Singapore Slingers 83 Sydney Kings 90
The Singapore Slingers took on the Sydney Kings earlier at the Singapore National Indoor Stadium and was denied victory after a late charge by the Kings.
Left: The Q for tickets before the match
Right: Thirst quenchers..
Crowd filling up the Indoor Stadium as the two teams warm up before the start
Left: Sydney Kings warming up
Right: Singapore Slingers warming up their shooting arm
The Game
The Kings took an early lead as they took advantage of the Slingers’ nervous start. In the starting minutes, the Kings led as much 11 points.
Left: Kings drawing first blood
Right: Bad start for the Slingers
Bob Turner (Left), owner of Singapore Slingers, and Michael Johnson, operation managers, looking on at the match.
Left: Slingers’ No 10, Larry Davidson, stretching out for a rebound.
Right: Slingers’ No 8, Jeremy Kench, trying to block a shot from Kings’ No 10.
Brad Davidson, Slingers’ no 14, attempting a three pointer (right) and a lay-up release (left)
Left: Slingers’ no 23, Mike Helms, attempting a layup release. Helms was born in the land of the Pistons, Detroit.
Right: Pero Vasiljevic, Slingers’ center and no 3, attempting to dunk the net from behind the board.
Quarter Time Entertainment
Right: Slinger girls with a Halloween theme.
Left: Slinger girls announcing the winners of the season tickets lucky draw contest.
Same same but different?
The Fans
According to the papers, there were about 2,500 supporters at the game. The highest so far for the Singapore Slingers. It was a good mix of local and expat supporters but a majority of them were from Singapore.
Fans behind their Singapore team
Slingers Fans getting vocal, despite the clocking ticking down towards a Kings’ victory
Post match autograph session with the Slingers team
The Singapore Slingers will take on the Cairns Taipans away. The next home match for the Slingers against the New Zealand Breakers will be on 13 December 2006.
Sydney Kings for fourth straight title?
Singapore’s The Straits Times got it wrong again in its basketball write-up of the game between the Singapore Slingers vs the Sydney Kings game last night at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.
The Straits Times (subscription needed):
But the Kings, who are gunning for an historic fourth straight title, turned up the heat after the break.
But from Wikipedia , the Sydney Kings appeared in the 2006 finals but did not win that match. The Kings, however, won the 2003, 2004 and 2005 title.
How fast is Express Teppanyaki?
Five minutes…
The chief at Singapore’s Century Square in Tampinese had themediaslut teppanyaki’s set ready in five minutes.
Sliced beef first, followed by bean sprout and green vegetables.
Oracle to pimp the Penquins
Oracle didn’t bring themediaslut to Oracle’s OpenWorld 2006 but this doesn’t mean themediaslut can’t bring photos to her readers.
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Yeap, Oracle is going to pimp the Penguins from now on and they have some powerful friends to do it with too.
(themedislut knows the person on the right is AMD’s Chairman of the Board, CEO and President Dr Hector Ruiz and the guy on the left looks very much like Michael Dell of Dell.. But who are the rest of the guys? Can you drop a comment to provide themediaslut with a name, designation and where they are from?)
Lawrence J. Ellison signing off something at NASDAQ before he went off to star in his own mash-up big head comedy.
Look how cute the Penquin is…
and Elton John also providing some musical relief…
When you are big, rich and famous, it is obvious the best next thing to do is to have your own museum.
..and of course your very own yacht…
… with matching bikes too..
The lucky SEA journalists who were send to the Oracle junket were
1) Catur Meiwanto, PC Magazine, Indonesia
2) Madhavan M., Star-InTech, Malaysia
3) Red R. Samar, Manila Bulletin, Philippines
4) Leslie Goh , Digital Life, Singapore, and
5) Devapoj Sambandaraksa, Bangkok Post, Thailand
Please come back with interesting scoops on Oracle….
Drinks with Richard Edelman
themediaslut attended the drink sessions with Richard Edelman and fellow invited Singapore-based bloggers at the Giraffe, a chillout bar in Singapore.
Richard Edelman would have dance a hip-hop routine if not for the presence of themediaslut.
While Richard Edelman had questions for the bloggers on how to deal with them, themediaslut also had questions for him about Walmartgate.
On the Walmart incident.
I felt like a general charging up the hill and expected my troops to follow me behind. Unfortunately, I wasn’t aware that a group was going in another direction.
As you realised on my blog , I have highlighted guidelines to the various offices should follow, especially when engaging the blog-o-sphere.
On his slow response to the incident on his 6am blog.
