Giveaway! Tickets for 2 to World Runway Fashion Show

Great surprise when I went for lessons today. We received free invitation passes to the World Runway fashion event.

World Runway is an international fashion contest among 8 countries. And Singapore is one of them too!

The 8 countries are:

1. Singapore
2. Japan
3. USA
4. UK
5. Italy
6. France
7. Russia
8. Brazil

Each country will send 5 models to compete, and according to the rules, the competing models must be influential figures in their own countries: celebrities, actresses, etc. I wonder who would I meet at the fashion tournament.

In addition, SE7EN will be performing on stage that evening. :)

In addition, portion of the profits of the World Runway will be donated to the Fashionquake Aid to fund natural disaster relief around the world. Half of the top prize $50,000 (SPR) will be donated to this fund.

Hope some of this will help to fund the efforts of the Japan quake in March as well.

Thanks to my school, each of us can choose to collect 2 invitation passes for this event. So here, I will be giving up one as my very first blog giveaway :D



Each invitation pass is entitled to 2 tickets, valued at S$88 each.

Date: 18 Sept 2011, this Sunday
Time: 5pm to 10pm
(Doors open at 4pm, entry is allowed anytime in between)
Seating: Free
Venue: Singapore Indoor Stadium

To participate, you can tweet me @_qiquan or leave a comment on this blog post.

I will pick a random winner by end of tomorrow 15 Sept 2011. (So that I can still be in time to mail the invite :P)

Please leave your email/ twitter handle, so I can contact you, when you win. :)

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16 Sept 2011

Winner of the World Runway fashion event invite of 2 goes to @jorena_tan.

Thank you for your support! :)

Love reading? Join us at our book fair!

The few months of hard work to select, sort, price, pack, count, stack, etc, is going to be paid off. We are all packed for the upcoming second-hand book fair happening next Saturday (12 June 2010) at Bishan Community Club. This book fair is jointly organised by Salvation Army and Bishan North CC Youth Club. Proceeds will be going to Salvation Army's beneficiaries.



We have packed a wide range of books, from non-fiction to fiction, and children to adults. And they are all going 'cheap cheap'- mostly ranging at $1, $2 each. Here's a sneak at what we have packed:


Some examples of fiction titles we have prepared.


It's piling to the ceiling!

Thus, do stock up your books with us, and meanwhile contribute to charity and the green cause at the same time. Remember to drop by to visit us next Saturday, if you're in the vicinity of Bishan. I'll be volunteering in the afternoon shift :)

Here's how to get there:


If you are helping to tweet the event, pls use this hashtag #salebkfair :)

Sidetrack: our volunteer group is known as SALE (Salvation Army Library Enterprise :)

And if you're interested in contributing your old books, check out this post.

真情无障爱

Last Sunday, I had the 2nd opportunity to watch a live TV show being recorded. Hence, I immediately jumped on the idea and looked forward to watching the video guys at work. I was rather fascinated by them when I went for my first TV studio a few weeks before to watch the Singapore Idol- World AIDS Day special. I wondered how they know which screen grabs/ angles to use, since there are dozens of cameras at work simultaneously. And the recording is live!

Yup, so there I was, excited about the intricacy of live TV recording.


动力火车

Little did I expect, that I actually returned rather inspired by the show, 真情无障爱 (The SPD Charity Show). SPD stands for the Society for the Physically Disabled, and this show aims to raise $2.8 million from its flagging donations. Donations has been affected with the poor economy, and SPD's reserve can only last for another 7 months more.

From the show, I start to learn about the various programs that SPD runs. Not only does it offer rehabilitation services, it also offers job opportunities, day care, children and youth services, financial and bursary assistance, etc.

In addition, in the various segments, I was also very touched by the perseverance of the physically challenged friends.

For example:

Eva's and mum's 母女情深. Watching Eva's struggle to put the blocks in place to give her mum a gift on stage.


Yoo Ee Yun, the child pianist from Korea.

She's blind, but has extraordinary music talent. She is able to listen to the tune and play it next. And the amazing thing is: she did not have any formal music training before she plays on the piano. However, she has a sad past, her parents have abandoned her when she's young, but her foster mother loves her a lot. Thus, indeed:

赛翁失马 焉知非福

天生我才必有用

Can you see Bryan Wong's expression? This is the shot right after they announced the auction amount for his painting which he drew using his mouth. It has raised $40,000.

And of course, the charity show is not complete without star-studded performance from various artistes.


Stefanie Sun


Zoe Tay and Kym Ng.

We were so glad that we managed to reach the target of $2.8 million of funds, after the help of corporate donations. In fact, $3.3 million was raised. Thank you all, for your kind donations!

And thanks, HH, for offering a ticket to this charity show! :)