Lauras Clipper Diaries

102 days, 15 hours, 15 minutes, 55 seconds

2009-06-02T22:43:00.002+08:00

it still doesn't seem real, yet it's coming at me like a train at full speed. they say that even if you're on the right track you have got to keep moving or you'll get run over. (random quote from i don't know who. i originally wanted to use it as a pick-up line on some guy sitting by himself in Clarke Quay- pick-up lines are used by girls too! i don't want to give the guys the upper hand)if you

La perla lingerie ad.

2009-05-20T11:00:00.001+08:00

A witch in swan lake make up ran conducted the torturious routine we had established during the past five hours. I swallowed my shame as she called out in sinaporean slang “body forward, stick your ass up” and forgot my dignity as she passed comments on my rather curvatious stomach. Ok, so I wouldn’t have picked me for a lingerie shoot either, but I had blindly accepted

What Will it be Like on a Yacht for Months? Motivation to achieve your dreams.

2009-04-29T13:19:00.001+08:00

On the boat everything is squashed and condensed down to a fraction of what it was originally, food is dried, sleep is squashed into four-hour slots, and soon you end up with a ridiculous amount of time in the day. Think of how much time is spent doing your daily chores out of necessity, what happens when you don’t have to bother with that? When someone else is taking charge

Guide to Homemade Videos YouTube for the Technologically Retarded

2009-04-28T14:10:00.004+08:00

Are you making a YouTube video? do you have an apple mac? here's how i have done mine (yeah yeah, they're not very good but i don't want you to make the same mistakes i did). I recorded the video clips on my olympus camera in video mode, then uploaded them to a piece of freeware called HyperEngine-AV, which is quite good for visually rearranging your clips into movies. it doesn't have many

the Zulu Agenda

2009-04-28T13:24:00.007+08:00

hello everybody! I have just got addicted to making youtube videos. humiliating and awesome both at once, they are for me and probably you as well.As you may know, i have no idea what i want to do with my life. My Dad was saying that he is stuck in his role as a project manager at Barclay's Capital here in Singapore, and he cannot get out of it because jobs that pay well make use of very

2009-04-28T11:07:00.002+08:00

Interviewed

2009-02-21T15:20:00.001+08:00

BIG NEWS!!!I, Laura Sarson, am going to be in a magazine coming out in March. YES! there will be an article on me and the clipper race. it is 'Expat' in Singapore and has an audiance of 60,000!!the interview was odd, although the person doing it, Sunita (dep. editor) was very nice.in conversations with strangers i usually let them do all the talking. i am not a very social person and i learn more

Party Hearty!

2009-02-21T13:36:00.003+08:00

hey there.in September i am joining the crew of the 'clipper round the world yacht race' so i got invited to another 'clipper party' last week. 'Parties' to the mind of an 18 year old involves glitter eyeshadow, a bottle of vodka and a lot of talk about other peoples sex lives between bouts of raucous laughter.i travelled to the party on foot, to the eastern themed bar 'Kazbar' where i eventually

SIngapore Clipper Race departure 2008

2009-02-15T23:02:00.001+08:00

Slogging for Sailing

2009-02-15T20:48:00.001+08:00

Ever since the Volvo Ocean Race visited Singapore in January, i have been smarting terribly from my defeat in the grinding challange that took place there. grinding is as painful as it sound, being the winching and trimming of sails, done with a two handled rotation device, and it is hard. i have decided that the next time my nemesis, the grinding machine, comes along, i will be prepared. i am

ohhhhh!

2009-01-21T17:31:00.002+08:00

i was calling up companies yesterday, one that dealt in yacht charter and they were not keen to put it nicely. no, they were not. they reccomended that we try the tourism offices, but i don't know what the singapore tourism board would want with me! an expat with mighty few links to singapore in any way. i will try though :)

Quest for sponsorship

2009-01-20T18:41:00.003+08:00

hiya, so in my quest for sponsorship for the 'Clipper Round the World Yacht Race', there have been a lot of ups and far more downs. Last week i accomplished more work than i have done in the past 6 months! my dad being the main reason for my doing any work at all, mainly because he views any form of laziness as something like a criminal offense. so i was on the laptop 11am-4pm and 7pm-10pm

please please please click!!!

2008-11-24T13:07:00.003+08:00

i am just finishing my website! i used Kompozer to make it which you can get free. i have no idea how to do anything fancy, but its got everything i need. a sponsor me page, about me, about the clipper race and so on. to find out all about it click http://www.laurasclipperdiaries.com/

my family. (see, they are not odd at all)

2008-11-24T12:39:00.009+08:00

let me introduce you to my family...er, they are a little strange looking. that, of course, did not rub of on me at all. (i am the one in the black and yellow dress) though my fashion sense in this picture seems to have been affected. i have two sisters and a brother(whose sexuality we used to question. the picture on the right.) i have to share a room with my older sister, which is annoying

desaru, malaysia, squashed in the back seat. 5.31pm and 14 seconds

2008-11-24T12:35:00.003+08:00

“Why don’t we do something spontaneous?” my mums voice breaks the silence with her predictable refrain. These things always start this way. My parents decide its time for a holiday, devise a crazy plan travelling there for less money than you would pay for a sandwich and end up in an overpriced golf resort because there was nowhere else to go. Thankfully, the chaotic nature

my life in the limelight

2008-11-24T12:25:00.003+08:00

This is a true story. My experience in the fashion world is not one everyone has been through. It was what feels like many years ago, although it can only have been a year and I no longer recognize myself from the pictures in the magazines. I still can’t decide if it was a good or bad experience, because once you get a taste of something that cuts as deep into this

the clipper round the world race 07/08

2008-11-24T12:08:00.004+08:00

The sailing world seems to exist only in the gloss of magazines, whether it is hard-core adventure sailing, Mediterranean regattas or celebrity owned super yachts. So when my father excitedly told me about a race of ten yachts manned by taxi drivers and accountants I gave it one look and dismissed it as one of those mythically elusive events. Irrelevant to my own life as the

2008-11-16T19:42:00.003+08:00

I am sitting at my desk enduring the second week working here interning at Ogilvy Singapore (elite advertising agency). the very fact that i am writing on here must show how useless i am, they have even stopped giving me photocopying work! ALTHOUGH, yesterday, i was offered the chance to go to a commercial shoot, and i was like Yes! so at 3.45 we went to Pasir Ris by taxi,

guide to making a website for the technical dunce

2008-10-29T10:36:00.003+08:00

i finally persuaded my dad to get a domain name for me - http://www.laurasclipperdiaries.com/ after i convinced him i could use a free web host. i tried out free hosta, as it was the only one i remembered from previous noodling on the web (note; catchy names really DO work), but something went wrong (the curse of the apple strikes again). so i have now joined agile host, which looks very

list of ideas that went nowhere

2008-10-23T11:29:00.006+08:00

this is for all those people who may be interested to doing something similar:Ah, yes, well there are a few hundred ideas we have rigorously gone through and tried to find a way to do. If you figure out the problems - good for you!List of Idea that went nowhere.Get sponsored by a company for actually using their product on the trip. a sort of 'ultimate scientific test', say, for sunscreen. ten

how to make S$100,000 out of a T-Shirt

2008-10-21T12:00:00.009+08:00

hello, this is my first post of my daring and rather revealing diary.september 09 i am setting off on one of the ten yachts owned by the Clipper company, we will visit fourteen ports and the trip will last fourteen months.DO you know how many people are trying to raise funds for their own adventures? a lot. and that is how i am going to make my money... off YOU.(evil snorts of laughter and