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Win Tickets to “Treasury Of The World” Exhibition At Asian Civilisations Museum Today!

Note: This contest is officially closed. Thank you for your support and participation. Winners will be announced shortly.

You guessed right.  I have FIVE pairs of tickets to give away.  It is open for all readers.  The only catch is, you have to turn up at the museum’s front desk any time during the exhibition to collect your free tickets.  And the exhibition is in Singapore, after making its appearance at prestigious museums like the Louvre in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.  Read on to find out how you can win a pair of tickets today!  This contest will be closed on Feb 8 (Mon).

From what I learned during the blogger event hosted by the museum, “Treasury of the World” is a stunning collection of exquisite, jewelled works of art in the era of the Mughal Empire (here is the link to Wikipedia).  The lavish lifestyle of the Mughals (1526-1858), their love of beauty and precious objects, British ambassador Tomas Roe once described Emperor Jahangir who was dressed in his finery the treasury of the world.

You may have heard of Taj Mahal.  It is built during the reign of Shah Jahan and is one of the monuments created during the era of the Mughal Empire.  With such a colorful history, although I am more of a painting admirer kind of person, I am keen to check out what being lavish means in that era.

*     *     THE CONTEST     *     *

Here is how this contest works.  You have to email your full name to me by Feb 8, 2010 (my email address is here) together with the answers to my questions listed below.  Winners will be announced in my website and tickets are to be collected at the museum.  You may not need to answer every question and to get every answer correct.  However, getting them right or even attempting to get them right will increase your chances of winning.  I doubt if I would get an overwhelming response.  But if it is so, I will videotape the lucky draw process to demonstrate my … erm … fairness.  Of course you won’t see my face.  But rest assured that I will hire someone very pretty to do my job.

Question 1 is mandatory.  Your response will give me something to write, when I announce the winners.  Questions 2 through 8 are based on the slideshow I have put together below (materials courtesy of the museum and The al-Sabah Collection), this blog entry, and a little bit of luck.  Are you ready?

  1. Tell me something about your visit to museums.  For example, how often do you visit a museum?  What kind of art do you enjoy seeing?  What do you get out of an exhibition?  Do you visit alone?  And etc.
  2. (Optional) Who is described as being the treasury of the world?
  3. (Optional) What is a sarpech (slide #1)?
  4. (Optional) What was the original number of stones (slide #2)?
  5. (Optional) Whose image is on this pendant (slide #3)?
  6. (Optional) How many inscriptions are on this stone (slide #4)?
  7. (Optional) How tall is that small bottle set in cm (slide #5)?
  8. (Optional) What is the diameter of the bracelet set in cm (slide #6)?
  9. Which is your favorite website?

Thank you for your participation.  Below is the slideshow that I have put together for you.  Feel free to mouse over the image and give it a pause if you wish to read the text. Images courtesy of © The al-Sabah Collection, Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, Kuwait (LNS 959 J).

*     *     ADDITIONAL INFO    *     *

Venue is at Special Exhibitions Gallery, Asian Civilisations Museum 1 Empress Place, Singapore 179555.

Admission charges as follows. 

  • $8 (adults) / $4 (concession); Family package at $20 for up to 5 pax.
  • Free admission for children aged 6 and below and seniors aged 60 and above every day (locals and PRs only). 50% off for foreigners aged 60 and above.
  • 50% discount every Friday, 7-9pm

Opening hours: Mon, 1pm-7pm; Tues to Sun: 9am – 7pm (to 9pm on Fri).

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Nokia Comes With Music Vouchers For You To Grab! Hurry!

Contest, A Contest!

Latest update 31/10/2009: This contest is now closed.  I thank you for your support and participation.

Dear Readers of My Site,

For months, some of you may have heard again and again how happy I am with Nokia Comes With Music’s unlimited songs download.  If you are residing in Singapore, you stand a very good chance to win yourself a S$200 voucher.

All because I love you!

