Me with my BB Bernard <3

With Nadnut!

With my awesome friends and bloggers Noel Boyld, Peggy Heng, Clara Dblchin, Fidelis

With Peggy, Dweam (Valerie, Ms Singapore 2011) and Fidelis~

Got to really know Peggy better during this trip and she’s really awesome

With bernng and noel~

Drinking with Dblchin and others *omg nadnut is a crazy drinker*

Sorry all the pictures of different shapes and sizes! I’m stealing all these pictures from facebook and other blogs

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I think my favourite Muppets character must be Kermit the frog… And who can forget Kermit singing The Rainbow Connection! It’s become such a classic now.

On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world’s biggest Muppet fan, his brother Gary (Jason Segel) and Gary’s girlfriend Mary (Amy Adams) from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets’ former stomping grounds. To stage a telethon and raise the $10 million needed to save the theater, Walter, Mary and Gary help Kermit reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways: Fozzie now performs with a Reno casino tribute band called the Moopets, Miss Piggy is a plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, Animal is in a Santa Barbara clinic for anger management, and Gonzo is a high-powered plumbing magnate. With secret, signature, celebrity cameos, Disney’s “The Muppets” hits the big screen Dec. 8, 2011.

Catch The Muppets in cinemas this 8 December 2011 and like the Official Disney Studios Singapore Facebook Page!

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The Blue Room experience and an art exhibition by BOMBAY SAPPHIRE® curated by Kult3D is a celebration of creative talents, where nine commissioned artworks inspired by BOMBAY SAPPHIRE® are showcased at dbl O Art Space from now till 18^th November 2011, is making an appearance in Singapore for the first time outside of London. Solo designers and collectives participating in the exhibition are Kult3D, Creative Toolbox, kittozutto,Mojoko+SHANG, Clara Yee, Kristal Melson, Dju-Lian Chng, Foo Jia Wen and Tara Thadani.

I’m so curious about the dbl O Art Space because dbl O is famous for being a club… so what has art got to do with clubbing? I should really drop by soon!

dbl O Art Space, Level 2, 222 Queen Street

Opening hours of the BOMBAY SAPPHIRE® Blue Room:
Tuesdays – Thursdays: 6pm – 11pm
Friday & Saturday: 5pm – 12mn
Sundays: 4pm – 8pm
Mondays: Closed

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Sure, there was a point I considered doing advertorial for other international (mostly American) marketing campaign sites, but they had all kinds of strange ads! For example, blog post on gambling websites, slot machines, soft porn sites etc. I wouldn’t have wanted my blog to be tainted with those advertorials!

Soon, Nuffnang’s competitors died out one by one and Nuffnang really prevailed and proved itself to be at the top of its industry. They have been always professional and offered top brand names that I would like to feature in my blog.

More than just the attractive advertising rates Nuffnang have pitched my blog for, attending Nuffnang events really makes me feel so pampered. Although at other media events and press conferences, you get to rub shoulders with big bosses and media personnel from the ‘traditional’ media… Nuffnang events often has a special something and really caters to the needs of bloggers like myself..

My Nuffnang Memories…

Blood Donation 2008

Power Over Cervical Cancer (POCC) 2010

Laurier Challenge 2010

Come 16 December 2011, 500 bloggers from around the Asia-Pacific region will flock to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for the Nuffnang Asia-Pacific Blog Awards 2011 in Putrajaya Marriott. The Awards aims to not only honour the region’s best bloggers, but also to bring together blogger communities from across Asia-Pacific. The Nuffnang Asia-Pacific Blog Awards is brought to you by Volkswagen Malaysia and Putrajaya Marriott.

Find out how you can win tickets to Nuffnang’s Blog Awards 2011 here! http://awards.nuffnang.com/2011/win-exclusive-invites/

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Straits Times 26 October 2011 reported, again, “Firms feel impact of foreign worker crunch”. The article went on portraying how businesses finds it difficult to hire both Singaporeans and foreigners, with 4 different reports of businesses not able to find workers. However, when I read the article, this is what I felt they were trying to say:

1. Businesses do not want to hire Singaporeans because they are too demanding.

“We are willing to pay $2500, higher than the $2000 we pay for foreigners, for a new local, but they tell us, ‘Saturday, Sunday I don’t work. Go out sea to troubleshoot, very tough, cannot’.”

“Most don’t have the patience – they quit halfway and become property agents”

“Some job seekers asked “Does the bus stop in front of your shop?” and “Can I get a cash advance?”.”

