Massive impact in a tiny sleek machine

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YAY ME!! I got myself a new toy to play with and this time it's the HTC HD mini phone!

Got invited to the HTC HD mini event down at Ion, so there I went! I was most pleasantly surprised to find out that they were providing hair and make up for guests for a mini (pun intended) photoshoot!!

Being hiao, I immediately went for the empty hair styling hot seat!

Stylist was blow-drying my hair coz it's still a bit wet!







What better to do than to play with my new phone while getting hair done??

Took a few camwhoring shots and IT WAS AWESOME!!

At 5 mega pixels (auto focus! Widescreen Photo Capture!) all the photos taken turned out so nice! Stupid Blackberry's camera is just bloody 3.2mp. -_-

Me + mini

All my hair straightened! And then the hair stylist took quite some time to transform my boring tresses into a elaborate curls!

This is the make up counter...



Tadah!!!!!! Poofed up hair!
It's time for my photoshoot!!

(Don't ask me what's the pink rectangle in the photo for the life of me I can't figure it out!! I think my camera went siao. Or maybe the phone can chu power. Hadoken!)

They printed out the photos for us, magazine-styled, and here is mine!

How? Cover girl material or what?!

Reviewing the photo taken by the pros...



And take another with my camera!! Artsy boh!!

They also have many other HTC phones around to let the invited guests play with, including the mini!

On the outside, the HTC looks so boring being all black, but the inside will completely surprise you!!

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It is BUMBLEBEE YELLOW!!!

How cute and happy-looking!! LOL

Now for a little more about the product...

The HTC HD mini is a fully touchscreen phone and I don't usually like touchscreen phones but it was intuitive and surprisingly enough it was a breeze typing on it!

The interface is great with a fully customizable home page where you can place your most commonly used applications.

Lightweight and tiny, but has everything you need in a smartphone! Besides all the usual stuff (like 3G, wifi, bluetooth etc), I also like it that the multimedia player includes an FM radio!! Now I don't have to have a radio to listen to Rozz's show!

Another thing that pleasantly surprised me was the Animated Weather Wallpaper.

Amazingly enough the phone detects the weather today and animates your phone accordingly! Damn chio lah!! It was cloudy so I had clouds float around the screen, telling me that it's 27 degrees! (Night time as I am writing this)

BEST OF ALL?

I found it fantastic that when I got the phone out of the box, all the most commonly used smartphone apps were already installed for me by some considerate geek from the HTC headquarters.

All you need is your sim card and you can tweet, fb, msn with friends etc all without waiting! Watch Youtube videos! And never get lost again with Google Maps!

I didn't have to muck around with finding the apps and installing them and rebooting my phone etc!

But if you DO want more apps, they are easy to find using Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Get as many as you want!

Yes... This is the star of this entry.
But if you think I'm done here you are wrong!


THE HTC HD MINI GETS A
COMPLETE MAKEOVER!!


Black? One tone? NO WAY!

If the inside of the phone is so customizable,
so must the outside, right??





First it gets Gmasked at the kiosk at the event...




And then it is now a DELICIOUS shade of pink


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AND IT IS BLINGED UP...

IN CANDY STRIPES + A PINK RIBBON!

Yes I did the blinging myself!!

AND AND AND
YES YOU CAN WIN THIS PHONE,
BLINGED BY YOURS TRULY!!!

Just prove you have been paying attention to my blog entry by telling me

1) five awesome features I mentioned about the HTC HD mini, and

2) include WHY YOU NEED A SMARTPHONE in not more than 200 words

Most Creative entry wins!

Send your entry to htchdmini@nuffnang.com by 5th May 2010 and you might get this (almost) brand new HTC HD mini phone!

Could be yours!

The phone, not me.

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Post-it® Brand Celebrates its 30th Birthday = an awesome contest and prizes!!

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And summarized by me!

(Blog post done entirely using Post-it Notes! Creative or what!)



Here are some ways I use Post-it® Notes:

TO GIVE DIRE WARNINGS:



And stop people from stealing my stuff.



TO STICK ON PEOPLE:

I did this and laughed to myself for a good half hour!! *wipes away tears* Ah that's good entertainment.

TO DECIDE ON MY LIP COLOUR FOR THE DAY:





Think I'd go with the pink...

AS REMINDERS:



Yes your furry critters will appreciate the extra noms they get.



And to remind myself to bleach my black roots...



TO SHOW LOVEEEEEE:



Put sweet little notes in unexpected places... Gives loads of joy!



To celebrate Post-it®'s 30th birthday,
they are giving away generous prizes!!




