by Bowie Cheong

Julie’s Love Letters spreading love in this CNY

January 15, 2019

Julie’s Love Letters is a must-have item in almost every household, it comes in 2 flavours which is chocolate and strawberry.

The chocolate flavoured are rolled up with rich melty chocolate, where every bite is filled with the chocolaty goodness that makes you crave for more. The strawberry flavoured ones are filled with the aroma of sweet strawberries that you cannot resist. Some believe that every little love letter is rolled up with fortune and luck, that will bring happiness and prosperity to all.

The Lunar New Year is the most important festival celebration for the Chinese community, it is the perfect time to unwind and reunite with your loved ones and of course the endless snacking. To usher in Chinese New Year, Julie's Love Letters are not only as a taste of beautiful memories for Malaysians, but now you can also win a Reunion dinner!

From now to 3rd Feb 2019, participate in the “What’s Your Love Letter” campaign contest with sending your message together with your purchase receipts through mail or drop them in the Julie’s promotional booth boxes.

15 winners will walk away with RM1000 worth of reunion dinner vouchers to treat your loved one and family a sumptuous meal this Chinese New Year.

This is the fifth consecutive year of Julie’s “What’s Your Love Letter” campaign. Because of the overwhelming responses over the years, so this year Julie's will continuing their tradition of encouraging people to share their love through words.

For more information about the contest, please check via What’s Your Love Letter Contest Form and www.facebook.com/JuliesBiscuits.

As a token of appreciation to the public for their unwavering support for Julie’s Love Letter, Julie’s will be doing its annual promotional roadshows to spread joy and love around Malaysia. Julie’s CNY roadshows will be held from Jan 11-13, 18-20, 25-27 and Feb 1-3, 2019 in 53 locations in Selangor, Penang, Ipoh, Johor, Kedah, Pahang, Kelantan, Melaka and Perak. There are many attractive promotions and games that can allow participants stand a chance to win interesting Julie’s products.

Kindly check Julie's CNY roadshows location list at here.

One of the CNY roadshow promotion is visit Julie’s roadshows at the specified dates and times, customer will get a tin of specially packed 400gm Julie’s Love Letters for free if purchase 2 tins of the 700gm Julie’s Love Letters.

* maximum of 128 tins will be given away on the first-come-first-served basis while stock lasts.

Also, purchase any tin of 700gm Julie’s Love Letters and you will bring home one of the three beautifully-designed “Fudai” fortune pouches.

Collect all three today, and bring all the blessings home!

Julie’s Love Letters is a household brand of more than 30 years. All ingredients used are natural without additives, free from trans-fat, compliant with the ISO and HACCP standards and manufactured under stringent quality control.

Visit https://julies.com.my for more information.

Beauty News

preserve your youth with Olay Magnemask and 'light-as-air' Whips Moisturizer

January 15, 2019

New year, new you.
Implementing a New Year's resolution skin care routine is easy and manageable, also low commitment. Sounds good?

Let's begin the new year with ageless skin with Olay's premium Magnemask collection and 'light-as-air' Whips Moisturizer, to preserve our youth and beauty!

Our skin's natural structure is consists a multiple layers including the skin barrier but with limits penetrability. Therefore, widely practiced method by consumers to enhance skin care absorption such as patting or massaging are essentially not as effective, rendering a good portion of their face cream as expensive hand creams instead.

Hence, Olay studied the power of magnetics and harnessing the natural repulsion power of magnets to enhance the efficacy of skin care and finally unveiling its first ever premium face mask collection, Olay's premium Magnemask and Magnetic Infuser, one of Olay’s newest innovation in beauty.

| What is Magnetic Infuser? |

This premium mask formula paired with the Magnetic Infuser tool which is specially designed and developed to enhance the penetration of Olay Magnemasks, exclusively tuned to the molecular properties of the superb ingredients in the formula - Niacinamide (Vitamin B3) and Penta-Peptides (PAL-KTTKS).

| What's So Powerful? |

Defined as Overnight Jar Mask, the Olay Magnemasks collection is formulated across two distinct skin care needs for anti-aging and hydration. The anti-aging range is packed with ingredients that deeply hydrate to restore elasticity and improves skin texture while the hydration range delivers moisture-boosting benefits for thirsty skin.

