I CaNz hAz tOp 10 tOo! I just couldn’t resists! Wahahahahahaha! Ok, enough of child’s play. I’ve got more serious work to do you know? This blog will be on a short hiatus from this post on. Till we meet again! Sayonara! Disclaimer update: Just for everyone’s understanding, Claudia usually breaks up her posts of major events into many parts so that her readers need not scroll too much and also for her to post her thoughts of the event better. She has no intention of breaking it up so as to get more pageviews or to get into the top10 charts. She doesn’t run any ads on this blog hence its really pointless for her to do that. Posting everything in one post is much easier as she doesn’t have to arrange the photos in any storyline or title. However she feels that it’ll be more reader friendly for users to find photos they want to use or post that they want to read. Claudia wish to thanks one and all for their friendly mention in their blogs (be it good or bad). If you have any comments or feedback, Claudia appreciates if you can contact her directly via any means possible. Her email is somewhere on the sidebar, do feel free to drop her an email. Ping Anniversary After Party I almost forgot! Some of us headed down for drinking after the party on Saturday! And boy it was fun! Some of them sure shake-it-out man! Sexy! Here are the video clips I took with my shaky hands that night… Pinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng PONG! Shake it baby YEAH! I want to shake too!! Wahahahahaha! Claudia and Ping.sg More than a year ago, Claudia got to learn about Ping.sg from some blogger’s blog and it was also the period where Ping.sg was about to celebrate its first anniversary. Claudia was unsure at first whether or not to join the party as she didn’t know anyone from Ping.sg. Feeling adventurous, she signed up for it eventually and went with a girl friend of hers. Both of them had not a single idea who was going to be there. Claudia did some homework before the party and she recognized some of the bloggers present. She was able to point out some of the people there including… Kevin, U-zyn, Arzhou, Rinaz, DK, Veron, Sheylara, Josh, Ming and a few others. Sadly, she didn’t go up to any of them to say hi. And she felt that they, being the regulars, could have approached the new faces at the event instead to make them feel welcome. She only recalled a girl (Daphne) going around trying to break-ice with everyone. The rest of the gang, well, were just being within their own gang. Claudia even wrote a not-so-good post about it but still looked forward to their 2nd anniversary. Although the very first gathering with Pingsters didn’t turn out that well, Claudia continues to hang around in Ping.sg, and quietly supports Ping by checking back regularly, helping to spread the words around (although her traffic was very bad than), doing the Ping.sg Ad and she even started attending gatherings and outings with fellow Pingsters. In fact she attended quite a number of these outings! She tries her best to take nice photos at every gatherings to help her remember who was present and so that she could blog about it. Events attended over the past 1 year with Ping.sg… 29 Jul 07: Outing at Miss Clarity Cafe 9 Sep 07: Island Creamy 3 Dec 07: Meet up at The POD 10 Dec 07: Launch of Ping.sg Tshirt 10 Jan 08: Pizza outing at Finalmente 17 Feb 08: Ping CNY gathering at Decoders Cafe 17 May 08: Lim Jiu at Brewerkz 14 Jun 08: Prawning Outing 3 Jul 08: Pizza Outing at Peperoni 19 Jul 08: Ping 2nd Anniversary Although it was just a short one year time, Claudia got to know a lot of friends through blogging and Ping.sg. Some became quite close and is bonded with some of them too. (But none as close as becoming a BFF-kind-of-close) She is very happy that blogging actually helped expand her social circle and it also gives her the opportunity to attend events and launches that’s “By Invitation” only. This also have been keeping Claudia very busy attending, editing the photos/videos and sharing her experience with her blog readers. Claudia knows that in any community, online or offline, there will sure to be conflicts, fights, ups and downs. (She’d experienced even worst cases back in her ex-workplace.) But these are also the elements that helped make the community and relationship even closer. It also allows everyone in the community to see and find out more about the people in it. Claudia started off in a not-so-friendly situation with Ping.sg, but she’s very glad that she’s still participating in the community and is able to contribute a little here and there. She loves taking photos of the pretty, sexy, handsome and friendly people in Ping.sg. Claudia will continue to support Ping and the nice people behind it. (No matter who they are.) She don’t know how long more will she be able to continue supporting the community, but as long as she’s still blogging, still typing, still taking photos, she’ll do her best in anyway she can to support Ping. Claudia is happy that the 2nd anniversary was a success and she feels that it was more relax and casual this time round. The group was smaller than the first one, but this also allows more interaction between those present. It was more informal and fun. Claudia is happy to meet all the new pingsters and catch up with the long time supporters like herself. Ping is not just another community that Claudia is engaging in. Ping is a community where she truly enjoys and love being part of. Claudia wishes Ping and Uzyn all the best and may Ping grow and grow and grow! Ping 2nd Anniversary Part 6 - Photos of Pingsters Here are all the rest of the shots taken on Saturday of the Pingsters. Find all the pretty, sexy, handsome and candid shots here! Group shot of Pingsters and Friends… (Bigger version) with some MIA as they had to leave early Sekling and U-zyn Wendy and Uray Mintea and Rinaz