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so, i was one of the five lucky bloggers that got sponsored by Nuffnang to go to one of the talks by Singapore Sun Festival.. and of ‘cos, the talk is all about blogging!

entitled, “To Blog or Not to Blog, That is the Question”, it was held at The Sun Tent in Empress Place Park

but god knows where is it right?! HAHA! anyway, i met up nadia at the train station and we proceeded from there.. lucky the place isn’t too far away..

AND the venue was awesome!

i think many of us thought that it would be kinda seminar-ish talk with plastic chairs that will make you feel restless after awhile.. little did we expect the place to be filled with so much of cultural flavour, and the entire talk was relaxing, as well as engaging at the same time..

the speaker was Jacqueline Le Sueur:

she’s very humorous and witty AND she calls her macbook, “Daniel”

she went like, “i hope daniel works, so i show you guys……..” i thought that was pretty funny!

around 10 minutes into the talk, a tray of delicious finger food from indochine was served to us!

the popiah-looking thing has its own acquired taste, to which i loved! but some say it tasted weird..

back to jacqueline, (haha! singaporean lah! get sidetracked by food)
at a point of time, she mentioned like there are a ton of different types of bloggers, and she called the group of us as the “GEN-Y” bloggers

estee explained to her that we’re from a blog advertising community, and it ended up with ming plugging nuffnang in the talk.. ha! totally unexpected, but it was okay ‘cos she said that the talk is not just about her talking, it’s everyone of us that made up the blogosphere..

she didn’t buy the idea of blog-advertising at first, and goes on saying that some research has shown that only a few percentage of bloggers actually earns through blogging.. Ming then mentioned that the top earning blogger in nuffnang gets thousands per month.. (which we already know who she is! haha)

jacqueline stopped for a moment in blank and then goes on by saying, “well then i must get your business card later on!” haha!

then she went on with the “anatomy of blog”, which breaks down into two, “IDENTITY” and “CONTENT”

1. identity being how the blog looks, and the first impression it creates.. she said something like, “the first thing that make a person attracted to another(person or blog), is by its looks”
2. content being the stuff you put inside!

i went “BINGO!” in my head when she said that ‘cos i remembered my recent post had something akin to what she said about “the attraction” to blogs..

she further broke down the two points, and mentioned that the very important thing of blogs is, the “lede”.. it’s the lure & attraction of the content in a blog that keeps and gains readers.. “what can set people coming back for more?”

also, the layout/design of a blog plays an important role as well..

“people are attracted by what is NOT on the page, and by what is on the page” ..and in layman’s terms, “too much or too little is no good”

in the later part of the talk, we did two writing exercises..

very intriguing, and we were shown the diversity of people thinking differently although in similar situations..

you know how bloggers ALWAYS take photos wherever they go? jacqueline made a point related to that, in which i thought was very interesting.. she mentioned that we should use our five senses to experience, rather than to just live behind that lens, and see everything in the photographs..

wow, what can i say, it was a quite an intriguing talk..

got to take a photo with neil humphreys!

THANKS A GAZILLION TO MR.NUFFNANG!

i was digging in my kitchen for some tidbits and i found this..

normally i eat those raisins that are in those red boxes, whereby the raisins are black.. seldom get to see this kind of GOLDEN raisins..

so i thought, “cool! wonder if they taste the same!”

opened the box, and..

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to my surprise, the raisins are almost as black as those in the red boxes! why do i feel like i kena cheated somehow?!

is it supposed to be like that? or did i just happened to get a spoilt pack?

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ON ANOTHER NOTE, here’s the video of the pieces at Cuckoo Couture:

apparently, the designer of that bubblewrap piece read my blog entry and got angry at my comments on it..

excerpt from his blog:
(http://jarajuku.livejournal.com/109003.html)

Well, I can only just laugh and get over with it right?

Some student from Lasalle SIA critque about the designs…
take a look at it- click (there are pics too)

bloody hell. fuck him. give me wrinkles now that I’m angweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

anyway I had my fair share of nightmares upon completing my gown.
I dreamnt people, as in real people in the industry screaming at me that I just killed fashion with that gown.
So that dumb post didn’t hurt much.

if he had bothered to read properly, i was just commenting that his bubblewrap gown is WEIRD. well, to me, at least.

in any case, I AM NOT A FASHION STUDENT.. so why is my critique affecting him so much? it’s not like i’m a big ass fashion designer, right?

well what can i say? one man’s meat is another man’s poison.. whether his bubblewrap is nice or not, is up to one’s preference.

and i strongly feel that a designer should be able to take critiques and criticism?

and so i was at butter factory last saturday to support jo, riane & suzsu for the cuckoo couture design awards show..

it’s an annual event organised by butter factory, also in conjuction with sg fashion week ’07.. AND as the name suggests, the designs are very out-of-the-box!

hosted/emceed by mark zee:

here’s the awesome pieces by my fashion friends..

josiah’s horny dress (no pun intended)

it’s super unique, and the best part is it has…….

led lights in the dress okay! the photo’s not doing justice to the awesome masterpiece ‘cos if you see it for real (and without flash), it’ll just look superbly stunning!

next up is suzsu’s playful creation:

didn’t manage to get a good shot of it, but anyway, it’s also a marvelous piece! love the colours!

finally, and the winning piece, Riane’s Raa-boh! (YES! she’s the winner of the show!)

karang-guni inspired! very interesting concept right?!

so we have great creations.. ..what about awful ones?!

YOU BET!

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okay, maybe awful’s a word too strong, but these are really really WEIRD:

made from bubble-wraps and titled, “Wet Dreams”..

i think the designer went abit too far out of the box huh?

some liked this, but i thought it looked very rojak..

AND I THOUGHT HALLOWEEN CAME EARLY!!!

hahaha! anyway, i quite like this piece:

i had fun! thanks jo for inviting!

whatever that means!that’s the words printed on the envelope..

for mountain tortoises who still have zilch idea what i’m talking about – my cheque has finally arrived!

on the UOB cheque’s my first income through blogging! *very excited*

it’s good and easy money!

see? it literally PAYS to be with Nuffnang! and it’s not like exclusively for only ONE blogger, you can start earning and eventually get paid too if you join!

p/s: i still have another cheque for the advertorial! can’t wait to get it!