I should have responded immediatly on the blog to say that I will be looking into the matter and will respond once I have digested the full facts of the incident. Instead, I chose to respond only after I got the facts.
On Steve Reubel ’s slow response to the incident.
If I could do things differently, I would have told Steve to respond immediately. Instead I told him not to respond until I got all the facts regarding the incident. I felt bad now to think that I have put Steve in a spot because of the incident.
On the perception that there was no indication that walmartingacrossamerica.com was a sponsored blog.
There were indications that the blog was sponsored, however, we should have been transparent on the blogger and especially the photographer in question.
However, there was a lot of heat in the blog-o-sphere and I felt the immediate thing to do was to apologise for the mistakes over the blog.
Arguing with bloggers whether there was any indication of the sponsorship could have made the matter worst.
Richard Edelman also assured themediaslut that his comment made way back in March on this blog came directly from him.
themediaslut vs Mr Richard E, tonight live!!!
Ohh.. how the world is getting smaller…
themediaslut will be meeting up with Edelman’s Richard Edelman for drinks tonight during his rare visit to Singapore.
If you are in PR or a PR blogger and have a question to post to Mr Richard E, please feel free to drop it in the comment box.
themediaslut has received one call asking her to be kind to Mr Richard E, themediaslut says it depends on her mood later.
Let the games begin….
Take the bus to Parliament, Singapore MP
Today’s headlines in Singapore is the government’s plan to push the use of public transport.
As a pro-public transport person, themediaslut would like the MPs of the Singapore government to lead by example and take public transport to Parliament.
Wait a minute, you say. How can you ask a Singapore MP to take public transport? They need to use private transport to get to Parliament because they are very busy people. It is also a lost of face to ask our MP to take public transport.
These will be the same reasons the senior executives would give for not taking public transport.
However, themediaslut thinks there are many positive reasons for Singapore MPs to take public transport.
1. MPs will get to mingle with the many Singaporeans and foreigners that take Singapore’s efficient public transport daily.
2. If a MP will to give up his or her seat for those who need it, the MP would immediatley be the poster person for Singapore’s courtesy campaign. Just imagine if a Singapore bloggers happen to be there to take a photo of the MP… Imagine the possibilities (Sorry Samsung for stealing your tagline… )
3. MP should also consider taking taxis to Parliament. Taxi drivers are known to be the ears and the mouths of Singapore. MPs will definately get to hear things, the real stuff, on the ground level.
4. Security problem? With MPs taking public transport, it would only show that Singapore’s public transport is one of the safest in the world.
The MP that takes the public transport to Parliament daily will get my vote in the next elections.
If you have a group of MPs taking public transport, maybe the MPs can become buskers and perform their hip-hop dance… But then again, themediaslut forgot this is Singapore, you need a permit to perform in public.
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Crabs… @ No Signboard
Girlfriend was in town and it was her birthday.
themediaslut brought her to the seafood center at East Coast and settled at the No SignBoard resturant.
Girlfriend had bad experience with crabs in a KL resturant where the crab tasted like pipe water.
No SignBoard’s Signboard
When you are at the East Coast Seafood Center, your hunger should be on crabs. Most of the stalls served the classic Singapore chilli crab and pepper crab.
The cost of the crab, on Sunday night, was SGD30/KG. As it is quite competitive, most of the stalls will have the same price.
In comparison, Boat Quat was charging SGD38/KG for crab the night before.
First round: Vegetables and deep fried squid
The vegetable dish was labeled as Luo Han Deep Fried Vegetables though themediaslut couldn’t find any Luo Han. The dish, however, tasted very vegetarian.
If you are thinking of Calamari rings, the deep fried squid are good alternatives. Small but packed a cruchy bite.
Hotplate venison
Steamed clams with garlic
The dishes came fast and furious.
The next round was the hotplate venison and steam clams with garlic.
But wait, these are only starters as the main dish is about to come.
Butter crab
If you are looking for non-spicy stuff, you should go for the butter fried crab.
themediaslut thinks this dish was too salty for her liking but it would the crab meat was rather juicy.
It is also good to know that girlfriend didn’t find this crab to taste like pipe water.
Below is the size of the claw itself, and this is what you consider a medium size crab. The other option would have been large and themediaslut would have only ordered one dish.
The crab itself weighs about 1.4kg - 1.5kg so it only cost about SGD42..
The total cost of the meal was a whooping SGD117, but No Signboard doesn’t charge 10% service charge otherwise it would have been more.
This entry wasn’t sponsored by No Signboard (though themediaslut wished it was and they will soon), but they do have a website here.
