Google announces 'Save to Wallet' for offers and payment cards

Google I/O has been jam packed full of new, and exciting Google software and technology. While the headline acts are no doubt the arrival of the Nexus 7 and Jelly Bean, there has been some pretty interesting stuff going on in the developer sessions. One such session, dedicated to Google Wallet, unveiled a new feature, called Save to Wallet. Initially for offers and payment cards, it is seen as the first step in opening up Google Wallet to a wider audience. 

So, what's it all about. Taking offers first, the Save to Wallet API will allow consumers to save offers from a stores website, directly to their Google Wallet. Wallet will then remind you to take advantage of it before the coupon expires. The offers can then be applied in the store, either by showing the offer code in your Wallet, or by using the NFC capabilities on your smartphone. Pretty slick. 

Adding the Save to Wallet button to an existing website requires little more than a piece of Javascript code. The benefits to retailers pretty much speak for themselves, but the consumer benefits are really nice too. By managing your offer coupons for you, Wallet will give you the notifications, to remind you to use them. After all, we all want to save some money, right? 

The Save to Wallet API also applies to payment cards as well. It works pretty similarly to offers, and allows payment card providers the ability to provide the same button on their website, and offer a seamless way to enter your card into your Google Wallet. 

Naturally, since we're dealing with potentially sensitive data here, the API isn't just opened up to anyone who wants it. It will be opened up to a limited number of users initially, in a closed beta. Anyone interested can register, but Google will only be releasing the API to approved partners. This applies to offers, as well as payment cards. 

And, what about the future? As the slide here shows, Google are promising more, coming soon. It's a smart move, if they can make a go of it. Apple's Passbook is likely the beginnings of their own Wallet solution, and Windows Phone 8 has theirs on the way. Google's taking a good first step here into expanding the functionality of Wallet. What we need now, is greater adoption -- we'd like to use our phones to pay for stuff in Europe too, Google. 

For your viewing convenience, we've embedded the Google Wallet session after the break. 

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9:00 PM: New Jersey Devils player Patrik Elias, who said he didn't know where the Stanley Cup Finals Game 6 puck was, reportedly found it in his equipment bag. Elias said he would return the puck to the L.A. Kings, and the Kings would make a donation to Elias' charity.

8:45 PM: Former Minnesota Golden Gophers basketball player Corky Taylor died Thursday at the age of 60 due to lung cancer. Taylor is best known for starting a 1972 in-game brawl with Ohio State when he went to help up Buckeyes player Luke Witte but ended up kneeing Witte in the groin.

8:30 PM: Dodgers manager Don Mattingly says Andre Ethier will not go on the DL and is instead day to day with an oblique strain.

8:15 PM: U.S. Olympic basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski released a statement on Dwyane Wade skipping the Games in London in order to undergo knee surgery: "We're totally supportive of Dwyane's decision and hope that he has a full and speedy recovery."

8:00 PM: Philadelphia 76ers center Spencer Hawes does not agree with the Supreme Court's ruling Thursday on Obamacare: "Ronald Reagan is spinning in his grave. We might as well be Russia in 1983."

7:45 PM: With the #1 pick in the NBA Draft, the New Orleans Hornets select Anthony Davis. The tracking of the rest of the evening's picks can be seen here.

7:30 PM: The Arizona Cardinals will hold joint practices with the Kansas City Chiefs during the week of Aug. 6 at the Chiefs' training camp in St. Joseph, Missouri.

7:15 PM: L.A. Kings forward Dustin Penner tweets: "Hey @JonathanQuick32 congrats on the new 10yr deal. 10 more yrs of cursing! ha now u can replace the wallet u lost in vegas #swearjar #143"

7:00 PM: In a January memo obtained by the Oklahoman, Big 12 commissioner Chuck Neinas said that Notre Dame would be the only school that would add to the league's TV value.

6:45 PM: The West Indies & New Zealand will meet in the first sanctioned cricket matches in the U.S. this weekend in Lauderhill, Florida.

6:30 PM: UniWatch has photos of the 1924 Senators throwback uniforms the Washington Nationals will be wearing for their July 5 game against the San Francisco Giants.

6:15 PM: The DUI trial for Oakland Raiders receiver Darrius Heywood-Bey has been set for July 23 unless the case is resolved beforehand.

