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The “DTKC Super-babes” are looking very fine! I am wearing a dress from our major sponsor, on-line boutique FashionJunkee.com.

12 days ago I had this crazy idea to take something that was a bit silly, and turn it into something significant.

In a matter of days, the Doing The Karen Cheng Singapore Red Cross Charity Event caused a huge wave of momentum and excitement. We had multiple sponsors, interviews with 3 major newspapers, I was invited to chat on radio, magazine and newspapers wanted to cover the event, heaps of people wanted to help and participate! I was truly overwhelmed by all the support.

The event was a success. We had over a hundred of people turn up, and we raised approximately $2000 in 2 hours! Woohoo!

I was thrilled to see so many girls and guys dressed up to the max and joining in the fun! I’m so glad everyone stayed for drinks, mingled, chatted, and took more photos! I chatted with heaps of people and would have loved to talk MORE, but I was slowly losing my voice over the course of the event.

All my photos and professional photos are at the Doing The Karen Cheng Facebook Group.

Please remember to upload your own photos, feel free to browse them all, and please help me tag people.

The wonderful FashionJunkee.com donates US$1000 to the Singapore Red Cross.

Photographers working their magic at the gorgeous venue IndoChine – The Forbidden City.

The very charming and very popular Mayalsian blogger Kenny Sia turned up and was more than happy to be the centre of attention.

A big thanks to May (centre) from Carrey Hill Events Management - she looked into every detail, she fixed every problem, she took care of everything, she was so initiative, organised, enthusiastic, reliable and creative! She was incredible! And she did it all for charity! Thanks so much May, her crew and Carrey Hill.

We had a professional photographer take some photos for the event, the award-winning Ivan Loh (left) of Pigs Can Fly. He was amazing too – fantastic to work with, full of great ideas, amazing results, lovely personality, professional but fun, hard working, very determined to get that perfect shot, and he even dropped off the CD the next morning! Thanks Ivan, you’re too kind.

Of course, I need to thank the kind folk from The Singapore Red Cross, who were incredibly supportive! Thanks Kelly!

And, Romadas Arts kindly donated their printing services and materials for the event. They made up some great posters and an amazing banner, all for free!

Lastly, I want to thank the gorgeous girls who came a bit earlier to the event to help with photos, and became the “DTKC Super-babes”. You guys looked amazing!! Thanks to Hui Wen, Mel, Jacqueline, Sheena, Michelle, Karen, Nicole, Norshahira, Tricia, and Kelly. There’s an excellent pic of us in today’s MY PAPER (8 July 2008). Please let me know if I have forgotten someone!

Also thanks to the Fashionation girls, Dottie and Stephie, and also Sharon from Soon Lee at Haji Lane, for all their excellent advice. And, I have to mention my cousin Calvin Cheng, who made some very important conections for us so this could all happen.

Near the end of the event, I was requested to “Do The Karen Cheng” with a dog with a blog. I thought it was such a funny and cute idea. So we moved the mirror, brought the whole party outside and took some very cool photos of Kingsley the blogging dog.

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I can hardly believe it. I am back in Perth.

There is a deep layer of autumn leaves covering my backyard lawn, testament of our absence.

Perth is having a particularly cold snap. I flew in late on Sunday night, and the air temperature was only 7 degrees! And when I got up this morning to go and collect my sons from my parent’s house, there was ICE on the windshield of my car.

The warm, humid air of tropical Singapore seems to be so far away!

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I am extremely grateful to the Fashion Bar – an uber cool and very gorgeous bar in Clarke Quay. They hosted and sponsored my 30th Birthday Drinks while I was in Singapore.

We started very early compared to the Fashion Bar’s usual crowd. The lush interior design was amazing and gave the event such an opulent, romantic, sexy, girly atmosphere! I loved it!

We met Randy the manager, who was absolutely lovely! He made everything run smoothly and gave us 8 bottles of wine.

I had invited people who I knew only from blogging or by email, so it was very exciting to meet so many of them face to face!

It was a very mixed crowd – some old friends, some family, some media people, some fashion designers, some bloggers, and some readers. It was great, and I heard so many funny and interesting stories, and it was wonderful to see people who didn’t know each other, making new connections.

Me, Stephie and Dottie (girls from Fashionation) and Ben from Miyagi.sg.

Michelle and Pam (the girls from Style Damsel) with Andrew and myself.

After five hours in the Fashion Bar, and after two hard days of reviewing Singaporean fashion designers and being interviewed by Singapore’s media, I was ready for bed.

My voice was so sore, and very husky. Plus I had to get my beauty sleep for the Red Cross Fundraiser on Saturday afternoon!

More photos over at Flickr.

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So I’m back in Singapore after six years, and I feels SO GOOD! I love the heat, I love the food, I love the shopping!!

I arrived on Thursday 4am, and it’s been a crazy whirlwind of events, meetings, interviews, shopping and eating. It’s been so much fun! My FashionJunkee dress has arrived! I’ve been talking non-stop, and lo and behold my voice has turned husky again.

Which is hilarious, because I was on Power 98 FM this morning! My first time on radio! Joe Augustin and the gang were talking to me about “Doing The Karen Cheng”, and raising funds for the Singapore Red Cross! If you want more information about the Facebook Group and the Event, please scroll down and read my previous post!

(Btw, it’s my birthday today!! I’m 30 and it feels awesome!!!)

xxx