Singtel Blog Competition, dated 9 April 2004
Wow. I'm shocked to see that Singtel really implemented the number of voters system for all to see how many people are voting so soon. However, theres one little glitch which everyone overlooked.
The number of voters includes the number of people voting OUT as well. I called Singtel to ask, and this is what they told me.
Of course my 202 voters could have a high percentage of it from the vote outs (though i highly doubt so coz I think its from the same people). Thus, the number of voters does not necessarily mean the number of supporters.
This also means, that Posh's 66 voters do not all like her as well. Some apparently has a strong distaste for her.
Meanwhile, for Sel's entry, apparently she wasn't talking about me. But see, I dun understand. If you've got something to say, just say the name la! You mumble mumble some, and of course people might think its them correct?
I do think she is talking about me, because
1) I do think that everyone loves me deep inside. (Kidding - some people don't get it.)
2) I do think that someone else is cheating, and mentioned it.
So yeah, my readers have pointed out to me they think Sel is talking abt me, so whats wrong with defending myself first? Its not being sensitive. It sounds like me, so you expect me to wave it off and say, "Hey, I must be being sensitive la, surely not me one."
And am I supposed to msg you to ask you, Sel?
One more thing. Your world does not revolve around me. MY world revolves around me (who else is it supposed to revolve around I wonder, Lee Kwan Yew?), which is why I took action to defend myself. I do not hope (nor think) your world revolves around me. For one, I do not even bother to read ur blog till people pointed it out to me.
No, you did not get slammed. Its just a clarification on my part. I still like you as a person (prior to the claws, which is when I cannot trust anyone anymore), and I think you seem a pretty nice girl.
I'll blog more later. Afterall, today is a PRESS HOLIDAY!!! I'm so glad. Meanwhile, I'm working on the NKF story as well, it will be a fullpage on Monday, be sure to get your copy of TODAY to look out for it! If you ask me, this year's NKF charity show 2 would be a good one, and I'm not even saying this because I work for MediaCorp. You'd know if u read my article. *winks*
Oh yeah I'm setting up a forum for you guys to post up comments. Support it!
p/s: do u know that veto is the opposite of vote? Do you know if you read my blog, i call you a blogder? (blog + reader = blogder) Do you know I'm too paiseh to say I have "fans" although some call themselves that? This is because I think I'm just a common girl, not worthy of being idolised. And idolisers are mostly irrational; I don't want blind worshipping.
Which is why I call my supporters blogders, even if they don't like me (deep down inside they do), coz they read my blog anyway.
Cheers!
Singtel Blog Competition, dated 7 April 2004
In reply to Sel's entry, which she will no doubt claim it isn't me she's talking about, I have to say this. I have a right to suspicion, and voice it out. If its not her, people have eyes to see for themselves, and not trust my judgement.
These are the facts that I know. Jan's votes went down. Mine went down. Mia's went down. And then it started hitting mine negative.
Blog reader Neo saw what happened, and voted Posh down a little. Immediately, Posh's went up to counter Neo's votes, and mine stopped dropping. After pushing hers to an ideal, the mystery person started to vote me down again.
Now, what can be concluded?
I drew my own, and I aired it. If its really not her, then too bad, coz somebody made it seem like it. I only believe my own eyes.
And what do you mean not everybody loves me??! EVERYBODY LOVES ME. Some are in denial, and some are just faking it. =D Some may seem like they really don't like me, but in fact they are trying to get my attention.
Anyway, the thing now is, I called Singtel up with a very jaded voice (please take a long at Keito's votes) and complained a hell lot about the flawed system.
Rumours are flying everywhere about how Singtel is only interested to earn money from this thing, and obviously contestants are voting for themselves (i didnt say I don't, nor did I say I do), etc.
A long conversation later, organiser Phillip (if i spelt his name right) promises future benefits for maintaining integrity in my blog (ie not voting for oneself) - for example being ambassadors in future events. One wonders how much truth his statements contains. To a certain extent, it could be seen as a way to pacify me to stop me from deleting this whole blog away altogether, or stopping to blog.
