Meet the Karen Cheng

I’ve been fol­low­ing Karen Cheng’s blog on and off since blogs were invented way back in 1976. If you’re not already a fan, she’s a hot Perth mother of two lovely kids who blogs about her fam­ily, shop­ping et cetera on a very pretty self-designed web­site at www.karencheng.com.au.

On occa­sion, she takes self-portraits in a man­ner which has spawned this viral thing called “doing the Karen Cheng”, where some­one takes pic­tures of them­selves in front of a mir­ror, with the cam­era vis­i­ble in the pic­ture, and with their heads tilted at a spe­cific, pre­cise angle, fac­ing north by northwest.

The point of this all is that Karen will be vis­it­ing Sin­ga­pore for the first time in six years, and instead of merely drop­ping in on the shops and hang­ing out with friends, she has decided to also raise money for the Sin­ga­pore Red Cross while she’s here.

On Sat­ur­day, 5 July at a loca­tion to be finalised on the Face­book event page, she will “do the Karen Cheng” in front of a, prefer­ably large, mir­ror. And every­one is invited to attend and “do the same Karen Cheng”, and donate $10 to the Red Cross.

If that sounds even remotely dodgy to you, maybe you, like me, have impure thoughts, and should really read Karen’s blog post for a clearer explanation.

(Thanks for the alert, Lancer­lord)