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**Xiaxue**

URL	http://www.xiaxue.blogspot.com
Type of site
Owner	Wendy Cheng
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Xiaxue (Simplified Chinese: 下雪, real name Wendy Cheng) is one of the most prominent bloggers in Singapore. She started her blog in 2003. Her blog attracts about 20,000 readers every day with her take on current events and her life. She blogs about various topics, ranging from methods of measuring penises to dumb starfish and MRT irritants. She has been criticised, however, for the use of expletives in her entries, controversial statements that she has made on certain issues in which some consider to be bordering on racism and xenophobia, and her unrepentance despite strong criticism of her offensive writings. She is also known to be rather defensive towards criticism.^[1]^[2]

She is frequently featured in the Singaporean media. On 20 July 2005, her blog was hacked into, and deleted; the act attracted a lot of attention in the local Internet community, with people weighing in on the morality of the hacking. On 15 January 2006, she was accused and proven of impersonating a rival blogger.^[2]

Cheng has worked as a columnist for The New Paper (a Singapore tabloid), Maxim magazine and Snag magazine. Her pseudonym, Xiaxue, means "snowing" in Chinese.

On 10 November 2005, Xiaxue was ranked as the 5th most powerful woman in the blogosphere by Jack of all Blogs, placing her amongst the ranks of Xeni Jardin of Boing Boing and Heather Armstrong of Dooce. December 2006 saw the debut of Girls Out Loud, a reality television show hosted by her and DJ Rosalyn Lee.

Xiaxue's blog has won several online awards, mostly for popularity: Best Singapore Blog 2003, Best Asian Blog 2004, and 2005 Weblog Best Asian Weblog.