I have decided, however, to believe his words I guess. Should it not come true, everyone would know that Singtel is a big fat liar. Anyway, if they disqualify me or something, I would continue blogging on my usual blog at xiaxue.blogspot.com, which is the best pink site in the world.
The conclusion? Stop voting Posh out (for christ's sake look at her votes). If you think I should win, vote for me, IN. Singtel says that they would implement a voters' count, so that at least we can see how many people are voting. However, when this will be implemented is another issue. Maybe after I get voted out this week? Then whats the point?
Its alright, people got eyes to see who has readers/supporters, and who doesn't.
Sorry Singtel dudes, but I am feeling really doubtful about everything now. I can't help, but feel I am being spoken to in a condesending manner, as if I'm some ah soh asking for more veggies in her chicken noodles. If Singtel doesn't do anything about this, then I guess I will just QUIT.
*****
Thanks for reading so much. Now back to real blogging ok? I get feedback from people commenting that they love my previous blog so much more.
Two things:
1) I'm now a journalist, so I do have to watch my words, or lose my job. Please try to understand that.
2) I'm sorry if u are bored by entires related to this competition. I guess since blogging is about my life, I would surely blog abt this contest, since its in my life!!
Heres my entry anyway:
That day I think Ben was lamenting as usual about how a great person with a nine-incher like himself cannot get a girlfriend. I told him to use his dcik to slap whoever dares reject him, and she will come beg crawling begging for another whack. Ben cried, so I told him..
"Ben, nvm la, I think you are in the top, er.. 500 men I would marry."
He cried more.
"No la! got compared with Brad Pitt all that one leh... Plus Bill Gates also u know...!"
He gave me a touched smile. (The Ben part is totally fiction) Whatever it is, it led me to wonder... Who will be the top 15 men I would like to shag??!
*Drumrolls*
Ala FHM style, here you go, the bloody privileged few.
15.
The Levi's ad guy
Alright it is not this particular queer looking Levi's model, but the one we often see on MRT poster/orchard underpass. I can't find the exact picture. The one I'm talking about is the picture of the guy which his butt facing the camera and half his body in the water.
My god, that butt!!! Makes you just wanna smack him, the naughty boy! And he's cute too, despite the little bits of white hair at the ends. Besides, this is one guy who have done mermaids before, so he would possibly appreciate warm, none-slimy females. Cool.
14.
Fei Yu Chin
I am sick of hearing his sick voice. Its gross. He sounds like he doesn't get enough. If good sex could shut him up, I'll do the sacrifice. Anything but Fei Yu Chin's singing.
13.
Fred Flintstone
The fact that he doesn't have armpit hair and has only 3 toes on each feet and 4 fingers make him look so damn sexy.
12.
Andy Hui
I want him to tell me I'm better than Sammi Cheng. Anyway, here's one guy who'd possibly appreciate my boobs wahahhahaha.
11.
Edwin Yeo
Am I the only who had enough of his Shu Qi fixation? Enough is enough. HER EYES ARE TOO FAR APART!!! Why don't men see it?!
Anyway, I'll show Edwin Shu Qi is nothing. Abso-fcuking-lutely nothing. Compared to me of course. Xiaxue=sex goddess
No bubble baths can save Shu Qi after I give Edwin the time of his life.
10.
David Beckham
For obvious reasons. Oh wait no, he doesn't usually look like a goat, I don't know what went wrong. No.. I'm not into goats alright?! Look. I'm serious, I'm not into goats. Not when there are llamas.
But usually Beckham looks pretty shaggable! Let me try to put another picture of him...
Finding ah...
AUUUUUUUUURRRRGGGHHH!!! WHAT WENT WRONG??!! WHATS WRONG WITH BECKHAM??! WHY LIKE THAT??!
9.
Twins from Amazing Race
I shagged twins I shagged twins!!
8.
Jack Neo
Wa ha ha ha ha ha KIDDING.
8.
Bruce Almighty
Did you see that orgasm he gave to Jennifer Aniston??!
7.
Jeremy
Just Jeremy. (only old blog readers understand)
6.
Peter Pan
It was a tough choice between Peter Pan and Superman, because I thought sex while flying is way cool.
