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INQ Mobile is giving away $100 cash and a $100 shopping voucher to one lucky winner!

INQ is one mobile phone company that is doing things a little differently with their phones. They cater for users like you and me who feels the need to be constantly ‘plugged into’ the internet and be on social platforms like Skype, Windows Live Messenger (WLM) and Facebook. Guess what? They integrated the mentioned social platforms (and more) into the phone itself.

As such, my favourite feature of the INQ Mobile phones is the integration of social platforms into the address book of the phones. Fire up your address book, see who is online on WLM, check out their newest drunk profile pic from Facebook, call someone on Skype to laugh about the pic; all these done right in the address book.

The bad news is that the makers of the best mobile handset at the Global Mobile Awards 2009 do not have their INQ mobiles available yet in Singapore. While we all drool at the possibility of actually owning one soon, take this chance to win lovely prizes from them right here!

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That is all that you need to do for a chance to win! Contest starts from now till 2359H 14th September 2009. Read up, comment and spread the word!

**Contest is open to all Singapore Citizens, PRs and Residents (If you are staying in SG right now, you are eligible!). All winners will decided by 24seven Communications and winners will be notified by email.

How lame can my title get while trying to think of something to correctly represent this post? Haha!

Uno is heading back to Ang Mo Kio today to meet her grandmother KuKuNehNeh who is probably excited enough to accidentally crush the baby lovebird with a bear hug. Uno probably won’t appreciate strippers nor alcohol for a farewell gift and so I decided to let her meet my resident dog, Junior.

So…..

This is all that is left of Uno after Junior played Uno….

WAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!

Junior is quite the coward and he is actually a little wary of Bluey the last time she came around for a 3 day stay. This time, all he did was to take a few sniffs of Uno to decide that this little bird which is about the size of his thigh, is not to be trifled with; and so he promptly turned away as well.

Uno seems pretty oblivious to Junior during the experience. She probably took a look at him and wondered if it’s too early for lunch.

Gonna miss taking care of this little lovebird!

Friends who know me most probably realize that apart from a few *cough* picky gripes about the service standard in Singapore, I am generally quite forgiving when it comes to receiving customer service.

Maybe it’s because I have tried working in the service orientated industry a few times and know how troublesome some customers can get and I also don’t want to be too pushy as a customer till the point where a waiter feels the need to add his/her saliva to my food when salt is all that is lacking.

With such a passive attitude towards the supposed ‘decline’ of service standards in Singapore, it was with great pleasure that I heard of this Singapore based website called “Are You Being Served?“.

Secret missions to uncover the standards in Singapore? I’m in!

I plan to make my way down to a steak restaurant in the heart of Holland Village where I use to frequent. It’s important to not be overboard with my service test and so, during peak hours when waiters are up to their neck with orders and requests, I would ask to change tables in the middle of the meal claiming that it is too cold.

The test will reveal how well they handle such a troublesome request when my table is full of food and the restaurant is busy. In the event that they can’t change my table, it will also test how well they try to make us comfortable despite the inability to accede to the request.

I’ll blog about my experience real soon….

Heh Heh Heh Heh Heh….. *rubs hands with evil glee*

Time flies and Uno is now a month old! The cute little baby lovebird has grown so rapidly that I often tell KuKuNehNeh that I will wake up to see an ostrich sized lovebird soon.

Watch the videos below to check out the difference in size of a 15 day old Uno and a 28 day old Uno!

Amazing right? He is starting to nibble on seeds on his own and hopefully he’ll be fully weaned real quick.