SHE answered the door with messy hair, no makeup, clad only in black running shorts and a racer-back tee.

This is our latest Internet idol?

Ms Sandra Ng, 20, author of blog sandrapowerpuff.blogspot.com is better known as Sandralicious, her online moniker.

She started grabbing more eyeballs about six months ago after another popular blogger posted a message about the 'Xiaxue killers', girl bloggers who rival the original blogebrity, Xiaxue.

One of the pictures from her blog showed a topless woman shot from the back. She said that photograph was from a 'sensual photo' shoot done about half a year ago.

DIFFERENT IN PERSON

But in person, Ms Ng is very different.

Hugging a huge cushion while leaning into the couch at her Bukit Timah condominium home, she laughingly explained why she did the photographs: 'You've got to do some things once and why not do it now, instead of when you start sagging or something?'

She posted the photograph online after 'a friend commented that it was nice'.

She knew the picture would attract plenty of attention, but decided that since the photograph doesn't 'show her boobs', it was not a big deal to post it.

'You see girls in backless tops on Orchard Road too and there are porn sites everywhere. I really don't see what's the big deal,' she said indignantly.

According to her, she didn't post the photograph with the idea of increasing site traffic.

But it shows both sides of her: She has also put up a picture of herself looking dishevelled and just out of bed.

Ms Ng, who just graduated from Ngee Ann Polytechnic with a diploma in business information technology and is looking for a job in public relations, told us with a mischievous twinkle in her eye: 'I don't Photoshop my photographs.'

Some other high-profile bloggers are rumoured to have done so.

This freelance camp instructor is a bit of a paradox.

She believes people read her blog because she's 'ordinary'.

'I don't think my life is any more interesting than the next person's.'

In person, her charm is girl-next-door but as evident from some photographs, the babe with a Shanghainese mother and a Singaporean father has no difficulties turning on a more vixen charm.

She collapsed into girlish laughter when asked if a line in one entry about having little experience with sex means she's a virgin.

'I'm not going to comment on that,' she said, still laughing.

But she conceded that her sexier photographs probably had people pigeon-holing her as 'more like SPG' even though she was likened to Xiaxue when she started out.

'I don't understand why though. We look different and our writing styles are so different too.'

'I don't date much actually. But whether I am having se or not or ever did is something that I won't talk about. There are some things I wouldn't do.

'I would post sensual photos, but never nude photos. I will talk about who I am dating, but not my sex life.'

She has received only 'one or two' hate e-mails, but has received obscene mail before.

'There was a woman posing as me and using my photograph on some adult friends site before. I notified the administrator about it.

'And some guys sent me naked pictures of themselves. Maybe it was related to that or maybe they think I am loose because I post sensual photographs, but I just ignore them,' she said.

Her guardian, an aunt, is aware of her blog and is cool with it, she said, something she considered 'very fortunate'.

'I have friends whose parents check their blogs regularly.'

Ms Ng's not sure what her parents, who are divorced, would think.

Her mother is not in Singapore, while her father flies a lot and she doesn't really keep in touch with them