PHOTO SHOOT #1 FOR SGGURLS CALENDAR 2010 PROJECT, 31 May 2009
Singapore, 31st May 2009

I can only tease you with the background photos. This was my first time coming to Hendrika's place and when I first set my eyes on the beautiful garden, my jaw dropped. The place is breathtaking. Honestly before going there I was scared. Yes, even for a veteran my knees were shaking. We'll be doing photo shoots out in the open like real models. We had four fabulous photographers. I never felt so grateful in my life to be living a dream with my best friends in such lush surroundings. I was privileged enough to get a sneak peak of the calendar photos. WOW! Having a pro makes s big difference. Let's just say that I am happier than a clam. Hendrika gave us an awesome space to glam up. The gurls glammed up while I did a lot of goofing around. The backdrop was just simply amazing. I believe Trish is going to get some very good quality stuff to work with when she starts putting her magical touch on our calendar.
Thank you Alex,Kayla,Zermine and Fifi for being our photographer. We're also indebted to the movers and shakers: Bobby and Ada for making sure the logistics were tight and that we were fully comfy with plenty of food/drinks. Thanks Hendrika for something that money can never buy: your heart of gold and a place that can trully be the called paradise on earth. Thank you to the models whom I won't mention until the calendar is done. They were very sporting trudging around in their heels in public.
I can't wait to see the finish product.
More about SGGURLS, Singapore's transgender social network and support group, please go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sggurls
Singapore: SGGURLS 11th Moderator Meeting
Singapore, 23rd May 2009
It was another sweltering night with 37 degrees heat index (30.5 degrees + 90% humidity). The gurls met up for what I thought was going to be a night of relaxation. The chairwoman, Destynee, was a task mistress. She bulldozed two tough topics on the agenda. In attendance were our dearest friends and founders of SGB (www.sgbutterfly.org) who had guided and supported us, our wisdom meister Bobby, Ada, Trish, Kayla, Destynee, Joy, Elisa, Linda, Rayne, Hendrika, Zermine and Fifi.

The thorniest topic was tabled first. Does SGGURLS needs its own website? SGGURLS had reached the limit offered by Yahoo's free group service months ago. Elisa asked a very innocent question: "what's the purpose of the website?" A debate ensued as to its purpose and contents. It was no doubt a tough and complex issue half of which had to do with SGGURLS identity. After the group is only 1.5 years old and like any teething baby, it has to find its own footing. Bobby suggested that we delay the decision on the website but keep the topic alive with ongoing discussions. Linda recommended that make this a two step decision: decide 'yes' or 'no' for the website, then form a project team collect the requirements from its members. Daniel offered his experience from running SGB. He suggested that we not focus at the number of members but rather look at actual participants. He said though there maybe 1000-2000 members, participation is less than 2%. Additionally, he proffered the mission of SGB was an education portal. Should SGGURLS embark on having its own website, the mission for the website must be clear.

The second topic was the 2010 calendar project. This was another hairy topic. I had to explain the three reasons for doing the project. The first being team work. SGGURLS has pulled off many events. They were tough but relatively straightforward projects. The calendar project would force the gurls really to look within its members and identify their best talents and use these talents to create an out-of-the-box calendar that will wow its buyers. Secondly, this calendar project challenges the notion that tgurls prefer to go stealth because they don't want to be marginalize by society. Trish and Rose brought up these valid points. In today's context, society still treats us badly. So it's better to just keep quiet, earn a living and not create any trouble. This calendar project is meant to show that trans are people who like any group if given an opportunity will accomplish incredible things. Thirdly, this calendar project is to showcase people with talent. I proffered several examples of trans glam in Asia. The photo studio for gurls in KL, Suzhou and Shenzhen do such wonderful work that it had that made many of its viewers say: "I can't believe these people are really guys". Like the transgender tiffany show, it is another milestone for the transgender to own the day.
SGGURLS 10th Moderator Meeting
Singapore, 25th April 2009
It was another hot night of 32 degrees in Singapore. I took a cab driver to find PLU cafe. The damn cabbie kept wanting to drop me off at KTV lounges. He eyed me from the rear view mirror and kept asking if I was going to work? I presume he thinks I am a KTV hostess. :-P Jeez, I must improve my dressing.

When I finally to the PLU cafe, the staff was very friendly and hospitable. However, they have a strange custom in the cafe. To get to the cosy lounge upstairs, I had to take off my heels. Waaaahhhhh.... me without my heels? Anyways I acquiesced and went up stairs. I was pleasantly surprised by PLU cafe's tatami laid back style lounge. It was love as first sight. Now I fully understand why Hendrika (also from the SDAM, SGDOMSUBS network) kept suggesting that we hold our meetings in PLU. Andrew the owner of the PLU cafe set us up well. We had an incredible comfy and cool corner with the air-conditioning just above us. He’s so thoughtful and it was heaven for us just to escape from the sweltering heat outside.

We had a fabulous night and a very eventful one. SGGURLS achieved another big milestone by electing its first ever Chairwoman, co-Chairwoman, Official Biawak (or Vice-Something ..can't really remember but I think it's got to do with vice), Secretary, Treasurer, Chief Marketing Office, Chief Event Organizer, Webmistress, Liaison Officers to the various networks. I won't tell you who the names of the officers since I won't steal the Chairwoman's and co-Chairwoman’s thunder. They'll do the announcement.

