Orinity

Last Tuesday, I went to a WGSN SINGAPORE Seminar held at Furama Riverfront Singapore. The speaker was Sue Evans, Senior Fashion Editor from WGSN London. I must admit that the first half of the seminar had me almost dozing off not once or twice, but many times. I blame it on a hearty breakfast of MacDonald’s. 

However, as Sue started on the second half of her presentation, I was intrigued by the case studies that she showed us while we were on the topic of the importance of visual merchandising. There were a few shops that captured my interest immediately. After I went back to office, I went online and did a search for some of the shops that Sue had mentioned. The follow are the shortlisted stores and the information I found so far. THEO FENNELL is a celebrity jeweller and his celebrity fans include Victoria Beckham, Liz Hurley, Elton John, etc. The store that was mentioned in my seminar was actually his Show Off! jewellery exhibition, which showcases his jewellery creations in a a dramatic setting. The main structure would have to be a full-sized guillotine with the severed head of Marie Antoinette, whose earlobes were adorned with a 55-carat Burma ruby and diamond earrings worth 395,000 pounds. Sue showed us a picture of the guillotine with the severed head, and thinking that this picture could be found easily online, I searched for it. Alas, I couldn’t find it.

The other displays were as bizzare as the guillotine. A woman in an electric chair, a corpse on a gurney and a tableau of heaven in which an angel’s wings have been chucked into a dustbin in favour of a far greater temptation — a ruby horned heart. Mythological figures such as cherubs, murderers, snakes, scorpions, bats and skeletons were all used as props to showcase the magnificant gemstones and diamonds.

However, one interesting fact that Sue divulged was that this exhibition was only opened for four days, but took 11 months to prepare.

I was about to log out to my Yahoo email account when I caught sight of a banner of something interesting.

Ocean of Fear: Worst Shark Attack Ever is one of the television shows that the Discovery Channel has for its Shark Week programs. This show is based on the sinking of the USS Indianapolis (which was torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-58) in 1945 after the ship has safely transported components of the atomic bomb known as “Little Boy”. Approximately 900 men abandoned ship and those that were wounded by the blast soon died. Despite having an initial 900 odd surviors, only 316 of them survived the five-day ordeal in the shark-infested waters.

This program chronicles how the survivors fought ths sharks, and the reasons why the sharks attacked the way they did.

P/S: I just found out that Shark Week took place from July 29 through August 4. Anyone knows where I can find it?

I was checking out John Chow‘s posts from the past few days that I missed due to me being at a holiday resort with my friends. It is hard to believe the power of airbrushing using PhotoShop. I always know that PhotoShop is an awesome piece of software but the video threw my beliefs even wilder. It is not just awesome, it is ‘god-like’ like how some of my friends will describe it. Thanks to John Chow for that entry, it was really entertaining and definitely an eye-opener.

Lose Weight In Photoshop (makeover) – video powered by Metacafe

Behold! The power of airbrushing!

I noticed that there are some searches on Google that leads to Orinity.com. One of the search terms that caught my eyes is the search term ‘Male Spree Singapore’. Weird? It is. It is rather true that there’s a lot less online shopping spree organizers and shopping websites that targets male shoppers. Somehow, it eludes the minds of the shopping websites and spree organizers that men can be shoppers too. As a typical male online shopper, the things guys buy are quite different from the bags, clothes and accessories that my female counterparts buy. I have purchased various computer parts, my iPod, macBook, books and other gadgets. One may say that my purchases are typically technological gadgets. Apparently, there isn’t many websites selling apparels and ship to Singapore. My only past experience will be buying a sweater from CafePress. I actually find their range of apparels to be quite interesting since it is more like a marketplace selling designs from a range of designers or sellers.

Email me or comment here on any male-oriented shopping websites that you want to share. Men wear clothes too!

When does a person do a self-reflection? When he or she experience something that jars them out of their comfort zone. That is how we humans are, we take for granted the things around us, often not realising we are guilty of it. What we should have said and done, these are the questions that we often find ourselves thinking about over and over. And sometimes, even if we tell ourselves not to do it again, we get caught up emotionally in the moment and forget the lessons that we realised before.

Something minor was said to me today that I cried.

And I vowed to trust more and not sound sarcastic (though jokingly)whenever he tells me something. I’ve got to believe in myself and in him.
Appreciation is one of the key factors in a relationship. That’s the factor that makes you realise not to take anyone/anything for granted.
Go on, show your appreciation. Send e-cards, text messages, a call or two to show you care. Words might need to be spoken, but actions are remembered in the heart.