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Dramatic poses, synchronised dancing, modifying lyrics so that they can sing about their favourite ice-creams… it was kinda cheesy, but fun! Definitely an interesting way to get some attention for their new promotion.

Yes, it’s true! Ben & Jerry’s at Vivocity is giving away free ice-cream, as long as you are brave enough to sing for it.

It’s ok if you can’t carry a tune, bravery will still be rewarded with a single scoop. But if you do have the talent, why not go for something more?

These three ladies managed to sing an order for every single flavour that Ben & Jerry’s has to offer, and were richly rewarded for it.

So, if you can sing (or at least make something that sounds like music come out from your mouth), head on down to Vivocity’s Ben& Jerry’s Scoop shop to sing your ice-cream order. But, don’t shock the scoopers with another order for every single flavour. Go for something more normal like Selena did:

Because really, a double scoop, or maybe a triple, should be more than enough. =)

The Sing-a-Scoop promotion will be held from now until Mar 7 at Ben & Jerry’s VivoCity.

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Here are some updates we just got in our mailbox from the Facebook group admin, Kevin:

“As we know, efforts on our part to gather a positive response from the cinemas have been rather disappointing. While many of you will be hoping to catch the movie on the big screen, some of you may already be contemplating to get the DvD instead. I have received an email from the distributor of the DVD for an exclusive deal for the DVD release of Where The Wild Things Are. This is only limited to fans of this page…”

According to Kevin, the Code 3 DVD is an imported release “approved by the studios” and “contains many of the bonus features you can find on a Code 1 version”.

Pre-orders limited to one per person can be made to filmsiwanttosharewithyou[a]gmail.com. But make sure you join the group first!

Disclaimer: “Finally, a caveat, I have NO vested interest (commercial or otherwise) in conducting this sale, in fact, I was contacted by the distributor after the group was set up. It just so happened they came across the page on FB and was impressed by the interest garnered for the film.”

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1. Pay Day! (or allowance if you’re still schooling)
2. New Concession Passes
3. Time to get sanitary pads (only if you’re out)
4. Renew the playlist on your iPod

Tip #1

Spread out your allowances or pay, yes this means less clubbing, more thinking like an adult. Also, girlfriends take second place over survival. It is common sight to see students on internship struggling through by penniless. Polytechnic students especially, have no consolation yet due to the adult fares that they are still succumb to right now.

So here’s a money saving tip, instead of eating out and spending crazily on $5 noodles, eat grass! Firstly, its free, secondly its healthy! And, if we all do our part, the government won’t need to spend money to pay foreign workers to cut grass since we can do the trimming, plus you get to live the healthy lifestyle of a cow. Methane farts much?

Tip #2

Do not procrastinate! I probably blogged this post at the end of the week, just in time for the weekend and boy does the work pile up! I really mean that it piles up! Right now, on the back of my mind, there probably are 20 things to do and on my Blackberry, 40 more. Yes I am that busy of a man! But truth be told, without these 60 things on mind, I probably wouldn’t take any thing seriously.

So I’m scrapping my facebook slogan from ‘its never too late to procrastinate’ to ‘procrastinate later’.

Tip #3

Don’t be afraid to open your mouth. Honestly, I believe that the only reason that the obesity rate in Singapore is rising is because of the lack of mouth excercise each Singaporean recieves. On a scale of 1 - 10, I would rate them at a nice 8 in the mouth excercise scale. This however is due to the crazy amount of food the typical Singaporean consumes.

I know this as a fact because just this morning, on my way to work. This lady was shoving and pushing her way out of the train at Bugis station where I was alighting too. Instead of the polite “Excuse me” she preferred the physical approach. Being the vocal me, I hushed a “Excuse You!” to her face, I swear I got a glare and invoked an embrassed aunty.

Tip #4

When doing something you’ve never done before, seek help. HazzieWuzzie and I were tasked to go to a Condominium overlooking the newly launched Xtreme Skate Park at East Coast Park to take an arieal shot of the place.Thinking of the chances of gaining full access of the place and getting the shots we need in the least amount of time possible, we decided to be ‘gung-ho’ and do things ourselves.

We ended up spending half-an-hour trying to take the perfect picture of a wasp and climbing 10 floors only to find out that we needed security access to the roof.

So in the end, we headed to the security guards who in the end, made things a lot easier for us by graciously escorting us around the estate and ensuring that we got the shots we needed. (For more information, please refer to Google on: Men’s Ego or Egoistic Guys who won’t ask for directions)

Tip #5

RELAX!~ When was the last time you took time off work or a hectic schedule to give yourself a nice back-rub or a comfortable cough? I know of this guy who is so uptight in whatever he does that he tries to perfect everything he does down to the minor details. He is a nice person, great smile and attituide but a little too anal. Truth be told, people want to make friends with flawed people. It is only when they are flawed that makes them human.

Meaning, to be cool, you need to know your own flaws and be proud of being human.

Tip #6

Save Water! The Alternative, drink Beer. Take a beer bath, use beer to water your plants, drink, think, eat, imagine and live beer.

With Malaysia being so unwilling to sell us their water, we’ll pawn them with our Tiger Beer.
Tip #7

Hip-hop is not cool. Hood is.