I decided on Pan because of three reasons. 1) Pan is cuter. 2) I am into paedophillia. 3) Even if he was thinking of another girl in bed, he would still say.. "Oh Wendy.." and thats fine by me.
And the little jungle suit is darn alluring.
5.
Tay Ping Hui
You sneer. I beg to differ. I met Ping Hui (woah, my friend ah) at the press conf for Spice Siblings a few days ago, and till now I'm still weak at the knees ok?
Not only is he super hot, he seems genuinely a nice person too.
Me and him are sitting down.
Me: "Hey, I wanna take a photo with you!"
Tay: "Sure!" Proceeds to stand up and tower over me. *looks shocked to realise that he is so much taller.
Me: "Urrgh you sit down!"
Tay: "Orh."
The photographer prepared to shoot, but told us to wait coz he needs to change the lens.
*awkward silence*
Me: "Haha I told him to do that so that I can sit beside you for longer..."
Ping Hui turned, looked at me in the eyes, and looked a mixture of puzzlement and amusement. When I was drowning in his puppy-like eyes, he said, "But, all you have to do is ask!"
WEAK KNEES
Afterwards he said, "Hey you must send me those!!", and proceeded to give me his email but as usual I am too hum chee to do anything about it.
I want Tay Ping Hui. I want Tay Ping Hui!!
4.
Jack Sparrow
I shagged a pirate! I shagged a pirate!
3.
Asevalone
Oh he is so damn cute!! I wanna shag him...
Only if I have Aids.
Anyway, read Shaun's chat logs, 2nd March, 7th sentence. Thats the reason why He's only 3rd and not 1st.
2.
Mystique
She is really perfect, because she can become ANYTHING you want, be it donkey or Brad Pitt. But then again, some things are better authentic. Like our winner.
1.
Legolas
Declared by me as the most fcukable creature of the year 2004. Legolas is an elf who never dies and never gets dirty (dirt ok, really dirt). However, some suspect he is having an affair with ugly drawf Gimli.
It would be damn cool to have sex and have him moan in Elfish! And then you can lick pointy ears. So cute!!! I personally would have him play human darts with me, since his aiming so darn good.
*****
Sleep liao, damn tired, tml still got to go see NKF rehearsals. Nights!! (Shall not check for grammar mistakes.) Read The Full Article
Singtel Blog Competition, dated 6 April 2004
From the 200 plus votes I had this morning, someone voted me down to -65 votes. Thats a fcuking 50 bucks spent already.
During the same period of time, Janice's votes, from 248, went down to 65. (whats with the 65 anyway?). Mia's miserable 40+ votes were not let off either.
Whatever. I believe in fair play, and that my fans will support me till the end. I have been bullied, and surely you guys will help me win back the injustice done to me!!
May the best blog win. In any case, I have decided on my blog topic today, and despite my mood being a little more than foul, I will still write it, coz I AM DA BLOGGER!!!
=D
blogging now, brb
Singtel Blog Competition, 4 April 2004
Someone whom I have always viewed as a politically correct person, has stood right up and told us the bare-naked truth without mincing her words.
Ladies and gentlemen, read Janice's latest entry, with the seemingly harmless title, My dream d8.
Perhaps she is not afraid, because she is speaking the truth.
I know for a fact that people are voting for themselves. Think about it. They might have readers/fans/desperados supporting them, but how many would wake up at the wee hours of the morning like crazy Neo ("For the spirit of true blogsmanship, it is as much ur game as mine!")?
From the jump, jump, jumping of the rankings in the wee hours of the morning, we know something is amiss.
I know, because I earned my die-hard readers over 1 year of hard-core blogging. When I was in another blogging contest that won by just votes (free votes!), I merely had 200 + votes. Thats how lazy people are. They at most, just read. Few bother about the contest, and fewer are about to take out their wallets.
Within a sheer period of 1 or 2 months, its difficult to get readers who are ardent enough to vote for you all the way. Unless, of course, you are drop dead gorgeous.
The reason why American Idol viewers are so much more willing to vote lies in the title itself. The singers, are portrayed as idols. Icons that people look up to, and people go gaga over.
