This is a long overdue post! Lemme post this up before I forget about it!
So thanks to Nuffnang, I’ve got free tickets to The Chronicles of Narnia – Prince Jayden Caspian!
Didn’t catch the first one, but heard from a few that the previous one was better. And I find it a tad too draggy! Since I do not follow much of the story line, the only part I enjoyed the most would be, when the river came to life and attacked the baddies.
And they conveniently made the lion say, “Things never happen the same way twice.”
YAWN. If Aslan the stupid lion were to come out earlier and save the Narnians, wouldn’t everything be solved already?! THEN AGAIN, the movie would be like merely 10 minutes long.
Took a group pic with some of the SPI-ders!
Cute little Zach! Too bad the pic was blur!
After the movie, Fab and I made our way to Va va voom for breakfast/lunch/dinner, ‘cos we haven’t eat anything and was famished!
Anyway, on our way there, we saw this:
I think the cleaner’s (or whoever he is) job must be damn exciting can! Imagine dangling so high on just a rope!
…okay, it’s probably not JUST A ROPE, but you got what I mean…
After a short walk, we reached my latest favourite eatery!
It’s quite easy to find, but not many people know of this place AND I think that’s good because it’s very nice, cosy and quiet! It’s opposite Raffles Hotel, along Seah Street.. (very near to Bras Basah Complex)
It’s not only the cosy environment, it’s also the food over there that I luurrve!
The beef noodles are not like those typical ones you see outside; It has clear soup and kway teow in place of the usual thick vermicelli. And most important of all, it has a generous amount of mint leaves that makes the soup oh-so-fragrant!
I forgot what’s inside these crispy rolls, but I remember it’s damn good too!
Camwhore time! Typicalben told me to take 2 years worth of photos so I can use them after I enlist! Haha!
I don’t know why, I kinda cringed a little whenever I put camwhore photos up on my blog nowadays. SO WEIRD! Is it a sign of me growing older already?!
Last week, bunch of us went to support Valerie during her MSU finals @ Marriott Hotel!
Val’s contestant number 16, and our table number’s coincidentally 16 too!
Anyway, there was a big booboo on the tickets!
So if the tickets are correct, all of us had technically travelled back in time for this dinner! Heh!
Val’s mum, Ginny, is like the best DIY person can! Remember she made the chipster pillow for nuffnang’s pj party?! That day she’d made handy sticks with big red hearts and with Val’s name and number on it!
And she made for everyone of us!
There’s a booklet included in the goodie bag and there’s this particular picture in it that I thought was kinda unglam for the ladies:
Not sure if you can see, but you know what happens when you’ve to take photos sitting down in bikini right?! Even the skinniest person will have weird lines forming on the belly area right? The photographer or the designer should’ve at least touch up a lil lah!
ANYWAY, more iccy piccies! Sorry ah, I know there’s no such term as “iccy piccy”, but I just find the term very cute! Heh!
Sher, Kexin & Ginny
Liza & Ginny
Sher, Kexin & Nik… Apparently Nik is too shy when taking pics with the ladies lah, see the huge gap!
“Brother & Sister” pics! Just to clarify, Nad & I are not siblings per se, but seems like alot of people thought that we’re related. To date, the weirdest I’ve heard is that we’re together – as in bf & gf… WTH?!
Nad says she doesn’t understand why I open my mouth when taking this photo… Haha!
A look at the menu is like, “Woah! Good food man!”
But it’s only when the food was served to us, then we realised that the serving was pathetic.
I had to edit until like so, to make the food look appetizing:
Yay shark’s fin! This photo is also a self reminder that my hand looks disgustingly thin! ROAR! I NEED TO EAT & GYM MORE!
Anyway, I don’t have zoom lens for my dslr, so I didn’t take much photos of the stage! Here’s a photo of the belly dancers of the night, apparently one of them was shaking her boobs more than her belly:
Some more ICCY PICCIES!
Nik was flirting with Taqinah’s mother on the phone!
Met Sara there! She was there to cover the event if I’m not wrong…
And I have no idea who these guys are: They asked me to take a photo of them when I walked past… I told them I’m not the official photographer, and they say, “it’s okay, we know!” WTH?! ZZzzzZzz
Okay, take a break from the photos and watch this video montage!
Yes, that’s us screaming and shouting madly for Val! Pardon the shaky video though, I was holding the camera, waving the red heart and screaming at the same time!
Yeah, Valerie made it into the top 8! But unfortunately, she didn’t make it through the end due to the bias judging! And we were all feeling down after the winner was crowned…
And some of them drown their sorrows with Nik’s hair: HA!
This blog entry has been going so long and without a photo of Val! How can?!
Her family!
Last but not least, a shot of the winner and Sara!
P/S: The winner is 26 years old and previously held titles of Miss Asia Pacific (1999), Miss International (2002) and Miss World (2005). YAWN! Guess this is like the last year for her before she turns into MRS. Heh!
I sent them to Tommy Print for print last week and I’d just collected them yesterday!
I think Tommy Print is getting alot of free advertisement from bloggers! Haha! But anyway, their namecards are sent for offset printing, which means it’s really good. If I’m not wrong, most print shops print the namecards themselves, which is not offset, WHICH means the print quality is not as good. Plus, there’s gloss/matt lamination, or spot varnish, and as well as a range of different materials that you can choose from.
