All the big names in the music and entertainment industry will be down in Singapore this coming weekend for three nights of crazy party, awards ceremony and concert!! Starcount media award will be streamed LIVE on YouTube at 9pm SGT (GMT +8) and will be held at the Marina Bay Sands. The Singapore Social concert is held on the 24th and 25th May 2013 at Marina Gardens By The Bay and I will be attending all thanks to Nuffnang and Starcount! <3

24th May concert line up includes PSY, Ceelo Green, Carley Rae Jackson and Blush group. Prices at the gate is at $165

25th May concert line up is ALL AEROSMITH WOOHOO! This will be the first time Aerosmith performs in Singapore so all Aerosmith fans should attend!!! Prices at the gate is at $180

It’s gonna be an awesome long weekend since Friday is a public holiday and everyone’s gonna party the weekend away~~~

Angelina Jolie just undergone a surgery to remove both her breasts. Wow. That was shocking. Initially I thought “what was she thinking?!??!”, then as I read the news articiles, I really admire her courage and beauty.

“The 37-year-old American actress wrote in an opinion piece entitled “My Medical Choice” in The New York Times that she had chosen the procedure because she carries a faulty gene that increases her risk of both breast and ovarian cancer. Jolie, one of Hollywood’s best-known faces and the partner of actor Brad Pitt, said that because of this gene, known as BRCA1, her doctors estimated she had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer.

Jolie said her chances of developing breast cancer are now down to five percent. Jolie and Pitt have three adopted and three biological children. “I can tell my children they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer,” Jolie said.”
taken from http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/05/201351493044776503.html

I really admire her courage to undergo an operation that could potentially be live changing. The boobs, to many, are the most visible human anatomy that one can discern between a man and a woman. I think many women would be really scared and go through some femininty identity crisis with their breasts removed. Not to mention breast cancer patients and how devastating it must be for them. Angelina Jolie is known for her unique facial features and a really hot body, for such a high profile celebrity to make such a decision – where how much you earn is how good you look (socially acceptably beautiful) – I think it takes a lot more courage.

It is a pity that there aren’t a better cure for her genetic disorder, and of course breast cancer.

The next time you’re making your way around a public vehicle or bus stop seat, be sure to examine the seats carefully before planting your butt on it, it might be a pain in the ass, quite literally.

There have been a couple of reported cases where unknowing commuters get their ass burnt by acid in the trains and bus stop seats. The first of such cases started March 24 last year (2012), a 27-year-old Malaysian woman suffered a burn wound on her buttocks in a similar incident involving a wet seat. On April 17 2013, a teenage boy suffered second-degree burns on his right thigh after sitting on a pool of oily liquid on a bus stop seat in Bukit Batok East Avenue 3. The latest incident happened to a nurse who suffered 3 per cent burns after sitting on an unknown corrosive substance on the train.

I suspect that the authorities aren’t releasing the names of chemicals used in these attacks for fear of copy cats. This Butt Burner reminds me of the massive acid attack in Hong Kong a few years back. It’s massive relative to this Butt Burner, there were 20-50 injured each time the attacker strike. This Butt Burner have some kind of perverse public transport sadistic fetish, I wouldn’t be surprised if the culprit lurks around the carriage and watches his victims get their ass burnt. I decided to dub him the “Butt Burner” cause it matches the lameness level of the act.

You can read the news article from AsiaOne.

It was a crazy weekend at Le Noir! A bunch of friends (led by Sabrina of course) threw a party at Le Noir with Angels & Devils theme! It was really fun and tiring to throw a party because even though the party only gets happening after 10pm, we had to be there way earlier for preparation work.

The preparation started a few days ago, between running around looking for awesome props to wear and giveaway, prizes, arranging of venue and drinks etc., I had to get my hair done! My bestest hairdresser Huifen from Salon de Choix coloured and cut my hair last week Btw, there are 3 shops of party props along Queens Street, just beside Bugis+, we got all our party stuff there

The girls all decided to be devils for the night, so I matched a nice red dress I got from a M)phosis sale, with a chunky black necklace, black shiny wedges and black stockings The best hair stylist in the whole wide world, Teo Hui Fen from Salon de Choix helped design my hair for the night! I was slightly worried whether I could pull off the temporary perms, but everyone commented that my hair looked awesome that night!

