52 Reasons I Love You

Decided to make a handmade gift for someone special, so googled online for inspiration and found the "52 Reasons I Love You" deck of cards.

It's a rather sweet idea/gift, for your girlfriend/boyfriend/mummy/daddy/friends and whoever you love! :D

Of course, coming up with 52 reasons took quite some time and some braincells. 52 different and unique reasons, specifically tailored to the person. Certainly, you can find tons of reasons online and just do a copy-and-paste, but that would defeat the original purpose right? Best to think of some reasons yourself. :p

So, if you did a google search, there are actually a lot of tutorials online. Most of them includes punching holes at the side and attaching book rings at the side.

Anyway, the first step would be to do or find a template and print it out. You can do it via Powerpoint and the rectangles are 6cm by 4cm. Well, I searched online for super long to find a nice template, which is here: http://www.slideshare.net/carrieannwoody/52-reasons-i-love-you-blank. Hehe, I changed the fonts only and insert pictures into every rectangle. I prefer to have pictures + words hahaha. Nicer mah!

Printouts of the 52 reasons

I blurred the above picture on purpose :p I'm too shy to showcase the reasons and I believed that the reasons should only be seen by the eyes of the one and only :D

 Yeah, the easier task was the printing. T.T Took some time to think and type in the reasons, add in relevant pictures, adjust the placing of words/pictures to make it nice nice. But well, think of how happy the person would feel receiving it made it worthwhile. :D

Finally cut out all of them. Looked like a mini deck of cards eh? And the cutting part wasn't easy as I thought due to the gap in between each rectangle was actually quite narrow! So spent some time on the cutting haha. Perhaps, to make it easier, should just shift the positions of the rectangles so that there are no gaps in between? Maybe it would be easier to cut.

Now, would be to stick it onto the deck of cards!



I stuck it onto a deck of normal Bicycle deck that I happened to have. :)
Can be any poker card deck too!

Next, I decided to use those trading card holders to slot the cards in. Haha, feeling abit lazy to punch holes for each of them. Coincidentally, managed to find this in Diaso IMM for just $2! 

Can protect from the cards from wear and tear also! :p

Yay, done with the 52 Reasons I Love You cards! ^_^

 :)

Fruit Paradise

Dinner with Rebecca at Fruit Paradise at Plaza Singapura located at level four, it's near Aijsen Ramen, just that you have to walk all the way in! Apparently, it's part of the Ajisen family too. 

Due to the name of the outlet, I initially thought that they served only fruits-related food? Hahaha.

But I was so so so WRONG. 

Above picture is some cheese baked rice that I ordered. Looks yummy right! 

And yes, I licked the bowl clean. :D

 The pasta dish ordered by my friend. Yummylicious too! :D 

Next, we decided to try out the Fruit Tarts that they have on display. As we are sitting near to the display, it was as if the fruit tarts were screaming at us to buy them. T.T 

Looks more like cake instead of fruit tart right? Shouldn't it be round like egg tart? Haha.

Actually, YES THEY ARE.

taken from: http://www.ajisen.com.sg/fruitparadise/ 

They do sell in one big piece of fruit tart too! But it's quite big! 

Per slice it's about 6 plus, which we ordered that time.

 Chocolate Banana! Super love love this! 

Gonna be in the list of one of my favorite fruit tarts! :)

I'm sinfully happy!

Weekend Genting Getaway

Went to Genting over the last weekend with my besties! Departed on Friday at about ten plus, close to eleven, at Golden Mile Complex. And yay, love the double decker Five Stars Tours coach! The experience was totally different as compared to ten years ago, when I went Genting with them. Now, their seats are comfy plus with massage, leg room is awesome and can watch movies or play games! Simply awesome!

Entertainment on the coach!

Friend playing Puzzle Bobble on the coach. Blurred due to moving coach :S

And so, we arrived there on the wee hours of the morning, about 5am! It's pretty cold, and while we just got down from the coach and making our way to the building, a cold gust of wind just whoosh by! Sending shivers down our entire body hahaha. And that's after a friend commented, "Where got cold?". What an irony! It's like the nature is answering him hahaha!

