I was invited to the royal wedding of his highness King Joffrey Baratheon and Margaery Tyrell by HBO Asia. For those who don’t know who they are, I’m gonna go “Whaaaaaaat” and also that they’re from the GAME OF THRONES.
A new season is beginning and thus, HBO Asia invited some of us geeks for a little get together at their event at Savour 2014. It’s at the Promontory this year.
Just a filler post. So have some very filling pannbiff, ah ha ha haaaa.
This was at Fika at Millenia Walk. They didn’t have Kopparberg so that’s actually Champis (they’re sodas) and it tastes kind of like Zapple, so apple soda. Mintea had Portello which DOES taste like caramel! It would probably taste really good as a float too.
I did blog about Fika at Beach Road before and YES, the food is still awesome, so yay!
Also, I picked up my Venus Run bag. I’ll be running next week and no, I’m not a run runner. I just uh, run and mostly walk too? It’s just 5km anyway.
Pretty much this is just a filler post since I have other things to post about in the week under State of Sarah.
For one thing, Scoot did reply to me and well… You’ll know soon what’s going to happen.
We went to the national museum for the Total Defence 30th anniversary! There were so many cool things to do even before entering the museum.
Like playing with metal detectors and eating army rations or checking out their weaponry.
Unfortunately, by the time you read this, the special exhibition is oveeer.
OH AND BY THE WAY. I AM VERILY GLAD, my two teams in N.E.mation? THEY BOTH GOT INTO TOP THREE. The champion and the 1st runner up but that shall be a different post…
Anyway, Saturday really was random adventures day.
I got invited to the Total Defence media conference the other day and I wondered if I should attend. OBVIOUSLY, I said yes hahahaha. Thanks AsiaPRWerkz for inviting me! Anyway, it’s about this year’s events cause it’s the 30th anniversary of total defence!
This is going to be a LONG post because there IS a lot of exciting things happening.
I tote-ally liked this bag. A lot of others did too because of the pun. Inside was a nifty file of press releases, postcards and a Happy Feet figurine (you’ll see in the later part of this post).
OH and you might be able to get one of these bags too! Details later below, hahaha.
4 January 2014 – Ventriloquism workshop at Bukit Merah Library
6 January 2014 – Game programming for Windows & iPhone at the Central Library
11 January 2014 – Run for Your Lives Asia
15 February 2014 – Marina Run
8 March 2014 – Venus Run
27 April 2014 – Run350
That’s what I’ve already registered myself to while the early bird offer is on for Marina Run and Run350, plus the Venus Run I managed to get a discount by registering with pals.
By the way, the programmes at the library I registered for are free and it’s more of first come, first served! There’s lots of cool workshops and you can check out the Go Library events or Read Singapore’s workshops. These ones are for January to March 2014.
I know the leather crafting workshop is totally full for the first run in January, heh.
But ok, it looks like I’ve got myself into a run a month until April. They’re all very short runs, 5km only and I’ve been lost or going around in circles before for that amount of distance.
The longest run I’ve signed up for is Run 350 and that’ll be for 10km.
I’ve joined the Marina Run’s fun run because you get to play with water pistols, Run for Your Lives Asia for obvious obstacles, Venus run so I can run with my gal pals and lastly Run 350 because well, it was NTUC’s run and kinda cheap and is the ‘last’ run from this list so maybe I can do 10km by then?
It’ll be interesting if I can do a run a month for 2014 but then, probably not for June since fasting month is then.
I don’t really want to run run for long distances, I prefer the fun types where you do other things too.
So I’ve kinda plotted what I want to do for 2014. Did you know Singapore Writers Festival theme then would be The Prospect of Beauty?
I aim to be in it and to do a book (WIP TITLE) Belles of the Ball.
Only that I’d probably get it printed myself and only open to pre-orders.
It’s not an ordinary book.
It’ll be a game book.
Choose your own adventure! We’ll see how it goes.
So how was 2013? It’s been cool. I got to go to IKEA and eat meatballs. I know, I know.
I usually don’t actually go to IKEA so this was the first of the year for me to actually eating the meatballs there.
If this was one of those Upworthy headlines or Viral Nova articles, it would have started with “SHE IS THE BIGGEST LOSER BUT WHAT SHE DOES WILL MAKE YOU WEEP – So amazing” or something like that.
But no, this is a State of Sarah post so really.
Whatever.
Hey, yesterday I went to NLB‘s Customer Appreciation Dinner.
The food was great and wow, the libraries DO make note of those customers who contribute to the libraries whether as contributors or people who give talks there, write suggestions, role model library users etc. For each library, the staff do make note of those who come by and all.
And loooook. Besides the great food (and getting my friends to come along too), I won a pencil box at pre-event games there.
Oh yeah and this:
Not the phones, those are mine. I didn’t win those.
They are Nokia bar phones to be censor bars on it. HEH HEH, get it?
Anyway I got the Online Advocate Award by them for twittering/talking about library events and talking to their twitter/instagram accounts and also besides the cert, I got an upgrade of my library membership for a year!
And then I realized I was the greatest loser.
It was like Hollywood, but not since it was near Mustafa Centre yesterday. I was there with the company to do a multi-cam coverage for it. The professionals would do the camera work and vision mixing, I was there to help out with anything else.
And there was quite a bit of anything else.
Every time my non-Malay friends are invited to a Malay wedding, they are surprised that you don’t have to give that much in the money packet and they also sometimes have no idea how to give or what the protocol to eat the food there is like.
This is your mini guide to attending Malay weddings.
So, you got invited to a Malay wedding eh? You know the address, date and have replied that you’re coming. What next?
Tune into State of Sarah, every Thursdays only on Seriously Sarah. That’s what it would sound like if this was on a TV channel.
But it’s not.
So there. You have to use your imagination for the voice over.
Unlike my Monday posts on adventures around Singapore or Extended Edition which is like an extra supplement to the Monday posts or general extra things, State of Sarah is going to be about me (GASSSSSP!).
This is a blog after all. So if you’re missing reading blogs that aren’t advertorials or lists, this is it for Thursdays, Singapore time.
State of Sarah because SoS so ahhhhhhhh help me or something.
3 weeks ago, after my gym training in the evening, I went to Tampines NTUC to buy ingredients for my lunches and stopped in front of the meat section. There was a new brand that I noticed.
Amongst the other Halal meat products, I paused in front of a pack of sausages with diamond patterns upon its label.
Handwerker