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Vote for Jason Ong to meet Wayne Rooney in Old Trafford with Tiger FC!

Advertlets, Advertlets Bloggers August 23rd, 2010

jasonong_me Advertlets Blogger Jason Ong REALLY wants to meet Wayne Rooney!

In his own words:

“A brief of what I need to focus on. I’m in the running to meet the famous football player from England and Manchester United, Wayne Rooney in PERSON. I get to PARTY with him, hang out with him, have lunch with him, get his autographs, get some official merchandise, Q&A session and the best part is, I get to play some balls (I have no idea why Jason chose to word it this way) with him on the field.

I’m competing myself with 3 other regional countries in Asia. Singapore, Vietnam and that includes bloggers from Malaysia as well. Fellow friends of mine, I need some of your huge support to support me! I need 10 supporters to support me.”

And well, if you vote for him, I get to take part in a beer party as well, sponsored by Tiger! As I’m part of the support team

But okay, if you need a reason, here’s why I think you should vote for him:

Jason Ong is a really good photoblogger - over the past few years he’s been producing some of the best shots from our Advertlets events as well as many others across KL and more. He’s also a pretty decent at shooting video - so having him meet Rooney and cover it will be the next best thing to actually being there. Other than that, he’s a hardcore Manchester United fan - and won’t be asking stupid questions and embarassing us Malaysian MU fans when he’s over there. Also, lastly - this is a regional contest - wouldn’t you rather a Malaysian win than someone from Singapore, Vietnam or Indonesia?

So here’s what you can do to drop your vote:

Visit his blog at this link: http://bit.ly/MYtigerJO
Drop a comment (comments go towards the score!)

It’s that simple!

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A Day Out With The New Honda Freed!

Advertlets, Advertlets Bloggers, Parties & Events August 23rd, 2010

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Recently, I was part of an entourage of Advertlets Bloggers together with Paul Tan and crew to test out the new Honda Freed.

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Our day started off at Souled Out, in Sri Hartamas. Bloggers gathered there before our drive, and we had a good breakfast before we set off to Putrajaya.

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We’ve put together an awesome video of the trip, check it out. Featuring sound bites from a few familiar faces and an interesting look at the journey:

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Motoring journalist and Malaysia’s Jeremy Clarkson Harinder Singh was our guide throughout the trip, together with Paul Tan of Paultan.org.

Each car was outfitted with a walkie talkie for the trip, which was useful in discovering the features of the car and inter vehicle communication (for example - “eh, someone sesat already! turn back!”).

Honda bills the Freed as a “premium 4 seater”. However it technically can fit about 6 people (and 8 if you REALLY squeeze As someone who is used to driving a 1.8 liter car, I’m used to a quick pickup. The acceleration power seems to be in mainly in the lower speeds, tapering off at about 100-120 km/h.

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The Honda Freed is powered by a Honda 1.5L i-VTEC engine, and the car had about 165KG of people + cargo at the time of driving. So I would say that the acceleration is okay, I can’t exactly compare it to a sports car but its satisfactory for the vehicle class and the number of people that were in the car.

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The dashboard has a blue backlight. Interesting material - it doesn’t seem to be a ‘light’ in the conventional sense, but rather looks like e-ink as in its not glaringly bright but its visible quite clearly, as if it were printed on.
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The fuel efficiency meter is also a welcome feature, it actually measures how many kilometers you are getting out of your drive - useful for fine tuning your driving habits to squeeze more distance out of each drop.

There are two major differences in positioning - the gearshift is on the dashboard, and the ‘handbrake’ is on the floor. The second one takes a bit of getting used to, but having the gearshift on the dashboard actually makes quite a bit of sense, it frees up some space for you to either store stuff, or be able to walk through to the back of the Freed. The dual layer dashboard is a good idea, and it does give you quite a bit of room to put stuff. I wish it wasn’t sloped downward though - it would be slightly better at a 90 degree flat angle.

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One of the Honda Freed’s selling points is the walkthrough cabin. It’s useful if you have kids and need to crawl to the back and change a diaper, for instance.

The Freed starts from RM112,980. The units involved in this test drive were fitted with a sports kit that included door visors and a tailgate spoiler. If you’re considering the long term cost as well, Honda has helpfully put together preventive maintenance rates and costs per thousand km.

More info can be found here. Overall it was a good trip, bloggers had fun in addition to learning about how to do a test drive. Thanks to Honda’s PR company & Honda Malaysia for giving us this opportunity. Meantime, if you’ll like to check out what the rest of the bloggers in our entourage wrote, check it out: -

(yes, there were lots of us! Advertlets FTW!)

