Singtel

Ever since I got a data plan, I've been glued to my phone because of all the new stuff I can now do on my phone with the Internet! This used to drive my boyfriend totally nuts because I am perpetually reading Twitter updates, checking my email or talking to my friends on MSN.
Previously, SingTel already had many student plans in place for people like me:



Most importantly to me were the UNLIMITED SMSES and the free incoming calls.
The student plans also offer free calls on campus (e.g. NUS for me) and camps, as well as a data bundle for surfing the Internet on your phone!

NOW, these student features have been extended to the 3G Flexi plans. This is even better for people like me who like to surf the Internet a lot...



The 3G iFlexi plans above are catered specifically to iPhones but fret not, for other smartphones (eg. Nokia, HTC, etc) there are the 3G Flexi plans :D

With the data plans I can use my phone for Internet-related apps like Facebook & Twitter as well as surf the net, all without worrying about chalking up a HUGEEEE phone bill.


My Twitter! Haha every day I wake up and read Twitter updates from my friends in the night.

1) 12GB of data- is honestly a lot, so I will not need to worry about overshooting my data usage :D Even if I do end up overshooting (because I'm glued to my phone/Internet like that), SingTel has in place a $30/month cap for unlimited data usage- so no matter what you do you know it won't exceed $30. This would totally give tons of people a peace of mind and is available for both iFlexi & 3G Flexi plans!

Other benefits that the 3G Flexi and iFlexi plans have over the normal youth plans include:

2) Free AMPed- AMPed is SingTel's music store, and from here you'll get unlimited music downloads with no data charges! (this means the data usage from song downloading is not counted in your 12GB) The songs can be easily synced to your phone and computer, so bye-bye having to pay for songs $_$ or slow transfers from friends (mine never have the songs I want). You can even get to view exclusive music videos from the AMPed portal which this feature is available for both iFlexi & 3G Flexi plans as well!

3) Free MobileTV- now I can watch the news/my fav sitcoms/football (I don't, but a lot of my guy friends do and this means we all used to have to cluster at the TVs at Zouk when for example Liverpool vs. Manchester United was on) (ugh) on my phone, anywhere I want.
Do note that this feature is available for iFlexi plans only (for iPhones).

Lots of my friends now have phones with data plans, be it iPhones and Nokias, etc. This means that we're perpetually connected to each other and it's so much easier and more fun to talk cause I can leave them a comment on Facebook, tweet about them, upload a picture of us or even just email them cause they'll receive all of this stuff immediately on their phones!
Seriously can't imagine my life now without a phone that can surf the Internet!

♥ ♥ ♥

I mean for me I even blog using my phone sometimes, and receive all notifications of new blog comments on my phone through my Gmail.
It's really useful for school too cause I can read emails from my groupmates and reply them on-the-go, and even view/download the documents!

Just the other day we were at Dempsey and all of us had our phones out doing our usual nonsense, till someone said "Hahaha okay seriously everyone, phones away!!"


I know I'm not actually looking at the iPhone, but if I did I'd get cross-eyed...


Some mandatory camwhoring. Haha you can see in the photos that there's a Facebook notification.

So now you can have 2-in-1 plans (iFlexi or 3G Flexi, depending on your phone) featuring both your normal voice and SMS benefits, as well as data usage for the Internet and related apps!

Handphones have never been so fun till now ♥

Now you can Express Yourself Freely with SingTel Mobile Youth Plans. Visit any SingTel shop or www.singtel.com/youth for more details.

Batam

Hi everyone! I finally got round to doing a blog post on my trip to Batam in February! There were a massive 98 photos :S and my photo sizes are pretty big so uploading them to Photobucket would have killed me.

So I decided to try doing collages like how some girls do! I always though it must be pretty troublesome but I guess it's alright.. and still better than the alternative of uploading close to a 100 photos.

Anyway my friends and I went to Batam for a day trip as part of our Geography project on tourism. It's not compulsory to visit whichever location you choose to do your project on of course (imagine if you wanna choose like Paris or something) but we thought it'd be fun to visit!

Also, my group has one exchange student (she's Jamaican-American) so obviously she's totally up for visiting the region.

By the way I was at Zouk the night before for Chloe's farewell, then waking up early in the morning for the ferry; drinks + choppy waters= thumbs up to me!

Melissa (the Jamaican exchange student) and her friend Michael, also an exchange student. Michael is a Canadian citizen but of Indonesian origin and proved to be a huge blessing in Batam!

Like we spent 10minutes trying to ask the bookstore girl for a map of Batam and it was total ugh! language barrier, till Michael suddenly started speaking to her in Indonesian and we were like ??? Omg why didn't you say so earlier than you were Indonesian??! Hahahaha.

Hahahaha fake Nike and Chanel jewelry. This is like supposedly at a real jewelry store? Not even like some pasar malam cart.

Nick, me, Melissa and Rebecca.

OMG SO YUMMY I WANT CRAB NOWWWW. The whole meal was so cheap, like S$7 a person?

Convenience store haha.

From the ferry terminal we took a cab to a village which was still pretty rural, although most locals could speak English in case tourists from the nearby resorts venture out (very little tourist-local interaction in Batam).

