reak it down as supermodel and Ran Online calendar girl Jocelyn Oxlade serves the freshest beats on her way to hip-hop stardom!

For an explosive cover shoot, we are always willing to travel to the ends of the world. With this one, we found ourselves in a big house at the foot at the Sierra Madre in far-flung Marikina .

You have to know that most Manileños think the world is flat and land's end is in three locations—Alabang and Paranaque in the south; Novaliches in the north; and exactly where we are in the east. How far was it? Consider: even for two of the FHM drones who live there, the location was an obvious warp zone. “There's the mountain right there, lots of dead trees right here—if you turn left down that road, you'll come out in Bicol!” was one of the jokes to come out that night, apart from us bring in Tagaytay too far from the lake.

What an embarrassment for us then to see that Jocelyn Oxlade, last year's Hawaiian Tropic bikini babe champ and this year's Ran Online calendar girl (with Gwen Garci), had arrived way ahead of us and didn't think she was anywhere far from civilization. “My boyfriend is very good at asking for directions.”

Not bad for a Southside girl herself. Not bad for a girl who had lived practically all her life in England , where her roots are (dad is Brit; mom is Pinay), to stumble her way in the country and establish a career. In no short time she has become a successful model, an international bikini babe, and soon to be hip-hop artist. She plans to more, and this cover is an assurance she won't be out of our minds that easily.

To be able to do all that, you've got to have a keen sense of direction. Jocelyn Oxlade, from the get-go, has never been lost…

Having delivered an awesome introductory shoot in FHM June 2205, you knew a cover was bound to happen, didn't you?

(Laughs) Yeah, of course!

Only it had to take so long…

I think I kind of tried to stay away from doing the sexy things, I wanted my image to stay wholesome because I really am a pretty wholesome girl. So I had been doing projects from brands like Fila, Kamiseta, Avon —generally staying on the more wholesome side.

You and Gwen Garci will be the first girls a million readers will see on New Year's. We guess you'll want this shoot to be the bomb…

And it'll also be my birthday on January 2! But as far as this shoot goes, it's just going to be me, whatever exudes from me, myself, my personality that's what people will see in the pictures. I always like my photos to appear sexy and classy.

Being sexy isn't something you can get away from that easily—we mean, look at you!

I know! I always say being sexy is not something I try to be, but people are like, “But you are!” so I guess I can't help that, ha ha ha!

The point was proven when you bagged the Miss Hawaiian Tropic Philippines title last year. Did you ever feel stereotyped as a bikini babe?

Yes. Because I became known through the Hawaiian Tropic pageant, and being the winner, I would always get stuck is bikini shoots and that's kind of disappointed me especially since I'm a woman who reads Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire, I know that I'm more than just a woman in bikini, I'm more than that. Also I'm not just a model—I'm a signer, I'm a host, I graduated college. I want people to know that I'm not an airhead of a bikini babe.

We wonder where the air-headed bikini model idea came from…

I guess it's because most people associate bikini girls with shows like Baywatch…

It's Pam Anderson's fault, then.

But the thing is, most of the girls I've met in the bikini pageant have brains, they finished school. It's just that there's this stereotype of bikini babes that seems to be the norm and the girls just have to prove otherwise.

Does this mean that if you had been a little more serious laying off the bikinis, this shoot wouldn't have happened?

But FHM is something I wouldn't say no to.

And the best bit about you this year is that you and Gwen are the Ran Online calendar girls of 2007. A bikini babe and a calendar girl—how can you ever get away from being sexy now?!

Ha ha ha, but it's so cool! I did appear in that free FHM calendar last year and in a Hawaiian Tropic international calendar as well. The Ran calendar was a lot of un, we spent three days in Boracay to shoot. I've also been having some of their events.

Are you a gamer yourself?

I used to play a lot of console games growing up—Playstations, Nintendo, Sega and all that but I have been playing the online games recently.

Growing up with Playstation—we hazard a guess you've never played simpler games, say, with an Atari console, dots and lines and such…

I have! I've seen them here, especially here! That and the old family computer. I actually like the simpler games, it's a kind of cute sometimes to go back to the simple games without all the crazy graphics. Watching the graphics these days sometimes just make you dizzy.

How's your online life? Most of us lead double lives now—the real and the virtual.

I do go online, but I don't have a Friendster and I don't have Myspace though I've been getting loads of question from people wanting to know what my Myspace account is. Sorry. I mostly go on the web for install, getting in touch with my family—that's the easiest way.

Have you googled your name on the web?

I have!

Found anything interesting?

Good and bad, no filthy pictures because I don't have one. It would just be in forums with negative stuff about me. No photoshopped pictures, thank God. No pictures of my head in somebody else's body. I hope that will never happen to me.

You mentioned in your last FHM appearance that you're planning a singing career, are you finally coming out with an album this year?

Yes, I will. I've already been working on a project called The Clique—that's me, and two guys called Nathan lay and Picasso. We've actually already had shows despite not having a solid single or an album not yet.

Something close to the Black Eyed Peas?

Oh yeah, you can definitely say that-two rappers and a single.

Will you be taking on a new look for this project, a hip-hop vibe or some sort?

No, I'll just be myself. I don't really look at magazines and follow fashion. I'll just go by what I'm feeling, whatever I'm comfortable in.

Any pop idols you take your cue from?

I don't have any idols, although growing up I really loved Kylie Minogue, but that's not my singing style. I also loved Lionel Richie, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey. Among the new ones I love Cristina Aguilera, Ashanti , Mary J. Blige, Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce Knowles definitely…

We know that you're half-Brit, so will this mean we'll just be a springboard for a chance at stardom in the UK ?

Of course, the dream would be to go international but I would still want to represent the Filipinos while acknowledging my English roots at the same time.

Your rapper-boyfriend's here with you—is he in on your plans, this shoot included?

We're very career-oriented. We give ourselves a lot of freedom, nothing like controlling or that. He supports everything I do and I do the same for him.

We wonder if you guys act like the hot couples many rap songs are about…

No, I don't have any stories like that. Not me, I'm just a regular person. But we're not boring. Ha ha ha, sorry I will not talk about my sex life! That's it! I'm a Catholic girl!

You've practically ended this interview.

Exactly, ha ha ha!

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