Well, I don’t think Singaporeans being concerned about their job welfare is a problem. Employers want to hire quality labor for as cheap as possible while employees want to find a job that pays well enough for the amount of work and trouble they have to be put through. Fair? I’m sure these employers would be so happy to find workers that work 7 days a week for $400. Do they care that our salary has been stagnant for the last 10 to 20 years and the cost of living is increasing?

2. Implying that foreigners are cheaper and better workers than Singaporeans.

It’s possibly true! These foreigners earn peanuts in their home countries. When they come Singapore, they are earning many times more than of what they would get back home. They come with experience, knowledge and are more humbled and appreciative of their jobs (probably). Then why don’t these companies just go to China or India to set up their companies instead?

Singapore has a great infrastructure, safety, government stability etc. etc. that is what attracts big businesses here. Should foreign workers instead of Singaporean workers be reaping the benefits of having such a great country? We didn’t set up this awesome place to attract investors and businesses just to have foreigners come and reap the reward that is suppose to be ours.

Ok. Let’s take a look at this from 3 different views of Singaporean workers.

Singaporean A – The lowly educated

In my line of work, I interact with many lower income and educated families. Many of whom work jobs that pays less than $1000 a month. Assuming that both parents are working, they earn a total of less than $2500 a month. These are the drivers, the delivery men, food packers, hard laborers, technicians etc. I really wonder how does a family of 5 survive on $2500 a month! HUH? A driver earns $1000 a month?? Are you sure?? Yeah of course they only earn $1000 a month… The company can easily hire a foreigner to work for $1000 a month, so why would they want to pay locals any more than that?

Singaporean B – educated

I hear this from a friend who works in the hotel industry. She is a fresh graduate with a degree and she only earns $1500 a month, working 6 days shift! Her Filipino colleagues working the same position earns $1800 a month holding S-pass. The only reason why a Singaporean earns $1500 a month and Filipino earns $1800 a month is because it is a requirement to attain an S-pass and employers do not pay CPF for foreigners. How is it that a degree holder should have to earn such minimal wage in a country like Singapore??? If there were no supplies of foreign workers in her sector, perhaps hotels would have to offer higher pay to attract locals to work.

I’ve got yet another friend, who is a foreigner, earns only $1800 a month and he was given an employment pass (E-Pass). This was approved after the General Election 2011 this year. When the government said they were going to raise the E-pass requirement to $2800… they actually meant $1800 is it?

Singaporean C – The highly educated

Studying a post-graduate course in Singapore, I was hoping to some day earn lots of money. I don’t. This I don’t blame the foreign workers but the under developed sector of psychology, counseling and social work. I found it difficult to accept that my current pay is less that of someone working in MacDonald in Australia. If I were to find work in a westernized country, I would get at least twice that of my current pay.

This is what is happening to many brilliant, smart, educated Singaporeans… They would rather work overseas than to stay in Singapore. What is there for them here? The public transports over crowded with China and Indian nationals? The higher competition their children may receive in schools due to foreigners? The fear of cooking curry at their own homes? The poor services we receive from non-English speaking staffs? The stressful, fast-paced life that does not even allow you to have quality family time anymore, don’t talk about even having kids! Where got time to even have sex!

I was not born in Singapore but I grew up here and I am proud to call myself a Singaporean. I have nothing against foreigners and I am not xenophobic. I have a problem with Singapore’s current legislation and the direction of which the country is heading. My parents thought Singapore was a great place to migrate and bring up their children… slowly but surely… Singapore is losing all the factors that made Singapore so unique and great.

All in all, we do need foreign workers in Singapore, but not at the expense of affecting the livelihood and quality of life of other Singaporeans living here like you and I.

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Open to female Singaporeans and Permanent Residents, the casting call will be run on SingTel’s Facebook page from October 15 to November 8 2011. The winner will walk away with a $10,000 cash prize and a contract to host the YouTube programme.

Wow… Seems to exciting! I’ve been asking Sab to take part with me!!! Hopefully something good comes out of this we we win something!!  

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We were there on time but the fashion show wasn’t going to start till later so I dropped by Coffee Bean for a yummy all-day breakfast dinner! Love love love all-day breakfast menu at Coffee Bean!

