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Crazy week!
The past week was a crazy one! Tons of Puma events and parties, and F1 related events!
Psst... Black Eyed Peas and Beyonce totally rocked Singapore.  Stay tuned for more updates! Don't forget to keep voting okay! :D 
Krrunching my way to Asia-Pacific Blog Awards at Uniquely Singapore
 I'm extremely elated to be shortlisted as one of the top five finalists for "Best Original Blog Design". It's like a pat on the shoulder especially after I'd just revamped the blog design. To be honest, I feel really really proud to have the honor to pit against Xiaxue! It's like saying I'm such a excellent blogger like her, but well, CLEARLY I'm not. Haha! With that said, it also means that I'm up against the strongest competition ever. Even with Xiaxue aside, the other finalists, from the other parts of the globe, are very good too. We have a very popular Malaysian comic artist, and a very creative Filipino web designer (who bagged a similar award in her homeland last year)! 50% of our fate has already been determined by the judges. The other 50% is IN YOUR HANDS! Voting is rather simple. No registration is required! And it comes in two ways! #1. You can go to http://awards.nuffnang.com/votes.php to vote.  OR #2. You can vote via the 'voting poll' on the right side bar ---->  It's only a lil troublesome when you'll have to vote for every category each time you do. After selecting all the 11 blogs, the last button to click is "Submit Votes". Here's the catch, you can vote again after every 2 hours! So technically one person can only vote 12 times per day! Voting ends in about 2 weeks' time, 11th October! And trust me, I would need a ton of support, please do ask your friends and family to help me vote okay?! Spread the luuuurrrve! Well, with that, let me give you the...  I know I gross people out by point #5. Oh well, with all the different sick reasons you'll want to see me in trunks on Orchard Road, here's your chance. Help me vote as much as you can, preeeetty please? *puppy eyes*
Do you know...
...that I'm part of a very cool clique called, Friends of Puma?
I've started blogging over at PUMA's website for quite awhile now, and it has been an awesome experience! More importantly, I'm trying out a different blogging style over at there!  Not only that, I'm giving out tons of goodies and party/event invites every now and then on the blog! The current giveaway is this Friday's F1 Rocks concert tickets! And the only thing you'll have to do is to comment! >>>Hurry over before it's gone! Oh, and while you're at it, do grab your free copy of the awesome FOP magazine over at the puma blog! Nadia & I am on the cover of this issue! 
Having a voice in Crocs.
So, in the previous entry, I asked you guys to make a wild guess on the brand of the shoes in this pic!
 That entry received a whooping 40 comments! And to my surprise, most of you guys are correct! But there were also guesses like Uniqlo, Timberland and even Pedro! LOL! Anyway, I can't deny that I was originally a hater, which was under much influence by Xiaxue and William Sledd. But before you check out the links and be converted to another Anti-Crocs, hear me out! I believe a lot of people hate Crocs 'cos its very first design is, well erm, not very fashionable.  The classic design seemed to have left a very bad impression and didn't receive a good response from the public. Somehow, Crocs are then being stereotyped as an ugly footwear. BUT HAVE YOU SEEN THE LATEST DESIGNS??? They're actually quite neat! Like this one I've gotten (courtesy of the kind folks from Crocs).  Quite nifty, eh? Ahh, a couple of months ago, Crocs contacted a bunch of us bloggers and held a little sharing session over at The Screening Room @ Ann Siang Road. We got to share our frank views and impression on Crocs and also looked at their latest line of shoes.  We met JP McCarvel, who has been with Crocs since 2007 and he's also the moderator of the new Crocsideas.com site. What is Crocsideas.com?  It's basically like a speaker's corner for Crocs! It is dubbed as a laboratory for Crocs customers to share, innovate, express and explore ideas around Croc's products and services. So you like tell them, what's nice, what's not, what needs changes, and you can even suggest your own design ideas into their shoes. Your voice gets on to the website, and it gets viewed and voted and eventually the best ideas get integrated into upcoming product lines! More importantly, credit will be given to you if your idea is being executed!  I had this glow-in-dark idea!Don't you have to agree that it'll be like a perfect pair for clubbing if you crave for some attention?! Ha! Anyway, talking about the design, here's some of the new shoes displayed during the session.  Aren't they a whole lot different from the classic design?!  That's a huge ass classic "Beach" Crocs! So anyway, my favourite one from there is the "Realtree Yukon". It looks artsy!  Do head over to Crocsideas.com and give some guru advice of yours on how to improve on the classic "Beach" design! Have your voice in Crocs! P/s: This is NOT an advertorial even though I've gotten a free pair from Crocs! I genuinely like Crocs better now 'cos they're new range is quite impressive!
