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Song of Songz

I was asked by Calyn and my bro to do a blog design for their singing blog. Think this is my fourth time designing for them?

The first two were for their own personal blog:

[Web Design1] Arts Fantasy Blog

[Web Design2] Petrina’s Blog

Then was their online shopping blog.

[Web Design3] An Immanuel Valentine’s

Then now is their music blog. This blog is called “Song of Songz” and is a blog that contains new songs written about God, to God. It should be “Song of Songs”, but the account was taken up.

Initially, it wasn’t suppose to host at blogger.com. I suggested to Calyn that Wordpress is a better blogging platform as we can use the plugin called the podpress to post music and videos there. It will generate a media player that looks like Mr Brown’s show.

After setting up an account in wordpress, i started to design the theme. Then i found out that I cant edit the template since I’m using the free account in wordpress. I can only allow me to choose default templates available, and cant do any designing on it.. So eventually, we decided to use blogger as I can do all the designing there.

If you are observant enough, this Song of Songz template looks so much alike with Calyn’s personal blog. Yup! Basically I used the same html codes and changed the banner picture, colours, the words at the sidebar, and more other functions.

This is the banner:

Drafted the banner, I started to create my mountains, grass patch, sky, lens flare. I’ve also used some brushes (like the flowers and clouds) I’ve downloaded from the Net to beautify the whole banner. Taught my brother how to use photoshop and he really did a great job by adding the grass and flowers. *clap clap*

Before the design was ready, they spreaded to everyone about this blog. But the banner is not completed yet. I need to create something like beanie man standing on the grass worshipping, jumping. But.. I’m very busy now.. AH~~~

Okay.. It’s a wrap!

Time really flies so fast that it is already JULY!    :SCREAM:

Before I continue to blog about my life during July 2008, let me wrap up what I’ve blogged in the month of June. In June, I started to open up this category called “Animals”. I have been posting entries about animals and you can see that in a month, I got like.. 6 animal entries?

Chi-Teh Bing, the little kitten’s 9D8N stay over at my house. The little kitten was found in NUS campus and was abandoned by his mother. A group of students took him in and took care of him.  I’ve also made a video of all the photos I have with my singing clip. (http://www.simplyjas.com/blog/2008/06/06/chi-teh-bing/)
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This chipmunk is really very greedy. He is just crazy to have this all by himself. He doesnt realise that he might get choke??(http://www.simplyjas.com/blog/2008/06/12/cuteness-overloaded-are-you-nuts/)
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Memebon is the cutest japanese kitten. Memebon is an exotic shorthair kitten. This breed was the result of crossing an American Shorthair with a Persian. (http://www.simplyjas.com/blog/2008/06/20/meet-memebonthe-worlds-cutest-japanese-kitten/)
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Parents of Maya, Gaia, Caju, Freya and Kuan Yin are Bo and Shun. These kittens arrived in this world on 19 October, and Caju is the only guy among his siblings.  (http://www.simplyjas.com/blog/2008/06/22/bo-and-shuns-babies/)
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Chmurka is a little fluff ball especially when she has four legs up in the air. She was born on 6th of November 2006, but left us on 23 June 2008.  (http://www.simplyjas.com/blog/2008/06/24/chmurka-i-will-miss-you/)
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You will definitely go “oohing and aahing” when you see these three baby ferrets in a cup sleeping. They are so cute when they cuddle together. The photos are actually taken from flickr.com. (http://www.simplyjas.com/blog/2008/06/28/the-love-for-ferrets/)
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I got to blog about animals when my life is so boring that I stopped myself from blogging about my uninteresting life. But at least, in the month of June, I have 1 entry about my life! =)

Finally despite my busy schedule, I managed to meet up with some long-time-no-see friends. It was really great to chill out with them especially I’ve been working for quite some time. Need some fresh air thou. (http://www.simplyjas.com/blog/2008/06/17/great-reunion-with-friends/)
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Besides blogging about animals and my life, I’ve also posted two of my singing clips that I’ve recorded online.

http://www.simplyjas.com/blog/2008/06/13/singing-performance-5-dan-xiao-gui/

http://www.simplyjas.com/blog/2008/06/21/singing-performance-6-re-dai-yu-lin/

… I found out that I cant bear to leave my company.

I’ve been working for 6 months in this company. Initially, I thought I would leave this company end of next month suavely. Since I’m working in the finance department, the people that I will miss the most should be people from my department, plus the admin girls.

But after the 2 days of party, I found that I was wrong. During this working period, I’ve unknowingly made friends from PR department and gradually developed the friendship with them. Everyone will definitely be missed by me. Next month, I will be leaving, and starting my next journey of life. Nice memories will be kept in the heart and I will definitely keep in touch with the friends that I’ve made this 6 months.

Let me start from the party on Thursday (26 June 2008).

As usual, I woke up and headed to my office. Saw some new faces when I reached the office. They are colleagues from our other offices - Thailand and Hong Kong. Later in the evening, you could see no one in the office. Then, when I opened the ladies’ door, I saw some of them getting ready for the party. Took taxi with Jia Yi and Sheryl to Sentosa. For the whole night, we were standing up and mingling with clients, suppliers, media and staff. In the end, I was so tired that I decided to go out for a stroll.

It was when I got to know Tan, my colleague from Thailand office. We chatted a lot and soon became like friends. We exchanged our email address.

After the whole party, took taxi back home with Jia Yi and Sheryl. I was the last one to alight, so I was responsible to pay the cab fare. Just dont know why, I short-changed the taxi driver. The cab fare was S$23.80, but I gave the taxi driver S$13.80. Was I really drunk? But I dont think I was drunk. I just drank a bit. Haha =)

27 June 2008 (Friday)

Simply love the photoshop and mac training by Mei and Drew. Though I’ve already know how to use photoshop, but it was really great to attend the workshop. Managed to learn more things than what I usually know. Later in the evening, we went James’ house for our party- part 2. Everyone was told to dress like what we want to be when we were 10/5/2. In the end, I came with a casual wear, cause I just simply lazy/dont know how to dress like what I wanted to be.

We had dinner and games together with everyone. The whole party was awesome.  This was one of my happy days in my company..

[1 more month to go. ]

Really enjoyed myself during the party and got so high. Cam-whoring session was on. We had dinner, games, karaoke and simply FUN! Took taxi home again with Jia Yi and Sheryl. I almost gave the taxi uncle $2 more.

Cant imagine my last day at work. I will definitely miss everyone.

Aint they cute? They are just lovely.

I was oohing and aahing when I saw this photo. This is so cute to have 3 baby ferrets in a cup. Ferret comes in colours like brown, black, white, or mixed fur. They have an average length of approximately 20 inches, and it weighs about 2-4 pounds. They can live up to 7-10 years.

“I spend 14 to 18 hours a day sleeping, and are most active during dawn and dusk. I’m very active when awake and likes to be released from my cage to get exercise.“

Being so closely related to polecats, ferrets are quite easily able to hybridize with them, and this has occasionally resulted in feral colonies of ferret polecat hybrids that have been perceived to have caused damage to native fauna. As a result, some parts of the world have imposed restrictions on the keeping of ferrets.

“I’m active and curious about things around me. I like to play with humans.“

“I can entertain myself easily and do no need to have toys to be with me.“

“Are we playing hide-and-seek?“

“Yes, we are. I shall hide under this cover. No one can find me.“

Photos taken from Tiny Alice and Dosh Dosh.