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12 August 2010: INVITATION - Josh Lim & Donovan Chan’s Birthday!

Advertlets August 10th, 2010

Dear Advertlets bloggers, friends, blog readers and hot babes,

you are cordially invited to August Babies: Josh Lim + Donovan Chan’s Birthday Party at Vanity Mansion, Heritage Row this Thursday.

Join Donovan Chan (Advertlets Sales Director) & Josh Lim (Advertlets Managing Direct0r) as they both turn 21 years old (again, as they did the previous years!) With Advertlets bloggers, friends and lingerie models (hopefully)! Come on time to enjoy free flow and great company.

Date : 12th Aug 10 (Thurs)
Time : 9pm onwards till late
Free Flow of drinks & Finger Food: 9pm-10pm
Choice of drinks: Beer, Soft Drinks and House Pouring Vodka & Whisky
Performers: Stand-up comedians, belly dancers and fire-twirlers
Thanks to Vanity Mansion, our venue and F&B sponsor.

Please RSVP with Hanie Hidayah (haniehidayah) or Jason Ong (Mynjayz) to confirm your attendance. Thank you!

Facebook page is here: August Babies: Josh Lim + Donovan Chan’s Birthday Party

hanie.hidayah (at)advertlets(dot)com
jason.ong(at)advertlets(dot)com

That’s us from Advertlets! A small celebration in the office…with a big celebration on the 12th!

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Josh Lim in Seoul, Korea! Part 2: Seoul Tower, HD Smoking & More!

Advertlets, Korea, Parties & Events, Travelling July 23rd, 2010

Let’s start this post in reverse chronology. The past few days have seen me exploring around Seoul as well as attending the various networking events organized by the Seoul Promotion Program. There was quite a memorable trip to the Seoul N Tower - Seoul’s version of the KL Tower It was really quite beautiful - I’ll be writing a full post on it later, but here are some previews:

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The reception:

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Me with some really lovely Korean ladies. Yes, most of them do look pretty damn good. The pop culture samples you’ve seen (eg Wonder Girls, Girls Generation, Hyori Lee, etc) isn’t quite too far off from the reality. I am…shocked. But pleasantly.

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A picture at the peak with me, Rebecca, Jin Sook (an SPP representative) as well as a good looking dude from Canada.

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Before the trip to the tower, we had dinner by the lakeside -

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Awesome view of the lake from the restaurant balcony:

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A Korean jazz band played as entertainment. Lead singer was really stunning. Reminded me of a Korean movie I’ve seen where the heroine somehow sings with a jazz group in a bar. Damn I forgot the title though.

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The day before that was also another networking night - panorama shot!

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Seoul’s night skyline is…surreallistically beautiful.

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Malls are heavily populated even late at night:

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Lastly here are some interesting Seoul quirks…a special pillow menu at the hotel I was staying, Coex Intercontintal Hotel!

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Energy drinks you can’t find anywhere else:

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And this last one is…like…wow. I usually smoke Kent, but I guess the only way you can smoke Kent in High Definition is in Korea

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More soon! Seoul N Tower really deserves its own post, it will be up too!

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Josh Lim in Seoul, Korea! Part 1: The 14th Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival (SICAF 2010)

Advertlets, Korea, Parties & Events, Travelling July 21st, 2010

Quick post. I’m currently writing this from the COEX Intercontinental Hotel in Seoul, Korea. I’m here on a sponsored trip from MDEC for business matching - Malaysian + Korean businesses. Anyway, it was a long flight (6+ hours) and I just touched down today at 7AM. I then spent most of the rest of the day walking around the Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival (SICAF 2010). Here goes! (pics are fresh, just from 2 hours ago!)

The Bandai booth was pretty impressive: Robots, promoters and all!

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Don’t know who this guy is, but he’s cute

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Me testing out a cool Augmented Reality thing. Hold up the postcard to the webcam (the postcard has a special printed bar code on it), and it will ‘project’ images. Cool thing is that it changes perspective according to how you move and angle the card.

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Another cool thing I tried was a gesture based navigation system. It was built by the guy demoing it in the picture below. It’s kind of like a Nintendo Wii controller thing (move your hand left and right/up and down) to effect what goes on screen. However, it’s without having a physical controller

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This is Won Hee who explained to me about the system. Happy to have met someone that speaks English fluently all the way over here Apparently, she studied abroad!

