One Step Closer to the Maxis Om Nom Nom Race

A race about food? Now now, that is enough reason for me to take part in the race. I love food. Almost 50% of my posts are about food. I did food crawling with my foodies friends before eating nice food from one destination to another. Don't believe me? Read about my Kepong Food crawl here and Sri Sentosa/OUG Food Crawl here.

My knowledge about food and eateries are quite well. This Maxis Om Nom Nom Race is like a race designed for me to take part in, so it will be a lost if I don't take part in it. I am also a Maxis Evangelist. Not to mention there are a lot of great prizes to be won.

1st Prize: A trip to Hong Kong 3 days 2 nights with 5-star accommodation (for the winning team members of 4 pax) worth RM10,000, and also 4x HTC Desire Z (1 per winning member)
2nd Prize: 4 x HTC 7 Mozart (1 per winning member)

Just by participating, I'll get a Maxis goodies bag. Muahaha.

By the way, check out the Maxis Broadband plan. It's good for those that needs Internet on the move for your laptop, netbook or tablet. Click here for more detail.

I think it will be an advantage for me to win the race if I have Maxis Finder301 Application. This location-based app provides you with information on food, restaurants, ATMs, banks, clinics, police stations and more around you. Find out more about Maxis Finder301 here.

Win VVIP Tickets For Jay Chou Era Concert Live in Malaysia 2011

Any Jay Chou's fan out there? Did you managed to buy the concert tickets? No? Yes? Congrats if you managed to bought it. For those that weren't able to get the hot selling tickets, no worry because there is still chance that you could win your self 2 VVIP tickets for Jay Chou The Era World Tour Concert 2011 live in Malaysia!

How? Firstly you'll have to like KL SOGO FB page. Then click on the contest page here for more detail.

Snippets from the contest page:

"Show us a video (between 1 and 3 mins) of your best impersonation of Jay Chou - you can sing, dance or even act like him. The best 5 videos will be shortlisted for voting. The 3 videos with the most “likes” win the top prizes! So give us your best shot!

But that’s not all. 3 lucky voters from the most “liked” videos will also stand a chance to win a pair of VVIP tickets, so good luck, peeps!

Prizes x 3 (Given to top 3 videos): :
Grand Prize: 2 VVIP Tickets to Jay Chou The Era World Tour Concert + RM500 KL SOGO Gift Voucher + KL SOGO Signature Bag
2nd Prize: 2 VVIP Tickets to Jay Chou The Era World Tour Concert + RM300 KL SOGO Gift Voucher + KL SOGO Signature Bag
3rd Prize: 2 VVIP Tickets to Jay Chou The Era World Tour Concert+ RM200 KL SOGO Gift Voucher + KL SOGO Signature Bag

Voter Prizes x 3 (Given to 3 voters from the most “liked” videos):
2 VVIP tickets to Jay Chou The Era World Tour Concert

Consolation Prizes x 2
2 VVIP tickets to Jay Chou The Era World Tour Concert "

Lazy to make a video? Well, 3 voters of the most "liked" video could win VVIP tickets too. Not much time left for video submission. I think I'll try out the voting part lol.

Video submission period: From 20 December 2010 to 12 midnight 12 January 2011.
Voting period: From 19 January to 12 midnight 11 February 2011.

Inventing My Own iPad Application for Maxis

Okay. If I have the necessary to make my own iPad Application for Maxis, I of course will make an app that is related to food. Why? I like to eat nice and good food. In the current health conscious society, people are watching what kind of food they put into their mouth. I myself need to shed off some weight and cut back on the sugar intake.

Thus, I create iDiet Manager. Let me breakdown to what the iDiet Manager can do to help those people that will like to keep count on what they are eating.

Firstly, the user can enter their height and weight to calculate their Body Mass Index. Then, the app will have questionaire on their health history for the user to answer, just choose yes or no. For example, "Diabetic?", "Hypertension?","Low blood sugar?" and etc.

Based on the information collected iDiet Manager will search through it's database and recommend the diet plan for the user. There might be a few choices for the user to choose. For example, the user is a bit over weight and need to lose some weight. The app might come up with Dr. Atkin's Diet, Low calory diet, High Fiber Diet or Five Colours Diet. User can choose one to follow.

After choosing the specific diet plan, iDiet Manager will generate the eating plan for the user and recommend what food the user can eat for the dieting period. If user prefer to cook his or her own meal, there's a ton of recipe that is available or if the user wants to dine outside. He/She just have to enter their location to dine and iDiet will generate a list of restaurants near the proximity that is serving food that match the dieting objective. For example, if the user is a vegetarian then iDiet Manager will list out restaurants that serve vegetarian food.

User don't have to worry about keeping count of calories because iDiet Manager stored the the amount of calories of each food and it is updated everyday for new food. User can update their progress such as weight loss or weight gain, a lower or higher blood sugar level or a lower or higher blood pressure level. Based on this, iDiet Manager might do some adjustment to the diet plan so that the diet goal is reach. For example, a user with diabetes that is following a Diabetic Diet might have the diet plan modified to all day oatmeal if the blood sugar level shot up.

User is recommended to nominate one or two family member or friend to be their monitor. Progress will be email to the monitor(s). In terms, the monitor will help give motivation or keep the user in toe on the diet plan. In the end, an app is just an app if there's no human interaction. If the user is making good progress, iDiet Manager will recommend a celebration meal that the user can eat freely, maybe cheesecake or a steak. iDiet Manager is here to help those that like to maintain a healthy lifestyle and yet do not want to give up.

That's my idea of my own iPad Application for Maxis. By the way, if you're thinking of getting an iPad, you can check out Maxis iPad Plans:

All plans come with Micro-SIM card.