[EVENT] Singtel Hallyu Night at Barber Shop Timbre

Chilling out with my friends at Singtel Hallyu Night event held at Barber Shop by Timbre at The Arts House on a Thursday night. The word 'Hallyu' refers to 'Korean Wave' and this refers to the growing popularity of South Korean entertainment and pop culture over the world. 

During this event, we basically also soaked ourselves in the K-Wave as we had Korean food, listened to Korean songs, played some popular Korean games too. 

The main purpose of this event is to introduce us to Cast, Singapore's first OTT video portal app launched by Singtel. With Cast, consumers get to enjoy their favourite entertainment on-the-go with  thousands of hours of exciting movies, dramas, variety shows and kids' entertainment, all these can be streamed using Singtel's extensive 4G network or WiFi connection. Those favourite programmes can also be downloaded for offline viewing at a later time.

We tried out the Cast app with the OPPO phones provided that night. 

Singtel Mobile postpaid customers can choose from 3 different content packs - Kids, Asian Hits and Hallyu. Each pack cost S$4.90 per month for those with a 12-month Singtel contact, on top of that customers can opt for a special 1GB data add-on for just S$3 more per month per pack. For customers without a contract, it would cost S$6.90 per pack and per month. 

Customers can also sign up for Viu's premium service at Cast to enjoy the latest Korean and Japanese entertainment at the same prices. Some of the latest and popular Korean dramas and variety shows available are Doctors, Lucky Romance, Running Man and Return of Superman, as well as the latest Japanese dramas such as A Girl & Three Sweethearts and Love Song. The good thing for Viu Premium subscribers is that they get to enjoy priority viewing with English and Chinese subtitles as fast as 8 hours after the original telecast. 

I'm not exactly a Korean drama addict and I've not watched Doctors nor DOTS but I'm currently watching this Korean drama called 'W' now. Well, I guess the plot is somehow interesting enough to catch my attention, where there is another life existing in a webtoon. It's like parallel universe but in this case, the main characters in the webtoon have minds of their own and begin to create their own stories, changed their own ending. Too exciting and can't wait for the final episode. I hope it's not an unhappy ending though.

Kids Pack features the Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. channels along with popular programmes such as Dora the Explorer, SpongeBob SquarePants, PAW Patrol, Shimmer & Shine, and more.

Asian Hits Pack features up to 1,000 hours of popular hit movies, entertainment and drama series from Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China in their original languages, including blockbusters Helios and Mr Unbelievable, variety shows Are You Hokkien?, The Voice of Taiwan, and more.

Hallyu Pack offers the best of Korean entertainment from top Korean broadcasters on popular channels ONE, Oh!K and KBS World such as Doctors, W and Uncontrollably Fond and all-time variety show favourites like Running Man, Infinite Challenge and Return of Superman.

Kelly Poon was the special guest for the night and she sang to us two songs. First song was 'Always' in Korean - Descendants of the Sun OST and another Chinese song called '爱无力'

A video of her live performance on Always. 

Instant photo print our from Aww Snap! with the ladies. It was a gif image and we get to choose one we like to print out for keeping. Thank you Jessie for bringing me to this fun event. 

Interested customers can subscribe to Cast via the My Singtel app and download Cast from the App store for Apple iOS devices and Google Play Store for Android devices. 

For more information on Cast, please visit

www.cast.sg

XOXO

[EVENT] Go with Singtel TV GO event at Elements & Co

I was introduced to Singtel TV GO at their event which was held at Elements & Co. Basically, it's a mobile app that is available for download at the App Store and Google Play which allows subscribers to enjoy live streaming of over 120 channels on up to three devices on-the-go. Joakim Gomez was the host of the event.

Keeping myself occupied with this app on my iPad during my bus ride home.

For music lovers, you can tune in to MTV Live (CH349) and MTV China (CH550) at any point of the day, as it's available 24 hours. Featuring recorded "live" music from the biggest acts around the world, there would also be music-based programs like documentaries, live performances such as intimate studio sessions and original productions.