The interactivity of this contest, has made it such that we are nearer to telemarketers and further from idols.
Let's face it. Since when did Clay Aiken go like "Oooh I'm so happy I've got fans!" and name them one by one like the contestants are doing? There is nothing wrong with being appreciative of support, but it just goes to show how minute the fan base is - I guess.
Is self-voting considered cheating? Perhaps not then, some contestants might argue with you... "They say people must think that I am a dreamd8... Yeah, my mother think so lor..."
True enough. To play the game, one must go all the way. If you don't cheat, others will do so anyway. There is no point is saying "yeah you win but without glory." No point! She/he is walking away with US$5,000 and would use it to slap your face!
Perhaps another thing would be the ficticious (i am lazy to check the spelling) entries on how one contestant is in love with another. One suspects that it is all sensationalism to get readers.
That, I believe, is really saddening.
Playing smart? Cheating? You decide.
I'm gonna watch a movie now, be back laters with your peeps at 12am, on irc channel xiaxue k? Laters.
Singtel Blog Competition, dated 4 April 2004
Bimbotic Entry Of The Day Wor! (kekeke)
Isn't my new profile picture pretty?
Heehee.. So pretty wor... Mi likes. esp e pink flwoers, so sweet worz
Stole it from Janice's banner kekeke... Photoshopped the white flowers onto my pix kekeke.... took me a while wor, its tough! sianz den muz make the flowers pink den make a bit bit transparent lorx LOL ROTF kekeke.
Even added a bit of stupi, i mean, toopid lens flare to make it look like got sunlight shining at me worx!! So creaive horz? mi hair loOk shiny rite~
Yesterday I went to this pets shop wor! love the doggies inside very fluffy and pretty, like mi new profile pixture! Then at e pets shop guess what I saw... a toad! the person very farnie he make me laugh. he say Erm miss please dun touch ze toad.
I ask him why he lidat he say CHAO CB SAY DON'T TOUCH MEANS DUN TOUCH, lidat one leh, so fierce, ask only wat.
Then I gave him a bj (its a brinjal la) and he say it is v nice to eat so he eat it... eat liao wor, den his mOOd a biT biT nicer he told mi that the toad is actUally poisonous... wah so scary ah... I scared leh...
I ask him, wait the toad bite mI how please bring it far awAy frOm mi.. ~~ (>.<)
My face a biT like the symbols there kekeke so farnie kekekeke heehee
like dis:
(>.<)
He say when I loOk like (>.<) I loOk very cuTe so he suddenly throw the toad at me.
I run away! I scared of poisonous toad!! AAAAAHHH!! HoW? He very rude leh people giving (>.<) face that time suddenly throw toads at ppl. DOn't he nOe that it is very inpOliTe to throw toAds?
I cry, and he threw a star-shell tortoise at mi.... den i say OOOOrrhhh you DIE the kind of tortoise is extinct one it muz be illegal to sell them WOR!!! sell still nvm, still take and thrOw at peOple! The poor tortoise got feeling one lehx! (>.<)
I realised that the tortoise actually hit the poisonous toad and the toad cry also.
I hug him and cry.
The tortoise bo chup us wor.
den after this I take the toad run away with me lor... still crying wor, i cry v easily one worx.. (>.<) Then I scared I kanna the poison because my lips turn purple already, and become very big like this:
I show you you don't laugh horz!
Very painful...
then I go see doctOr lor...
DOctOr tell me I got Herpes leh... Then I ask him, what is a herpes? He say... AHHH THAT TOAD YOU ARE HOLDING!!! Very funny i oso dunno toad called herpes one.
He dOn't care about my swollen lips lehx. Very funny dis doc... after this he say.. hey yOur lips look very full, want to give me a bj?
I ask him, why, I tot oNly cat priests ask for bj one, moreover I'm not a little boy ha ha ha ha, den I tOld him lorx, my last bj already given to someone else.
he loOk very disapointed, and anyhOw give me somE medicine and ask me to gO lor. Don't understand why the doctOr angry just because I don't have a brinjal to give him. dOh.
