I want to be part of #NUFFNANGBLOGCON at Hotel Jen Tanglin

Nuffnang blog con

Guys, you can try win an invite to #nuffnangblogcon here. I’m writing this post to win an invite.

Why? Because in 2010, I went to their Nuffnang Blogger Symposium.

It had been super useful and I did get to see all the other bloggers even if I’m super quiet and discreet.

I’ll still probably super quiet and discreet if I were to the at the conference since there’ll probably be those super popular bloggers there anyway and what do I even say to anyone?

However, this conference sounds like it will be informative for me to learn more. Mind you, I’m not super popular because I am a niche blogger but attending these conferences and implementing stuff or just learning a little bit does help.

Trust me.

It totally helped.

From drama and hearsay or rumours of the bloggersphere, I’m totally no where near it but I want to know what the industry thinks about it since bla bla, everyone is more on social media or online so come on. I WISH TO KNOW what their thoughts are on this in a corporate way.

Anyway, Nuffnang, let me win an invite. I want to go.

10 things I’ve Done or Am Doing

OK. That was a mini hiatus of sorts?

Not sure who noticed but yeah. I’ve been doing things.

1) Love Kuching needs your help financially (transfer moolah to DBS current 027-905975-3)  if you can’t volunteer your services. You can know more from their website.

I did that mini vid for them and they’re my choice of cat charity to go to.

Escape from Reality!

2) THIS COMES OUT on 1 November at the Singapore Writers Festival! Escape from Reality! It’s an anthology of short stories of the fictional sort. The fantasy-ish kind. $20! After the official launch, you can get it ordered directly through us or the publisher. More details then.

3) NANOWRIMO KICK OFF PARTY!

It’s on 31st Oct, 6pm at the level 5 Possibility Room of the National Library. Our theme is ‘Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?’. RSVP here: http://nanowrimo.org/forums/asia-singapore/threads/251222

4)

health

We’re going to Comic Fiesta! Yes. It’s in KL so if you wanna chope any of us to meet any of you guys, ‘book’ us early.

Monies

Last year had been fun so we’ll see how it is at the new location!

5) I’ve been on shoot for a mini series.

twirl

Hence why I haven’t updated in a bit. I’ll tell you more about the series when it is officially out on 27th November!

6) I’ll be at the library customer appreciation day on 6 November. I don’t know why I had to add that but in case you guys are there, you can say hello to me. The library people are always so nice.

7) You want to ever watch one of the telemovies I helped in? Here’s a trailer

Ambika English Trailer from Millenia Motion Pictures Pte Ltd on Vimeo.

Or watch the whole telemovie on Toggle here. I think it is only available for those in Singapore though. Darn you regional restrictions?

8) IT IS THE 10th run of N.E.mation! Soooooo I’ll BE BACK to support the teams! But why do the teams I support always get the top? Is it a correlation, a stroke of luck or what? HMMM? Tune in this year and we’ll see.

9) I’m doing the Spartan Race. Soooo I got to train (more).

10) I’m blogging here, aren’t I? SO WOOOH. OK. More posts ahead.

I Can’t See the Light

It’s hazy.

My take is that if you can see the air, wear a mask. Whatever, there will be people saying “No needlah” but whatever. That’s them. I’ll wear my mask, thank you very much because I can tell the difference with and without it.

Especially when I went for a shoot and oh my goodness. Yes. Whatever, maybe you’re good without it, cool. My asthmatic friends, just wear it okay?

I got my 3M V-flex mask from Guardian pharmacies but I did notice them being sold at Popular bookstores too.

And this is an upgrade from Vogmask. We have an online store selling to Singapore.

Verdict? It’s comfier than the 3M one and way more stylish. Still, if you want to get an even more cooling one, try the double vent one, I guess since it’s cotton (I haven’t tried it but I’m guessing since if this one is ok, that one should be even better).

I still have the 3M with me but with the Vogmask, I’m sure I won’t accidentally tear it or anything of that sort. Let’s face it. Until Indonesia gets things sorted out, the haze is going to be here for quite a bit.

