Captain Singapore - A National Day Post with Bonus Track

National Day was pretty well spent. Spent time at home with Ah Dum. Packed the room, shower the cats and watched NDP as usual. I would normally throw a house party with pizza and beer and watch the parade with some close friends but I have no idea why I did not do it this year. Probably a little lazy and busy and decided to just catchup on some quiet time.  Anyway look at my neat room now !!

Some of my toys relocated.

And frankly I am a very patriotic person. I love my country for many things although there are times i love it a little less. For Example where I get up the MRT Train or trap in a jam or meet with bad FT service stuff or when I get pushed around by overcrowded roads or when i do not get to watch cantonese drama or there is no local playboys magazine or.. nvm. You get my point. I really love my country. Look at this picture !

Captain Singapore

I am Captain Singapore. My Job is to raise Singapore's Birth Rate and make sure awesomeness runs in the bloodline of my good Singaporean. 

And for this special Occasion, I wrote spoof a song ! 

We have a vision for tomorrow, you believe, you stupid

We have a goal for Singapore, It's twenty ten, did we achieve?

You and me, we'll do our part , pay together, far too much

We're going to show the world the CPF Money

I did achieve, but cannot see

There is nothing down the road that we can strive for

We are told no job's too much for FTs to try for

There are F~~T in this land, its a feeling we can't bear

They're going to build a better life for them not me
They did achieve, they did achieve.


Count Money Stinkapore, count money to give my cent and more ~

You and me, we'll do our part , pay together, far too much

We're going to show the world the CPF Money

I did achieve, but cannot see

No prize for guessing what song is this. : P

Mr.Smith, I love Singapore 

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Nice is crime

I have no idea how many of you will puke yourself to death if I start the topic with "I'm a nice person" but I am writing this post to complain how bad it is to be nice. I am not saying I am a saint or I am a really awesome person who has done nothing THAT bad. (hope you are okay)

Some of you might know that I'm involve with some money issues with a certain person I called friend. A certain person I trust and believe just because he is my friend. I was nice enough not to do too much about this issue and gave him time but ended up in a situation where now he told the official lies to get away with what he owes me rightfully. I lost faith. 

I am the kind of person who will give flexibility to my clients when they told me they can't give me cod because their accounts has a long procedure of clearing paper work and I will still do the work first but end of the day they will break their promise of the date to pay. I just hope that this little flexibility I am giving will let client feel that I am a good partner and will appreciate this and pay up on time there after.

I am the kind where I will lend my friends some money and nv expect to get it back cause I felt that if you are worth helping and if it's within my means I will. If I get it back, it's a bonus but apparently I am not getting the bonus yet.

I am the kind that will let people get up the bus before me if I think I am not in a hurry and maybe the next bus will be empty. But apparently SG bus is always crowded and there will always people pushing you away.

I am the kind that I will speak the truth to wake u up and take the role as a bad person but end of the day u will get it that it's for your good and I am trying to help but apparently I am still the bad person. 

Is it that difficult for humans to trust each other and give each other a little appreciation and a little faith ?  Must we live in a condition where we are all for ourselves and we just care about profit and not relationship? How could we live in a condition where there is no love? How could we live in a condition where we are so skeptical about each other's move and always watching our back? Apparently we could and we are doing it. 

Call me stupid, call me silly but I trust the people around me. I have a strong gut feeling about people who are cheating me or lying but too often I choose to ignore that feeling and go with my head and decided to trust but always ended up as the victim. How many more blows can I take before I decide to turn to the dark side and live a life without faith and trust? 

To quote optimus prime in transformer 3 

"In any war, there are calms between storms. There will be days when we lose faith. Days when our allies turn against us. But the day will never come, that we forsake this planet, and its people. 
"

Not all is lost as long as we believe.

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My #SBA2011 Post - with behind the scene footage and Bonus Track !

The Singapore Blog Awards finally ended after months of battling. Seeing bloggers "chu" all kind of "pattern" online to garner votes. From creating "fake" facebook events to overkill of #sba2011 hashtag for everything, good morning, good night or maybe even "Pang Sai Time".

The event happened like few weeks back and I know I am very very slow cause I am only blogging about it now. It's my first time being part of Singapore Blog Awards but I am still not an invited guest. I was part of the events team which made this event happened. Being part of Waddup Events, we manage to get the deal with OMY team and get to work with them once again after the #SGSMD.

Not trying to gain cookie points but working with the team was a pretty cool experience as we work like we are an integrated team and not like they are client and we are slaves vendors.

