Are you moist enough?

Diamonds are girls best friend but if there is one thing more important than diamonds, it would be our skin's condition. Trust me there is nothing more crucial than our skin as it is the most visible part of our ENTIRE body. Being as busy as a bee I am pretty sure everyone is too occupied to think about their skin. However, someone or should I say some 'stickbody' came and ask me this question.

That is absolutely right, Nuffnang stick man just ask me, "are you moist enough?" I wonder what is the first thing that runs through someone's mind when they are asked this question. However, the first thing that came to my mind was..............

Obviously not but people make mistakes and I realized that soon enough. Finally, I sat and ponder on the question for a while. I trailed my fingers along my skin and then I asked myself this question again and again, "Is my skin moist enough?".

Suddenly, I asked myself why am I cracking every corner of my head and squeezing every single brain cells I have to come up with the answer? Well, this is because Vaseline just launched their new Amazing Skin campaign featuring a whole new range of skin lotion. Vaseline skin lotion is catered for different skin needs and even Nuffnang's stick man loves it.

Moving on, so is my skin moist enough? Alright, I shall not beat around the bush so much and get straight to the point.

 So is that a yes or a no? The truth is, our skin is so precious we should never stop feeding it with goodness. Hence, I would want to further improve my skin and keep it so moist until I can compete with the babies. We must always take good care of our skin by using the right lotion, drink lots of water and other ways that are not harmful.

Alright, my answer to the question, "are you moist enough?" is yes it is but it might be better after I use Vaseline's new range of lotion that comes with variants such as Total Moisture, Healthy White, Intensive Rescue, and Aloe Cool and Fresh.

At the end of the day, I am grateful for what I have and so I declare that I love my own skin and it is amazing.
[If it is dry and ugly you think I dare to upload this picture?]

 Therefore, it would be even better if I can go and celebrate it at this event.

and to meet them

not forgetting the awesome nuffnang group and nuffnangers as well.

Be confident of yourself, if you have great skin, flaunt it and if you do not have awesome skin then don't be afraid to make a change. Believe in yourselves and let us celebrate our amazing skin together at Vaseline's pool party. [That is if I get invited to attend]

Last but not least, I extend my thanks to Nuffnang for this opportunity.

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Mag Inc 2010, T.3.A.M (Yak Three)

Revealing the mini-magazine that caused our eye bags........

Our mini-magazine name is T.3.A.M or you can pronounce as TEAM.

Our tagline, "Delivering the uniqueness in print".

Theme: A better life (given by The Star)

Topic: Health

Focus: Cancer survivorship

Front cover

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A simple front cover, we highlighted the candle which symbolizes hope.

"A new normal" is invented by the cancer survivors and is the title of our featured article.

and yes, we didn't have time to edit my face so it is very visible. Now everyone will see the yakster's face.......

Second page

Featured article which focuses on cancer survivorship based on Miss Adeline's own experience.

We didn't want to just come up with an article. We wanted something original so we interviewed Miss Adeline a breast cancer survivor. The article is 100% original and copyrighted.

Plus, I needed the inspiration because I was so stressed up I couldn't think straight and let alone write the article. And yes I did the design for the article as well since Mahirah was too busy designing the front cover so please excuse my not so good photoshop skills, still trying to improve on that. (I can yak and write but photoshop is OK only since I just started not long ago)

Third page

The concept: Diary of a cancer survivor

We put in....

1) A poem written by a cancer survivor which was given to us by Miss Adeline.

2) Quotes from famous celebrities

3) Save you lyrics

4) Cancer survivorship events around the world

5) Celebrity survivor

6) Real life interview of people who had cancer diagnosed relatives or friends

and.....we had to advertise ourselves so we inserted a small banner on T.3.A.M

Any comments? T.3.A.M's first project and I am so glad everything turned out well. Everyone played their part in producing this magazine as a TEAM and we had a lot of fun. So, if any of you out there is inspired to become a writer/journalist like this yakster here or a designer like Mahirah then do look out for Mag Inc 2011 by The Star Newspaper!

It will be worth your time, seriously. Plus, think of the grand prize.....RM 100,000 scholarship from Taylor's University College and a few day trip to somewhere awesome (this year's prize is to Siam Reap)

Mag Inc 2010 is not only a competition, it is a journey, an experience and something money can't buy you.

Inspired to inspire

Love, the yakster.

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My Mag Inc 2010 story (Yak Two)

Alright, now I can continue with my story on my oh-so-long journey to produce a three page magazine. Of course, before we could start on anything we had to have the IDEAS. So where to get the ideas? Magazines, magazines and lots of magazine. We went through so many magazine during our brainstorming session and I just realized how much I spent on magazines. (A lot!) After going through various magazines, we started to plan the design and layout for the different pages. And of course, the contents as well.

