Ang Chiew Ting (Singapore Influencer)

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Ang Chiew Ting
Born
Ang Chiew Ting

27/6/1987
Alma materSingapore Polytechnic
Spouse(s)Joshua Tan
Websitehttp://bongqiuqiu.blogspot.com/

Qiu Ting, also known by her social media handle Bong Qiu Qiu is a Singaporean lifestyle blogger and influencer. The content on her blog features aspects of her personal life, advertorials, travel, beauty, fashion and lifestyle. As an influencer, Qiu Qiu has collaborated with many brands such as Lenovo, Pizza Hut, Samsung, Kiehl’s and Tung Lok on commercials and written advertorials.


On YouTube, she is known for being the host of the 'Budget Barbie' segment on Clicknetwork. (YouTube playlist) She also has her own YouTube channel (YouTube channel). On Instagram (Instagram page), Qiu Qiu has approximately 294,000 followers as of March 2019.

Background

Qiu Qiu completed her secondary school education at Woodsville Secondary School.[1] She then furthered her studies at Singapore Polytechnic (SP) where she joined the Business Administration course and majored in Retail.[2] At the age of 17 years old, Qiu Qiu started dabbling in modelling and beauty pageants.[3] She worked part-time with the modeling agency DIVA MODELS Singapore and had been selected to model for several hair and fashion shows. During her first year in SP, she also participated in the “Mr and Miss Singapore Poly” competition.


Qiu Qiu started blogging in 2008 when she was 21 years old.[4] In a 2017 interview with host Pornsak on a YouTube segment called 'Court Porn', QiuQiu mentioned that her blog was started as "just a diary".[5] 2011 marked Qiu Qiu's foray into YouTube, when she became the host for Clicknetwork's segment 'Budget Barbie'. 2011 was also when she started actively uploading on her personal channel. As of March 2019, Qiu Qiu's YouTube channel (YouTube channel) has grown to amass more than 45,000 subscribers.


On 9 December 2012, Qiu Qiu married professional photographer, Joshua Tan.[6] The wedding was held at the restaurant Skyve, and approximately SGD$25,000 of the wedding was sponsored by a variety of fashion, beauty, lifestyle and F&B companies.[7] Singaporean blogger Xiaxue was also the host for the event.[8] With her husband Josh, Qiu Qiu has two daughters, Meredith and Amelia, aged 4[9] and 2 years old respectively.[10] As of March 2019, she is pregnant with a third child.[11]

Career highlights

The storefront of Cereal Citizen. Photo from EatBook.sg.

Cereal Citizen (2018 - Present day)

On 10 January 2018, Qiu Qiu opened the cafe, 'Cereal Citizen' (official website). It was co-founded with her close friend and blogger Rachell Tan.[12] The cafe mainly sells cronuts (crossaint donuts), milkshakes and cereal served with milk.[13] Cereal Citizen is currently open for business at Midtown Residences located along Upper Serangoon Road.

Qiu Bue (2018 - Present day)

Qiu Bue is an online beauty distributor and retailer that imports a variety of overseas beauty products.The store claims to be the only Singapore liaison for South Korean beauty brand Pittoresco and Vani-T bubble mask from Japan.[14]

"Ah Boys to Men" (2012)

Qiu Qiu made her first acting debut in a local movie titled “Ah Boys to Men”. She had been cast to act as Amy, as the male lead (Ken Chow)’s girlfriend.[15] The movie was directed by Jack Neo and became one of the top-grossing Singaporean movies, earning approximately SGD$6,200,000 in theatres.[16]

Qiu Qiu in a poster advertising Clicknetwork's new segment 'Budget Barbie' (2010). Photo from bongqiuqiu.blogspot.com.

YouTube (2011 - Present day)

In 2011, Qiu Qiu started hosting a new segment on Clicknetwork's YouTube channel (YouTube channel) titled “Budget Barbie” (YouTube playlist) where she goes shopping at a budget of SGD$100 and shares a shopping haul video with the viewers. The clothes and accessories will then be given to the viewers through a giveaway. Over the years, the segment had expanded from fashion to include other lifestyle related goods for giveaways. As of March 2019, there are 117 episodes of Budget Barbie.


