some time ago, us nuffnangers received a community update from ming. nuffnang was sponsoring 5 nuffnangers to one of the talks titled “to blog or not to blog, that is the question”. the talk was part of the singapore sun festival.

signed up for it and i got chosen! wooot! as yours truly was a super blur goondu, i managed to con persuade jayden to meet me at raffles mrt and to go to the venue together.

i didnt expect the talk to be a workshop! the setting was marvelous. i felt that we were transported to somewhere exotic. instead of the usual boring seminar type of setting.

jacqueline is a very interesting lady. she was humorous and knew how to get active participation from everyone. she went thru the 2 parts of a blog namely the identity and content. though some of the points, well, we as bloggers would know of, it was interesting listening and finding out more from her.

what was memorable was 2 exercises. one was when she asked everyone to pick up a paper from a hat, we were supposed to write about whatever we thought of what was in the paper.

imagine our surprise when we looked into the paper. i had a yellow squiggly line.

the first thing i thought of was colours. so i wrote about how colours can affect one’s moods.

some of the nuffnangers hard at work.

the second was when we were told to take a little stroll to the river. we werent allowed to communicate at all. as we stroll to the river, i took in the sights and sounds.

it was interesting just observing everyone. for me personally, it has been a long time since i’ve taken a stroll. i wonder if passerbys were wondering why the heck a bunch of people are walking in a big group, not talking and just staring at the river.

again, we wrote. i wrote about the hustle and bustle about life.

we were served yummy finger food from indochine. damn shiok.

i loved the whole setting. well except for the super cold aircon which was blowing directly at me. brrrrr. overall i had a very good experience.

pics! all of us.

with jacqueline. she asked us to pose like the japanese. tweese!

group pic outside the tent. from left: jayden, myself. immelia, ming, kexin, wen, estee and ylva.

didnt manage to take pics with everyone individually but here’s some.

immelia and i. pretty lass!

funny kexin!

pics are from ming/huiwen, immelia and myself. thanks guys!

most of all, thanks ming for giving me an opportunity to attend the talk!

and guess who we saw?!?!

neil humpreys!!!!!!!!! he’s freaking tall. think i only came up to his waist? o.O gosh, i love his writings!!!

a lovely evening!

i bet many of you have already read kennysia’s, nannywen’s (huiwen), pinkpau’s (su ann) and 9eek9oddess’s (estee) accounts. here’s mine!

accompanied kenny to go queue for donuts. he had heard about the donuts craze in singapore and wanted to check it out. so we indulged in singapore’s favourite pasttime (as nannywen mentioned), queuing.

sadly, there was only one glazed donut available. thankfully we only queued for 30 mins instead of the usual 2 hrs plus queue. still not worth it! give me j co anytime!

he says i look like her. NO WAY! i dont see any resemblance at all. lol

accompanied mr sia to buy his push up underwear. tsk tsk. lol. we were looking at some borat swimwear lookalike. so weird. o.O. i had to take some pictures while he did his little “research”. check out his blog for more details. i wonder how many men uses pushup underwears. o.O

we then met nannywen and headed off to ming’s place for dinner.

ming kindly hosted us plus estee, wendy, mike, su ann and her bf at his place. dinner was great. indian food from tanglin club. nice! we were questioning the rather suspiciously looking spinach. hmmm. still didnt dare to try it. lol.

su ann is hilarious! she’s just so chirpy, bubbly and pretty. i wanna be 19 again!

most of us being bloggers, camwhored a lot. here’s just some pics from kenny, su ann and me. nannywen! where’s your pics?!

nannywen, kennysia and me.

kennysia’s queen.

staring at ming’s super big fishies. kenny was tempting the fishies with his toe. tsk tsk.

mr sia and me.

cute su ann.

pouty pouty. i love her camera!

wendy and me.

a group pic.

we then had a tour of ming’s place. beautiful! we got bored after that and started ransacking his room and discovered some “interesting” magazines. lol. ming was amused that we were interested in those mags and not his harvard business times. oops.

guess whose heads are these? we were guessing which were real.

there’s even a magazine called nuts!

he forced me to squeeze his boobs.

another group pic.

nannywen and me.

why is a cert in the toilet?

check out the size of the bear! it takes up one whole seat while nannywen and i take up another!

we then headed down to st james powerstation. to bellini!

pretty decor!

as the guys had their guy talk, we girls discussed and gossiped. it was a pity we didnt managed to get a table near the stage for the jazz bands sounds fab.

nannywen, me and estee.

sweet su ann. pls come back to singapore soon!

ladies only.

he likes them squeezed.

last but not least, with kenny sia. i still hate you for posting that ugly and fat picture of me!

really enjoyed myself with them. they’re hilarious! dinner soon yeah?