Cool discovery (of my side profile)

I never exactly observe my own side profile before... so it was a really cool experience to have a Silhouette Cutting of myself during the Anna Sui's private launch of its new fragrance-flight of fancy...

They invited Welles Tan, a caricaturist as well as expert in Silhouette Cutting, aka shadow cutting, profile cutting as he calls it in his blog: http://sg-shadowcutting.blogspot.com/2008/09/profile-cutting-for-anna-sui.html...


here's my shadow cutting by the way...

Food for thoughts...

Things have finally been moving steadily for the making of our "baby", i.e. the SMU Gourmet- Organizer/Planner after months of efforts, blood & sweat in ...

...planning, seeking out sponsors, deciding on charity beneficiary, designing publicity emailers, finding recipe submissions, preparing the food for photography, requesting quotations, meet ups with sponsors, photographers, participants, designers etc...

For those of you who are puzzled about what is going on, here is a short explanation of whatI am talking about:

What?

- A school charity project to launch a SMU Gourmet Organizer/Planner cum Recipe Book

Who?

- By SMU Gourmet Club, SMU Office of Study Life and Special Interest and Community Service Sodality

Why?

- Raise funds for 2 community projects in Philippines and China through sale of the organizers.
When?

-To be launched in Oct 2008

So I am totally pleased and eager that there's remarkable progress- it has finally reached the printing stage and what's left is the publicity of the sale of organizers and of cos, payment of the printing and others...

Here's a exclusive preview of my 2 recipes, Cheesy Sausage & Tomato Quiche and Zebra Cake...

Cheesy Sausage & Tomato Quiche (to be featured in the organizer)

and the other one Zebra Cake (Backup submission)

Special thanks to John Nursalim, photographer and the person behind VisualMind LLP (http://www.visualmind.biz/), for making all the food photos to be so yummy-looking.

*More updates after the organizers are printed!

A Here-It-Goes-Again-Acute-Busy-Crazy-School-Week-Disorder

No. I don’t think I am able to think properly of what to blog this week. Not at least till Friday.

Meanwhile, here is something for you to ponder abt- What is the definition of a crush? yes, as in a crush on someone.

No.. in case u are wondering, I am not having a crush currently. It was brought up during grp meeting yesterday..helping my fren to fine tune the boundary of its meaning. Will discuss it another time.

is your blog a blog?

Now, ever since I attended yesterday's lesson on blogging, this question continues churning in my head-What exactly constitutes a blog? Does a url that ends with blogspot.com, livejournal.com, wordpress.com automatically imply that your blog is really a blog? Seriously speaking, I for once did believe in so. Until yesterday's class.

During our small group discussion, some points were raised by me and my colleagues (whom I prefer to refer as 'classmates') to support our stance for what consitutes a true blog. Here are the points:

- there should be frequent entries or blog posts
How frequent is frequent then, you would ask. my personal guide is: at least once weekly or fornightly, you wouldnt want to disappoint your followers by letting them wait for your updates isnt it? But, if you submit blog entries every few hours, I would say, I would feel so overwhelmed. So, use your own intuition will u? Quality matters apart from quantity.

- own writing style, content and personality
it wouldnt be called a blog if you purely copy other people's content or discussion. So yeah, have some originality or personality in your blog so that it adds value for those who read your blog.

-engagement and interactivity
blog should allow readers to comment and interact with you and others. connectivity is the key here.

- RSS feeds
it is not exactly a must but RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is becoming more common recently. it allows readers who subscribed to your blog posts to receive updates of your new entries.

Having raised up the factors mentioned above, at the end of the day, i would say that there is no real boundary to what is a true blog, only pure guidelines. Now, is my blog a blog? I would say yeah, because I said so. =p