Apart from having her own channel, QiuQiu had also been featured as a guest for many other local YouTube channels. In 2016, she appeared on FOOD MY LIFE, a YouTube channel covering the top food spots in Singapore, where she brought the host of the show on a food tour of Jalan Berseh Food Centre (YouTube video). The same year, she was invited as a guest judge on SP Masterchef Season 3, a culinary competition organised by Singapore Polytechnic (YouTube video). In 2018, Qiu Qiu and Soh Peishi, a fellow Singaporean lifestyle blogger and influencer, acted in a YouTube webseries on The Michelle Chong Channel titled 'Michelle's Busy'. They appeared in episodes 4 (YouTube video) and 5 (YouTube video) of the series where they acted as seasoned influencers who were training an amateur to gain popularity in the media industry.

Variety shows

Before she was known for her prominence on YouTube, Qiu Qiu had appeared in a Channel U variety show titled “You Are The One”.[17] In 2015, she appeared in “Mars Vs Venus S1”, a Channel U variety show where she shared her encounter with plastic surgery on national television for the first time (Toggle episode). She had also appeared on one episode of the 2018 Toggle series “How To Lady” (Toggle episode) where she and the hosts experimented with unique Japanese beauty products.

Noteworthy incidents

Churp Churp contract breach (2016)

In 2016, there was legal action taken against Qiu Qiu by Churp Churp, a Singapore-based social network agency. She was accused for violating her employment commitments by promoting advertorials with external brands without the company’s consent.[18] The matter was brought to court and Qiu Qiu turned to crowdfunding on GIVEasia to pay off her legal fees.[19] This move received negative responses from netizens to the extent of requesting her to abort her child in order to reduce her financial burden. In a 2017 interview with Pornsak on YouTube, Qiu Qiu stated that the whole ordeal had her depressed and that she had to seek counselling at a mental institution.[20]

Plastic surgery

In 2011, Qiu Qiu went for a breast enlargement surgery. She recorded clips of the process and uploaded them on “Budget Barbie” (YouTube video). As of March 2019, the video has more than 2,186,000 views on YouTube, making it the most popular video on the segment.[21] Between 2013 to 2016, she also underwent ten cosmetic surgeries such as alarplasty and redefining of jawline and facial bones.[22] In 2014, she was sponsored by REGEN Medical Group to travel to South Korea to undergo 4 cosmetic surgeries.[23]

