Archive for year 2008

Are you ready for a Super-Cars Shout Out Competition?

January 3, 2008
by pelf in
Psst…

Today’s “Save the Ocean” post is on keeping your home aquarium ocean-friendly. Go read it :D

The Super-Cars Shout Out Competition is a contest that allows you to place a simple, colorful flyer on high mileage cars that you encounter, showing the vehicle owner that s/he has done something worthy by choosing a leading-edge (in terms of miles per gallon, or mpg) vehicle, while also allowing yourself to participate in this competition. Optionally, you can re-use a single copy of the flyer on multiple vehicles to avoid paper waste. Printing flyers on recycled paper is definitely recommended.

Smart car
Image credit: Tommy Wong.

How do I join?
Flyer

  1. Download and print one or more of the official Super-Cars Shout Out Competition flyers, preferably on recycled paper, because you don’t want to create more trash, do you?
  2. Find a 40+ miles per gallon (or 16.74 kilometers per liter) car from the list (e.g. Perodua Kelisa, Perodua Kenari, Kia Picanto, Hyundai Getz, etc.).
  3. Place the flyer under the windshield wiper.
  4. Use a digital camera or good cell phone to photograph.
  5. Upload the image to the PlanetThoughts.org website.

OK, so what do I get if I win?

The prize for this competition will be at least USD 500 guaranteed, and will go to the person with the largest number of valid uploaded images. So if you are not in it for the fun and the mission, there is another reason to join in. And to make this fun for the wise car buyers, USD 50 will be given per month to one randomly selected car owner who contacts PlanetThoughts that month and who has a valid photo of their of car uploaded on our site by any other entrant.

Note: No individual or their family can win more than one secondary prize (the USD 50), but such winners are still eligible for the grand prize.

Anymore rules and regulations?

Yes, but for your benefit, I will keep them short and straight-to-the-point:

  1. The competition will run from January 3rd to June 2nd, 2008.
  2. You CANNOT participate if you are a vehicle dealer or manufacturer or car repair garage owner or staff.
  3. Photographs of vehicles must be seen “in the wild”. For example, auto dealer parking lots and immediate surroundings are NOT valid as image sources for this competition. Mall parking lots not connected to car dealerships are valid image sources.
  4. Images must include a visible copy of an official Super-Cars Shout Out Competition flyer.
  5. The winner will be selected using a weighted value calculated from the number of valid uploaded car images from each participant.
  6. More rules @ the official Super-Cars Shout Out Competition page.

Terengganu, the Waterfront Heritage City

January 1, 2008
by pelf in

Alright.

Terengganu has been officially declared the Waterfront Heritage City this morning but all that I could “visualize” was these:

Seaside

Fishermen's boats

Setiu river

Terrapin nesting bank

What does Terengganu remind you of? :D

Happy New Year, girls and boys!

January 1, 2008
by pelf in

To all of you who have just gotten up on a lazy New Year’s Day, planning your activities and shopping sprees for the day, be glad that you aren’t in the office right now because New Year’s Day is a working day here in Terengganu (and Kedah and Kelantan and Perlis, perhaps?)! Oh by the way, have you heard? Today is also the day Kuala Terengganu will be proclaimed a Heritage Waterfront CITY *clears throat* and it has been raining since last year!

This is just a quick note to tell you that the “Save the Ocean” group-writing project has kick-started today, and whether or not you are one of the participants, I’d love it if you would promote the campaign on your own blogs and tell your blog readers about the campaign. Who knows, they might have additional suggestions on how we can save our oceans :D

OK, on top of that, I have also participated in PK Tan’s Malaysia Wildlife Conservation Campaign, and I have published an article entitled Wildlife conservation in Malaysia @ The Giving Hands. It is truly amazing to see the results of the collective effort put in by fellow bloggers. You will learn about things that you will otherwise not learn about, or will take a long time to.

OK, so how did YOUR countdown go?

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