Sheylara Jean Miccheng Shy NTT and Mintea Yufeng, ironicgamer and Rei Krisandro the Chao Ah Beng Nicholas and Hilary Diana with daughter Shervon Hendri, Kahwee and Sylvia Lance and Darren Sheylara and Jacelyn Hendri, Kris, Kahwee, Darren and Lance Daryl (trying to shoot me while I shoot them), Nicholas (trying to steal Sheylara’s food) and Sheylara Hmm… Me with sweet and adorable Shervon Ping on Ping on Ping (understand? Wahahahaha!) (Bigger version) Another group shot (blurred thou. Sad!) Who has the biggest manboobs?? (Bigger version) Jerrick Lim!! Here are some of the award recipients… The 2 sexy and hot bloggers… Krisandro and Rinaz Congrats once again!! For everyone who were at the party, do feel free to use all the photos posted for your blog. I won’t try to sue anyone for using the photos. Wahahaha! These photos are taken by me, a member of Ping.sg community, for you, members of Ping.sg community! For full collection of photos, you can view it here. Some will also be uploaded in Facebook. So tag away! Next up - Claud’s Personal Thoughts on Ping.sg Ping 2nd Anniversary Part 5 - The Finale When everyone’s stomach was filled up, we gathered back for the highlight of the day. Ping Lipdub Video and the announcement of the Grand Award winners! Rinaz shared her experiences from creating the first Ping.sg community video The Ping Lipdub Video We can see how excited she was ya? The video is very very well done! Everyone loves it! I was rather angry with myself as I couldn’t make it to any of the recordings. Hope we’ll have a second one for Ping’s 3rd Anniversary! Here’s the video by Rinaz… After the video, we gathered the finalist for the Most Pong and Poof Awards Arzhou, Krisandro, Shervon and Sheylara with Mintea counting the Pongs Shervon must be wondering what Mintea was doing poking her chest She’s so adorable isn’t she? Winners of the Most Pong and Poof Awards… Shervon and Sheylara Shervon was awarded the Most Poofed Award Feeling happy with her Ping Pong Bat Sponsors sharing more about what they do… Philip Devlin, Product Marketing Manager from HP Josh couldn’t make it, so Uzyn received the Thank You gift on behalf of Advertlets Melvin sharing his role at Waggener Edstrom Ping Pong bats were also given to our sponsors… Here’s Uzyn presenting token of appreciation to Melvin There were two bats that were given out after much effort by Uzyn and his computer. This is one of the bat… Uzyn compiling the results in font of group of witnesses To make the compiling even more transparent, he decided to show it to everyone… You’ll never see this kind of screen flashed at any other celebrations ok! Finally after voting by everyone present at the party, Post and Blog of The Year winners were announced! Congrats to Rinaz for winning the Post of The Year award! As you can see, she’s very delighted! She sure deserves the award! (But I’m jealous! I was so close to winning! :P) Rinaz brought home the Post of The Year ping pong bat, $200 Takashimaya vouchers, dinner for 2 with the guys at Waggener Edstrom (Rinaz bring me bring me? Wahahaha!) and a beautiful hand-engraved wine glass by Markchoon.com. And the Grand Award was given to Krisandro!! He received Blog of The Year award! So happy for him! Philip presenting the award to Kris Kris won himself the Blog of The Year ping pong bat, a beautiful wine glass by Markchoon.com and the sexy HP Mini Notebook (check out the HP Mini in the vodcast by Tech65)! Kris with his fantastic prizes! (Envy lah!! Kris I want to play play with your new toy ok? :P) And here are the winners of the lucky draw for those who voted for the post and blog of the year… Next up - Photos of Pingsters at The Party Ping 2nd Anniversary Part 4 - Food and Pingsters Happy 2nd Birthday Ping.sg!! Pretty cupcakes baked by Caressa Everyone wanted a piece of the cupcakes… Trying to get a good shot of the cakes before they’re gone Some just couldn’t resists having a shot with the cupcakes Priss, Uray and Wendy Jacelyn, Sylvia and Rinaz Finally the food is ready! Great spread for the hungry Pingsters Pingsters are friendly and orderly people See they queue for their food! Ridz hungry for food Here are some shots of fellow Pingsters and friends with their food… Nicholas and Sheylara Sylvia, Mintea, Jean and Priss The nice people from Waggener Edstrom Ruth and Melvin Wendy and Keith Like mother like daughter Shervon and Diana Cheers to Ping.sg! Rinaz, Sheylara and Jacelyn Thirsty NTT tried to pour out the final drip of guava juice Next up - The Finale Ping 2nd Anniversary Part 3 - Award Ceremony Let the camera starts rolling! It’s Ping.sg Awards presentation time! With NTT and Mintea Emcees in action… welcoming everyone to the party Uzyn, founder and owner of Ping.sg giving his welcome speech Selected Pingsters were called to present the awards two of which were Jzin and brokenshardz Some awards winners of the day… (click for list of all winners) Rinaz Veron Krisandro Sheylara Daryl Next up - Food and Pingsters! Ping 2nd Anniversary Part 2 - The Beginning At 4pm sharp, the 3 pretty receptionists got into position to welcome the guests. Wendy, Uray and Sekling Daphne and Uzyn were all geared up and ready for the party Taking a quick look at the guest list Slowly but surely, guests started arriving… Paced’s arrival Lance’s arrival Hendri giving his best pose to welcome the guests New friends were made Old friends were happy to meet again Neo with Arzhou Everyone started Ponging and Poofing one another Wendy tried hiding to avoid being Poofed Next up - The Award Ceremony! Ping 2nd Anniversary Part 1 - Behind The Scene 19 July 2008 at Fig & Olive, Ping.sg celebrated its 2nd Anniversary! Many came to celebrate this joyous event with Ping.sg. I was assigned the task to take photos of the party, which I believe I didn’t do a good job this time. More than 400 shots were taken, but less than 1/4 came out