Celcom BlackBerry Torch 9800 - Yes, I Want!

I must confess that I only know Blackberry (BB) after I saw in the papers that President Obama is using it. There is even a book written on Obama's Blackberry by Kasper Hauser. Before this, we were more familiar with Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung phones, but now, we can also find a BB long distance cousin by the name of "Blueberry" from China.

My first encounter with a BB was the unit that I won from a contest jointly sponsored by Celcom, and the model was Blackberry Curve 8520. After using it for some time, I knew I had became a fan, and I bought another for my spouse so that we can do BB Messenger. Frankly, the thing that captured my attention and interest were the keypad and its distinctive BB look.

Nowadays, the waves of smartphones is hitting everyone like tsunami, where everyone is thinking of having one. Blackberry Torch is the latest kid of the BB family, and it comes with the same look as his siblings but with additional touch screen feature. I am used to touch and type feature because I carry 2 phones due to my work nature; a touch screen phone, and a Blackberry Curve.

I think both touch screen and BB keyboard complement each other, rather than competing with each other. With a full 3.2 inch touch screen, I can browse and pinch through websites effortlessly, while zapping between pages. Besides, playing the multimedia such as video or audio player would be easier to control and maneuver with touch screen.

As a heavy SMS user and blogger, I would definitely rank having a QWERTY keyboard as a must have. I might feel awkward updating my entries and updates in Twitter and Facebook without punching on the keypad. I also used it quite often during my game session. It is really having the best of both worlds in one tiny smart gadget.

I would recommend to sign up for a data plan if you own a BB, especially in this digital age. If you notice closely and study thoroughly, Celcom actually offers some affordable packages that comes with an offer of the newly launched BB Torch 9800 phone at eye captivating prices. For the beginners or potential user of phone web surfing, the basic package of Celcom Exec 50 is sufficient for you to kick start the habit. The monthly commitment is not too taxing, only RM118 per month and this includes call and data packages.

What's more, it comes with an irresistible offer of BB Torch 9800 at only RM1,688, with a saving of RM500 compared to its promotional RRP price of RM2,188.

At the recent Celcom Blackberry Torch launching event on 29 October 2010, "craziness" and "8" were the words of the day with offers such as RM8 for a brand new Blackberry Torch for the 1st 10 customers to sign up for Celcom Exec or Celcom Biz. I believe the first 210 customers must have camped at Pavilion the night before, as the next 100 customers got it for RM488, and the remaining 100 customers got it for RM888. This made me recall a memory of the long queue I went through at overseas, where I was in the queue for 4 hours just to enter the museum for free.

The offer also comes with a FREE Limited Edition BlackBerry Torch Door Cover, FREE BlackBerry Torch hard casing plus FREE Call Me Tones for 1 month worth RM5, games, apps for BlackBerry®. Just Dial *118#, and select STUFF FOR BLACKBERRY!

Extreme Cheesy 6

 

Everyone will be crazy about Pizza Hut's new offer: Extreme Cheesy 6 Pizza. I remembered few years back, there was a similar pizza promotion by Pizza Hut, and I gave 110 marks for it - 100 marks for the tastiness and additional 10 marks for the memory. I can still remember how good it taste.

Number "six" is usually associated with good things (as below).

Pizza Hut is very clever to select the best six cheese to offer on their pizza, and this time, the 6 Cheesy stars are Cheddar, Mozzarella, Parmesan, Provolone, Monterey Jack, and Romano. 

 

 

Not only was I crazy about the tasty cheesy pizza, even my baby was as enthusiastic and she can't wait to take her first bite at the pizza.

I’m crazy about Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese!

Are You Moist Enough?

I learnt that a girl must do the basic three-step skincare for the face everyday without fail – cleanser, toner, and most importantly moisturizer. This is what most of the guys should learn from their female partner on taking good care of one's skin. However, for most guys, it is usually splashing with water (cleanser) and wiping with towel, and expect the water double acts as toner and moisturizer. The more health conscious guys will use tissue or handkerchief to wipe. Others may just opt for a quickie by swiping their face on the sleeve, both left and right!

Often, people care about their face more and neglect moisturizer for the skin on the rest of our bodies. This causes dry areas appearing on places such as knees, heels, and elbows because of built-up skin cells in these areas. Beneath the surface, it is important to note that healthy skin is 90% water. Therefore, it is important to keep our skin with enough moisture by applying the correct lotion and eating healthy. Getting moist doesn't mean keeping the skin sweaty or oily.

 

Fear not if you are starting to worry about getting dry skin, as Vaseline is unveiling its new body lotion range catering to different skin needs, with variants like Total Moisture, Healthy White, Intensive Rescue, and Aloe Cool and Fresh.

With enough moisture protection, it helps to give our skin the strength and flexibility to protect our body. This flexibility allows me to tweak my fingers, and bridging my index and little finger with ease.

I Wanna Be a Project Alpha TV Star!

After watching the First season of Project Alpha, I believe there are many bloggers out there who are starting to crack their head to find ways to put themselves in the video. It was not easy to be selected, unless one's blog has thousands of consistent followers and the Alexa ranking's are in the range of 10K and below. I am one of them who aspire, working hard and writing smart to be featured in the coming Project Alpha.

