Feast - August 8, 2010

FarmVille Goji Berry Cherry Slurpee

Goji Berry is a Magic Fruit From Himalayan. A super fruit with a Great taste is now in FarmVille.

Once again, reporter AJ Glasser places her taste buds on the line in the name of discovery. This week's challenge at the local 7-Eleven is the FarmVille-themed Goji Berry Cherry Slurpee. A match made in flavor heaven, or a crash-and-burn sugar rush waiting to happen?

The FamrVille Goji Berry Cherry Slurpee is easily one of the better flavor mixes out there. It blends the classic cherry standby flavor I've been guzzling since time out of mind with the more sophisticated "hipster" fruit, goji berry (a.k.a. wolfberry). Because goji berries are more savory than sweet (the real thing has a nut-like flavor), it tones down the sugary cherry sensation for a mellow sip.
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The FarmVille Slurpee campaign goes farther than flavor, however, and this is where I find fault with the product. There's just too much required of you, the drinker, to cash in on the contest. Each sturdy Slurpee cup (seriously -- this thing could probably survive the top shelf of your dishwasher more than twice) has a code to enter at Slurpee.com. The site redirected me to BuyEarnPlay.com because I didn't want to sign up for a Slurpee Nation account. Once there, I had to enter the code again and then choose within which Zynga game I wanted to redeem my prize: Mafia Wars, FarmVille, or YoVille. I followed instructions and visited my farm via Facebook to find my gift. It turned out to be a sheep-water slide worth 750 gold coins (pictured).

Apparently, the prizes don't stop there. If I redeem four to seven more codes and complete one of three Zynga tasks (each game-specific), I could one of three UBERgifts for the game of my choosing. In the case of FarmVille, I could win 200 Farm Cash -- roughly $34 worth, which is way more than $13 I'd spend on eight FarmVille Slurpees total to get the prize.
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Here's the catch: the FarmVille Zynga task takes work. I have to plant the special goji berry crop enough times to achieve level 3 crop mastery and drink all five to eight Slurpees to get enough codes for the 200 Farm Cash. Luckily, one Slurpee code gets meaccess to the crop, so I can get started on the task right away. But at 15 gold coins a pop with a 16 hour growth rate, I have to ask somebody who's good at math -- is it really worth the $34 UBERgift?

Honestly, I'm just happy to sip the $1.60 Slurpee and not have any jarring reactions along my GI tract. The part where I get a cute cup out of the deal makes it worth it -- and I'll stop at the sheep water slide.

Score: 2 hours slurping time

Pros: Well-made flavor, awesome cup

Cons: Prize chain takes way too long to compete, you can't hide your FarmVille addiction from your coworkers

Go let's Plant Goji Berry for everyone!
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Cancer Survivor - Ofelia San Juan

Ofel San Juan of Better Living, Paranaque, Manila had a history of Stage 4 Ovarian Cancer in 1991, of which 3 kilos of ovarian mass was removed. She fully recovered in 1998 and came back to work as musician abroad. However, in 2000, while at work she collapsed and was diagnosed with last stage Cervical Cancer. The doctor in Florida said her case has 5% chances of survival. Returned home she spent over Php 3 Million on treatments until she developed bone marrow cancer in 2004. All her physicians considered her "dying anytime". Hopelessly and extremely broke, she was discharged from the hospital to home care, with 80/50 blood pressure, 2 hours a day of sleep, and infected throat, she could neither eat nor drink; her doctor had to insert the food her veins. Burial gown everything for her funeral was prepared. In wait for the final breath, a long time friend from Vancouver, Canada, suddenly came by unaware of Ofel's condition. He gave Himalayan Goji Juice to the family hoping to at least minimize her agony before she goes. Two ounces of the juice was forced orally using a medicine dropper. 30 minutes later she fell asleep straight for 13 hours (8am-9pm). When she woke up strangely she drank a full glass of water, and bacause of that, a bottle of Himalayan Goji Juice was fed to her daily. Goji's Amazing Result on Cancer happen...

In 3 DAYS... al her throat infections dried up.
In 7 DAYS... she could swallow food and her BP improved by 90/60.
In 1 MONTH... her BP normalizes, 120/90.
In 3 MONTHS... she could walk outside the house.
In 6 MONTHS... she was clinically declared ZERO CANCER.



To this day, Ofel is still cancer-free! She passionately shares her amazing story throughout the country as one of the several successful Ambassadors of Freelife International.
















Thank God for giving us Himalayan Goji Juice/Goji Berry. Thank Freelife for bringing Himalayan Goji Juice to Philippines. Thank you Ms. Ofel San Juan for spreading the good news and sharing the goodness and miracles of Himalayan Goji Juice.