Nokia has allocated a bunch of vouchers for my readers, you.  All you need to do is hurry, email the answers of the questions below to …

You will stand a very good chance to win the S$200 voucher. You can use it to buy a Nokia Comes With Music device, for yourself, or your lover, or your lover’s mom slash dad slash best friend.  Or you could give it to your best friend!  Are you ready for the questions?  They are:

  1. What is the top International Single on the Nokia Music Store charts in Singapore this week?
  2. List three free tracks currently available on the Nokia Music Store in Singapore.
  3. List three new releases in the Singapore Nokia Music Store this week.

OK.  These are not easy questions.  But because I love you, you may wish to head to the Nokia Music Store to hunt for your answers (best open with Microsoft Internet Explorer).  Play around with the banner, OK?  Oh crap.  I hope I won’t get into trouble by saying too much.

Best of luck!  And spread the words!

Cheers,
Wilfrid

PS. To read more on Nokia Comes With Music, please click here.  The winners will be selected based on Nokia’s discretion.

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Sup, Man? – Of Bad Jokes, Nokia OVI, Earth Hour, Spanish, World of Warcraft, and My Band

Yep, those are my sleepy eyes ...

My original intend of this post is to pen down two quick and rather short announcements for my regular readers – you.  Then my mind wanders, as always.  And I think I do have this whole bag of mundane little insignificant what-I-have-been-up-to updates that I too wish to share.  Besides, if you are a regular, you must have a very high tolerance of a long wall of text, loving the pain of reading so many words from an Internet browser.  And I must not disappoint with just 2 bullet points.  Yes?  Si!

On Website Contents Sales: OK, part one of my previous post was meant to be an April Fool joke (and part two was a real life account of one that played onto me).  I do have people coming up to me concerned about my mental health.  Oh well.  I suck at making jokes, period.  To be clear, between you and me, I am not going to deliver the DVD or Blu-ray disc to you on April Fool’s day, next year.

On Nokia OVI: You all know how much I love to use Nokia OVI to jazz up my website.  They have rolled out a new version (codename Fishbowl?).  It’s very pretty.  In fact, if you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer, you can check out this particular post.  The not-so-good news is that this new Fishbowl has caused quite a disruption to all my previous (and future) posts as most of them are not working.  As of today, I have about 40 blog entries that use the old Nokia OVI slideshow flash player displaying close to 1,000 photos.  Redoing the entries and re-uploading the photos in reverse order (don’t ask) seems like a lot of work.  Let’s see which one of these events happens first: Nokia OVI gets fixed or an alternative comes out from nowhere.

On Earth Hour: Some are curious on what I did during the Earth Hour.  Yes, light was off, candlelight was out, and if it was a girl, I would name her … OK, jokes aside.  I was at home.  Everything was off except my refrigerator.  And time flew by so quickly that before I knew it, it was 9.30pm.  The stars were so beautiful.

On Spanish:  Yes, Cynthia and I are still going strong on learning Spanish.  Our teacher is stunningly attractive, vividly chatty.  At the end of the last lesson, she asked, “Have I been using enough Spanish during the class?”  To be honest, with her strong accent, I couldn’t tell if she was speaking Spanish or English.  Either way, I don’t understand.  Either way, she sounds lovely.

On Holiday: Paris or Barcelona?  We are still contemplating.  I know Paris inside out and the airfare is much cheaper.  Then again, we’ve learned Spanish so wouldn’t it good to try it out in real life?

On the Band: Ever since our public performance at The Heeren, everyone in our band seems to have run out of steam.  So, what’s up this year?  Apparently our band manager has sourced out an opportunity to perform inside a rather posh restaurant.  And because of this, we have an urgent band meeting this Easter to brainstorm on what we should be playing for this event.  I reckon song lyrics like “this raging heart, this fire in my soul, you hurt my preciousness I erase your face” probably won’t fly in a restaurant.  So I propose to rewrite my own lyrics to “this pounding heart, this fire in my pants, you are my preciousness I adore your face”.  What do you think?

