The past week was a crazy one! Tons of Puma events and parties, and F1 related events!

Psst… Black Eyed Peas and Beyonce totally rocked Singapore.

Stay tuned for more updates!

Don’t forget to keep voting okay!

I’m extremely elated to be shortlisted as one of the top five finalists for “Best Original Blog Design”. It’s like a pat on the shoulder especially after I’d just revamped the blog design.

To be honest, I feel really really proud to have the honor to pit against Xiaxue! It’s like saying I’m such a excellent blogger like her, but well, CLEARLY I’m not. Haha!

With that said, it also means that I’m up against the strongest competition ever. Even with Xiaxue aside, the other finalists, from the other parts of the globe, are very good too. We have a very popular Malaysian comic artist, and a very creative Filipino web designer (who bagged a similar award in her homeland last year)!

50% of our fate has already been determined by the judges.
The other 50% is IN YOUR HANDS!

Voting is rather simple. No registration is required! And it comes in two ways!

#1. You can go to http://awards.nuffnang.com/votes.php to vote.

OR

#2. You can vote via the ‘voting poll’ on the right side bar —->

It’s only a lil troublesome when you’ll have to vote for every category each time you do. After selecting all the 11 blogs, the last button to click is “Submit Votes”.

Here’s the catch, you can vote again after every 2 hours! So technically one person can only vote 12 times per day! Voting ends in about 2 weeks’ time, 11th October! And trust me, I would need a ton of support, please do ask your friends and family to help me vote okay?! Spread the luuuurrrve!

Well, with that, let me give you the…

I know I gross people out by point #5. Oh well, with all the different sick reasons you’ll want to see me in trunks on Orchard Road, here’s your chance.

Help me vote as much as you can, preeeetty please? *puppy eyes*

…that I’m part of a very cool clique called, Friends of Puma?

I’ve started blogging over at PUMA’s website for quite awhile now, and it has been an awesome experience! More importantly, I’m trying out a different blogging style over at there!

Not only that, I’m giving out tons of goodies and party/event invites every now and then on the blog!

The current giveaway is this Friday’s F1 Rocks concert tickets! And the only thing you’ll have to do is to comment!

>>>Hurry over before it’s gone!

Oh, and while you’re at it, do grab your free copy of the awesome FOP magazine over at the puma blog! Nadia & I am on the cover of this issue!

So, in the previous entry, I asked you guys to make a wild guess on the brand of the shoes in this pic!

That entry received a whooping 40 comments! And to my surprise, most of you guys are correct! But there were also guesses like Uniqlo, Timberland and even Pedro! LOL!

Anyway, I can’t deny that I was originally a hater, which was under much influence by Xiaxue and William Sledd. But before you check out the links and be converted to another Anti-Crocs, hear me out!

I believe a lot of people hate Crocs ‘cos its very first design is, well erm, not very fashionable.

The classic design seemed to have left a very bad impression and didn’t receive a good response from the public. Somehow, Crocs are then being stereotyped as an ugly footwear.

BUT HAVE YOU SEEN THE LATEST DESIGNS???

They’re actually quite neat! Like this one I’ve gotten (courtesy of the kind folks from Crocs).

Quite nifty, eh?

Ahh, a couple of months ago, Crocs contacted a bunch of us bloggers and held a little sharing session over at The Screening Room @ Ann Siang Road.

We got to share our frank views and impression on Crocs and also looked at their latest line of shoes.

We met JP McCarvel, who has been with Crocs since 2007 and he’s also the moderator of the new Crocsideas.com site.

What is Crocsideas.com?

It’s basically like a speaker’s corner for Crocs! It is dubbed as a laboratory for Crocs customers to share, innovate, express and explore ideas around Croc’s products and services.

So you like tell them, what’s nice, what’s not, what needs changes, and you can even suggest your own design ideas into their shoes. Your voice gets on to the website, and it gets viewed and voted and eventually the best ideas get integrated into upcoming product lines!

More importantly, credit will be given to you if your idea is being executed!

I had this glow-in-dark idea!

Don’t you have to agree that it’ll be like a perfect pair for clubbing if you crave for some attention?!

Ha!

Anyway, talking about the design, here’s some of the new shoes displayed during the session.

Aren’t they a whole lot different from the classic design?!

That’s a huge ass classic “Beach” Crocs! So anyway, my favourite one from there is the “Realtree Yukon”. It looks artsy!

Do head over to Crocsideas.com and give some guru advice of yours on how to improve on the classic “Beach” design! Have your voice in Crocs!

P/s: This is NOT an advertorial even though I’ve gotten a free pair from Crocs! I genuinely like Crocs better now ‘cos they’re new range is quite impressive!

Woot! Here comes the looooong weekend, aren’t you excited about it?!

Anyhoo, if you’ve yet to know, INQmobile, together with Singtel, is having a INQ Mini 3G roadshow at Ngee Ann City for the whole of the long weekend!

For those of you who are dying to get hold of the INQ Mini 3G, here’s your chance! You’ll just have to head down to the roadshow on any of the 3 days and take part in a lucky draw!

Here’s the important thing, remember to indicate you’re a supporter of me (i.e. my name/blog url) on the lucky draw coupon and you’ll get to win the INQ Mini 3G when they announce a winner at 6pm everyday!

I’ll be heading down tomorrow (Saturday, that is) at 4-6pm and I’ll be hanging out with the other bloggers in a glass house set up specially for us! You’re welcome to join us at the glass house too! Do get me on Twitter at @jayleif if you can’t find me tomorrow!

More details are up on the Facebook event page!

Oh, let me have to honour to entice you further with a preview of the mini “product photoshoot” that I did with the Mini 3G set!

I can’t really blog about the INQmobile event yet ‘cos the photos are still with Nadia! Do stay tuned for it and more ‘photoshoot’ photos to come!

On another note, I’m flooded with the comments guessing about the shoe brand in the previous entry! I’m going to reveal it in the next blog post and approve all the comments!