Over the weeks of preparation I get to meet lots of new blogger friends as well as meeting some familiar faces from the blogosphere.

Publicity

With the theme "History gets Social" on the the table, we called in for a photo shoot with some bloggers and I must say the biggest "profit" of this project was meeting the awesome Chrispytine !  She is one wacky girl ! Fine, that's from the #humsupleague point of view but it was awesome meeting the rest too !
Pete,Nabil, Eric and Darren.

I'm actually risking my life to show you guys this "never been shown footage"

This has to be my favorite picture.

The Event

Was there way earlier than the rest cause as usual we have to do the setup as well as rehearsal. Interesting enough the Show Host Ah Dong is a friend of mine from wayyyyyyy back when he was still a student.  

It feels a little like my wedding cause I get to see so many of my blogger friends as well as some of the bloggers whom I have been talking to online but never met in person. Of course, I do not have the luxury of going around taking pictures with everyone so I manage to "steal" some pictures online ! 

Darren

Winner of Shopping Blog- A new friend I made during #SGSMD

 Mint

Liang Po Po. I really dunno why she is here but she looks cute. :X 

Melissa CHOY ! Choi 

Look at her naked looking top ! 

And the only picture I took myself was with Chrispytine !  #humsupleague 

Please DO NOT try this at home

Winners

Seriously, every other blog talks about the winners, must I do it again ?

 Instant Feedback

This is the part which I felt that it's really different about all the other 100 overs shows I've done on average year as compared to Singapore Blog Awards. I get INSTANT and I mean INSTANT feedback about how good or bad the event was. Over the last week I have been reading so many blogs and so many tweets about the event. I almost get to hear it from every guest as compared to a DnD or a product launch I have done where guests walk away and my only KPI I could measure on was base on what my point of contact client says. This time round I get to hear so much more. I have heard positive comments about how good Shimona's singing was. How awesome was the food and pizza. How funny the skit was and how handsome the event manager looks. (koff* koff*).

Of course I also get some not so good feedback over some of the things like the skit was offensive, bad jokes and pointless or some comments about Steven Lim.

Feedbacks are always welcome be it good and bad and I believe that it should be pretty much the truth hearing it from bloggers and on their blog unless they are just trying to paint a nice picture so they could get invited again next year. Which I clearly doubt so.

Bonus Track

and for those of you who really like Shimona's singing, this is her Social Media Song which she wrote for SGSMD.



THE SOCIAL MEDIA SONG (original)
LYRICS:
Youtube, twitter, facebook too
I feel I'm getting closer to you
we used to be strangers but now that's not true
because i read and hear all about you

it does not matter if u don't reply
i know we're friends now, that's no lie
you always say good morning, hello and bye
i know where you go, how you feel, and why.

doo doo doo...

google plus, flickr, spotify
so many out there for you to try
put your life on the web and you will find
like-minded people all have a good time.

cuz ever since you entered my life
i don't feel alone anymore.....

So go on and
Youtube, twitter, facebook me
that's the way to get closer you see
we used to be strangers but that won't be
if you subscribe and get back to me.


What I Won

It's blog event and it's about Social Media and of course we have to do some social media "games"

And I think I won something too. BEST PLANK of #SBA2011 !! (Only Entry)

Thanks to Leongraphy for this picture 

See you guys next year !!! Between now and then till I see you again, I'll be tweeting you... Tweet Me ~

Mr.Smith, the smile on your face is my real award for the day

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Old Liao ...

I know I am or I should be at the peak of my life instead of feeling old. At the age of 27, I still look like im part of the early 20s thx to my chubby face and kiddo dress sense. Moreover I do not start conversation talking about property, stock, cars or children. All i know about is fun. (and sex.. yes that is fun too)

Some like to call me young at heart but some choose to call me immature but which ever it is, it comes back to the same point that I am young in the head.

It has been a good period for the young Waddup Team. We have back to back events since late March/ Early April until now. A little tiring, irregular sleeping hours and bad eating hours as well. Feeling a little tired now at the end of July.

Just when I thought I could have a good rest or maybe hit the gym this morning, I got injured yesterday. After the event with Lions Club, I saw a group of kids playing basketball and I decided to join them without proper gear and warm up. (And lack of sleep) And as a result I have a injured shoulder/back area. Funniest part of I still have to act an "okay no problem" look during the game just to look good. ( talk about man's pride eh?).

I can't deny the fact that I might look 21 but I am NOT 21 anymore.

