Nestlé 100 Years! Growing Up with Singapore

100 Years of Good Food, Good Life with Nestlé Singapore

Nestle celebrates its 100 years in Singapore this year and they have a slew of exciting activities to thank Singaporeans for the amazing shared growing up journey for the past century.

Many of Nestle products are household names in Singapore – Milo, Maggi, Kit Kat, Milkmaid, Nescafe, just to name a few.

I can still vividly remember the thrill and exhilaration of seeing the Milo van near the finishing point during cross-country training at MacRitchie Reservoir in my secondary school days! A gulp of iced Milo after a long, strenuous run, that was heaven to many  secondary school kids.

Cold Milo was hard to come by then. Now there’s Milo 3in1 Easy Cool! 

As part of their 100 years celebration, Nestle will be fulfilling the wish of 100 persons in Singapore. You can submit your wish on their official website or read through some of the wishes they have fulfilled so far. 

Here is the wish I submitted to Nestle:

“I like to travel and I have a habit of buying instant noodles from different countries back home as a souvenir and as a snack. It would be great if Nestle can send me all the different Maggi noodles sold around the world so I can try them all in this lifetime (better still, fly me to all the countries where Maggi noodles are sold to try them all). “

I was half-expecting all the wish to be for materialistic stuff like striking lottery, a new car and more of the same, but some are pretty heart-warming, selfless and interesting wishes.

Among the wishes fulfilled, here are some of my favourites:

A wish to help others

A cute, simple wish by a young-at-heart old lady

A wish for the kids

Have you submitted your wish yet? If not, do so today! It takes less than a minute of your time and Nestle just may make your wish comes true. 🙂

Meet Ah Hock, the nostalgic telling parrot

When you are done with the wish, you can play a game with Nestle’s Ah Hock, the nostalgic telling parrot and find out his reading for your own journey with Nestle.

Here’s the reading for mine:

I am a Jalan Ranger!

Accurate right?

Share your reading when you are done!

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Alvinology’s Best of Draw Something – Part 2

Draw Something continues to be an awesome time-waster. No wonder online casual games giant Zynga bought over OMGPOP, the maker of Draw Something for USD$180 million!

A follow-up post on some of my best efforts at Draw Something. This time, I have more colours to play with:

Alvinology’s Best of Draw Something

Draw Something is an awesome time-waster.

I love to draw since young. Expectantly, when the Draw Something drawing social game started going viral worldwide, I got hooked.

Here are some of my proudest finger speed drawing accomplished on Draw Something so far. All the drawings are done in a minute or so, maximum:

Bloggers’ Charity Dinner Date at Limoncello Restaurant with Bidders from Sold.SG

Group picture

As mentioned in a previous blog post, SOLD.sg, Singapore’s leading online shopping destination for luxury and entertainment products, helped their users find love this Valentine’s Day by partnering with omy.sg to auction off ten popular bloggers as Valentine’s dates. 

Prices the bloggers were sold for

Over a period of merely five days, this charity auction raised S$2038.50 from the public’s bids, and in addition to the money raised from the auction, SOLD.sg also contributed $1 to match every $2 raised.

A total of $3,100 was raised and were donated to the Spastic Children’s Association of Singapore (SCAS) over a group dinner date at Limoncello Restaurant.

Angeline from SOLD.sg presenting a $3100 cheque to Erick from SCAS

I was at the restaurant too to witness the cheque presentation and to meet up with the SOLD.sg team, the ten bloggers, the ten winning bidders, as well as the representatives from SCAS and Limoncello respectively.

Seated and ready for dinner at Limoncello Restaurant

Table 1

Table 2

Table 3

A toast to a successful event

Blogger Ang Geck Geck and her date

Blogger Claire with her hunky dinner date

Blogger Moonberry and her date

Blogger Christine with her dinner date

Vitello Tonnato: Roast Veal Served with Tuna and Capers Sauce

Antipasti Limoncello: Burrata Cheese Served with Grilled Vegetables, Rucola Salad, Cherry Tomatoes and Parma Ham

Impepata Di Cozze: Sauteed Mussels in a Delicate Wine and Tomato Broth, Amalfi Style

Limoncello’s Napolitana wood fired pizza

Scialatielli Amalfitana: Homemade Amalfi Coast Udon like Pasta with Fresh Seafood

Cannelloni Di Vitello: Homemade Cannelloni Filled with Ricotta and Veal

Costata Di Maiale: Pan Seared Kurobuta Pork Glazed with Apricot and Balsamic

Yummy dessert

Close up of the dessert items

Blogger Joanne and her date getting interviewed by omy.sg

Blogger and actress, Kanny, being presented with a "certificate of bravery" from SOLD.sg

Blogger and radio deejay Daniel getting his certificate

Blogger William getting his certificate

Blogger Calvin getting his certificate

Blogger Eric getting presented with his certificate

Qiuyan and Angeline from SOLD.sg presenting a certificate of appreciation to the boss man at Limoncello

You can find out more about the event via this article on omy.sg or this video:

About SOLD.sg

Sold.sg is an innovative auction website that that offers users the chance to win brand new luxury and lifestyle products and services at greatly discounted prices. Items up for daily auction include technological gadgets like the PS3, iPads, iPhones and digital cameras, and branded accessories like bags, jewellery and wallets. Sold.sg also offer lifestyle items like movie and restaurant vouchers and airline tickets to popular destinations.

About Limoncello Restaurant

Limoncello Restaurant is the brainchild of Restaurateur Mark Anthonisz and Fabio Iannone who have brought about a Team of talented individuals including Evecutive Chef’s Emiddio Cioffi and Mauro Crescendo from the Amalfi Coast.

Fabio Iannone is a Chef by Profession having founded La Braceria with Chef Emiddio who returned from Japan for Limoncello’s project. A Trained Sommelier from Accor Hotels and having worked with Gordon Ramsey’s, Daniel Boulud and Marina Bay Sands Singapore to name a few, Mark has been tasked with heading both the Front and Heart of Limoncello’s House.

Limoncello strives to exceed the expectations of it’s guests. Genuine Service and Traditional Fare from the coast of Amalfi is the focus of each new day. Napolitana wood fired pizzas and charcoal grilled meats and seafood is what distinguishes us from the rest.

Angry Birds Going Through Airport Security… For Finnair Flight to Singapore

Here’s a random video which I found rather amusing. The video is in relation to the “Angry Birds Asian Challenge with Finnair” collaboration campaign between Rovio and Finnair:

Earlier, a search was conducted to identify avid Angry Birds fans from all over the world to join Finnair’s Angry Birds theme flight and to compete in the Angry Birds Asian Challenge at an altitude of 10,000 metres:

A group of lucky individuals were selected: Bryan and John from Malaysia, Katja from USA, Viktor from UK, Shirley and Karen from Singapore and Lasse from Finland.

They will get to board Finnair’s unique flight from Helsinki to Singapore on 20 September. More details are available on the official campaign website. 🙂