If you still do not know what to order at the East Coast Seafood Center, no worries, themediaslut will be more than happy to be your guide there.
Payment by crab only.
Lewis PR gets a Second Life
Congrats to Lewis PR for winning the global account of Second Life..
themediaslut wonders what plans they have to push Second Life in the South East Asia region especially in Singapore.
So if any Lewis PR folks complain they don’t have a life, now you know why.
Reuters already have a journalist embedded in Second Life and if they need Asian-based journalist or a PR person just to roam Second Life during the day… Lewis.. you know who to call ok, right?
themediaslut wants this job description: Reporter, based in Second Life…
Actually, WOW reporter also doesn’t sound that bad either..
Not Impress with PowerPoint
Recently at a Government press conference, somewhere in Asia…
Government spokesperson:
Dear members of the press. Thank you for coming to today’s press conference. We invited you here to show you that our government body is free from the clutches of Microsoft Office.
We do not use Microsoft Office anymore.
We now use Open Office. Yes, everyone of our staff uses Open Office.. Open Office works as well as Microsoft Office.. yabba yabba yabba…
Ok, here is our presentation. We want to show you how much we have saved from making the switch..
PR person, please open my PowerPoint presentation…
The above press conference was make believe, but Bangkok Post’s Don Sambandarkasa caught a govt official using Microsoft PowerPoint when announcing his team has made the successful switch to Open Office.
Don Sambandarakasa, The Bangkok Post :
Irony. Lovely to behold, hard to define and something we all love. Like someone talking about Open Source and Open Office but using Microsoft PowerPoint to do it.
That is exactly what Nectec Director-designate Dr Pansak Sirichutapong did when he outlined the success that Nectec enjoyed in 2006 and the vision he had in bringing forward his 20-year-old organisation into a new era with its third Director after Professor Pairash and Dr Thaweesak.
Everyone in Nectec is using Open Office to show to Thai industry that it can be used and used well, he said. Though he probably meant everyone in Nectec except their press relations department who had prepared that slide deck.
PR + Blog = Confused?
(Update 17 Oct 2006: Richard Edelman has finally responded in his blog about the Walmart incident. So has Steve Reubel. )
(First posted 15 Oct 2006) American based PR bloggers are up in arms over a Walmart blog which they are saying is nothing more than a paid blog by Walmart’s PR agency, Edelman.
WHAT DO YOU CALL A phony blog that’s actually a front for a huge corporation? A "flog"?
A pro-Wal-Mart blog called "Wal-Marting Across America," ostensibly launched by a pair of average Americans chronicling their cross-country travels in an RV and lodging in Wal-Mart parking lots, has been reduced to a farewell entry. One of its two contributors was revealed to be Jim Thresher, a staff photographer for The Washington Post.
The blog, launched Sept. 27, was profiled in this week’s issue of BusinessWeek, which exposed the site as a promotional tactic engineered by Working Families for Wal-Mart (WFWM), an organization launched by Wal-Mart’s public relations firm Edelman. WFWM paid for the RV and all travel expenses, rerouted the trip’s original plan, and plastered a logo on the RV’s side. Although the blog featured a link to WFWM, it did not identify the organization as a paid sponsor.
Most of these PR Bloggers are angry that http://walmartingacrossamerica.com/ was nothing more than a PR front. But what pissed them off is that the blog was not up front about the fact it was a paid blog till it was exposed by BusinessWeek.
In the meantime I’m giving Edelman the Goofus and the Gallant on furthering the use of social media in the public relations industry. This tactic could have worked using full disclosure, just interview the customers and get their stories. It might not have resulted in effusive praise for the giant smiley face, but it would have been interesting nonetheless.
Richard Edelman has not responded to these accusations.. Imagine what would themediaslut would say to Richard Edelman if she met face to face with him?
This incident reminded themediaslut of another PR-Blogger fiasco …
Lessons from the Walmart Gate
As of 18:00 hrs Singapore time, there were 16 visits from the Edelman servers, 14 from the Sinpore offices and 2 from the Hong Kong offices.
themediaslut wonders why….
(You got to love Google Analytics).
But on a serious note, PR agencies looking to suggest blogs for their clients should look seriously at the incident and learn a thing of two from it.
1. Be upfront and truthful.
One of the basic rules of PR is never lie to the media.
The same concept applies when you are doing a blog for a client - never lie to your blog readers.
If you paying or sponsoring somebody to do a blog, put it up prominently.
In the publishing line, when an advertiser pays for an editorial page, its call an advertorial.