Mr.Smith, may my body go back to the fitness level during army.

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A Date With Sheikh ! Actually two.

It's amazing how I spent the last two Sundays with one of Singapore most iconic celebrity - My man -

@SheikhHaikel .

He is just wicked awesome and loads of fun to be with but the funny thing was I never even expect to see him during both the encounters. This was what happened. 

I was at The Big Groove #TBG2011 the week before. This is an annual event when hip hop dancer around the world gathers in none other than our Lion City Singapore to dance it out. The performance was way too cool and I'm totally converted into a W.C.O fan. 

I am not a dancer but I do move to the groove and with me at the event was my Ah Dum, Mint, Hui Peng and Kaye. And crocs was the official shoe sponsor.  The dancers from O school were dancing in crocs "light as feather" sneakers. I can't wait to get my hands on them too ! 

Check the hot mama out yo ! 

I'm feelin GOOOD ~  

Yo Yo Yo ~ 

Hui Peng, Mint, Me and Kaye ! 

My man from W.C.O 

Wait a min. So where's Sheikh ? The man gonna be where the man belongs to. THE STAGE ! 

I say TB you say G !! 

Sheikh totally brought the atmosphere up and over the roof. Being one of the rare few Singapore "official" rapist. rapper, Hip Hop is so his thing yo !   

Fine - Sheikh was on the stage and I was below the stage, that's not exactly an encounter or date but what about this ? 

At #SGTurfClub Event ! 

We met again last week at #SGTurfClub event - the Fly Emirates Derby Race. It was actually the 16th years that Fly Emirates was running this event and of course it was awesome meeting some familiar faces like William, HP, Pearlin, Karen and new friend Roseanne. And of course, Sheikh and his lovely wife Anna Belle Francis. They are such a lovely couple. And this awesome pictures was by Roseanne. She was very hardworking taking pictures while.. *koff* i was tweeting and instagraming.

So many of my twitter followers were asking why is SGTurfClub promoting gambling by inviting us for the events ? Nope they are not, they are promoting the event ! Look, SG Turf Club is not all just gambling and horse racing you know ! It's an awesome spot to hold your events too !

International Fashion Show ! 

Instant Print by "Catchlight"

And I bump into an old friend whom I have not met for ages. He was doing the instant print !

#SGElections ? 

And for the non-gamblers they actually have lucky draw which allows you to do the guess the winning horse. And lucky Pearlin actually won a hamper and wine !! P.S : She did not even know which horse to pick !! She just followed our pick "Collect The Cash" and she won !! Lucky her ! 

Still, going to the turf club and not betting is like going to clubbing but not drinking. (okay, bad analogy) Anyway I did some small bets and after a few rounds for winning and losing, I won a total of ... *drum roll* ... $1 !!! Thank you Auntie LUM !!! (The auntie from the counter and Sheikh and I both agrees that Auntie Lum is the lucky counter auntie. )

My winnings before I lost them.

So since when did meeting celebrities became that easy ? (I am advocating again, yes yes). Social Media brings people so much closer. You never know when you decide to tweet Bill Gates and he replies and you guys could be the best of friends !! ( maybe not actually.) It's worth a try right? 

Mr.Smith, yo yo yo, now i've met Sheikh so who's next?

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Is proper English important ?

I come from a dialect speaking family where my first language is actually cantonese. I had a hard time in school even picking up Mandarin. Instead of calling "school" as 学校 it was known as 书馆 to me. For those of you who did not get it, it's a direct translation from Cantonese. It was a tough trip for me to pick up both English and Mandarin as both my parent does not speak them that often and neither are they able to do it as they were both Chinese educated and their environment did not allow them to do it as well.

It took me more than awhile to be able to speak proper Mandarin and proper English. DANG DANG DANG ! Now here's the question! What is "proper". For you guys who read my blog and twitter should have realize that I am a big time grammar and spelling failure. (To get away with it, I will just declare that I am suffering from dyslexic )And one of you guys actually commented that I talk like an Ah Beng on twitter ! So what makes me think that I am speaking "proper" English? I felt that the key of speaking a language is not just about how much you are able to say but it's also about how much the other party can actually pick up and understand. If you are always speaking in "proper" English but there is no one else who could understand you, there is nothing useful about your skill set. Communication is always a two way thing no ?

That was one of the many topic that caught my attention during the #goodenglishsg event helded by @glishclub yesterday morning at the Garden Slug.

