Last Friday, I went with blogger Magdeline “Mag-a-licious” Wang to check out the launch of Che Che New York’s new Hello Kitty collection. You may remember the first post here where I previously covered another launch.

Che Che caters to a female audience, so there nothing that I could possibly use myself, but it was a good opportunity to take some happy colourful shots. What do you think of the pics? Personally I think they are quite tastefully done, incorporating the ‘kawaiiness’ of Hello Kitty with the chic style of Che Che New York. Something I would use if I were a girl. Or a ‘fabulous’ guy, if you get what I mean. Colors are mostly from the palette of white, brown, black and pink.

I met Megan Tan, the 8TV Quickie host! (Now I’ve met all of the 8TV Quickie hosts, ahah!)

And in case you’re wondering, I asked her if it’s a good time to be a “Megan”. Please don’t do the same, I’m sure she gets asked it all the time.

Look familiar?

Pic above (from left):

Michie Kin of fashion brand “The Kins”, Natacha Meuneir (wrote about her here previously), Bridgette Liberty Yu, Winnie Loo (of A Cut Above fame), Lavin Seow, Leng Yein (you may know her from the giant marriage proposal billboard that was put up near Tropicana City Mall, or her many pictures).

The models were from Seventeen Magazine featured models, if I remember correctly, as the collection is catered to younger females.

And more pictures from the collection -

Cute, kan?

Anyway, if you wish to check it out, Che Che New York is located at:

Che Che New York Boutique
G-42, Ground Floor

Mid Valley Megamall
Tel: 03-2282 8619

Fanpage: http://bit.ly/checheNY (Malaysia)

Visit Magdeline’s blog for another take on the event!

Super overdue But anyway, here are the photos from MTV World Stage 2010. Since you’ve probably seen all the pictures of the artists by now, I’ll just show some of the people I met along the way Thanks to Celcom for the tickets to the After Party, and thanks to Sony for use of the Sony NEX (all pictures were shot with the NEX-3 with kit lens).

First off, we have Wai Yan camwhoring on the way there…

Who’s cuter?

And…upon arriving.

That’s XOXO, Malaysia’s first English girl pop group. Or rather, 3/4 of them. You can check out their fan page here If the girl to the right looks familiar, it’s because you saw her in these posts - Dalvin Parsh was a Miss Universe Malaysia 2010 finalist. Here’s another shot of them.

And…

On the right is Zher from the 8TV Quickie. A skinny, bubbly girl

With the Advertlets Bloggers: Samantha Kong, Jeremy Choy, Jason Ong, Xiangcool, Azrin, Jon YKT.

And of course…me and the Wonder Girls They were walking around in the crowd, but wearing masks to avoid being spotted. I was lucky to spot them.

Here are a few more shots of them on stage. Standing in the crowd, these are the best shots I could get.

Me and Joanne Kay. My favourite local celebrity lookalike

Female bloggers with VJ Utt and VJ Holly.

With more bloggers posing at the MTV World Stage photobooth.

Lastly, me and all the MTV VJ Hunt finalists 2010.

From left: Dawn Balagot (Philippines), Kylie Chapman (Malaysia), Alice Yu (Indonesia), Ali Agus Ardie (Indonesia), me, Holly Grabarek (Indonesia).

Check it out: Advertlets Bloggers & friends at the recent Hennessy Artistry 2010 finale party at the Mines!

Trying out something new here. This was taken by me with a Sony NEX-3, and edited with iMovie (was my first time using the software, took me about 2 hours to edit this). Lighting is a bit bad in some spots, as no additional lighting was used. Hope you like it though!

Regrets:
- Did not capture all the artists/bloggers
- Did not capture MYSELF (argh, how could I forget)

If you wish to tag your friends, the video is here on Facebook: Advertlets Facebook Page - Videos - Hennessy Artistry 2010 Finale with Advertlets Bloggers & Friends

Comments and feedback are welcome!

Every now and then, there will be a post here that doesn’t involve clubbing or alcohol. Wait a minute, it’s a chinese wedding, so there’s definitely alcohol! Anyway, I was especially happy to attend, this being the second blogger wedding I’ve been to in my lifetime. This time, it was the wedding of Advertlets Bloggers Wilson Ng & Rachel Ting, who both write on placesandfoods.com

We at Advertlets were happy to be there From left: Jason Ong, Hanie Hidayah, Josh Lim

Yes, the bubble wrap casing is cute, isn’t it? Ai Li is fascinated with the iPad …if she gets one, she can call it her AiPad

You’ll notice that the photos look slightly different. First time using a Nikon D300 with speedlight on this blog, it was Jason Ong’s camera. Most of these shots here are by me, although Jason took a few too.

