Giant Brand Relaunch: Great Quality, Great Value

Few days ago, Giant supermarket launched its house brand at Giant Shah Alam. 

GIANT BRAND, with "Great Quality - Great Value". 

The new fresh look, with yellow colour as based to signify Giant, is designed with a trendy feel and distinctive graphic element for easier identification.

Dato' Tim Ashdown, GCH Retail Malaysia Sdn's Bhd's Regional Director for Malaysia & Brunei

 Giant House Brand comes with HALAL certified, and approved by the Ministry of Health Malaysia. The house brand which consists of grocery food, grocery non-food & perishable was introduced with its main objective to keeping prices of daily necessities low and to offer the consumers alternative to quality products with better savings and cost effective price range. Giant Brand offers over 600 products and the number is projected to increase up to 1,000 products by end 2016.

 After the launched and group photo, store tour with media for Giant Brand products.

 In his speech, Dato' Tim Ashdown said that GCH Retail believes in supporting the local suppliers where nearly 90% of the products are manufactured in Malaysia, 95% of the suppliers are Malaysian and a fantastic 67% of the product is produced by suppliers classified as SMEs.

 The launch of these products is the result of 18 months disciplined work, each product is clearly specified for quality.

Many choices of GIANT BRAND products

 After the store tour with media, there's Giant Food presentation. Food tasting are available, they are cooked and baked using the Giant Brand food products. Beverage like apple juice, orange juice, coffee and tea available.

 Being mommy of two boys, I know it's important to shop within budget. Everyone is worried about the rising costs of living, the cost of food shopping.

Giant brand product is offered as its lowest price in its category, the best value purchase for everyone and great quality. These 600 products are the daily essential items that you can purchase regularly; eg. rice, oil, flour, noodles, vegetables, snacks, household cleaning products, personal care and baby care. And not just grocery categories, you can also find Giant brand products in yogurt, ice cream, nuggets and frankfurters too.

Talking about Giant brand products, don't forget there is promotional period from 21 April to 4 May, you can also stand the chance to win a total vouchers of RM10,000 in a Stamp & Win Contest. 

You just need to spend to make a minimum purchase of RM15 of Giant's House Brand and get 12 stamps at the Stamp & Win stations in the Giant store.

You can find more information on the contest, log on to www.giant.com.my

Watsons Move Your Body Zumba

I attended the official launched of Watsons Move Your Body Zumba!

Watsons Malaysia initiated its biggest fitness campaign to-date, entitle 'Move Your Body - Zumba', a follow up to last year's phenomenal success of its first edition of 'Move Your Body'.

 Watsons Malaysia is launching its second edition of edition of 'Move Your Body' campaign this year with bigger and better programmes for the community. This year, Watsons has chosen Zumba as it is packed with fun fusion of dance moves that provides a total body workout, burns huge calories, boosts metabolism and improves cardiovascular health. It is a workout for all ages and is a great activity to release stress. In fact, Zumba today is the largest growing art form for the health in the world!

 More than 10,000 people expected to join Watsons 'Move Your Body' in Padang Kota Lama Penang on 7 June 2015 (Sunday) in an attempt to break the Malaysia Book of Records for the largest participation in a Zumba event.

Among the major activities/promotions held from 30 April 2015 to 7 June 2015 are:

1. 'Move Your Body - Zumba' music video with My FM popular announcers Jack Lim and Jeff Chin, which includes Zumba dance tutorial by Zumba Fitness instructor Deno Au
2. Moveyourbody.com.my microsite has been set up that showcases

• Popular Zumba songs including Watsons Move Your Body
• Health and fitness regimes by popular My FM announcers and Zumba Fitness instructors
• Health and fitness tips that caters to the wellbeing of different body parts
• Insta-video contest whereby contestants can submit their health and fitness regime to win exciting prizes and 'Move Your Body- Zumba' event tickets
• Exciting merchandises

3. 'Move Your Body - Zumba' Rewards Pack with additional discounts and freebies would be given in stores at all Watsons nationwide, with RM80 purchase

4. My FM radio cruisers would be teaching the public the 'Move Your Body - Zumba' moves

Check out short insta video 1, video 2, and video 3

Being the leader in the health and beauty retail industry, Watsons Malaysia is known to be the champion in spearheading innovative campaigns. The brand promises states Look Good, Feel Great, they believe there is beauty in getting fit and hence healthy. 