6:00 PM: The San Francisco 49ers are suing Santa Clara County for withholding $30 million in taxpayer funds that was marked to go toward a new stadium.

5:45 PM: Celtics coach Doc Rivers & Sixers coach Doug Collins will serve as analysts for NBC's Olympic basketball coverage this summer in London.

5:30 PM: Ivo Karlovic claims he was cheated by the linesmen who called too many foot-faults against him in his second round Wimbledon loss to Andy Murray.

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Egypt's Mursi takes symbolic oath to people

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Islamist President-elect Mohamed Mursi took an informal oath of office on Friday before tens of thousands of supporters in Cairo's Tahrir Square, in a slap at the generals trying to limit his power.

"I swear by God that I will sincerely protect the republican system and that I respect the constitution and the rule of law," Mursi said to wild cheers from the crowd, many of whom were followers of his once-banned Muslim Brotherhood.

"I will look after the interests of the people and protect the independence of the nation and the safety of its territory," said the bearded Mursi, in an open-necked shirt and suit.

Mursi is to be sworn in officially on Saturday by the constitutional court, rather than by parliament as is usual.

The court dissolved the Islamist-dominated lower house this month in a series of measures designed to ensure that the generals who took over from ousted ruler Hosni Mubarak will keep a strong grip on Egypt's affairs even after Mursi takes power.

"There is no power above people power," said Mursi. "Today you are the source of this power. You give this power to whoever you want and you withhold it from whoever you want."

His defiant speech was a clear challenge to the army, which also says it represents the will of the people.

The 60-year-old U.S.-trained engineer addressed himself to "the Muslims and Christians of Egypt" and promised them a "civil, nationalist, constitutional state".

Mursi also paid homage to a militant Egyptian cleric jailed in the United States. "I see the family of Omar Abdel-Rahman (in Tahrir)," he said. "And I see the banners of the families of those who have been jailed by the (Egyptian) military." He pledged to work for the release of the prisoners, including Abdel-Rahman.

STOP-GO TRANSITION

Tens of thousands of Egyptians cheered Mursi's arrival in the square that was the hub of the anti-Mubarak uprising.

"Say it loud, Egyptians, Mursi is the president of the republic," they chanted. "A full revolution or nothing. Down, down with military rule. We, the people, are the red line."

The military council that pushed Mubarak aside on February 11, 2011 has supervised a chaotic stop-go transition since then, holding parliamentary and presidential elections, but then effectively negating their outcome to preserve its own power.

"Do we accept that parliament is dissolved?" cheerleaders from the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) asked the throng in Tahrir. "No," the party faithful thundered back.

Mursi was declared president last Sunday, a nerve-racking week after a run-off vote in which he narrowly beat former air force chief Ahmed Shafik, who was Mubarak's last prime minister.

After being sworn in as the first freely elected civilian president of the most populous Arab state on Saturday, Mursi would speak at Cairo University, a presidency statement said.

Hundreds of protesters have been camped out in Tahrir for weeks to press the army to transfer power to civilians.

"I'm here to tell the military council that we, the people, elected parliament so it is only us, the people, who can dissolve it," said Intissar al-Sakka, a teacher and FJP member.

She, like many of the women in Tahrir, was wearing a waist-length "khemar" veil of the kind favored by Mursi's wife.

The military council has long promised to hand over power to the next president by July 1, but army sources said the ceremony had been postponed, without giving a reason or a new date.

The generals have seized new powers this month, giving themselves veto rights over the drafting of a new constitution, naming a National Defence Council to run defence and foreign policies and decreeing their control of all military affairs.

The military's insistence that Mursi take his oath before the constitutional court and his defiant riposte in Tahrir sets the stage for a protracted struggle for power in Egypt.

Yet it will be vital to keep such tensions in check if Egypt is to overcome economic woes that have seen foreign reserves drop by more than half in the turmoil since Mubarak's fall.

The International Monetary Fund has made a possible $3.2 billion loan conditional on broad political support for the fiscal discipline it would demand.

The Muslim Brotherhood knows it must focus on the economy to stay popular with voters, who gave it much less support in the presidential poll than in the earlier parliamentary election.

Scenes at the presidential palace occupied by Mubarak for three decades encapsulated the rise of an 84-year-old Islamist movement he had banned, constrained and often persecuted.

