LOF Summer Sales!

Our mistress, Lynda, will not available for awhile, so all emails directed to her will be promptly replied to when she can. Sorry for any inconvenience!

OCBC Card Promotion

**LOF + OCBC CARDMEMBER PRIVILEGES PROGRAMME 2007**
littleoddforest has tied up with OCBC Bank to provide our Singapore shoppers an awesome deal this GSS period!

(1) -- THE GREAT SINGAPORE SALE 2007 - LOF + OCBC PROMO --
US$10 rebate in your next purchase for every minimum US$80 spent in 1 single receipt (including shipping charge) with every use of your OCBC Credit/Debit card for payment of your purchase!
This promo runs from 21 May - 31 July 2007

(2) -- ALL YEAR - LOF + OCBC PROMO --
US$10 rebate in your next purchase for every minimum US$100 spent in 1 single receipt (including shipping charge) with every use of your OCBC Credti/Debit card for payment of your purchase!
This promo runs from 1 August - 31 Dec 2007

**CUSTOMERS HAVE TO EMAIL US THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE REBATE FOR YOUR NEXT PURCHASE**
- YOUR PAYPAL RECEIPT NUMBER
- FIRST 8-DIGITS OF YOUR OCBC CREDIT CARD

*Standard Terms and Conditions apply.
**Rebates will be refunds made to your OCBC CARD used at the point of purchase.
***Offers are not exchangeable for cash or kind.
****The above OCBC offers are not valid with other promotions, discounts, vouchers, discount cards/codes or loyalty program.

more press! & (ah-hem) clarifications

thanks so much for the review, cool editorial peeps of timeout singapore!! but you might like to know....

{fact}
littleoddforest was founded to be a profit-making/bill-paying/rice-bowl filling full-time registered business and independent lifestyle label right from the get-go, and was never intended to be just a shopping e-commerce website, and especially not as a hobby ;)

b and my mum has pushed me to clarify this, it's not that we're trying to be sensitive about it, it's just that there are already more than enough people out there who do not take such profession choices seriously and give me (or you) crap about it, and we really do not wish for such perpetual false impressions to be stumbling blocks to certain prospects of our business and growth

why fish when u can fuck?

oh well, can't help it... but i'm still sorry for the unnecessarily large number of cuss words used in the previous post.... yikes!! i'm so sorry, auntie jen!!! now that i know you read my blog.... i'll watch it.... from now on... gosh

thanks so much for being so sweet and taking the time/trouble to leave me positive thoughts you all!!!! i've been good and left you replies, hee

anyways, here's what happenned~ we accidentally found out who wrote me the malicious email... it was from an acquaintance whom i met only twice..... i don't react too well whenever i meet passive-whiny people, especially people in their prime years, who just plainly do not show or have any passion for life in general. i generally have little patience and tolerance towards people who can't stop outwardly complaining about how life has been unfair or difficult for them, how they are lost and don't have any interests they wish to pursue, or how the lack of seriously big money is preventing them from pursuing whatever little dreams they have left, how their life is controlled by all these uncontrollable destiny-things, how their life is soooo hard..... blah blah blah..... where's your enthusiasim for life dammit!! you're all so priviledged to have been born in singapore, to have a home, completed your tertiary studies (some of you even higher!), a job, friends, material goods, yearly holidays abroad, and your life sucks so bad?? so after more than a few drinks that one night, i could have been a teeny weeny bit outwardly agressive in my response, instead of the usual internalising-of-my-thoughts thing i do to prevent my often times forward-speaking-mouth to go off... and the fake-patronising-response i've mastered in recent years...

i think i went on my "why-not" attitude and we guess that her insecurities might have played up and so she went all psycho on me in that email... when she didn't even know me personally or how i started my business or etc. she mistook me for someone else and thought i was able to go on only because i was living off on monthly hand-outs from my above-50 parents. puhleeaseee. oh well. and then of course, typing immature angsty cuss words is much too convenient and easy. apparently for both her and myself. and then it's allllll good. you get it. or not. whatever. ha!

to leave you all with some peace, laughter and a big smile on your face, while i leave for a few days for another chilling-out-cum-business-trip....

picasso, one of our cutie pies! we caught her red-handed shooting up the wall and leaving her infamous paw prints.. haha!


xoxoxo!!!!

stinky smelly people

Hello there,

Some of our customers did google searches for our products and your website came up, because you had quite a few sentences that were ripped off in their entirety from our website, and in one sentence, our label name wasn't even taken off.
Please take those phrases/sentences/paragraphs entirely off from your own website as soon as possible.
We would appreciate it if you came up with your own wordings/phrasing, because copying and plagiarizing is against copyright laws, and copying just isn't cool.
Thanks,

Best Rgds,

Lynda

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can you believe elsie, my part time customer service person, and myself, had to send 3 of such similar emails to 3 different persons about 3 different websites.... tsk. sigh. people make me sad. i don't really care if you failed or barely passed written english in school.... really....

oh sigh

i've contracted a case of "the grass is always greener on the other side" recently .....

especially so since last week...when a producer of the martha stewart show emailed me about littleoddforest.... and then i so wished i was in the states instead of oceans away.... i'll bring you along if i could, mandy, martha fan-fanatic. ha.. but i can't even be there myself babe... :(

everytime i have friends from abroad visiting me in singapore, i always suffer from this relapse.... all thanks to 3 crazy americans.... siao ang mohs... thanks for the awesome time guys, i'll miss you!!!! i never knew the area where some budget lodgings are in little india area was so cool. quite sadly (if you think so :p) all i know of are resorts/hotels with private jacuzzis and the like... oh, which, by the way, they did get to enjoy for 2 days at siloso resort :pp

i always wonder why people you seldom get to meet or talk to seem to know more about and understand your thoughts and feelings, believe in you more, and seem to be more interested to know much more, than most of the people you are surrounded by everyday here or are related to, for that matter.... the "other" culture and life atttitudes seem to be much more accepting of me right now...

my mood last week was like the weather... gloomy.... and drizzling like someone's randonly spitting from high above... and thinking alot about the "what-ifs"...

fuck this silly melodramatic melancholy mood. i'm back to my good old springy hyper self! and back to worky worky work! ha

and to the rude emailer last week, fuck you. my business was started with my own little savings, on my own self, and i paid for help that was provided, even by b, discounted or subsidised or not, i paid for it. my "rich" dad was never ever involved, financially or physically. my "rich" mum, i pay her for help she provides. my "rich" relatives, we don't connect like that. i wasn't brought up to ask for free help or to accept any. i worked hard for everything i have, and along the way, i meet nice and kind people who have given me a helping hand here and there. nothing was free for me. i even pay to stay and work in my own home. so go fuck with someone else's mind. fuck yourself if you're so gawd damn free. thanks.