A lot was spoken in the short hour during the event and there are a lot that I agree. The environment of a person who is trying to pick up a language properly is very important. That is why people who are into learning a certain language should always go overseas for an exchange and stay with their native.

That being said, there is 1 of the issues which I do not fully agree. That is actually about "dumb down". It was mentioned that we should not dumb down to people and speak broken English for the sake of convenience and in fact there is no convenience in it cause you will have to waste time correcting it after. No dumb down to broken English, no baby talk.

In my line of work, I have to speak to China workers, Indian workers and many more other workers who can't speak and understand proper English. The best they could do is to capture certain keywords. "Backdrop", "Here", "2pm", "16ft" "OKay ? "

That being an extreme cases, what about in the army ? I am sure most guys been to army and notice the unspoken "class" of English. We have our typical "Hokkien Pek" , "Ah Bang Drivers" and "Old Chinese Encik". They have very bad common of English and you will be surprise how bad it can be. I use to have a buddy who can't spell words like "Lunch Box", "Toilet Roll". So with these "barrier", you will actually have problem blending into their culture and work well with them. They will have this image of you as the "Fake Ang Mo", "That irritating Jiak Kang Tang". Like I mention earlier, communication is a two way affair, so what good is 1 person's effort to 1 organization?

I know it may sound contradicting at this moment. I agree that the importance of language environment plays a very big part in learning a language well but on the other hand I am saying that we should dumb down and blend into other's culture if it's bad language they are speaking. Well, speaking good language is just like any other thing where balance is very important. You have to know where you are standing. If you are in a position of control and change, yes you should encourage the change but if you are in a position where you are junior I suggest you go with the flow until later. Speaking good language is no doubt important but knowing the culture and surviving the world is a little more important I suppose. Never win a battle and lost the war.  I guess I am one of those people who are making glishclub's battle a little tougher to fight. :p

Language leaning is just like any other education, it's a life long learning process and I am still trying very hard to improve myself. Due to work as well as self consciousness I am always trying my best cause it can be very very embarrassing when you are not able to spell or speak properly in my current environment.

I suppose one of our favorite is still when the client reply " Please kindly revert by 3pm". Not too sure what is wrong ? Check out  glishclub's website and find out more !

Mr.Smith, I ish ah beng but I lub Engrish too ! I might be a hooligan but I love English !

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Miss Singapore Universe 2011

In case you haven't read about it, here it is.

Miss Singapore Universe 2011: Head and shoulders above the rest

So not too sure why I am doing this blog post ? 

I AM TRYING TO SHOW OFF THAT THE MISS SINGAPORE UNIVERSE 2011 IS MY FRIEND LAH !!! 

I mean she is popular and friendly so there is actually nothing much to show off about being her friend cause she actually has a lot of friends. 

HER - ME  

And here's the whatsapp message from her wishing me happy birthday some days back 

Pls ignore the lame wallpaper

Anyway I am very happy for her and thank you all for entertaining me and my 30sec of cheap thrill.

Mr.Smith, I will make u all proud when I become Mr.Man Hunt. :x 

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How Did Social Media Changed My Life

25th June 2011. - I was at *Scape running this event known as the Singapore Social Media day. So what's the big deal here since I work for an events company and doing event is like my daily thing ? The special thing about this event is that it's actually a non-profit, by Social Media for Social Media event. I was invited by Mint Leong many months ago to join the team in organizing this event.  I accepted the invite without a 2nd thought. It's all good and I am sure it will be fun working with a group of young and passionate bloggers for a change.

Through the planning and execution of this event, I've made more friends and more "blogger" friends as well. Though the planning of this event is not the smoothest as we are all volunteers from different corner of the blogosphere with different experience and exposure the event did eventually turned out pretty well.

For those of you who have spoken to me personally would know that I actually have a very different and unique my vision for Singapore Social Media Scene. 

I am not a "famous blogger" , I do not write very well and neither do I have a very strong fan base. (I might have if I show some cleavage.) But I have a strong believe that Social Media as it's name suggests is something which should be very social and has no borders. I have met many bloggers/tweeples from many cliques and in fact it's sad to say that this little piece of sky has too many clouds. What I would eventually want to see is a same sky with 1 big piece of cloud where everyone from different corner, different company and different background will come together to make it a real "social media" day. This "cloud theory" was actually a very interesting analogy shared to me by another tweeple/friend/business partner of mine - Kevin aka @inrsoul. 