Bearded men, some in white robes, others in suits, milled around the palace while Mursi held talks on Thursday with the Muslim Brotherhood's supreme guide Mohamed Badie and consulted clerics from the al-Azhar seat of Islamic learning, hardline Salafis and independent evangelical Muslim preachers.

Many seemed dazzled by the grandeur of their surroundings or intrigued to be walking once-forbidden halls of power.

Security guards, still there from the Mubarak era, shook their heads in frank amazement at the bearded conclave.

After the Brotherhood's Badie entered the gates, one said: "Good God, these men were in prison before and wouldn't have dared walk past the compound. Look at them now."

Many Egyptians swarmed around outside, hoping to meet the homespun president-elect with grievances and petitions. Security men said it was hard to impose order because Mursi had given instructions that people should not be turned away.

After the talks, Mursi's Islamist visitors at the palace in Cairo's Heliopolis district broke a day-long fast with hundreds of takeout meals in cardboard boxes hauled in by palace guards from an army-owned local restaurant - one of the many commercial interests developed by the military over the decades.

The military, the source of every previous president in the Arab republic's 60-year history, runs business enterprises accounting for an estimated one-third of the economy.

It does not intend to jeopardize the $1.3 billion a year it receives in military aid from the United States to back Egypt's 1979 peace treaty with Israel, widely criticized by Islamists.

Mursi has said he will respect Egypt's international obligations and does not want to take the country back to war.

(Additional reporting by Marwa Awad; Writing by Alistair Lyon; Editing by Ralph Gowling)

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Working Jelly Bean build available for Verizon, GSM Galaxy Nexus

 

Well, that didn't take very long: our crafty friends over at RootzWiki have already brought the I/O Android 4.1 preview build to both the GSM and Verizon Galaxy Nexus. Forum member B16's original GSM dump, followed by jdkoreclipse's VZW versison, have been tinkered with throughout the night and appear to be working quite well. It's flashable through Recovery after a wipe and a cleared cache, though as always we suggest you backup before playing around. After spending the morning snacking on Jelly Bean I can report that the Verizon build is near perfection, with even LTE working beautifully. As always, bugs are possible, especially since this is merely a preview build. If you've got the guts and the sweettooth, download links can be found at the source.

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Lords of the Rings: Oldest Tree Species on Earth
Trees are among the oldest living organisms on the planet. Some individual trees have lived for several thousand years, and connected groves of trees can sometimes live for tens of thousands of years. Living that long requires a combination of steady climate, solitude, luck and of course, genetics. Some tree species consistently outlive the others. Based on tree rings (which form at the rate of one per year), these are the longest-lived tree species.

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Sarah Winchester may not have been on the show too much this season, but she claims to know many of the housewives before the cameras entered the scene.

In fact, she claims to know the 'true' identities of Heather Dubrow and her husband Terry. And while she has been hinting in the press that 'the truth will come' regarding Heather and Terry's secrets, nothing more has come of the story.

But Sarah isn't done bashing Heather and her doctor husband. First, she called Terry a dopey doctor on her Twitter account and then she went on to yet again talk about these secrets that she claims people don't know about the couple.

"Some people aren't prepared to hear the truth I guess... in time ... Dopey Dr. I like that! ;)," Sarah wrote.

After some fans reached out to Sarah about being blocked from Twitter, Sarah fired back; "Their real personalities will come out in time and I want front row seats for that one! Lol!"

In her latest Bravo blog, Heather writes about the big incident between her and Sarah.

Heather says that Sarah was drunk, rude, unapologetic upon approach, and lied about having a sugar deficiency (as Heather notes, ?Hypoglycemia?!? Oh please.

She should do a little more research before diagnosing herself at a doctor's house on national television.?

?Sarah walked past the ropes in my house, which I find unspeakably rude. I roped the house off so people would stay out of our bedrooms and the kids playroom. ? it's my home. You are a guest (albeit uninvited) I would think you would try and be respectful ... but ? BOW NO SHE DIDN'T!?.

She goes on to slay Sarah?s behavior in the episode with vocabulary choices like ?insane? and ?sloppy.?

?Funny how Alexis wants me to let the whole thing go after 90 seconds, but we need to talk about [Costa Rica] for the next 5 years. You would think it would end there and Sarah would slink into the corner, embarrassed over the incident.

Well, not exactly ? To be continued ??

Terry Calls Sarah's Heiress Status Into Question!

