What is Urbanscapes?

An outdoor creative arts festival! Tents and stalls with live bands, arts, fashion, film, theater, food etc. All local too! Never knew what a local band sounds like? Always wondered if Malaysia has creative people left? Get exploring at Urbanscapes!

If you’ve never been to an outdoor festival or concert, well try to remember Canteen Days when you were in school. Multiply that by… I dunno, depending on how big your school was. My school’s Canteen Days were pretty awesome, we always had a horror house!

That besides the point, here’s a link to Urbanscape’s areas: *click*

Details details details…

When: 16 July 2011, Saturday, 12pm till 12am.
Where: Padang Astaka, Petaling Jaya.

That’s right, the organiser has infiltrated my Bootcamp home ground. This would most likely translate to an off-site training session for that day for PJA and PJB. Initially I was slightly bitter about this but then came to my senses that promotion of local arts, entertainment and culture is the higher purpose. Ohm.

How do you get to Padang Astaka? Easy, google map it. Best that you leave your vehicles at home that day, not too many parking spots at Padang Astaka. The available ones would have already been taken up, trust me. Take the LRT to Taman Jaya and walk towards the venue. Some also suggested the Asia Jaya stop, but I prefer Taman Jaya ‘cos it’s greener.

Walk?? Sounds like a lot of effort leh… who’s going to make it worthwhile?

Kyoto Protocol. Lapsap. Liyana Fizi. Actorlympics featuring Douglas Lim, Rashid Salleh, Nell Ng, Kuah Jenhan and Patrick Teoh. KakiSeni previews. Book bazaar. Fashion and accessory vendors (not unlike Chicpop). The Last Polka (special ice-cream!). Food food food, including my friends The Accidental Bakers who are passionate about baking absolutely delicious cakes. That’s just barely half the list!

Coincidentally, my friends at The Accidental Bakers love Darren Criss from GLEE so much (yeah I know, who??) that they named their super awesome dark chocolate with honey cake after him. It is now the Darren Criss cake, or the Darren Criss. I’m like -_-”

Enough chit-chat, I have serious business to get to. Do you have to pay to get into Urbanscapes 2011? Yes, RM40 per ticket. Or no, if you are lucky enough to win a pair of tickets from me!

1) Follow @urbanscapes on Twitter.
2) Retweet this blog post, mentioning me at @suanie.

So a sample tweet from you could look something like this:

“Check out Urbanscapes 2011 at @suanie’s with ticket giveaway! http://bit.ly/urbanscapes-suanie #urbanscapes”

Easy right? Contest ends 11 July 2011, 12pm. I’ll randomly select 3 winners (x2 passes each), all winners will be notified via Twitter. All winners have to collect the tickets themselves at Jaya One.

See you at Urbanscapes!

It’s been nearly a month since I started my sessions at Marie France Bodyline. Time flies, eh?

On Friday, I underwent a session that involved a machine not unlike a vacuum cleaner being used to roll about on my tummy and arms. It’s good for body shaping and reducing cellulite and it’s one of Marie France Bodyline’s signature treatments. It also costs RM980 per session.

One of the therapists had earlier remarked that it’s good that I’m able to experience different types of treatments. Later I asked Caron, my consultant on an idea of how much my treatment would have cost. She said she’d assigned me for a package that’s worth about RM5,000 to RM6,000. At first glance, it may seem steep but remember that I’m faithfully doing this 3 times a week, where some people with the same package may drag it out to 2 or 3 months.

Am I lucky or what?? :)

So far of all the sessions with machines, my favourite is the BLT. Not only does it share the same acronym as my favourite sandwich, it also uses ultrasound technology to go down my couple layers of skin to tackle the fats. I thought it was very stimulating and I felt really good after the treatment.

As for the non-machine treatments, I like the slimming massages the best. One thing I’ve to say about Marie France Bodyline’s therapists: they’re all really good with their hands! I’ve had the same type of massages by a few different therapists yet their methods are the same, and they know exactly which spots to take on.

This is Selvi, one of the therapists preparing a cold orange mask for me.

She was slightly amused when she saw me shivering a bit when she helped to peel off the mask. I told her that I can’t stand cold very well. She said, “No wonder you’re not doing the cold wraps!”

There are two kinds of body wraps – hot and cold. I’ve been doing the hot wraps a lot and I quite like it. Because it’s not cold mah. Apparently the cold wraps give faster results but you’ve to bear with the cold lor. I’ve seen one client doing the cold wrap walking about the coffee bar area. She looked really.. cold, heh. I don’t think I’d be able to do it – I already can’t stand being in air-conditioned places for too long!

Anyway I asked Caron about on-going Marie France Bodyline promotions. There’s a 10 FEST sessions, 1.5 hours each session going for RM1,688. The FEST treatment consists of: 1) whole body wrapping, 25 mins; 2) massage at targeted area, 20 mins; 3) body mask at targeted area, 25 mins; and 4) whole body hot blanket, 20 mins.

Sounds pretty good to me! Also a very good introduction to slimming treatments if you’ve not done anything like this before.

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Recently went to a small gathering at Boost Juice Bar @ Pavilion KL to get reacquainted with Nick and Soraya (who brought in the brand from Australia). Was rather hoping to see Yasmin, Soraya’s sister who is heavily involved with Boost Juice MY, but she had to be at the very busy LCCT outlet. Another time then! :)

Boost Juice Bars was formed in Adelaide at a time when juice bars (like a coffee bar serving juices instead of coffee, duh) were few and lacking in Australia. It became quite successful, really. Nick and Soraya fell in love with it when they were both working in Melbourne. They decided to bring it to Malaysia: Boost Juice’s first Malaysian outlet was opened in 2009 at KLCC. Two years later, they have 8 stores in Klang Valley and 1 in Penang with more to come. They’re also now in charge of the 4 outlets in Singapore (and expanding). Sounds like a busy couple or what??
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