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iPad App Review - Trucks

~ Posted on Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 8:16 AM ~

When I saw the press release of this app from Oceanhouse Media, I immediately requested for a promo code to review it as I have previously reviewed the 'Planes' and 'Boats' version with Ben few months ago and we loved it! Anyway, my review as below...

* Title: Trucks
* Price: $0.99
* Category: Books
* Released: 01 November 2012
* Version: 1.09
* Size: 23.7 MB
* Language: English
* Seller: Oceanhouse Media, Inc.
* Rated: 4+
* Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.2 or later

Description from the product page:

"Play with tow trucks, cement trucks, newspaper delivery trucks and many other types of trucks in this animated picture book about transportation. Move trucks, workers, tools, and other objects around the page and tap pictures to learn their names. Realistic sound effects and brightly colored illustrations will delight young readers and keep them coming back for more!""

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* It is engaging and interactive and I love that we can also touch the objects in each page on the screen and the words pop out to tell you what it is!

* I like that we can move the objects on each page! It gives you a sense of control and being imaginative to move the objects around!

* I like that I can relate and remind my 3.5 years old boy on some of the trucks in this app that we have seen around our area, such as the garbage truck and the bucket truck (which coincidentally fixed the street light right in front of our house few months ago!)

* The illustrations are beautiful and the narration is great!

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You can purchase the "Trucks" app from the iTunes App Store.

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I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the promo code to redeem the application for free from iTunes Store in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine. And if you'd like to read my previous iPad Apps reviews, you can do so by reading this post of mine called "My iPad App Reviews"

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Music Review - A Very Merry Golden Records Christmas

~ Posted on Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 8:27 AM ~

I have previously reviewed the "The Magic Continues - Celebrity Series Vol. 1" music album and this is the 2nd album I get to review on my blog. In case you don't know, I love Christmas songs! When I was 17 years old, I was working part time during my school holidays and it was the first time I get to hear classic Christmas songs. I think it was during this time that I fell in love with Christmas carols and Christmas tunes and wonderful songs! Anyway, without further delay, here goes my review...

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* Title: Golden Records: A Very Merry Golden Records Christmas
* Price: $9.99 Audio CD (October 16, 2012)
* ASIN: B008ZD4U32
* Label: Verse Music Group

About Golden Records:

"Starring Malin Akerman, Ed Asner, Cheryl Hines, Busy Philipps, Missi Pyle, Wally Shawn, Dermot Mulroney, John O’Hurley, Didi Conn, and many more, A Very Merry Golden Records Christmas is just in time for the holidays.

This highly anticpated release marks the perfect follow-up to Golden Records: The Magic Continues - Celebrity Series, Vol. 1. Children and parents alike will love today’s biggest & brightest stars performing “Twas The Night Before Christmas,” “A Christmas Carol,” “Frosty The Snowman,” “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Winter Wonderland” and many more traditional holiday classics."

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What a wonderful collection of Christmas songs and stories in this album! I find myself enjoying and reminiscing to the classical Christmas tunes such as "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town", "12 Days Of Christmas", "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer" and "Winter Wonderland".

Songs by Didi Conn and The Golden Orchestra such as "Merry, Merry, Merry, Christmas" is such a joy to listen to and makes you dance along and carolling along too! I really love listening to "Frosty the Snowman" story and its song. Very nice and classical and catchy tune!

Some of the celebrities' voices are so so convincing and soothing to listen to! I enjoyed listening to Ed Asner's voice in "The Little Engine That Could" so hearing his voice in this Christmas album is a nice treat!

To sum up my review, this album is a great addition to have for the upcoming Christmas celebration!

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You can purchase it from Amazon, Wal-mart and iTunes Store.

* You can download a free music from their Facebook page too!

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I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the 20-tracks album in MP3 format to assist my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine.

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Is NISSAN LEAF a family-friendly car? Perspectives From Me...

