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From left, Third place, winner and second

This blogger was at the first Singapore Toy and Comic Convention on Sunday and managed to catch the finals of the cosplay:anime finals.

You have to pardon this blogger’s ignorance of the characters the top three winners were trying to portray. If you are knowledgeable of the anime characters, please drop a comment.

Cute wins another competition

Is it just me or Singaporeans prefer “cute” in general? Cutie-pie here won the hearts of the audience with a cute rendition of some Japanese anime tune. I thought the guy below with his extravagant cosplay costume would have won the competition straight on.

“Fallen angel” came in third

 Also seen at the Singapore Toy & Comic Convention:

Stormtroopers taking a break from hunting Jedis and playing a game of Wii Tennis

Magic: The Gathering enthusiasts

Comic artist demonstrating their fine arts on the spot

For more photos, click here.

(Update: This blogger was highlighted that the hotness rating was determined by the contestants themselves.)




Contestants of Siloso HotBod 2008 @ Sentosa

The audience voted for twenty-two year-old Jessica Lim to be Miss Siloso HotBod 2008 on Saturday and it seems they have a penchant for cutie pies instead of hotbods.

Last year’s winner also had that cutie pie look too.

(See Update above and comments below) Favourite Peggy Heng who had perfect hotness rating of 10 at the Siloso HotBod page went home disappointed, losing out on the crown and other secondary awards.

During the second walk out, B4 Joreen Kok and B2 Vanessa Hee was one of this blogger’s choice to win the Miss Siloso HotBod contest.

More photos below:

Female contestants trying to string the word Siloso while their male counterparts rushed to provide them with the letters.

Some could only string two letters.

More photos can be found here.

PopOut! ‘07 SG must have been a great success for The Digital Movement with many bloggers posting their thoughts about it.

If you are looking for a list of these blogs, visit Uncle Sha.

NB: Paparazzo is the singular of Paparazzi.

Person in the photo rumoured to be DK. Was he offering Estee, the host, his half eaten chicken wing?

Murphy’s Law made one of the wireeless mic go “crackle” and “pop”.

Ross Veitch, of Bezurk.com, highlighted advertising for manpower in The Straits Times was “a waste of money”.
The crowd cheered and sniggerd when they heard it.
You could see the cringe on the SPH journalists’ face who were present at the event.

Left: Chris, of Quaffs.com, gettingthe audience to surrender to his pre-presentation antics.
Right: Chris promising his audience he will bend backwards for the audience

Chris’ antics got the attention of SPH Digital Life’s Tham Yuen-C (left) and Oo Gin Lee (right)

No offence, but what is ZopIM?

Ross might consider working with Recruit.net’s Maneck Mohan on getting better Web2.0 engineers?

A little self pimping here.

the(new)mediaslut’s email to CNET Buzz Out Loud team of Molly and Tom was read  out on episode 566.

Thanks Buzz Out Lout team for reading it out and the(new)mediaslut might consider your suggestion of calling herself the(new)mediapimp!

Not so for the(new)mediaslut!

Talk about stars acting as prima donnas.

The star of today’s Apple press conference was the iTouch and it didn’t turn up as promised.

You know, that iTouch. Its that iPod that has the iPhone interface without the phone.

Well, the iTouch didn’t make it to Singapore shores in time for the press conference.

According to Apple’s PR, the iTouch just finished production in the US and couldn’t make it in time for the conference.

HTC is rumoured has taken the opportunity to confirm that its star product will appear on Thursday night. Rumours are that it is the iTouch evil twin which you can actually make a call with.

Congrats to Terence Tan who won the fatty Nano during the press conference.

(NB: Strange but truth, the(new)mediaslut doesn’t know which publication Terence Tan represents though)

Pay some thought to the footers of some corporate emails which state ‘if you are not the intended recipient…’. Nobody pays much heed to them, but that clause sits there for a reason.

Some tech journos across Singapore were treated to a bit of a surprise earlier this week when the following email arrived in their respective inboxes.

Sent from the marketing manager of one tech company (best known for its display monitors) to her friend cum counterpart in another company, the email contained ’sound’ bits of marketing advice. It read thus:

"These are the few regular ones… I suggest you dig up who you have advertise with and call up the sales person who use to in charge of your account and introduce yourself as the new person on board who will be in charge of Marketing & Advertising (advertisement $$$). They will usually try to be nice by giving you upfront coverage/exposure so that you will give them advert $$$."

Said marketing manager proceeded to list some email addresses (the same ones who ended up being the cc recipients of the email). Let it be noted the list also contained the news desk of a pretty prominent local newspaper.

Needless to say, the local IT media was kept entertained for awhile. A recall for the email was issued, but the damage had already been done.