Heather and Terry Dubrow don't think Sarah is an heiress to the Winchester family fortune.

Heather has made it clear that she thinks Sarah?s a phony, and her husband agrees.

The Winchester family?s history stretches back to the Civil War era. In the 19th century, Oliver Winchester created a rifle that bore his name and was active in politics. According to what Sarah told Cinderella?s Glass Closet, ?It is true that my great, great, great grandfather Oliver Winchester is known for making and marketing the Winchester repeating rifle. Therefore, yes I am related. However, I am not related by blood (only by marriage) to Sarah Winchester who built the amazing Winchester Mystery House.?

On Twitter, Terry got a tip from a reader that the Winchester trust was denying Sarah?s claims to be an heiress of the family. Then Terry was reportedly contacted directly about the issue.
Terry wrote, ?Winchester Mystery House has contacted me without provocation. They state [Sarah] is not related directly or otherwise to Oliver Winchester ? I asked them about possible defamation claims and they stated ?the truth is an absolute defense against defamation.?

Let the games begin.?

Heather then pointed to the Winchester Family Tree, which shows the family line ending in the nineteenth century, writing, ?Check out the Winchester family tree. #imposter.?

However, Sarah is sticking to the story that she?s a part of the Winchester family. On June 22, she wrote on Twitter, ?My relation to Winchester Inc. growing up never seemed like that big of a deal as a kid expect [sic] for when I got teased at school.? She added,

?Being related to Winchester firearms ws [sic] always very evident growing up. My dad kept us very well educated abt [sic] our family history.?

Jim Bellino crashes Heather's party!

It turns out that Jim actually crashes the party on tonight's season finale episode!

Terry has confirmed this news on Twitter, replying 'yes' to the question "apparently we'll see Jim crash your party in the next episode? Is that true?"

Well, perhaps Alexis isn't as independent as she wants people to believe.

It is questionable as to why Jim is showing up, considering he didn't want to film with the cast anymore.

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We are pumped to share one of our favorite stories from Self here on FitSugar! Summer is all about showing skin, but are you ready to flaunt your figure in a strapless dress? If the answer isn?t quite yes, then you?re in luck! Scoring a sexy back, decolletage, and shoulders doesn?t necessarily mean logging long hours at the gym. Instead, try this no-equipment upper-body workout from Philippe Til, a personal trainer and kettlebell expert based in West Los Angeles. ?A little definition goes a long way in looking great and getting compliments,? he says. ?Working the shoulders and upper back also automatically recruits your biceps and triceps so you kill a few birds with one stone!? Toning up top also creates the illusion you?ve morphed into a long-legged goddess without breaking the bank on a pair of Jimmy Choo stilettos. ?An upright posture automatically helps you draw in your stomach so you appear taller and leaner,? says Til. ?It?s a win-win!? To help his female clients shape up fast for strapless dress season, Til uses circuit training to target several major muscle groups at once. ?Spot reduction doesn?t work,? he says. ?Think of an ice cube. If placed in the sun, it melts all over, not just in one area.? Incorporate these three moves into your regular routine three times a week, repeating four times the first day, three times the second day, and five times the third day. ?Do these exercises back to back,? says Til. ?This workout has a variety of moves that target the upper back and core at once as well as the lower body and core at once. The more muscles you recruit, the more calories you burn and the more time you save!? Keep reading for the back-defining exercises.

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These bushings can be made from various materials although plastic and nylon are the more popular ones.

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Plastic and nylon bushings are easy to purchase with the many authorized and established hardware stores in the market.

These stores stock all kinds of bushings in large quantities for the rampant usage in various industries such as manufacturing, electronics, retail and even the home environment.

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Heat celebrate in the streets of Miami