When used together by gliding the Magnetic Infuser gently across skin surface, infusing up to 3 times more hero ingredients reach up to 10 layers deep into skin’s surface. As compared to finger application, to deliver a revelation in mask technology with this 2 minute massage miracle!

For quick and intensive results, incorporate this overnight mask treatment into your weekly regimen two to three times per week, no need to wash it off. This leave-on mask is designed to work while you sleep, replace your nightly moisturizer. It reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles overnight, helps you wake up with younger looking smooth, firm and plump skin. With magnetic infusion, surface cells at the foundation of your skin are rejuvenated for a spa-like experience and truly ageless results.

Every night, cleanse your face and use the Olay magnetic infuser to spread and massage product into your skin surface with an upward motion for 2 minutes. Apply product 3-4 times per week.

The mask is very silky in texture, easily absorbed by the skin.

I like it comes with a subtle fragrance.

Retail price for Olay Magnemasks is RM139.90 (Jar Mask + Infuser Kit) and RM109.90 (Jar Mask).

Apart from the powerful mask, do you know moisturizing on a daily basis is one of the important step to keep your silky smooth skin?

Olay Whips are lightweight creams that uniquely formulated with Active Rush Technology to hold and quickly release 1000x its weight in hydration and active ingredients. It transform from cream to liquid on contact, flash absorbing into skin and deliver powerful results.

There are 3 products in this collection :

Olay Regenerist Whip : Powerful diminishes wrinkle results without heaviness, actively hydrates to improve elasticity and firm skin for a lifted look.

Olay Total Effects Whip : Ultimate nourishment without weight, evens skin tone appearance, minimises pores, visibly smooths fine lines and wrinkles.

Olay White Radiance Whip : Actively moisturises to even skin tone and minimise the appearance of pores, gives you a lasting radiance without shine.

Retail price for Olay Whips is RM109.

It's time to push your skin care regimen to the next level, this 2 product ranges ensuring that you get maximum benefits for a firmer, more youthful appearance.

Olay's premium Magnemask and Olay Whips collections are available at Watsons store nationwide and online purchase at https://www.watsons.com.my.

Good news to Watsons members, because you can now enjoy less than 10% discounts in all Watsons stores nationwide, until 20th February 2019.

To find out more about Olay latest skin care range, visit www.watsons.com.my.

Amazing Thailand

▐ Thailand Biennale, Krabi 2018▐ Must visit places

December 30, 2018

Hi all, welcome back to my travel blog. December is my favourite month among the year and i just came back from a 'flash trip' which is only 3D2N, I'm going to share with you all regarding my adventure of this trip. I never thought i will be going back to Krabi again since my BFF trip 5 years ago. Then one day, out of the blue, i was invited to visit Krabi for their very first Thailand Biennale!

What is Thailand Biennale?

It is a cutting-edge exploration driven by visual practice, engenders a new way of thinking, providing opportunities for meetings between nature and art. Krabi is truly the wonderland of the Andaman, renowned for its rich nature and history, this make it as a perfect site for this international contemporary art exhibition in Thailand.

Thailand Biennale, Krabi 2018 takes place from 2nd November 2018 until 28th February 2019. This 4 month outdoor exhibition is not curate to display traditional forms of artwork such as sculptures or paintings within the notion of 'public art', but showcases the site-specific and innovative artworks created by 70 Thai and foreign new generation artists under the theme of Edge of the Wonderland.

During my 3D2N trip, the schedule was tight. We visited many places but i decided to choose some of them and blog about it.

| #1 Visit to Krabi Town (North to South)

The first site i would like to share is a multiple sculptural structures which lined up to imitate a ceremony on the sandy bank of the Krabi River, the creation named as 'Story of Love' that created by Vichoke Mukdamanee (Thai National artist).