Jack Lim (My FM), Danny Hoh Jeff Chin (head of marketing), Caryn Loh (General Manager of Trading), Deno Au (representative from Zumba Fitness) and Jeff Chin (My FM)

 To kick start the campaign, Watsons Malaysia is working in partnership with My FM and Zumba Fitness to raise awareness of the campaign by producing the 'Move Your Body - Zumba' music video with tutorial featuring Jack Lim and Jeff Chin, and other popular My FM announcers. The music video was unveiled during the launch. This music video can be viewed in Watsons Malaysia YouTube channel, Watsons Malaysia Facebook, and also moveyourbody.com.my

If you want to catch Jack Lim and Jeff Chin the My FM announcers, don't forget to purchase 'Move Your Body- Zumba' grand finale tickets at only RM35 each (RM30 if purchase 3 and above) at all Watsons Northern stores in Penang, Perak, Perlis, and Kedah, and selected Klang Valley stores.

You can also purchase the tickets at moveyourbody.com.my and watsons.com.my
Tickets will be available for sale from 30 April 2015 to 7 June 2015.
Each ticket comes with an exclusive Move Your Body t-shirt , RM10 Watsons cash vouchers and coupon for lucky draw and also to redeem goodies bag on the event day.

'Move Your Body- Zumba' campaign is launched in collaboration with My FM and Zumba Fitness,

with special participating brands such as Alcon, Appeton, Bausch & Lomb, Blackmores, Brands, Bye Bye Fever, Centa, Cetaphil, Ebene, Essentiale, Flavettes, Gaviscon, Horleys, Kinohmitsu, Korde's, Naturalle, Pharmaton, Redoxon, Salonpas, Sanctband, Scholl, Scott's Timo, Total Image and Watsons Brand.

Fore more information about 'Move Your Body - Zumba' campaign, please visit www.facebook.com/watsonsmalaysia, www.moveyourbody.com.my or Watsons official website www.watsons.com.my 

Happy 3rd Anniversary to KidZania Kuala Lumpur

Happy Chinese New Year folks, tomorrow is Chap Goh Mei. What is your programmer on night of Chap Goh Mei? We didn't have any plan yet as we might just stay home.

Last Saturday, I was invited to attend KidZania Kuala Lumpur 3rd Anniversary. KidZania marks its birthday with a new loyalty programme, KidZo earning bonuses, exciting performances.

My sons love KidZania, they haven't go together for sometimes. It's their second time to go together since it's a Saturday, they can play in KidZania. 

Award-winning indoor family edutainment centre, KidZania Kuala Lumpur celebrates its third anniversary with children and parents. We were excited as early as 9.40, we saw the crowd queue for their free tickets. The first 100 visitors were given free entry, were you there on Saturday?

The opening performances is held at KidZania National Anthem.

There is special performances by KidZania Kuala Lumpur's dance troupe and percussionists, musical bands as well as exhilarating acrobatic lion dance which kept the festive mood going. 

check out my instagram for the short video of performances.

·         KidZania’s Governor and Mayor accompanied by Tunku Dato’ Ahmad Burhanuddin, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Themed Attractions and Resorts Sdn Bhd and CitiZens of KidZania, present the audience with the B.KidZanian Passport – the symbol of KidZanian Citizenship.

 (Back Row - position from left to right):

Mr Shahrul Nizar Ahamad, Mayor of KidZania Kuala Lumpur; Tunku Dato’ Ahmad Burhanuddin, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Themed Attractions and Resorts Sdn Bhd; Susanah Abdul Rani, Governor of KidZania Malaysia and Singapore

KidZanian CitiZens joined by KidZania’s Governor and Mayor accompanied by Tunku Dato’ Ahmad Burhanuddin, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Themed Attractions and Resorts Sdn Bhd, come together to officiate KidZania’s 3^rd Anniversary cake-cutting.
Click the short video the link to view a short video of birthday party .

The celebration was further livened by the attendance of television personalities Maria Tunku Sabri, Sasha Bashir, Azwaliza Azman, Praevitriana Yuliawiratman, and Irin Putri Azmi, who conducted exclusive meet and greet sessions with their fans in a bid to support KidZania Kuala Lumpur’s anniversary.


The third anniversary celebration was presided over by the Governor of KidZania Malaysia and Singapore, Susanah Abdul Rani alongside Yang Mulia Tunku Dato’ Ahmad Burhanuddin, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Themed Attractions and Resorts Sdn Bhd who all joined in to officiate the event in a cake-cutting extravaganza.

