And it's another win in the bag!!

It's been ages since I last posted something up, partly due to assignments and commitments at various departments of my life, but anywhoo, here's an update!

WE'VE WON THE CNCJETSET COMPETITION!!! (for details of the competition, please read the post before this :)

Thanks Shalom and Please Lah for letting me in on this competition with you two! If it weren't for the both of you, i wouldn't have even heard about this. And I know that i didn't really and couldn't really contribute much (because practically everything was already done!), but I thank you for letting me in on your plans (and prizes) as well :) BIG HUGGIES FOR THE EXTRA SISTERS!!!!

And to everyone who voted, THANKS A MILLION B MILLION C MILLION!!!
And to those who helped to get votes, THANKS A 3llion 4llion and 5llion!!

You guys are to awesome!!! XD

Yet Another One.

The contest fever is back again!!!


This time, it's a Johnson & Johnson - Clean & Clear contest, where the grand prize winner gets to win a free holiday (flight tickets for 4 and accommodation) to any destination in the ASEAN region, and a whole bunch of other stuff!! ^.^ We just had to submit a video of me and my BFF (can you believe it, i'm actually using the 'BFF' term) on our dream holiday, make believe of course.

Judging criteria is 50% the Organiser and 50% public vote (yes, i know you're tired of voting for contests, but pretty pretty please?~*). The way to vote is to rate the video which has been uploaded on Youtube under the 'cncjetset' channel. You'd need to have a youtube account to do this. If you have gmail, signing up for one is a whole lot easier - just requires you to choose a username and set your date of birth, and you're good to go!

Do vote for us (Anna and Priscilla)!! We'd thoroughly appreciate it =D
Vote here!

And I've to give full credit to Priscilla and Sharon Lim and their manz for actually doing EVERYTHING. I didn't do anything at all. Well, at least not much. Like, really not much. They thought of the idea, made the props and puppets and stuff, did the editing, etc etc etc. I'm just here to lend them my age :P

Huh?

The max age to join this contest is 21. Initially the Lim sistaz were doing it together, but after reading the terms and conditions again they realised that one of them wasn't eligible! Since i'm still technically 21, and since the trip entitles the winners to 4 flight tickets (2 for the participants, 2 for their guardians 21 years old and above) which means that the ineligible sister can still go as a guardian if we win, they roped me in :)

So thank you extra sisters!! All credit goes to you two and your hard work!! Sorry i couldn't/didn't do much :(

Anyways.

Remember. Vote here!


Muchos Gracias!!

The Shopaholic Star Search Contest

I won. Hee :)

When the contest details first came out, i couldn't sleep that night. Was too caught up thinking about what to do, how to do it, how to give what they're asking for, and how to be different - that was my strategy. I kept telling myself that "your imagination is your limit".

When it came to shooting the pictures, it wasn't so smooth sailing either. One thing i had to consider was the natural lighting. I only had about 2 weeks to snap the pictures, but i had to work on weekdays (which means I can't get the afternoon lighting then), which left me with the weekends. I figured that I had to get all 15 shots (that I was planning to edit into a single picture) done in one sitting to avoid getting different lighting. Besides that, I had to plan what outfit-hair-accessory combination to wear in accordance with the characteristic each photo was going to portray. Then I thought it wise to determine the order of the 'photoshoot' to be able to get it done in optimum time (eg: do same hair-styled photos in a row). I even typed out a table/checklist of sorts to organize my thoughts! And for the other picture, I took about an hour and a half to create the 'set'. Tiring, I tell you, more so since I was having a bad case of the flu and a slight fever.

Then when the results were com-ing out, I couldn't sleep again. Anxiety got the best of me. When the screen was in front of me, I kept clicking the refresh button to see if there were any latest updates.

Finally, when the results came out...

:)
It was all worth it.

Just wanna say a big thanks to:

- Sha-Lene for organising this contest and having to go through the troublesome process of getting the sponsors, blogging about the contest details, accepting the entries, posting them up, counting the votes and announcing the winners. It must have been a handful for you! But thanks so so so very much for this =)
- The Sponsors: The Kooky Thing, Agape Boutique, Arabian Nites, Kawaii Store, Mia and Mika, Itsy Beadsy, PattyBelle, Pebbles, Chaz Boutique and I Love Wonderland for voting for my pictures and sponsoring the wonderful prizes! (hee... free publicity for you guys here :P)
- The Readers/Voters (the bf, the bf's sister, the sister and the mom, amongst others-whom-I-don't-know-but-really-appreciate) for seeing something in my pictures and casting your votes for it :)
- The Photographers, Daniel and Esther, for taking the time off to help me with this contest :)

Thanks so much, you guys, for everything!

Contests! Contests! Contests!

