Posted by Jasmine on Jul 7, 2010 in
Family,
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Movies,
Omy,
Review 
Remember last year when I won a pair of tickets from Shan and Rozz of 987FM to watch a movie with my sister for her birthday?
This year, I got the opportunity thanks to Omy.sg to watch Despcable Me!! And again, I brought Candy to the preview. 
I immediately signed up when I saw the opportunity so that I am able to bring her again!
When we arrived, The Cathay was super crowded and we realised that this is the very first preview of Despicable Me in SG! Meaning we were one of the first group of people watching it in Singapore! 
Haha.
There were people handing out stickers, and queuing for photos. And as you’d seen in the first image, my sis and I took one with the minions too (who are probably kids judging from their height).
I didn’t know what the movie was about actually, except that this guy (Gru) wants to be super evil so he stole some stuff like the statue of liberty (from Vegas lol) and the Times Square screen and now he wants to be the super evil person and steal the moon.
Who is it to stop him right? Right! Except this other evil guy (I shall not say who, go and watch it) and 3 little kids who managed to touch his heart. haha.
I shall not say too much to spoil it but go and watch it. You’ll laugh like mad and GO AND WATCH THE 3D VERSION! I know it may sound like I’m trying to advertise for the movie (this is after all a review) but I believe they made the movie for 3D. Especially some scenes! Shall not spoil it but the experience is just amazing.
Do sit through the credits too (with your 3D glasses). The few small scenes after that that played with the 3D technology is amazing.
I just found this app where you can translate what the minions are saying in the movie! Go download it before you watch it here: http://www.bestbuymoviemode.com/
My favourites are the minions as well as the little girl, Agnes. haha. She’s so cute!
Source: Movie Wallpaper.net
Excellent movie! I gave it 4.5/5 stars because of the humour, fun, great 3D effects and some surprising stuff that happens in it. Lol.
Oh and the soundtrack’s mostly done by Pharrell Williams, who is a popular artiste and worked with people like Justin Timberlake before.
Thank you Omy.sg for the movie!
Anyway, Candy was sick before the movie so we couldn’t go for a good dinner! 
Another day then.
Leaving you with one more pic of the minion:
Posted by Jasmine on Jul 4, 2010 in
Omy,
Review This year is BreadTalk’s 10th anniversary! I remember back when they started, it was quite a hype and now 10 years later, they’re still pretty popular eh?
For their 10th anniversary, BreadTalk is actually selling 10 of their most popular bread again at the stores. These 10 years, various events happened that made it very Let me share with you which 10 they are selling.
Since it’s 10 years, I’ll be sharing with you the personal things that happened these 10 years as well. (note they are not in order).
I bet you have seen this bread before at many places:
Did you know? BreadTalk was the original creator of this? And I’ve actually tried a few different types of this bread but nothing beats the original. BreadTalk’s version is sweet and the flosss doesn’t drop off that badly. Other normal bakeries’ floss or “bah hu” drops off quite easily. Copycats can only copy the bread to a certain extend.
This was way back in 2000 when they first started. Where were you?
10 years ago I was in primary school (!!!) taking my PSLE. Wow.
The 2nd interesting bread (that I got to try thanks to Omy.sg and BreadTalk) was the O’Sambal (2001):
I had never tried this before, but do you know why this bread was created? Hint: Sambal reminds you of?
Yes??
The answer is that it was created to commemorate the opening of a BreadTalk store at The Peranakan Place. Haha. Peranakan food uses sambal quite a lot I think =x I thought it was an interesting idea. Whoever thought of that!
I had just started secondary school back then. 58 Lowland Road. I will never forget the quaint and quiet environment of the old campus.
Have you seen a heart shaped bread? No?
A bit squashed
I got to try this as well. In 2004, BreadTalk partnered with SingTel and came up with this bread to help underprivileged children.
2004 was my O Level year. Quite a difficult year to get through, but at least I understood what being myself was, and strove to ignore people’s point of view and perspective that much.
