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with your full name and contact number. You have to be above 18 years old to attend this event.

Tags: blogger event, cancer, cervical cancer, event, pocc

Congrats to Jamie Yeo and her husband Thorsten Nolte having their first baby!

I guess Jamie Yeo’s love life have been in the limelight all these years and now she’s finally settling down. I wonder if people are going to go on and on about her pregnancy since she’s not legally married yet. She probably got pregnant around May, which is also about the time where he proposed to Jamie Yeo.

Who knows, maybe Glenn Ong and Jean Danker might decide to start a family too? I think Glenn will make an awesome daddy, he’s got this wicked sense of humour and probably will be a very naughty papa

Tags: glenn ong, jamie yeo, pregnant

If I was a Sorcerer’s Apprentice.. depending on the limitations of the powers of sorcerers, I would love to use my powers to do good! Here’s a list of things I would want to do, ranked by most powerful to least.

Level 1 Sorcerer

I would use my powers to help me carry my shopping bags, school bags, anything that is too troublesome to carry

Level 5 Sorcerer

I would use my powers to fly!!!! Travel the world!!! Oh, printing money shouldn’t be too difficult a job for a sorcerer right?

Level 8 Sorcerer

I want to have mind reading and brain washing powers. hee..

Level 10 Sorcerer

This will be a little tricky since utopia doesn’t and can’t exist. I want to change the world. I want everyone to be happy, loving, caring, positive people.

Looks like I’m still far away from level 10.

Catch The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Movie starting from 22nd July 2010 and join the Walt Disney Studios Singapore official Facebook and Twitter page!

Tags: magic, movie, sorcerer's apprentice

While many 18 years old were busy studying for their A levels exams, Michelle was being sent in and out of hospital. She was diagnosed with cancer 2 years ago. She is 20 years old this year.

Michelle is one of my best friend’s sister. I’ve known my best friend and her family since secondary school. I watched Michelle growing up. She’s a few years younger than us. A very quiet girl. I didn’t really get the chance to talk to her much because she seemed quite shy then. Sometimes, I thought she looked quite “dao“, and I get the very cool vibe from her.

When my friend first told me about Michelle, I was so shocked I didn’t know how to react. How would anyone react to the news of an 18 year old girl getting advanced stage cancer? How should anyone react? The doctors told her family that it was a very rare type of cancer and they could not determine the origins of the cancer. Not able to determine the origins of the cancer apparently meant they don’t know how to treat it either. If you get nose cancer, you chemo the nose. If you get XYZ cancer, you can’t chemo the whole body and they could only trial and error with medication. They sent samples of her cancerous tumour to USA, and the results still came back undetermined.

The doctor gave her about half a year more to live, but it has been almost 2 years now. I guess I did get to know Michelle slightly better now as compared to 2 years ago. I went out with her family for meals and shopping. We played mahjong a couple of times too last year. I never did talk to her as a friend, because I really don’t know what to say to her. I just tried to be my usual self and make lame jokes that made them laugh. I tried to be positive around them because I know that they are all suffering inside. The last I saw her was a few weeks ago. She was very frail and she was looking very ill. We bought her some food from China town to eat because she refused to eat the hospital food.

I have told my supervisor, as well as, a few friends… It’s times like this, that makes me feel.. what’s the use of studying psychology when you don’t know how and can’t help the people that are closest to you? My supervisor told me it’s the same as doctors cannot operate on people close to them. I read and I practice, still, when I’m facing Michelle and her family, I am silent.

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She’s only 20 years old and she haven’t experienced so many other things life has to offer. She’s only 20 years old and there should be so much more awaiting her than death, shouldn’t there be?

In the end, we all have expiry dates and Michelle’s one is up. It’s unfair. Life’s unfair.