right. Sorry for those shots which I took of you, but didn’t came out right. I’ve broken up photos into 6 parts for my blog. So let me begin… At every event, there’s always a team of crew who works together to bring the event to the community. Here’s what goes on behind the scene an hour before the celebration… All that’s to follow happened at Fig & Olive Final discussion to ensure all things were in order 30minutes before the event… Everyone busy getting things ready Preparing the “trophies” for award winners Emcees of the day getting their scripts right The factory-process-line outside Fig & Olive The Ping Pong Bats trophies! Pretty hand-engraved glasses for the Grand Winners by Markchoon.com All set and ready to start! Next up - The Beginning of the Party! Treasure My Love Ones Attended a friend’s grandfather’s wake this evening. I can see how much she cares and loves him. I felt a sharp ache in my heart when she shared her moments with him when he was around. She described how he enjoyed playing Nintendo, how he’ll record korean and taiwan drama for his wife and how he’d enjoyed his final days by eating things he want, drinking the soda he likes and continue to enjoy every minute of being alive. In my mind, I tried to picture my Grandma, Grandpa, my parents and my love ones. I could hardly recall such details and happy moments I have with them. Especially my Grandma and Grandpa. I grew up living with them till I was in Primary 4. Returned back to stay with my parents since Primary 5 since I was old enough to take care of myself when my parents were at work. I love my Grandma and Grandpa very much. They are the ones who took care of me since birth and they provided me home, love and many happy times during my fond childhood. They would buy my favorite food for me (hence the chubby me) and they would bring me to the arcades during weekends. They pampered me with toys, books and almost everything I wanted. I am their eldest grandchild so I receive lots of love from them. I’m thankful that both of them are still around. But due to a complex history, my grandpa is not living with grandma now. The last time I saw him was 3 years ago. And all I could do was ask grandma if he’s ok. No one from my family could see him. He’s living with his protective and selfish family. I don’t know the truth behind this complex relationship, but I just feel very upset that we’re not allowed to visit him. He was very ill when we last saw him, and have been hearing that his condition has improved and deteriorate over the past years. I wish I could visit him, I hope he’ll still remember and recognize his lovely grandchildren if we get to see him again. I want to be able to have more fond and happy memories with my love ones. I want to be able to tell a beautiful life story of my love ones when they’re no longer around. I want to be able to share my beautiful memories with my love ones in the future. I want to treasure them when they’re still around. I want to be able to spend more time with them when I still can. I want to tell their life story here in my blog, to keep a record of them for me, for my children, for my family and my love ones. I want to be able to remember all these memories when I grow old. I want to start compiling their story here and keep them alive here… forever… My Family Story coming soon… Video - Blogger Onboard Sardinia Here’s the video taken at the Intel Centrino 2 launch at Sentosa yesterday. Apologise for not posting of my thoughts as mentioned in my previous post. Not in the right mind to write anything logical today. Just a quick note, if you’re planning to get a laptop soon, hold your horses! Centrino2 is surely worth the wait. Asus and Acer should already have launched their models out in the market today. The rest will come in end July or in August 2008. Keep a look out. Lenovo has quite a few solid models too. You can read more about it at the following blog and sites (thanks to themediaslut, perhaps I shouldn’t have grouped all of them together. Apology to Dairus.)… Darius Chang did a great write-up article over at his blog Cnet. If I’m not wrong, he’s the one with very technical and brain squeezing questions during the Q&A session. Nicholas shares his take on the new chip and happenings at the event. Bernard has another great write up too. He was at the Blogger session at Geek Terminal that night. DAMN YOU!!! I’m pissed! VERY PISSED! Just because I work for Yebber, does it mean that everything I say, everything I do and everything I blog about equals to Yebber? If a blogger works for a web2.0 company in Singapore, this blogger cannot be friend with other bloggers from other web2.0 company? And this blogger cannot voice out his or her thoughts as a friend of the other blogger? What kind of world is this? It’s my blog, its my mouth, its my personal thoughts! And I have my right to do whatever I want! Every blogger is allowed to do that too! You want to say anything you want on your blog, I don’t care! But please don’t mix our personal relationship with our friends with our professional relationship with work can?! Work is work! Personal life is NOT EQUAL to work can?! What the hell is wrong with you people??? I’m tired. As mentioned on plurk, I’m leaving. I’m quitting. Just need time to settle my unfinished work. And I’ll be gone. Gone in whatever Web2.0 sites. I’m happier with my life when I wasn’t “known” or “popular” in these places. I missed those days where I can blog about anything I want without having to worry that I’m being watched or someone will find fault with me with the words I say in my blog. DAMN YOU GUYS! Come Sail With Me and the Power of Intel Centrino2 It was a great great event! Lovely venue, beautiful scenery, great weather and with so many powerful chips! Very sleepy and tired now, so I shall let the photos do the talking for me. More thoughts on the event and