Near the hotel lobby, people asleep while waiting to check in in the morning

The empty row of counters :(

After asking around and queuing for a number to be called starting from 9AM, we went to McDonald's to chill. We have about FOUR hours to KILLLLLLL! GAHHH. :(

Breakfast at 5+ AM! Drinking the hot tea in a cold weather is so warming!

Monopoly Deal to kill time!

Finally, after what seemed like an eternal wait, the counter(s) are open! Slowly...

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The result of waiting close to 2 hours...

Still not our turn yet! ;(

Our queue number is 140. Despite getting the number at 5am last night, it was still quite a large number. Lesson learnt: We should have bought express checkin, maybe the queue and waiting time will be much shorter!

Spotted a cute boy wearing a Tweety bird jacket! :D

Camwhoring bait while waitinggggg...

At last, we managed to check in at about 12.30pm! Gosh, what a long waittttttttt!

The room! Looks small but cozy and have everything you need ;) Not sure if there's air-con though, cos there was no controller for it. There was a hugeass fan overlooking the bed though. But amazingly, even without aircon (maybe), it was not hot. Probably cos of Genting's cool weather and all haha.

There's a safety deposit box too! Handy! :D

Proceeding to the theme park, spotted Statue of Liberty on a motorcycle!

Theme park in sight!

For the theme park, we purchased the unlimited indoor and outdoor rides for 1 day at RM66 per person.

View of First World Hotel from the outside

The Flying Coaster!

And no, we didn't pay extra for the Flying Coaster. 

Just showed our wristband, probably now no need to pay extra? Hahaha

The Flying Coaster! Queued probably close to 2 hours for it. ;) It's really fun and heart thumping haha. There are no safety belts, only a metal gate behind your back, so relying on your hand grasp and feet. It's lying down, like superman kind. And there are two 360 degrees turns! Both my hands and feet gripped on damn tightly HAHAHA. Exhilarating! ;)

Sat on the Pirate Ship as well! The queue was moving fast, waited for a short duration only.

The 'Flying' Carousel! FUNNNNN! And windy! Hahaha. Short waiting time too.

The Spaceshot! So high up in the sky! I wondered how high is it.

We sat on the Spaceshot as well! Super super long waiting time! Maybe 2 hours or so? :/

Pretty fun, hahaha but the ride felt like it was over in a moment of seconds. Haha, I guess the most heart racing part was during the first mega drop! Anyway, there has been rumors that an accident in which the woman's scalp/head got ripped off in this particular ride as her long hair was caught when it was going down? Omg scary :/

And wow, the Spaceshot is so much TALLER than the First World Hotel. :O

The Ferris Wheel, which we forsake it to queue for the Spaceshot beside.

The Corkscrew Rollercoaster ride!

The queue for Corkscrew was quite okay, moves relatively fast, compared to The Flying Coaster and the Spaceshot. One time can seat 24 person :)

The track of Corkscrew. There's two 360 degrees turns!

The Corkscrew was fun, but way less scarier as compared to USS Battlestar Galactica, which is faster and more heart racing.

The world of Dinosaurs

LOL at my petrified expression! -__-

Cute tram!

Sunday, Day Two.

We woke up really late, hahaha. As the night before, we decided to have brunch instead. More time for sleeping! :P

Big pot of Bakuteh! Cheap and good!! :D

Yummy!

Coach departed on Sunday in the afternoon. About 1.30pm?
 Reached Singapore at about 8 plus at night. :)

Short weekend getaways from the bustling Singapore ;)

Beware of Malaysia Travel Scratch-and-Win Scams!

In recent years, there has been a myriad of Travel scratch card scams. I'm writing this so as to warn other people to be careful! There is no such thing as free lunch in the world! If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. 

The story goes like this, my Dad received 2 'professional looking' scratch cards alongside with a brochure with the 'face' of the director of the company inside. Poor thing, don't know whose picture they ripped off. On first look, it appeared 'professional' as they took effort in printing the scratch cards, even with a glossy finish.

