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F1 Rocks is here in Singapore! The 3 day music event full of iconic music superstars will be held at Fort Canning Park from the 24th Sep till 26th Sep 2009. Tickets are selling out fast but here is your chance to win one of two pairs of tickets (each pair is worth S$390) to the F1 Rocks performances on Fri, 25th Sep. Who is playing that day?

No Doubt!

And don’t forget the rest of the music stars performing that day like ZZ Top, Simple Minds and N*E*R*D.

Here is what you have to do!

1. Post an entry on your blog to tell us why you deserve to win the F1 Rocks tickets. The post with the most originality and desire will be chosen!
2. In your post, insert a link to http://www.visitsingapore.com/sgpseason so that your readers can find out more about the F1 season.
3. Have a return link to Singapore Blog Press post on the contest at http://pea.to/f1R
4. Submit your blog post and your details to the post at Blog Press so that we may contact you via mobile phone if you win.
5. Each blog post will earn one chance in the lucky draw, and if you tweet this phrase in your twitter, you’ll get an additional chance of winning in the lucky draw – “Win F1 Rocks tickets at http://pea.to/f1R. Contest ends 20th Sep 09. #f1 #f1rocks”

Each blogger will only be eligible to win 1 pair of the tickets. Both winners must attend a blogger F1 Rocks stage tour on 22nd Sept 2009 at 6pm where you’ll get to see the preparations for such a huge scale music event.

The contest runs from 16th Sep to 21st Sep 2359H and is open to all Singapore Citizens, PRs and Residents.

This giveaway wouldn’t have been made possible without 24seven and Singapore Tourism Board. Join Uniquely Singapore fan page on Facebook for more news like this!

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INQ Mobile is giving away $100 cash and a $100 shopping voucher to one lucky winner!

INQ is one mobile phone company that is doing things a little differently with their phones. They cater for users like you and me who feels the need to be constantly ‘plugged into’ the internet and be on social platforms like Skype, Windows Live Messenger (WLM) and Facebook. Guess what? They integrated the mentioned social platforms (and more) into the phone itself.

As such, my favourite feature of the INQ Mobile phones is the integration of social platforms into the address book of the phones. Fire up your address book, see who is online on WLM, check out their newest drunk profile pic from Facebook, call someone on Skype to laugh about the pic; all these done right in the address book.

The bad news is that the makers of the best mobile handset at the Global Mobile Awards 2009 do not have their INQ mobiles available yet in Singapore. While we all drool at the possibility of actually owning one soon, take this chance to win lovely prizes from them right here!

One lucky commentator from this blog entry will be awarded $100 cash and a $100 shopping voucher and here is what YOU have to do:

1. Go to INQ’s website and find out more about their mobile phones and note the features that you love the most.
2. Post a comment in this post about the features that you love about INQ mobiles.
3. [optional] Tweet, Plurk, Facebook update about this contest I am hosting to increase your chances of winning! All social updates must contain the tag #INQmobile and the URL to this post http://pea.to/inqkt so that we can track and up your chances!
   The phrase that you can use for updates is:
   I discovered a new phone thru @krisandro! Go check it out and you
   may win $200 cash + voucher! Details at http://pea.to/inqkt! #INQmobile
4. Remember to leave a valid email for your comment in this post so that we may contact you after the results are revealed. Please also leave the following information in the comments if applicable [If you did instructions no.3):
   Twitter ID:
   Plurk ID:
   Facebook Profile URL:

That is all that you need to do for a chance to win! Contest starts from now till 2359H 14th September 2009. Read up, comment and spread the word!

**Contest is open to all Singapore Citizens, PRs and Residents (If you are staying in SG right now, you are eligible!). All winners will decided by 24seven Communications and winners will be notified by email.

The running event of the year, the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2009, has been open for registration since the 16th July and early birds who register during this period till the 5th of August will get to enjoy discounts for the registration fees!

Wow~! 3 variations of the word ‘register’ in the sentence above and it doesn’t take a genius to guess the purpose of this post is to convince YOU to register!

Take the chance to register for a race so that you’ll find a valid excuse to put on your running shoes and get out there to sweat it out!

Well, if you are not as crazy as the few of us going for the full marathon, there are other categories to consider like the half-marathon, 10km, team races or even the 750m kids dash if you are 13 years of age and below.

Here is the breakdown of the fees involved.

And do consider registering yourself as a charity runner by joining their “Run for a Cause” (RFAC) program whereby you can help raise funds through a pledge card or an online donation portal to either of the 3 identified charities or all of them. The 3 charities are:

1. Bukit Ho Swee Family Service Centre

- a community-based focal point of family resources that promotes and strengthens the well-being of families in distress.

2. Lions Befrienders

- reaches out to lonely senior citizens with limited or no family support, to help dignifying and enhance the quality of their golden years.

3. Rainbow Centre Yishun Park School

- is a place where children with autism and multiple disabilities are respected and provided with specialised curriculum and services to develop their full potential.

Not that it is important if your motive is to help raise funds but the top 500 RFAC participants who raised more than $300 will be waived for their registration fees and be given a limited edition RFAC shirt.

I have yet to decide which charity to aid but I do hope that you guys will at least help to donate in the event that you do not wish to take part in the running.

See you on the 6th of December 2009!

Yep, it’s official! I am shortlisted in Omy’s Singapore Blog Awards 2009 in the Best Laugh-Out-Loud Blog category. I am feeling weird to be shortlisted this year knowing that I failed to be shortlisted last year even though last year was probably my most “LOL” year and I did win Ping.sg’s Most Entertaining Blog and Blog of The Year awards. I have been quite serious this year with all the marathon training posts but maybe the judges felt that running a marathon is the most hilarious thing they have ever heard and I am more deserving this year.

So if you do support me in my quest to win Omy’s Singapore Blog Awards 2009, do head down to the voting page and cast a vote for me. Voters stand a chance to win a Creative Vado (5 to be won. Worth S169) or a 250GB Portable External Hard Disk (5 to be won).

You have to register for an Omy.sg account to vote and it’s free to sign up for one over here.

Head down to Omy here and do the following:

Click on the category ‘Best Laugh-Out-Blog’ and click on the word ‘Vote’ on the top of my avatar.

Log in with your Omy credentials.

Use your own L33T intelligence to navigate after that because I forgot my own Omy credentials to login and I cannot screenshot the rest of the process nor vote for myself. WAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!

I cannot find the voting information as of yet but I think Voters are allowed to cast a vote once a day for each category. So do vote as often as you can!

And in the event that you do not wish to vote for me, do vote for other peeps in my category except for this particular contestant. Anybody should win except him. I do not need to say much. A picture of this particular nominee will do…

Yup. The words and actions on the picture below the said individual says it all.

Voting ends on 31st July 2009, 2359H.