Fun, huh?

Have a great idea about how to use a Post-it® Note, or maybe the way you use your Post-it® notes is really innovative?

Be sure to take part!

It's really simple. Just creatively use Post-it® Super Sticky Notes (must be super sticky kind), and take a short video or picture!!!

After that,

Submit your entry by 18th April and you could WIN!!!!!!!!!

Isn't it great!! Submit now!

And don't steal my ideas I'm also going to take part! My entry is the last picture (the one in the toilet mirror)
coz I think it's the most simple and touching! :D

(More contest details HERE)

Want to win instant prizes instead? If you are a nuffnang blogger you can win exclusive Post-it® Brand hampers!! Details click HERE. Super easy!

Happy Birthday Post-it® Brand!

P/s: Join Post-it® Brand's FACEBOOK page HERE!

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When in Rome, Fall in Love

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Was invited to the premiere of movie When In Rome, starring uber cute Kristen Bell (trivia: She's also the voice of Gossip Girl!) and the uber cute Josh Duhamel (married to Fergie)!

I was so excited coz it is done by the same people
who did The Proposal, which was FABULOUS!




Oh Ryan Reynolds...
I think they have a heck of choosing the crazy cute male leads!

Went into the theatre expecting to be entertained and I was!!

I'm totally a sucker for romantic comedies. You know, easy to understand, funny, characters are always cute, and so lighthearted!

The start of the movie featured Beth (Kristen Bell) being totally unlucky in love, seemingly unable to find "The One" for her. Well, predictable enough. Upset, Beth picks up coins that others have thrown into the Fountain of Love in Rome. She thinks love doesn't exist and these coins were wasted wishing for it!!

Unbeknownst to her, the coins carry a spell and all the men who had the coins picked up started being mad in love with her!

Now this is when the movie starts to be really hilarious!! The stellar cast of funnymen really brought the movie forward with their antics!

Dex Shepard, who is Kristen Bell's real life boyfriend, plays a narcissistic model who is in love with himself.

He is my favourite!! So funny!! His one liners are soooo fantastic!! Like Derek Zoolander but worse.

Will Arnett (married to Amy Poehler), plays a crazy painter. I really liked him in Blades of Glory!

Jon Heder plays an emo Magician who isn't really that good with this tricks.

The last time I saw him was on Blades of Glory where is he BLONDE with feathered hair so I was just so amused by him in black hair and eyeliner! And red nail polish!! LOLOL

Danny DeVito, obviously needs no introduction, plays a sausage magnate.

His character was the most unfunny of all the guys though.

Last but not least Josh Duhamel plays Nick, an ex sportsman who actually got struck by lighting!! LOLOL... Very cute!!

*****

So. While smothered with the affection of these guys, Beth is on a quest to find out if Nick (Josh Duhamel) is really in love with her or also just under the spell! And how does she get these other guys to stop?

Well, I guess to find out you have to watch the movie and see what happens! There are many twists thrown in too!

I guess many girls can relate to this movie...

When you are looking to fall in love, there will be like NO GUYS.

After a break up, or when your exams are here/career is keeping you busy, all these guys appear out of nowhere and it's like you just don't know which to pick! I'm just kidding, I never had many guys like me at once. Boohoohoo!! Never mind lah I'm married already.

I don't believe in The One though.

I just believe that it's incredibly hard to find two people who both think that the other party is too good for them. When you get that extraordinary situation, where both parties find themselves really lucky, then they'll get past the first hurdle of whether they want to commit. Everything else can then work themselves out. :)

Afterall, The One should encompass your partner thinking you are his special One too, right? If not it's like stupid and one-sided and buay paiseh.



Ok enough yabbering! Now for the fun part!!

Wanna give your view of what
qualities "The One" should have?

Join When In Rome's facebook page to give your answer!! Just simply choose among a list of qualities which is the most important to you when it comes to finding a life partner!

I'm really quite interested in finding out the results for Singaporeans will be!!! I think it is "Stable CPF".

AHAHAHAHHA!! No lah... Maybe faithfulness? Loyalty? Being able to last more than 3 mins in bed? Could be anything.

Actually right now the results are slanted towards... DEEP POCKETS!!

I guess we are all materialistic afterall. LOL

JOIN HERE!!!

Prizes to be won too!



Organiser!


Watch!


Keychain!

So cute! Well the items are obviously for girls so men who are cheapo/poor can try to win so you can give your girlfriend the stuff!

Or they can bring their girlfriends to watch the movie too!!!


Here's the trailer:



Have fun!!

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