Finally waiting for my flight to Bangkok (BKK)! Was rushing some long-overdue work  till 12.30am and had to wake up at 4am to catch my 7.10am flight! The good thing is I will be able to sleep well tonight, but I just hope that I don’t get a migraine attack.

Feeling excited now, I mean, FINALLY I am feeling excited about this trip. Just got an email from Fabian that we will be heading over to Chatuchak together after I have settled my accommodation!

I think BKK is turning into a mini Singapore. Everyone seems to be heading there or already there now! Saw my colleague’s facebook update last night on the cool tees that she saw at Chatuchak. One of them is the “Facebook Addict” tee – I am so getting to HUNT that tee lor!

Remember the Samsung Food Photography workshop that I have attended previously? The folks from Samsung and Edelman were kind enough to loan me a Samsung Pixon 12 to complete the review! Will bringing the set with me to shoot the yummy food! To date, I am quite impressed by the camera of Samsung Pixon 12.

I am probably going to tweet as I roam around in BKK with Jayden, Fabian, Nadnut and “Ching Chong Boy” (aka CCB), provided I can get the 3G prepaid service! Yay!!!

BKK, here I come!!!

Was happy to see DK, Hisham, Jayden, Mus, Diana and Eevon at our event and glad to meet William for the first time! Friends like Claudia, Nadia, Jacelyn and Lawrence did not managed to make it for our event due to personal commitments and Nicole was not feeling well that day.

Kicking off the event was Jack & Rai singing the unplugged version of “Pixelated”, a song in commemoration of World AIDS Day 2009, live at the blogger event and followed by a screening of August 29, a short film produced by HPB and a group of youths.

[Part 1 of August 29]

[Part 2 of August 29]

Starring Lawrence and Evelyn Maria, August 29 is a heart-wrenching love story about a girl who is dying of AIDS and how she chooses to spend her last days with her ex-boyfriend, a photographer.

My colleague, Janice then shared the objective of the blogger engagement event and programme lined up to commemorate World AIDS Day 2009. This might sound cliché to you but we really hope to create more awareness about HIV/AIDS through the power of our blogger friends.

Did you see the countdown timer on the right column? It will be counting down to December 1, a day when many people around the world can often be seen wearing the red ribbon that has now become a familiar symbol of:

• CARE and CONCERN for people living with HIV and those who have died from AIDS;
• HOPE in the search for a vaccine and care; and
• SUPPORT for people living with or affected by HIV

Did you know that…

• condoms can provide protection against HIV when used correctly and consistently?
• when you are tested negative, it does not mean you are HIV negative for life?
• you will not get HIV by sharing food and drinks with someone who has the virus?
• a lot of people still do not know about the above-mentioned after so many years of public education since the discovery of the virus in 1981?
• and you can find out more about HIV/AIDS at HPB Online?

“Your life, your canvas” is the theme for World AIDS Day 2009 and is inspired by the notion that we are all responsible for painting the canvas of our own lives. What we choose to put on that canvas is entirely up to us, and the choices we make all contribute to a constantly evolving picture.

We will be having the finals of the Graffiti Art Competition at Scape Park on 21 Nov 09 and will also be hosting an exclusive World AIDS Day event of art, music and dance, featuring guest appearances by Jack & Rai on 5 Dec 09 at SupperClub Singapore.

To stand a chance to win one of the 100 pairs of tickets to this special event, all you need to do is answer 3 simple questions on Breathe.sg.

To increase your chances of winning the tickets, do keep an eye on my blog as I will also be giving out 5 pairs of tickets to 5 lucky readers in this 2 weeks! Some of our blogger friends will also be holding a ticket giveaway in their blogs so do keep a lookout on Breathe.sg!

Show your support!

I sincerely hope that you can also show your support for the World AIDS Day 2009 by joining our Twibbon campaign on Twitter and Facebook to create awareness on HIV/AIDS.

If you blog too, you can also show your support by embedding this countdown widget on your blog.

To participate, copy and paste the following codes to your blog:

Claudia and me!

Was at the Puma “RED in My Head” Circuit Party last evening together with Claudia, Jayden and Nadia! We were all dressed in RED for the event! A big thank you to Claudia for bring me along!

Red Dome outside St. James Powerhouse

The event was held at the carpark outside St. James Powerhouse where they erected a red dome specially for this event! We refused to move out to the outdoor area after we got in there as it was pretty warm outside…

Booze!

