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Indonesian Beauty
Mayang Saridjo
Home: Maspeth
Age: 22
Ht.: 5’ 7"
Wt.: 95 lbs
Stats: 32-22-33
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In late 2000, Mayang Saridjo moved to the United States with her family. Her father worked with the United Nations, and his since gone home, but Mayang has stayed, hoping to get her break in the U.S. while living with her brother in Maspeth.

Though she was a model in her native land, Mayang was unsure about modeling in New York. “One day I went to SoHo, and a booker gave me his card, and said ‘why don’t you try to come to our open casting call?’” she said.

When she showed up for the call, held by the prestigious Ikon Agency, she was immediately hired. “They were looking for Asian models, and they were able to get me some jobs,” she said.

It has been difficult for Mayang, however, since she is technically a visitor to this country who does not have a visa that allows her to work.

“It’s been hard, not just with the modeling,” she said.
Mayang is a student at Berkeley College majoring in Business Administration, and she has had to turn down some paying internships because of her immigration status.

For some companies not based in the United States, such as L’Oreal, that hasn’t been a problem, but getting local work has been a struggle.

But for Mayang, that’s okay.

“Now I’m more interested in focusing on school,” she said.
Given the opportunity, though, she would love to stick around after school is over and try some more modeling. “I love New York,” she said. “I don’t want to go back (to Indonesia). “I went back this summer, went for a week, and my father told me that my home was there, but I said ‘no.’ I had to come back to New York.”

As for her future, Mayang knows that no matter what she does, she wants to be able to strut her stuff. “Now I really hope to work in a bank, in finance - somewhere where I can wear a suit. As long as I can get someone to get me an entrance visa, so I can stay on. This is the only place I want to be.”
 
 
Fearless Friends

The Councilman & the Fear Factor Babe: Peter Vallone, Jr. with Olivia Jones
Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. and "Fear Factor" participant Olivia Jones snuggled up for a quick picture during Vallone’s annual holiday party.

Jones said she was happy to celebrate the holiday with Vallone, whom she met before going on the grossest television show that awards money for eating the unthinkable.

She must have been happy to see the dinner menu: chicken breast, pasta, salad, cake and an open bar. That is a bit different from what Jones ate on the show.

She told NBC about eating parts of a bull. “I don’t know what it was I was eating - the spleen, the slimy gross spine, or the snout with the hair on it - but I had to get it wet and slobby so it could go down. Oh my God, it was nasty. It was choking me, but I just did it, man. It was nasty. The hair was still in my teeth after I finished.”
Mmmm.

Say cheese!
Surprised Vallone

Mark Green and Peter Vallone, Sr.
Why the surprised look on the face of former City Council Speaker Peter Vallone, Sr.?

Is it because one the guests at his big surprise 70th Birthday party was former public advocate Mark Green - who fought Vallone in the 2000 Democratic primary for Mayor.
Vallone shouldn’t be surprised. Green gets around. He was also spotted the following night at a holiday event hosted by Congressman Joe Crowley.

Guess Green is running for something again . . . and again.
Lifting Me Softly

Sri Chimnoy (right) lifts Roberta Flack at the baby grand piano.
Only in Queens, ladies and gentlemen, only in Queens!

At recent display of inner and outer strength-not to mention a one-of-a-kind brand of absurdity - spiritual guru Sri Chinmoy wowed a crowd of international dignitaries and athletes by lifting over 100 tons during a four-hour spectacle. The 73-year-old small-stature Queens resident, who leads a tight-knit religious community based in Jamaica and administers to a global flock of followers, has gained recognition over the years for lifting improbable objects (including, among other luminaries, Trib publisher Mike Schenkler) using little more than “self-transcendence and the unlimited potential of the human spirit.”

At the recent demonstration, Sri Chinmoy hefted a total of 200,873 pounds. The objects were varied: a Smart Car, a 15-member human pyramid and a four-ton elephant.

But strangest of all had to be the lift pictured above: Sri Chinmoy, right, hefts the famed singer-songwriter Roberta Flack, left, who is seated at grand piano and performing a medley of her greatest hits.

Only in Queens!
Ja Rule

Ja Rule
Queens-born Rapper Ja Rule is being sued by a Miami, Fla., woman who claims he trashed her mansion while shooting an episode of MTV Cribs there.

Jeannette Varela later discovered the rapper breached the lease agreement by staging a party for more than 600 guests during his four-day stay in 2001, when she saw footage on MTV. Varela is suing the rapper for $1 million.
Just another Queens party guy?
Sexual Bloopers
If you’ve ever had a mishap in the bedroom, don’t worry. At least it wasn’t with Forest Hills tell-all resident Michelle Horowitz, who authored the book “Sexual Bloopers: An Outrageous, Uncensored Collection of People’s Most Embarrassing X-Rated Fumbles.”

Published in June 2003, the book chronicles some of the most embarrassing (and often hysterical) tales of bedroom adventures done awry. Included in Horowitz’s book are stories called, “Flirting with Disaster” and “Tales of Puberty.”

One reviewer admitted, “Wow - what a relief! I thought I was the only one making a fool of myself out there!”


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