I’m writing this blog post mainly to help myself remember this period of my life, and remember the times I spent with Michelle and her family. It’s all these happiness and sadness that makes life so rich, and so precious. Which is why I really hate people saying phrases like “life is stupid” or “I wish I was dead”. If you want to die, there should be a donation centre where you can donate your life and give some to people like Michelle.

Goodbye Michelle. We miss you.

29th June 2010

I was made known of the human papillomavirus (HPV) a few years ago, when I went for my regular PAP smear test with my gynecologist. That PAP smear came out to be inconclusive and I had to do another PAP smear three months later. During the three months, I was really scared that I might have gotten some scary virus in my vagina, or worse still, cancer! Luckily, the second test was negative *phew* Funny thing, I used to think that PAP smears were performed to make sure everything in the region was functioning fine, I wasn’t really sure what PAP smear actually checked for (PAP smear checks for cancerous cells inside your vaginal walls).

Regular PAP smear test for girls above 18 years old is very important as it can detect virus or cancer in your vaginal area. Don’t stop reading this post if you are a male reader, it is just as important for you to know about such things so that you can advice your partner for regular PAP smear check!

When the vaccine came out for cervical cancer, my mother was the first few to know about it and recommended (bugged) me to go for it. That was almost 3 years ago and it was very costly for the vaccination jab, it was almost $800 for 3 injections and my mother paid for most of the cost. Luckily, now that the vaccination is so common in Singapore, it only costs $300 to $500 for the full course of injections. Although the vaccination is quite costly, it can save your life! It is definitely not too costly for to prevent yourself against cancer.

Cervical cancer is the 6th most common cancer among women in Singapore, and 1 woman dies every 5 days from cervical cancer. This is the ONLY preventable cancer. It is estimated that 80% of women will come in contact with the virus and it isn’t a virus that can be fully protected by condoms. The moment you become sexually active, you are at risk getting the virus regardless of your lifestyle. HPV is so common (estimated 80% of the population will have it at some point), you do not need to have a lot of sexual partner’s to come into contact with the virus.

This is one of the most meaningful advertorial I have written because I get to spread the word of something that means so much to me and many other women. Even if you are vaccinated for cervical cancer, all women should do their regular PAP smear tests for check just to make sure everything down there is fine. You can do the PAP smear tests at many GP and neighborhood clinics nowadays and it’s really affordable (about $20+). If you are on budget, you can get your PAP smear done at a polyclinic for $15 (subsidized for Singaporeans). Vaccination and regular pap smears are your 100% protection against Cervical Cancer. If you visit www.pocc.sg, you will find a list of doctors that provide the vaccine.

Please share this message with your close friends, relatives and everyone around you, like I have shared with you. What would really be awesome is if Singapore government would provide free or subsidized vaccination for our teenagers just like Australia, Malaysia, Japan and many other countries.
Click here to pledge your promise to protect the women you care about.

Tags: advertorial, cancer, cervical cancer, pocc, vaccination

Dearest Jay,

I fell in love with your music 8 years ago. You brought life to the Chinese music industry with your unique style, and you were so talented, everyone loves you. I admired you even more as an artist when I found out that you composed and write your own songs. I have never liked another modern musician as much as I liked your songs. Besides, I’m not one who usually listen to Chinese radio and songs.

Your songs have accompanied me through many of my darkest hours; when I was studying for my exams, when I was going through break-ups, when I was feeling that the world is such a horrible place to live in… you were always there. I never ever get sick listening to your songs, and they always draw out certain emotions from me. Do you like Chopin? I was really glad that you named one of your albums after him – November’s Chopin 十一月的蕭邦. One of my all-time favourite songs is Chopin’s Fantasie Impromptu in C Sharp Minor, I love classical music. They say Chopin is the poet of the piano, then you are the poet of modern Chinese music, my poet.

Another aspect of your music that I admire is the way you incorporate traditional Chinese themes into your songs, whether it’s Chinese instruments, Chinese opera-style singing, Chinese themed lyrics etc. It’s so wonderful to have an artist like yourself, celebrating our traditions and history, bringing the essence of Chinese culture into modern media.

