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Xiaxue killers

Skye Tan writes two slick articles in Singapore’s Electric New Paper. “Xiaxue Killer” profiles Sandra Ng, who runs the fun blog Sandralicious. Tan writes,

In person, her charm is girl-next-door but as evident from some photographs, the babe with a Shanghainese mother and a Singaporean father has no difficulties turning on a more vixen charm.

Sandra is part of the just-leaving-home generation I’m seeing creep up between the teens and the 30-something A-listers:

Her guardian, an aunt, is aware of her blog and is cool with it, she said, something she considered “very fortunate”. “I have friends whose parents check their blogs regularly.” Ms Ng’s not sure what her parents, who are divorced, would think.

Tan’s second piece, “Blogheads or What?” reveals that Singapore’s A-list is dominated by personal blogs:

A cursory browse of some of the more popular local blog sites seem to reveal them as vain, navel-gazing and, well, rather self-absorbed. Not exactly similar to the blog power we have seen in the US… There are exceptions, sure. But they are rare, and not getting much attention. Instead, the ones which make the most impact and score the most number of hits appear to be those that yak on and on about well, me, my body, my thoughts and my dog.

And the style will catch on as non-US blogs proliferate:

Livejournal.com, a US-based website which hosts blogs, ranks Singapore among the top 10 countries with the largest number of registered blogs. Our little red dot has 22,000 registered accounts. The blogging phenomenon is truly international. Time Magazine estimated in their 9 May issue this year that even in conservative Iran, there are 100,000 bloggers.

Hungry for stories? Why not try some Singapore blogs?

Tags: Singapore, blogs, SandraNg

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