With all this haze though, it means most of our activities are limited indoors. But ungghhhh. I can stay indoors. On the computer all the time but eh, sometimes one needs to just go out and run around.

SO HERE’S A LIST of indoor activities you can do that does not involve being stuck at home (besides lurking in shopping malls):

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AMPed – In which I’m not using it

Well duh

Do we really want to know the TL:DR story of my phone? I’ll let it be in another post because it was an adventure before I got my Oppo phone. In any case, the super short version is that I signed up with Singtel to get it.

ANYWAY, when signing up with them, I got subscribed into AMPed. I managed to disconnect all the ‘extras’ without any termination fees because I didn’t use them except for AMPed.

I do know that when I signed the contract that it was for a 1 month trial and that if I didn’t want it I had to called 1688 to cancel it.

BUT I MISSED THE ONE MONTH DEADLINE BECAUSE I was busy.

So sad.

21 May 2016 is when I can unsubscribe it.

EVERYONE PLEASE HELP REMIND ME TO UNSUBSCRIBE ON THAT DATE.

How do I know 21 May 2016? This is the storyyyyy…

 

My profile

 

If I cancel it now, I have termination fees that amount to more than what I have to pay for it monthly even if I’m not using it.

So since I can’t cancel it without giving them more money, I just signed in and changed my profile to that.

Someone teach me how to use my AMPed account and make it work for me.

I did call in twice and the staff do sound apologetic too like they know this is a thing that happens often, I’m sure.

Are there AMPed complains? AMPed Singtel complains?? It’s probably there somewhere.

REALLY TL;DR VERSION:

  1. Teach me how to use AMPed because I can’t cancel it without incurring more charges.
  2. I didn’t want to sign up for this but they gave it as a 1 month ‘trial’.
  3. No, CASE won’t work cause they silly and you have to pay for admin fees or get it ‘free’ with membership fees so that’s just paying more moolah.
  4. If you’re from Singtel and want to say ‘can I help you’, not really. I know you can’t. Unless you can just get rid of AMPed for me without further fees. My email’s in my contact anyway. If you actually can help since most of the staff don’t have that kind of authority to just cancel, right?

Anyway, anyone subscribing to Singtel, just make sure you have a calendar set to the various deadlines when you just signed up with them to disconnect all the stuff you don’t need for mobile.

WHO USES AMPED?!?!

Can I win things with AMPed? Legit question. If I win something that costs more than this 12 month subscription, I’ll be less pissed about it.

ICDS 2015 or Attack on Discounts

ICDS poster v2 2015

ICDS is on this weekend! You can check their facebook too. The 22nd and 23rd of August, 11am to 7pm at Scape. This year you do have to pay for entry to all sections of ICDS.

But it’s pretty cheap compared to what you’ll get in there, yeah?

HERE’S THE QUICK STUFF you need to know:

1) It’s $5 for one day $8 for both days. Limited tickets at the door but you can buy online at Peatix. Note: They have an admin fee of $1 so it’s more worth it if you buy with friends online and share the admin fee.

2) Grabtaxi offer for new users to/from Scape only with the code “ICDS2015” for an $8 ride. Which means, if you’re from Jurong to Scape, you’ll get a discount of $8 from the final fee. That’s an example by the way. Or Scape to home… You get the idea. This is only on 22 and 23rd. Bring home your cosplay things/loot. Grabtaxi is available on ios and android.

3) Cosmetics, makeup and such will be on discount during ICDS. Time to stock up for your cosplay

4) First 1000 people to visit ICDS will get a $2 coupon from Anime Yorozuya when you come in to take your booklet/wristband thing at the ticket counters.

5) YES. THIS YEAR the tickets are wristbands so be sure to wear them.

6) Funbie Studios will be there, if you ever wondered how to do 3d printing for cosplay props, TALK TO THEM. Also, this year’s cosplay trophies are 3d printed by them!