At the village we paid to be ferried to this little out at sea just to look around. On the island this woman actually said we had to pay "rent"? Like pay money to come unto the island, which was kind of ridiculous but the boys paid anyway.

Basically the locals charge money here and there to make an income, even going into the village we had to pay entry. But it's so little anyway you know? Like maybe a $1 each max, which is really nothing to us in Singapore but in Batam it's like livelihood.

I brought back the first seashell!

The beach there is so pretty!

Took the same cab (it waited for us) back into town to see the shopping centre.

Hello Kitty stuff store:

Omg I want the mahjong set!!!

Visited the Maha Vihara Duta Maitreya temple, which is one of the largest Buddhist temples in Southeast Asia. Massive! But it had a lift in it hahahaha.

I bought one! Some pancake kinda thingy.

Hahahaha look at where the sign is pointing to! Like EXIT, by jumping into the water???

Anyway we saw the Coast Guard! Don't know what they boarded for, but everyone tried taking photos with their camera phones (but I cool I got camera).

(Notice the old men on the ferry. Ahem as to what they go to Batam for.)

I bought a Hello Kitty ring from the store! Happy!!

Anyway a couple of days later I was reading the newspaper about Indonesian street beggar kids, and one woman was saying how it's pretty good if her nephew can earn 700 rupiah a day from begging.

And it's just so sad cause 700 rupiah is so little. 6000+ rupiah is equals to S$1. I mean in Singapore if you lost a dollar you wouldn't really care you know? But like over there it's actually so much money... the disparity's kind of sad ):

Ugh I still have some leftover rupiah I haven't changed (yeah a month plus later). We had our presentation on Batam already, we got a shock when some groups (actually only one) turned up in full presentation regalia like shirt, blazer, dress shoes etc.

Like I know in faculties like NUS Business you need to dress up for presentations, but for FASS no one cares lah hahaha.

ris low (in lowercase cause I'm childish like that hahaha)

I was gonna do an actual post but lazy/no time so I decided to torment you guys with Ris Low instead:



OH THE HORROR. Ris Low is so disgusting (and she grew fatter).



OMG listen to the part where she's supposed to say "Why is Safe Sex important?" (around 0:24), and she ends up going like "sfsghxfzx portant". I was seriously like... stunned. Went back to watch that part again. Still... stunned.

I know there's a saying that "all publicity is good publicity" (or something along those lines). BUT HELLO DEAR RIS LOW. THERE IS A LIMIT TO THAT. Beyond which you become horribly vile and shameless, and you passed that juncture about 5 months ago.

AIYAH I'm not usually so bitchy and cranky but Ris Low really drives me insane!

School! Bye!

sparkle

Zouk on Wednesday after the longest time, haven't been for a Ladies' Night in ages.

Finished Shaun's bottle at Velvet, almost throttled the waitress because she seemed so dense, listened to an excruciating 20mins of Mambo to appease Jeannie and ironically (or not) had tons of fun once Jeannie left complaining it was boring haha.

Mambo:

*Wake Me Up When September Ends comes on*

Darrell: "WTF! (x100)"

Darrell: "The people who like Mambo must either be damn drunk or on drugs."

In case you couldn't tell, Darrell doesn't really like Mambo.

I don't like Mambo very much cause I don't like having to follow all the moves. I mean, what a chore. I go there to dance, not to learn the arm movements to Love In The First Degree.

AND EVEN AT THE RISK OF SOUNDING LOSER/ACT COOL/ETC, I'm gonna admit that I prefer RnB/HipHop. There. I just like singing along to the songs. The lyrics are funny and the songs are catchy. Makes sense no??

I'm okay with Electro/House/Trance. Still beats Mambo hands down.

My skirt is so sparkly!

Sherry and her Hello Kitty ring which Tammy (ohsofickle.bs) recommended on her blog. This idiot travelled all the way to Tampines where Tammy said could be found the turn-turn machines to get the Hello Kitty rings.

Sherry, by the way, stays at Bukit Timah. Like at Cashew there. A.k.a bloody far from Tampines (then again Tampines is like at the end of the world).

Mystified that Sherry's prehistoric 5 year old camera can still work.

Heehee I bought 4 shots of Sex On The Beach. Not very potent already, but Sherry's alcohol tolerance is SO BAD.

Which is why I was very tempted to buy her a Flaming Lamborghini (potent) because I knew she would die. Like die-ed. Dieded-ed.

Anyway in the end I got an Extreme Titillation (like a Flaming but tastes better) which I still had to share with her, and ended up drinking almost everything:

In case you're wondering, here's how it works:

The drink comes in two small shot glasses, one brown (the alcohol) and one white/green (depending on the flavour).

The alcohol will be lit with a blue flame and you quickly drink it while it burns, and when you're almost done the girl pours in the white/green thing, which if I'm not wrong, is coconut milk.

Anyway not trying to act cool or what lah, Sherry didn't know how it works either. And like there are tons of drinks I wouldn't dare try too.

I think my blue skirt is so cute cause it's super sparkly! Plus it's a good length (not too short) and has an inner layer. I was actually gonna buy it but in the end this skirt was sponsored to me by the very nice girls at WONDERSTELLAR :)

Here's a preview of their latest collection:

I like these two items from their latest post! Their collection is up already so do take a look over at wonderstellar.livejournal.com :D