I llllooooovvveeeee contests!!! Well, who doesn't? ^-^

Anyway, this blog post about contests serves two purposes:

1. Thank You YourShoppingKaki!!!

No, i didn't win (bummer! :(), but apparently my entry (check out my first post) was shortlisted! Yay! :D Sure, I still don't get anything, but hey... shows I was that close. Makes me even more determined. And makes me feel that the ability to win contests is really not that far out of my reach after all :) Thank you YSK, or (on a more personal note) Sha-Lene, for having given me this opportunity to join your contests and shortlisting me for one of it. It really helped me not feel so useless and incapable :P

Click here to see the contest results

2. Watsons "Share A Smile" Contest

I've been shortlisted for another contest - the Watsons "Share A Smile" Contest! The instruction was merely to send in a photo which will make people smile of laugh. What are the prizes? Just imagine: walking into Watsons. 60 seconds on the clock. To grab anything and everything. Yeah, that's the prize :)

1st Place - 1 minute FREE shopping at Watsons
2nd Place - 45 seconds FREE shopping at Watsons
3rd Place - 30 seconds FREE shopping at Watsons

It's simply i-r-r-e-s-i-s-t-i-b-l-e!! I would REALLY REALLY RREEEEAAALLLYYYY appreciate it if you could spend just a *couple* of seconds to put in your vote for my submitted photo. A couple of details:

- my entry is the one under "Anna Chieng Lin Wen" called "constipation" where it has 3 people in green
- you'll need to register once, then you can just login from there onwards to vote
- you can vote daily from 25/12/2009 - 7/1/2010
- you can vote 3 times a day
- if you vote, you stand to win RM50 vouchers to shop at Watsons! (and they have 10 to give away!! *oh, joy*)

So if you have some time to spare, do spare a vote for my shortlisted photo :)
vote here!

*Special thanks to Khoo Hsien Yew for taking the photo and giving me permission to use it for this contest, Jeh Loh and Peter Yu for being in the photo, and Danny Wang for organising the trip to Penang during which we took the photo!*

I'M ON BLOGSPOT!!!!

Check this out. I've FINALLY got a blog. Yea. Pigs are flying.

And what prompted the pigs to fly? This -> The Big Bang contest: http://yourshoppingkaki.blogspot.com/search/label/Big%20Bang

Instructions:
1. Blog about your 3 Wishes [for products from How2Shop: http://how2shop.blogspot.com]
2. Facebook it!
3. Tweet!
4. Tell us [yourshoppingkaki and how2shop]!

Blogspot and Twitter all in one day. Yea. The pigs are really flying.

Call me a cheapskate or an opportunist if you like, but times are hard and my parents have worked hard enough to give me more than just a comfortable life. I've grabbed (or at least attempted to grab) any and every contest opportunity that has come my way, ever since i realized that they're not impossible to win. I want not only to be able to do something for myself and, in a sense, support myself (or rather my shopping needs :P), but I also love to see the look on my parent's faces when i tell them that I've won something, or better still, if i've won something for them. It saves them their hard-earned money (think 'sikit-sikit lama-lama menjadi bukit').

I'm not a very smart or capable person you see, so to be able to win something makes me feel a *lil* bit more able to give something back to my parents, in return for all they've done for me. So Ma and Pa (particularly Ma, since the products are all for females :P), this goes out to you :)

Presenting...

- Anna's Wishlist -

I don't believe in Santa, so...

Dear yourshoppingkaki/how2shop,

Wish #1 - A Coach Signature Denim Tote (Style # 12877)

- Picture courtesy of how2shop -

Mummy's such a thrifty person that she avoids buying new bags so long as hers is still usable. It's so old, torn and tattered, but yet she refuses to spend on a new one, though i think she should. Even when the zipper could no longer work, she rationalized that it could still hold necessities inside. When the straps broke, she argued that she could still clip them under her armpits. When there's a hole, she'd merely patch up and sew up the hole.

She even took in my old bag which i no longer use. The outer layer of the material is already tearing off, and the inner material has a big hole at the base (things get lost in there!). She says that it's still perfectly functional and plans to use it once her current 4-year-old bag spoils.

Please grant her this beautiful bag, because i not only want her to have a new, in-good-condition bag, but a nice one at that. Mummy deserves something nice every once in a while :)

Wish #2 - Christmas Special Sale - Coach Ali Leather Small Wallet (Style # 2644)

- Picture courtesy of how2shop -

My AUD$9 wallet is becoming like my old bag. It's starting to have holes on the outer layer material and it's also looking torn. It's turning dirty too.

I guess because it's a rather cheap wallet, it might not have been designed properly. Some of the card-holding compartments are so tight that it's extremely difficult to take out the cards. Whereas some of the other card compartments can't even hold any card at all because it's just sewn a tad bit too small!

I've never gotten anything branded before, because i always thought they were too expensive (I am my mother's daughter after all! :). No Coach, no Liz Claiborne, no Gucci... not even MNG and Topshop! It'd be nice to have my very first branded item. It'd be like a little treasure that i'd take extremely good care of :)

Wish #3 - Victoria's Secret (Ultimate Make-up Kit)

- Picture courtesy of how2shop -

This is something that mummy and I will be able to share, together with che che 1 and che che 2. It'd be a product that would be put to good use :D

Mummy sometimes has low self-esteem because she doesn't think she's pretty. When she was younger, she hung out with a (then-not-yet) Miss Malaysia, and thus always lived under her shadows (thank God for Papa who saw more than just skin deep and into her beautiful soul :). Also, before she began working, she always only got hand-me down clothes which didn't even fit properly, and she never knew how to put on make-up, always sticking only with the basic eyeliner and lipstick (even for special functions).

I, too, walk my mother's path. I've been called ugly and was told before that I look like a witch! It crashed my self-esteem, which took a good few years to heal (though still not completely). Like every other girl, I do want to look beautiful, if not decent.

This gift would thus be very valuable to the both of us, in terms of helping us to enhance our self-image, and we would also be able to practice putting on make-up together with che che 1 and 2. So all of us can look and feel beautiful. Yes, this would be a very nice gift.

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*holds the wishlist close to chest and closes eyes extremely tightly*... please, Please, PLEEEEAAASE...