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We do not celebrate Halloween but when I saw this app title, I thought of Ben. He is into spooky things on and off and I thought what better way to spook him more hahaha... At first, I was actually spooked after reading this story app for the first time without Ben as nowadays I prefer to vett through the apps before I let him have a go at the apps and was wondering whether my boy could take this kind of story. Anyway, my review as below...

* Title: What was I Scared of? - Dr. Seuss
* Price: $0.99
* Category: Books
* Updated: 21 May 2012
* Version: 1.0.9
* Size: 13.8 MB
* Language: English
* Seller: Oceanhouse Media, Inc.
* Rated: 4+
* Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Requires iOS 3.1 or later.

Description from the product page:

"Perfect for Halloween or any time of year, this story delivers a timeless message about fear and tolerance. The tale begins with a character who repeatedly meets up with an empty pair of pale-green pants. The character is initially afraid of the pants, which are able to stand on their own despite the lack of a wearer. However when he screams for help and the pants also start to cry, he realizes that "They were just as scared as I!" Putting fear in the proper perspective, the empty pants become good friends with the character."

What's good?

* 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 the storyline where it tells how the main character (I tell my 3.5 years old boy that it is a bear) met a pants that can move and how they both got scared of each other and in the end became friends!

* To my surprise, my boy loves this app! We go through this almost every day once! He likes to be spooked! Hahahaha! But seriously, what I hope to impart on my boy is there is no need to be fearful of anything, God will protect us and to remain calm in all situations, even find the funny side of things!

*** Update 8th Nov 2012: My boy can tell me back the story of this app (of course not word by word - but he got the storyline right!) Coolness! Also shows how much he goes crazy for this app! :D

You can purchase the "What was I Scared of? - Dr. Seuss" app from the iTunes App Store.

I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the promo code by the sponsor 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"

Yes people, this awesome mummy blogger that you have been following for a while has just achieved another blogging milestone!

From an ordinary IT girl who quit her job to be a stay-at-home mum who then finds her passion in blogging (also to keep herself sane!) and then dabbling into book and product reviews... and now,

Ladies and gentlemen...

We are turning over a new LEAF...

For 6 weeks, we have been appointed by Nissan to be one of their ambassadors to test drive their electric vehicle, Nissan LEAF! To be precise, my husband and I have been appointed as the couple ambassadors for Nissan's 2nd batch of Nissan LEAF test drive program.

I for one, am glad that my husband is included as well as I believe his knowledge and background in car mechanics and all things related to cars (his family operates a car workshop long ago, his eldest brother is in regional sales for car auto parts and his second brother is the chief-on hand in a workshop in PJ area) will help to give tremendous input towards our feedback when reviewing this car.

As for me, I'm going to give my feedback from a mummy's point of view. Whether this car is good for a mummy to drive around with her kiddos, whether it is safe, practical and easy to use, and of course, blogging about our experience and journey in this 6 weeks!

Just in case you are wondering what's the big hoo-hah all about, please sit still while I explain to you what is so freaking awesome with this car (only 4 of this car in Malaysia for public to test drive and review!!!!) and why you should be jealous of me! Muahahahah! *evil chuckle*

Firstly, Nissan LEAF is the world’s first mass produced, all-electric and zero-emission Nissan Vehicle in Malaysia. To put it in easy to understand term, it simply means you don't ever, ever, ever, ever, need to pump petrol for this car. Because this car runs on electric. 100%. Just plug and charge. All at the comfort of your own home sweet home!

I don't know about you, but 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. So I tried my best to erm... delegate this task to my dear hubby heheheh *more evil chuckle*

So yeah, people! No more petrol pumping! Woohoo!! For 6 weeks anyway but that's good enough for us!

And of course, there are a whole lot more awesome features in this car (else I wouldn't apply to be the ambassador OK?!) and I'll share some of the major ones with you guys for now such as:

~ The ability to time the car to start cooling off at a specific time before you need to use the car meaning if you plan to go out at 10am, you can time the car air-conditioning unit to start at say 9.30am so that the car will be nice and cool when you hop in with your koala kids.... nice....

~ The awesome LCD screen that you can see at the front, my mouth went a big 'O' when I saw what's behind the car as we reversed out of our parking during our tutorial with the car. I love this feature because as a parent, I read a lot of cases where parents and family members accidentally reversing their car and knocking over their children. With this feature, it easily helps avoid such cases!

~ The airbag features for the front passenger seat is awesome! Will share more with you guys later on this!

So anyway, like I mentioned earlier, we get to see the car during the tutorial (we had to be briefed on how to drive and operate the car and also how to charge it as well).

Pictures shown below are taken during the tutorial:

Top Left: The electricians came over to check our house and prepare to install the EV charger station.

Bottom Left: The Nissan LEAF as it pulled into our driveway! Gorgeous right?!

Right side: The Nissan LEAF parked in our porch... ahhhhh...

Top Left: Meter showing 361.8kWh

Bottom Left: That's me posing next to the meter...

Right side: That's the EV charging station, pretty plain station to recharge the Nissan LEAF.

So, do stay tuned for more updates and pictures from us as we journey along with Nissan LEAF for this 6 weeks!

A few months ago, we went on a weekend holiday with our brother and sister in law and their family members. We stayed for a night at Avillion Resort Hotel Port Dickson and it was the first time my kids get to see so many boats at close-up range.

I remembered thinking to myself that all these boats were harbored at the jetty and most of them are not being used, heck, I think most likely these boats are being used only when the owners are available to take holidays or rest days to use them...

Now I don't think I'm qualified to advice much since I don't own a boat but I think if you are not using your boat, the owner or caretakers should at least cover up their boat right? In Malaysia, we get sunshine and rain all year long so I think the benefits of getting your boat covered up is to prevent mold and mildew which can be damaging to the boat's interior and decreasing the overall value of the boat as well. And also salt water is corrosive so long-term exposure to the boat can also result in serious damage to the boat's motor.

I was just browing around and came across the EmpireCovers website and noticed the many selections on EmpireCovers which one can look through before deciding to purchase a boat cover to protect their boat. I think this is a cool website as you can actually shop for the boat covers by the model, make, year and so on.

Do you have any tips to share on this topic?

** Disclosure: This post is in association with EmpireCovers. All thoughts, opinions and words are 100 % my own.