Chinese weddings always have awesome food. This was the opening dish:

Unfortunately I forgot to snap the rest, too busy eating…

A big group shot of our table…all bloggers one. Okay, well, 80% la.

Got this good shot of Jason Ong yam-seng-ing.

Got this at the right moment as they were popping the champagne Only wish the other photographer weren’t in the way…

The one on the right is not Hannah Tan, it is none other than Joanne Kay

I like how the groomsmen wore Mexican wrestler masks.

First wedding I’ve been to where the opening song before the bride and the groom came in was the “Transformers theme” followed by a WWE Wresting Anthem….then the ‘proper’ here comes the bride song. Interesting.

Below: Wilson & Rachel walking in…

Lastly to end the post - some of Wilson & Rachel’s really hot friends!

Lastly, remember to visit www.placesandfoods.com/wedding. If you have 3D glasses, you can view the wedding pics in 3D. Yes, 3D wedding pics. All in all it was one of the most fun weddings I ever attended, and I like how they did quite a few things differently. Gives me some ideas for my own wedding. Which won’t be too soon la

Thanks to Warner Brothers, we recently had our FIRST 3D screening! It was none other than Legend Of The Guardians, The Owls Of Ga’hoole. It’s based on a set of popular children’s books, but you don’t need to know that.

Interestingly enough, I really wanted to watch it as it was directed by the same guy (Zach Snyder) who directed ‘300′ and ‘Watchmen’…this is his animation debut. Also, the soundtrack features one of my favourite artists…Owl City Amazingly appropriate.

My date for the movie was Jessy…a deep-dimpled friend I haven’t seen in a while and a new blogger (she just started a few days ago). Here she is, making our Advertlets preview screening tickets look good

Here are some shots of the blogger crowd prior to the screening…

As is customary…a group pic of us after the screening.

On the movie itself…I think the owls were translated to screen very nicely. Left: real life owl. Right, animated owl.

To sum up the movie, it’s kind of like Lord Of The Rings meets Happy Feet with the slow motion and orange/blue/red stylings of ‘300′ (same director)…all with owls.The film’s running time is 1 hour 30 minutes, which is just about right. A tad slow in the first half, but the second half is definitely enjoyable. The Australian accents feel a bit odd at times - given that most of us are used to American/British accents, but after a while you get used to it, and it does match their characters.

I don’t know about you, but I didn’t quite like the way the Bahasa Malaysia subtitles jumped out at you - can we petition the Malaysian government NOT to make the subtitles pop out, and have them ‘flat’? The owls are cute. You could hear the cinema going “awwww” when the baby owl appeared. Your kids would want the buy the soft toy versions of the owls.

I wouldn’t quite call it a kiddy movie though - there is some good fight scenes, some violence, although there’s no blood and there is definitely some owls that die (at least 2). Don’t worry, won’t spoil it for you which owls die. It feels suitably dark in some places, and the story is deep enough for an adult to enjoy, but its definitely something you can bring your kids to enjoy.

Soundtrack wise, I would have preferred a less orchestral score, and more ‘indie/pop/guitars’ route that the trailer took (the trailer had a very good song from the band ‘30 Seconds To Mars’. Hanie was dissapointed that it didn’t appear in the film. There’s one particularly memorable part where the Owl City song “To The Sky” comes in, a foot tapping-ly happy song written specially for the film.

Humour wise, there are a few good laughs, but don’t expect a laugh a minute comedy. It’s an epic tale, with owls. I can honestly say that I got goosebumps in a few of the more dramatic moments. All in all, a good film to watch in 3D, and it’s definitely one of the better animated films to come out this year together with ‘Toy Story 3′ and ‘Despicable Me. ‘

In conclusion: I watch a lot of films (about 2-3 a week on average, and my tastes are pretty varied), so if I enjoyed it you probably will too Overall:

Pros: Animated owls are cute and appealing. Inspirational story. Can be enjoyed by kids and adults.

Cons: Title is too long and prone to confusion (Legend Of the Owls? Legend of Ga’hoole? etc). Soundtrack could be less orchestral. Australian accents are odd.

And…

About the crazy coincedence mentioned in the title…I twitpic-ed this a couple of days back. The chances of a picture of a movie about owls getting a randomly generated URL with the word owl in it is…like…1 in 500,000? Wow. I couldn’t believe it. Either that or Twitpic is becoming self aware, kind of like how Facebook is now creepily detecting faces and suggesting you tag them.

This post is missing something before I conclude it…

Maybe some funny pictures of owls?

Oh, right. You probably want another pic of Jessy. There you go

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