Miami Heat's Dwyane Wade waves from a doubledecker bus during a parade in celebration of winning the NBA Finals basketball championship against the Oklahoma City Thunder, Monday, June 25, 2012, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Miami Heat's Dwyane Wade waves from a doubledecker bus during a parade in celebration of winning the NBA Finals basketball championship against the Oklahoma City Thunder, Monday, June 25, 2012, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra, right, grabs the NBA championship trophy as assistant coaches Ron Rothstein, left, and David Frizdale watch, in Miami on Monday, June 25, 2012. Hundred of thousands of people filled the streets of Miami for the Heat championship parade, and then 15,000 more got into the arena afterward for a long, loud reception for the NBA's new kings. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Miami Heat's Dwyane Wade holds up the NBA Championship Trophy as he rides atop a doubledecker bus during a parade in Miami, Monday, June 25, 2012, in celebration of winning the NBA Finals basketball championship against the Oklahoma City Thunder. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Miami Heat fans Kristal Tamayo, left, Eddie Quintana, center, and his wife Nikki Quintana hold up huge cutout heads of Chris Bosh, LeBron James, and Dwyane Wade for a parade in Miami, Monday, June 25, 2012 in celebration of winning the NBA Finals basketball championship against the Oklahoma City Thunder. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Miami Heat's Dwyane Wade waves from a double decker bus during a parade in celebration of winning the NBA Finals basketball championship against the Oklahoma City Thunder, Monday, June 25, 2012, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

MIAMI (AP) ? The NBA championship trophy was center stage, bathed in white light and sitting on a pedestal. And each Miami Heat player offered it a different greeting.

Mike Miller bowed. Udonis Haslem kissed it three times. Chris Bosh hugged it, and LeBron James strolled past before waving at the crowd.

Dwyane Wade did something different. In a nod to his preferred postgame fashion style throughout the playoffs, he emerged with a pair of faux eyeglasses and slipped the frames onto the neck of the trophy. Heat president Pat Riley, coach Erik Spoelstra and team managing general partner Micky Arison all donned the black spectacles as well at various points during the party.

The glasses were fake. The sentiments were all real.

And with that, two years after Wade, James and Bosh opened their time together with a celebration, they got the party they really wanted on Monday. An estimated 400,000 people filled the streets of Miami for the Heat championship parade, and then 15,000 more got into the arena afterward for a long, loud reception for the NBA's new kings.

"It's the best feeling I've ever had. ... This was my dream, right here, to be able to hoist that Larry O'Brien Trophy up, hug it, grab it, never want to let it go," James said.

During the parade, players and coaches were on double-decker buses with friends and family, most of them taking photos and video of the crowd. Other Heat staff were on flatbed trucks, as confetti fell and horns blared every step of the way. Wade cradled the championship trophy in his arms for much of the ride.

"I appreciate all our fans for sticking with us," said the now two-time NBA champion Wade, adding, "Best fans in the world."

And then the party moved inside, with a similar setup to the event that welcomed James and Bosh to Miami to play alongside Wade in July 2010. Music blared for nearly an hour as fans danced for joy, before the arena went dark briefly ? and someone sneaked the trophy onto the stage.

For nearly 90 minutes afterward, the Heat relived so many aspects of the season, from Haslem's flagrant foul against Indiana's Tyler Hansbrough in the Eastern Conference finals ("the greatest flagrant foul in team history," Heat broadcaster Eric Reid told the crowd) to countless highlights from the NBA Finals against Oklahoma City, the Heat left few stones unturned.

Juwan Howard ? the first member of Michigan's Fab Five to win an NBA title ? did the Cabbage Patch dance, as teammates broke into absolute hysterics, waving their arms in time with him. Mario Chalmers was asked about why Wade and James yell at him so much on the court, as a montage of some of their more fiery moments played on the giant video screens. And the Miami natives, Haslem and James Jones, got perhaps the loudest ovations of anyone outside of the finals MVP.

"Feels great, man," said Haslem, who along with Wade is the lone holdover from Miami's 2006 championship club. "Changing my name from Mr. Miami to Mr. Two-Time. I ain't Mr. Miami no more. I'm Mr. Two-Time. ... It never gets old. But this one is more gratifying because of the way last season ended."

Spoelstra had a similar sentiment, talking to the crowd about the team's commitment, especially after Miami lost last season's finals to Dallas.

"People from the outside, they criticized this group, this team," Spoelstra said. "They counted this team out. But they never estimated how close this group was as a family. Every single one of these players had to sacrifice something, either money, opportunity, minutes to be a part of this dream. And it was all for a moment like this."

After the celebrating was done, there was business. Wade reiterated that he would seek medical advice before committing to play with the Olympic team. Bosh ? who missed nine playoff games with a strained lower abdominal muscle ? said he was "all in, for now" on being part of the London Games. And Miller, who was hobbled by back and foot issues, said on Twitter he planned to meet with Miami neurosurgeon Dr. Barth Green on Tuesday, presumably to get checked out and discuss options.

