BRAND’S Blogger Challenge - Singapore emerged victorious!
Written by ED on December 3, 2008 – 4:33 pm - Posted in Blogosphere, Reviews, Singapore |Well, the Singapore bloggers won. To cut it short, Singapore team went against the odds and won with 54 points over Malaysia team’s 47. If you were there watching the challenge and aware of the point system, you will actually realize it’s not a big margin. It was a lot of fun with the rest of the bloggers comprising of Eastcoastlife, Wilfrid, Aaron, Sheylara and myself. I hope the rest enjoyed it as much as I did.
I think the Malaysia team did pretty well with Red Diva, Sultan Mufazzar, KY, Suanie and Babe in the City. They certainly deserved to be praised for taking the lead and hanging on to it for quite a while. As cool as ice, they sat back in their chairs and tackled the challenge. I think we were making more noise than them. Haha!
The Singapore team met over breakfast at Republic Plaza with the organizers. Thankfully, some of us have already met prior to the challenge so there were some pre-existing rapport between us. Personally, I met Aaron and Sheylara for the first time (apart from the Malaysian bloggers). Rinaz was there too, but I guess most of us were too concentrated in the challenge. It was not until the end of the challenge did we noticed her.
Just shortly before we left for the event, Genevieve initiated a little “exploration” which led us to realize each of us possess a certain “talent” different from each other. For example, Aaron was pretty good with mathematics while I felt my strength was memory because of all these nonsense I had to memorize at my fingertips in the past. Did these diversified “talents” help? Maybe… the BRAND’S we took faithfully over the past 14 days gave us a boost too! Quoting from Wilfrid; we took BRAND’S, it MUST work!
I think Eastcoastlife said it right, it’s a lot of difference thinking about the challenge and sitting there to do the challenge. I’m not sure how the Malaysian bloggers feel about this. Perhaps I will check out their blogs for updates over the next 2 days or so.
The challenge itself…? Nerve-wrecking! They seemed reasonably easy but seriously, you need really good concentration to go through the questions. Relax and enjoy, certainly don’t work very well here. Oh well, it was definitely very fun.
Meanwhile, I’m waiting for some pictures to come in.
Other accounts of the BRAND’S BLOGGER CHALLENGE 2008
Aaron (Hear Ye! Hear Ye!)
Eastcoastlife
Wilfrid
Red Diva
Sultan Muzaffar
Suanie
Rinaz
Sheylara
AsiaOne News
Youth.SG
December 3rd, 2008 at 4:43 pm
heh congrats
[Reply]
Hi XY, thank you! It was team-work.
[Reply]
December 3rd, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Congratulations to the team and you too
[Reply]
Thank you!
[Reply]
December 3rd, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Congrats Team Singapore
[Reply]
Nice meeting you babe.
[Reply]
December 3rd, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Great job, pal. It was really fun with you guys around. Hope we’ll catch up for lunch/dinner sometime soon.
[Reply]
That’s for sure. But no headache puzzle please. Hahahahaha…!
[Reply]
December 3rd, 2008 at 8:21 pm
All of you were fast to blog about it.
You would want to wait for Wilfrid’s photos, I’m also waiting, my camera’s not acting too good. Either that or the photographer was really bad. haha…..
[Reply]
December 3rd, 2008 at 8:22 pm
*pat pat on every one’s backs*
[Reply]
Yea, I figured I could always put up another post for the pictures since our in-house paparazzi should be having hundreds of photographs.
[Reply]
Hundreds I have .. but not all are great
So only have 75!
[Reply]
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:49 pm
hehehe congrats!
[Reply]
Hope you guys had a good time in Singapore!
[Reply]
December 4th, 2008 at 11:52 am
[...] Life, the universe and everything - The Secret Political Blog: ALERT: News about S.R Nathan - Never thought that there will be news about him? - The Mango Blog: Highest Paid Presidents / PM’s around the World - Singapore Angle: Pad Thai Democracy [Thanks Bernard] - NO BUNS NO LIFE: Biological Terrorist Attack likely by 2013 - this lush garden within: Budget airlines - AirAsia’s the best - the boy who knew too much: The value of long-term research - Endoh’s Dungeon: BRAND’S Blogger Challenge - Singapore emerged victorious! [...]
December 4th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
I think it was rather fun actually, and congrats for winning.
If you come up to KL, you know who to look for!
[Reply]
Looks like we’ve a date in advance.
Will do. Nice meeting you too KY.
[Reply]
December 4th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
That’s right! What a brain draining event … oh, the pictures are out and “privately” sent to you. 75 pictures in total for you to pick! Enjoy!
[Reply]
Thank you Wilfrid. Sorry for taking up your personal time to fix the photos up.
[Reply]
December 5th, 2008 at 9:18 am
[...] of them for your viewing pleasure. Do check out the rest of the blogs which I have included in my previous post. They will be having more interesting pictures I am [...]
December 5th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
[...] was where I noticed Eastcoastlife, Endoh and Sheylara and two other guys whom I later came to know as Wilfrid and [...]
December 6th, 2008 at 11:53 am
[...] the best - the boy who knew too much: The value of long-term research - Endoh’s Dungeon: BRAND’S Blogger Challenge - Singapore emerged victorious! - The Singapore Enquirer: UK children’s councils named & shamed - Better, Higher: The Face of [...]
December 20th, 2008 at 3:31 am
[...] – 3:30 am - Posted in Food, Life, Reviews, Singapore, Society | There is one thing from the BRAND’S Blogger Challenge 2008 that I am still thinking until today, related to Singaporeans’ mental performance. The below [...]