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From 6pm on 17 July to 6pm on 18 July 2009, 10 bloggers lived 24hrs of their lives inside TANGS display windows for a blogging challenge. I was one of the 10 bloggers who were selected for this campaign. It took me more than a week to recover from the lack of sleep and up till today, my clock is still struggling to get back to the usual settings.
Why did we do it?
It was an opportunity to for the sponsors to showcase firstly, the Intel ultra-low voltage processors in a lifestyle setting and educate about the technology behind the Lenovo IdeaPad U350 laptop. And to excite the audience to enable them to see that technology can become a fashion accessory too. Especially with the Lenovo IdeaPad U350 for the “ultramobile road warriors” out there. And for Tangs, its to launch their revamped website and to direct traffic amongst the bloggers and passerbys to enter Tangs.
Personally, I’m doing this because of several reasons, and no, winning the challenge is NOT one of them! Firstly, because I know all the three sponsors personally and I want to support their campaign. Secondly, this was like a survivor challenge inside Tangs, when will anyone get to do such crazy things again? And thirdly, I wanted to experience how it would be like looking out from inside the display windows for 24hr. I was expecting to see crazy things in the middle of the night along Orchard Road, but sadly, nothing happened. It was all peaceful and quiet on the Friday night.
Getting Ready
Preparing for the 24hr away from home, as usual I over packed my stuff. This is very common for me! I always bring more than I should when I travel or go for stayovers. I’m the kind of person who needs everything around me *just in case* I need them. So for the neither long nor short 24hr, these were what I packed…
Barang Barang I brought to #bthon
Inside my big Simpsons bag, I have a smaller black bag which I call my “Run to toilet” bag. As we’re only given 10-mins of toilet break every 2hr, I want to make sure I have all the things I need at the toilet within reach when my toilet break comes. Inside holds three smaller pouches which holds:
- wet wipes, facial tissues and body powdersheet.
- body mist, perfume, hand lotion, Kiehl’s multi purpose balm and evian mineral water spray
- basic makeup stuff which I didn’t use
Then I also have three mobile phones and their respective charger with me, my DSlite and charger, Sony Walkman, multi-plug, usb hub, Nikon D40 and tripod. Out of this list, I only used the Nikon D40 for less than 3 hours and the DSlite for 15mins! The heaviest bulk in my bag and I never even used more than half of them! FAIL!
And the other stuff you can see from the above photos. All also not used except for the whiteboard and stuff.
My Outfit (Sponsored by Tangs)
For all 10 bloggers, we were given S$500 each to shop for a set of outfit that we have to wear throughout the 24hr. Its all about being comfortable and cosy for me. So I picked my usual choice of outfit. Total price was pretty close to the S$500 limit.
What I wore at #bthon
- Tokidoki T-shirt from the Spring 2009 collection
- Tokidoki Women Geo Half Sleeves Storm Hoody
- Living Doll black pants
- Fred Perry Sunpower Gingham in Black/White
Beside the outfit sponsored by Tangs, all of us also got our choice of products from Kiehl’s worth up to S$200. I will share more about them in my next post. More thoughts and photos will be coming up soon!
If you were to stay awake for 24hours, what would you do? This weekend, ten of us would be put to the test of surviving a 24hr Blogathon inside TANGS display windows! Theoretically speaking, we will be living on more than 24hr without sleep from Friday to Saturday! Simple math…
Working backwards:
- Sat 8pm: Reach home, shower and KO (hopefully!)
- Sat 7pm: Dinner (if there’s still energy left)
- Sat 6pm: End of Blogathon (#bthon)
- Fri 6pm: Start of Blogathon
- Fri 5pm: Reporting time to change and setup
- Fri 4pm: (For myself) Meet Cheryl at Tangs to try the pair of shoes I selected
- Fri 3pm: Leave home for Orchard
- Fri 2pm: Shower and get ready for 24hr w/o showering!
- Fri 1pm: Get some work done and assigned.
- Fri 12pm: If I can make myself sleep till 12pm that’ll be best! If I jump out of bed before 12pm than also no choice lah!
So you see! Base on my calculation, I will have to be awake from 12pm Fri to about 9pm on Sat. I hope I can survive that!
To prep myself for this ultimate challenge, I’m going to start listing down the things that I’ll have to bring to keep me occupied for the 24hr and some tips on how I am going to stay awake.
Claudia’s packing list for #bthon
The tech stuff:
- DSLR camera
- Tripod for DSLR camera
- Mobile PhoneS + charger(Yes! More than one)
- Sony Walkman + USB cable
- Nitendo DSlite + charger
- Multi-plug adapter
- USB Hub
- Remembering all my passwords!
Non-tech stuff:
- Face towel to freshen up
- Wet facial tissue + Wet Wipes + Kao Biore Body Powdersheet
- Tissue paper
- Fluffy pillow to hug and support my chin when my head feels heavy (To buy one on Fri!)
- Sour and mint candies
- Whiteboard + markers + duster
- Muji notebook + pens for doodling
- Vicks inhaler + Vicks rub + Kiehl’s multi purpose balm aka Superbly Restorative Skin Slave
- Body mists + perfume
Toothpicks- Listerine mouth wash
- Hair clips
- Sunglasses + Cap (I’ve got hootie!) for the morning and noon sunlight
- Sweater for the night coldness
- list to be continued… what else will I need?
Claudia’s tips for surviving #bthon
- Watch movies/ drama online (suggested by molemole)
- Revamp my blog theme (again)
- Play games online or on DSlite
- Eat sour candies/ sweet
- Chat with fellow bloggers in other windows, at home or wherever they may be via MSN/ Twitter
- Plan for my new project idea
- Catch up on my blog posts (many many outstanding!)
- anymore suggestions?
The 10 bloggers in blogathon are:
Come by TANGS (Orchard) on Fri-Sat to see us in action!
I am back! And I’ve got so much to share! First, a challenge which I’d accepted while I was away in Bandung. Still cannot believe myself that I’m going to do it! *sweat*
Happening from 1800 hr on 17th to 1800 hr on 18th July 2009.
More details coming soon.
Yeah! Finally something that’s new for me to write about! I was very excited when I received my first laptop review unit! Here’s my take on the Lenovo U330 laptop. All views posted are personal experiences with the machine over 2 weeks.
Thanks for everyone’s support for my first issue of Claud talks Gadgets. That issue is now among the top 20 most frequently visited page on Claudia.sg. Although I do not have that many traffic as the famous sites and blogs in Singapore, but I’m happy for where I am.
In this issue, I’ll be covering a mixture of gadgets, as suggested by some of you. I write about them based on my own understanding and feeling towards the gadget.
Read MoreI wonder if this could really be happening in real life, when he’s gone, but still always online. But this made me cry!
Read MoreHere’s the video taken at the Intel Centrino 2 launch at Sentosa yesterday.
Apologise for not posting of my thoughts as mentioned in my previous post. Not in the right mind to write anything logical today.
Just a quick note, if you’re planning to get a laptop soon, hold your horses! Centrino2 is surely worth the wait. Asus and Acer should already have launched their models out in the market today. The rest will come in end July or in August 2008. Keep a look out. Lenovo has quite a few solid models too.
You can read more about it at the following blog and sites (thanks to themediaslut, perhaps I shouldn’t have grouped all of them together. Apology to Dairus.)…
- Darius Chang did a great
write-uparticle over athis blogCnet. If I’m not wrong, he’s the one with very technical and brain squeezing questions during the Q&A session. - Nicholas shares his take on the new chip and happenings at the event.
- Bernard has another great write up too. He was at the Blogger session at Geek Terminal that night.