Intel chip in the next post. (After my post on the NE Show firework video!) Intel Centrino2 Press Event at OneDegree15 @ Sentosa Cove We were there for this chip What’s so great about this tiny chip? More in my next post. These beauties were all installed with the mighty tiny chip… This attracted all the female (and some male) guests. This was huge! 18+” laptop! This is sexy! I like! G50 by Asus - Should be out in the market when you see this post. Look out for it at your friendly electronic store! After a great buffet lunch at Latitude Bistro, it was time for the bloggers group to head out to sea! For members only! Erm… I highly advice all of you to NOT do this! Brian has practiced this stunt for many years. So kids! Don’t try this at home! We went onboard Sardinia Where we witnessed the powerful speed of WiMax by Qmax. After testing out the speed of WiMax, bloggers do what they do best, they camwhored! This time it was quite a tricky task. Camwhoring on a moving boat and trying to balance oneself is NOT easy ok! Video coming up in next post! I was busy camwhoring too! But not with myself, but with the beautiful scenery surrounding us. I love the fluffy clouds and breathe taking view! I want a house at Sentosa Cove!! Luxury living under construction I loveee this view!! The journey ended too soon… I wonder when will I ever have a chance to go onboard again. Big thanks to Brian and Tania for the invitation! You rock! As mentioned, more thoughts and details of the chips in my next post. And if you’re not afraid of getting motion sickness, stay tune for my shaky video clip! Blogging Live onboard Sardinia Bloggers onboard Sardinia Bloggers experiencing through true surfing onboard a boat out at sea! Typing on a moving boat is damn difficult can? Left-right-left-right-left-right… yap! That’s how I’m moving now! Ok, I’m getting sea-sick soon! Logging off… more on this wonderful experience later! Wow! Big wave just passed us! Wahahahahaha! What’s your ideal job? Guess I’ve reached the point where I start to relook at what I want to achieve in my life. (Yap, I do that very often for the past couple of years.) Every time, I’ll ask myself a question and see where my answers will go from there. Question to ponder this round… “What’s my ideal job?” If there’s a job that’ll fit perfectly in my list of answers, I’ll most probably be jumping into it in no time. If you know of any openings that fits into my list, please please please contact me ASAP ok? So that I’ll not miss out on this opportunity! Claud’s resume can be found here. Wahahahahaha!! Claudia’s Ideal Job will be… one that allows me to work anytime I want. It should still have an office with a table for me to go to, but I can choose to start work anytime and end work as late as I want. Preferably with vending machines for coffee and snacks with a cosy corner for staff to chill and relax. SWEET! one that allows me to wear whatever I want to work. T-shirt and shorts and sandals! COOL! one that pays me what I deserve! Nope! $2.4k is sooo not enough! Imagine the amount of bills, insurance and expenses I have every month! (And with the house that I’ll have to pay for in couple of years to come!) I’m sure there are many companies out there that can do A LOT better than just $2.4k/mth right? one that gives me room to experiment, learn, fail and advance. I’m one person who cannot live in a boring job. I need lots of excitement and new areas for me to explore to in my job. one with a dynamic team of fun and happening friends to work with. one that’ll not stop me from attending any blogger (Social Media) event that I want to go. one that’ll reward their staff according to their performance at work. one that’ll remember everyone’s birthday and also hold parties for everyone during Christmas and any major holidays the company celebrates. “Claud! Are you crazy?? Where got such good job in this world? If have I also want lah!” Yap! Who don’t want this kind of job right? Claud is determine to continue the quest for her ideal job. If she cannot find it, she might just start one on her own! Wahahahahaha!! SOooo… What’s YOUR ideal job? UPDATED Interestingly, I saw a twit by benkoe and I have to agree with what Charlene said… “At a career management course for HBS alumni, I learned that a person typically gets sick of a job after 18 months. This is a natural cycle, as you go through the excitement of learning a new job, become expert at it, and then gradually, it gets routine. So the advice I got was to plan for job obsolescence every 18 months. This didn’t mean that I had to leave the company and go to a new place – it had more to do with redefining my current job first to incorporate new challenges” Perhaps I’m a faster learner (or at least I think I’ve already learned all the things I can), 18mths seem too long for me. Perhaps 13 or 15 months will probably be the end for me. Unless something damn good or exciting takes place. ((PLUG)) - FINAL 3 DAYS! TAKE PART NOW! Closing date 18 July 2008! Hurry! Don’t miss the chance of winning the latest Motorola V9 Ferrari Edition Phone! You may just be the one who’ll get to flaunt this cool 3G phone on the street! E27 Unconference Singapore [Warning: Extremely long post + videos!] Spent my entire Saturday at Matrix @ Biopolis for E27 Unconference. I reached SUPER early due to miscalculation of traveling time. Registration starts at 11.30am but I was already there at 10.15am! Bumped into Ridz outside Matrix and decided to go up to disturb whoever’s setting up there. Many interesting start-ups showcased their project and there was also a Guitar Hero 3 challenge by Microsoft. Had a few rounds of it and it’s pretty fun. But fingers got cramp after awhile. Grand winner actually walk back with a set of Xbox 360! I wonder who won it. Anyway, back to the unconference. Finally at around 1pm, everyone gathered into the main