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SOYJOY Challenge 4: Much Effort, Little Effort Video

Ivy — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:47:45 +0000

So our last SOYJOY challenge is a video/slideshow to show Much Effort, Little Effort. I decided to tell a story of two brothers Much and Little Effort with my wonderfully awful drawings that failed me my art classes in school.

Please excuse the watermark on the YouTube video. I had to use a free converter since MS Powerpoint couldn’t convert my slideshow into a video. The timing is a little off as well. Sigh, the perils of technology. If you’d like to view the original high quality version (with the right timings), download my powerpoint here.

[edit] I remade the slideshow into a video! The watermark was just not happening for me. Had to give up my lunch for this! Talk about Much Effort! T__T Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy it! BTW, you can still download the original powerpoint here. [/edit]

Credits

Tools

Drawn with: pencil, paper & my lack of artistic skills
Touched up & colored with: Adobe Photoshop CS3
Slideshow: Microsoft Powerpoint
Audio mixing: Audacity & my playlist of ~~otaku music~~ anime soundtracks
1st video conversion: Authorstream.com & iMovie HD
2nd video conversion: Adobe Photoshop Extended CS4 & Windows Movie Maker

Tracklisting
Big thanks to the composers and artists.

Toshio Masuda – Jiraiya no Theme [Naruto OST]
Taku Iwasaki – Iza, Shousei!! [Yakitate!! Japan OST]
Benny Benassi – Satisfaction
DEDEDEJr – K.K. Bossa [Animal Crossing OST]
Toshio Masuda – Kehai [Mushishi OST]
Yoshimori Makoto – Nyankorasetsu [Natsume Yuujinchou OST]

Calorie and Glycemic Index Info

THANK YOU!!

And that brings the SOYJOY GI Challenge to a close. Huge thanks to all my friends and readers for support. And another big thank you for the guys at Ogilvy, Otsuka Pharmaceuticals as well as the other 4 bloggers for all the fun!

Office Snacking

Ivy — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:44:47 +0000

This week for the GI JOY Challenge, the bloggers are to write about how we each enjoy our SOYJOY bars.

I could come up with a few brilliant ways of eating SOYJOY, but to be honest, I like my SOYJOY bars best when they’re half an arm’s length from my workstation… in my pencil holder.

As a corporate communications professional, I work pretty long hours. I arrive at the office at 9am and leave around 7pm daily. Although, I have to admit, leaving at like 9 – 10pm isn’t uncommon when there are major events around the corner. So hunger has always been a problem for me. I don’t have to time to grab a bite, yet I have to resist against whatever is lying around the department pantry since they’re all high on fat and sugar. While they do satiate me for a while, I also end up crashing from all that sugar high and start feeling all sleepy and hungry again. (I’ll leave the science of this for next week’s challenge.) The worst comes when I have to deal with the guilt after reading the nutrition labels for these things.

Anyway, since I started putting my SOYJOY in my pencil holder, I don’t have to starve and feel guilty about snacking anymore. My desk has also become a second (and a much healthier) pantry for my department, since my equally hungry colleagues can now help themselves to some SOYJOY even when I’m not around.

Talking about colleagues and SOYJOY, I’d like to take this opportunity to say that the apple flavor is the biggest hit in my department. So if you’d like try a SOYJOY bar, I highly recommend apple!

Dear Readers, what are your snacking habits like? Do you feel guilty about snacking? What do you have in your office pantry / fridge (for those still in school)?

I’d also like to take this opportunity to thank everybody for their support! Please do keep the votes coming in. You can vote once every 3 hours.

Challenge #1: Free SoyJoy Bars For You!!

Ivy — Mon, 25 May 2009 01:43:50 +0000

Our first SOYJOY challenge has just started! We’re giving out FREE SOYJOY bars to your workplace! (Singapore, only.) Basically, the blogger who recruits the most # of companies will win this challenge. So do sign up with me, okay?

The closing date to submit your request is this Saturday, May 30 2009.

Sign Up

So if you’d like to stock up your pantry with healthy snacks, ~~fill out the form below.~~

Please do feel free to extend this invitation to your friends’ and family’s workplaces! If you require an EDM, let me know.

The submission period has ended! Thanks a lot for your submissions! Your call will be answered soon!

The SOYJOY Blogger Challenge

The SOYJOY Blogger Challenge

Ivy — Wed, 13 May 2009 05:05:10 +0000

Along with 4 other awesome Singapore bloggers, I was chosen by the guys at Ogilvy team to participate in blog challenge / campaign for SOYJOY, a healthy fruit bar from Japan’s Otsuka Pharmaceuticals (who also brought the world Pocari Sweat ポカリスエット).

The 5 of us bloggers will be competing in a series of challenges over the next few months. The winners will get free trip to Japan to visit the Otsuka factory to watch how SOYJOY is made.

What this means is that I will be updating my blog much more frequently over the next few months. (not just about SOYJOY of course!) And if I win, I will do a Japan special covering everything from the Otaku HQ, Akihabara to the streets of fashion, Harajuku!

So, my dear readers please vote for me!

All you have to do is go to GI-Joy.com and click on “Vote” under my name! (I’m the one doing squats!) Alternatively, you can click on the flashy banner on my sidebar to vote! If all that’s too complicated, just regularly commenting would be fine too! <3

And if you’d like to go an extra mile…

Get everyone and their dog to vote! Feel free to user Twitter or add my blogger badge to your site.. but no spamming, okay? The blogger badge code is here:
<br /> <param name="movie" value="http://www.gi-joy.com/badgeIvy.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /> </object><br />

…and in return, if I win, the one who helps generate the most votes/publicity will receive a FREE fully-customized, standards compliant, widget ready WordPress theme from yours truly!

And I shall end this shameless self-promoting spiel now. Stay tuned for the blog challenge #1 and part 2 of “Stuff Singaporeans Like”.