How To Get A Free Big Mac !

hehehehehhee! come, let me teach you how.

i got a free Big Mac yesterday at the McDonalds outlet in Damansara Uptown! and the day before that at Bangsar Telawi! and today i’m gonna head to whichever McD outlet i see first, for yet another free Big Mac :D omg i can’t stand it, the yummy freebieness of it all!!!

here’s what’s going on : McDonalds is having this promotion where if you can do the ‘Big Mac Chant’ in 4 seconds at their counter, you get a free Big Mac. simple as that.

here’s what’s even better : McDonalds teamed up with Nuffnang to organize a Big Mac Chant competition, where you stand to win RM 10,000 in cash if you take a video of yourself doing the Big Mac Chant as creatively as possible.

so… i did both :P i did the chant at the counter, took a video of myself doing it, and submitted it to the competition. here’s how i unabashedly made a lot of ruckus in McDonalds just for a free burger and a cheap shot at winning RM 10k cash :

(you can hear Martian’s sexy voice in the video. and dont laugh at me!!)

the chant goes :

‘Two all-beef patties
Special sauce, lettuce
Cheese, pickles, onions
On a sesame seed bun!’

to win the free Big Mac, you have to get a coupon that comes with every purchase of a McValue meal (i skipped this part with my wily ways hehe!). then you take this coupon to the newly-set up Big Mac counter at any McDonalds outlet, and do the chant while a staff times you. do it within 4 seconds, and you win a free Big Mac! if you don’t manage, then there’s always tomorrow :P

to take part in the competition, just take a witty and creative video of yourself doing the Big Mac Chant (no time limit; you can do the chant in 20 seconds or 1 minute or however long you want), upload it to YouTube then send the link to the email addy provided at the competition website. start gathering votes, and you’re on your way to winning that RM 10,000.

so, vote for me!!! pleeeeeeease. cos i really want that RM 10,000 :P and dont compete with me lah okay, i already teach you all how to get free burgers :(

here’s one of my favourite Big Mac Chant videos so far : clickety! i still have the giggles from watching it. and here’s another funny one :P so cute right! haih no matter how hard i try, i can’t beat these two videos.. let alone the scores and scores of videos that are going to be pouring in over the next four weeks.

ei actually, don’t vote for me! or at least, dont vote for this video. coz i’m going to brainstorm and come up with another video… the funniest and most creative video to beat them all. hmph. vickyvacko, leekwanlong and kimberlycun’s chin, watch out!!! pinkpau wants that cash prize too :P

urk i’m getting hungry watching all the videos. anyway if any of you guys are going to be taking part, buzz me with your link :) i’ll vote for you!

yum yum :)

66 comments May 5th, 2008

The Malaysian Dreamgirl Top 6

so 6 girls remain in Malaysian Dreamgirl after this week’s elimination, and i must say that i am extremely extremely disappointed that my favourite Dreamgirl was eliminated this week. sigh. regretfully, i didn’t vote for her this week, because i chose to vote for Jay. i should have voted them both or something - my favourite really had the potential to win the competition if only she had survived this week :(

last week the shoot was themed White Summer, where all the girls were dressed in white and the shoot was all sunshine and smiles :) i really liked how the photos turned out - so sweet! this week it was the Wella Inspiration shoot, where the girls got some really dramatic hair and loud makeup. mmm, i have mixed feelings about the mood of the pictures; in all honesty i didnt think any of the photos (except for Fiqa’s and maybe Jay’s) were nice at all. they made all the girls look like men and the lighting was just so tak ngam. too much shiiiiine on the skin!

visiting the Dreamhouse

my humble opinion on the Dreamgirls so far:

(read on only if you don’t mind knowing, or already know, who got eliminated this week!)

ADELINE: the thing is, her english actually isn’t so bad off-camera - it just sounds conversational and totally Malaysian. Adeline’s very quiet and never really has much to say. a very stunning girl in person cos of her height and her looks, but i always feeling like smacking some emotion into her expression during photoshoots. there is absolutely no intensity at all in her eyes - she looks either bored or stoned in all her pictures :( haih donno why after so many week still no improvement on her part. i wish she would smile more - she looks soooo super cute when she smiles!

