TheXiaxue -Plastic surgery questions answered! (Part 1 & 2)
TheXiaxue -Plastic surgery questions answered! (Part 1 & 2)
Xiaxue
Personal life
Born on 28 April 1984,[1] Xiaxue studied at River Valley High School and graduated from Singapore Polytechnic with a diploma in mass media,[2] then briefly worked as a project coordinator.[3] Her father, an antique dealer,[3] and her mother, a property agent,[3] are divorced;[1] she also has a younger brother.[3] For a year, she maintained a paper diary, which her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend threw away during a Chinese New Year spring cleaning. Wanting to air her thoughts in a space that nobody could throw away,[3][4] she started blogging in April 2003.[5] In 2010, she married American engineer Mike Sayre, whom she met online and had dated for three years,[6] and in September 2012, she announced she was pregnant.[7]
Blog
Xiaxue has ten blogs, including her main blog, a geeky blog, her media centre and several private blogs. She selected her pseudonym, which means "snowing" in Mandarin Chinese, because it "had that tinge of mysterious, beautiful girl thing about it".[4] On her main blog, which attracts about 50,000 readers daily,[8][9] she provides updates about her personal life, posts photographs, writes about topics such as fashion, discusses local issues such as "nasty taxi drivers", and posts paid advertorials.[3][4] She often uses profanity in her posts and her success has been attributed to her provocative writing style.[3][5] According to a survey she conducted, which attracted 6000 responses, her readers are mainly Singaporean, female, young adults interested in fashion and "looking for an alternative voice".[4] Her main blog was the first Singapore blog to enter the Technorati Global Top 100 Blogs List,[10] was selected for the National Library Board archive in 2008,[5] and has won several awards, including the 2004 and 2005 Wizbang Weblog Awards Best Asian Blog and the 2005 Bloggies Best Asian Weblog.[5][10]
Other media
Due to the popularity of her main blog, Xiaxue has earned jobs in mainstream media, notably as a columnist for national newspapers TODAY and The New Paper, Maxim magazine and Snag magazine.[5] She has a sponsorship deal with T-shirt maker LocalBrand and was also previously sponsored by hair salon Kimage and nail studio Voxy.[2] In 2006, she and DJ Rosalyn Lee co-hosted Girls Out Loud, a reality TV series on MediaCorp Channel 5, where they engage in "outrageous antics and no-holds-barred banter".[11] She has a fortnightly series, called Xiaxue's Guide to Life, on the web television channel clicknetwork.tv;[5] its highest-rated episode had more than 325,000 viewers. The Health Promotion Board selected her as an ambassador for their Get Fresh campaign to discourage women from smoking and help female smokers quit.[10]
Controversy
In October 2005, Xiaxue wrote an entry condemning a disabled man, who scolded a non-disabled man for using the toilet for the disabled, leading to an online backlash that prompted two of her then-sponsors to cancel their deals.[2] Two months later, she suggested that foreign workers be banned from Orchard Road, as they were molesting Singaporean girls; many netizens condemned her posts as "racist rants" and signed an online petition to ban her from Orchard Road. She was accused of impersonating another blogger and abusing her position as a Tomorrow.sg editor to remove comments critical of her in January 2006.[8] She has a heated rivalry with blogger Dawn Yang, who threatened to sue her for an allegedly defamatory post in June 2008.[9]
References
^ ab"FAQs", xiaxue.blogspot.com, Retrieved 9 July 2012.
^ abc"Hard-hitting blogger flushed with success", The Straits Times, 31 December 2005.
Born on 28 April 1984,[1] Xiaxue studied at River Valley High School and graduated from Singapore Polytechnic with a diploma in mass media,[2] then briefly worked as a project coordinator.[3] Her father, an antique dealer,[3] and her mother, a property agent,[3] are divorced;[1] she also has a younger brother.[3] For a year, she maintained a paper diary, which her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend threw away during a Chinese New Year spring cleaning. Wanting to air her thoughts in a space that nobody could throw away,[3][4] she started blogging in April 2003.[5] In 2010, she married American engineer Mike Sayre, whom she met online and had dated for three years,[6] and in September 2012, she announced she was pregnant.[7]
Xiaxue has ten blogs, including her main blog, a geeky blog, her media centre and several private blogs. She selected her pseudonym, which means "snowing" in Mandarin Chinese, because it "had that tinge of mysterious, beautiful girl thing about it".[4] On her main blog, which attracts about 50,000 readers daily,[8][9] she provides updates about her personal life, posts photographs, writes about topics such as fashion, discusses local issues such as "nasty taxi drivers", and posts paid advertorials.[3][4] She often uses profanity in her posts and her success has been attributed to her provocative writing style.[3][5] According to a survey she conducted, which attracted 6000 responses, her readers are mainly Singaporean, female, young adults interested in fashion and "looking for an alternative voice".[4] Her main blog was the first Singapore blog to enter the Technorati Global Top 100 Blogs List,[10] was selected for the National Library Board archive in 2008,[5] and has won several awards, including the 2004 and 2005 Wizbang Weblog Awards Best Asian Blog and the 2005 Bloggies Best Asian Weblog.[5][10]
Due to the popularity of her main blog, Xiaxue has earned jobs in mainstream media, notably as a columnist for national newspapers TODAY and The New Paper, Maxim magazine and Snag magazine.[5] She has a sponsorship deal with T-shirt maker LocalBrand and was also previously sponsored by hair salon Kimage and nail studio Voxy.[2] In 2006, she and DJ Rosalyn Lee co-hosted Girls Out Loud, a reality TV series on MediaCorp Channel 5, where they engage in "outrageous antics and no-holds-barred banter".[11] She has a fortnightly series, called Xiaxue's Guide to Life, on the web television channel clicknetwork.tv;[5] its highest-rated episode had more than 325,000 viewers. The Health Promotion Board selected her as an ambassador for their Get Fresh campaign to discourage women from smoking and help female smokers quit.[10]