Blogger Business Cards

Ivy — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:42:52 +0000

Just printed 200 business cards for my blog. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out! Thanks to Claudia’s recommendation, I printed 200 cards at Tommy Prints for just S$24 – about 17 US dollars – with matte lamination. What a steal!

Front of the Nanyate?! business card

Back of the Nanyate?! business card

Why would bloggers need business cards?!

For me, I attend quite a few local social media events not only as a corporate representative, but also as a blogger. However, handing out my corporate card instantly brands me as a corporate representative. So people find it difficult to reconcile between Ivy the blogger and Ivy the corporate communications executive from that telco with the iPhone. And of course, it doesn’t help that my blog’s name is unpronounciable to most. (It’s NAAN-YAH-TAY, people.) So a blogger card is exactly what I need to let people know that I too am a blogger.

As for you? I suggest you read Claudia’s entry on why bloggers should have name cards, ’cause I can’t top that entry.

Get your own Nanyate?! business card!

For those of you who live in Singapore, you can get one at the next social media event or we could just meet up for coffee. For those of you who live in the rest of the world, just e-mail me your mailing address!

Dear Readers, do you think bloggers need business cards? Do you think you need business cards? Why or why not?

Christmas Cards

How to Break Chopsticks Evenly

Ivy — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:24:56 +0000

You go to an Asian restaurant. From the corner of your eye, you see the waiter bringing over that delicious food. You quickly pick up those wooden chopsticks and break them apart then….crap. It’s uneven.

At least for me, I will be sulking for the rest of my meal. Not because I’m such a perfectionist. It just brings back an embarrassingly painful memory. I was around 4 when I visited Japan with my parents. Wanting to wolf down my food hungrily, I recklessly tore the chopsticks apart. It was completely uneven. I was left with 3/4 of a chopstick on one side. I shrugged and continued to shove the udon down my mouth when the splinters from the 3/4 of a chopstick pierced through my thumb.

The pain. The anguish. Those freaking chopsticks!!!!

After that experience, I’ve tried my hardest to break chopsticks properly. Unfortunately, 90% of the time, I failed… until I watched this anime called Azumanga Daioh (where a slow Kansai girl is taught how to break them apart properly because she thought they could only be broken perfectly by luck)! So, here’s the trick:

Break the chopsticks while holding the tip of the chopsticks – not the stem.

It’s never failed me once since then. You Asian kids are probably laughing so hard right now coz it’s common knowledge to you all. But it’s an enlightenment for a non-chopstick-wielding Asian like me, okay? Where I was born, we eat with our hands!! *sulks*

And here’s a clip from Azumanga Daioh of how NOT to break chopsticks.