I should stop reading the local FHM.

Not that I read it regularly, but it scares me everytime I see someone I’ve met in real life featured in the pages. And I’m talking regular people, not even major celebrities. People like Lavinia Tan, formerly of ACJC’s 2SC2, who appeared in FHM’s Firecracker section slightly over a year ago, before her travel host stint. People like Cherry Jessup, also from ACJC, who appears as one of a hundred “Girls Next Door” in this year’s competition - interestingly enough, as the only model who appears topless. And then there’s Izzy.

But let me digress first, and speak about a teen movie from 2004, “The Girl Next Door”. Starring Emile Hirsch of “Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys” fame and Elisha Cuthbert (aka “24″’s Kim Bauer), the movie’s about a graduating high school kid who meets the girl of his dreams, but who later turns out to be a former porn star. He goes on a crazy adventure to convince her that she’s right for him, getting into scrapes that could only happened in a teen movie. Not one of the better movies I’ve watched… critic Roger Ebert claims

“A good movie could presumably be made from this premise — a good movie can be made from anything, in the right hands and way — but this is a dishonest, quease-inducing “comedy” that had me feeling uneasy and then unclean. Who in the world read this script and thought it was acceptable?”

But I should be getting back to my point.

Apparently, Izzy hosts an “Aunt Aggy” type column for FHM, except that, naturally, she gets sex-related questions. I’d bring out the February issue that I picked up earlier this week, but well, my family might wonder. And you know, the last thing I wanna do is point to Izzy (who seems to be channelling Grace Quek aka Annabel Chong in said photo) and say, “She’s my groupmate… and she’s the coolest person I’ve ever encountered.”

The irony, of course, is that before seeing them in FHM, I’ve never seen all three women in that light. Well, Cherry was definitely one of the better looking girls back in ACJC, but even then, I didn’t think of her beneath that uniform, you know what I mean? And Izzy’s mind is so captivating, you spend ten times the amount of time contemplating her blog posts as you do reading them. But seeing her in the magazine kinda makes you forget that sometimes.

I don’t really know what I’m saying. But yeah… I should stop reading FHM.