Lion dance performances, you are looking at the white lion dance, there's also pink lion dance. You can view more by checking out my instagram video.
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My sons now having their very own KidZania Pazzport as I brought my toddler to made it on the Saturday. His big bro already has it and on the day of anniversary, children with the KidZania Pazzport can earn extra 10 KidZos.

As an added party treat, at 3.00pm, KidZania Kuala Lumpur also gave away 300 party packs that included goodies from KidZania industry partners Allianz, HOYA, Pharmaniaga and PONEY. My sons queue in line to wait for their party packs collection, there is Fashion Show on the which everyone enjoy watching. Check out the instagram video during the party packs giveaway.

 One of my son favourite job is being KPJ Specialist Surgeon or Nurse.

Amidst its anniversary celebrations, KidZania Kuala Lumpur officially launched the KidZania Kuala Lumpur B·KidZanian loyalty programme which allows for kids to become “CitiZens” of KidZania. Given a passport as a sign of their citizenship, members of B·KidZanian will be given the opportunity to record and track their career and job accomplishments by way of passport stamps, given to them as they complete tasks or activities at the various KidZania establishments. The more stamps the kids acquire, the faster they’ll advance through the three levels of CitiZenship which tier from “Entry”, “Distinguished” to “Honorable”; thus earning them more benefits to enjoy at KidZania, including preferred access at the Airport, discounts at the National Store of KidZania, and more kidZos – the official currency for KidZania.


Specially in conjunction with the launch, kids who signed up for the B·KidZanian programme were also given 30% vouchers off KidZania Kuala Lumpur admission tickets as well as enjoyed the added benefit of an added 10 kidZos in all earning establishments on the same day.




As a responsible organization, fortifying its social responsibility commitments and creating a positive impact to improve the lives of its surrounding communities, Themed Attractions and Resorts Sdn Bhd also sponsored the visit of children from homes Rumah Solehah and Keluarga Besar Norlina Alawi Berhad, extending the opportunity for these children to experience KidZania for the first time.

The winners of the Chinese Calligraphy contest that was held in conjunction with KidZania Kuala Lumpur’s Chinese New Year activities were also announced. The grand prize winner, Carolyn Mae Tea Jia received a set of KidZania Kuala Lumpur tickets and exclusive KidZania Kuala Lumpur merchandise.

this group photo credit to Syafiera.

During the event, I met with fellow mommy bloggers, Jane, Miera, Syafiera, Kylie. 

Thank you KidZania Kuala Lumpur for inviting us for this wonderful party.

KidZania Kuala LUmpur is located at Curve NX in Mutiara Damansara. It is connected to the The Curve shopping mall via a link bridge and within walking distance to IKEA Malaysia and IPC Shopping Mall. 

For more information, visit www.kidzania.com.my or call the KidZania CareLine at 1300 88 KIDZ (5439). Or get connected with KidZania through Facebook at www.facebook.com/KidZaniaKualaLumpur or tweet us at @KidZaniaKL.

1600 Pandas World Tour in Malaysia

Yesterday morning I wake up early in the morning for a reason. I have a date with #1600PandasMY 

The 1600 pandas, along with French artist Paulo Grangeon, the "Father of 1600 Pandas" arrived in Malaysia. Malaysia is the third stop of 1600 Pandas World Tour in the Asian region, after its journey in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Themed "Initiating the Culture of Creative Conservation", the adorable pandas will begin their nationwide journey to more than 15 iconic landmarks in Malaysia from yesterday until 25 January 2015.

Debuting in Dataran Merdeka, the 1600 Pandas were welcomed in a spectacular event filled with excitement and great anticipation.

 Check out my instagram video for launch ceremony, click on the link. The momentous launch ceremony, which marks the beginning of the 1600 Pandas' trip across Malaysia, was graced by YB Dato' Mah Siew Keong, Minister in The Prime Minister's Department; Madam Ma Jia, Minister Counsellor, Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Malaysia and French sculptor artist and creator of the 1600 Pandas - Paulo Grangeon.

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The tour is a creative artistic instrument in promoting a key message that conservation is a big concern in the world. This event also promote the message of environmental conservation. Tropical rainforests are an asset that requires careful governing and with 60% of Malaysia covered in greenery, this message should be amplified further within the local community.  

The message of animal welfare and conservation is one that needs to be constantly communicated to the public, as we all need to work hand in hand to maintain a sustainable ecosystem. 

The 1600 Pandas World Tour which started in 2008 as a collaboration between WWF and Paulo Grangeon, has since appeared in more than 100 exhibitions across various countries such as France, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Malaysia will be the 1600 Pandas' third stop after the Hong Kong in the Asia region.