We met the beautiful Elisa for the first time. She's very sexy and her photos don’t do her justice. We really need to get a pro-photographer to do a nice portfolio for the gurls. This is where the SGGURLS 2009 Calendar project comes to the rescue. Miss Destynee Chua the chief editor outlined the overall approach for putting the calendar together. It was very exciting to hear her ideas. I really can't wait to get this thing off the ground. The gurls closed quite a lot of outstanding tasks that night. I was awed by how far the SGGURLS' team has progressed. Some of the SGGURLS' mods have really grown tremendously and have stepped up to the leadership role. The team survived the forming, storming and norming stages. They put together some very sophisticated and fun events which were like a 100 times better that last years. I will let the Chairwoman & co-chairwoman to announce these exciting events.
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Links:
PLU cafe in Singapore: http://plucafe.blogspot.com
Singapore transgender social and support network: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sggurls
Singapore, 4th April 2009.

It was a warm night but the 31 degree celcius didn't stop the gurls from romping around town having a fabulous time eating, shopping, catching a movie "Confession of a Shopaholic", having dinner and chilling out in the hottest lesbian bar in town (TOCAME). We caught up with old friends whom we haven't seen for a very long time. Some as long as 5 months (right, Ivy?). There were a lot of hot topics that were brought forth but not before playful Nic got the SM stuff out of her blood. This was unfortunate (or would be more appropriate to say, it was fortunate) for Adaline. The gurls indulged in a little photo taking so that to remember that friends matter. One can never have too many friends. Friends help us remember the good, the fun and the silly times. There was laughter, tears and lots of goofing around.


When we were a little bit more settled, the hot topics poured out. They were Hendrika's Fetish Ball 2009 plans, SGGURLS' 2010 Calendar, Adaline's Clothes X-change party, SGB's request for SGGURLS' participation on PLU Indignation and finalisation of the Bangkok Trip next week. The topics were no doubt hot and requries a longer discussion but with the Taiwnese version of beat it blaring in the background (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAVBpLFYW_U,) it's hard to get into in-depth discussions. We touched on the topics at a very surface level.

Some headway was made for SGGURLS' 2010 Calendar. Destynee will be our calendar's Editor in Chief, Trish our Chief Graphic Designer, Zermine & Bobby will be our photographers, and Nic will be the overall gopher. Our good friends who happened to be also the Tocame owners agreed to be one of the locales for our photoshoot.
Hendrika and Nic brainstormed for the Fetish Ball 2009. We have to merge some of our meets together and jointly do this with SDAM. The advantage is that Hendrika is also a SDAM mod.There will be a group of gurls going to Bangkok this Tuesday. If anyone still wishes to go, please contact Adaline for our SGGURLS and BANGKOKTRANS joint agenda.
Edwina, Trish and Nic discussed SG Butterfly's request for SGGURLS' participation in PLU Indignation forum. There was some concerns but overall there were most positives, then negatives.
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For more information on our groups, please visit us at:
Singapore transgender social and networking group -
SGGURLS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sggurls
Malaysia's transgender social and networking group -
MYGURLZ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mygurlz
Bangkok's transgender social and networking group -
BangkokTrans: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bangkoktrans
BDSM social and networking groups
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bdsmCHINAnetwork ,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bdsmASIAnetwork,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sgdomsubs
Hottest Lesbian lounte in town:
Tocame: http://www.blurbme.com/find/place.php?leId=13089
Singapore: Feb BDSM meet
Singapore, 26th Feb 2009
This was the best BDSM meet yet in Singapore. It was the convergence of three alternative social networks: SDAM, bdsmASIAnetwork/SGDOMSUBS, SGGURLS. This was due to our brave Hendrika who endeavored to bring us all together. It was love at first bite, I mean sight. The best way to describe the meet was the meetings of the cool from the movie Twilight and the kink from the movie Payback. Sexiness, leather, ropes and paddling were like a cocktail of never ending fun.

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Hendrika was our slut maid cum waitress for the night. She was in charge of making all of us feel at home. Benjamin from DYMK remarked that Hendrika did an excellent good job.
Social networks:
BDSM groups:
SE Asia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bdsmASIAnetwork,
Singapore: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sgdomsubs,
China: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bdsmCHINAnetwork
SDAM: http://www.sdam.sg
Shanghai: first BDSM meet of 2009
31st January 2009.
Shanghai, China
It was the first the BDSM meet in for the Shanghai BDSM group for 2009. It started out a little slow. Mistress Fifi and Nicole were afraid that due to the Lunar New Year golden week, they would be the only two kinksters there. 
The gorgeous Goddess Qing and Her slave, michelle, came by to check out the scene. Soon switch G and the sultry Mistress Woo joined the party. Slave jojo, slave michelle and slave roland had more than they bargained for when they 'volunteered' themselves as the Mistresses' guinea pigs ... er...."bondage models." The three slaves were calling out, "救命 (jiu-ming)," in perfect Chinese. So it seems that we have found the best way to teach lao-wai's how to speak Mandarin with perfect Chinese accent. They were lucky as they have experience Mistresses as play partners.

Vision, co-owner of Frangipani, got into the act. "好玩儿 (hao wan'er)," exclaimed Vision as he got the hang of using the crop. Not too bad for a first timer!

Fifi explained the concept of a SAFE word in Chinese to the people who stood and watch with mouth gaping from the balcony.
Frangipani Bar: http://www.dianping.com/shop/1959004
China BDSM group (English): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bdsmCHINAnetwork
Southeast Asian BDSM group (English): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bdsmASIAnetwork



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