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I think most of you would be familiar with Domo-kun…

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If you didn’t already know, Samsung is from Korea. They have quite a massive presence in Seoul, I saw Samsung Galaxy S ads…4 times! on the way from the airport to the hotel. You probably know their products well enough, so this is a picture of the pretty girl at the booth…

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A motion capture thing (It’s how they plot out character animations in films such as Avatar). They are waving some sticks that translate to movement on screen. More on that later.

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Lastly I leave you with an angry chicken figurine and his friends.

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More soon! There’s a welcome party for Malaysian and international delegates tonight that I gotta get ready for. Should be fun. Stay tuned for more, I aim to blog daily/live if I can

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A night out at Rootz…

Advertlets, Celebrities, Parties & Events July 9th, 2010

Last weekend was awesome, this particular night being one of them. After viewing the Argentina vs Germany match at Ecoba, a couple of us headed down to Rootz. That’s Sabrina, my date for the night who got a rare night off. You’ll notice that these photos look slightly different from the ones usually - that’s because I was test driving the new Sony NEX, on loan from Sony.

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Regarding the photos, the aspect ratio in particular is interesting, I think it’s 16:9 (widescreen, like movies) instead of the usual 4:3 ratio. This photo was taken on the way to Rootz. Colors turned out quite nice - this is near Maison btw. Generally the cam performs quite well under low lighting, but I’m still learning the settings to get everything in focus (you’ll notice that some pics are blurry).

So then after we arrived at Rootz…That’s Sabrina, Donovan (a new addition to Advertlets, and a Facebook newbie too) and his friend Yenny.

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Yenny seemed quite shy, but she seemed to be very well prepared to pose in the background even while I took a pic of Sabrina.

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Met Darynne there as well.

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The lovely Cay Kuijpers was there too!

Many, many bottles of Moet & Carlsberg were opened throughout the night. Thanks Jacob!

I like how the sparklers look like a dragon here:

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Josiah (who you may remember from here) was there too.

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And to end off this post, some eye candy for the girls, courtesy of Josiah:

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More clubbing pics soon! It seems my clubbing nights are just getting better and better…practice makes perfect perhaps

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Tweet and win this World Cup 2010 with Astro Bplayer!

Advertlets, Sharing July 7th, 2010

So there’s this new thing - the Astro Bplayer that we recently got to find out about through our first campaign with Astro. To launch it, they’ve got some very exclusive content that definitely has an audience…the World Cup 2010!

I can say that I haven’t always been an avid football fan, but this World Cup has definitely been of a lot more relevance, and I’ve found myself watching a lot more football, whether it’s at Kayu Nasi Kandar, Ecoba, Movida or even the Terrace Bar at Zouk…or just at home at my computer on Astro Bplayer! Especially since there are a record number of Asian teams in the World Cup this time. Well, they’ve all been eliminated now, but they were Japan, South Korea & North Korea (who got absolutely humiliated).

Here’s a short overview of the Asian teams in the World Cup (they are all out, but still, it’s a good read)

(That’s me in my Nike Team Korea jersey. Yes, I don’t know enough about football to form a decision, so I’m supporting the teams that somewhat look like us…)

Me in my Team Korea jersey. Yes, that's Lien from here :)

As someone working in marketing, I think its very cool that Astro is doing this - especially since World Cup broadcast rights are not easy to get (Singapore nearly didn’t get the World Cup rights this year!), and this is definitely a very good ‘preview’ to potential Astro customers. If you’re a Maxis customer like myself, you get special benefits (you get to watch even more live matches), make sure you link your account - here’s how you do it.

If you're a Maxis subscriber, do this! :)

Basically you can watch it from anywhere with an internet connection and a browser. I’m using Chrome btw. No special software required, but you do have to install the Microsoft Silverlight player (Microsoft’s answer to Flash - which actually does a better job of video streaming). From the URL bar, the videos are loaded from Akamai HD - which is a broadband video delivery platform.

Full screen shot of the Astro Bplayer. Notice that I have also blurred out my Chinese name on top, ahaha!

It streamed pretty well on my Streamyx connection (I’m just using a simple 1MB package), and I must say that it seems to have quite a smart adaptive technology - I turned on some heavy downloads (using up about 80-100KBps), and immediately the video quality dropped but the framerate remained
pretty consistent.

It’s free to watch for now, so make sure you drop by to check it out. You can also catch the recaps until the 18th of the month.