Using objects from local wedding ceremonies, Mukdamanee sees Krabi River as the connecting space between water and land, the imaginative world and reality.

It is so instagrammable!

Located in a park just opposite of Krabi River, 'Wandering at the Edge of the Wonderland' is inspired by jetties commonly found in some of Southeast Asia's fishing villages.

It looks like a maze shaped jetty, created by Chong Boon Pok from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Responding to the concept of Thailand Biennale 2018's Edge of the Wonderland, Kamol Tassananchalee (Thai artist) creates a large-scale sculptural structure inspired by the shape of 2 magnifying glass and installed it on the bank of Krabi River. It displayed the mirror to reflect images of the audience and the underwater scenes in the LED screen attached at the base of the artwork.

Walk along the Krabi River bank, we found another large-scale installation 'Neo Centipedian Animal Non-Discovery' by Panya Vijinthanasarn (Thai artist).

Using parts from a car as the main material, the shape of assemblage is inspired by the characteristics of spiders and centipedes to reflect how lives are affected by changes in the environment caused by human behaviour.

'Nagabi Transferry' will be used as a transfer throughout the 4 months duration of the viewing period. Yuree Kensaku painted and decorated the cockpit of a Hua Thong boat (a local boat of Krabi) with contemporary pop culture.

| #2 Visit to Ao Nang Beach

Ao Nang marks the centre of tourism in Krabi province, it is a popular beach destination. Kamin Lertchaiprasert collaborated with Suriya Umpansiriratana chose a hidden clift where tourists and locals alike find a peaceful refuge from the business of the resort town.

From the outside, it such a stunning art piece that so photogenic.

In the cave, stands an elder lady sculpture who as the symbol of love and waiting. 'No Sunrise No Sunset' urges us to take a different perspective in order to see the nature world anew in the way it is, and not from our subjective point of view because the sun doesn't move, but the world is spinning itself.

'About the Hiding of the Giant Jellyfish' is an artwork that calls for a sensation of a sudden wakefulness to inner matters that are often invisible to visitors. The Vietnam artist Tran Luong places this hidden jellyfish underneath the footpath of Ao Nang beach.

From the outlook, there is initially nothing to be seen at the site, its like really invisible! When we walk on the footpath, the floor will slightly sink and we feel like stepping on an enormous moving creature underneath.

| #3 Visit to Khlong Muang

The next day, our schedule is all about islands hopping.

First stop is check out the 'Rumors from the Sea', a site-specific sound installation created by Felix Blume, consists of hundreds of bamboo flute devices, played by the waves.

| #4 Visit to Poda Island

A very beautiful and small limestone island covered in casuarina trees and almost entirely encircled by a soft white sand beach.

'Pulse -Formations', a cluster of 8 huge broken drumsticks emerge through the ground, like fallen trees effected by wind and time. The surreal and wondrous appearance of USA artist Camille Norment's installation resonates with today's bewildering sense of change, as well as the planet's ever so fragile and volatile conditions.

| #5 Visit to Railay Beach

It is a small peninsula located between the city of Krabi and Ao Nang, accessible only by boat due to high limestone cliffs cutting off mainland access.

Covers the rock surface of a small island located in front of the famous Phra Nang Cave Beach, the gliding start from the bottom part of the island and extend up in a diminishing gradation until it seems to diffuse entirely in to the rock surface, create a golden threshold between land and sea. That is how 'Gliding the Border' presented.

| #6 Visit to Than Bok Khorani National Park

Rikuo Ueda from Japan is known for his unique practice of 'wind drawing'. To achieve this artwork 'Letter, 2018', the artist sets up a very simple mechanism that lets nature create an artwork.

Through this Thailand Biennale, Krabi 2018, we are blessed by the beauty of nature, the white sand beaches, forests and stream that have natural and cultural significance. It is truly a unique experience to me, it is my first time to discover Biennale. I guess that's all for my sharing about 'Thailand Biennale, Krabi 2018', you can visit their official website and Facebook as below :

Website : www.thailandbiennale.org

Facebook : www.facebook.com/thailandbiennale