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CNY, heavy-metal-fied.
I always marvel at how creative agencies come up with ingenious campaigns and products. And this time round, Tribal DDB Singapore has one-up all the seasonal greetings I've seen.
How else to end this last day of the 15-day CNY festivity than to share with you guys this awesome CNY album produced by them?  If you haven't heard of the songs inside, you'd probably give me that condescending look and wonder what crappy and annoying dong-dong-chang songs they are. These songs may have the usual CNY tunes, but they are creatively remixed in the heavy metal style by local Chinese band, Evil Singing Pandas. The leather-studded CD jacket should give you a hint how serious they are with this heavy metal concept!  Even the logo is a clear fusion of the tiger image and the "rocker" hand sign! So ingenious of them to incorporate the theme of this year of the metal tiger - which comes only every 60 years according to the Chinese calculations! I was totally blown off by their creativity. In fact, I already had the songs in my iTunes waaaaay before the kind folks from Tribal DDB sent it to me!  Love love love the detail they put into the packaging!  What did you know? I can even get my fortune told by just turning it to my chinese zodiac! Cool shit!  And the awesomeness doesn't stop there. Visit the website yearofthemetaltiger.com and you'll be able to play their cool interactive game!  You can either play it with your webcam or keyboard, obviously the former will be hell lot more fun! You can download the songs for yourself too! Hope you all will have a Happy Rocking CNY! ...and thanks Tribal DDB Singapore for this awesome album! :) 
A little of Langkawi...
Here are a quick pick of a few shots from Langkawi. Love love love the prime lens!
        Will be blogging about this trip after I'm done publishing the piling overdue posts. No, don't hold your breath.
Langkawi!
I'm heading off to Langkawi for a relaxing looooong weekend!
 Actually saying that it's going to be "relaxing" is a tad incorrect. I heard the itinerary is packed with hiking, snorkeling, waterfall and whatnot! I do hope I come back in one piece! :P Anyway, here's a picture of the "behind-the-scenes" of the make.believe advert that I thought you might be interested!  ...sometimes I really baffle myself with the amount of effort & creative juices I put into individual blog posts!
Making Ideas & Dreams Real.
Advertorial
 ......because Jayden is too busy to blog!!!     ......after some Googling on it, Jayden found out that it is Sony's new global brand message!   ...make-dot-believe!!! Here's the interesting bits!     ...isn't this new branding so ingenious?! Sony's spirit of creativity and ability to turn ideas into reality!   Contest #1: “Dot Your Dream” Share your dreams and aspirations with the netizens! Simply submit your dream according to any of the 4 categories of 'music', 'movie', 'gaming' or 'technology'. Winner of this contest will get up to $100,000 worth of sponsorship from Sony to realize his/her dream!!! Contest #2: Photo Contest All you photography-enthusiasts!!! Send in your photo entries to this contest and... Winners will be made fan photographers at World Cup SA 2010 to have the chance of a lifetime shooting top football stars in action at the side of pitch!!  ...pssst! You can enter in both of the contests!!!  Click here to find out more! Well, if you were to ask me what's my dream, and if I were to take part in the "Dot Your Dream" contest... ...I would ask Sony to fly me to meet LADY GAGA IN PERSON! Photo opportunity, personalise my collection of her CDs, anything and everything! I would even DIY something avant-garde and get Sony to bribe her with the money to wear it! OOH-LA-LA!  What's your dream??? Share it with me by commenting below!
Roar roar roar ah ah!
Once again, an impromptu decision worked its magic! Feeling bored at home yesterday night, I asked Fab if he wanted to head down to Chinatown. It was already 11pm when I called him!
So we were changing trains at Outram Park when it was 5 minutes to midnight. Fab suggested we should get out of the station and walk to Chinatown instead so that we won't miss the countdown and fireworks! True enough, just as we got out of the station, we heard "3... 2... 1!!!" and the fireworks came on.  The crowd was insane! It was especially chaotic at cross junctions, people were just pushing and forcing their way through. Here's us trying to camwhore despite being pushed around! Ha!  But it was also my first time squeezing with the customary Chinese New Year crowd in Chinatown! Other than the sweaty bodies, it was actually kinda fun!  I'm not a big fan of CNY, but HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU! May you be as feisty as the Tiger this year and hope it will be a ROARING good year ahead! P/s: I bought this clothes-folding thingy there! WONDERFOLD! Hahaha! 
For the love of Polaroid.
In February 2008, Polaroid announced that the company has decided to gradually cease production and withdraw from instant film products completely in early 2009.