On Gaming: Yes, once a gamer, always a gamer.  These days, Cynthia and I have spent more time inside the World of Warcraft than a Cathay Cineplex.  And I got Mark (or Darkspore) back into the game too, after his 2 years of hiatus.  All of a sudden, our guild is growing, ahead of the stock market recovery (I often think that gaming industry is recession-proof).  People ask if I feel bored playing the same game for years, since 2004.  Well, it is like a game of basketball or football, it’s more than just passing the balls around.

On Digital Jukebox: Besides going into dungeons and slaying dragons, much of my evenings and weekends I spend time on ripping my audio CDs into a lossless format (flac) and store them into my brand new network-attached storage device.  All thanks to Mat and TK and their irresistible temptation.  I am hopeless when it comes to technology and I am lost when it comes to audio formats.  TK introduced me to EAC (Exact Audio Copy) and as the name suggests, it is a pretty neat tool to create an exact copy from a CD.  But 15 minutes per CD?!  TK is a perfectionist.  I just want to get over and done with ripping my 800+ music albums.  I think I must have ripped more than 100 albums as of today, using Media Monkey (3 minutes per disc).  And the last piece of the jigsaw puzzle for the completion of my dream digital jukebox is on its way from US (time for me to tempt TK to spend $$).  I am excited.

On …

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Speaking Up Not As Secretary of Association of Bloggers (Singapore)

Ever since the local news is out after my interview with The Straits Times (scanned copy)  and Jayne’s with TODAY  (scanned page #1 and page #2), I have received numerous personal messages from my friends and families.  Thank you for your support and I hear your concerns.  This is not an easy time for me, nor is it an easy decision to make.  I hear your questions and I would like to shed some lights on my side of the story, in my personal capacity, for those who wish to know more, as a friend.  I will not address to specific questions on the association here as you may find more answers from the temporary website’s FAQ section.  This website is my personal space to share my thoughts and my hobbies with my families and friends and new friends from the online world.  I wish you could respect that.

  • Two Options, Period – I have two options.  Step down like the rest or step up and drive this legal entity forward.  Personally I feel that there is a certain level of responsibility when I agree to a role offered, when I have signed a legal binding document submitted to the government.  Beyond that, even if I were to step down, I would prefer to have a transition period to help the next team on board to come up to speed, to minimize the impact to this entity.  And given these two options, I choose to step up, institute change that will take the association forward.  I can only do so if I stay on.
  • Why the Rest Have Stepped Down – The Straits Times reported that it is due to the family and work commitment.  Some friends asked me how true it is.  While I cannot and should not speculate the reasons behind (as decisions are made more than the rationale mind, there are emotions and background involved as well), here is what I can share with you.  We were ecstatic as a team when we first announced the news publicly (you can trace back our previous entries) but what came next were pure stress for all of us.  Most if not all of us were actively monitoring the responses from the public, from the Blogosphere, and we have dedicated a team to be on the ground and address these responses.  The initial response was largely not good, I admit.  It was (still is) very draining and stressful if you may imagine and it added strain to work and relationship and studies, for those weeks of the Internet that never slept.  That much I can share with you.  I respect those who were in the talented team.  They are great people to work with.  I wish the working relationship could have lasted longer.
  • Guilt by Association – I am aware that Jayne does not have an unblemished record when it comes to how she has responded to the public in the past.  My sister has too approached me and offered her words of concern.  I wish we had a prominent unblemished Singaporean blogger who steps up and create an association for the blogging community while raising our profile through networking with valued partners, bringing in high profile projects, but there is none.  Association of Bloggers (Singapore) is first of its kind and if not for Jayne, there will still be no such entity.  But I am not a blind follower.  I will hold her words to see through a transparent AGM (annual general meeting) for the election of the most appropriate leader for the association.  And I can’t see that through if I am not in it.  Jayne, if you are reading this, just so to let you know, I am watching you!
  • A New Untested Platform – Personally, I feel that it is fundamentally challenging to thread the boundaries between strong opposing political views and commercial influence – both we need to stay away because of the Societies Act and the fact that AB(S) is a non-profit organization.  The guiding principle to me would be to mimic Singapore’s unique environment and to maintain the harmony guided by the government.  It is not easy because every decision the team faces has to go through rounds of debate in view of potential abuse.  We are still learning our way in this untested platform.
  • Random Thoughts – I understand we could have been much better off if we were to hold off our announcement until the association is officially launched; I understand we could have been much better off if Jayne didn’t have baggage from the past; but I also understand why we need to move fast because the upcoming high profile projects coming our way that demand us to be so.  I wish the general public has a better understanding on how an association is set up in Singapore; and I wish that the public is more forgiving and to give this entity a chance to grow and evolve.  I still want to help creating something tangible for the good of Singapore.  Besides this primary motivation, I am blessed and motivated with all these opportunities that will make me a better, stronger person.

