It was a “hip-gruelling” week! Hahaha. We kickstarted our Celebrating Curves event with Belly Dance (sat) and Salsa class (sun). It has never been more fun! I have always been a lover of dance! Love shaking my booty to the music. I remember when I used to be younger, I will go clubbing with my friends and there will be girls who will simply look at me when I danced and then the next thing you knew, they will come up to me and praise my dancing and say wow! My “most flattering” achievement to date is when a young boy (quite cute, by the way) asked me to dance with him on the dancefloor of the Boiler Room at St. James. Thank you…Thank you…

However, I have always longed to learn dance proper, back all the way when I was 6 years old. My mum had brought me to the ballet class and there I was happy to be enrolling into a ballet class. All I can remember now was when the teacher said: “Sorry, your daughter is too tall and fat for the class.” So, there goes the end of my professional ballerina career! Hahaha But I never gave up! I learnt ballroom, I learnt Hip Hop…and here I am finally, at my 1st Belly Dance and Salsa class, the ones that I organized somemore! It sure was fun!

Definitely different when you have a class of girls from the same community and doing the hips thrusting, stomach crunching together…I got to explore and dared to go further with my moves, no room for self-consciousness at all! We danced, we laughed, we perspired, we moved! Salsa was tricky, basic steps look simple, but there’s always the left and right coordination. Belly dance is definitely hard work but oh, so sensual! My boyfriend loved the moves…so far! Hahaha.

So, if you girls are still interested in the classes, we are having our 2nd class this weekend. You can just come by with the registration fees and join the class! You can click here for more details on the classes.

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We have been up to our neck with planning and organizing. Just received a sms from our favourite local young budding scriptwriter, composer and songwriter, Alvin Soe. He said that the lyrics for “Celebrating Curves” B.A.B. Music Video is ready!!! Exciting isn’t it? Well, we are!!!

I had been away for 1 week. Spent 5D4N in Manila and then 3D2N in Kuala Lumpur. Customised some really comfortable long and short dresses with solid bright colours at Manila and cheered on XiaoFung, a plus size 20 year old girl from Sabah at Malaysia’s National Jackie Cheung and Sammi Cheng Singing Competition 2010. She gets into the national top 5. Notice that she is wearing a pink chiffon dress that was sold in Sep 2009. Hehe.

Cheering on for her just goes to prove that talents knows no boundary. Are you all set to make a difference? Is there something that you been wanting to do but think that because you are plus size and you had let it go or stored it away in the back of your mind? Time to revive that!

Yet another milestone for B.A.B. You will soon realise that our logo will have Singapore added to it because…we are having B.A.B. Malaysia! Yeah! By June/July, we should have B.A.B. Malaysia (online and homeshop) up and running as well. The homeshop will be based in Metropolitan Square (a condominium in Petaling Jaya). This is definitely a milestone for us. Not only plus size girls in Singapore will get the BIGnBEAUTIFUL experience, plus size girls in Malaysia will get to experience that too! Indonesia soon?

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This is our very inaugural monthly eNewsletter. So yeah…let’s clap! Every month, we will bring you the gist of what has happened in that month even though from time to time you may still be receiving some other minor email updates. The eNewsletter will consolidate and feature the best of what has happened in the month and things that you should take note of. In time to come, we will start featuring more styles and trends, health and lifestyle, music and arts stuff.

Look out for our next eNewsletter where we will feature B.A.B. Girl of the Month! For now, we are busy with preparations for the Mini Makeover that is happening in 06 June and the other rest of the "Celebrating Curves" events that are happening next week!

We will be travelling the whole of next week so home-shop will be losed. But we will be back with more great stuff! In the meantime, we will be updating to a newer version of the website which should be done by August!

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TO ALL BLOGSHOP OWNERS:

I have received unhappy complaints from BAB Facebook fans about them being added as friends by many other blogshops. Please note that you should ONLY add anyone to ur profile only if you know them personally and do not mass add from BAB Facebook page.

• BAB Facebook fans are acquired through BAB own marketing efforts – I have spent time, effort and money through many advertising or marketing channels.
• Most fans have added BAB as their friend or a fan on BAB Facebook page on their own accord – this is the end result of proper advertising/marketing.
• Most BAB Facebook page fans are already BAB member.

Please do have some social networking/business ethics and have the consumer/business owner in mind. Thanks.

Below is an article on social networking etiquette that you may like to read through. Be it you are a business owner or just simply a social network user.

Excerpt extracted from techipedia.com

The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook
by Tamar Weinberg on December 10, 2008

Facebook

• Adding users as friends without proper introductions. If you’re looking to make friends, tell people who you are. Don’t assume they know you — especially if they, well, don’t.
• Abuse application invites and consistently invite friends to participate in vampire games. Many call this spam.
• Abusing group invites. If your friends are interested, they’ll likely join without your “encouragement.” And if they don’t accept, don’t send the group request more than once by asking them to join via email, wall post, or Facebook message.
• Turning your Facebook profile photo into a pitch so that you can gather leads through your Facebook connections. Thanks, but no thanks. Facebook is about real friendships and not about business — at least not to me.
• Using a fake name as your Facebook name. I can’t tell you how many people have added me and their last name is “Com” or “Seo.”? I’m not adding you unless you can be honest about who you are. Once upon a time, Facebook deleted all of the accounts that portrayed people as business entities or things. I wish Facebook would employ the same tactics yet again, because I’m not adding a fake identity as a friend.
• Publicizing a private conversation on a wall post. In case it isn’t obvious, Facebook wall posts are completely public to all your friends (unless you tweak your privacy settings). Private matters should be handled privately: via email or even in Facebook private messages.
• Tagging individuals in unflattering pictures that may end up costing your friends their jobs. Avoid the unnecessary commentary also, especially on your childhood pictures that portray your tagged friends as chubby and not so popular. Further, if your friends request to be untagged, don’t make a stink of it…..

» click here to read the full article

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Cheng San Community Club is the “official” favourite CC of B.A.B. Hahahah.. If you have not realise yet, we have most of our events held there. We also do not like to keep changing venue so there’s familiarity plus the place is quite a nice serene place, situated right behind Ang Mo Kio MRT (definitely central).

We are going to have a few events/activities coming up at Cheng San CC. So in the meantime, you may like to be a fan of Cheng San CC with me at their Facebook page

Upcoming B.A.B. Events/Activities @ Cheng San CC

JAN – MAR 2010
click on the individual event/activity for more details
29 – 31 Jan, Fri – Sat: CNY Carnival + Flea Market
05 – 07 Feb, Fri – Sat: CNY Carnival + Flea Market
13 Mar, Sat: “How To Run An Effective Blogshop” Workshop

MAR – JUN 2010
Lots of activities like BELLY DANCING, baking, makeup workshops…so stay tuned!

Plus, we may be running a small B.A.B. cafe there soon! so keep our fingers crossed!

Coming up next…stay tuned!

• Inaugural Chalet BBQ and “Miss Sporty BAB” @ Wild Wild Wet this weekend!
• CNY Clothes Preorder
• Fashion Show Exclusive Before and After Photos
  

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