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I’ll be revealing the winner of the Singtel INQ Mobile Contest at the end of this post but first of all, I’ve got some news for you guys who are interested in checking out the INQ Mini 3G or have been waiting for Singtel to wave more carrots for you to get the phone (which is already free if you sign up for a certain plan by the way).

Singtel will be holding an INQ Mini 3G roadshow at Plaza Singapura tomorrow and on Sunday!

Details:

Venue: Plaza Singapura Level 1

Dates: 31st Oct (Sat) & 1st Nov (Sun)

Time: 11am – 10pm daily

Mediacorp artists Dai Yang Tian & Elvin Ng, will be appearing at 8pm on Sat and Sun respectively. These two are arguably the most good looking of the younger, up and coming stars of local TV and I hope they should be able to convince you to at least check them out while buying the INQ Mini 3G.

Now! About the carrots that Singtel is offering to you guys who are interested to buy the INQ Mini 3G but have yet to do so.

Print the following e-voucher and present it at the INQ Mini 3G roadshow this weekend when you buy the phone to enjoy…

1. Free pack of 3 INQ Mini 3G battery covers (worth $34.95)
2. Waiver of registration fee and SIM card charge (worth $42.80)

Print sized JPEG of the voucher here.

What’s a roadshow without a lucky draw? All purchases of the INQ Mini 3G made during the roadshow may win you a 12-month Singtel mobile subscription! One winner will be picked for each day of the roadshow.

So print the e-voucher, get down to Plaza Singapura this weekend, check out the INQ Mini 3G, buy the phone for ZERO dollars, ogle and take pictures with the celebrities with your new phone.

There, I made weekend plans for you already. :p

Check out my review of the phone here if you are still undecided.

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And as promised, the winner who will walk away with $100 cash and a $100 shopping voucher from my blog is….

 

*drumroll…………………………….*

 

MUSXZART!!!!

Congrats dude! You will be hearing about your win soon through email.

Thanks to the Su Min of Text 100, I got invited to attend a Blogger event at HBO Asia office for a tour and preview of one of their latest additions to the HBO lineup, Flight of the Conchords. I am a big fan of many, many, MANY TV series and I haven’t heard of Flight of the Conchords ever. It wasn’t until Claudia posted an entry about the show that got me interested. And boy! It was hilarious and entertaining!

 

“Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie – a.k.a. Flight of the Conchords – may be “New Zealand’s 4th Most Popular Folk Parody Duo,” but in the USA, finding someone who knows their act is about as easy as finding a kiwi nest in Central Park! To rectify this oversight, Jemaine and Bret have moved to New York’s East Village to conquer America, one fan (literally) at a time.

In this irreverent half-hour musical comedy series new HBO series, Jemaine and Bret (playing naïve, fictionalized versions of themselves) move to downtown Manhattan, where they try to land gigs and pursue relationships with elusive women, both with marginal success. As we see, the duo’s innocent, misguided efforts rarely yield dividends, but they do spawn an abundance of plaintive Conchord tunes about life, love, and the pursuit of an elusive music video.”

-Extracted from HBO

 

I arrived with Claudia at our destination and bumped into Nadnut on the way to the HBO Asia office. We were greeted warmly by the Text 100 & HBO crew and plenty other bloggers joined us like Jerrick, Nicholas, Hillary, Rinaz, Sheylara, Musxzart & many other bloggers accompanied by their +1s.

The HBO crew took us for a short but informative tour around their superb office and we got to see the various departments and crew that are responsible for bringing life to the movies, series and trailers that you see on HBO. In the sound editing room, a volunteer was asked to do a short recording and guess what? I was ‘volunteered’.

Into the recording room I go and I was asked to grunt, “ARRRRRRGHHHHH!!!” 3 times.

Not being sure how I sound as my ears were muted from my voice, I went out to see that the sound guru was ready to incorporate my grunt into the trailer. Roars of laughter filled the room as my voice was in heard in that HBO trailer. Seeing that he could squeeze more laughter from the crowd, he played that portion of the trailer a few more times to the delight of the ‘I-can’t-believe-this-funny-shit’ crowd.

The genre of the trailer was ‘Horror’ by the way.

We ended the tour of the office at the lounge that many employees will kill for to have and stuffed our faces with the delicious food catered by Absolutely New Zealand. After having one too many of their fabulous desserts, we plonked ourselves on the comfy couches and watched 2 episodes of Flight of the Conchords. What a great way to end the event!

[Image from Claudia]

 

Some pictures of the stuffs in the goodie bag!

Flight of the Conchords OST! WOOO HOOO!!

Flight of the Conchords premieres on HBO today at 10.30pm! There is also a video contest in which you can take part to win a Mac Book Air!!