Too bad I don’t have a nice camera to capture the glamour moments at Avalon last Friday! My iPhone 4′s flash isn’t powerful enough to capture much… Even Sab and Peggy had problem trying to capture nice pictures in the club

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If I had a robot that’s going for boxing match… I don’t think the funky gadgets on the robot will determine whether he’s good or not… I think all that matters would be the robot’s materials and the robot’s fighting abilities. My robot would be pink, cute and damn deadly.

With a current IMDB.com rating of 7.2, I’m really looking forward to catching this movie!

A gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the near-future, where the sport of boxing has gone hi-tech, “Real Steel” stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now, nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max (Dakota Goyo) to build and train a championship contender. As the stakes in the brutal, no-holds-barred arena are raised, Charlie and Max, against all odds, get one last shot at a comeback.

Catch Real Steel in cinemas this 6 October 2011 and like the Official Real Steel Singapore Facebook Page!

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Took me less than 5 minutes to create this with the Fight Night Facebook app… You can try it here too!  You can upload a photo from your computer, use a Facebook picture or take a picture with your webcam and upload it to the app. Next, just add in your vampire effects such as fangs or blood to the image and voila~!

By creating your own Fright pictures and tagging your friends, you can win complimentary movie passes and exclusive movie premiums! The movie will be showing in Singapore from 22 September 2011!

I’m really looking forward to watching this movie next week! Vampires have been trending again these couple of years, with all sorts of TV dramas and movies depicting different kinds of vampires with different angles.. I’m pretty excited to see what kind of vampires Fright Night will have. To be honest, I am more interested to watch the movie for David Tennant rather than Colin Ferrall or the other actors. For those of you who don’t already know, David Tennant is a British actor and was one of the BEST Doctors of the Doctor Who series in the UK. Fright Night currently has an IMDB.com rating of 6.9, which sounds really promising!

Senior Charley Brewster (Anton Yelchin) finally has it all—he’s running with the popular crowd and dating the hottest girl in high school. In fact, he’s so cool he’s even dissing his best friend Ed (Christopher Mintz-Plasse). But trouble arrives when an intriguing stranger Jerry (Colin Farrell) moves in next door. He seems like a great guy at first, but there’s something not quite right—and everyone, including Charlie’s mom (Toni Collette), doesn’t notice. After witnessing some very unusual activity, Charlie comes to an unmistakable conclusion: Jerry is a vampire preying on his neighborhood. Unable to convince anyone that he’s telling the truth, Charlie has to find a way to get rid of the monster himself in this Craig Gillespie-helmed revamp of the comedy-horror classic.

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Funkychargers.com is giving away 1 charger for iPhone / iPod on deadpris.com so read on to find out more!!!

I loveeeee my iPhone and it is like the best gadget (it’s more than a phone!) that I own. I make calls, SMS, play games, read news, twitter, facebook with my awesome iPhone on a daily basis. The only problem with that is, when you use too much 3G internet on the iPhone, it drains up my battery very quickly If I’m using many social media iPhone apps while I’m out, I can easily finish 3/4 bar of my battery in 3 hours.

I have seen some portable chargers sold in electronic shops but they are all so expensive and I end up telling myself to try to use less battery if I have to be outside for the entire day.

This is why I heart Funkycharger

1. It’s affordable! They are selling it for only SG$17.90 and it comes with free shipping to Singapore at the moment. They ship internationally too but you got to check shipping prices with them.

2. They’re so cute! I really like their designs! The pink elephant design didn’t look so special to me at first, but the more I looked at it, the cuter it gets! Their designs are uniquely designed so you can’t find them else where!

3. They are relatively small and very portable! The charger doesn’t come with any cables, you just need to charge it with your usual iPhone cables!

These chargers are compatible for charging iPhone 4, iPhone 3G/3Gs, iPod and iTouch. They take about 2 to 4 hours to charge up, and can charge an iPhone 4 FULL or 1.5 times of iPhone 3G!!!

Funkychargers.com also have iPhone 4 casings and other accessories so be sure to Like their Facebook page as they are going to have weekly giveaways soon~~ http://www.facebook.com/funkychargers

CONTEST HAS ENDED

The Prize: 1 1900mAh charger of your choice! Subject to availability of design.

What you have to do: Leave a comment below this blog post, in 1 sentence, why do you need a portable iPhone charger!

Go to http://www.facebook.com/funkychargers to like the page as a courtesy to the advertiser! The winner will be the most creative answer! (Please leave a comment with a valid email in the email box!)

Winner will be contacted via email for shipping information, only shipped within Singapore. The prize will be shipped out by Funkychargers.com

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