You can locate my favourite number 1 hair stylist in Singapore Ms Teo Huifen at:
Salon de Choix
Address: 3 Killiney Road #01-06 Winsland House 1, Singapore, Singapore s239519
Telephone number: 6836 2959
Opening hours: Mon – Sun: 10:30 am – 8:30 pm
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Salon-De-Choix/434265756617522

I love Shakespeare’s works. I haven’t read many of them, and honestly, it’s difficult for casual reading… Anyhow, I stumbled upon this quote from Hamlet and really relate to it right now. There’s a time and place for everything ^^. I’ll insert the meaning of this quote at the bottom of the page

Up, sword; and know thou a more horrid hent:
When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage,
Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed;
At gaming, swearing, or about some act
That has no relish of salvation in’t;
Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven,
And that his soul may be as damn’d and black
As hell, whereto it goes. My mother stays:
This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.

xxx
Interpretation from http://wiki.answers.com

Hamlet has worked himself up to a state of mind where he is ready to kill Claudius “Now I could drink hot blood!” He finds him and is about to kill him when he stops. Claudius is on his knees. He is apparently praying. Hamlet is afraid that this will make it easier for Claudius to get into heaven, unlike his father who is stuck in purgatory being killed “unshriven”. There is a weird mixture of Protestant and Catholic theologies here: the notion of Purgatory is definitely Catholic, but the idea that praying directly to God might get you absolution for your sins without the aid of a priest is clearly Protestant. Either way, Hamlet wants his revenge to extend into the next life, and so killing Claudius so that he can go to heaven in not good enough. He wants to get him while he is committing a sin of some kind so he’ll go straight to hell. He sheathes his sword, waiting for this kind of opportunity.

I’ve had many people around me telling me that they have sleeping issues due to stress. Sleep is very important to human beings because that is the time where our body rests and refreshes our brains and minds. Thus, it is important that we learn to relax in this fast-paced stressful society. Besides being happy and having a positive mind, we can also relax by using some techniques listed below.

Some tips to relax:

1. Do relaxing stuff. DUH! Find out what helps you relax your body and your mind. For me, I like to pamper myself by going for massages, haircuts and doing some self-reflection. For some, it might be eating desserts like chocolates (increases dopamine), shopping (otherwise known as retail therapy), doing sports (increases your adrenaline), sleeping, having sex, travelling, chilling by the beach, watching TV etc.

Desert with my friend Jerry at Antoinette

2. Listen to calm music when you feel stressed. I highly recommend to listen music without lyrics as I feel that songs with words makes you think and able to induce a certain state of mind (be it happy or sad). Don’t listen to emo and depressing songs! Try classical music like Chopin, contemporary instrumental artists like Maksim or Vanessa Mae, or even those zen nature music. There have been studies that happy music actually helps with your memory too!

3. Get in touch with nature. Go for nature walks in the jungle, reservoir, plantations etc. Looking at green stuff apparently helps with your eyesight too. If you are the type of person that don’t like to sweat so much, then consider doing in-door nature stuff such as a visit to the aquarium, sitting by a cafe in the Botanical Gardens, or even a coffee chain by the beach.

4. Train your mind to switch off thinking about stressful stuff for a while. It is important while you are doing relaxing things to be able to free your mind from other stressful things in your life. Otherwise, what is the point? This technique is also used in many other ways such as anger management and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. [ Read the rest of this entry » ]

This video is brilliant and hilarious! Unfortunately (or fortunately), I’m not a mac user

Featuring every mac user and public speakers’ fear. Watch a jaw-dropping performance as flash-mob pranksters stage a full scale invasion at a TEDtalk conference…

(psst, the conference speaker was in on it!)

You can read the full story behind this surprise here!