Citations / References

  1. ↑ Qiu Qiu “My Past - Teenie Time”. Blogspot. July 2, 2013. Accessed on 31 January 2019. Retrieved from: http://bongqiuqiu.blogspot.com/2013/07/my-past-teenie-time.html
  2. ↑ Qiu Qiu “My Past - Teenie Time”. Blogspot. July 2, 2013. Accessed on 31 January 2019. Retrieved from: http://bongqiuqiu.blogspot.com/2013/07/my-past-teenie-time.html
  3. ↑ Qiu Qiu. “My Past - Poly daze”. Blogspot. September 18, 2013. Accessed on 31 January 2019. Retrieved from: http://bongqiuqiu.blogspot.com/2013/09/my-past-poly-daze.html
  4. ↑ Bong Qiu Qiu. Accessed on 12 March 2019. Retrieved from: http://bongqiuqiu.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2008-08-08T16:35:00%2B08:00&max-results=500&start=16&by-date=false
  5. ↑ The Michelle Chong Channel. "Court Porn EP 5 | WILL BONGQIUQIU BE FRIENDS WITH XIAXUE AGAIN??". YouTube. August 31, 2017. Accessed on 12 March 2019. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PQSIbqZia0
  6. ↑ bongqiuqiu. Instagram. December 9, 2018. Accessed on 31 January 2019. Retrieved from: https://www.instagram.com/p/BrI15phBOX_/
  7. ↑ Qiu Qiu. “Wedding Day Part 1 ❤”. Blogspot. December 24, 2012. Accessed on 31 January 2019. Retrieved from: http://bongqiuqiu.blogspot.com/2012/12/wedding-day-part-1.html
  8. ↑ Qiu Qiu. “Wedding Day Part 2 ❤”. Blogspot. January 3, 2019. Accessed on 31 January 2019. Retrieved from: http://bongqiuqiu.blogspot.com/2013/01/wedding-day-part-2.html
  9. ↑ Qiu Qiu. “Meredith, Amelia and Mummy 1 Year 9 Months”. Blogspot. December 14, 2017. Accessed on 31 January 2019. Retrieved from: http://bongqiuqiu.blogspot.com/2017/12/meredith-amelia-and-mummy-1-year-9.html
  10. ↑ Qiu Qiu. “The Birth of Amelia Tan Zhi Xian”. Blogspot. July 14, 2017. Accessed on 31 January 2019. Retrieved from: http://bongqiuqiu.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-birth-of-amelia-tan-zhi-xian.html
  11. ↑ bongqiuqiu. Instagram. March 11, 2019. Accessed on 12 March 2019. Retrieved from: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu3knozhrS4/
  12. ↑ Chan, Melissa. “This Cereal Cafe By Bong Qiu Qiu Looks To Succeed Where Others Failed - By Being IG-Friendly”. Vulcan Post. February 2, 2018. Accessed on 1 February 2019. Retrieved from: https://vulcanpost.com/632394/bong-qiu-qiu-cereal-cafe-singapore/
  13. ↑ Boon, Katie. "Cereal Citizen Review: Singapore’s Very Own Cereal Cafe Opened By Bong Qiu Qiu". Eatbook. January 22, 2018. Accessed on 12 March 2019. Retrieved from: https://eatbook.sg/cereal-citizen/
  14. ↑ Instagram. Accessed on 1 February 2019. Retrieved from: https://www.instagram.com/qiubue/?hl=en
  15. ↑ Qiu Qiu. “QWeekly - Me, on the big screen”. Blogspot. November 11, 2012. Accessed on 1 February 2019. Retrieved from: http://bongqiuqiu.blogspot.com/2012/11/qweekly-me-on-big-screen.html
  16. ↑ “Ah Boys To Men 101: the story so far”. The Straits Times. February 13, 2015. Accessed on 1 February 2019. Retrieved from: https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/entertainment/ah-boys-to-men-101-the-story-so-far
  17. ↑ The Michelle Chong Channel. “Court Porn EP 5 | WILL BONGQIUQIU BE FRIENDS WITH XIAXUE AGAIN??”. YouTube. August 31, 2017. Accessed on 1 January 2019. Youtube. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PQSIbqZia0&t=78s
  18. ↑ Toh, Ee Ming. “Popular blogger sued by social media firm for breach of contract”. Today. 14 September, 2016. Accessed on 1 February 2019. Retrieved from: https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/popular-blogger-sued-social-media-firm-breach-contract
  19. ↑ Cha, Rachel.  “Qiu Qiu slammed for asking for help with legal fees”. The New Paper. October 25, 2016. Accessed on 1 January 2019. Retrieved from: https://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore-news/qiu-qiu-slammed-asking-help-legal-fees
  20. ↑ “Court Porn EP 4 | EXCLUSIVE: BONGQIUQIU TELLS US HOW SHE SURVIVED HER LAWSUIT WITH CHURPCHURP”. The Michelle Chong Channel. Aug 15, 2017. Accessed on 1 January 2019. Youtube. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTR-dWM490I
  21. ↑ Clicknetwork. “Boob Job - Budget Barbie: EP 9”. November 14, 2011. Accessed on 1 February 2019. Youtube. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2WYL-lC7Xo
  22. ↑ Heng, Melisa. “Bloggers open up about plastic surgery”. The Straits Times. February 18, 2016. Accessed on 1 February 2019. Retrieved from: https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/bloggers-open-up-about-plastic-surgery
  23. ↑ Qiu Qiu. “3 Months Post-Op Before / After”. YouTube August 22, 2014. Accessed on 1 February 2019. Youtube. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-h4u_fNla4
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