Magazines and laptops. (without these can die lor)

Remember I mentioned about the live interview we had with a breast cancer survivor? Let me just say, even if we didn't win this competition at the very least we went through real life interview and research experience. First of all, if you intend to do any interview always call and ask for permission and prepare yourselves for disappointments. I had to call up almost ten different hospitals and cancer societies to get permission to carry out the interview and I thank my lucky stars, Miss Adeline from National Cancer Society Malaysia was willing to be interviewed and help us out.

T.3.A.M together with Miss Adeline Joseph

So, off we went to the National Cancer Society Malaysia which is at 66 Jalan Raja Muda Abdul Aziz 50300 Kuala Lumpur. We were so nervous! Since it was our first attempt of a live interview, we were all very worried about the questions and how we were going to interview Miss Adeline. However, upon arriving and meeting her in person. All our nerves were gone because she was so friendly! Miss Adeline gave us booklets about cancer, we sat down together and the interview began!

Look at those booklets (if you want to see them just e-mail this yakster (me) I can scan them to you)

Listening and writing down her every single word

I was truly amazed and touched by her story on survivorship. Her experience of battling cancer and the how she coped with it really opened my eyes to another perspective of life. Life of a cancer survivor is definitely something to be inspired with. Miss Adeline is a BREAST cancer survivor so we focused a lot on that topic. Girls, do your regular breast examination! Most common cancer for females would be breast cancer while males is prostate cancer. Anyone can get cancer at any age so it is always good to take preventions and live a healthy lifestyle!

We had a tour around the cancer children's homestay

Did you know Nelson Mandela is a prostate cancer survivor? Well, now you know! I learnt a lot while producing this mini-magazine. However, the most important thing I learnt is that I have great friends who are willing to sacrifice their time and stress themselves up with me. T.3.A.M is always a team! We did everything together, everyday after school and even on weekends at my place. We ate together, work together, stress together and bathe....err, wait no. We took turns to bath. In short, we bonded and we love each other!

Our work place, yeah it's messy. (It was messier, see the previous photo)

I'm sorry if I was a bit to hard on you all because I really wanted our mini-magazine to be the best. (at least the best in our school) My father told me that no matter how good we are there is always someone better. We just had to try our best and we did! Given only a week to come up with a mini-magazine. I would say we did a pretty good job!

I nearly cried when we printed the magazine out! My mother saw it and she was like, "Eh, is that it, only three pages?". All of us just stare at her and I went, "Only three pages?!?! Mummy ah, if it was more than that we can die lor". So after a whole week of sleepless night, stressful time constraints and a whole lot of pressure we were done! At least, done for now because now we are still waiting for the finalist to be announced by The Star in August. And yes, T.3.A.M is SMK (P) Sri Aman's representative. (so our goal to be the best in school was achieved, now....if only......)

Well, nothing is impossible! I just have to pray hard that we are shortlisted to the finals.

A few more pictures.....

My first attempt to pose for the front cover (my face was suppose to be edited out, so I didn't mind)

Our session at school. (Can you see Mahirah being inspired by Seventeen mag? Anarrin and Aishah is staring at the laptop's screen trying to absorb the video I forced them to watch on how to create a good magazine)

Distracted by Yuet Ting.....

Revealing.......

T.3.A.M

"Delivering the uniqueness in print"

at Yak Three!

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My Mag Inc 2010 story (Yak One)

I was suppose to publish this post two weeks ago but I procrastinated until now. What is Mag Inc 2010? Mag Inc 2010 is a competition organized by The Star Newspaper in partnership with Pizza Hut. All participants are required to produce a three page mini-magazine which focuses on a topic with the given theme: A better life.

Why did I join? It is a good experience for everyone and especially for someone like this yakster here (me). This competition embarks us on a journey to produce a mini-magazine which was definitely STRESSFUL. However, I had very supportive team mates. Who are my awesome yaksters? They are Anarrin, Mahirah, Aishah and Tracy! (I'm in girls only school)

So, with a team of five yakters we name ourselves T.3.A.M which is T:Tracy then the 3 A's A:Amy, A:Anarrin, A: Aishah and M:Mahirah. We decided on the topic health, focusing on cancer survivorship. Although we had so many other things up our sleeves we still found time to have brainstorming sessions together. We even stayed back at school everyday!

The best part was when we went to the National Cancer Society Malaysia to interview a breast cancer survivor! (yeah, real life interview!) The best scoop by T.3.A.M! but I shall talk about that at Yak Two.

To be continued......(the yakster needs some sleep)

Maybe a cup of this would help......

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Elocution Competition @ Sri KL

We are speakers but nothing speaks better than a picture.

A picture speaks a thousand words.

Left: She sang like Celine Dion, a performance by Sri KL.
Middle: The champion speaking on a box of chocolates.

Right: Me, posing with my proud achievement.

Left: I was trembling, did you notice?

Right: Harshiah, 2nd runner up, president of SMK Bukit Convent Bukit Nanas Interact Club.

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