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Friday, July 18, 2014

GIFTBLOB Aidilfitri Giveaway!

Hari Raya Aidilfitri is coming and GIFTBLOB is celebrating the fun and festivities with a cool giveaway on Facebook!

Offering mystery cash voucher (Dome/Daiso/Quiksilver/AeonBIG) as prizes, this is a super simple contest you don’t want to miss.

How to Join

• Download GIFTBLOB app
- App Store (http://goo.gl/LjPDbs) OR
- Google Play (http://goo.gl/LFTg3z)

• LIKE GIFTBLOB FB Page - (https://www.facebook.com/giftblob)

• Share and Like - this post

** Download GIFTBLOB app on your Smartphone in order to receive

notification

** Winners will receive their reward via GIFTBLOB mobile app within

48 hours

** Contest Period: 14th – 27th July 2014

Apparently, luck was on my side and shortly after joining the giveaway, I received a winning notification from GIFTBLOB under the ‘My Gift” section! Excitedly, I clicked ‘View Gift’ to view my prize - RM30 voucher from DÔME Café!

I’m planning to use my voucher for a yummy ‘buka puasa’ session at DÔME Café with B next weekend so thanks GIFTBLOB for adding a little Raya cheer to my fasting month!

To redeem my voucher, I made sure I filled in my information correctly. There’s also a box to leave notes for merchants if needed.

Upon completion, I received confirmation; indicating successful redemption and my prize will be delivered to my doorstep in 2 short days! For ease of mind and added convenience, a tracking ID is provided as well for tracking purposes.

Definitely one of the easiest contests ever, all I can say is join me as a winner and check out GIFTBLOB now! If you don’t already know, GIFTBLOB is a fun and interactive mobile gifting application, which allows users to conveniently send physical or virtual Gifts to friends and loved ones in 3 simple steps.

As you can see, GIFTBLOB is all about ‘Making Someone Happy’ with a special thoughtful gift for any occasion. Aside from the current Coffee & Cake, Momento, His & Her, Surprise, Fashion and Pamper categories, two new ones have been recently added namely Dining and Shopping. So get ready for more delicious moments and great gifting experience with the addition of cool new merchants like Haagen Dazs, ROYCE, O’Briens, Quicksilver, ROXY, Jason Food Hall, Cold Storage and Candylicious.

Personally, I find mobile gifting extremely fun and convenient and with 8 categories offering plenty of great gift ideas for just about everyone, I am truly excited to start Making Someone Happy today!

MARIUCA LOVES

LADY JAVA

Monday, October 07, 2013

Belated Wishes

Is it too late to blog about my Aidilfitri celebration this year? I think not especially since I’ve already prepared my story in draft ages ago!

Raya ang pow

Aidilfitri 2013

Cuteness in Red

Dad & Mom

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Where's my Raya ang pow Grandpa?

Well, Aidilfitri this year saw me falling sick on the eve of Raya. Nursing a terrible fever and cough, I did feel slightly better halfway through the day but was unable to taste the delicious feast served thanks to a very blocked nose.

Home-made cakes

Pineapple Tarts

My fave this year - Cheese Pineapple Tarts

Rendang & Ketupat

Having said that, it was still a pleasure to have celebrated Aidilfitri 2013 with family and friends and after entertaining and mingling with guests, posing for photos and packing loads of cookies and leftover ketupat and rendang to bring home, I was ready to call it a day.

Marzianna & Marzueani with cute Issy

Me with Joanna

BFFs

With the pretty Kelly

Mariuca ♥ B

Happy Hari Raya from Mel & Friends

By the weekend, I was feeling heaps better so we graciously accepted my sister’s invitation for Raya dinner at her home in faraway Putrajaya. I was looking forward to sis’ Laksa Johor Chef Wan style, which was a first-attempt recipe for her. I gotta say, the Laksa was delicious and B added to the compliment by saying it was one of the best he ever had!

Yummy Laksa Johor

My adorable niece Isabella was her usual friendly and talkative self and she took me for a tour of her play-room, which was filled with all sorts of kids stuff and toys! The twins had a ball and with so many toys to play with, it’s no wonder that they stayed inside the play-room most of the time.

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So huggable!

We want toys!

Fun Time!

Playing Hungry Hungry Hippos

Twin hugs for Uncle B

By the way, Issy turned 6 a few weeks back and I still owe her a birthday gift! As usual, I am stuck for ideas. I know she loves and is fascinated with everything dinosaur so I’m thinking one of these will do the trick!

RAWR?

Is it a creative gift you ask? Well, it’s definitely a cool collectible toy and one that I know she’d LOVE but fickle-minded me is still undecided so I’ve been searching for great gift ideas for babies and kids online.

I found myself with a Firstcry Coupon, visiting Asia’s largest online retailer of baby supplies and toys. Featuring well over 15, 000 products for babies and kids including those from favourite international brands like Hotwheels, Disney and Barbie, you would think I’d be able to get more ideas and finally decide right?

Well, you would be wrong! With so many products to browse through and ooh and aah about at Firstcry, I was truly spoiled for choice and I did end up with some fantastic ideas. However, all the cool toys and children stuff I saw online only made me even more confused and undecided so I’m back at square one!

Issy and Furby

Oh well, for now I will stick to my Dino idea but if I see something cooler when I go shopping tomorrow, don’t be surprised if I end up bringing home something else for my niece. Happy belated birthday Isabella!

MARIUCA LOVES

LADY JAVA

Friday, August 24, 2012

Aidilfitri 2012!

So how was your Raya Aidilfitri celebration? To those who did not celebrate, how did you spend your long weekend and holiday? Aidilfitri Day 1 as always, was a little hectic and tiring for B and me. In fact, so tired and distracted was I that I did not manage to snap a shot of me with B by my side. Nor did I take as many photos as I did last year. I was too hot and sweaty from running around preparing food for guests and entertaining them.

I gotta say, my Mom outdid herself this year. She cooked up a storm in the kitchen with sis Intan's help and she baked all sorts of goodies two nights before. The house was beautifully decorated and everything looked great so much thanks and love to her for making Aidilfitri extra festive and yummy this year!

By the time we arrived home late evening, B and I were truly exhausted. I did not sleep the previous night so the moment we were safe and sound at home, I walked right to our bedroom, fell right on top of my bed and immediately fell asleep… still clad in my Raya outfit!

B was exhausted too and after hours of sleep and rest, we got up late the next day, ready to enjoy the rest of the holiday. What to do for the next three days? Make that two since B had to go back to work on Wednesday.

Two days leave is of course not enough to see us flying off to Europe for a vacation and stay in beautiful vacation apartments in Lisbon, that’s for sure. We still had a lot of food leftover from the previous day so I didn’t feel like going away either. I did not want to waste food, which I knew I’d end up doing if we went away so we decided to stay put and enjoy our new 50-inch TV while watching Raya TV programmes on TV and eating Raya food.

Not the busy festive holiday some of you may have enjoyed, but definitely a much-needed rest and quiet time we both have been looking forward to. Perhaps next Raya, we will plan something awesome like a trip and stay in awesome vacation apartments in Lisbon. This year however, we’re staying put.

I am leaving you with a few Raya pictures from my Aidilfitri 2012 album. Like I said earlier, I came home with less than 60 photos all in, half of them blurry so some is still better than none yes? Until my next post, Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri and Maaf Zahir Batin from our family to yours.