Miami won the title by defeating Oklahoma City in five games in the NBA Finals. It was the second title for the Heat and the first for James, who nodded and pointed to fans for much of the parade. James came to Miami after seven years in Cleveland, and after he and the Heat fell in the finals a year ago, he's finally a champion.

"It's good being around other people who support LeBron," said Doug Mead of Toledo, Ohio, who came to the parade with his family. "They really don't like him in Ohio. They celebrate when he loses."

Everyone was celebrating in Miami on Monday. Arison snapped and tweeted several photos during the parade. Riley shouted "Thank you" to fans over and over, as his wife, Chris, stood to his left and led "Let's go Heat" chants.

Some fans began lining up for spots along the parade route Sunday night.

"I've been a fan since '89. For me personally I feel like I'm part of the Heat family," said Dexter Pace of West Palm Beach, Fla. "I've been through the goods, the bads, the losses, the trades, and now it's like someone in my family has accomplished something. .... It's going to mean a lot for the city of Miami, winning the championship."

As the event ended, Bosh thanked both the fans inside the arena and those outside, saying that without them, nothing would be possible for the Heat.

"It feels right," Bosh said. "This is how it's supposed to be ... and I would like to do it all the time."

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Associated Press Writer Jennifer Kay contributed.

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Looking Forward To Singapore National Day Parade 2012 - Bun Bun

When my siblings and I were very young ? my age was a single digit ? we would count down to the minutes before the parade and wait in anticipation on little chairs in front of the television. As the live audience cheered and did the Kallang roar, so did we while waving our little flags filled with candy that rattled in the plastic staff.

Singing happily to the tunes of ?We Are Singapore?, ?Chan Mali Chan?, and ?xiao ren wu de xin sheng? led by celebrities and backed by the choir, it was our way of celebrating the nation?s birthday.

The funny thing was, right after all that singing, we would switch off the TV upon the appearance of the various contingents, what we called the ?boring marching people?. Lol. We would estimate about 30 minutes, during which we would take a bath and prepare snacks for the next part of the show.

How we loved the ensuing performances! The group formations of the Singapore flag, lion head, national flower, and various shapes were wonderful to look at. The display of pyrotechnics and color and rhythm showcasing the four main cultures of Singapore brought the stage to life. How I wished I could don one of those flamboyant costumes and disco my way through the night!

Combined school choir in 2005 Source: MOE

We said our pledge and sang Majulah Singapore with pride, complete with straight posture and fist on the heart. It made us feel very part of the live audience at the all-round stage at the National Stadium.

When the skies grew dark, my siblings and I brought the ?live? mood into our home by switching off all the lights in the house and we swayed our torchlights and bodies to the rhythm of the songs, singing at the top of our voices.

We didn?t have the NDP goodies bags, as it was then called, so we invented our own. If you were born in the 80?s, you would recall the McDonald?s plastic lunchbox that came in either red or green. In mine I had a torchlight and a water bottle. Simple yet adequate for a night in. =)

The mood was revved up with the finale fireworks display ? spurts of light that shot straight up into the black canvas, exploded into streaks of color, and faded into the darkness like drizzling gold coins.

Ah, such happy childhood memories of the National Day Parade!

It was many years later that I finally got to be a live audience at the National Stadium. If you?ve been at the live National Day celebrations, you?d know just how different the mood was!

Sitting beside strangers checking out their goodie bags, some lapping up dinner of oily KFC and Pizza Hut food sold at makeshift stalls at the entrances, some taking photos with film cameras that went ?CHEE-Keeeee?, some fanning themselves with cardboard paper, and others just feeling awesome and grateful to be part of the live audience ? like me; the feeling was just indescribable!

I was on a constant high throughout the show, and I even learnt to appreciate the significance and solemnness of the military contingents segment ? the people who defend the place we call home.

Check this out! HAHAHA!

I was 16 and had a flag and fireworks on my cheek, the theme logo sticker on my forehead, and another flag on my neck. Somebody give me an award for Absolute Patriotism.

Please continue reading the rest of this post to see updated pictures of me and don?t ask what was the thing I mosaiced. Thankyouverymuch. LOL.

