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BMW Efficient Dynamics Drive Day 2 – Final Day

saimatkong — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:25:36 +0000

Early in the morning we gathered for bamboo rafting. It was my first time rafting. It’s a good experience. Haha.

After that we have a demo of BMW Bicycle and how clean is the BMW diesel engine (It does not emit dirty smelly exhaust gas).

This BMW Bicycle worth RM19k?! wow. I have tested it, to me it’s just like normal saja except it’s light, hydraulic absorber and the brake is made of disc brake. =)

Then we headed to Indulgence Restaurant and Living at Ipoh again for our lunch before we head back to KL.

Poulet – rosted chicken roulade of spinach, pimiento, crushed peas, crispy onion rings & balsamic jus

Warm round cap with espresso sauce and ice cream

Joy is the satisfaction of traveling more than a 700 kilometeres without having to fuel up! Yup it’s amazing.

At the end of the session we were given a nice and cute thumb drive loaded with photos. It’s really nice!

Not forgetting I won myself RM600 Petronas vouchers! woot! I just need to complete a few questions about Petronas Dynamic Diesel and fuel saving tips.

Here’s my 5 fuel saving tips!
1) Do not carry things that’s not necessary in your car that will make your car heavier.
2) Check your tyre pressure make sure it’s always at the recommended pressure.
3) Do not speed at junction or make emergency break always.
4) Check and service your car as schedule.
5) Use the right petrol that suitable for your car.

Check out what’s other blogger say about this BMW Drive Trip. (sixthseal,tey cindy,eiling,kyspeaks,shaolintiger)

There it ends the whole BMW Drive Trip. I must say it’s the best trip ever! =)

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BMW Efficient Dynamics Drive Day 1 – Part 2

saimatkong — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:45:14 +0000

Continue on the BMW drive…

When we reached Belum Resort, Pulau Banting, we were served champagne and some started Camwhoring

Check out Tey Cindy, Cheeserland, Sixthseal, Eiling Camwhore at Belum Resort.

Tey Cindy camwhore using BlackBerry and start twitting.

She was so excited that she camwhore on top of a table! Haha…

Then Cheeserland join in the fun!

Sixthseal & Tey Cindy

Tey Cindy & Eiling

Sixthseal & Eiling

Me & Tey Cindy

Check out Sixthseal tummy! =p

After all the photo taking session and enjoyed the breath taking scenery… We checked in to our own suite. It’s damn nice k!

Then we get to bath and rest awhile before we gathered for Buffet dinner.

Camwhore again before the dinner… This is what blogger normally do lo right?

Sixthseal & KY

KY & Eiling

Me & KYSpeaks – The famous food blogger. Haha.

Me & Sixthseal

Then only proceed to food and drinking time!

There’s so much food and we can’t finish all of them!

The environment was nice and cozy but then there’s a lot of insectss which spoiled everything!!! Hahah but it will not stop us from having fun. Huai Bin went to take Jenga and some of us started to play Jenga and the loser drink!

Jenga Time!

Robb and some was a bit drunk and the worst thing is we need to get up early the next morning for more exciting activities… =)

After the dinner and fun time, went back to my room and to my surprise there’s a lot of gifts from BMW & Petronas! Woo hoo… Portable HDD, Solar Charge, Survival Kits etc. Thanks!

Will be updating the last part and it will be included some of the interview of the bloggers of their experience of the BMW Drive. Stay Tuned!

BMW Efficient Dynamics Drive Day 1 – Part 1

saimatkong — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:57:52 +0000

BMW EfficientDynamics is a continuous strategy by BMW for the reduction of fuel consumption and CO2 emission levels, whilst at the same time enhancing the performance and dynamism of their vehicles. After the BMW drive, my perception towards diesel car it’s changed and it’s awesome.

We started our journey from KLCC to Mutiara Damansara Petronas Station. I felt like a VIP and this is probably the only time that there’s a Police Escort me and I’m driving a BMW 5 Series 520d Sports.

We were given each RM40 Petronas Vouchers so that we could stocks our needs in Mutiara Damansara Petronas Station, which was our 1st stop of the journey.