CINDY: haha Cindy Cindy, the most controversial girl in the house. she’s a babe by most standards, and many of my guy friends who watch the show are absolutely crazy about her. i get the feeling she’s very used to people fawning all over her, and that’s why she’s just falling apart in the house because all of the girls cant stand her. the tomateoows incident was such a mountain made out of a molehill, you kneowww :P Cindy claims Nadia was mean and overreacted (called her pukimak!) about her small mistake of eating Nadia’s tomatoes, but Nadia tells us that when Cindy apologized, it was rude and flippant - “aiyahhh sorry lahhhh i pay you back lah okay??”. i think Cindy is definitely a very pretty girl, but she isn’t doing as well as i expected in this competition. for someone who’s so defensive and competitive, she seems to be paling in comparison to the others.

FIQA: i’m so depressed that Fiqa was eliminated :( Mr. BBQ and i were anxiously looking out for her at the MIFA showcase, but when we didn’t see her on the runway, we instantly knew what had happened. i couldnt shut up about how the show has no meaning for me now /dramatic T___T she was my favourite from the very start, even before that chun makeover, because she was sweet yet sexy, smart, bold and eloquent. she had this versatility about her that i thought would bring her very far in this competition. and summore when i arrived at the Dreamhouse that day, she was outside sweeping the leaves in the compound. so hardworking!!! T___T

it is VERY VERY unfair that she was eliminated during the one week where she trumped all the other contestants in the photoshoot. this is why i think the judges need to play a bigger role in the competition. they ought to TELL the audience who did well and who didn’t, tell us what goes on during the shoots that the camera never seems to capture - that way we know who deserves our votes. otherwise all of us will be just sitting back and not voting because we don’t have a compelling reason to vote for any of the girls.

HANIS: i loooooveeee Datin Hanis she is so adorable and i want to keep her in my pocket!!! her face is absolutely gorgeous and i love her bubbly personality. she’s one of those girls that you cant hate no matter what; you see lah even when she complains about the other Dreamgirls it’s so freaking cute :\

she is going to go very far. she has a likable face that she is slowly learning how to chameleon-ize. very nice! at MIFA, she appeared on the runway about 4 times for 4 different designers, and was even a muse for one designer :) i was so happy to see that. she’s got a great walk for a beginner and the right look for commercials and TV. here’s a rising star, everybody :)

JAY: like Hanis, she was chosen by designers to model their designs more times than any of the girls during MIFA. all the other girls (except Jay and Hanis) appeared only once - but Jay appeared 5 times for 5 designers, and each time, she worked the runway like a PRO :) Jay looked absolutely stunning that night - tall and elegant and refined. where her strong features can be a tad masculine for print modeling, it absolutely WORKS on the runway. sigh you had to have been there to marvel at how good she was. i really hope that she makes it big in the modeling scene after Malaysian Dreamgirl :)

Jay in red, strutting her stuff!

she’s got a great personality and nature as well. when we were visiting the Dreamhouse, it was so clear she was the one all the girls were comfortable with and looked up to. Jay’s very warm and mature, extremely articulate and polite - i liked her the moment i stepped into the house. and she introduced me to the nicest brand of crackers ever!! Jacob’s :D the little ones, then topped with tuna mayo. yum yum.