Alas, gone are the days where we could queue to get tickets for the parade. As I mentioned in a previous post on how I got to be a live audience for so many years, my luck stopped the moment ticketing went online. Boo. I would love to queue! Qiuqiu and I can go queue together. But we?ve got to move with the times. Logistics was a headache and people are busier these days?

9 August was THE DAY for all Singaporeans to come together and celebrate the nation?s birthday.

Why did I highlight ?THE DAY??

Because this year, we don?t have to wait till THE DAY, 9 August 2012, to express our love for our homeland! I hear ?WHAT? Express our LOVE?? We are Asian!?.

Okie, participate. Participate can?

While we don?t tell our family and friends ?I love you guys so much, you are everything to me, I cannot live without you? on a daily basis, we show our love and concern through actions. And actions speak louder than words!

You probably don?t fancy going round yelling into people?s faces ?I LOVE SINGAPORE!!!?. Nah, it probably isn?t our style. What we can do is participate in the NDP activities! And I tell you, the activities are so much fun this year!

The NDP committee brainstorms for a new theme for the National Day Parade every year, but this year is VERY different! It will no longer be just a parade, but an ongoing string of activities hosted nation-wide which started way back in March 2012! Many of these activities are completely new! Check them out here!

This year?s theme is ?LovingSG: Our Home?, and the activities were created to evoke emotions and memories of what we love about our country. We may not say it, but we can show it; we may not be able to express it in words, but we can represent it with acts of love.

Official NDP 2012 website: http://www.ndp.org.sg/

Instagram Photo Competition

For instance, there?s an Instagram competition for people to upload their Instagram photos and stand to win prizes such as Tablet PC, Smartphone, Movie Vouchers as well as other goodies! Every two weeks a new theme will surface for variation. By the time you read this, it should be Instagram #4 ? My Favorite Hangout.

#1 ? My favorite spot at home (24 March ? 8 April)

#2 ? My favorite pastime (23 April ? 7 May)

Source: NDPeeps Facebook page

#3 ? My favorite person (19 May ? 3 June)

#4 ? My favorite hangout (16 June ? 1 July)

#5 ? My favorite local food (14 July ? 29 July)

Remember to tag them with #sgigNDPfavHANGOUT.

I just joined Instagram! Find me with bunbunmakeuptips. Had to pink that out.

Where is my favorite hangout? It?s got to be home, as in, inside my house. But if we had to be really strict with wording, with ?hangout? meaning a place you chill outside of the house, I?d say? probably? Sephora? I can spend 3 hours just walking round and round in the confined space of Ion Orchard Sephora. Lol. What?! I?m a beauty blogger!

LovingSG Trails

Which is probably why, if you love to stay OUT of the house, you will be enthralled with the next activity, the LovingSG Trail! It?s like The Amazing Race! With 4 different themed trails spanning over 3 months, you get to re-discover Singapore and all the things you love about it by taking pictures of yourself and the logo to unlock clues! Simply download the ?NDPOnTheGo? mobile app and start your adventure! It?s free and you stand to win attractive prizes just by participating!

Building A LovingSG Project

And while you?re out going click-crazy with Instagram and the LovingSG Trail, drop by the travelling National Day roadshows at Funan DigitaLife Mall, Tampines Mall, Bugis Junction and JCube from 7 July to 12 August 2012 to check out the made-to-scale model of the Marina Bay Floating Platform.

If you pay a small token amount of $5, you?ll receive a pair of LEGO mini figurines ? one placed on the platform replica and another as keepsake! All proceeds will go towards the Straits Times Pocket Money Fund. It?ll be fun to try and spot your own Lego figurine on the scale replica platform!

I personally think this is a very meaningful project ? you get to participate in NDP, be there at the Floating Platform (with your Lego figurine representation), and show your love and care for the underprivileged.

Bloggers: Juli, Xiaxue, Qiuqiu, Maureen, Rachell

Don?t blame us for our boring outfits! Haha! Options were limited when they first started and this starry singlet was the best they had.

So happy to make my own Lego figurine!

LovingSG: One Heart, One Voice

The highlight of all these activities has got to be the Virtual Choir! It?s Singapore?s FIRST EVER virtual choir. It?s a simple idea: a compilation of many people singing one song together at the same time, like a choir, only that everybody has their own screen space.

Conducted by Darrell Ang, Young Associate Conductor of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, and put together by filmmaker Royston Tan who directed the movie 881, the first Singapore virtual choir will perform the one song we all know ? Majulah Singapura.