There’s a Twitter contest where you can win some really good prizes for watching while tweeting about the World Cup promoting Astro Bplayer along the way.

(Screenshot of instructions from the website)

Prizes include:

Prizes include a 42" LCD TV 3 laptops and RM100 movie vouchers (that's roughly 10 movies).

Give it a try. You never know if you might win it. I can’t join since I’m an Advertlets employee working on the campaign with Astro, but feel free to pass me the 42″ LCD TV if you win…

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Back from the Toy Story 3 launch with Advertlets Bloggers!

Advertlets, Advertlets Bloggers, Parties & Events June 12th, 2010

Just a few hours ago, we Advertlets Bloggers attended the launch event and premiere screening of Toy Story 3, sponsored by TM at Mid Valley Megamall! It was quite a blast

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The event started with an introduction by Azura, Disney Buzz host.

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Followed by a short speech by TM Net CEO Jeremy Kung. TM was the presenting sponsor for the event.

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Then, the CEO of Disney Malaysia came up.

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Then of course, the highlight of the event: Woody & Buzz Lightyear!

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The costumes were very well done as you can see from the pictures - I believe this were the official costumes imported from overseas.

Since everyone was shy to go up to take pictures, I went up first.

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And of course, all the bloggers got to pose for an EPIC shot!

Leonard Chua on stage with girls (as usual…*shakes head*)

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Representatives from Disney & TM.

And of course, camwhoring after the event!

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From left - Advertlets Bloggers Dila Ariff, new recruit Kimberley Ng, Ridzuan Richie & Sham Hardy!

From left: Hanie Hidayah, Esther Ng, Josh Lim, Wai Yan & Yvonne Tham.

Stay tuned for more pics and my thoughts on the movie. After all, we did get to watch it ONE WHOLE WEEK earlier!!

Check out posts from other Advertlets Bloggers:

http://yasminetran.blogspot.com/2010/06/toy-story-3-sd-screening.html

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Nivea For Men Football Fever 2010 Challenge @ 1 Utama

Advertlets, Advertlets Bloggers June 8th, 2010

I was invited by Beiersdorf last weekend to check out a game that they are having at 1 Utama.

Beiersdorf is a global skin care company that you’ve probably never heard of - but you’ve definitely heard of Nivea, Eucerin and Hansaplast. I first got to know of the name of the group that handles all these brands when Advertlets started working with Eucerin.

The setup was done in conjunction with Guardian and other men’s grooming brands. Was quite a huge setup in 1 Utama.

The aerial view of the setup that I took from the 1st floor:

A huge crowd had gathered around the screens. This same crowd would not watch me play later…

More after the jump…

Read the rest of this entry »

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Back from the Sony NEX launch at Teeq with Advertlets Bloggers!

Advertlets, Parties & Events June 5th, 2010

Just yesterday, Advertlets Bloggers headed down to Teeq at the Lot 10 Rooftop to witness the launch of the new Sony Alpha NEX 3 and NEX 5!

Here are some pics:

Here’s a closeup of the exploded view of the Sony Alpha NEX. The Sony Alpha NEX is a prosumer camera that delivers DSLR quality in a compact body:

Here are some shots so you can see the size of it. It’s pretty compact - you can basically cover the whole camera with your hands (depending on how you hold it of course)

More soon, this is just a quick post, with the full post to follow soon!

Meantime, check out posts by other Advertlets Bloggers (you guys are fast!)

Here’s something interesting…

I’m going to be arranging testing sessions for Advertlets Bloggers to try out the new Sony Alpha NEX.

Bloggers will be given testing priority by:

a) how soon their post about the event comes up

b) and…in order of them posting a comment on this post

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Miss Universe Malaysia 2010 Gala Night (Part 4/4) After Party @ Aristo, Zouk Club

Advertlets, Parties & Events May 22nd, 2010

Here’s some pictures from the after party:

But first, some at the hotel lobby before heading down to Aristo @ Zouk, the official club of Miss Universe Malaysia 2010.

With Joey Hui and Dalvin Parsh:

And it was time to party!

Sarah partied by having a hot dog. Now that the pageant’s over, she can finally eat!

This photo is just hilarious:

This is Yvonne Tham.

She has small eyes, a small nose, and a big heart

Of course, at least one photo like this is necessary. I wish I knew all their names (there was free flow), but in the middle is my ex-schoolmate, and to the left of her is Sarah Yap, one of the pageant finalists.