NADIA: it was very interesting chatting with her during the Dreamhouse visit :P in my opinion, she’s just a very misunderstood person. what comes across as bitchy and anal, is really just someone who has principles and sticks by them fastidiously. i told her that most viewers are of the opinion that she’s bitchy and unlikeable, and i asked her if she would change her personality if it was getting in the way of people voting for her. and she said no, she wouldn’t, because then her friends and family - the people whose votes mattered most to her - wouldn’t vote for her or respect her very much. it was nice to see that side of her :)

i think Nadia’s damn sexy, i really do. her infamous ‘garang’ face looks really good on the runway. like Tyra Banks would say (while wagging her finger) - fiiiiiieeeeeerce! i also appreciate how honest she is, though of course in a reality show where other girls are involved, this can come off as mean. also, this girl can really talk and talk and talk :P

RINGO: in all honesty, if Ringo wasn’t a celebrity blogger, she’d disappear into the shadows of this show. she and Adeline are the quietest of all the girls.. but even Adeline has something to be remembered for - her spoken English. it looks to me like Ringo is so afraid of committing another faux pas, that she’s trying not to do anything that would put her in the slightest of difficult situations. i don’t think this is working in her favour at all. instead, it’s giving people the wrong impression that she’s not willing to work hard to earn the votes she’s getting. right now all it looks in the show like is that she’s just existing; no passion, no verve, nothing :\ le sigh. she needs to let that fun personality of hers pop on-screen, even more so in her pictures.

me with the Dreamgirls :)

i’m glad to see that with Episode 11, there has been a lot of improvement in the show - less of the pointless things like girls eating, girls working out, girls getting spa treatment (all while random background music plays), and more of the interesting bits. things are picking up, yes? am also happy to see that they started displaying the photoshoot pictures during elimination - it’s good to have some reference when Sazzy is doling out her judgment on each girl’s photo.

but for some reason, the judges are STILL not playing the role of a panel at the moment. why are they called judges if they dont judge! and Sazzy is still a little bit irrelevant save for elimination time - which i believe would be infinitely more exciting if the judges handled it :\

all that said, i can’t wait for this Saturday’s episode - i hear the girls are going to be modeling Carven Ong designs!!!!! w00t. let’s see how this goes. pssst SSGers! Joanne was at MIFA too, modeling a gorgeous red dress by Carven Ong :)

this week, i’m voting for Hanis, because i think she’s shown the most improvement throughout the show. how about you guys - who are you voting for?

95 comments April 12th, 2008

The Nokia N82 Wireless Adventure - Super Fun!

a few days ago i participated in a race that took 5 HOURS.

and it was mad fun :D

the Nokia N82 Wireless Adventure is a race where eight teams of 1 media member + 1 member of the public will compete to discover Malaysia’s ‘Soul of the Night’ in 5 hours, using only your smarts and the spankingly fabulous Nokia N82. all teams will be given a list of types of nighttime places to go (eg: a place to go drinking at night), and immediately you will have 5 hours to find these places and take pictures of each location and upload ‘em all onto the N82 site.

catch? these places have to be unique and obscure while still attractive; extra points for you if the judges have never heard of these places. the theme if after all, discovering the soul of the night :)

the 4 bloggers invited to participate: me, pop, kim, suanie. all pictures stolen off Facebook and other people :P

Suanie, Kimberlycun, Smashpop and myself were the 4 bloggers invited to form the media halves of our respective teams, and we were to be randomly paired up with one of the 8 finalists who signed up and auditioned for the race.

the 8 teams for the Nokia N82 Wireless Adventure

the night before the race, we were all called in for a briefing at the One World Hotel in 1 Utama, where we were introduced to the Nokia N82 and our fellow contestants. the Nokia N82 is DAMN NICE okay - it’s that phone from the ads where these people who have lost their way use Nokia Maps to find their way to wherever they need to go, and the directions are given out through a voice function? we were to use this Nokia Maps application to aid us in our race (key in any location and the phone gives you a direct route to that location from wherever you are, using A-GPS), and really, this maps application is but a teeny tiny fraction of just how awesome the phone is. i don’t think i’ve ever touched anything as techie as the N82.

best part? we all got to keep the phones :P teehee.

