson's new Louis Vuitton campaign. She looks hot! Don't know why Justin choose Jessica Biel over her.

17 year old Jordin Sparks is American Idol winner (She wasn't the best singer in that competition)

Jordin's win is not even the issue with AI, but the fact that 25.2 million viewers tuned in to watch the American Idol performance show on Tuesday night.

That number may seem impressive but it's a huge drop from the same show last season - when 36.3 million viewers tuned in to the finale performance show.

People aren't feeling AI anymore?

One of the world's biggest fashion designers Marc Jacobs now has a Myspace page, which he started just last week!

If you write him, he'll write you back. Isn't that cool?

Eve was arrested for DUI and sent straight to jail. Lindsay Lohan did same and she was asked to pay a fine. It must be great being a white celebrity...

Rumour has it that actress Kerry Washington is gay. Anyone know if that is true?
She was at the Cannes Film Festival with SI Model Noemie Lenoir and now people are saying Noemie is Kerry's lesbian lover? This true? Anyone know?

Also, Mario Winans is said to be dating Cassie. Perfect match I think. He seems like a pretty decent guy

Kerry Washington's dress is-------?

Beyonce looks-----?

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The Opposite House

Hardcover: 288 pages

· Publisher: Nan A. Talese (June 19, 2007)

· Language: English

. Author: Helen Oyeyemi

Helen Oyeyemi may become the female Wole Soyinka of Nigeria, because of her depth as confirmed by the previews of her latest novel The Opposite House: A Novel (Hardcover)

. Book Description

In a dazzling follow-up to The Icarus Girl, Helen Oyeyemi explores the thin wall between myth and reality through the alternating tales of two young women and their search for the truth about faith and identity. Maja was five years old when her black Cuban family emigrated from the Caribbean to London. Now, almost twenty years later, Maja is a singer, in love with Aaron, pregnant, and haunted by what she calls “her Cuba.” Growing up in London, she has struggled to negotiate her history and the sense that speaking Spanish or English made her less of a black girl. But she is unable to find herself in the Ewe, Igbo, or Akum of her roots. It seems all that’s left is silence. Meanwhile distance from Cuba has only deepened Maja’s mother faith in Santeria —the fusion of Catholicism and Western African Yoruba religion—but it also divides the family as her father rails against his wife’s superstitions and the lost dreams of the Castro revolution.On the other side of the reality wall, Yemaya Saramagua, a Santeria emissary, lives in a somewherehouse with two doors: one opening to London, the other to Lagos. Yemaya is troubled by the ease with which her fellow emissaries have disguised themselves behind the personas of saints and by her inability to recognize them.

Lyrical and intensely moving, The Opposite House: A Novel (Hardcover) is about the disquiet that follows us across places and languages, a feeling passed down from mother and father to son and daughter.

You should also check out her plays in Juniper's Whitening and Victimese (Methuen Drama) (Paperback)

· Paperback: 73 pages

· Publisher: Methuen Publishing (September 2005)

· Language: English

About the AuthorHELEN OYEYEMI was born in Nigeria in 1984 and has lived in London from the age of four. She is the author of the highly acclaimed novel, The Icarus Girl , which she wrote before her nineteenth birthday; The Icarus Girl was short-listed for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Helen Oyeyemi graduated from Cambridge University in 2006.

A young girl doing great things...such an inspiration...go check out her books.

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