I’ve blogged about Huifen many times over the years, she’s the only hairstylist that I will vouch for for the past 6 years! Apart from looking like a cute bunny, she knows exactly how I want my hair to be done, almost as though she has telepathy! There were times I told her “just do whatever you want, I trust you” and I’ve never once been disappointed! Huifen was previously from Jeric at Plaza Singapura, after which, she was at Zinc at Centrepoint and now she’s over at Salon de Choix which is located at Winsland House (Orchard Road).

I know she has many fans out there that might panic whenever she changes hair salon, so just want to update everyone of the new salon she’s working at Also, she gave birth to a super cute baby. Super stylo milo baby I tell you!

You can locate my favourite number 1 hair stylist in Singapore Ms Teo Huifen at:
Salon de Choix
Address: 3 Killiney Road #01-06 Winsland House 1, Singapore, Singapore s239519
Telephone number: 6836 2959
Opening hours: Mon – Sun: 10:30 am – 8:30 pm
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Salon-De-Choix/434265756617522

I watched two really awesome Sci-fi movies over the past week. Warm Bodies is a zombie apocalyptic teenage romance comedy, while The Host is a not so typical alien invasion film. The awesome thing about these two films is they don’t follow traditional plots of their respective zombie and alien genre.

When I read the synopsis of Warm Bodies, I thought it sounded very incredulous. Zombies falling in love? Zombies coming back to life, because of love? Doesn’t seem to make much sense eh? Without looking too much into how or why zombies got infected in that show, the movie was very well filmed! I’d say perhaps most movie goers got a surprise that a movie with a seemingly silly plot can be so entertaining, it was rated a 7.4 on imdb.com. This movie is like modern Romeo and Juliet meet Romero zombies! The references to R&J were really obvious throughout the movie and I think the director meant it that way. Kudos to Warm Bodies for making zombies more likable (that’s not going to be helpful though when a real zombie apocalypse happens, don’t be fooled!).

I went to watch The Host (courtesy of Golden Village) last night and it was surprisingly good! It touches on some teenage romance, exploring self-identity and soul, and what it is to be human. I think it’s really interesting that the aliens in this movie aren’t those scary violent ones you usually get in the cinemas. I’m not sure why this movie only got a 6.2 rating on IMDB but I would definitely rate it at least a 7 out of 10. Perhaps humans, I meant movie-goers, aren’t used the idea of friend aliens. I thought the plot was well played out, the narratives were slightly on the childish side but reflects accurately the conflicted mind of a young woman. The movie is based on the novel of the same title by Stephanie Meyer, and honestly IT’S BETTER THAN TWILIGHT!!! (seems like a lot of people are comparing it to Twilight). If you want to get more friendly-alien action, do watch Doctor Who (BBC tv series), it’s TEH AWESOME.

I saw the trailer for The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo Di Caprio, and it looked amazing. The movie set and the styles of the era were beautiful. I must start and finish the damn book before the movie releases in May 2013!

This is a really strange article by PETA. http://www.peta.org/b/thepetafiles/archive/2013/03/11/peta-starcraft-zerglings-have-feelings-too.aspx

“StarCraft players gearing up for the launch of StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm will be getting a new perspective on the game’s arthropodal extraterrestrials, the Zerg.

PETA—or, as we are renaming ourselves in honor of the expansion pack’s launch, “Terrans for the Ethical Treatment of Zerglings”—will attend tonight’s launch event in Irvine, California, and distribute copies of our new “Zerglings Have Feelings, Too” leaflets as a reminder that gamers and nongamers alike should have compassion for all beings—even those who are very different from us.”

I generally like animals and living creatures…. But ZERGS? SERIOUSLY DUDE? I find them disgusting, irritating and just plain gross. I usually play Protoss in Starcraft 2 and Zergs are the worst enemies to play against, these creepy crawlies keeps multiplying themselves and they look damn gross In my opinion, Zergs are one of the most powerful class to play in Starcraft 2, however, I just cannot stand looking at these ugly roaches. If you are going to consider Zerg’s feelings during the game, you’re going to be making a big big mistake. They will invade your base in no time, killing 1 of them spawns another 10, they won’t go away! It’s like a bad case of bed bugs invasion. Yucks.