In addition, AXN (HD) (CH304), Asia's leading English general entertainment channel with exhilarating Hollywood dramas, movies, reality hits, and exclusive made-in-Asia originals is also available.

Coming late 2016, The Amazing Race Asia Season 5 will be showing on AXN (HD) (CH304) too.

Good news to all Singtel TV subscribers, the three new TV channels that I've mentioned aboved, MTV Live (CH349), MTV China (CH550) and AXN (HD) (CH304), will be available for free preview from now to 23 June 2016! 

For soccer fans, Singtel TV has also announced that it has secured broadcast rights for UEFA Euro 2016 as well as Copa America 2016, so you can have the freedom to catch all matches on CH142 and CH141 through the Singtel TV GO application! 

During the event, we were divided into different groups and played a very fun and interactive BINGO game where we have to move around posing and taking photos.

In the green team that comes in second place! 

One of the task in the BINGO game was to take an instant photo with the host!

Thanks Jessie for bringing me to this event. For more information, please visit

http://www.singteltv.com.sg/

XOXO

JUMBO Feast for father's birthday !

Few weeks ago, I took part in SingTel's Twitter contest in celebration of Father's Day. It's called the Stuff SG Dads Say contest whereby 10 winners got to walk away with a S$200 dining vouchers simply by tweeting what Singapore's dad best words of wisdom is with the hashtag #stuffSGDADSsay.     

Unlike Mother's Day, Father's Day is often very much neglected. Maybe it's because men just don't seems to care much about receiving cards and gifts. Maybe they will keep it for awhile, treasure it for a few days, after that they will just throw it aside.

Stuff SG Dads Say Video




SingTel's examples of Stuff SG Dads Say

Actually, all the aboved are quite true. My father said before the first one too. "You think your house is a hotel?" Come back to bath, use computer and sleep only. Also never do housework. Haha. Oops. 

My submissions for Stuff SG Dads Say Contest

 These are the exact three tweets that I've submitted for the contests, and I was so happy to be chosen as one of the winners! Thank you SingTel. The first one is actually bf's idea and upon knowing that I've won, he insisted that it's these three words, "Ask Your Mum!" that makes SingTel picked me as a winner. Best part is, even after the deadline, we are still discussing about this topic. We continued to come up with lines like "Don't tell your mum" and "Because I say so" etc. Maybe can use for next year's contest, if they are having it again! Haha. 

With the $200 vouchers, I decided to use it today for my father's birthday. We didn't celebrate Father's Day so we shall have a good dinner together today. So lucky, my Foursquare check-in even won me a new badge!! Lolol~~

The yummy food that we ordered! We finished everything on the plate. Only dish that tricked us is the one that looks like roast chicken. It's actually fish cake with roast chicken skin. Haha. The total bill came up to about S$250 plus so we decided to apply for the membership card and after the discount and vouchers, only paid S$40 plus for this sumptuous dinner. Feeling thankful and grateful! 

Before we leave, let's take a photo for memory. 

Boston Chocolate cake from Breadtalk! Happy birthday, 老爹！Thank you for coming into mum and my life 18 years ago. If not, I really don't know what would have become of us. Wish my family always happy and healthy and hopefully can win more contests. Hahaha! ^^ 

SingTel Experience Centre : Explores the future of man-machine interaction

It has always been my dream to travel around the World in 80 days. Now SingTel Experience Centre is able to make my dream partly come true without leaving Singapore with their new interactive technology that allows us to travel around the World in 80 milliseconds. 

I've very honored to be able to attend their launch before it's officially open to the public on 6th December 2012.  If you are wondering where is it located, it's actually just inside SingTel Shop at ComCentre (31 Exeter Road Singapore 239732). Operating hours follows the operating hours of the normal SingTel shop. Now, that's something interesting to do while waiting for the queue. 

Check out exotic cities (currently only features images on Paris, Shanghai and Rio de Janeiro) on this giant 14-metre, 180-degree circular screen. This technology uses intuitive Minority Report style body gestures to manipulate and interact with the multimedia images on the screen. 