Now, if I could go back to my happy-go-lucky life and focus on making babies my photography and music and writing, I would much appreciate that.  Thank you for listening to my side of the story.

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Wrath! And the Pebbles Bouncing on the Marble Flooring of the S’pore Sphere – A Metaphor

A photo taken at a zoo in Hong Kong ... these animals have a very nice "voice".

To my readers who may have heard recent shocking news with regards to the brand new Association of Bloggers (Singapore) , well, I am still the secretary who intend to see this through (read my new theme for 2009) together with EastCoastLife.  I believe that challenges and obstacles are there to propel us forward, setbacks are there for us to see how badly we want that something, and if we want it bad enough, the entire universe will conspire to make it happen.  These are borrowed ideas from Paulo Coelho and Randy Pausch.  Those who have worked with me know my style.  Some see a wall and they stop.  I see a wall and find a way to crash through it.  Mark my words: AB(S) is re-grouping for round 2.

Democracy Comes with a Price

Recent events in my life trigger a recollection of an episode that happened last year, in a different setting, rather unrelated to these recent events.  Nevertheless, it has been in my to-blog list for quite some time.

In as much as I wish to see myself as a coffee boy, I am not.  But somehow, during those weeks of working with an International crowd flying from all over the world and into Malaysia, my priority then seemed to evolve around coffee in the morning and the food that we served.  Noises on the ground seemed to have a life on its own, an infectious fire that moved from the topic of workshop logistics to the aggressive inquisition on the leadership’s decisions previous made (read previous blog entry, quite a funny read).  Everybody wants to make decisions, but who is going to do the work?

One evening, my then project director of an African origin looked at me with his usual fatherly eyes, a look that has calmed many turbulent situations throughout the course of our project, and he shook his head and said, “Democracy comes with a price”.  I concurred.  When everybody is talking and nobody is working, when the directions and decisions set by the leaders are in a perpetual cycle of questioning and debate, nothing moves.  [Too much] democracy hinders progress.  Like most established organizations, a good level of chain-of-command is good.

One Message Different Delivery

Recent observation in life triggers my thought on how one single message can be delivered in different ways that has such a high contrast of shock and awe versus nurture with hope.  Hypothetically, I could make a sweeping statement saying that, “Singaporeans complain a lot, too much for the good of our progression of […]”.  I could hypothetically quote examples from my personal experience working overseas, perhaps add on my friend’s true story as well.   This good old friend of mine leads teams within a call center located in Malaysia handling calls from the region.  Let me tell you, he dreads calls from Singapore.  Specifically, Singapore.

That statement probably won’t sit too well with the public.  Hence, the hypothesis.

Alternatively I could quote the late American professor Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture and promote the idea of “Don’t complain, just work harder” (somehow there is an unspoken rule saying that whatever you write is less credible than quoting from other people).  And hope that someone listens.  Hope that people realize that they can be much stronger without being consumed by the negative energy of complaining just a tad too much.

