{"id":359,"date":"2009-05-28T12:02:55","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T04:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/28\/of-semi-secret-events-and-sales\/"},"modified":"2010-08-11T13:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T05:08:00","slug":"of-semi-secret-events-and-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/28\/of-semi-secret-events-and-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Of semi-secret events and sales!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, here&#8217;s a semi-secret event that is going to happen in June. From said invite&#8230; Here&#8217;s the info!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lions.jpg\" alt=\"lions\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(That&#8217;s a monocle, by the way.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Reading Between the Lions <\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strike>(Aka the semi-secret writers reading event that Sarah hopes won&#8217;t be too crowded after posting this info up because if it is, then gosh darn!)<\/strike><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Time:<\/strong> 7pm to 9pm,<br \/>\n<strong> Date:<\/strong> 3 June 2009<br \/>\n<strong>Location: <\/strong><br \/>\nPolymath &amp; Crust, 86 Club Street, S(069454) Tel: 62229195<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>READING between the LIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join <strong>Wena Poon<\/strong> (&#8220;Lions in Winter&#8221;), <strong>Suchen Christine Lim<\/strong> (&#8220;The Lies That Build A Marriage&#8221;), <strong>Alvin Pang<\/strong> (&#8220;City of Rain&#8221;) and our very<strong> special mystery guest writer<\/strong> for an evening of fun, fiction and intergalactic mayhem at the all-new bookstore POLYMATH &amp; CRUST.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who are they?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Wena Poon, author of the Singapore Literature Prize-shortlisted Lions In Winter, will read from her literary fantasy series, Biophilia, which will be launched at this year&#8217;s Singapore Writers&#8217; Festival.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Suchen Christine Lim, Singapore Literature Prize winning novelist, will read from her stunning and provocative repertorie of stories about secret lives, unsung loss and forbidden love in Singapore.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Alvin Pang will host, and perhaps even read some new stuff.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>PLUS &#8211;<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> Mystery Gues<\/span><u>t<\/u><\/strong>, guaranteed to please!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ooooh, well hope to see you lot there. I shall be there-ish if anyone decides to say hello to me or something. I don&#8217;t know who but, well if you <em>want<\/em> to that is.<\/p>\n<p>MEANWHILE, the Popular fair is on at the end of the month!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/popfair.jpg\" alt=\"popularfair\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">It&#8217;s in celebration of their 85th anniversary! The times and dates for it goes like this:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Location:<\/strong> Singapore Expo, Hall 6B<br \/>\n<strong>29 May<\/strong> &#8211; 10am to 1pm (for only POPULAR Cardmembers), 1pm to 10pm (Open to Public)<br \/>\n<strong>30 May till 7 June<\/strong> &#8211; 10 am to 10pm<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">That&#8217;s not all! Apparently they have autograph sessions and stuff on the various days. Here&#8217;s the schedule I got from Popular&#8217;s page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popular.com.sg\/jsp\/homepage\/html\/EN\/promo\/MeetGreet-Promo.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/auto.jpg\" alt=\"autopop\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Yes, I have no idea why a pilates demo is in there along with Mediacorp autograph sessions. Well, anywho&#8230; it is a <strong>POPULAR<\/strong> fair which means saaaaales of books. Have a look see and don&#8217;t bring babies along cause <em>seriously<\/em>, at least not on the first day since it&#8217;s bound to be crowded like heck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, here&#8217;s a semi-secret event that is going to happen in June. From said invite&#8230; Here&#8217;s the info! (That&#8217;s a monocle, by the way.) Reading Between the Lions (Aka the semi-secret writers reading event that Sarah hopes won&#8217;t be too crowded after posting this info up because if it is, then gosh darn!) Time: 7pm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/28\/of-semi-secret-events-and-sales\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Of semi-secret events and sales!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[92,90,89,93,91,84],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-alvin-pang","tag-fair","tag-popular","tag-reading","tag-suchen-christine-lim","tag-wena-poon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf5tJ-5N","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2333,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/2333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}