Been donning this pair of new loafers-looking shoes recently.

Are you able to…

Leave your guess as a comment!

(Pssst! I shall not publish the comments until someone gets it right!)

YEEEEEESSSSSS! You heard it right!

24seven is giving out 2 pairs of F1 Rocks tickets worth $390 (for Fri 25th Sep) for 2 bloggers!!!

No Doubt will be performing that night!

‘Don’t Speak’ is one of the greatest song ever!

And… the other bands include ZZ Top, Simple Minds and N*E*R*D!

Here’s how to win!

1. Post an entry on your blog to tell us why you deserve to win the F1 Rocks tickets. The post with the most originality and desire will be chosen!

2. In your post, insert a link to http://www.visitsingapore.com/sgpseason so that your readers can find out more about the F1 season.

3. Have a return link to Singapore Blog Press post on the contest at http://pea.to/f1R

4. Submit your blog post and your details to the post at Blog Press so that we may contact you via mobile phone if you win.

5. Each blogger will only be eligible to win 1 pair of the tickets.

6. Each blog post will earn one chance in the lucky draw, and if you tweet this phrase in your twitter, you’ll get an additional chance of winning in the lucky draw – “Win F1 Rocks tickets at http://pea.to/f1R. Contest ends 20th Sep 09. #f1 #f1rocks”

7. Both winners must attend a blogger F1 Rocks stage tour on 22nd Sept 2009 at 6pm.

8. Contest runs from 16th Sep to 21st Sep 2359H.

9. Contest is open to all Singapore Citizens, PRs and Residents.

10. Join Uniquely Singapore fan page on Facebook for more news!

Do comment here with your direct link to your entry post!

Good luck y’all!

Initially I thought of writing in a entirely new post about the new blogskin, but since the comments had already came into here, I’d might as well update here right?

Before I begin, I have a pet peeve about the term “blogskin”. I cringe whenever I hear that word. I don’t know who coined the term first, but it is apparent that BlogSkins.com is a site that provides free blogskins.

Somehow “blogskin” and “BlogSkins.com” seemed affiliated and so, calling my design a blogskin will seemingly degrade from an exclusive one it to a common one found on that website.

But well, I crumbled. It’s a weak argument and “blogskins” is an easier and more catchy word anyway. Kua kua kua.

That aside, it’s time to rejoice!

It’s quite a huge revamp in terms of the look of it!

One major change is the inverted colour scheme! Ever since the I started this blog, I’d always done up the designs with white text on black/dark background, for I’d always feel that it makes the words more striking.

But now, it’s the reverse! I’m still trying to get use to it though, but thank god it didn’t turn out looking crappy!

And if it isn’t obvious enough, you can click the red “Jayden’s Blog” sign to switch to a 2nd part of the flash!

The bulk of the flash animation was actually done more than a year ago during my last year at Lasalle! It was actually meant for my portfolio website, Jaydenation.com. It’s inspired by the propaganda era hence the very self-centric design and the appearance of Mao.

What seemed like a never ending self project eventually got scraped as I got stuck at coding the website and grew out of the design eventually.

I pulled this little piece of work out for the new blog banner as I thought it could very well be served as one!

Though there wasn’t any specific qualification to be eligible for the nomination of Nuffnang Blog Awards, I was hoping I could get nominated for the new design since the old one was done so many years ago! And when I made that decision, I had only 4 days left till the nominations close!

Thankfully, I have my recent doodles to add on and save the day! And yes, they are namely the blogathon and the ‘obsessed’ doodles!

The layout is pretty much the same, just that I’d cleared and tidied up the side bar!

The previous sidebar/s was getting a little too cluttered and I felt the urge to take a few things out and combine the 2 columns into 1.

In fact, nowadays a lot of bloggers try to clump too much information into one single page that it becomes so disorganised and distracting for blog readers. It is especially so to the blogspot users! Prolly they think they know a lil bit of HTML so they have the right to stuff every goddamn thing at the side!

I’ve removed the Plurk widget but you can click the red TWITTER and PLURK words in the flash to access to them! I’ve also changed the Twitter feed to the speech bubble like one!

Well, if you were to ask me what’s my favourite part of the new blogskin, I would say it’s the BLOCKQUOTES!

Look at how chio they are now!

It’s a really simple touch but the grunge look makes it so gorgeous! I might just write an entire entry in the blockquotes! Ha!