In 2005, the Indian Ocean Tsunami happened. It was a 9.0 Magnitude earthquake that shocked many, including me.
Close to S$90,000 was raised to the victims of this quake through the sales of this bread:
I got to try this as well. It had something like what you will find in curry puffs in it which was a surprise to me (coz I didn’t know what to expect). Pretty good!
2005 was the year I started poly doing a diploma in business informatics. Finally something that I enjoyed and was good at. Something that I never felt lousy at. The start of 3 great years at NYP!
Those four breads were what I got thanks to Omy and BreadTalk (I didn’t have time to collect all 10 heh heh).
Here’s a poster with all the breads, so that you will be able to look at the picture of the breads that I will be talking about.
*click to enlarge
When you think of dinosaurs, what do you think?
For me it would definitely be Jurassic Park. Jurassic Park 3 came out, and BreadTalk came up with a dinosaur shaped bun!
Streaming year in 2002. And the year when I decided to leave my old cca and join a new one. One of the best decisions I ever made as a teen =x
2006 we saw the start of Korea wave and the KimCheese appeared! A play on the word “kimchi” haha. Cute.
Nothing much in 2006. Perhaps maybe that I broke down in school? Something sad but at least I learnt how to let go of the fact that grades are not that important.
2007 was the Hairy Crab which was a new version of the Flosss actually. I didn’t know about this bread to be honest.
2007 was the year when I went to Chengdu for 4 months.
Oh yes, what a surprise I got when my friends and I found BreadTalk at Chengdu!! In fact, Twin Dragon and my birthday cake was a BreadTalk one which we bought in Chengdu!
A year later, Sichuan encountered a really bad earthquake that affected many places, including where I had worked and stayed during attachment. I was emotionally affected. Many places were destroyed I heard.
To encourage donations, BreadTalk came up with the Peace Panda bread. I remember that they had different expressions on their faces. Pretty cute. $100,000 was raised through it. Another charity work *thumbs up*
I graduated from NYP. I worked. I went to NUS.
F1 Night Race came to Singapore in 2009. The first ever night race in the world! And we saw the introduction of the Ferraberri. Another cute play with the words and design of bread (have you ever seen bread that looked like a car??)
Year 2 at NUS…
Finally it’s 2010 now… And the latest 2 new breads that BreadTalk came out with is Merrily and Leonardo. Anyone realised what they’re trying to commemorate with these 2 bread?
I didn’t realise it at first.
Look at them:
And them:
Youth Olympics!!
A decade has passed since we stepped into the new millennium. So many uncertain steps along the way. BreadTalk has certainly made their mark as a local brand and made Singapore proud. With so many types of bread and innovative ideas and names for their bread, I would say BreadTalk’s strategy is one where we should learn from. The names are easy to remember, and the bread looks different from usual. Keep it short and simple!
Sales of the 10 bread are as follows:
Sale period: 17 Jun to 23 Jun
O’Sambal (2001), Dinosaur (2002), Bull Run (2003)
Sale period: 24 Jun to 30 Jun
LuvBite (2004), 9.0 Tsunami (2005), 大长金 (2006)
Sale period: 1 Jul to 8 Jul
Hairy Crab (2007), Peace Panda (2008), Ferraberri (2009), Leonardo+Merrily (2010)
Credits: BreadTalk poster is copyright to BreadTalk
Thank you Omy.sg and BreadTalk for the free bread!!
Posted by Jasmine on Oct 12, 2009 in
Interesting,
Omy,
Review Was invited to The Return of Halloween Horrors at Night Safari last night!
Invited Charmelon (aka Charlene) along coz I haven’t seen her in quite a while
The last time I went to Night Safari was 6 years ago during my first band camp (combined with SKSS). I don’t remember what happened that night except something that happened near the end of the visit. Some guys sat on a metal chain and broke it. -_-”
Anyway, after I got the invitation, I was pretty excited because this wasn’t going to be a normal Night Safari visit, but it includes The Return of Halloween Horrors.