Photo Credit to SingTel

Up to five concurrent users can be detected and the images would be adjusted accordingly. No more full screen if too many users are at it.    

Making the right moves allows user to zoom in and out of the images, navigate to a particular points of interest and the most amazing features has got to be the binoculars action!!!   

Photos credit to SingTel

When you put both of your hands over at your eyes area as if you are holding a binoculars, the system will detected that and the image will be zoomed in many times more just like viewing from a real binoculars!!! 

Jess baby trying out the binoculars action for herself. This is just so cool! 

User can also take a photograph of themselves superimposed on the city landscape and share them online. Now you can show off a photo of you with the eiffel tower in Paris! Jess Baby, Shu Qing and I tried that and that's our photo, with love from Paris! The quality of the photo have much room for improvement but it's really fun. 

Can't stop laughing at the photo Hp has taken of himself, it make him looked super young, like a primary school boy. LOLOL. Jess Baby and some of them keep waving their hands to the right cause that would signal the system to upload it on the web. Of course, Hp didn't want to and so he's the only one waving his hand to the left. In the end, the photo still got uploaded. Go find it if you can! Haha, I'm not sure whether is it still there or not. 

This is the globe of destination. Those countries marked by a "star" are those that user can load onto the screen and visit. Those with the "thumbs Up" or "like" are countries waiting to be voted. Once the targeted votes has been reached, SingTel will then capture the photos and turn it into the next countries to be marked as a star.

Group photo with Rui Ting, Shu Qing, Jess Baby, Hp and Jeremy

If you've noticed, there's no SingTel logo anywhere in the Experience Centre, this whole experience is not associated with sales. It's more like a project by SingTel to analyse on how each user interacts with the system - what gestures were used, how quickly we learn, how we respond to tutorials and how we engage with natural gestures. With these information, SingTel can explore how the technology can be applied in real-life commercial applications. Currently SingTel is also working with partners to explore video conferencing technologies that use life size 3D holographic images. They are also looking into eye-tracking technologies that may allow users to control virtual objects and electronic devices just by sight. If successfully implemented, this could mean a revolution to the way computers and household appliances are used. 

Last group photo with Jess Baby, Shu Qing, Rui Ting and XinYun. With the technology advancing so fast, it's like anything can be possible too. I'm definitely looking forward to see more wonders. 

[Charity] SingTel Touching Lives Fund - Fold a Heart Activity is Back

Launch in 2002, the SingTel Touching Lives Fund is the cornerstone of SingTel's philanthropy program which helps to raise funds for charities that help children and youth with special needs in the community. This year, into their 11th year, they aim to raise more than S$2 million for their six beneficiaries as follows :

APSN Chaoyang School

Website: http://www.apsn.org.sg/chaoyang-school/about-us/

APSN Tanglin School

Website: http://www.apsn.org.sg/tanglin-school/about-us/

Eden School

Website: http://www.edenschool.edu.sg

MINDS Lee Kong Chain Gardens School

Website: http://www.minds.org.sg/LGS/index.html

Singapore Cancer Society - Help the Children & Youth Programme

Website: www.singaporecancersociety.org.sg 

Spastic Children's Association School

Website: http://www.spastic.org.sg/

Picture Credit : SingTel 

To raise public awareness and engages the community, the Fold a Heart activity was started since their launch in 2002. SingTel donates S$1 for every origami heart collected. This year, the origami Fold a Heart activity will be carried out between 26 November and 4 December 2012. 

Photo Credit : SingTel

  
They've carried out outreach program first with the schools in early November to reach out to the students. Every efforts counts and Maha Bodhi School is one of the participating schools with all the students in the school folded a total of 5,000 origami hearts. 

Fold a heart online

If you have missed out folding the hard copy heart like me, no worries as there is an online version of Fold a Heart at http://info.singtel.com/personal/foldaheart. This online Fold a Heart activity will ends at 31 December 2012 or when they received 200,000 e-hearts. Simply make a few clicks to "fold" a heart and do a small part for charity too. 

I'm glad that with a small action of mine I can help to contribute to the fund. I hope everyone can participate in this meaningful activity too. Thank you!