theater for the keynote by Daniel Ingitaraj from Microsoft. Some notes and highlight can be found on Brian’s Plurk. After a rather interesting Q&A session, it was time for the pitches by the start-ups. As described by someone on twitter (can’t remember the userid! any clue?), it was a mixed bag of pitches. Few which I’ve already seen and heard about, and some hearing for the first time. Just a personal thought, they should hire a PR or Communication person to handle such pitches. (also evidenced here) Some highlights and thoughts on the start-up pitches by Brian here. Few pitches that I like and see potential (IMHO) are Widgeo.us, Gothere.sg and Homespace.sg. The amazing crowd at the Unconference Finally after 10 pitches, 2.5hrs of sitting and butt-aches, it was time for a break and then the breakout sessions. It was the main reason I was there. And am glad that it turned out pretty good and interesting. Sessions attended were on Enterprise 2.0 and Social Media in Asia Pacific. Both topic pretty close to my heart since I’m involved in Yebber. James Ong from Origami Frontiers discussed what is Enterprise 2.0 and how it can be implemented in the corporate world. Some local companies who are involved in the development of Enterprise 2.0 for corporate were mentioned. Namely, Techsailor (hearing it for the first time), Zopim (first heard at PopOut) and Figment (an interactive digital media and virtual world agency for Asia). He discussed that Enterprise 2.0 is very much the empowerment for the communities. However, it is important to have some form of governance in the communities. And it is important to blend Enterprise 2.0 into the existing system in place, such as ERP and CRM within the corporation. When he presented on the community development lifecycle, I was nodding my head in agreement. Although the process seem very simple and easy, however to implement it is a very tough process. Right at the start of this lifecycle is to mobilize people to join in the community. This is the toughest and most critical start for any community. With my experience at Yebber, we try to encourage and motivate our thousands of daily visitors to sign-up in order to enjoy the full features and more exciting things that’s to come. However, users are generally lazy to sign-up for such communities unless they’ve the intention to participate in the reviews or commenting of reviews. For users who’re just visiting to read and get information on the businesses, they will not see the need to register. (I’ve got more thoughts on this lifecycle, shall discuss this in another post.) Next breakout session was on Social Media in Asia Pacific region. Chairing this session was Gavin Foo from Fleishman-Hillard. It was a great session with many experts in this field sharing their thoughts and experiences with everyone present. Since I’ve got the entire session recorded (YES! 50mins of holding the camera in my hand! I could feel the heat and cramp loh! But its worth every pain of it), I shall not write too much. If you’d missed this session, you can watch the following videos… broken up into 5 parts as the file was too huge to post as a single video. Part 1: Gavin shared his experience with his client who took up the Social Media way of getting their brand out to their target audiences. Part 2: Can we trust all the reviews posted by bloggers? How do we know if its true and not an advertorial? + Social Media = Word of mouth marketing + Difference in social media approaches within Asia Pacific + Be in the audience shoes + CTR is not as valid in Social Media. Part 3: Measuring returns for Social Media effort + Any tools to measure conversations? + Should corporations enter Social Media now? (YES!! Of course!! Social Media is here to STAY!) Part 4: The swift of social media every 3 years + Future of web browsing going to be virtual 3D worlds? + Brian plugging Seth Godin + Creditability of Bloggers + Crisis Management Part 5: Is it right for PR agencies to pay bloggers for advertorial/article? + Paying vs Perks vs Non-monetary returns for bloggers Psss… Daryl Tay: This is the kind of discussion, which can take place and discussed further at the Social Media Breakfast. Perhaps we can incorporate some form of structure to enhance discussions in SMB3? Overall it was a great event and great work by the team at E27. Congrats them for such a successful event! Looking forward to attending more in the future. Here’s what others have got to say about the event… List of all startups at this Unconference by Daniel (he’s in one of the videos above) More thoughts on the keynote by Chin Yong (His thoughts on start-up pitches here and here.) Thoughts by Jonathan Wong (he’s in one of the videos above) Thoughts by Hisham Thoughts by Bernard Leong My 1st 5-minutes with Google Lively Today there were people Plurking about this Virtual world Google released. Since it doesn’t work on mac, I tried it before I left office today. It’s almost my first 5-min in any virtual world environment. Have tried Secondlife for less than 5-min and I didn’t know what to do already. I’m jus too stupid for these kind of things I think. Google’s version is not as complex as Secondlife, and the characters look more cartoonist and the screen size of the world is rather small. I’ll probably have to spend more time trying it out over the weekend from home. (Reminds self to bring back the laptop.) Connection at office is just not sufficient for such heavy loadings. Here are 2 screenshots I took… this is me in the virtual world! Ha! I wanted to make a bigger sizes one, but there wasn’t any control to adjust the size of the characters! Those weird looking characters are members who’s new in the room I guess. Or they’re in process of changing themselves. Seriously, I don’t know why the character has to stand like that! So auntie lah!!! I think I look like a chao ah lian in