Then there’s a demo and explanation on Petronas Dynamic Diesel by Fazil.

Then we continue our journey to Ipoh and had our lunch at Indulgence. Heard that Indulgence is a very famous fine dining place in Ipoh but I find it ok ok and nothing much to shout about. (Will update more about Ipoh Indulgence later)

Before we had our lunch there’s a Efficient Dynamic Product Training by Heng from BWM.

I learned a lot about diesel in this session and yeah I will consider diesel car now if I’m getting my future car. Then we participated in some of the Q&A and it was a fun session.

1) Diesel car is not dirty, smelly, noisy and pollution anymore.
2) Diesel car is powerful.
3) Diesel car have a long better fuel consumption.
4) Diesel car is easier to maintain.
5) Diesel car is cool!

After a fine dine lunch @ Indulgence Ipoh, we continued our journey to Belum Resort. It was a bit drizzling so we had to drive with caution.

After few hours drive, finally we reached our destination, Belum Resort – Pulau Banding.

There’s a lot more photos and updates to do will be updating soon coz too tired need to ZzZZzZzz… =)

BMW Eco-Blogger Dynamic Efficient Diesel Drive 2009

saimatkong — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:51:57 +0000

Okay, I was surprise that I got an invitation to join few other famous bloggers to try out the NEW BMW Efficient Dynamic Diesel Cars. All this while I’ve been driving a local cheapo car of coz I would seize this opportunity to test drive my dream car Beemer wor, haha. Sure would be everyone dream car and wants to own it but I so poor la.

This was a 2 days 1 night journey from KLCC to Belum Resort @ Pulau Banting. Friday night can’t even sleep well coz will be driving BMW and scare la later crash or bang or scratch the car then I will need to pay the price ma so need to be extra careful too =p

So scarified my weekend sleeping time and woke up early in the Saturday morning just to prepared myself for the BMW Drive! Reached KLCC Mandarin Oriental Hotel and parked my car in! Woo hoo and then get to meet other bloggers and Big guys from BMW and Petronas too. Mingled around and enjoyed my healthy breakfast. Get to talk to some other famous bloggers that I have not met before and it’s nice to catch up with them.

Creamy scrambled egg on toasted bagel with chicken ham, Sacllion cream cheese and grilled asparagus

Then there was an introduction and briefing done and some basic information and knowledge being transferred to us so that we could handle the Beemer better. Haha.

Sashi doing a briefing and intro of the Dynamic Efficient Diesel Drive.

This is like F1 and we were assigned to a position, pole position! haha.

Then we head to our own BMW which parked right in front of KLCC. My co-driver is from Gua.com.my and he’s a nice guy. We were assigned to a 5 Series, BMW 520d! We were escort by 2 traffic police all the way to our 1st stop, A cool car to start off the journey.

BMW 5Series 520d Diesel car nice kan? =)

What is Efficient Dynamics? What happened after next? Stay tuned!

Mean while check out the BMW Diesel Drive Teaser Clip =)

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The Journey to Singapore Nuffnang Blogger Awards

saimatkong — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:28 +0000

Early in the morning reach Nuffnang office @ Heritage House, 33 Jalan Yap Ah Shak, around 7am+ but waited and mingled around till 9am then only we start our journey to Singapore. Not sure what’s the delay but this is the first time for Nuffnang to hold such big event and going down south with 3 buses of Bloggers from Malaysia for sure a difficult thing to co-ordinate and will not success without the co-operate from all the Bloggers. AM I right? =)

See even Sixthseal (Huai Bin) checking company mail while waiting there.

Sleep along the way to Singapore and stop by a few R&R and there wasted a lot of time too and finally reach Singapore @ 5pm. Woo hoo. Tot could go straight to bed and have a good nap but night mare, coz too many ppl and hard to manage, hence the check in process took more than 30mins – 1 hrs. Maybe next round could collect the passport, cash or credit card before reaching the hotel instead of running around looking for the blogger which scattered around. Arghh, not too patient. =p

Finally reach Link Hotel, Singapore

Checking in to Link Hotel!