This shocking piece of news saw many instant film lovers frustrated, despaired and many desperately tried to get hold the very last few pieces of that iconic square format Polaroid films. A group of Polaroid fanatics even set up a website called SavePolaroid.com in hopes to preserve this particular instant film that made Polaroid a household name. However, the decisions were already made and eventually it became impossible to find the Polaroid 600 films in our local photo-shops anymore. Prices of these sparse films jacked up to as ridiculous as S$50 per box!  Like many others, I move on to Fujifilm Instax Mini to feed the addiction of Polaroids.   I like to call them mini Polaroids, but then again, these can never replace the good ol' square ones. It's hip to be square! Some people laughed at me when I start snapping with Instax Mini. They often go, "Wah, now still got people use this kind of camera ah?" I think the biggest misconception is that digital photography is the replacement for these instant stuff. When I'm using instant cameras, the intention is definitely not to replace the high quality product of digital - and people should never see it as so. It is just something special at times when I want something different.  Anyhoo, just as I indulged in all these Instax Mini madness, Polaroid announced in January that they hired Lady Gaga as creative director for a specialty line of Polaroid Imaging products!  It was then that we all knew something is cooking up in Polaroid! And what do you know?! Alongside with The Impossible Project, Polaroid has announced it is going back to it’s roots, the instant camera!!!  "Supported by a strategic relationship with Summit Global Group, a longtime Polaroid partner, and The Impossible Project, the manufacturer of classic film for Polaroid film cameras, Polaroid will offer a completely redesigned, modern version of the Polaroid OneStep camera, the PIC 1000. The PIC 1000 will be available in a range of fun colors and use classic Polaroid Color 600 Instant Film to produce the brand’s classic white border instant pictures. The Polaroid Color 600 Instant Film will work with both classic and new Polaroid cameras and will be offered in packs of 10 pictures. The new classic PIC 1000 camera and instant color film will be available at national retailers in 2010. -Polaroid Press Release"  The cameras should go on sale this year. They will have flash, red-eye reduction and even a self timer, and come in wood-effect or blobby silver. Price TBA. I can't wait to get my hands on it! Better yet if they could release special Lady Gaga edition of PIC1000! AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME!!! Polaroid news via wired.com
The waaaay overdue entry.
If I have the chance to be ambassador of a quote, it has got to be "Better late than never." How else to blog about christmas eve, than to do it almost 2 months later? - Yes, only here at jayleif.blogspot.com!
Okay, I'm kidding. In fact, I do feel a little ridiculous writing blog entries like this that are overdue for so long. So last year's christmas eve had a bunch of people with an impromptu idea of a decent christmas eve dinner together. We had absolutely no plans prior, so it was kinda crazy trying to find a place that wasn't fully booked - in less than 24 hours! Thankfully, Brad the foodie was very resourceful and we found ourselves at a fancy Vietnamese restaurant, Nuoc. It's located right at the rooftop of Orchard Central! We dined amidst the view of the roof garden and we could even catch an awesome view of the city if we step outside.  Yes, our outfits were planned! We're dressed in monochrome because our fashion bloggers are Monoxious.com! :D Needless to say, camwhoring is definitely mandatory with bloggers around.     The battle never ends! LOL  I'm wearing Monoxious' DIY of Maison Michel Bunny Ears! Click the link to see how they ingeniously gave a tutorial on making it! Next stop of the night was Grand Mercure Roxy Hotel and we stuffed ourselves crazy with humongous burgers!  This is also where we did our christmas gift-exchange!  I don't know how, but I managed to squeeze time out to make these cards for them.  It was quite hectic actually, I was drawing until the very minute before preparing to come out. And you might have noticed, only Arissa's card has got 3 snowflakes! LOL! I didn't have time to add for the others! Oh, Arissa and I brought our Instax Minis along and we went trigger happy with it!  Both of us has got the same full-white ones!    Brad was shooting Valerie and Dawn in the "number" poses...  ...when I decided to jump in. And here's the result of it...   LOL WECANHASCUTEASIANPOSES!  We toasted and wished each other "Merry Christmas" when it hit midnight, though we weren't exactly sure whose watch was accurate! Haha! Thank you Fabian, Valerie, Brad, Arissa & Dawn for making it such a wonderful and memorable christmas eve! Definitely one of the best ones I've ever had! Erm......... Merry Christmas to you guys?! (HAHAHA! Point proven how ridiculous overdue blog entries can be!) P/s: Photo credits to Brad & Val because the lazy ass me didn't bring my LX3 along!
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