Build your own Royal Caribbean Dreamship!

An Egyptian Pyramid, the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal… never imagined them on a ship? Well, Royal Caribbean Cruises says “Why Not?” Put them together with a tentacly Octupus and Godzilla… you officially have the coolest cruise ship in the world.

Royal Caribbean Asia has just launched their Dreamship Campaign where participants can create cruise ships using an array of fun and unique elements. You can visit the site and start building your craziest, most innovative and unique ship. The challenge lies in how different and creative you can be… come try, it’s not as easy as it seems.

And while you’re at it, please vote for my Rally of the Seas! the top 3 ships with the most votes win cruise packages for 2 on Legend of the Seas.

Some other interesting dreamships spotted…

Someone from Royal Caribbean should give this entry a thumbs up for branding

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and i love this one for its creativity

 

all you fashion freaks – win $2,000!

In conjunction with their FW09 collection, DKNY JEANS has just launched a contest called Break the Rules. Why this name? Because FW09 is inspired by contrast and contradiction in the materials, styles and silhouettes used.

For example, soft satin paired with hard grungy stonewashed jeans.

So i’m no fashion guru but you can visit their inspiration page to check out what i mean. I think this season looks great, but i’m just partial towards tights, boots and trench coats.

Back to the contest, it’s a simple mechanism – submit your coolest look that you deem “breaking the rules” and get others to vote for you. highest voted looks get to win US$2,000 cash! not too shabby eh. voters also stand a chance to win US$300. contest ends 16 Oct – join now!

Break the Rules >>

Kitten Adoption Update

Orange has found a new home! Many thanks to everyone who left notes and sent us emails about the kitten, and the Cat Welfare Society’s Fosterer’s Board. We’re going to miss her, but we’re also confident that Orange’s new family will take wonderful care of her.

One last shot of Orange:

Photocredit: Shivy, who blogs at dancingwiththelight.wordpress.com

Kitty Watch

See Orange Play with Fish!

The Story of Stuff

Why are we working harder than ever? Why do we have less leisure time now than in our parent’s generation? Why are corporations and the rich getting richer and richer and the man-on-the-street getting poorer and poorer?

The answer – we’re consuming more than ever before. We’re making more stuff, we’re spending more time making money to buy more stuff, all these to “keep the economy going” so we can – you’ve got it – make and buy more stuff. And along the way, we’re exploiting workers, ruining the environment and exhausting our planet of its resources.

Annie Leonard’s illuminating video highlights the linkages and the faultlines in our economy, culture and civilisation with enormous clarity. Here’s a teaser:

Like what you saw? Go to the official site for the full video. Watch it, share it, spread the word!

Kitten for Adoption

We found a week-old kitten under the pedestrian bridge linking Marine Parade and East Coast Park. It was in a terrified state, meowing its heart out and stumbling around on its tiny, trembling legs.

We felt incredibly sorry for it and took the kitten home. We fed it milk and gave it some old rags to play with. We named it Orange.

Unfortunately, we’ve got allergies and can’t keep the kitten permanently. But we know there are cat lovers out there who would love to care for this:

Anyone who’s interested in adopting Orange should contact qiu.yingxiang@gmail.com for enquiries. We’re willing to share the cost of sterilising and vaccinating the kitten.

In the meantime, some more heartbreaking kitten porn:

A Silk Road Odyssey – Part 3: The Hotan Bazaar

Hotan – the very name sends shivers down my spine. Even more so than Kashgar, Hotan gives the traveller a sense of the end, the final frontier, the very last stand of human civilisation against an endless, empty desert. A modern-day traveller circumnavigating the Thaklamakan desert in an anti-clockwise direction will find that Hotan is the last significant settlement before one enters an inhospitable expanse of sand dunes. To have a sense of Hotan’s isolation, take a look at this map which gives Hotan’s location in relation to Xinjiang’s capital, Urumqi (Ulumuqi in on the map):

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