I wish to see a social space where we no need to send out special invites for bloggers to come to event, no need to pay you to write, no need to say that you are certain company's blogger or things like "I do not wish to be seen with certain bloggers." I can't deny the fact that there are many black sheep in the industry, many people who mess up the natural balance, many who has offended each others in many ways. That is simply because everyone of us bear this "difference" in ourselves. Silly social status such as "I am a popular blogger and u are not." , "I have more followers than you." , " I only write if I am paid", "I go to sponsored events and I'm awesome". The list goes on but what is "social" media if we hold on to this differences in ourselves? The power of viral and social is when everybody is on the same side isn't it so ? The problem as well as the uniqueness of this "industry" is that everyone has their own voice, everyone has their own style and everyone play by their own rules. 

End of the day, my thought is that commercializing this platform will kill the very beauty of it. 

But of course, on the other hand I can't denial that I benefitted quite a fair bit out of social media. 

One of the biggest benefit has to be making a lot of amazing friends ! 

And also I got to be part of many amazing and happening events such as Twestival, Social Media Day, Product Launches and more. 

Twestival 2010 w Faith n Fiona

And recently I got featured on different blogs/website thanks to social media. And in fact I was on national radio - ufm100.3 last week for an interview about SGSMD. You can "tune in" here if you missed it. 

And the best thing ? Forming my very own awesome #humsupleague and meeting many hot hot chix !!!

Twestival 2011 w @dweam 

SGSMD with @pingpingss

So did social media change my life? Yes! and it's all for the better !! As for those who missed the event, no need to cry ! See you guys in 2012 !

Signing off this post with a totally irrelevant picture taken by my buddy @sianzrong from @1stjournal !

Banging the Wall.

Mr.Smith, Social Media completes the Mr.Humsup in me !

P.S : Please do not be sad if I did not feature you as my hot babe friend from social media. The time will come okay ?  : x 

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Pink Dot SG 2011 !!

Went to my very 1st pink dot sg event yesterday at hong lim park !

What is pink dot sg ?

From Pinkdot's facebook

Pink Dot Sg is a non-profit movement started by a group of individuals who care deeply about the place that LGBT Singaporeans call home. It is a group for everyone, straight and gay, who support the belief that everyone deserves the freedom to love. With openness and acceptance, we hope to bring LGBT Singaporeans closer to their family and friends.


Although I am straight (In fact so damn straight) I still support pinkdot ! I think we should not look at our gay friends differently or judge them on their working abilities or any other abilities simply base on their sexuality. In fact, sexuality is not by choice for many out there. Which is why i thought it's actually very important for a society like us to show support for all our friends.

The gf and I meetup with some of the tweeples and the event was AWESOME !!

Camwhore at it's best ! 

And how many of us were at the event? - Ten Freaking Thousand People !

The debut of the event attracted 2,500 people on 2009, 4000 on 2010 and yesterday, pink dot rallied 10,000 people at the event !! They might just win the elections if Pink Dot can go in as Pink Dot Party !! PDP !! PDP !! PDP !!!

And because of this event I was actually on the papers okay !!  - GPGT

Someone from twitter scanned it. Sorry dunno who to credit. :x 

What ? Don't give me the stupid face okay. I was really on it. With Chris, Pris, Sheryl, Vicki, June, Wilfred, Kevin and of course, MANY MANY MORE !!

See the man in pink with a man patch on the chest?

Spotted !!

See you guys at Pinkdot 2012 !!

Mr.Smith, u have to wear pink okay? unless u have pink nipples, u may attend the event topless

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Cold Storage Fun Run 2011

Happy Family ! - My Favorite Picture 

Little Nat Nat was part of the Cold Storage Fun Run 2011. This is her very first participation in a public running event. She joined the fun run category where daddy will run with her for a distance of 800m ! 

Getting Ready ! 

Let's Go ! 

Father Daughter Bonding Time !

Looking all tired at the finishing line

"Look SukSuk, I've gold medal ! "

And if you guys remembered, Nat did not just join the run but she also submitted a video which was done by Xianrong and I. Read about it here !

And the result ? 

"I am NUMBER ONE ! " 

Look at that smile on little Nat Nat's face !! Just in case you were too lazy to click the link above. This is the video one more time ! 

Thanks everyone for watching and sharing on their facebook too !! 

Oh and of course. The event would not be as successful as it had been if not for our very own leticia !! 

I support the Bulls ! 

I think the kids these days are very fortunate to have such events. They are expose to such happenings at such a young age !! Until next year !! Let's try to get no.1 ONE MORE TIME !!!

Mr.Smith, So proud of my little niece !

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