~ Posted on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 7:39 AM ~

What can I share on my thoughts about this car? Now firstly, I am not picky about what car I get to drive. As long as it moves and does not require me to be bothered with its maintenance, I am pretty much a happy woman and of course, a happy mummy. I’m just going to simplify my feedback according to what makes me happy with this car:

THIS CAR RUNS ON ELECTRIC. FULLY. NO PETROL. LIKE EVER.

I shared before in my first post about Nissan LEAF that I get giddy legs whenever I see my car's petrol mark dipping towards E because I really dread going to petrol station to pump petrol. With 2 koala kids to lug around and not to mention seeing enough horror CCTV's clips on crimes occuring even at petrol station, it's really putting me off going to petrol station to pump petrol.

With Nissan LEAF, there is no more fear (for now…) of needing to go pump petrol! Or finding excuses so that I can get my hubby to pump the petrol instead!
IT IS SO EASY TO CHARGE THE CAR

Charging this car is as easy as charging your mobile phone! Just pull out the nozzle and plug into the charging slot in front of the Nissan LEAF. I don’t know how else to describe to you the ease of this task.
THE LCD DISPLAY WHEN YOU REVERSE YOUR CAR
I mentioned about this feature when we were being interviewed by the NTV7 reporter as I feel this is very important after reading and hearing many news articles and reports about cases of children being hit by cars as their family members accidentally reversed into them.

I also feel this feature is good as it also helps us to decide better when reversing and parking (I’m not very pro in parallel parking, guilty!)

By the way, the cool thing is the camera screen only turns on the moment it detects you are reversing. Awesome!
THE KEY-LESS FEATURE

I love the keyless feature of this car! As long as your car key is with you and you are standing nearby your Nissan LEAF, you can just lock and unlock your car by pressing the tiny little button in the front passengers’ door handle.

Many times when I had to drive my car out to buy food (I always bring my 3.5 years old boy along) and I happened to be holding a bunch of stuff, like left hand holding my boy, right hand holding the bags of food and stuff I bought and I had to fish out the car keys from my bag or pants pocket, it is so irritating. Worse if it’s raining and I had to hold the umbrella too!

All these are easily solved with the keyless feature! I still can keep the Nissan LEAF car key in my pocket or bag and just stand next to my driver’s door and press this nifty little button! Oh, oh, btw, you can also lock and unlock the car via the car boot button! Easy peasy, love it so much already!
THE SPACIOUS BOOT

Boy, when you are a parent, your car boot space is important! A huge chunk of the space will definitely be dedicated to the stroller. I do use a baby sling but then I can’t be slinging my 3.5 years old boy, so stroller is a must when one of my kids decides to sleep or nap while we were out.

So yeah, can’t you see the huge space at the back of the car? Picture below is taken by my hubby when he had to deliver a HP server that one of his client bought for their network setup. There’s plenty of space left even after he put in the huge HP server packaging box.

Now, these 2 pictures above are nothing to brag about because you should see this picture below:

Finally hubby and his mum did our very delayed fortnightly grocery shopping. I stayed home with our 2 kids and rushed out to snap some pictures when I heard our house gate opened and the Nissan LEAF came rolling in.

At first glance of the car boot, I was telling my hubby ‘This does not seem like a lot also!’ and then I looked at my mother in law’s shocked face as she stood next to the car boot looking on at the stuff we bought. Oh boy, it is a lot of stuff really!
THE DOOR

This has got to be one of the best things I love about this car. I can practically push the car door as far as it can go (almost 90 degrees) and I just love it so much! Our current cars, oh well, I can’t push the car door open as wide as the Nissan LEAF!
THE ENVIRONMENT

Of course, I have to share about why we decided to review this car. Ultimately it is a very good effort of a car company to manufacture a fully electric car as every little bit helps with our environment. I mean, a car without exhaust, no need to pump petrol, what more can you ask for?

We won’t live on forever; why not leave the earth for our children to enjoy as much as they can? Try our best to preserve the earth, not pollute it anymore than we all are already doing all this while…