Xiaxue
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| Wendy Cheng | |
| Born | Cheng Yan Yan, Wendy April 28, 1984 Singapore |
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| Other name(s) | Xiaxue |
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Wendy Cheng, better known by her pseudonym, Xiaxue, is a Singaporean blogger, TV host[citation needed] and freelance writer. She has written articles for different newspapers such as The New Paper and Maxim Magazine[citation needed].
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[edit] Early life
Cheng attended River Valley High School[citation needed] after achieving an aggregate score of 269[citation needed] in her Primary School Leaving Examinations. In Secondary School, she did well initially.[citation needed] However, as she progressed through her school years, her results deteriorated.[citation needed] She claimed that even her teacher isolated her friends[1] from her as she was regarded as a bad influence.
After graduating from River Valley High School, she enrolled into Singapore Polytechnic studying Mass Communication.[citation needed]
[edit] Blog
Cheng's pseudonym, Xiaxue[2] (下雪), which means snowing in Chinese, was initially somebody else's pseudonym. When that person stopped using MIRC, she took the place of that person and decided to use this pseudonym to create her blog.
[edit] Controversies
Xiaxue has been criticized for her heavy use of expletives in her entries[3] and has been known for her extreme defensiveness towards criticism.[4][5] She was also accused of impersonating a rival blogger on 15 January 2006.[5]
On 20 July 2005, Xiaxue's blog was hacked into and defaced; the hacker also gained access to her e-mail account and deleted all her e-mails. She regained access to her blog and e-mail account two hours after discovering the hacking, and made a police report.[6][7][8] The local Internet community condemned the hacking.[7][9][10]
In a post she wrote on 16 October 2005, Xiaxue criticized a disabled man who scolded an able-bodied man for trying to use the handicapped toilet.[11] This entry provoked many of her readers, who saw it as insensitive and unreasonable. After receiving hundreds of complaints from angry netizens, two of her three then-sponsors terminated their endorsement deals with her.[12][13][14]
In a post she wrote on 28 December 2005, Xiaxue claimed that Singaporean girls were repeatedly molested by foreign workers at Orchard Road during festivals and special celebration events, and suggested that carrying aerosol foam sprays on Orchard Road should be banned.[15] The post, which the local Internet community condemned as being "racist" for its derogatory references to the local population of Bangladeshi construction workers,[16][17] prompted an angry netizen to start a petition to ban the blogger from Orchard Road.[17]
Xiaxue's review of the iPhone was dubbed the 'Worst iPhone review so far' by Daniel Lyons of [[Forbes]] Magazine, one of the top technology bloggers in the US[18].
In July 2008, fellow blogger Dawn Yang, with whom she has had conflicts with since November 2006, launched a lawsuit against her for allegedly defamatory remarks made in a blog post on June 30[19].
[edit] Awards
| Year | Award | Result | |
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| 2003 | Asia Blog Awards | Won | |
| 2004 | Weblog Awards - Best Asian Blog | Won | |
| 2005 | Weblog Awards - Best Asian Blog | Won |
[edit] TV works & New Media
Cheng has been working with her media managing company, Munkysuperstar, and has hosted a TV programme, Girls Out Loud, and is currently working on numerous projects such as Xiaxue's Guide To Life [20]. She was also a Star Blogger for Stomp, the Straits Times Online Mobile Print website.
[edit] References
- ^ http://xiaxue.blogspot.com/2005/09/fucking-unfair.html
- ^ http://www.xiaxue-faqs.blogspot.com/
- ^ Ephraim Loy, "Spare us these foul phrases", The Straits Times, 9 September 2005
- ^ Benjamin James Saram (16 January 2006). "Avoid Sowing the seeds of Hate". Today. http://www.todayonline.com/articles/95394.asp.
- ^ a b "157 seek Orchard Rd ban for Xiaxue". Today. 18 January 2006. http://www.todayonline.com/articles/95806.asp.
- ^ "Don't let attacks bog down your blog",The Straits Times, 27 March 2007
- ^ a b Chua Hian Hou, "Blocked out of their own blogs", The Straits Times, 22 July 2005
- ^ Xiaxue.blogspot.com - Everyone's reading it
- ^ mrbrown: L'infantile terrible of Singapore: Xiaxue's email and blog has been hacked
- ^ On my birthday | My Very Own Glob {Curiosa Felicitas}
- ^ Xiaxue.blogspot.com - Everyone's reading it
- ^ Jeremy Au Yong, "Toilet blog whips up more stink", The Sunday Times, 6 November 2005
- ^ Jeremy Au Yong, "All flushed over toilet blog", The Sunday Times, 30 November 2005
- ^ Serene Luo, "Hard-hitting blogger flushed with success", The Straits Times, 31 December 2005
- ^ Xiaxue.blogspot.com - Everyone's reading it
- ^ Arlina Ashad, "Netizen petitions against blog", The Straits Times, 29 January 2006
- ^ a b http://www.todayonline.com/articles/95806.asp
- ^ Liew Hanqing, "Worst iPhone review so far", The New Paper, 12 April 2008
- ^ Debbie Yong, "Xiaxue won't say sorry to Dawn", The Straits Times, 23 July 2008
- ^ www.clicknetwork.tv