I’ve been using my Xpax BlackBerry Curve 8520 to check twitter and do live update on the Singapore Nuffnang Awards trip all the way from Malaysia to Singapore. Cool right? =) So that my readers and follower will know what’s happening and to those that never go to the nnawards to keep an eye on the glamour event.

Will be posting the Nuffnang Awards Night and the rest of the interesting activities soon… found something good in Singapore 7-11! Want to know more? =)

Nuffnang Asia Pacific Blogger Awards 2009 @ Singapore

saimatkong — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:37:54 +0000

Wooo hoo, Nuffnang Blogger Awards 2009 ended and just reached Link Hotel, finally after a long wait for the bus, for almost 1 hour, should be able to back to hotel earlier and rest.. arghh tiring. Anyway XiaXue from Singapore won 3 awards! Wow!

Here’s some updates while I will cover more when I’m back in Kuala Lumpur!

Nuffnang Blogger Awards Trophy

Best Entertainment Blog – Have not another single boring moment.
Kenny Sia

Best Original Blog Design, Most Influential Blog, Region’s Best Blog
Xia Xue

Kenny Sia run to the stage when Xia Xue taking her Best Original Blog Design and grab the mic and said “Steven Lim has the best blog design ever…” I guess he meant Blogger Singapore Steven Lim… haha.

Best Celebrity Blog
Joanne Peh 白薇秀 from Media Corp Singapore. Love her movie The Little Nyonya (Mediacorp, 2008) and Beach.Ball.Babes (MediaCorp, 2008) which is recently aired in AEC Astro.

Kenny Sia and Joanne Peh 白薇秀 the excellent blogger!

Unhealthiest Blogger Award…

saimatkong — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:00:32 +0000

After PRUhealth Sharing Session and Spa Massage we (kenny sia, kyspeaks, cheeserland, 5xmom, redmummy, snowxwhite, sixthseal…) went for health check.

This was the metal that we need to hold it all the time during the health check, it’s even scary is the machine will sound like siren.

Check on leg too.

Arghh… luckily I cut my toe nails yesterday night. =p

Result was written down on the paper.

5xMom using view cam to record down on health check process…

The machine that do all the work. It will sound like siren when doing the check. It must be range between 50-55 so that it’s normal.

Then my turn to do it.

In the process of checking…

My health check result.

When the doctor explaining my result, I looked scare because I’m not healthy… oh no.

*drum roll*

Healthiest Blogger Award goes to RedMummy.

And

The Unhealthiest Blogger Award goes to… *everyone was silent for a moment..* saimatkong!

So sad. Sumore they gave me a plastic ball, badminton racket and all the other sports equipment to indicate that I need more exercise to live a healthier lifestyle.

Winner vs Loser.

Another award was the dress code award, which only one came in the dress code, congrats Kenny Sia.

Then before conclude the session, we had a Q&A session.

Wait… we still have a Q&A question, don’t go home 1st!

Thinking how to answer the bloggers’ questions.

Mr Tan trying his best to cover all the questions and giving some tips on insurance and PRUhealth.

Group photo of all the bloggers.

Before we leave, each of us was given a goodies bags and a Omron – Walking Style, to analyze the data regarding our personal physical activity. So far I used it for one week and it’s almost the same except when I go to 1 Utama Shopping. Haha. Shopping is a good exercise too.

Stay healthy dude!

Pruhealth Sharing Session and Spa Massage

saimatkong — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:40:45 +0000

After mingling around with all the other famous bloggers, (kenny sia, kyspeaks, cheeserland, 5xmom, redmummy, snowxwhite, sixthseal…) we gathered for a PRUhealth sharing session to kick start the event.

“Finally, a medical plan that rewards us for being healthy, and covers us when we are not!”

Let me tell you some important point: -

PRUhealth lets you enjoy something new and outstanding which you can’t find in the current market

- No Claim Bonus (NCB)

If you are familiar with this term NCB then you should have a better picture of it. It’s actually very simple, if you stay healthy and do not make any claim in the year then you are entitled for this bonus. PRUhealth will reward you with a No Claim Bonus (NCB) by purchasing additional units for your investment in the following year. The amount of bonus paid depends on the plan that you have chosen. The NCB is up to RM500 which is benefiting people like you and me.