Curious, I went to their website to take a look. Despite being a 7 years old reputable Travel company, there are spelling mistakes all over the website, alignment issues and the so called 'travel deals' cannot be clicked on etc. Too many mistakes please! Seems like the website does not do the 'professional looking' scratch cards justice. And to add on, the website was only created in 2012. Hmm, fishy no? And oh, one of the MOST deadly sins that they have committed at their website which is such a giveaway that it's a scam is this.

We at Emperial Travel (malaysia) is...

WAIT. WHAT DID YOU SAY? Emperial Travel?!?! I thought your company is 'The Empire Travel'? Wah, such a spelling mistake also can make! Name of the company also can type wrong! BOO.

Updated: They have changed the copy and paste mistake. But still, tons of grammatical errors and spelling mistakes, what an eyesore.

So, I googled 'Emperial Travel' and TA-DAH! There are results!

http://www.tripadvisor.in/ShowTopic-g293951-i7006-k4967875-Emperial_travel_survey_prizes_Scam_maybe-Malaysia.html

Haiyo, hello dear scam company, if you want to change name of the company from time to time so as to scam more innocent people, please at least change the name too? Just simply copy and paste effort also can result in a major loophole like this!

Lesson to be learn: Copy and paste and change accordingly! TSK.

And since it's just a reputable travel company which supposedly has been around for 7 years running, why there's totally no news of it at all when I tried to google initially. Totally no good/bad reviews of a travel company? Fishy again.

Few days later, a google search and this churned out some answers that it's an obvious scam!

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120621014919AAySSNn

As I have some spare time then, I decided to play along with them. I want to see what tactics do they actually have up their sleeves. So, they called me up and said that since the top 3 prizes were sponsored by the Hong Kong company, Premier Marketing Authority (There is no such company when I googled, and the website layout style is similar to The Empire Travel), I'm a non-client and I have to be discrete about it in case the clients of the Hong Kong company found out that they have given away the prize to a non-client. What a way to get me to shut my mouth about it and telling people, hur.

Next, the claim officer tried to build trust and rapport with you first. She did WAY TOO MUCH talking. Even telling me that she came to USS before blah blah and want to be friends with me if she come to Singapore again in the future. EEYER. HOW DISGUSTED.

 Then I told her to send the details to my email. Apparently she did not initially. When she called again, I pressed her to send the details to my email as I can't remember all that was said. Eventually, she relented.

Below is a screenshot of the email from the person called 'Christina Leong' at christina.leong@theempiretravel.com. Nah I doubt it's her real name anyway, and not mine either. 

Need to have letter of authorization to claim prize money from the Sponsor (Premier Marketing Authority) in which the Hong Kong Government will charge a fee for it. Please! Since when got such a law? Never heard of it before! What a scam! Check this out: http://www.justanswer.com/law/5p79e-whom-may-cocern-i-recieved-two-scratch-cards.html

Seems like the scammers are targeting in other countries as well! Even Australia!

Click to read the news belows:

http://www.commerce.wa.gov.au/corporate/Media/statements/2009/May/Malaysian_travel_lottery_fraud.html

http://www.commerce.wa.gov.au/Corporate/Media/statements/2011/October/More_Malaysian_travel_scam_bro.html

How interesting, the extent to which the scammers are doing. Printing out nice glossy brochures/scratch cards to appear professional, talking alot of bullshit so as to gain the trust etc. Who knows what other tricks they might dish out in the future. But apparently, this Malaysia Travel scratch card scams have been around for some time already, and they have been switching names of the fake 'company' from time to time.

Share it with your loved ones! And don't fall for it! :)

Posted it on my Facebook notes as well.

Updated:
1. You can actually check the http://www.matta.org.my to check if the Travel company is legitimate or not. All the travel agencies are under the Malaysian Association of Tour & Travel(MATTA). If it is, probably they are just using the name only, you should file a complaint to MATTA.

2. Also, if the so called Hong Kong sponsor company is for real, which is a financial institution. You can also check under the HK Securities and Futures Commission website.

3. Made a police report already. If the company is legitimate, then they have nothing to fear :)