One final thing that I’d like to mention is that, I’ve dropped the tagline “I Can Give You Gatsby”! It is now, “La Propagande de Jayden” which means “The Jayden Propaganda” in French! Got the recent French craze after watching ‘Coco Avant Chanel’! Haha!

Anyway, finding a nice and catchy tagline was tough, and probably the coolest one ever is, “Everyone’s reading it.” LOL

Oh, and if you miss my old design, it’s still available at http://jayleif6.blogspot.com!

By the way, I’m thinking of making new blogger namecards, but the problem is that I still have a ton of the namecards I’ve made last year!

So comment away if you’d like to have one! I’ll be mailing it to anyone who wants one! Do also indicate if you want the Windows IE or Mac Safari one (or both)!

This is another case of photos that got chucked at a corner and were long forgotten. Anyway, I dug them out and did a slightly different photoshop treatment from the usual blog photos.

So anyway, this happened a few months ago when I told Fabian that we should really try some foie gras since I’ve never had any before!

He found this rather atas restuarant belonging to a hotel at the corner of Chinatown.

Alright, without further ado, here comes the food!

The appetizers:


Foie gras taste AWESOME!

The main courses:

The desserts:

Top it up with some Long Island Tea!

Mmm mmm.

Here’s the most awesome thing of the day. THE BILL.

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As usual, I’ve been too busy lately to sit down and blog proper. If not for this exciting contest, I wasn’t gonna be able to squeeze time to write this either!

Oops, let the cat out of the bag too early! But you’d heard me, it’s a contest for you to win $100 cash and $100 shopping voucher!

First, let me introduce to you the lifesaver of the day: …INQmobile!

OKAY WAAAAAIT A MINUTE! Before you roll your eyes and think that I’m doing another sales talk, don’t you jump into conclusion just yet!

I’m pretty sure yours truly is one of the first few to talk about INQmobile here in Singapore! And I’m here to break the discovery about this up and coming mobile phone brand. Yay or nay to INQmobile, it’s up to you to judge!

I had personally roamed around its website and I must say I’m rather impressed with the brand!

In a nutshell, INQmobile phones are like your iPhones and Blackberries – only simplified!

Think mobile connectivity around the clock with NO frills and NO exorbitant price tag. Okay, I will kill the simplicity of it if I’d to describe further, so check this video out.

I believe by now a lot of people understand the idea of staying connected 24/7 and the affect of mobile connectivity.

Mobile broadband services have been slashing their prices to cater to the masses and so what about mobile phones?

Like Frank (CEO & founder of INQmobile) said in the video, the phones are not out to go head-to-head with the atas smartphones in the market. However, it’s to cater people who want to stay connected but without the extravagant gadgets.

Quoted from their blog:
The services we’ve built into the device are there to be used, and not sit stranded and unwanted in some obscure sub-menu.

It is as simple as it gets – The Social Mobile!

Aside the simplicity of the phone that attracts my attention, I love how they put such delicate effort into their packaging!

The concept behind this arty farty packaging is to create an object of beauty – something to cherish and not chuck. The design ideal is to let people to keep the box, use it, and treasure it. And hopefully not to land up in landfills or recycling bins.

Bad news is, it’s not available in Singapore yet! It’s currently selling in UK, Ireland, Australia, Hong Kong and Italy. But who knows, if we talk enough about it, it might just pop over right?

However the good news for you is, even if you talk about it and it don’t come to Singapore, you readers and friends stand to win both $100 COLD HARD CASH and $100 shopping voucher!

Talk about giving back to the community. You’d better start thanking me for this!

Basically, all you have to do is to tell me what you like about INQmobile and help spread the word!

1. Go find out more about INQmobile from their website – http://www.inqmobile.com

2. Post in the comment below this post, what you like about the phones by INQmobile.

3. Tweet, plurk and/or facebook update about this contest I am running and get more chances of winning! The more you spread this, the more chances you’ll get to win in the draw!

You can copy & paste to tweet, plurk and facebook update this phrase:
I discovered a new phone on @jayleif! Go check it out and you may win $200 cash + voucher! Details at http://pea.to/inqjl #INQmobile

* Don’t forget to include the following details in your comments if you have them so that you can up your winning chances!

Twitter ID: _______________
Plurk ID: _______________
Facebook URL: _______________

** Remember to include a valid email address in the “Email” field when you comment so that I can contact you if you are the winner.

*** Contest period will be from now till 2359hrs 14th September 2009, and is only open to Singapore Citizen, PR and Singapore Residents.

Good luck y’all!