Ok, enough of your songs. Everyone loves your music, we get that. I may not be the biggest fan out there, I haven’t watched all of your movies, I don’t own all your albums, I have never attended any of your appearances or performances in Singapore before. I am, however, someone that wants to meet you and get to know you. Yes, for my own selfish reasons, but nonetheless, I think we could even be friends!

If I had to list 3 of my favourite Jay Chou songs, it would be: 黑色幽默, 最长的电影 and 愛情懸崖. I’m definitely a fan of your earlier works, but I do love listening to your new songs as well like 乔克叔叔, which inspired me to dress up as a clown for halloween 2 years ago.

The reason why I’m writing you this love letter now, after being your secret admirer for 8 years, is… I’m finally going to see you in person this July at your 2010 The Era World Tour on 25th July.

This will be my first time seeing you in person, and I am really excited and nervous. Although this letter, our first meeting, the first time you are going to sing to me… is all one sided, and just some crazy ranting of a fan… All these are important to me, because you are important to me. I’m sure you get fan mails, mountains of them, and if you ever get the chance to read this, you might just wave it away or stop reading at the first sentence… regardless of how you feel about me or my letter, I still love you Jay

It would be the most awesome thing ever if I ever bump into you in person and actually get to talk to you, for just a while. I can’t imagine what I would say to you. It’s unlikely that we will get a chance to an actual conversation if we met in Singapore or Asia, since everyone recognizes your face and we won’t have any privacy. So sometimes, I fantasize that we meet 20 years from now, in a pub somewhere in Europe. That would be nice. You know what’s nicer? If somehow we get acquainted during your trip to Singapore in July this year.

I’ve been finding ways of getting the letter out to you, so I’ve joined your Facebook and Twitter groups and hopefully someone would know how to pass this to you. If you don’t ever get to read it, it’s fine as well. If you do read it, I hope you’ll be happy that you made a difference in someone’s life (mine) and you are someone very important and dear.

Love you always,

Priscilla

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Everyone love buying things online. Girls & boys, teenagers & working adults. I love to buy stuff online too, especially from overseas shops. Recently, I bought two watches from an online shop www.watchco.com from America and I pray that it will arrive next week.

Fossil Women’s Slim Crystal Analog Watch

Fossil Philippe Starck Black O-Ring

The problem I have with online shopping, isn’t with online shopping itself, but with blogshops. I know I made a very sweeping statement with my blog post title, and I’m sure there are good quality, affordable, reliable blogshops out there. The difference between a blogshop and online store is that blogshops are usually run by individuals, usually amateurs in many ways. They purchase clothes from wholesalers with many clothes coming from Thailand or China and the shop format is a blog (duh).

These are the reasons why I have not bought anything from a blogshop before:

1. Sizes. Majority of the blogshops in Singapore offers clothes for sizes UK6 to UK8. I’m more of a UK 10 to UK 12 kind of girl. When they say “free size” it usually isn’t my size either. It’s dangerous when you see “free size” on a blogshop because you have no idea what size it is! I don’t believe a clothing that fits a sized UK 14 lady would fit a UK 4 lady as well?!

Bonito Chico – pretty UK6 to UK8 clothes and dresses, good quality stuff too!

2. Plus sized blogshops are for reallllly plus sized girls. Not disrespecting them, but I can’t find anything that fits my size that I like as well.

S$49.90 dress from BAB – plus-size blogshop

3. Plus-size blogshops that have my size….. they charge TWO TIMES the price of other blogshops. Typically, blogshops sells dresses about $20+ and these Plus sized blogshops sells them at $40+. Wah seriously the cloth required is twice as much? I don’t know why plus size clothes are not as pretty as well

4. Most blogshops (not all) import really low grade clothes. Lousy material, lousy sewing, lousy design. You can usually buy these dresses from Thailand for S$10. Instead, they are being sold in blogshops for $20+. That being said, I have seen blogshops that sells well designed and good quality clothes as well. I can’t explain to you how to differentiate the good quality and bad quality clothes… but… two really popular blog shops would be Bonito Chico and Agnesellse, some forumers call them BC & AE. It would be really nice if they would consider bringing in UK 10 to UK 12 clothes as well!