Today got this blog reader msg me lehx...I am so happy, but I dunno wat 2 dO, u tell mi k k? kekeke
01:55:40 Alvin24
Hi,xiaxue. U hav a pretty looks. Care to be friends? I am alvin,24. I wan to know u more. U can msg to ********* Hope to hear fr u soon. Thks.
01:57:28 Xiaxue � Alvin24
hi! I would LOVE to be friends!
11:27:21 Alvin24
I duno is a contest. After the contest,u still treat me as a frd,pls store my hp num ******** & msg me,k? I am alvin,hope u rem.
11:29:12 Xiaxue � Alvin24
eeyer You so bad one message so many girls i'm angry liao la...
11:35:48 Alvin24
Got many gals meh? So how is it? After the contest,hope u can msg me using yur hp. Cos i realli wan to know u in person.
11:38:09 Xiaxue � Alvin24
sorry lor you don't only want to know me... You are so greedy you want all the girls... I want to give you my number, but why must you do this?
11:39:36 Alvin24
I where got msg all gals? Who say? I did not lor.
11:41:18 Xiaxue � Alvin24
yes you did... You msg them! :( can see from their chat logs one...
11:44:25 Alvin24
Only a few. I juz wan to know more frds. But i did not know its a contest. Juz hope u dun mind. But i wan to make more frds. If u dun mind.
11:47:35 Xiaxue � Alvin24
but i'm very jealous one... Don't want you to msg other girls...
11:49:06 Alvin24
K lor. Wun msg them liao.
11:51:29 Xiaxue � Alvin24
really ah? So cute ah you... What are you working as?
11:52:06 Alvin24
Army regular.
11:59:59 Alvin24
Y dun reply me liao? Juz now u even say wan to giv me yur num,bluff me 1.
12:10:47 Xiaxue � Alvin24
but i have herpes, you mind?
12:11:30 Alvin24
Sorry,wat is herpes?
12:13:33 Xiaxue � Alvin24
its a kind of poisonous toad that i keep as a pet...
12:14:18 Alvin24
I dun mind.
Yaaay...!! He say he don't mind me having Herpes leh.... So nice right.. But I scared to msg him back.. cos my lips mah... so big and purple wor... I scare he mind...
I mean, i loOk lidat now...
A bit scary ah. I'm v sad you know, don't laugh already la...
This entry is a joke. Don't judge me on it. And BTW, grammar and spelling mistakes are delibrate. Read The Full Article
Singtel Blog Competition, dated 2 April 2004
Let's just say I got very touched by an email written by a reader, so I'm feeling particularly HAPPY!!
Yaaay happy blogger!!!
To everyone who has made snide comments about me, telling me I'm an attention-seeking whore who writes non-funny (why did you even decide its not funny if you never for a moment thought its funny??) blog entries:
Heres what I will say to you:
Click here to be pleasantly surprised.
Well well well... So crude. But apt anyway.
My point is this. I'm not your typical girl who will break down and cry. Some of these people who hide behind their internet nicks (HUMCHEE AH?) to flame me might be supporters of the other dreamdates, or simply new readers, so perhaps you guys don't know me well enough.
YOU CANNOT GET ME DOWN. No matter what you say, I possibly have heard it a million times before already. Fat? Been there. Ugly? Yeah so? Attention-seeking? I don't even see whats wrong. Whore? Wheres your creativity? Slut? Surely you can do better.
I'm still here, strong and unwavering.
I have my blog ongoing for a full year this April 17. Let's just have an early birthday entry for my blog shall we?
From checking blogger out, to writing my first blog entry. I learnt, step by step, shamelessly asking people, to customise my blog. I learnt HTML, so frustrated with it, that I nearly decided to just leave it as the default blue blog template.
I learnt how to edit my pictures. I checked out different websites for picture hosting, and slowly, I added comments links. A scrolling marquee. A tag board.
From basic default blue, to a bright pink background. Then a snowflake background with me holding my cybershot. Then it was red. The picture was a full shot of me. After which its pink, its current skin. Everything by myself.
I set up a friendster account for my blog readers. By today, it is full with 500 readers, with over a hundred testimonials.