If readers were to find an article to be clear cut advertorial be disguised as an editorial, they would definately not buy the next issue.
For example, whenever themediaslut gatecrashes an event, she says she gatecrashed it.
2. Don’t turn turtle and hide the postings
It is easy to hide blog post, but once it is done, readers will wonder why.
themediaslut actually finds the writer’s idea for coming up with a blog to Wal-Marting Across America rather unique and interesting. Yes, there might already be RV-campers in Wal-Mart carparks, but nobody has yet to come up with the idea.
themediaslut visited the site hoping to see more of the articles and judge for herself how much of Walmart interference there was in the story.
Unforunately, themediaslut is now too late as the posts have been taken out.
Of course, this leads themediaslut to wonder why. Do the exposed bloggers really have something to hide that it needs to be taken down?
3. Fight zero-day attacks with zero-day responses
The moment the blog was exposed in BusinessWeek, the US PR blog-o-sphere was filled with postings about it.
Many of these bloggers are checking Richard Edelman’s and Steve Ruebel’s blog to see if they have responded.
Ironically, Edelman was number 4 on Technorati’s most searched words over the weekend.
Though the blog in question might not have been the idea of Richard Edelman, but because it has been linked to an Edelman financed organisation, thes PR bloggers are waiting patiently for Richard Edelman’s responses in his blog.
As of published time of this posting, no entries were spotted at the two blogs.
Patience can turn into impatience and might result in a bigger fire to fight.
If PR is thinking of engaging bloggers, here is only advice to follow.
1. Bloggers not equal Media
PR here in Asia tend to think they can treat bloggers like they treat the media where they can reign in the blogger with an interview request or press release.
If you want to respond to the blogger, put in a comment. Engage in the conversation with the blogger. Or better still, if the PR have an exisiting blog, respond through that blog with a trackback.
If you are wondering what a trackback is, don’t even think of engaging a blogger
A conversation is not a press release or an email.
Also, from the earlier PR-blog fiasco themediaslut listed out in the previous post, always check back what the blog post when you have engaged the blogger.
Don’t just approached the blogger and forget about it.
The media much give PR leeway because there a relationship is being built, but the blogger doesn’t care.
If the blogger has already posted about a PR’s misgiving, don’t pass go, just return to top of this advice and engage the blogger with a conversation.
Difference between themediaslut and a media whore?
According to the urbandictionary.com, the difference is..
Similar to a media whore, except desperate enough to seek attention even when there’s no chance of monetary gain. (At least a whore gets paid.)
"That PR agent is such a media slut that she’ll show up at other people’s press conferences just hoping for a chance to make a statement."
Looks like themediaslut will die an old poor spinster…
Vista prices encourages TMS to go get a Mac!!!
APC has the scoop on the Recommended Retail Price for Windows Vista for Australia.
* Windows Vista Home Basic – AUD$385
* Windows Vista Home Premium – AUD$455
* Windows Vista Business – AUD$565
* Windows Vista Ultimate – AUD$751 (ouch)
At that price, the OS is almost the cost of the hardware in the PC itself..
These prices have pushed themediaslut over the edge and her next PC purchase will be the Mac.
The cheapest Mac themediaslut can find comes to about SGD1,688 and it has most of the necessary software.
Plus, WOW can also be played on the MAC..
Bye bye PC.
*not even saying goodbye to Windows.. HMP!
Today’s headlines in the Thai newspapers
Shin Corp deal is headline news in the two Thai english newspaper today but nothing was mentioned in the Singapore papers.
From the Bangkok Post today…
The Nation paint a darker scenerio if the courts strip ShinCorp of their concessions.
WOW on Southpark
"How do you kill someone who has no life?" Video here.
themediaslut watched the episode and there are a couple of things that were not represented in the real WOW universal.. Ops.. sorry, where the South Park guys just role playing?
1. You can’t hand over a equipped weapon that is already in your hands to a fellow character.
2. Alliance don’t kill Alliance, only Horde kill Alliance and vice versa.
3. You can’t kill lvl 16 boars until you reach level 50+… after lvl 22, your characters don’t get experience for killing any more lvl 16 boars.
But the parody rocks….
Exposed: Dirty kitchens in Old/New Delhi’s train stations
themediaslut has been reading a couple of Indian newspaper recently.
The Hindustan Times reporters exposed the kitchens of train stations in Old/New Delhi which has prompted the tourism authorities to take action immediately.
Definately not a meal fit even for the backpacking traveller.
Source: Hindustan Times, 03 Oct 2006.
