Out of millions of fans Singaporean blogger EastCoastLife has, exactly why she picked me as her teammate for this first ever BRANDS® blogger challenge between these two friendly countries, I have no clue. Of course I am honored to be part of the ‘Team Singapore’ for this unique blogger event come next Wednesday (Dec 3). Wish me luck in helping Singapore to score better in Mental Performance.
Exactly why the PR folks at Burson-Marsteller agreed to pick me, I also have no clue. Interestingly, I do genuine love the taste of BRANDS® Chicken Essence. Maybe I am a Cantonese who is used to take in essence of this and that; or maybe since young, my mom has been feeding me with BRANDS® Chicken Essence during my exam period; and even when I was studying in UK, I had got to stock up the same Chicken Essence only available in Chinatown; I simply love to drink the stuff from these cute little glass bottles. In fact, I often find that one bottle is hardly enough to satisfy my craving. I wonder if I would overdose on Chicken Essence if I take more than one a day.
As though I could afford this would-be lifestyle.
This little experiment I have signed up for reminds me of something. Last year I agreed to be an experiment for my sister’s boss in one of the Singapore Universities to analyse my strengths. I sat through a 3 hours long online examination (or call it survey) and was told that I did well in the IQ section. Till today, I have yet to read the full report as promised. Dear Lora, if you happen to read this entry …
Back to the countless bottles of green fuel that were sent to my office (and caused a small commotion), inside that cute little transparent box that I am going to reuse as a container to carry my makeup and cosmetic to the plane (kidding!) there is a briefing pack. Inside this briefing pack there is a set of mental exercises that I will have a go once my chicken essence level in my blood stream is high enough. And I am given a highly encrypted BRANDS® Asia Mental Performance Survey Fact Sheet too. I really should be worried if I can’t even figure out what the report is trying to say.
It appears to me (from reading the fact sheet several times) that the participants from both Singapore and Malaysia are satisfied with their mental performance but Malaysians are the ones who are more actively seeking ways to enhance their performance. Such as the usage of health supplements.
How I am reading this is that if Singaporeans are to be more proactive in enhancing our mental performance (like drinking BRANDS® regularly?), we shall end up way more satisfied with our mental performance than our friendly neighbor. And how I am reading this is that since ‘Team Singapore’ has been injecting chicken essence into our blood stream, we are destined to take the grand price of S$1,500. That would make a lot of sense.
Interestingly, according to the report, people from Hong Kong are not as satisfied with their mental performance as the Southeast Asians and they are not as actively seeking ways to improve either.
That is a strange finding beyond my comprehension. Maybe the environment in Hong Kong is more demanding and people have a higher expectation of themselves? For sure, from what I know, people in Hong Kong are seeking ways to enhance probably through the traditional channels. They have 101 types of soup for 101 different purposes. Perhaps the report has normalized all these external factors behind the scene. I have no clue at this moment.
OK. I must be thinking too deep. Anyway, I am popping one bottle of BRANDS® Chicken Essence a day and now, we shall be on a leveled ground with the Malaysians!
So who will be there in the ‘Team Singapore’ besides the Singapore blogger megastar EastCoastLife?
Mr. Endoh will be there. I met him a couple of times in a social setting. He is a cool guy and is recently featured in our newspapers. Aaron Ng will be there too. I haven’t met him in real life. From what I read in his blog so far, he seems smart.
And the popular blogger Sheylara will be there too. I met her in person during one of the blogger events. These days I think of X-Box, I think of Sheylara. Her face is on the covers and posters everywhere.
Stay tuned for more updates.
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what do you do to test for “mental performances”? quite an interesting event
Wow so exciting! I love your life! heheh
All the best to you and EastCoastLife!
Have you realised that you have been “blogging” for more than 10 years?
That’s a lot of free essence of chicken! I hope all that improved blood flow goes to the right head
Si Ying – I have no idea at all! I tried to bribe the PR people but they just won’t say a word! What shall I do?!
G – Thanks! And I love your life too! It would be so cool to be MOTD just for a day.
Darkspore – Believe it or not, I am actually a lot smarter these days. I performed very well in today’s Spanish class and have shocked many, our teacher included. No joke!
AY – Interesting that you brought that up. Remember Amy from our University? When she found out that I typed out how my day went with a typewriter, she freaked out and sort of avoided me for quite a while. I am doing the exact same thing now – typing out how my day goes – and it seems to be more acceptable in today’s world.
How strange.
Maybe it is like how we defined abnormality. Once we cross a certain threshold, it is defined as normal.
Sorry to have digressed. Yes, how time flies. And you were there since day one!
haha… I have sent another reminder to my ex-boss already…
Lora – Ha ha ha … please do. I am patience man and I am still … waiting.
I picked 5 bloggers and only 2 agreed. hehe… I think those I picked are my stronger competitors.
Don’t be too stressed. I’m going to go dressed as an Aunty. Freak the organisers out. hehe….
The chicken essence boosted your performance!? I think it’s wasted on me leh.
ECL – You have to keep taking it! Take BRANDS every morning. Make it the first thing you do!
Cool !! See you there !
SM – Excellent! See you there too!
Am proud of u, pal. All the best
Adeline – Thanks. If I win that gazillion dollar worth of BRANDS gift voucher, I will takeaway some chicken essence for you the next time we drive up!
Revealing with full honesty, accepting this challenge makes me nervous. I’m well known not to be the smartest of all people. Somehow, I got a bad feeling about this.
I better bring a mask along, should I end up in the hall of shame.
Ed – From what I read in your site, dude, you have some deep thoughts … ha ha ha.
Nah, no one from either country is going to be in the hall of shame. It is just some sort of … experiments. Think of it this way
Hi pal… heehee I wouldn’t mhd that, good luck and have fun tomorrow!
Adeline – Ha ha ha … OK. Stay tuned! The title of my next blog is either going to be “I think we’ve made it” or “I think we didn’t make it”. Lol.
Wilf, when I knew you, you were already a very smart guy, now with one BRANDS® a day, you are going to be Super Turbo Charged Smart Guy! Go win some honours for the country!
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Choong Yong – Actually, your comment did add quite a lot of
pressuremeaning to what I did. Really.Oh well, fortunately the team members do compliment each other pretty well … ha ha ha.