Most importantly, they’re cheap!
Okay, enough of free advertisement. Here’s abit of back story of my namecards:
Well, I wasn’t intending to make namecards as I’m enlisting soon and they would become useless. Also, I didn’t want to associate my blogging life with the design one, and having a name card for being a blogger is just toooooo weird. UNLESS I’m Xiaxue, then that’s entirely a different story.
But but but, I’ve been going to events and such, and I hate the feeling of being shoved aside just because I do not have a name card. AND IT’S TRUE! During the LG Scarlet event, some guy from this rather big company, which I shall not mention which one, literally ignored me when I didn’t hand him back any namecard when he gave me his.
So anyway, feeling inspired by Claudia’s 2-sided-with-different-info namecards, I came up with this parody-of-web-browsers idea!
Safari version:
IE version:
I blurred off my hp number over here, ‘cos I don’t want everyone to be calling me for nothing. But I think my number’s easy to find lah. Bah!
Anyway, as a conversation starter, I can go like, “Do you use Windows or Mac?” Heh!
Iccy Piccy Time!
However, one bad thing about the design is, it’s only catered to tech-savvy people? My details are located at different places of the web browser! People who don’t use computers in particular will be confused by it.
But I guess it’s okay since we’re living in the digital age now and having a little web browser namecard would be cool! Ha!
You can’t imagine how happy I am, well, partially because I won a bet on who will win.
I never really follow American Idol 7, and previously I’d only know of David Archuleta from the show. Everybody’s like all over Archuleta! So I joined in the madness, and thought, “Wow, this young boy really can sing!”
It was only until Idol Gives Back when they sung Rihanna’s Don’t Stop The Music, then I started to follow contestants like Carly Smithson and David Cook.
Everybody says Cook is damn sexy when he shakes his booty in the song. I have to agree on that!
Strangest thing is, he doesn’t even look good early in the show.
From this:
Check out the double chin, baby. . . . . . . To this!
I think the whole facial hair thing made him look so much better!
Of cos, it’s not just about his looks, his singing and stage performance has always been mind-blowing!
I really like his rendition of Always Be My Baby:
His rocker feel is not over the top, and yet super captivating!
Here’s the studio version of Always Be My Baby, which I’d kept listening to it for like a gazillion times already:
I’m sure that by now, many of the fellow bloggers, and as well as non-bloggers would have heard the news about a blogger being arrested for posting racially-offensive content on his blog.
When I first saw the article few days ago, I was like, “Not again!” and a handful of bloggers question why our blogger queen never kena. If my memory doesn’t fail me, technically, she didn’t insult the “group” of people. It was what they did that disgusted her and I believe calling them molesters when they actually did, is nothing racist, right? And I think there weren’t any blatant, crude or fabricated insults.
Anyway, that’s not the main point of this entry.
So… Though the news is taunting and scary, I didn’t really care who was the man who kena. The most I did, was to self remind that I should exercise more caution when writing sensitive issues.
Fast forward to a few minutes ago, I was surfing Ping.sg when I saw this:
Hmmmm, Fragrance Prince? Sounds familiar leh, which I quickly recalled to be a friend’s friend. In Friendster’s term, a 2nd degree friend?
I’ve even bookmarked his blog before!
Sorry I’d to blur off the rest of the list, I don’t wanna let you guys know who I secretly stalk! Haha!
I was thinking, “Wah! Cannot be lah!”
But in fact, it was really THE “Fragrance Prince” that was caught. The seriousness of this issue suddenly hit me like a pointblank shotgun in the face.
After a quick read through on Simply Jean’s entry on the case, I realised how he went very wrong with his words.
Quoted from her entry, which excerpted from http://fragranceprince.blogspot.com:
(one of the paragraph in his original blog post)
Aiya….stupid MALAYS!! Even if you are a Malay and am reading this… good for you..coz this is my personal blog and i can say what i deem fit…. if u wana defend yourself…. i suggest you arm youself with education and a motor mouth to compete against me.. else dont bother… coz i will bet my life on the line that, should you challenge me in a conversation… you will lose like what a true malay would…. LIKE **** !!!GET LOST!!
Fragrance Prince, or Franco, definitely went too far on the part about freedom of speech. I wanted to post his picture here, but I thought that wouldn’t be very nice. So yeah.
In any case, I really hope he’s okay now and learnt his lesson.
Political issues – you might be able to get over with it, but Racism is a big NO NO to all Singaporean bloggers.
People, be smart. If you HAVE TO write something, analyzed every single word and sentence of your blog post if you think it’s gonna be political, racism or whatnot. Make sure one sentence is backed up by another. Gather links from forums or blogs that shares the same view as you. In a nutshell, have something to back you up before you pull the trigger.
OR EVEN BETTER. Don’t write anything like that. You want entertaining blog posts? Go Youtube and search “funny videos”, it’s way less complicated that way.
On a separate note, sorry for the lack of updates that I’d promised. Been real busy cooking something up! Anyway, I’ve got a few entries to post up but I’ve got to finish editing the pictures and videos! Stay tuned!