There were lots of booze, ranging from Whiskey, Wine, Vodka, Beer and Champagne, and the music was great! Nope, I did not binge drink yesterday night, though the drink servers were very diligent in topping up my drink! One sip and you see them topping up the drink! Poor Nadia was still nursing her stomach, so all she had was FIJI water.

When Kimi Räikkönen made his appearance at the event, the crowd went crazy! Lots of people were busy snapping photos of him. My photos did not really turn out well for him, but hey! I took a video instead!

Puma Models

After Kimi Räikkönen left, it followed by a PUMA Motorsports fashion show! All of the models are very tall, so I didn’t take pictures with them. Hee Hee. My height is only 1.68m can?

Friends of Puma

I also got to meet some of the Friends of Puma at the event! They are a bunch of very friendly people! Nice meeting you guys

Me and Nadia

Jayden and Claudia

Oops

At one point, Claudia and I was playing with the glowstick app on our iPhones and we danced with it. LOL! Closeted Ah Beng and Ah Lian, like what Nadia have said! Hmm. Someone took a video of us doing it. Keeping my finger-crossed…

I would say last evening was a major camwhoring session! We took photos… and more photos! I am looking forward to seeing the photos by the rest! Catch the rest of the photos taken at the event on my flickr set.

24 hours | 10 bloggers | 2 winners | 1 ultimate event

Were you there to support your favourite bloggers? I was there last evening and this evening to support Claudia, DK, Geekonomics, Jayden and Nadnut! Ok, my not-so-hidden agenda was to take their before-after pictures. Was wondering how “chui” (unglam and tired) they will look after 24 hours without sleep!

Just before Friday 6pm, I was at Tangs being “greeted” by the “chio” Lenovo gals… They automatically posed when they saw my Cybershot H7! Well, the bloggers were not at sight any where near the product area!

Chio Lenovo Gals

Don’t you think the left gal looks a bit like Selina? They certainly are more eye catching than the Lenovo laptops.

The covered shopping windows

Woo woo… “Where are the bloggers?”, I asked myself! I found myself walking into Tang to see if I could catch any of them before entering the shopping window! As expected, the bloggers were all preparing to enter the shopping windows where they will be there for the next 24 hours! Here’s DK and his much-loved hat!

@dk and his much-loved hat!

Here are the before and after peektures of them! Seriously, they were looking as good as they were 23 hours ago – No signs of any “chui-ness”!

Before…

@molemole and @claudia10

@dk and his "Home Sweet Home in 24 hours" sign!

@geekonomics

@adipatimusxzart, @nadnut, @jayleif and @gracey

After…

@claudia10

@dk

@geekonomics

@nadnut and @jayleif

I found @Gracey very familiar and seriously didn’t know where I met her before! A check on facebook refreshed my memory. She is my Secondary School Junior at the Prefectorial Board! Yup, how to forget this tall gal right?

After I got home from Tangs last evening, I realised that the blogathon website runs on FULL flash and is piggy backing on a wordpress engine. Although I must say that the website is pretty, the flying circles are not making my navigation any easier! What’s wrong with having it running purely on wordpress? It’s a blog after all. I wanted to comment on the blog posts on the go, but iPhone 3GS doesn’t support flash! Sorry @dk, I wasn’t able to respond to your call for comments!

Oh, @singabeng also went down to the event ground to show his support for the bloggers, of course without showing himself! Claudia, Jayden and Nadnut were all hunting for him! Jayden and Nadnut identified someone whom they think is @singabeng, but no one was able to confirm it though.

@singabeng - Show Yourself!

After 24 hours of blogging and tweeting…

• @geekonomics won the Judge’s Choice with the score of 251
• @nadnut won the People’s Choice winner with 61 votes

The prizes that they have won are:

• Lenovo Ideapad U350
• $300 TANGS voucher
• $250 Kiehl’s products

But who is the ultimate winner here? I would say it’s Tangs.

After launching Virtual Tangs in Second Life at SMB6 (which I thought was a very bad move), they are now venturing into the local social media scene again with Ogilvy PR Digital Influence Team. This time round, they managed to generate a lot of online buzz by leveraging on the popularity of the 10 bloggers.

From the MarComm perspective, I would say that this is a great job by Ogilvy PR Digital Influence Team! I really think their sister company, Ogilvy & Matter, should seriously consider getting inputs from them!