Whether it works or not, at least I have done my part.  Share this with someone: don’t complain, just work harder.

On the Photo in This Blog

When I was studying in Hong Kong, I enjoyed studying at the Zoo located just a stone’s throw from my school in the morning and in the afternoon.  The serenity has its charm.  Once in while, animals from one cage would start to – for lack of a better word – make a lot of loud noises and that would trigger animals from another cage to do likewise.  The next cage, and the next.  Soon, there would be a symphony of animals’ calling that I could immerse into.  Suddenly, the zoo seems alive.  Some noises are just music to the my ears.

I took this photo during my trip to Hong Kong last December.  I wish the animals were not caged like those in Singapore Zoo.  Here is a close-up of that photo with high key effect.  If you see some shadow at the foreground, you are not seeing things.  It’s the cage.

A Close-up

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Association of Bloggers (Singapore) – This Is Your Secretary Speaking

Association of Bloggers (Singapore) - First Group Photo

Here is one secret of mine that no one knows except my mother.  When I was young, I dreamed of being a bus driver.  I would pace around my home in Hong Kong for hours imagining that I was shuttling my passengers around.  Little did I know that instead, I would become a secretary one day.

Maybe I could look cute in skirt.  That’s why our president EastCoastLife has appointed me as the association’s secretary.  When the prominent local blogger EastCoastLife – whom we have been dropping comments at each other’s sites for years – invited me to meet with other Singapore bloggers in person, I was curiously excited.  A series of events since the days of the Singapore F1 that lead to our association formally registered in Singapore – first of its kind.

Hooray!

Blogging is my passion.  And I am excited to be part of this association.  As a first generation immigrant of a country that I love (since 98), I am honored to take part in building something tangible here.  This is my sole motivation.  And as for the key stakeholders – in my personal view – they are (1) Singapore, (2) the public, and (3) the members.  My personal vision of success in mid term is to contribute in building a strong and sustainable blogging community in Singapore as the frontier of the New Media.  Some of you know that I have been a Management Consultant for more than a decade before moving into the industry and now helping to drive global initiatives.  I aim to bring along my experience of working with the leaders of the organizations – both profit and non-profit – into this new association.

Back to this secretary role, I hope it is just about taking minutes, co-signing cheques, answering phone calls, buying takeaway, babysitting bosses’ toddlers, taking pictures, and screaming at everybody but the bosses.  I mean, that is the job description of a secretary right?

Above are some of the pictures taken during one of our meetings (note: written consent required by the association before used).  Below are the links to the websites of our founding members.  They are really fun people to be with, so much talents from a diverse background.  I can’t say too much on the upcoming events now and we shall hear it from our media team later (hmmm … where have I put my media team hat).  Stay tuned!  This is a beginning of many great things to come ~ to quote EastCoastLife.

PS. Association of Bloggers (Singapore) is covered by Today’s TODAY newspaper, the morning edition.

Association of Bloggers (Singapore) – Committee Members

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Year 2008 Movie Awards – The Nominations by the Movie Review Squad

Movies that We've Watched in Year 2008

47 movies, 47 blog entries, in 1 year – 14 awards our Movie Review Squad has dreamed up with, and here are our nominations.  I don’t even want to start calculating how much money three of us have contributed to our favorite Cathay Cineplexes.  And if you see any bizarre conflict within the list of nominations, well, within the squad, we do have dividing views at times.

PS. What hard work it was to collate and type out the nominations with links!

1. We Love It Award (Best Picture lah)

Iron Man · Juno · Made of Honour · Quantum of Solace · The Dark Knight · Vicky Cristina Barcelona · WALL·E

2. We Love It Though We Don’t Understand A Thing They Say Award (Best Foreign Film lah)

10 Promises to My Dog · Accuracy of Death · Black Book · Murder Of The Inugami Clan · Persepolis · Sky Of Love · Under the Same Moon

3. Why Did We Choose That Award

20th Century Boys · My Blueberry Nights · Summer Rain · Sweeney Todd · Tokyo!