So what happens then? Bring in the good old PR fire engine with its fleet of damage dousing hoses, of course.

This following email arrived the next day, this time with the journos as the intended recipients.

“Dear XXX,
I truly apologize for the earlier email which was meant to give a friend tips on her first attempt on press release… and it turned out to be my blunder.
This is truly a genuine mistake at my part and I apologize for what was unintentional and not directed at your credible publication and team.

Your understanding and magnanimity and I still look forward to your support regardless as always.
Thank you and sorry. : (
Sincerely,
YYY”

How much reputation can one salvage when the recipient of the scandalous email happens to be the media? Bad choice of industry to piss off, just plain…bad…

Those of you who blindly click the ’send’ button on your email client without first checking the content and list of recipients ought to kick that habit. You might find yourself in a sticky PR situation, otherwise.

All that aside, that first email might still have counted as decent marketing advice…Oh, the irony…

He is a very popular actor.

He used to date an "ex-Friends" star.

He is now with "Lara Croft".

And the(new)mediaslut spotted him at Maxwell Food Center in Singapore.

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For the time being, Bread Pitt’s buns are going at 3 for SGD2….  

It seems like Ong Boon Kiat, the editor for Network World Asia, is no longer with the publisher Questex.

His last article seem to be on July 06, 2007.

Boon Kiat joined Questex in Feb this year and was introduced as one of the "mystery" editors for Questex.

The other mystery editor was Emily Chia.

Tech3C is now without an editorial team.

Milton Sau, former writer for ITJourno Asia, has since left the publication 2 weeks ago.

The editor, Kalid Muhammad, left the group last week.

This is the 2nd time the editorial team left en-mass.

The pioneer group, made up of Calvin Siew, Tan Kuo Ping and Farihan Bahrin, also left en-mass in June-August 2006.

No reasons were given for both departures though industry rumours have it that both groups left because of salary disputes.

Freelancers for the magazine have also highlighted that their fees were not paid out accordingly.

An anonymous source has highlighted that Derrick Koh, an account director at Edelman Singapore and one of the group leads for its word-of-mouth team, is set to leave the PR agency in mid-August for Lenovo Asia Pacific.

There has been no word to whom might replace Derrick, but his departure follows that of Jeremy Seow, who has since joined Yahoo SEA.

Derrick and Jeremy were the word-of-mouth firebrand at Edelman Singapore office.  

Oo Gin Lee said goodbye to five years of freelancing and joined SPH’s Digital Life since July 2007.

As such, Gin Lee had to up his Gin’s Tonic blog spot at asia.cnet.com to his good friend Micheal Tan.

Micheal Tan has renamed the blog as reHASHplus.

Julie Steele has taken over the realm of the editorial department at ITJourno Asia as noted by the many IT journalists at the recent MediaConnect Asia Kickstart 07 event held in Bintan last weekend.

Previous editors of ITJourno Asia included Victoria Lea and Aaron Koh. Tan Lili, Milton Sau and Melissa Chua, all previous writers of ITJourno Asia, have since left for greener pastures.

It was highlighted by the IT journalists that Steele’s first introduction into Asian culture of the difference between American/Australian last names and Asian surnames.

Steele picked up a story from Oo Gin Lee, a writer with Digital Life Singapore, and repeatedly highlighted his surname as Lee instead of Oo.

Welcome to Asia, Ms Steele.  

Victoria Ho (right), previously from Fairfax’s Computerworld Singapore, is now with ZDNET Asia.

Her first few articles at ZDNET Asia includes a story about Oracle opening a research center in Shanghai and StarHub to launch ‘fastest’ HSPA service.

 Ho was one of the few ex-IDGers who moved over to Fairfax Business Media in Singapore after Fairfax bought over the licenses of Computerworld SG and CIO Asia.

Ex-IDGer like Tan Ee Sze and ex-IDGer/Fairfax Connie Chng  and Kenneth Liew have started their own tech news website, www.convergenceasia.com .

 The only ex-IDGer remaining at Fairfax after the take over of the magazine is CIO Asia’s Teng Fang Yih.

… then grumpy is the new happy?

A HP spokesperson at a HP media event last week turning :( into the new :).

Anonymous sources have highlighted that the spokesperson is Michelle Dorn, director for Business Information at HP Software for APJ.

Also, there are emails asking themediaslut why HP is turning I.T. by its head. It is actually their new marketing tagline and themediaslut is trying to get a copy of their ad scanned to explain the headline.

A picture is worth a thousand words…  

themediaslut got it wrong. Madonna is in a Japanese advertisement pimping a property development in Japan.

But Madonna is touching herself and there is a black frightening tree in the background.

That’s perfectly scary.