there. WAHAHAHAHA!!! UPDATED Have tried playing around more and I’ve also created my own rooms! It’s almost like playing THE SIMS! I used to love THE SIMS few years back. This sure brings back some fun memories. So Many Prizes up for Grab! Huat Ah! There’s so many exciting things happening recently. Did you miss any of my “Good-Thing-Must-Share” posts? F1 tickets, PC and Mobile Phones up for grab! What are you waiting for? Check the contests out and stand a chance to be a winner! Come come! Let’s HUAT AH! Win the latest HP Touchsmart PC! Closing: 12 July 2008 at 0000hr! CLICK HERE for details! Win the stylish Motorola V9 Ferrari 3G Mobile phone! Closing: 18 July 2008 at 2359hr! There’s 6 pairs of GV Movie Tickets up for grab too!! CLICK HERE for details! Win a pair of Singapore F1 Race tickets!! Closing: 31 July 2008! CLICK HERE for details! And!!!! If you’re on Ping.sg, go vote for me! And come join us at the 2nd Ping.sg Anniversary Party next Saturday!! Great prizes up for grab that night too!!! Watch for more details coming up on Ping.sg! SIGN-UP NOW! CLICK HERE for details! HUAT AH!!! Wahahahahahaha!!! Come Play Wiith Me! Here’s what I got for my birthday! Thanks everyone for the lovely gifts! And there’s one that even my brother and mother is addicted to!! Anyone want to come play with me? What’s there to play you ask? Come come… let me show you… First, here’s what I got from my friends… Closer look at the lovely bracelet Sexy blusher from bodyshop… Giant Birthday Card And a super strong one that can withstand 150kg of human! What can it be?? . . . . A giant teddy bear? . . . . An ugly Donkey Kong? . . . . . It’s NONE of the above! . . . . . . It’s the amazingly addictive Wii Fit! THANK YOU ALL SOOO VERY MUCH!! Love all the presents!! I’m determined to stay fit and *cough* slim *cough* down *cough*. Exercising and having fun has never been easier and more fun than with Wii Fit! Everyone should just buy one set and use it man! It tracks your exercise routines and level of fitness too! More on that in future Wii Fit posts (if I’ve time to create the videos! ha!) Here’s a quick demo of my family playing the Wii Fit… (starring my brother! wahahaha!! Hope he don’t read my blog! Or he’ll sure kill me!! ROFL!) Video removed. Will upload new one w/o brother later. Wii party coming soon! Wooohoooo!!! Cosmetics for Sale! Ok… some of you might know I’d spent $188 on these which I’ll NEVER use! So instead of keeping them in my room and 2 years later discover it under layers of dust and ended up throwing them away, I’m selling them off at 20% discount! These are all unopened aka BRAND NEW cosmetics. If you’re interested, please contact me via MSN, SMS, Call me, Plurk, Twitter or leave a message here. (Wahahaha! Actually easiest is leave a message here lah! With your email pls.) Items for sale… Shiseido White Lucent (30ml) - up $60… NOW $48 Brightening Control Base (Ivory) with SPF 33.PA+++ Shiseido The Makeup Concealer Correcteur (4ml) - up $39… NOW $31.20 Shiseido Maquillage Neo Climax Lip - up $43… NOW $34.40 Color: RS344 Shiseido Maquillage Design Remake Powder - up $46 NOW $36.80 *All discounted prices is fixed. No further discount will be given. C.O.D. Meet up to be arranged. A little history about the above cosmetics. I went for a free makeover by Shiseido and was physco-ed to buy these items. Initially I just planned to get the super cool lip gloss but the sales lady was very nice and I didn’t know how to say no! (That’s me! My weakest link! Its hard for me to say no to friendly and nice people.) So I ended up buying all the products she’d recommended me! Crazy ok! Alright, so who wants to adopt these lovely cosmetics from me? The Internet is DEVIL I’ve been greatly disturbed and distracted by many things that happened lately. Now that I’ve my thoughts almost sorted out, perhaps its time for me to post it. I was looking for a phrase or a few words to describe the mess created by bloggers. And “The Internet is DEVIL” came to mind. Seriously I blame it all to the INTERNET! Due to the convenience and speed information is being passed around the Internet, everyone’s taking advantage and many have forgotten the real world. The world where touch and smiles are exchanged. I admit I spent too much time online. Too much time wasted on the Internet. But after witnessing so much things that could happen within such a used-to-be-closely knitted group of people. Its scaring me. Have everyone forgot about how it feels to hurt someone? Scolding and bitching about a person is so much easier online. Try doing that in real life. If you’re human, will you do this to your friends or even people whom you’re only acquittance with? Being an online gangster is much simple as you only need to use your fingers and words to kill. Really, words can kill. And worst still, online-killing can be anonymous! Use whatever nicknames you want and post comments everywhere. It allows anyone to have multiple identities. Maybe those very close to you may be the ones adding on to the fire! It’s really seriously very very scarey! Hence one should learn what to be taken seriously and what to just read-and-forget. Perhaps someone should try filming “Catch me if you can 2 - the online version”. I have friends whom I’d met online from forums and mIRC more than 10 years ago. Up till today, we’re still friends. And I treasure these friendship. And I’m going to treasure all the new ones found on the communities I’m now active in. No matter if I’m still in the community or not. I believe real friends will never break-up due to things other friends or acquaintance say. As friends, we should trust what we see and believe in them. And not judge them based on what others say. Very often, my instincts are almost 99% true. When I get to know someone, I’ll usually be able to tell whether or not we will ever become friends or forever remains as the “Hi! Bye!” group of friends. And the remaining 1%, its when I missed interpreted and trusted the wrong kind. Looking at all that happened, for the past year, my instincts has been pretty accurate. Vote NOW! Ping Blog Awards II! It’s time to cast your votes on the infamous Singapore Blog Award by Omy.sg Ping.sg! The list of finalist is now available at Ping.sg! Did you see anyone familiar there? YAP! Me iz shortlisted too!! Yeah!! Thanks to the dear people at Ping.sg for their support! So now! YOU! YES YOU! STOP reading this and GO VOTE for claudia.sg your favorite finalist now! Vote For Me Vote For Me And don’t forget to vote for Lunch With Yebber too!! Vote For Lunch With Yebber WAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Voting will close on Thursday, 24 July 2008 18:00. HP Latest Desktop PC leh! You don’t want meh? Remember I won my Ninetendo Wii console the other time? NOW you’ve got a chance to win the latest, to be released, HP TouchSmart PC!!! More about the TouchSmart IQ500 here. So good you don’t want meh? THIS CAN BE YOURS!! All you need to do is to tell me What will your life be like with HP TouchSmart? (Post your creative idea in the comments section of this post) Imagine… this sexy and sleek babe sitting right in the center of the living room where your entire family will get to use this as the communication platform, for entertainment and for viewing all the SEXY photos and videos you took during your holiday trips! Shiok right?? For more details of the HP TouchSmart IQ500 desktop pc, please visit their official website or watch the video below for a quick glance of its ultra sexy TOUCHY features!. I was there to touch it for the first time when it just arrived in Singapore! And I tell you!! It’s really very SEXY lah! So what you waiting for? Submit your most creative ideas now!! If your idea is the most SEXY and creative and you’re the FIRST person to post it, you’ll get to have one HP TouchSmart to touch all you want!! And I get to get one too! Cool right? So ya! Come come! Start touching your not-as-sexy-keyboard now! Contest ends at 0000hr on 12 July 2008!! Leave a comment in this post and tell me What will your life be like with HP TouchSmart? Just a few guidelines for the contests: Only Singaporean based bloggers and readers are entitled to participate in the competition Collection of prizes by bloggers only (Bloggers to receive prize on behalf of readers) Bloggers need to ensure that all the comments are time-stamped. For different/duplicate ideas on different blogs, the earliest one will be selected. Winners will be determined by the staff at HP and winners will be announced here on 18 July 2008 at 1500hr. Or you can also give a chance to the following bloggers: Krisandro or Jacelyn or Nadnut or Yin … more to come soon… Pingsters Pizza Outing + Surprise Bday Cake! How it all began… About 1 week ago, I saw a mysterious post on Ping.sg forum about a Pizza outing by this mysterious guy call coffeeblack. Not knowing what it was about, I MSN Daryl to check since he was the other guy being mentioned in the forum. The next thing I know, I was dragged into this mass orgy chat in MSN! There I discovered what was happening and eventually signed up for the outing since it was on my birthday! Hence, for the entire of today yesterday, I have been looking forward to the gathering and craving for the yummy pizzas. At 6pm, the kaisu Kris, Daphne and myself took a cab, got stuck in massive jam, paid $21 for cab fare, and finally reached Goodwood Greenwood Avenue at 6.30pm!!! Corridor of the restaurant Feeling SUPER hungry and to waste the hour together while waiting for the rest to arrive, we ordered some finger food to fill our tummies. We ordered… A basket of brown balls which Daphne loves Beef Balls @ $8 And a basket of super crispy and slightly spicy wings Chix Wings @ $8 Soon Uray, Wendy and Joey (birthday boy aka my evil twin) arrived. Where we adjourned to the tables inside which was set-up for our reservations. Inside L-Estaminet (next door of Peperoni Pizzeria) The bar counter inside L-Estaminet The place is very cosy and has a very old style kind of feel to it. There’s also a backyard with outdoor dining, and a private glass room (which would probably be better for our group size to be in), but it was already taken by other guests. Slowly the rest of the gang joined us at the table. Over the next hour, the table was slowly filled up with 18 pingsters. Namely… Uzyn, Sek Ling, Daphne, Arzhou, Krisandro, KKNN, Wendy, Uray, Chaosdingo, Me, Abang, Jerrick, Nadia, Daniel, Rinaz, Sheylara, Daryl and Ironicgamer. (will link everyone up tomorrow when I’m more sober. haha!) Something caught Chaosdingo eyes and I was shocked too when I saw it! I looked at the menu again, and stared at the many many glasses of ice water on our table. This dinner was going to cost us a fortune if they’re really charging $200 for ice water!! Good thing it was just a joke, I think. No charge for the ice water. Which by the way, tasted too much like tap water. Yap! It’s directly from the tap! Besides the Chix Wings, the other 2 dishes that I would love to eat again if I go back are… Alfunghi Pizza @ $21 for large (12inch) You can actually have 2 different toppings for a large pizza! We didn’t know it since Jerrick was later and we’ve already ordered our second round of pizzas. Portobello Mushroom @ $15 This is VERY VERY good! Although I just ate like a tiny piece of it, but it’s surely worth the $15! And the BEST thing is, they DO NOT charge any 10% service charge!! And the 7% GST is already included in the price stated in the menu. Total bill for tonight was $458. Not too expensive, considering the number of beers we ordered. Hope to go back again when I’m around that area. If not, its just too far and ulu to go on my own just for the food. Thanks everyone for the great dinner, great company, great