4. Eye Candy (Female) Award

The Dog (10 Promises to My Dog) · Carice van Houten (Black Book) · Haruka Ayase (Cyborg She) · Isla Fisher (Definitely Maybe) · Michelle Monaghan (Made of Honour) · Yui Aragaki (Sky Of Love) · Natalie Portman (The Other Boleyn Girl) · Mila Kunis (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) · Kristen Stewart (Twilight) · Scarlett Johansson (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)

5. Cool Dude Award

 Takeshi Kaneshiro (Accuracy of Death) · Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises) · Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man) · George Clooney (Michael Clayton) · Daniel Craig (Quantum of Solace) · Christian Bale (The Dark Knight) · Keanu Reeves (The Day the Earth Stood Still)

6. LOL Award

 27 Dresses · Forgetting Sarah Marshall · Iron Man · Juno · Made of Honour · Tropic Thunder

7. Got Us Thinking Award

Accuracy of Death · Black Book · Cyborg She · Juno · Persepolis · The Day the Earth Stood Still · Tokyo!

8. Tissue Award

10 Promises to My Dog · Black Book · Cyborg She · Sky Of Love

9. Adrenaline Rush Award

[●REC] · Hellboy 2 · Iron Man · Quantum of Solace · The Dark Knight · Wanted

10. Jaw Dropping Effect Award

Hellboy 2 · Iron Man · Jumper · The Dark Knight · Twilight · WALL·E · Wanted

11. Incredible Acting Award

The Dog (10 Promises to My Dog) · Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises) · Ellen Page (Juno) · Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight) · Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood) · Javier Bardem (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) · WALL·E (WALL·E)

PS. In case if you wonder where are the rest of the 3 award categories, that will be our individual picks!  Stay tuned.

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Music for Hope FAQ – No Eye Candy’s Upcoming Performance at The Hereen This Saturday 7pm

Note: The opinions expressed in these Frequently Asked Questions are purely mine, not necessarily represent the band’s point of view.  A thank you to my friends who have helped me in forming this entry.  And to Darkspore, only you can think of some of the questions like these …

Can I come?

Sure you can!  This is a public charity event and everyone is free to drop by and have a good time.  You are all invited to watch our band to perform on the time slot of 7pm at The Hereen this Saturday (Nov 29).  Bring your kids, your in-laws and out-laws, and grandparents too.  Our music is very PG.  It will be inside the mall right in front of HMV.  Sunny or rain, the show will go on.

Yes, we’ll be honored to have your presence.  It is OK to throw lingerie to the stage (aim at Jason please).  But please spare us with the rotten tomatoes.

Are you excited?

Are you kidding me?  Of course I am thrilled.  Though I can’t promise if our slot will start on time (the program is very tight), or if the sound quality will be stellar (we are still working out the details with the Sound Man), but we will give it our best slot when we are up there at the circular stage.

Our band has practiced really hard for this event.  We even drove up to Malaysia just for one practice session.  I am very excited.  I am also very excited by the excitement of some of you have because of this upcoming gig.

Why the band is named “No Eye Candy”?

To cut a long story short, the music you hear represents what we are, with no sugar coating.  And yes, the name was picked before Cynthia and Wieke joined the band.  If you don’t believe me, check out their lovely photos.

Click here to read more about the band.

What songs will your band play?

Original songs written by me over the years, these songs have been much evolved by my band members turned into something really cool.  We will play 5 songs in total.  The first song of the set “Something In Your Eyes” is a groovy love song, easy on the ears and a good warm up for the audience.  “My Little Swallow” (note: the bird) picks up the pace and is inspired by long distance love relationships.  Then comes the meaningful slow song “Some People Say” dedicated to those who have had to grow up without a loved one, and to those who still have the opportunity to make things right.