David and i - Team Pink! best team colour everrrrrr!

we were also introduced to our teammates at the briefing. my teammate was David Liow, who blogs at Narrowband.org, and is Shawn Yue’s twin :P sigh yalar i got the most lengchai partner, why am i so lucky. and we make the most awesome team, because while i’m familiar with nighttime places in KL and i can write, David is a total techie who’s a great photographer AND he’s familiar with the NSeries phones cos he uses the N95. hahahahaha! best team ever or what?

i am totally loving Nokia right now because they spoiled us silly during the race. we got to stay the night in these really nice deluxe rooms at the gorgeous One World Hotel, dinner was at 1U’s Delicious, lunch the next day was a flipping 4-course one at Bakerzin :D and did i mention that WE GOT TO KEEP THE N82???

*happy*

flag-off: ready set go!

so after that yummy lunch, we mingled around for a bit, took pictures, were interviewed by the media, did some last minute strategizing, and at 4.30 PM it was flag-off. we got our list of places on the screen, quickly downloaded it onto our phones, and off we went :D this was our list:

1. Discover a good place for live entertainment in the Klang Valley

2. Discover a good spot with a night-view of Kuala Lumpur

3. For games in the evening, where do people go?

4. Discover an eatery that serves great food

BONUS: 5. Discover a place for great evening shopping

i was feeling quite confident because David and i knew exactly which places to go after a quick 10-minute brainstorming in our designated car, which was a sleek Cefiro driven by the world’s nicest driver :P you see, the drivers for the race are not supposed to assist you in the directions. you cant just tell him, ‘we want to go to KLCC’, and expect him to take you there. all teams must give directions to their driver with the aid of Nokia Maps, and even if we give him wrong directions, he’s not supposed to correct us :P but our driver, Ibrahim, was sooooo nice because he said we didnt have to give him directions. hahaha. so all we had to do was sit in the backseat and bicker while our marshal and cameraman tried not to laugh at us :P

the race cars : 2 participants, 1 marshal, 1 cameraman and 1 driver

we made quite good time and covered all our 4 places AND our bonus location within 4 hours, but our problem was uploading the pictures and writing captions quickly. me being the perfectionist i am spent a lot of time agonizing over each and every caption of our 25 photos.. and then we spent even more time resizing the photos and bluetoothing it back and forth between our phones (only one phone gets the SIM card), and then uploading it onto the race’s website.

PANIC!!!!

we arrived back at 1 Utama about 20 minutes short of end-time. i thought with so much time, we would be the first to arrive back (and hence get to use the laptop to upload), but NO. we were like the SEVENTH team to arrive back, and all the laptops were already taken up. at this point, we’d only uploaded and captioned one out of our five albums. sei mou. as we were sitting on the floor frantically uploading all our remaining photos, my infamous stress/angsty mode was out full force oredi. one marshal tried to give me a plate of food and i smacked him away. another one asked me some question about something and i screeched back at him, ‘DONNO DONNO DONNO!!!’. hahahaha cracks me up just thinking about it. sorry ah, kind marshals who only wanted to help me :( sorry David Lian for being so angsty while you helped me connect my phone to the Wifi :( sorry David my partner for being so stressed and panicky in the car and at 1U :( you all still love me wan right?

my stressed face :P

by some stroke of miraculity (is this a word) and because one laptop was finally available, we managed to upload all our pictures in time. after deliberation by the panel of judges who are all experts in their respective fields, Suanie’s team was announced champion. congrats Suanie and Frankie!!! :D AND NO, SMASHPOP, YOUR TEAM WAS NOT RUNNER-UP *angsty*

so Suanie and Frankie won an all-expenses-paid trip to Hong Kong along with RM 1,500 cash each! the rest of us got Robinsons’ vouchers worth RM 500. i’m happy :D SHOES-TIME!!! does Robinsons not stock the best shoes.

it really was such a fun race :) it combined a lot of my favourite things - the city, food, arts, photography, writing, storytelling, friends, discussion and competition ;) i’m so glad i got to be a part of this. thank you David, Eevon, Text100 and Nokia for this amazingly fun experience!!

will put up all the pictures of our team’s 5 locations in the next post :) can guess where we went anot! give you one buck if you can!!

