♥ Princessa's Royal Diary ♥ - Royalty has never been so PINK!

I'm lazy to structure my thoughts today. After the long break, it's kinda difficult to pull myself together and go back to the normal work-work-work write-write-write environment.

Sigh. This Chinese New Year is probably the least fruitful of all. I was pretty much looking forward to collecting "ang baos" so that I can get a new Western Digital PINK portable HDD. But looking at the situation, chances are that I probably can't even afford a new Xbox game.

For the past 6 months or so, this is probably the first time ever that for almost 7 days straight, I didn't update my blog at all - not even a short update to say I'm not updating!

Wahahaha! I've finally recovered from the addiction. Now, if I continue blogging, it would no longer be a "need" but a "feel like it" again!

This is a weird topic, I know. I've wanted to write this for quite sometime but never really got down doing so.

I don't consider myself part of any "blogging community" or such, blogging has always been an interest and something I enjoy doing. My point is... Okay, I don't really have one for this statement. Hurhur.

Attending the Blogger Beauty Workshop by Stage Cosmetics was truly an eye opening experience - especially for moi, someone that hardly (or rather, never, if you go through the hideous photos of me) puts on make-up.

The event was held on a Monday afternoon, January 19, 2009, at Stage, Suntec City Mall (3 Temasek Boulevard #01-121). The trainer for this workshop was John Harold Boudville, Education Manager of Alliance Cosmetics Group.

Unfortunately, but of course, expectedly, there will always be a couple of _clowns that decides to turn up late and hold everyone up - yes Peggy, thank you very much. (I’m meaning this as a joke of course.)

Being able to type properly on a tiny keyboard like the Eee PC 901's is a difficult task as it is. Having missing letters while typing due to the keyboard's poor responsiveness, kinda makes matters MUCH MUCH WORST!

Sadly, I need to work from 9am in the morning till 6.30pm in the evening. By the time I reach the damn support centre, IT IS CLOSED!

Damn it! Being a Asus supporter for the past 7 years (or so), it's sad to say that I am actually starting to feel regret.

Constantly attending events is part of a writer/blogger's life. Sometimes, to cover a worthy event, we need to source for our own events to attend. Fortunately, that happens to be something I'm more than capable of handling since having Queen's English isn't one of my merits.

Before I proceed to the details of the City Alive event, let me first take this opportunity to thank my best friend Priss for informing me and SPRG for extending out the invitation to this event.

*Ahem* The media event on "City Alive!" was held at TigerLive (Gallery Bar), located at St James Power Station (3 Sentosa Gateway, #01-02, Singapore 098544).

I received an email from omy.sg just the other day about a contest to win gala premiere tickets to watch the movie "Love Matters".

To win the tickets is quite easy really. All you need to is put the logo of omy.sg (as shown below) onto your blog, link it to http://showbiz.omy.sg and write in a single sentence, why you like visiting omy.sg for all your entertainment content.

Pardon me, as expected, I blogged about the event at Gadget3.com yesterday, but didn't have the time to blog about it here. Hurhur. Oh well.

Attending Sony Ericsson's media event yesterday was definitely the best choice I've made this week. Not only did I get to learn more about the PlayNow services, I had the opportunity to get a first hand experience at their innovative kiosks, played with a couple of their latest mobile phones, and take the sailing boat out for a spin (with a little extra tasteful sight on the side)!

I had the greatest time during the Sony Ericsson event today! The press conference and the "presentation" part is, you know, as usual, but the ride on the sailing boat was terrific! (Plus, that Swedish guy in the sunglasses is simply adorable - or better described - "sooo cuto!" Hurhur.)

I'll blog about the event tomorrow at Gadget3 first, after that (if time permits) I'll post something up here too - with a little more personal touch and more details on the cuto guy (with photos of course).

I told Teddybear about the cuto guy already, he's pretty confident about himself so it's no biggie. Damn, I'm really hoping Vincent (from Business Times) gets his contact or something. I don't have many Swedish friends and to have a cuto one really wouldn't hurt AT ALL! Hurhur.

(Last note) Grrr... Shawnnn (from T3)... You really didn't have to let everyone know you know. ~>.<~ Oh well.

/me alt tap back to the World of Warcraft (WoW).

The life of a journalist and a blogger sometimes clashes but it's not always for the worst.

I received two invitations from Sony Vaio as a blogger and a journalist to attend the launch of Sony Vaio P (Pocket style PC) event held at The Salon, Level 1, National Museum, 93 Stamford Road.

Unfortunately, I kinda overlooked my blogger's invite and responded to the wrong person - resulted in Priss's RSVP to be lost in mail (virtual one that is). It all ended well of course. The people (mainly Audrey) from Hill & Knowlton were kind enough to allow her entrance and we both had a great time.

Like most media events these days, apart from just journalist from various publications (Gadget3, Catalog, T3, Stuff and etc) attending, bloggers were invited as well - ECL, Tech65, Nadnut, DK, Peggy, IZ Reloaded and etc.

Have I mentioned how much I love teddy bears? As promised, the next Christmas tree on the supposed list is "really adorable" and very much bear-related. It is taken on the same day as before, and at the same hotel - in Conrad Centennial Singapore, right in front of the entrance.

You know how teddy bears tends to give people a warm and cuddly feeling inside? Well, looking at this tree kinda gives me the urge to go over and grab a bear and hug it!

Pardon me for my absence. As I've just return to my desk from a week long break, work is starting to pile up as we speak. Or rather, the lack of "piling" - no press releases these last couple of days - that's kinda the problem right now.

As mentioned in my previous "Christmas Tree Special" entry, the tree I'm presenting today was spotted on the same day as before but not exactly at the same place. With that said, I hereby present to you...

The seventh Christmas tree for this segment!

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It didn't take long before the bear decided to come join me, or rather, drag me to another toy shop. And there, we spotted the sixth candidate!

Do I need to explain why this Christmas tree caught my attention? Take a good look and make a guess? It's quite obvious really.

Previously I mentioned we (the bear and I) had Pasta Mania at Suntec where we spotted the fourth Christmas tree for this segment at Yami Yogurt.

Well, after that delightful treat, we continued walking around the mall before heading back home for the bear's football match (Liverpool vs. I-don't-know).

We were heading towards the toy shop near the cinema where we spotted a large hanging wreath with many lil Christmas trees hanging all around it.

While the bear made his way to look at his toys, I stayed behind with my camera in my hands.

What did I miss? Uh... It's a new year already?

OH NO! I'm going to be a year older! Saded.

I'm too sleepy to write anything now so... Erm... Yeah.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

We'll talk again when I wake up. Hurhur.