surprise and great night!! One of the best I’ve had so far!! Looking forward to many more birthday parties with Pingsters again! Uray’s NEXT!!! Ending this post with the only THREE photos I have with human… With 3 pretty and young ladies, KKNN, Wendy and Uray (I’m OLD already! Sadness!) With the humsum chaosdingo (This picture of u nice right? :P) And finally with my dearest Abang!! Although he’s very exhausted after his reservist training under the hot hot sun the entire day, he still came and accompanied me till night. Really really appreciate his love and care towards me. Thank you Abang!! I love you very very very much!! MUACK!!! F1 Tickets up for grab! Good thing must share! All you need is to sign-up at PHOTOfrenz to stand a chance to win one of the 3 pairs of F1 Tickets!! How much easier can it be?? Was introduced to PHOTOfrenz by one of the partner today on Yebber shoutbox. At first I thought it was just another photo printing service provider. But when I saw the site, this image of a F1 car attracted me! And after some questioning with him on the shoutbox, it’s confirmed that one only needs to sign-up to get a chance to win!! So what are you waiting for? Go sign-up now lah! Insatiable The original version here. Our Song in super duper cool remix! Come dance with me! Insatiable - Darren Hayes When moonlight crawls along the street Chasing away the summer heat Footsteps outside somewhere below The world revolves I let it go We build our church above this street We practice love between these sheets The candy sweetness scent of you It bathes my skin I’m stained by you And all I have to do is hold you There’s a racing in my heart I am barely touching you Turn the lights down low Take it off Let me show My love for you Insatiable Turn me on Never stop Wanna taste every drop My love for you Insatiable The moonlight plays upon your skin A kiss that lingers takes me in I fall asleep inside of you There are no words There’s only truth Breathe in Breathe out There is no sound We move together up and down We levitate our bodies soar Our feet don’t even touch the floor And nobody knows you like I do The world doesn’t understand But I grow stronger in your hands Turn the lights down low Take it off Let me show My love for you Insatiable Turn me on Never stop Wanna taste every drop My love for you Insatiable Turn the lights down low Take it off Let me show My love for you Insatiable Turn me on Never stop Wanna taste every drop My love for you Insatiable We never sleep we’re always holdin’ hands Kissin’ for hours talkin’ makin’ plans I feel like a better man Just being in the same room We never sleep there’s just so much to do Too much to say Can’t close my eyes when I’m with you Insatiable the way I’m loving you Turn the lights down low Take it off Let me show My love for you Insatiable Turn me on Never stop Wanna taste every drop My love for you Insatiable Turn the lights down low Take it off Let me show My love for you Insatiable Turn me on Never stop Wanna taste every drop My love for you Insatiable Very romantic and lovely song isn’t it? Happy Birthday Claud!! HapPy bIrtHdaY tO… me HapPy bIrtHdaY tO… me HapPy bIrtHdaY tO… Claudia HapPy bIrtHdaY tO… ME!!! Wishing Claud many many happy returns! Wahahahahaha! The above are photos of Claud from 5 years ago till now! Claud has changed a lot right? She’s so old already!! HapPy bIrtHdaY to cHaoSdIngo too!!! All the best my humsum evil “twin”! One day before I was born Don’t know why, but I popped by Rednano today. And I found out about this… 2 July 1981 Rollei loses battle for survival German camera maker Rollei folded up after 11 years of operation in Singapore. Poor sales, weak global economy and strong Japanese competition were the reasons cited. The company came under receivership. Its parent company in Germany, Rollei Braunschweig, too had been under receivership. In Singapore, 4,000 workers were expected to lose their jobs Just find it interesting cos it’s like 1 day before I was born, and I’m so much into photography. Thought it’ll be cool to just blog and remembers it. Haha! Wonders what’ll be the find of the day tomorrow… Explosion at PUB Building Few minutes ago, one of my colleague shouted that there’s an explosion at PUB building at Somerset. Then I remembered two of my uncles are working in that building! Quickly SMS them to see if they’re alright. One of them called and told me that there was an explosion in the maintenance room on the highest floor. And his was on the 2nd. Everyone evacuated from the building. Colleague’s girlfriend is working in a school nearby, everyone around the building also evacuated to safe zones. Just relieved that my uncles are both well and fine. From ST online… FOUR workers were injured in a flash fire which broke out at the Singapore Power building on Somerset Road at 10.10am on Wednesday. One worker suffered burns while the others came down with smoke inhalation. The fire triggered a 15-minute power outage in the vicinity, and prompted mass evacuation of office staff in several buildings in the area. It is understood that a switch gear in a room on the third floor of the SingPower sparked off the electrical fire. Office workers in the area heard a loud explosion, followed by black smoke rising from the building. Some buildings in the area reported power failures, and immediately evacuated staff as a safety measure. Some 500 workers in the SingPower building were asked to leave their premises and move outdoor. The building management of The Heeren, which is about 300 metres away, also evacuated some 30 people from the shopping centre. Mr Jae Liew, 41, a relations manager at The Heeren said he heard a ‘loud bang’, which immediately triggered a blackout in the building. He added that the traffic lights in the area also went out of order. A spokesman for SingPower said power was restored within 15 minutes.