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"I" to the "N" to the "Q"
Advertorial
Remember the contest I hosted on my blog last month? No, I haven't run away with your prizes! In fact, I'm here to announce the winners! Here are all the winners who took part via the 10 bloggers! Sparklette.net - Wei Wen Besides that, INQ Mini 3G will be having its second roadshow this weekend at Plaza Singapura from 11am to 10pm. And this time, they're giving out even better deals when you purchase your INQ Mini 3G at the roadshow. Simply print out the e-voucher below and redeem the following when you buy the phone during the roadshow: 1. Free pack of 3 INQ Mini 3G battery covers (worth $34.95)While you're there, don't miss the chance to catch Mediacorp celebrity, Dai Yang Tian and Elvin Ng at 8pm! They'll be there to meet you and you can grab the chance to take photos with them!  Get your cameras ready for these heartthrobs! Did I mention that there will be a lucky draw too for anyone who purchases the INQ Mini 3G during the roadshow?! One winner each day will be picked to win a 12-month SingTel mobile subscription! This is definitely an opportunity not to miss if you have been eyeing on the INQ Mini 3G phone! Click to access the print version of the e-voucher!  
This is it!
No, please don't mistake the blog entry title for Michael Jackson's concert-turned-movie. Tonight's Nuffnang Regional Blog Awards! Definitely very excited to meet all the bloggers from all walks of life and from the different countries!
Don't really know what to expect but hopefully everything will turn out fine. Anyway, a little onto my outfits for tonight since I've been raving about them on Twitter for the past week! So when I know that I'm gonna attend this event and especially after hearing how Ming and Huiwen described that it is going to be damn glamourous for it being a black-tie event, I had only one thing in mind - The outfit must look akin to what celebs would wear to the award shows. Googled for pictures of male celebs on red carpets, and to my dismay...  ...A SEA OF BLACK! Didn't expect formal events for the guys to be so boring! So with that in mind, I'd already come up a set of outfit for the night. It's definitely safe, not over-the-top but looking glam & all suited up. The only lacking thing for that outfit was the shoe though, so during one of the weekends I went to hunt for one. While doing that, I saw a pretty nice looking top hat and went to try it on. It fits me so nicely that got me thinking, "Hey! Maybe I should wear this to the awards night!" But the hat didn't really fit the outfit that I'd already prepared, so I was hesitating whether to get it or not. Then the idea of having two outfits struck me! Why not something more dramatic for an extra outfit?! One thought after another, and I thought maybe I could go in a look inspired by Willy Wonka!  That's actually an idea derived from Lady Gaga! If you're a fan, you'd definitely know that all her six outfits for the VMAs are inspired by Alice in Wonderland!  DARN COOL RIGHT?! So getting an outfit inspired by a fiction character, it was another huge hunt - for the perfect trench coat! Looking for the trenchcoat wasn't that tough afterall, but I was left with the stick that Willy Wonka held...  ...which looked a little off for such a glamourous event like this. An idea stuck me again and I DIY-ed an AWESOME alternative to Willy Wonka's stick! But I'm not going to reveal it here just yet! You'll get to see it later tonight if you're attending, or much later, when I blog about it! ...psst! Or you can follow me on Twitter! I'm @jayleif and I might just twitpic about it during the event tonight!!! That's it! Wish me good luck okay!!!
Where are all the male blogshops?
I'm almost done with getting my outfits (YESSSS! If nothing goes wrong, I will have two) for Nuffnang APAC Blog Awards. But since I've not found my ideal inner top shirt, I'm turning to blogshops for help!
Similar to the problem shopping outside, the ratio of guys stuff to ladies is like 1:10. So I asked on Twitter if anyone knows of any male blogshops, and suddenly there was an influx of URLs! Well, good stuff are meant to be shared so I've decided to list down the blogshops for anyone that has similar issues trying to find guys stuff online! I believe the list is made up of locally set up blogshops, somehow, I feel they are faster and more reliable in a sense? The BlackDog Store - I personally visit this blogshop every now & then and it's the only one that I could remember off hand. I find their items rather unique and stylish!  Modparade - More of a female blogshop but they carry cool male apparels too. But can someone get the model to smile or something? The face very kian-pah.  GTCY - Don't really fancy their stuff but they are said to be "mainly imported from Korea, Japan and Taiwan".  Disapprovalfashion. - Plugging for a friend, Alfred! I love the stuff there 'cos they are mainly S size!  Access-ed - Spotted a few cool graphic tees. And there are nice shorts too (but pssst, Bugis Street sells as cheap as $8 per piece).  hiscupoftee - Mainly graphic tees. Nice alternative to Threadless, but not very sure about the sizes though 'cos they measure in inches.  Fred Perry Plimsoll - Fred Perry kicks for 20-50% cheaper than retail. What say you? I say YES, YES, YES! BUT do triple check the authenticity though.  knackforwords - Quite a unique range of items, and, to top it off? A rating meter for "uniqueness" on each piece of item. LOL  Suicidal Sense - Got a hunch that the stuff are all the impulse buys from the blogshop owner. Nevertheless, some high street brands items available over there.  UPDATES: Altitude-Homme - Tons of cool jackets, shoes and shirts, and if I'm not wrong, they design their own t-shirts too!  StoneForGold - Accessories-centric blogshop. They also have cool add-ons for your old shoes to make them look like a new one!  DYXEL - Don't really fancy their stuff, but hey, the model's one of the Kiehl's Boys! Charming dude deserves a visit to the blogshop right? Haha!  Since I'm at fashion talk, I'm going to blog about XSQUAD's opening soon! So, stay tuned!  P/s: If you know of more blogshops for guys, do leave a comment with the URL, I would like to expand this list if possible!