Mark down this list of stopovers the 1600 Pandas will be making their appearance at :

• Dataran Putrajaya
• Batu Caves, Selangor
• Taiping Lake, Perak
• The Stadhuys (Red Square), Melaka
• National Monument, Kuala Lumpur
• Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion, Penang
• The Learning Tower of Teluk Intan, Perak

The grand finale of the 1600 Pandas World Tour in Malaysia will take place at Publika from 13 Jan to 25 Jan 2015.

#1600pandas #1600pandasmy

Lovely Jane with her kids, me and Elana. 

Yeah, my face is red, I know.. hehe. 

Thanks Elana for this lovely pic. 

Wow.. look out behind us (me and Elana) the volunteer 1600 of them, each holding a panda! 

These 1600 Pandas will be available for online adoption, where the public can adopt a paper mache pandas at RM150 each, and have one of the adorable pandas for themselves. Registration of interest (ROI) will begin on 12 January 2015. 

More info details and updates, check out link below.

https://www.facebook.com/1600PandasMY

KidZania KL School Holidays and Christmas Shows and Activities

KidZania is an indoor family edutainment center which offers an interactive learning and entertainment experience for kids in a kid-sized city that delivers the first-of-its kind edutainment fun. My son loves this place very much. I am sure most parents will find it relaxing when the kids having fun in Kidzania.

On Wednesday I attended the media preview of KidZania Kuala Lumpur School Holidays and Christmas Shows & Activities.

KidZania presents the Christmas Play 

"Jack Frost and the Search for Santa"

A young boy, Jack Frost finds himself in the mysterious Winter Wonderland as he searches for Santa Claus. Follow young Jack Frost as he embarks on a wonderful adventure, making new friends while learning new and exciting things along the way!

Frosty the snowman and Jack Frost

Jack met Elf and Frosty the snowman

Jack and his friends also met Grinch, pretended to be Santa

Oh no, is Grinch stealing the Christmas gifts?! What's going to happen?

Can you spot the real Santa in the photo?

In Jack Frost and the Search for Santa, kids get opportunity to be part of the play.

I am sure kids will get excited to know which role they'll get to play... 

My son enjoying himself throughout the shows.

Sneak peek video instagram Video 1 and Video 2

 KidZania presents The RightzKeeper's Show
"The RightzKeeper's Show"
Two kids talk about their dreams and how life would be like as an adult. One day during recess, they find themselves in an adventure that would change their lives forever.

They discover KidZania, a place where kids make all the rules as wellas live and play as adults, and learn how KidZania came about from its five RightzKeepers:

Urbana, Vita, Beebop, Chika & Bache.

Named the "Best Experience for Kids" in Expatriate Lifestyle's Best of Malaysia Award 2014 for the second consecutive year running, Kidzania Kuala Lumpur goes beyond traditional teaching mediums to continously look at opportunities to expose kids to new experiences and endless occupational possibilities.

Sneak peak my instagram for video 1 and video 2.

After the show, we head to the KidZania's new Batik Painting Establishment

Love the wall of Batik Painting, so colorful.

Miera and her daughter having nice bonding time to paint their creative Batik.

Above creation of my son and mine, so which is mine? Wanna guess?

KidZania now offers a new batik painter role-play activity at the Jadi Batek establishment. Ropleplaying as batik painters, kids will be exposed to the process of batik painting, with an emphasis on color combination and manipulating colors on fabric. Malaysian batik especially is renowned for its vibrant colors, bold prints and its versatility, making it one of the most sought-after Malaysian products as souvenirs and gifts.

There is an Urbano House, the dedicated section for toddlers aged 0 to 3 years, trained Zupervisors will be hosting additional activities to keep younger ones entertained. Among these activities are story-telling sessions complemented with costumed character appearances and as well as a new Little Chef activity, where the Zupervisors will work with toddlers so they can learn to put together simple food menus.

It's School Holidays, have you plan to bring your kids for an edutainment centre? My 8 years old son is excited and he wants to go during this school holiday. He haven't sign up for the KidZanian PaZZport, with KidZanian PaZZport he can start earning stamps for each activity completed at KidZania establishments. The more stamps kids acquire, the faster they'll advance through the three levels of B.KidZanian; earning them from benefits to enjoy at KidZania, including preferred access at the Airport, discounts at the National Store of KidZania, and more kidZos - the official currency of KidZania.

For more information visit www.kidzania.com.my or www.facebook.com/KidZaniaKualaLumpur or call the KidZania CareLine at 1300 88 KIDZ (5439).