Every wondered where the dead fairytale characters go? They go to the Night Safari this month!
Before we entered the Night Safari, we could hear lots of screams and laughter and wondered what was going on.
Charmelon spotted this:
This person was standing at the shadows. If Charmelon didn’t point her out to me, I wouldn’t have seen her at all. Creepy.
Oh. How did I know the seller’s a female?
There was Pinocchio! And Dracula, who roared at me after I said “thank you!” I guess it was his way of saying “Your welcome!”
Me
Charmelon
Notice how they have different poses?
I’ll let the pictures do the talking
(At the reception area)
Melon and Aladin.
Tin man! Melon and my favourite character for the day. He doesn’t really scares people, but follows you around in a friendly way.
This pic didn’t show it, but his heart came out of his body so he died. Poor thing.
Cinderella had the glass slipper thrown on her head. Instant death.
My expression was supposed to be sombre -_-” I look weird.
Hunchback of Notre Dame (with Melon).
Joker? From the cards?
He scared Melon…
… I tried to scare him back.
Back for vengeance…
Head for sale…
the “black widow”? I have no idea but I think she’s pretty and resembles Angela Chang
Oh and this jack-o-lantern display that they did was amazing! It’ll “stand up” and roar at people at different intervals. Love it!
I have a thing for jack-o-lanterns by the way. =/ No idea why!
Went on board the Train of Terror.
The first part was the normal tram ride that you get. It takes you through the usual tram path. However, the tram guide was speaking in a way that was supposed to scare us. She included lots of “Hahahahaha” in there (think: evil laughter) but it just got annoying at some point and we all were like “wah lau!!” >.< Oh and the dead will jump on your tram and grab you so be careful!
My fellow tram passengers were pretty fun to be with by the way. Read on to find out why.
Beast! Did Beauty kill him?
I think someone wanted her number? Then she screamed and followed the tram and he said “Ok ok sorry sorry!”
Didn’t manage to take all of the “dead”. They came pretty fast! One wolf-man even jumped in front of me, and someone behind shouted, “Relax, relax!”
After the tram ride, we decided to go on the…
What’s that??
Mangled body eh?
Jack-O-Lantern!
It’s looking at you!
It had no legs.
I didn’t realise there was someone there at first.
Then…
“I WANT YOUR CAMERA!!!”
haha kidding. He didn’t say that. He just roared at me so I roared back.
Poor guy who died of thirst while outfield. He’s fused with the bushes already. I offered him water and he stretched out his arm for it. Then I told him it was from my water bottle he gave a sian look and went back to his place.
Charmelon almost ran away when he jumped out of the bushes about 1 second after I told her there was someone there. Melon’s so cute la!
Arms for sale…
Chinese vampire! He glows by the way. Look at my shirt glow too!
The last stage… If nothing jumps out at you over here…
Yay!
Of course, your ticket entitles you to walk around the Night Safari which Melon and I did. Saw lots of animals other than those on the tram.
Like these mousedeers.
See, we were scared till we’re sweating like that!
Had a great time!
Adult ticket (with Train of Terror ride): $35
Child ticket (with Train of Terror ride): $18
Adult ticket (admission only): $22
Child ticket (admission only): $11
Thanks to Omy.sg and Night Safari!
To find out more, visit The Return of Halloween Horrors website
*More pictures can be found at my Facebook album!
Posted by Jasmine on Sep 9, 2009 in
Review For friends who have added me on FB/Twitter/Plurk, you’ll know that finally, after 3 months of waiting for the LG GD900 Crystal (I’ll call it Crystal from now on), I received Crystal on August 26, 5.58pm
I’d won Crystal from participating in a Sparklette.net contest I’m super happy as I’ve been reading Sparklette.net since 2003.
Anyway, CRYSTAL!
The LG Arena Bag that Crystal arrived in through a courier.