7) FREE GABU GABU. Grab your free can of Gabu Gabu while stocks last. It’s delicious. Grab five Gabu Gabu and you’ve already gotten your ticket’s worth already. OMG OK PLEASE DON’T DO THAT. Let others drink too.

8) Oh yes, there’s a DBS atm near the ‘back’ if you need more cash so there’s no reason you can’t really get moolah for what loot you want to get.

Where to buy tickets if at Scape and what are on the various levels?

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Keeping It Quiet

I have no idea what other people’s requirements for headphones are but mine are usually:

  • Actual headphones so people know I’m wearing them and don’t disturb me.
  • Awesome bass
  • Looks good
  • Value for money because like heck if I get headphones that are cheaptastic but aren’t good? It’s not worth it then.

Such sexaaay looking headphones

These ones look super nice.

Anyway, sometimes don’t you wish that they come in super cheap so that you can buy a whole dozen of it and then pass it out in the trains/buses especially in the mornings? I MEAN COME ON. People, headphones are a thing. Heck, earphones too.

Use them!

Buy them if you can buy handphones or tablets or whatever. I don’t need to know or hear what you’re playing and it can get so loud when all I want to do is sleep in the bus/train if it’s super early.

Or just, please just keep it quiet. Sometimes I want to do a “BEHOLD, YOU WON THE PRIZE OF… HEADPHONES. Now, use them” if I was ever sponsored by some brand or something that would give it away.

A campaign like Silent Sally or something. We have Move in Martin and whoever else?

Turn your noise levels down if you’re playing a game or playing songs. No one wants to listen to your techno or whatever songs. If they did, you’d be a DJ on the radio already. Actually yeah, if you want to do that, go make your own channel online so people will choose to listen to it instead of not being able to stop it in public transport.

Would anyone actually do a campaign like that?

Why doesn’t anyone do a campaign like that anyway? Get to it brands, you can use this idea as some promo or something because everyone would love silence or at least unnecessary noise from gadgets when they could be quiet in the first place.

Well.

At least it’ll work on some. I don’t know how you would tell the elderly to stop doing it when they love playing their radios aloud in the bus…

But “youngins” should know to quit it anyway.

So yeah, do you guys who take public transport ever feel we should have some Silent Sally?

N.E.mation! 10 Call for Entry!

N.E.mation 10

It’s N.E.mation! 10 !! You guys, it’s the tenth anniversary of this competition.

When it first started out, I remember I was a poly student watching it on the tv in the bus and the animations that the teams did on it and went “Woah, I want to enter that” but I couldn’t because I was already a poly student and “out” of the competition already.

Flash forward to years later, I still couldn’t join the competition but I did become a blogger and then an ambassador for N.E.mation!

I even won the chance to go to the USA with a team too in one of the years.

Anyway, if you get the chance to enter this competition, do it.

The prizes are awesome, the skills you learn are really good.

It’s not even the part where you learn how to animate, it’s how you learn time management, learning how to take criticisms and friendship.

So what’s the theme this year?

Together We Keep Singapore Strong

At the start of the next 50 years, it is a good time to reflect on and reaffirm the strength, values and beliefs that have brought Singapore this far and, more importantly, the values that reside within each and every Singaporean to take Singapore forward. Together, we will continue to play our part to keep Singapore strong.

NE10 Poster

Click the poster to embiggen!

1) Form a team of 3-4 (I suggest 4 if you can because you guys really need a lot of teamwork)

2) Register online at www.nemation.sg

3) Submit your ideas by 16 August 2015

Don’t be afraid okay? If you need ideas how you can view the Online Story Workshop at https://nemation.sg/story/

What are the prizes?

One of it is winning a freaking trip to the USA!! Or you can read the list here.

But from what I’ve seen in the past competitions, there are so many prizes like cameras, 3ds etc. I don’t know what’s it this year but it’s always worth it.

Yeah, you get to do all those if you win the grand prize!

OK! I don’t want you guys to keep reading this when you should just click REGISTER AT N.E.mation! Go, go, go!!

All the fine details are there. Grab your friends and get into this adventure where you might win loot!