“Feather” is an ethereal slow song on detaching ourselves from the noise of what is surrounding us everyday.  And the last song “I Erase Your Face” is an electrifying fast song on blocking off the negativity in life, feel the breeze and feel released.  I hope they won’t cut us out because the total running time is 26 minutes.  Let’s keep our fingers crossed.

Click here for the lyrics of selected songs of ours.

Does your band do drugs?

I don’t know about the rest but I don’t have a need to yet.  Still young.  Besides, I heard that the illegal ones sold at the back alleys are pretty dangerous.  And they don’t boost your performance as promised.

Wait, what sort of drugs are you talking about?

Have your neighbors ever complained or tried to sue you? Do you have to go for regular checkups for your hearing?

Good question.  One neighbor of ours did move out for some unknown reasons.  And no, my ears are still good.  Still young.

That’s why I always insist not to use in-ear monitoring device and rather go off key instead.

Kidding!

Have you ever smashed your guitar into pieces?

I think if our band manager Selrol manages to get us more gigs next year, we may have a budget for that.  Meanwhile, I don’t have that many guitars to smash.  But I can ask Jason.  He has like 6 or 7 high end guitars.

I may try to throw myself off the stage and into the crowd though.  Make sure you guys catch me, can?

Are you going to bare your chest on stage?

Going for waxing.  Be right back.  Ha ha ha.

Oh well, just be there, OK?  7pm The Hereen, this Saturday.  See ya!  This is going to be fun.  I can so feel it.

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7pm This Saturday at The Heeren – Our Band is Ready for Plan A, Are You?

First of all, thank you for all the inquiries and warm wishes for our band No Eye Candy’s upcoming charity live performance at The Heeren, Singapore.  We shall be on stage at 7pm this Saturday (Nov 29).  Music for Hope is a full day event from 11am to 9pm organized by the non-profit organization B Well Ltd – Compassion for the Needy Sick.  No Eye Candy is honored to be part of this fund raising initiative. 

Here are some of the pictures we have taken during our band practice last weekend.  The lovely lady in pink top is Cynthia, the bassist.  The lovely lady in black top is Wieke, the unplugged guitarist.  The handsome dude is Jason, the lead guitarist.  And the dude in bumblebee top is me.  More about our bios in our mini-band website.

And we have great news to share.  Jason, our almighty lead guitarist, has just received his reservist training program and he should be able to make it on stage with us.  Hooray!  Although we have worked out the music arrangement for plan B+ (us sans Jason), his presence will certainly, most definitely add much sparkle to our performance.  I personally will measure his success by counting the number of lingerie being thrown at his feet on the day itself.

Wieke, our drummer-turned-unplugged-guitarist, should have already booked the air ticket to fly back from Malaysia this Friday.  We really wouldn’t want to go plan B- (us sans Wieke).  Because without Wieke, there will be no structure to our songs and three of us would just go crazy improvising our performance all the way taking up the rest of the slots till closing time.  Note: you wouldn’t want to know what plan C is.

The lyrics of our songs have been submitted to the authority as requested and so far, no news means no censorship means good news.  Our particulars have too been submitted to the authority.  We have been practicing hard for plan A, plan B+, plan B-, and plan C since September.  We are ready for our gig.  See you there.

Related link: Read more on our Music for Hope journey.

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Blogger EastCoastLife Is Giving Away A 60″ Plasma TV – Good Luck In Winning One!

I can only imagine how it would be like to watch the new season of Desperate House Flies on a 60″ plasma TV.  Meanwhile, I will have to settle for my 21″ color TV.

Good things must share, that is the theme of my website.  So fear not if you are stuck with a tiny entertainment unit like mine.  All you have to do is to follow the link provided below and stand a very good chance to win a 60″ plasma TV.  From what I read, it is not even in the market yet!  I’ve met Singapore blogger EastCoastLife in person and I can ensure you that this is no gimmick.  Her words are good, and so is her intention.  In fact, I admire her a lot – her passion to share, get connected with the Singapore blogosphere, and her drive and success.  So, what are you waiting for?