5. If a blogshop is full of pictures of foreign model modelling the clothes, like those you cut out from magazines, you can’t be sure that you will be receiving exactly the same piece you bought online. I went shopping with Sab in HongKong last year, and we saw TOOO many shops that puts pictures of the clothes being sold and the actual piece of clothes hanged behind the picture. HUGE difference. I have no clue why they bother putting pictures of Korean /China /Japan models with clothes that are obviously different from what they were selling. I guess the new online shopping word is “inspired”. You know like “Chanel inspired bags”, that kind of thing?

6. I’ve heard quite a few stories where the blogshop collects your money and run away with it. I’m not sure if the police actually bothers tracing who steals your money. Blogshops don’t need a name to open, you don’t need any credibility, certification, or any form of control. For all you know, the “blogshop owner” is actually running a Nigerian scam all the way from Nigeria.

Ok, I still have many other reasons why I’m so skeptical of buying anything from blogshops. In general, I prefer UK fashion as compared to Japan or Korean fashion, which seems to be the trend locally. I’m psyched that my sister is in HongKong now and she promised to get me 5 H&M shirts. I LOVE H&M!!! They have really good quality pretty shirts for less than S$20! When is H&M coming to Singapore?!

Fav H&M checkered shirt

Fav H&M striped shirt

*** I’m currently overseas now and I’ve been searching high and low online for a dress I can wear to my cousin’s wedding next month! I can’t find any pretty dresses that is suitable for the occasion and one that fits my size! So if anyone knows of a blogshop that carries slightly bigger size clothes, particularly cocktail dresses, please let me know!!! ***

Tags: blogshop, bonito chico, dress, H&M, online shopping, plus-size, watch

I’ve seen the drawing of the spider and heard of the Facebook prank where a birthday event got hijacked. I have no idea why it took me so long to finally know who’s the genius mastermind behind all those internet trolling, since Daivd Thorne has been in the news for his trolls since 2008. This guy even got his own Wiki page, you can go read his ‘resume’ there.

Anyway, this guy is seriously the best troll I’ve ever came across. I’m not sure if his trolls of his kid’s teachers are real… although I suspect that they are… but it’s so ridiculous and awesome at the same time.

All his blog posts are so good and I can’t quote you a single one to read. Probably should start off with the one that made him famous >> he drew a picture of a spider and emailed it as payment. http://www.27bslash6.com/overdue.html

As compared to the other boring copycat forum internet trolls out there, this guy is the real deal and I definitely wouldn’t mind if he trolled me. Would be really hilarious!

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After the launch of the iPad, I heard the news that a new apple iPhone will be out in the market very soon! Huh? How come I never hear any raving, excitement, craving for the new iPhone, like we usually do from Apple fans all over the world. Turns out, we did hear the buzz before the launch, except it’s for the leak of the new iPhone on Gizmodo! Gizmodo’s editor, Jason Chen, had his house searched and his computers confiscated during the raid.

That was a couple of months back, and since, there seems to be no news of it. Perhaps it is as what some reported, that Gizmodo took all the excitement out of the launch. And Steve Jobs is going to have a hard time trying to excite the media and the public with this iPhone that has already been revealed to the world months prior the launch.

It’s sad that Gizmodo isn’t even invited to the WWDC, why Steve Jobs so petty… Anyway, they will still be doing live blogging of WWDC with the help of their readers that are attending the event.

For the rest of the iPhone users… iPhone OS4 will be out end of this month, probably 24th June 2010 when the iPhone 4G is released.

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