I Wanna Be a Project Alpha TV Star because I want to do what they did (lazing around while being interviewed), go to where they went (walking in the wonderful London city), and have fun the way they did (Sunway Lagoon Theme Park). The most important thing is to plan for an adventure, participate in it and have no regrets after completing it. The experience and fun will overcome all the fear of the unknown and unfamiliar.

 

No matter how busy you are, become a fan of Project Alpha facebook and get the latest updates, especially on who will be coming to town and other bloggers aka "our competitors" contribution on the Instant Cash Blogging Contest. Project Alpha Season 3 aspiring guest bloggers, including myself should start sharpening our verbal and acting skill now. It is not everyday that we get this kind of chances to make ourselves well known.

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Project Alpha Season 2 is presented by Adidas Action 3 and supported by P1 and MAS. Auditions are now open! Check it out at www.projectalpha.com.my/auditions or projectalpha.ruumz.com/groups.

No Sweat!

I like, love and always looking forward to the opportunity to do traveling. What I meant by traveling is to explore, see, feel and experience in another man's country with no heavy burden of thinking about work and bosses call. Doing my own planning and working up the itinerary are the usual preparation before embarking on accomplishing my travel plans so that my loved one and I can travel with peace of mind and with No Sweat! at all.

Europe is our top choice in terms of destination. There are just too many exciting and unusual places in Europe for us to explore. Going there in Autumn will be great for heavy walker like us, where burning calories comes with No Sweat advantage. We had this opportunity to make a self planned, and self guided trip to Paris, Barcelona, Venice and Rome two years back. It was more or less a backpacking trip and since it was a two weeks long trip, we were thankful for the kind weather as we got less laundry issue to worry about.

A note to would-be traveler; bringing a deodorant is important and I would recommend Adidas Action 3 deodorant since you would be moving around so much that the mileage done would be equivalent to a sportsman's routine exercise. With Adidas Action 3, you can travel in peace and at ease.

Project Alpha Season 2 is presented by Adidas Action 3 and supported by P1 and MAS. Auditions are now open! Check it out at www.projectalpha.com.my/auditions.  Do not just wait for Project Alpha 2 contest to appear on 19 April 2010, do check out the updates via Facebook and Twitter.

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My Favourite Surfing Spot

My favourite surfing spot has to be my living room. The reason is because I have a TV in front of me, and sometimes I got the idea to blog from the show I was watching. I placed a Japanese short table on my living room that double up as my work station. I usually sit on the floor surfing, blogging, or working while having my favourite Super Charcoal-roasted White Coffee in a big mug.

My next plan is to increase the built up area, make it cosy and add some accessories such as the Ikea Lack table, Ikea Skimra shade and feng shui table top fountain so that I can have brilliant ideas to tackle Nuffnang's blogging contest such as the Project Alpha Season 2 and also better luck and prosperity in choosing the killer stocks from the Bursa Malaysia list.

Talking about Project Alpha Season 2, it seems to be making a strong comeback this year as I can see they are roping in Azwan Ali as one of the featured bloggers. Make sure you keep a constant eye on the Nuffnang website for the current update on this event. Project Alpha Season 2 is presented by Adidas Action 3 and supported by P1 and MAS.

Best Bits of Project Alpha Season 1

I am happy to see Project Alpha is making a stronger comeback with his lineup of featured bloggers. Though I have yet to take sneak preview on what to offer, this contest is certainly making me wake up and be more alert on the updates from the Project Alpha Season 2. The creative peoples of Nuffnang and generous sponsors are a good bunch of people who are born to make people happy. What I mean is the "Instant Cash Blogging" contest.

Well, this is the first week, and we are supposed to express our views on the "Best Bits of Project Alpha Season 1". I would nominate 2 moments, which I think stood out in terms of the content presentation and originality. I can't recall seeing such moments in any local interviews.

My Best Bits List:

1) Kenny Sia's Project Alpha (Video 6)

 
In this video, Kenny was joined by a close gal friend, Erica and they were asked about a contest where they participated as a lover, and all the questions were related to private stuff. I'm surprised they really shared out the answer when asked to name "Your partner's favourite position". Of course, they didn't get it correct since they were not a couple, but I respected their guts in saying it out for the world to know. Though the answer could be faked la...

You can see Kenny's paiseh face when he was teased for answering the so-called conventional and boring "Missionary" position. It was indeed not an easy question to answer, even in a closed door interview. I also learned something from this; "Inverted cowgirl" position. Wonderful!

2) Beautiful Nara's Project Alpha (Video 7)
We got to know from Project Alpha that Beautiful Nara and Budiey were entertainment gossip bloggers and of course, tense rivalry will come in when you put them together in an interview.

I got a sense of nostalgia when I view that video. I felt like I was Beautiful Nara, and my eldest brother was Budiey when we were young kids. Budiey was the cool buddy, always feeling composed even when he was being teased by Beautiful Nara. While Beautiful Nara was the clown who felt that the "big brother" Budiey was always superior than he was and hacking him down was the way to make him stand out.

Of course, at the end, Budiey did get his chance to kenakan Beautiful Nara when he instructed the cashier to delay Beautiful Nara's payment. Haha..

Project Alpha Season 2 is presented by Adidas Action 3 and supported by P1 and MAS. (added)

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It was an oversight on my part to forget to put the above tag and logo at the end of the post. No wonder I didn't get the cash. Promised myself not to repeat the same mistake. (added)