Happy Long Weekend!
Woot! Here comes the looooong weekend, aren't you excited about it?!
Anyhoo, if you've yet to know, INQmobile, together with Singtel, is having a INQ Mini 3G roadshow at Ngee Ann City for the whole of the long weekend! For those of you who are dying to get hold of the INQ Mini 3G, here's your chance! You'll just have to head down to the roadshow on any of the 3 days and take part in a lucky draw! Here's the important thing, remember to indicate you're a supporter of me (i.e. my name/blog url) on the lucky draw coupon and you'll get to win the INQ Mini 3G when they announce a winner at 6pm everyday! I'll be heading down tomorrow (Saturday, that is) at 4-6pm and I'll be hanging out with the other bloggers in a glass house set up specially for us! You're welcome to join us at the glass house too! Do get me on Twitter at @jayleif if you can't find me tomorrow! More details are up on the Facebook event page! Oh, let me have to honour to entice you further with a preview of the mini "product photoshoot" that I did with the Mini 3G set!     I can't really blog about the INQmobile event yet 'cos the photos are still with Nadia! Do stay tuned for it and more 'photoshoot' photos to come! On another note, I'm flooded with the comments guessing about the shoe brand in the previous entry! I'm going to reveal it in the next blog post and approve all the comments!
Guess where these are from?!
Been donning this pair of new loafers-looking shoes recently.
Are you able to...  Leave your guess as a comment! :D (Pssst! I shall not publish the comments until someone gets it right!)
F1 Rocks tickets up for grabs!!
YEEEEEESSSSSS! You heard it right!
24seven is giving out 2 pairs of F1 Rocks tickets worth $390 (for Fri 25th Sep) for 2 bloggers!!!  No Doubt will be performing that night!   'Don't Speak' is one of the greatest song ever! And... the other bands include ZZ Top, Simple Minds and N*E*R*D! Here's how to win! 1. Post an entry on your blog to tell us why you deserve to win the F1 Rocks tickets. The post with the most originality and desire will be chosen! Do comment here with your direct link to your entry post! Good luck y'all!
new blog designnnnnn!
Initially I thought of writing in a entirely new post about the new blogskin, but since the comments had already came into here, I'd might as well update here right?
Before I begin, I have a pet peeve about the term "blogskin". I cringe whenever I hear that word. I don't know who coined the term first, but it is apparent that BlogSkins.com is a site that provides free blogskins. Somehow "blogskin" and "BlogSkins.com" seemed affiliated and so, calling my design a blogskin will seemingly degrade from an exclusive one it to a common one found on that website. But well, I crumbled. It's a weak argument and "blogskins" is an easier and more catchy word anyway. Kua kua kua. That aside, it's time to rejoice!  It's quite a huge revamp in terms of the look of it! One major change is the inverted colour scheme! Ever since the I started this blog, I'd always done up the designs with white text on black/dark background, for I'd always feel that it makes the words more striking. But now, it's the reverse! I'm still trying to get use to it though, but thank god it didn't turn out looking crappy!  And if it isn't obvious enough, you can click the red "Jayden's Blog" sign to switch to a 2nd part of the flash!  The bulk of the flash animation was actually done more than a year ago during my last year at Lasalle! It was actually meant for my portfolio website, Jaydenation.com. It's inspired by the propaganda era hence the very self-centric design and the appearance of Mao. What seemed like a never ending self project eventually got scraped as I got stuck at coding the website and grew out of the design eventually. I pulled this little piece of work out for the new blog banner as I thought it could very well be served as one! Though there wasn't any specific qualification to be eligible for the nomination of Nuffnang Blog Awards, I was hoping I could get nominated for the new design since the old one was done so many years ago! And when I made that decision, I had only 4 days left till the nominations close! Thankfully, I have my recent doodles to add on and save the day! And yes, they are namely the blogathon and the 'obsessed' doodles!  The layout is pretty much the same, just that I'd cleared and tidied up the side bar! The previous sidebar/s was getting a little too cluttered and I felt the urge to take a few things out and combine the 2 columns into 1.  In fact, nowadays a lot of bloggers try to clump too much information into one single page that it becomes so disorganised and distracting for blog readers. It is especially so to the blogspot users! Prolly they think they know a lil bit of HTML so they have the right to stuff every goddamn thing at the side!  I've removed the Plurk widget but you can click the red TWITTER and PLURK words in the flash to access to them! I've also changed the Twitter feed to the speech bubble like one! Well, if you were to ask me what's my favourite part of the new blogskin, I would say it's the BLOCKQUOTES! Look at how chio they are now! One final thing that I'd like to mention is that, I've dropped the tagline "I Can Give You Gatsby"! It is now, "La Propagande de Jayden" which means "The Jayden Propaganda" in French! Got the recent French craze after watching 'Coco Avant Chanel'! Haha! Anyway, finding a nice and catchy tagline was tough, and probably the coolest one ever is, "Everyone's reading it." LOL Oh, and if you miss my old design, it's still available at http://jayleif6.blogspot.com! By the way, I'm thinking of making new blogger namecards, but the problem is that I still have a ton of the namecards I've made last year!  So comment away if you'd like to have one! I'll be mailing it to anyone who wants one! Do also indicate if you want the Windows IE or Mac Safari one (or both)!