61 comments April 8th, 2008

The Maxis Venus Affair

this week is a week of many nice events :) i just came home from a great event that left me drop dead tired (but happy!! will talk about this one soon), and yesterday another one where i got a free flower, makeover, photos, hand massage and the chance to play around with a new toy… AND in a couple of days i will be on a panel of three bloggers speaking in a forum about blogs and media. sweet! :)

okay but first i’ll talk about the free flower / free makeover / free photos / free hand massage / new toy event :P

because i am a loyal Maxis user, a blogger and a laydeeee (Little Britain reference! will all watchers of Little Britain please raise your hand!), the kind green folks at Maxis recently invited me to their event called The Maxis Venus Affair. it was a 5-day female-focused event held at a few Maxis centers around KL - pampering women and telling them why they should purchase the Maxis Broadband plan ;)

i have always been very curious about the Maxis Broadband thingie, because it’s supposed to be internet wherever you go, yes? okay, i would like that very much for all the times i cannot locate a Wifi location and i’m feeling too stingy to pay for YET ANOTHER mug of Starbucks whatever. so, yes, enthusiastically accept the invite i did!!! and i brought Eeyang with me because he’s an expert on the Maxis Broadband and could educate me throughout the event.

we walked into the KLCC Maxis Centre to see the whole place all decked out in pink. men and women alike were milling around the various booths checking out stuff. it was like a mini-fair of sorts where Dell was showcasing their new laptops, AsterSpring were giving out free makeovers and hand massages, and then the Canon one where we could take pictures of ourselves with the new Canon Ixus, and have them print them out pronto with those portable photo-printers.

photos of us being printed! i so covet one of these printers. spot the happy gerbera next to my face

then they had a promotion going on with Dell, where if you purchased the Maxis Broadband plan, you’d get a nice fat discount on a Dell Inspiron laptop. c’est moi with the PINK laptop that comes with a pink mouse! Martian has this laptop in black, and so i believe it is only natural that i get the pink one too. eh baby what you think!! spot the happy gerbera next to my face again

this is the focal point of the day on display - the Maxis Broadband USB modem. plug it into your laptop, instant internet access :) no cables, no installation, no phone lines. oohers.

i purposely brought my laptop there just to test out the mini modem. hahaha. and it’s awesome, i love the fact that it gives me instant internet connection anywhere at all. speed is good, but i’m not very sure how smooth the connection is. eeyang tells me it drops depending on location, more so since i live in a condo. but tempting product nevertheless; i’m strongly considering getting one for those crucial internet-less times, and especially during the times when Martian comes back to visit and we have to pay through our noses for hotel broadband if we want to go online :\ RM 70 for 1 day’s internet, you kidding me ah!

Maxis Broadband is RM 118 per month for Maxis users! i was quite surprised because i thought it was going to be more expensive. it’s almost the same price as my broadband at home. hmm obviously this wireless broadband is not as stable or fast as a local access point broadband connection lah, but the key here is that i’d be paying not for stability, but for coverage and portability. definitely something i’d consider :)

i didn’t go home with a Maxis Broadband modem that day. but i did go home with many free things, hahaha, like a free hand massage! and all those flowers.

okay i’m very, very sleepy now. i just want to say that i’m really happy that all these blogger-related events are popping up :) much fun. can’t wait to blog about today’s (secret!) event and this wednesday’s forum! the Ringha pictures have to wait, it seems.

43 comments April 6th, 2008

College Admissions Decisions

the Ivy League universities decision letters were just out about an hour ago.

so i’ve got all my results now.

remember how i said i would be so relieved already if just ONE of my eight schools accepted me? i really only ask for ONE. because i know how difficult it is to get into those schools i applied. and i was kicking myself for not taking the time to just expand my list to a few safeties. i was SO FREAKING scared that my lack of Pre-U was the first step into a path of rejection, especially compared with all the other applicants who are so much more academically qualified.

i applied to 8 schools. 4 of which were Ivies.

and my results?

168 comments April 1st, 2008