It’s actually very good and flexible plan, because I see this from the Car Insurance perspective as I never ever claim any single cents from the insurance because I’m a safe driver and hence the bonus is good for me if not it’s like you are just paying the insurance company without getting anything but only when accident happens. So this is benefiting us right?

- Choice of plans to suit your budget & Annual Limit Waiver

Everyone deserves to be covered. Whether you’re a student surviving on a low income, a newly wedded couple or enjoying your golden years, you’ll find a PRUhealth plan to suit your needs. Enjoy full protection with premiums from as low as RM100 a month.

Most medical plans impose a limit on how much you can claim every year. What most people don’t realise is that face that this annual limit can easily be exceeded should you need major surgery or treatment. PRUhealth now has the option of waiving that limit so you can claim up to the lifetime limit. Particularly helpful if you ever need to undergo major surgery or treatment

- Coverage of up to 100 years old (Wow, don’t know can live up to that old or not)

With rising standards in healthcare, the average life expectancy is increasing steadily. As we age, we are more prone to getting sick. With medical expenses going up every year, it will cost more to seek treatment in the future. It’s reason enough to ensure adequate protection well into your golden years, especially when you need it most and by doing that you will not burden you children on the expensive medical fees.

So stay healthy and get rewarded today! =)

After the briefing session, we went on with other activities of the days.

While some doing health check, some gang were chit chatting, some were cam whoring…

All gathered along with Kenny Sia and chat with him and talk about his new fitness center.

Saw a cat so thought of snapping it as it’s so cute and adorable.

While the rest were doing health check, I go relax =p. I’m did Spa massage. woo… 1st time doing hot stone massage.

Vila Manja has a nice and relaxing environment.

See the hot stone?! They are really hot! Haha.

Thanks ky for snapping this picture for me before the massage session, look so excited.

Did some filtering to filter out my layer of fats. OMG. If not looks like Michelins Man.

After the massage feels like my bone even sore and pain. Regretted choosing hot stone massage, should have chosen relaxing massage or something lighter.

Then had my lunch while waiting for my turn to do the health check.

Nice lunch but scare to eat a lot because might affect the check later. Haha.

Blogger Gathering @ Vila Manja for a healthy spa session

saimatkong — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:00:35 +0000

It was a lovely Saturday morning and I reluctant to get myself up of the bed because it’s a weekend and the only day that could sleep till noon, but think of the massage, it jumped up. Bangun pagi, gosok gigi, cuci muka, mini susu…

After prepared myself and was wondering what to wear for the PruHealth’s briefing for bloggers, because there’s a theme for it. It’s either a life saving doctor? a patient? Or a health freak? I see that I don’t fit to any of the category so I decided to wear a simple shirt and jeans. Luckily all of the other bloggers didn’t wear something special so that it will not make me abnormal and outstanding, except Kenny Sia who came with sportswear just like after jogging. Guess what? He will be automatically the winner as no one was competing for the best dress blogger. Haha.

Lilian (5xmom) was the 1st to arrive, because she and her family drove all the way from Penang (Food Island) as early as 4-5am, really salute her. This was the 1st time meeting Lilian in real person as we always talk and chit chat on the virtual world which is the Internet. Then me and Lilian went on to snap snap around the whole vila before other bloggers arrive.

look at the angle she took, so pro. =p

Look, it’s a really nice environment to have a gathering and this is the 1st time ever event and briefing at Spa. Woo~~ Nice =)

Got award sumore~

Nicely setup and decorated for the Pruhealth event, even toy stethoscope… etc.

More blogger arrived and they started to camwhore…

1…2…3… jump… aiks fell into the water. oops. *evil smile*

Kyspeaks – the fomous food blogger with own map.

sixthseal & cheesie

While some camwhore, some chit chatting, some eating and enjoying their breakfast…

Nice western breakfast with coffee, tea or juice.

Kenny Sia eating his breakfast.

After all the guests and bloggers arrived we have the event started. Want to know what happened after that? Stay tuned for more updates.