Seen people doing the ‘RAH-RAH’ by Lady GaGa? Looks stupid huh?
Truth is, people trying to pull off fake gang-signs and pretending to be hip-hop cool are worse.

YES! Don’t be a poser. It’s just retarded. If you enjoy Hip-Hop or R&B, you need to embrace its dark past too.

And it totally put a wide grin on our faces.

“…your site is hilarious! Just what I needed, some humour along with some useful information (like the library book sale…….in 2008).  You guys rock! (cue song Rock My World by Michael Jackson).

Your individual profile write-ups…….priceless!

That bit at the bottom of your Contact Us page…..If you’re coming from space, we’re located at Latitude: 1°20′1.73″N, Longitude: 103°50′21.48″E….had me rolling on the floor and in tears.  Boy did it really hit home……no seriously, it did, coz that’s where my family comes from…….the now defunct planet Pluto.  They are currently floating around somewhere in the universe arguing which planet to inhabit, and pointing the finger at who screwed up not finding out about Pluto.

Needless to say, you have found a new friend in me, so keep up the good work Youth.sg Crew…   ”

And if you’re reading this, “Hello Olive! We want to migrate to Pluto someday! Bring us around!!”

If you want to send us a fan mail or tell us a secret, feel free to send it to incoming[a]youth.sg and admin[a]youth.sg !!

As a New Media Ambassador, you are tasked to generate more awareness for *SCAPE among young IT savvy users as well as other young people who will be able to champion *SCAPE’s new media activities which includes exclusive movie screenings and invitations to new technological developments!

It doesn’t matter if you’re an industry veteran or a newbie; doesn’t matter also whether your platform is blogging, pod-casting, film making, writing, acting, etc; as long as you’re bursting with creativity and ideas!
The rules are simple enough, create new media content (videos, blogs, etc) on either Cyber Excellence or Cyber Wellness on any new media platform (youtube, flickr, etc) and post it to your 360Withoutborders profile!

Great prizes are up for grabs! This includes a year of free mobile subscription, private movie screenings, and wait-for-it… AIR TICKET TO LONDON!

What else are you waiting for?! Submit your new media content NOW NOW NOW and get your friends to vote for you! Registration closes March 27th, 2010!
Lucky voters stand a chance to win movie tickets from Golden Village too, so get clicking!
This contest is open to Singaporen citizens and Singaporean PR aged between 18 and 35 years. For more information, please visit here.

I’m going to make this a quick one. So Avatar has become like the best selling movie and it has set a new standard in the film making industry; but apart from it’s mind blowing CGI, where was the story - the root of the film making industry?

Sigh. For one, I found Avatar seriously lacking in plot development and unoriginal. I mean, come on, reluctant hero + epic adventure + foreign world + verge of death = save the world + fall in love + lives on forever. How is this original, you tell me? It was lengthy and anything else that weren’t visually pleasing, were hard to stomach.

Avatar is truly Hollywood’s ideal revenue model: make an epic blockbuster, get your star ratings, wait 10 years and make another epic blockbuster to get more star ratings. Oh, and try to get a Golden Globe Award for Best Film too so that your next movie and/or sequels will continue to sell. As a movie lover, I find myself sorely disappointed when yet another production fails to deliver the very bare necessities of a good movie - plot and character development.
So tell me, were you yay or nay for Avatar? Are you looking forward to the sequels*?

To sum up, I agree with Charles Koplinski of Illinois Times: Avatar is “A wonder to behold, [but] a story to forget.”

*Sequels to the Avatar remain a speculation.

That Bring me to my first tip:

Tip #1

Always, and I mean always believe Bernard. He is always right, even when he’s wrong, he is right. When he was left, he was right.

Tip #2

Live life to the fullest with absolutely no regrets and hopelessness. Feeling sad? Just stop feeling sad and be happy doing what you are doing. Basically, be an extremist! Not the kind who goes around bombing countries or making funny home-videos of un-shaven men welding ‘parangs’ and scream like they’re stuck in primary three.

I mean the kind that does not look back when trying to achieve something, die trying rather than not try at all. That’s my philosophy!

Through it all, do enjoy yourself. If the world were going to end, might as well survive the remaining days of your miserable life with a smile on your face.

Tip #3

Make absolutely no sense.
Reason being: Why should you?

Tip #4

Always wear bright colours! Research has shown that your mood is often reflected by the colour of clothes you wear. So technically it would be possible to alter your mood for a crappy monday morning. Thus my red shirt and shoes.

Tip #5

Be kind to animals. But I understand that there are those times when you just feel like killing a small animal. [Trust me, when you’re working in a office of 12 year-olds and you’re the youngest, you know when the killer stares come on] Thus the invention of soft-toys.

Tip #6

When starting a band, especially in Singapore. Get a personality and some decent talent, failure to do so would just turn my diss-local-talent sensors back on. Not like my opinions matter but refer to tip #1 and you’ll come to realise that you are so wrong.

Tip #7

When sipping on a cuppa hot tea, it is best when you do so sitting down. When standing or walking, accidents happen. Usually to your hands. *ouchie*