Behind the Zombielious Scenes
 Alright, first and foremost, I would like to thank all of you guys who have voted religiously for me! Fate of winning or not has already been determined and we'll just have to wait till the awards night! Anyhoo, let me get to the main point of this blog entry. Yes, it is going to be about the Pringles Krrunch video, and more of what you don't get to see in that two and a half minutes of action. Gotta warn you first though, it's gonna be a photo-intensive entry! It all started with me texting Audi if he's interested to work together to enter the Pringles video contest. He was very excited about it when I told him my ideas UNTIL he found out the dateline. "When's the submission?" he asked. "Oh, it's on the 11th," I replied nonchalantly. "WHAT?! Isn't that like one and a half weeks from now? Are you crazy? Cannot lah!!!" The next thing we knew, we were at Heeren talking discussing the storyboard!   That is Audi's illegible handwriting for you. Storyline done. Storyboard done. ...the actors! And thankfully, Audi's resourceful enough to gather a bunch of friends to help out. I had initially managed to get Peggy to star as the main lead! Unfortunately, she had to turn the role down last minute due to some personal commitment. If not, this zombie flick could actually become a hawt Tomb Raider-ish action flick! Anyway, fast forward a few days, we were all on set, ready to shoot this zombielious video. Here's the video taken on-set during lunch break! I LOOK OMFGISH CHUI INSIDE THE VIDEO. PLEASE DON'T JUDGE HOR, YOURS TRULY ONLY SLEPT LIKE A FEW HOURS PRIOR! We started at 10am so when it was lunch time, Fabian and Nick were kind enough to walk all the way out of the jungle to buy food and drinks for all of us!    Zomie eating chicken rice, bet you've never seen this scene before! Haha! Oh, by now if you're wondering why there're like vast differences in the photos, well it is because some of them are my own edits and some are Audi's edits of the "production shots".  Make up's done by Gigi.   It's freaking awesome, isn't it?!  Looks like Jeff needs a "MTM treatment" pronto! Hahaha! Our zombies are a tad too white, but well, we are not professionals! Still have got a lot more to learn in the future! Now that our zombies are well fed, it's time for some action!        KENA HUNTER! There are 3 main action "hype" in the video. Glass smashing, gun shots & the flying "ninja chip". And thanks to Audi's resourcefulness again, we actually have that kind sugar glass that people use in professional productions!    Awesome stuff! Next up for the revolver gun shot scene, we had a *erm* conveniently placed *erm* dead police man. WHICH IS ME CAMEO-ING IN THE VIDEO! Sorry I'm shameless, but I had to find a way to be inside the video right?! MUAH HA HA.     I WILL HAUNT YOU IF YOU HATE ME!     If case you're wondering, yes, it's those old school Mediacorp gun shots! Sparks, smoke and bursting of blood packs! Not CGI okay!    On to the NINJA CHIP! Well, for that, I'd came up with the idea to green screen a spinning Pringles chip and make it similar to the gun shots in The Matrix! Here's how we did it!  Video of spinning Pringles chip...  Chroma-keyed the greens away on After Effects.  HAAAAEEEEEEE-YAH! Flying ninja chip!  Jeff's a superb actor! I don't have to repeat how convincing is the main zombie right?! Mannnn, we should really star him in some serious role soon! So anyway, the rain started to come in and we had to finish shooting asap. Thankfully, we're on our last scene (the funny zombies dancing one) and we quickly cleared up and managed a group photo!  Nick's missing though, he went to get Fabian's car to fetch us.   Looooooong walk out of the jungle! But we're not done yet! After the actors and photographers went home, we washed up at Audi's place and headed back to my house to shoot the ninja chip clip and the Pringles tubes scene!    My grey wall rocks! :D  It's a wrap! And from there was intensive post production! ...and doing the trippy scene was just madness!  Well, for the last time, IT'S KRRUNCH TIME, GET PLAYFUL! :P
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