{"id":12557,"date":"2013-08-22T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T09:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/singaporean-in-the-running-to-become-changis-next-millionaire-after-cosmetics-purchase-at-changi-airport\/"},"modified":"2013-08-22T09:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T09:12:00","slug":"singaporean-in-the-running-to-become-changis-next-millionaire-after-cosmetics-purchase-at-changi-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/08\/singaporean-in-the-running-to-become-changis-next-millionaire-after-cosmetics-purchase-at-changi-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Singaporean in the running to become Changi\u2019s next millionaire after cosmetics purchase at Changi Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span>The second lucky shopper at Changi Airport to emerge as the\u00a0next finalist for its annual \u2018Be a Changi Millionaire\u2019 2013 Grand Draw is a merchandising manager\u00a0from Singapore, Ms Giam Hui Geok.<\/span><\/span><br \/><span><span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Ms Giam, 47, was on her way home from a business trip to China, where upon her arrival on a<br \/>Tiger Airways flight from Guangzhou on 29 June, picked out some gifts for her family before<br \/>heading home. She purchased S$313 worth of SKII products from the Perfumes and Cosmetics<br \/>store at Terminal 2\u2019s arrival hall, which was her golden ticket to becoming the second finalist for the<br \/>\u2018Be a Changi Millionaire\u2019 Grand Draw, which will be held in early 2014.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<dl data-mce-style=\"width: 164px;\">\n<dt><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Giam Hui Geok\" data-mce-src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Giam-Hui-Geok-220x300.jpg\" height=\"210\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Giam-Hui-Geok-220x300.jpg\" width=\"154\"><\/span><\/dt>\n<dd><span>Giam Hui Geok<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div><span>Organised by Changi Airport Group (CAG), \u2018Be a Changi Millionaire\u2019 is Singapore\u2019s largest retail\u00a0promotion in terms of prize-money, which has since made three lucky shoppers at Changi Airport\u00a0overnight millionaires with its grand prize of S$1 million. Past winners consist of two Singaporeans<br \/>and an Australian.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>Ms Giam\u2019s work as a merchandising manager in a furniture and lifestyle company requires her to\u00a0travel frequently. This year alone, she has visited Changi Airport more than 10 times for her\u00a0business trips.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>\u201cChangi Airport is the pride of Singapore! Shopping here is very convenient and comfortable. There\u00a0are more retail options here as compared to other airports around the region. Prices of products at\u00a0Changi are also lower than those downtown and at local shopping centres in neighbouring\u00a0countries, like Thailand and Hong Kong\u201d, said Ms Giam.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>Last month, CAG announced its first finalist for its \u2018Be a Changi Millionaire\u2019 2013 Grand Draw \u2013<br \/>Russian engineer, Mr Valeriy Val\u2019Chun.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second lucky shopper at Changi Airport to emerge as the\u00a0next finalist for its annual \u2018Be a Changi Millionaire\u2019 2013 Grand Draw is a merchandising manager\u00a0from Singapore, Ms Giam Hui Geok. Ms Giam, 47, was on her way home from a business trip to China, where upon her arrival on aTiger Airways flight from Guangzhou [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}