Awesome food, and even more awesome bill.
This is another case of photos that got chucked at a corner and were long forgotten. Anyway, I dug them out and did a slightly different photoshop treatment from the usual blog photos.
So anyway, this happened a few months ago when I told Fabian that we should really try some foie gras since I've never had any before! He found this rather atas restuarant belonging to a hotel at the corner of Chinatown.  Alright, without further ado, here comes the food! The appetizers:   Foie gras taste AWESOME! The main courses:   The desserts:   Top it up with some Long Island Tea!  Mmm mmm. Here's the most awesome thing of the day. THE BILL. 
WANNA WIN SOME COLD HARD CASH & SHOPPING VOUCHER?!
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 As usual, I’ve been too busy lately to sit down and blog proper. If not for this exciting contest, I wasn’t gonna be able to squeeze time to write this either! Oops, let the cat out of the bag too early! But you’d heard me, it’s a contest for you to win $100 cash and $100 shopping voucher! First, let me introduce to you the lifesaver of the day: ...INQmobile! OKAY WAAAAAIT A MINUTE! Before you roll your eyes and think that I’m doing another sales talk, don’t you jump into conclusion just yet!  I’m pretty sure yours truly is one of the first few to talk about INQmobile here in Singapore! And I’m here to break the discovery about this up and coming mobile phone brand. Yay or nay to INQmobile, it’s up to you to judge! I had personally roamed around its website and I must say I’m rather impressed with the brand! In a nutshell, INQmobile phones are like your iPhones and Blackberries - only simplified! Think mobile connectivity around the clock with NO frills and NO exorbitant price tag. Okay, I will kill the simplicity of it if I’d to describe further, so check this video out. I believe by now a lot of people understand the idea of staying connected 24/7 and the affect of mobile connectivity. Mobile broadband services have been slashing their prices to cater to the masses and so what about mobile phones? Like Frank (CEO & founder of INQmobile) said in the video, the phones are not out to go head-to-head with the atas smartphones in the market. However, it’s to cater people who want to stay connected but without the extravagant gadgets. Quoted from their blog:  It is as simple as it gets – The Social Mobile! Aside the simplicity of the phone that attracts my attention, I love how they put such delicate effort into their packaging!    The concept behind this arty farty packaging is to create an object of beauty – something to cherish and not chuck. The design ideal is to let people to keep the box, use it, and treasure it. And hopefully not to land up in landfills or recycling bins.  Bad news is, it’s not available in Singapore yet! It’s currently selling in UK, Ireland, Australia, Hong Kong and Italy. But who knows, if we talk enough about it, it might just pop over right? However the good news for you is, even if you talk about it and it don’t come to Singapore, you readers and friends stand to win both $100 COLD HARD CASH and $100 shopping voucher! Talk about giving back to the community. You’d better start thanking me for this! :P Basically, all you have to do is to tell me what you like about INQmobile and help spread the word!  1. Go find out more about INQmobile from their website – http://www.inqmobile.com 2. Post in the comment below this post, what you like about the phones by INQmobile. 3. Tweet, plurk and/or facebook update about this contest I am running and get more chances of winning! The more you spread this, the more chances you’ll get to win in the draw! You can copy & paste to tweet, plurk and facebook update this phrase: I discovered a new phone on @jayleif! Go check it out and you may win $200 cash + voucher! Details at http://pea.to/inqjl #INQmobile * Don't forget to include the following details in your comments if you have them so that you can up your winning chances! Twitter ID: _______________** Remember to include a valid email address in the “Email” field when you comment so that I can contact you if you are the winner. *** Contest period will be from now till 2359hrs 14th September 2009, and is only open to Singapore Citizen, PR and Singapore Residents. Good luck y’all!
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