To get a better idea of how a really good virtual choir looks and sounds like, check out?Eric Whitacre?s virtual choir.

This must be how Heaven sounds like.

You don?t have to be beat or pitch-perfect, as long as you can move your mouth to the lyrics and look straight into the camera, you can be a part of the choir! Don?t worry about zao sia-ing! LOL!

Simply sing along to the karaoke version of Majulah Singapura and start recording. Super easy! Click here for the karaoke version and recording tips.

The last day to submit your video is 8 July 2012, so HURRY! The grand virtual choir will be revealed on National Day, 9 August 2012!

You can head down to the next roadshows where the LovingSG: One Heart, One Voice recording booths will be placed.

• Jurong Point Shopping Centre 30 June to 1 July 2012
• Causeway Point Shopping Centre 7 ? 8 July 2012

I?ve tried it at the second media brief and it?s audible from outside the booth. So if you are a bathroom soprano but are paiseh to let strangers hear you belt the high notes of Majulah Singapura, do it in the comfort of home. Don?t even have to leave the house to be part of NDP 2012! Very good for zhai(2) people! WOOHOO!!

But if you buay paiseh, by all means do it at the roadshow!

Here?s me getting ready for the camera to start rolling heh heh?

Want to hear me sing?

New NDP Segments!

Bringing back popular displays such as the combined school choir (last performed in 2012) and SYF best secondary school display band (last performed in 2006), will bring back many fond memories for many people. I played the clarinet in my secondary school band, ours was a symphonic band meaning no marching, but I did love watching the marching bands and wished we had fancy marching formations too. That?s why I watched the movie Drumline like 5 times.

This year?s celebrations also include a ?Commitment to Defence March?, a visual representation of national servicemen responding to their call of duty, in which 140 of them will march out from the spectators area to converge with other marching contingents on the stage.

Like this. LOL!

Source: NDPeeps Facebook page

Another new segment is the NS45, a salute to 45 years of national servicemen who have sacrificed for the nation. My dad graduated from NS many years ago, the cut off age being 40.

But last year and this year, both my brothers enlisted into the Singapore Armed Forces. And they made us all very proud. =)

Family out in full force to support!

Little brother?s turn!

BMT POP (Basic Military Training Passing Our Parade) held at the Marina Bay Floating Platform! I?ll be back!

Where To Find NDP 2012 Information

The official NDP 2012 website (http://www.ndp.org.sg/) has all the information you need on the various activities.

The LovingSG website provides a one-stop platform for the integration of all social media initiatives. Social media, or new media, brings everyone closer, and the NDPeeps Facebook Page is the place to get updates and see behind-the-scenes photos. Everybody loves behind-the-scenes! Check out NDP Twitter feeds and YouTube Videos while you?re there too!

This year is the fifth time National Day Parade is held at Marina Bay Floating Platform and I FINALLY get to be a live audience, all thanks to Bun Bun Makeup Tips and Nuffnang!

I?m SO excited about NDP 2012. Firstly, because I am part of it. Attending all the media events let me have a glimpse of how much planning and effort goes into planning this annual big-scale event; secondly, because it is an immense honor to be part of NDP, and thirdly, because I really like how this year?s committee is embracing social media and ramping up efforts to encourage Singaporeans from all walks of life to share what they hold dear to their hearts.

Fellow bloggers brought together for this mega event of the year!

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Recap of events you can participate in:

• Instagram Photo Competition
• LovingSG Trails
• Loving SG Lego Charity Project
• LovingSG One Heart, One Voice (last day of submission 8 July 2012)

Quickly go take a video of yourself singing the national anthem!

Be part of the FIRST Singapore virtual choir! My family, friends, and I have all submitted; I look forward to seeing yours on the virtual choir! Let?s sing our hearts out for the love of Singapore!

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Majulah Singapura!

Onward Singapore!

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May I lead the rebellion? I can have my character in tomorrow probably

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could I reserve the second in command of the rebellion?
I'm going to work on the character now :3

what's really strange is that I was thinking about using "My Soul to Take" as the title for a roleplay I was thinking of lol

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@ScarnyLuv Yes you can lead the rebellion bt PM me cause I have some things to go over with you :D

@tallyrebel Yes you can have it!!! That's funny, I thought it fit caus it was about Souls..sorry I stole it lolol!!!! JK

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