Best Wordpress Design Award

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A la Teddy’s recommendation, I decided to participate in WPWebHost’s Best Wordpress Design Award. Nanyate?! doesn’t quite fit in any category, so I’m just going to go for Modern and Elegant like everyone else.
Let’s hope Nanyate?! makes semi-finals and you can all vote for me.
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How I Organize My Friends

While reading Daniel’s blog, I stumbled upon a Facebook app called Nexus, which charts out how your friends are linked.
And here is how Nexus graphed my social network:

Clusters Based On Stage of Life
While there is a discussion here on whether friendship is primarily bound by geography or shared interests, my graph shows that it’s neither….

Stuff Singaporeans Like: #1 Acronyms

Tip: Hover your mouse over the acronyms to find out what they stand for.
To survive in Singapore, you need to know your AYEs, BKEs and CTEs. Singaporeans have acronyms for just about everything – from government bodies like MOE and MOF, swear words like KNN and CCB, to even people like their Minister Mentor…

My Valentine's Day in Singapore

With my boyfriend still in Canada, I spent my Valentine’s day with a friend this year. We went to some nice places, bought some clothes, and had an mini adventure of sorts.
Food For Thought
Our first stop was the Food for Thought. It’s not everyday you can walk into a quaint IKEA-laden store that serve only…

Nanyate?! Gets A 2009 Redesign

After designing, coding and scrapping 2 layouts, I finally settled with this new theme, which I call “Zen”.
Searching for a personal brand, an identity
It was quite a challenge coming up with something new. With my job now related to the Singaporean social media scene, I wanted to create some sort of identity for myself and…

Gym Memberships and Marketing Tactics

I finally got myself a gym membership after living in Singapore for 7 months. The experience of a getting a membership was…eventful. I wasn’t quite expecting the answer to my innocent question, “how much does a gym membership cost?” to be a 1-hour bombardment of marketing tactics.
Unfortunately for the gym, these tactics pretty much fell…