All these hard work, all by myself. It is not easy. And for who do I do this for, besides the love of blogging?
My readers.
The 3rd day my blog was up, people are already spreading my links, people whom I don't know.
I put in a web counter on May 18, and by May 24, it hit 100. By July 06, it hit 10,000, and to date, its 294,702 and counting.
No nude photos. No bikinis or bras either. And surely its agreed, I'm not very pretty. So what could be attracting these people?
People simply do not come back for more and more bad things. Or maybe some do, I don't know.
I have gone through the good. I've got plenty of fan mails (500 + including some from readers from California, Germany and Australia), a radio interview, won a blog contest, and now I'm one of the finalists for another blogging contest.
Laced with the good is the bad - LOADS of people critisizing. Suddenly, I get people calling me a slut when I didn't do anything. At its utmost downturn, my blog was discussed in sleazy forums. The men there are not longer crazy individuals by themselves, but a big group against me. Just me alone.
I thought of ending my blog altogether numerous times.
Yes, I cried. But I am only human.
Thankfully, I wasn't alone. My readers were with me.
My love-life. Blog readers saw me grow. From Eddy.. To Adryan... Bernard, then Jeremy. And then to them all suddenly getting attached.
My family breaking up.
My career. From a poly student, to my silly part-time jobs in banqueting, Tiger Beer, and now, I'm a journalist.
My relationships with my friends, and daily rants about public transport, and my change in character as I grow up one more year. My readers saw it all as I blog my heart out openly to the public.
Here I am, exposing my most vulnerable secrets, yet there are people who take advantage of it. People who tell me I should examine my character, because even my best friend hates me - when XF and I quarrelled. People who tell me I should think about why my parents are getting divorced - it must be because I'm a bad daughter.
BUT I HAVE SURVIVED IT ALL. I cried, I was dejected, I was shaken. But I didn't sit there and mope. I picked myself up.
And looking back, it has only aided me to become a stronger person. Now, people can try putting me down, sure. They can try, but they would never succeed.
Because for every one of you out there who dislikes me, there are 3 people who would be really upset if I gave up blogging. B
ecause I have faith in myself. I know I'm not doing anything wrong.
Because of the time, efforts, and pain I have put into maintaining this blog (not this one but the blogspot one). My blog is my blood and sweat, and also my pride and joy.
I will never give it up.
An early happy birthday to Xiaxue' blog.
*Sing to the song of Stronger by Britney*
But I am stronger, than yesterday...
p/s: Actually I want to write about some funny thing one but I got a little carried away. Hahaha...
Singtel Blog Competition, dated 2 April 2004
HAPPY APRIL'S FOOL!!
Siao ah you all! I love blogging and I will never stop!! I thought I said this long ago. I'm not trying to garner votes la I already said don't vote. Ok its supposed to be funny, seems that only some found it slightly amusing.
Don't need to say such hurting things mah... I actually planned to say its an April's Fool joke yesterday at 1 am but guess what??! Dreamd8's site was DOWN!!! So cannot blog to clarify, can only do so today lor.
I know you all have been voting la, my dear blogders!!! I love you ALL (including sun, cr, reminisce etc) whether you love me or hate me, coz the worst thing that can happen to a writer is that no one reads his works, right??
Cheer up k k?
Meanwhile, I suspect someone else is playing a very serious April's Fool Day joke.
If you are an ardent Maddox fan, you would possibly be fcuking horrified.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BLACK BACKGROUND?? THE EVIL PIRATE FACE?!! Why is it so cutesy now!!! I'm so traumatized!! I hope its a joke. It must be.
MADDOX IF YOU SEE THIS.... PLEASE COME BACK.... I MISS YOU ALREADY.
Cheerios guys! Blog more tonight.
p/s: Horrors of horrors, I'm covering this year's NKF event and I got absolutely nothing good to say about it. Besides, there is Miss Holy Ho (yeow sun) performing. Typical I would say. Give the woman a charity event and she would come. Fantastic PR skills? Marketing strategy? You bet.
Please tell me what good angle I can use to cover it. Damn.
