If you’re wondering why that woman lying on the green grass seem so familiar, well, yes, if you’d not noticed by now, that’s me! Never had I imagined they would put up such a huge photo of me and my gadgets on The Straits Time Saturday featured story lah!

Thanks to Sandra Davis, whom contacted me via email about a month ago, asking if she can do a short interview with me as she’s working on a story on Gen Y in the workforce. But it was only recently then she got the green light from her boss that the article will be used. So over the past few days, we spoke over the phone for a few times and she arranged for a photographer to meet me to get a few shots.

Seeking Thrills, Spills and Variety
Claudia Lim, 27, community manager of Yebber.com
Ms Lim holds two diplomas in business and education. She started her working life as a primary school teacher but left after three years to be the operations manager of an art and crafts shop. She is now a community manager at Yebber.com, a website where the public is invited to post online reviews of shops, restaurants, hotels and a range of lifestyle services.

Gadget-loving Ms Lim owns a Macbook, two cameras, a Sony camcorder, a Creative Zen digital music player and a Motorola PDA phone. Of her apparent Generation Y habit of job-hopping, she says:
“I am looking for the right fit in terms of a career. One that will give me variety and constantly challenge me.”

Some questions I got from friends, relatives and Yebbers which I thought I should just blog about it instead of repeating it over and over again. Ha!

How did TST (Sandra) found me?
Seriously, I really don’t know how she found me in the first place. But I guess, she could have been surfing around blogs and chanced upon mine and saw my resume on my blog? Or perhaps someone had referred me to her while she chatted with them.

Wah! So Claudia, you’re now famous liao leh! Photo so big on the papers!
Ermm… there’s thousands of faces appearing on papers and magazines daily lah. And how many can you recall? Not many right? So ya, I’m not famous or what lah. Just happened to be shortlisted to be featured. And with that unglam shot of me, with my big eyebag and round round cheek, I would rather people see and forget that they saw my face lah! I’ve a strange and strong feeling that I would most probably be stared at in the bus on Monday loh! Everyday I see the same faces in the same bus! (Maybe I should just take an earlier or later bus to work next few days. Ha!)

Recently I was asked to lie down on the grass field outside Marina Square by a guy. He was young and an intern at SPH. With all my gadgets laying in front of me, I tried my best to pose for his camera. It wasn’t the best angles of me from where he was shooting, but I didn’t want to disrupt his shoot.

He was there to take photos of me for an article that’s in the Saturday section of The Straits Time for today. I’d been receiving SMS since 8am (!!!) telling me that they saw me on the papers. But till now, I’ve not seen the article myself! (Thanks to the sleepy head in me.)

I was told the photo featured is pretty big, and from the way they’d described the photo to me, I think its one of the ugly shots of me! Gosh! I think i need to dig a hole and hide liao!

Will get a shot of the article later when I get myself a copy of today’s TST.

For those who have not signed up for their GST Package, its time to do so now! If you don’t know about this mini-fortune we’ll be inheriting on 1st July, why not go check out the animated and colorful FAQ created by the students from Temasek Polytechnic Info Tech School, Diploma in Internet and Multimedia Development.

I wonder if I’ll get more this year since I earned lesser in 2007 as compared to 2006. Hmm…

So what happened in the capsule on The Leap Years’ flight on The Singapore Flyer last night? Caught this on News on 5 just now… if you’d missed it, here’s the snippet I caught with my isight…

News On The Leap Years event onboard The Singapore Flyer from claudia on Vimeo.
The videoman was in my capsule.

Congrats to Kar Choon and Peishan, and Safura and Bilal. Hope they’ll continue to keep in touch. :)

Going to catch The Leap Years tomorrow at Tampines Mall. Thanks Class95 for the free movie passes!

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Taking a look back at 2007, with photos, the events and happenings and changes that took place in my life in 2007…

January 2007 – Parent’s stall got featured in the papers

Feb 2007 – CNY with my family

March 2007 – Injured my back, suffered much pain and had to leave my job @ MWL.

April 2007 – I created my very first plushie! Prince Froggie.

April 2007 – KTV with friends from MWL
It was fun fun fun! Totally crazy!

April 2007 – KTV with my pretty girlfriends. BFF!

May 2007 – I got my bangs! First ever after more than 10years!

June 2007 – As a vendor at the first Yebber Fashion Fusion

July 2007 – Celebrated my 20-something birthday

July 2007 – My first experience at MAAD Market

July 2007 – I won my first prize online with Yebber.com.
And soon I got talent spotted and started my 4th career in life with them.

July 2007 – Finally a day out with my sisters.
Our first ride on the Luge

July 2007 – NE Show to preview the first NDP at Marina Bayfront

August 2007 – I learned about facebook. And have been stuck ever since!

August 2007 – Spent a not-so-fruitful night at Siloso Beach.

September 2007 – My first visit at Island Creamery with Pingsters.

Nothing much happened in October 2007.
Other than my recap of my journey in the cyberworld.

November 2007 – Our girl Min’s Birthday

Nov 2007 – My first experience at fine dining, Sage.

November 2007 – Blog post on Tatarah got quoted by the papers

November 2007 – My 2nd time at Yebber Fashion Fusion
This time round in the organising committee!

December 2007 – First ever live basketball match with the Slingers.

December 2007 – Launch of Ping.sg Tshirt.

December 2007 – Yebber had our first party for members

That’s about all for me in 2007. Doesn’t seem to be that exciting for some, but it sure was for me. I hope 2008 will be an even more eventful year for me.

My 2-liner of fame on Newpaper today! My first step to becoming famous? Nah! Just made me sound like a complain queen! HA! Well, there’s also no photo, no quote no nothing. Just a name. And there’s so many Claudia out there. Well, still… its from my blog lah. So does anyone reading this got the newpaper and a scanner now? I want to see what the article say leh. LOL! Got the paper. But no scanner to scan now. Will post it up when I can. Article covers 2 entire page. Not easy to scan too.

Here’s a photographed version of the article on TNP dated 15 November 2007.

Larger (non-highlighted) version here

Close up of the mini 2-liner of fame… LOL!

This is what I my friend told me over MSN…

k says: were u the one who was quoted in new paper abt tatarah?
Claudia says: har? did i?
Claudia says: wat paper?
k says: new paper
Claudia says: isit? why got claudia ah?
k says: the person name claudia complain abt tatarah lor
Claudia says: omg!!

And another friend said…

U says: not bad arh. got paper read your blog for articles

So even mainstream media comes to blog to find out things to report. Interesting.

Other bloggers who were also quoted includes Jussaemon, Knight and Postmeme.

Come to think of it, could the downtime be a gimmick? Hmm… Purposely go down, than bloggers will blog about it, and media will notice it, and they get free “publicity” in return. And take this opportunity to change the auction model? Well, since now its bidding at highest single bid model, guess many would have lose interest already. (Including me) Guess it’ll be better off working hard and saving for the things I want. :)