Btw, I must really thank Deborah from the marketing company who is in charge of contacting the winners about the phone. I must have sent tons of SMSes and emails to her asking about the delivery of the phone and each time, she patiently answered my questions. (I’m too excited lah!)
After all, LG GD900 Crystal is the world’s first transparent phone.
Read about the specs here: LG Website.
The accessories that comes with the phone are what you usually see in most handphones: a charger, a starter kit (for your phone to connect with your PC), battery, USB Cable (for connecting to PC). But oh! This comes with a pouch just the right size for your phone itself!
Crystal’s screen has a 3-way orientation. Turning it left or right will allow me to use the menu no matter what.
Turning it left and turning it right
Of course, the first thing that mesmerized me was the transparent keypad. I’m still awed by how it’s transparent!
Pretty!
As I’m a first time user of a touch screen phone, it was difficult for me to adapt to Crystal. Even though I’ve been using it for more than a week now, I still kept pressing on the wrong numbers and words when I’m using the phone.
But for those who are worried if the phone will lag, fret not as it doesn’t lag most of the time.
Though, to be honest, I don’t use the keypad much except when I take pictures (I have to slide the keypad out otherwise I won’t be able to use the camera).
The S-Class interface is pretty fun and functional to use.
But at first, I wondered why it lacked various functions, like forwarding of SMSes, but I eventually found out that it was because I had to scroll to get to the functions. Silly me.
There’s a bug though in the SMS feature, where I won’t know who I’m replying to in my sms until I’ve sent it. Hope the developers fix it! But since this software is used in the newer LG phones, I guess other phones like LG Arena will also have this problem.
Speaking of which, the camera hasn’t disappointed me so far. 8MP (more MP than my compact camera!), and I think the computer for the camera’s pretty smart. The auto settings just adjusts the contrast and all most of the time. Outdoor shots are the best, but indoor shots can be noisy.
Here are some sample of the shots (click for bigger image. Not original size though):
Here are the list of things that I like about Crystal:
My verdict: With many features packed in to it, it’s worth the money, though it would be great if LG can come up with the updates for the S-Class software (for ALL LG phones and NOT the Crystal only) You can just carry a Crystal to replace your radio, mp3 player, camera, etc.
Best of all, it’s not bulky!
Oh and I love the reactions of my friends when they see the transparent keypad. Sorry, I don’t mean to show off and all. =x
Updated: My sis said that my pictures don’t really show how transparent the keypad is, so here’s one (with a rare picture of me wearing spectacles)! Look at the transparency of the keypad. You can see my hand behind it!
Posted by Jasmine on Aug 30, 2007 in
Review UPDATE: This campaign is now opened till 15 OCTOBER! So do a review on roomsDB.net now to earn $$!
And roomsDB.net now has a new feature created using Google Mashup! Just like what I’ve been learning recently for the competition. Check it out here: http://roomsdb.wordpress.com/2007/09/08/new-google-maps-mashup-on-roomsdbnet-find-on-map/
Want to rent a room?
I was in China when I heard about this website roomsDB.net – room rental in Singapore online. Quite an interesting and innovative way of renting rooms.
All you have to do is click on the link to the website, and from there, you’ll be able to search for rooms to rent, or post your own offer. It’s that simple. Even registration isn’t needed. And all for free!
I just finished browsing the website and realised that this has made it easier for foreign students or foreigners intending to stay in Singapore for a while to look for a place. I’ve seen how Chen Lei searched for a place to move to and it is definitely not easy and quite tedious to. roomsDB.net will help her a lot.
Latest features of the site includes: Google Maps Mashup, RSS feeds, automatic price comparison, closest MRT station feature which will make comparing and decision making easier.
Oh, and The Straits Times also recently featured an interview with the founder. Read the article here.
And for bloggers, you can write a simple review (like this one) and earn money for yourself. It’s that simple. Founder, Sebastian Ang is giving away more than $1500 for bloggers writing reviews about roomDB.net. Read all about it here. The dateline for this is 15 OCTOBER.
