Saito College gets us ex-saito-ed!

It amazing where technology gets us with what it can do, and yet we sometimes tend to look down on the Malaysian potential in achieving the same accomplishments we give our western counterparts credit for.

When it comes to interactive concepts, we would never have imagined college students pulling off anything drastic, but Saito College has proven this wrong.

The students, together with industry veterans recently launched the college's RM100000 worth first phase of and advertising and communication campaign : 'Sa-Kun: The Rise of the Third Eye'. It's going to be a year-long affiar, spearheaded by Pirana Graphics.

I personally missed the tvc run, as we arrived a little bit later than expected. But from what I know, Sa-Kun and Ito-Chan are two cute round-headed characters. In this first episode, Sa-Kun tries to be more creative with his learning but is shunned by friends. The 40-second pilot ends with a cliff-hanger, which asks viewers to get to the Saito College FB page to watch the 2nd episode.

It's not just watching though, you can actually help decide the fate of the the characters and the story line by posting your suggestions onto the Satio College FB page.

I'm a huge fan of augmented reality and interactive stuff. So knowing that our local young 'uns have actually come out with something like this, it's amazing, it pushes boundaries. I mean, imagine going to TGV cinemas like every other time to catch John Carter, and ta-da it's not just another ad before your movie, and you actually get to get your hands into the thought process and development of the series. It's a milestone and you can tell the students involved in the campaign love what they do. There's the passion there that fuels what they do and of course the product of the passion will definitely be worth the watch.

You can go to https://www.facebook.com/saitocollege to get in on the on-goings :) Also... SUPPORT!

pssttt! you get to see how Sa-Kun looks like if you go there! :)

Week 1 : Day 1 ,Check

Recap of week 1:

Day 1 : Drove all the way from cyber over because it was too late to leave at night. Experienced (the ONLY) jam that most people have to brave every morning. As it always is when yu start off day one, obligatory accident,it did hold up traffic quite a bit. and as it would also go....drizzle.
Reached bro's place with time to spare so i washed my hair and unpacked a little. Off to work.

Reached the office, settled down, read through background of company and services it runs.

Did task given.
And while doing it... BOOM.lights go out like a 5ive song.

Turns out, maintenance works in the condo = no electricity til 7 thereabouts, according to the notice board at the lifts.

SO we headed to McD to use their wifi.that was down as well, so bleh, that,just finished up the task.

While paying the parking, boss had problems with the ticket.
what was the problem? the ticket had no magnetic strip.how's that for a first!

anyway, that day i chose to stay home and make home a home. thank goodness i did. :)

turned out to be one jam -packed week after that D:

Sold on SOLD.MY

I recently attended SOLD.MY's Grand Launch held in Gecko Bar, PJ Trade Centre, unsure of what to expect as I had very little knowledge (or understanding, too deng sometimes D:) about it. I was very much curious to find out how it worked as i couldn't really grasp the concept by just reading alone ( that's just me really D:)

I was there with the company, so, I was more of helping to set up and pack goodie bags and do the registration. PROOF :

Picture credit to Jinyin of  chriscjy.blogspot.com
I helped ohkayyy????

And as I really didn't know what was what, I was fueled with curiosity. 

This greeted the participants of the launch. Think red carpet.

The restaurant was closed to the public after lunch to host this function, which meant we had the place to ourselves. No being shy about fully utilising this space for pictures :D Anyway, first things first, registration. Each participant was given a goodie bag each. (yay!)

Said goodie bag, horrible picture though :(

Inside the bag :Sticky candy and a mug!( with a little spoon)

Also came with a pamphlet explaining the concept of Sold.MY but I misplaced it :(

It says SOLD.MY!

Participants were encouraged to tweet with the @SoldMY hash tag.

Stuff up for grabs on Sold.MY. Definitely the attention grabber. 

 From Blackberries to Tiffany & Co. Jewellery, you name it they had it. 

Once they got you wanting it, it definitely got you paying attention to how  Sold.MY works, because you can get it cheaper there! Crazy cheap! And from what they were saying, all you need is luck and strategy ( and of course cash to start it up )

Participants were given the low -down of how Sold.My worked.

The event was hosted by Mei Sze, who got the participants up and alert.The upbeat, concise and lively session was conducted by the team from SOLD.SG and they really got the point across.

The media men covering the event.

So anyway, what did I learn about Sold.MY ?

As you saw the items in the picture somewhere up there, they're all brand new, up for bid, starting at RM0.00. You need a token to make a bid, each token costs RM 1.50, and every bid increases the current price by 15 cents, the current time by 20 seconds. When you first sign up, you are given 7 tokens free!

So the gist of it is, be the last bidder as the clock times down to 0:00:00, and the item is yours for the price stated there! Easy, peasy lemon squeezy!

The challenge of the deal is to actually fight your way up with other bidders and the strategy of bidding. The trick as we were told, was to use the auto-bidder to "fight" for us. What is that? It's a function you can customize to kick in after a certain time, and to throw in bids within the time limit set and it will all be done without you having  to be there physically to hawk-eye the counter. 

 They really had a wide range of items, i saw speakers, headphones, iPhone docks and I had my eye on a Yoda thumb drive(too cute!!).Hot items like iPhones and Blackberries could go up to 5 hours wait time, while the smaller, less "hot" items could go off in much less. Safe to say, pick your battles wisely ;)

How I learnt this? 

They actually set up a mock demo with the site running and participants with their laptops, so we got to see first hand how it looks like and how it works. Pretty interesting to see how it went. 

Sold.Sg member explaining with objects the concept of the site.

So this being the media launch, the media were treated to a "private" media-only bidding session later than night! I wasn't free to take part but I heard loads of people won lots of goodies :) So much cheaper than buying it from regular stores. Lucky ducks! 

The entire session was short and concise, where most questions were discussed over the early dinner buffet. The Sold.Sg team was friendly and amiable, they answered all questions and explained in detail about the concept and usability of the site. Then again, everything works better during food-time :P 

Really yummers, was too busy eating to take up close shots of the food. 

Obligatory cam-whore shot.

With Jason and Jinyin

Did i mention they had a pretty cool hammer mascot thing?

Disclaimer: No Sold.sg members were hurt during the shooting of this picture.

pic creds : chriscjy.blogspot.com

Outfit :

Grey long sleeve skater dress : Kitschen

Pink Belt : Bazaar@subang parade

Shoes: Boutique @Puchong

And remember the "red carpet" area outside?\

pic taken from Advertlet's Facebook ;p

That concludes this post.

(now, lunch)

Something that bugs me

So recently I was at the Hitz.fm Birthday Invasion 2012 ( basically their birthday party). Prior to the event, I looked up info on the event : location, acts, dresscodes etc... And as most of the posts went, it seemed to be a family friendly, local act hyped up event. Which didn't raise any eyebrows.

If you didn't already know, the demographic ( from observation ) for Hitz.fm seem to be between the ages 11- 19 ( agak-agakla, plus minus a minority age group). Also, no where did it say it was for  an >18 crowd.

My expectations:
1.Clean fun
2. pop/hip hop music
3. and kids...lots of them.


What happened :
Lots of kids. Without a doubt. They were everywhere. We came in during the intermission, so when everyone was making their way out for a snack we were just about walking in. You can say they paraded past us. So, yea, lots of kids with the occasional few adults.

Music. As expected, loads of hip hop and rapping. Everyone with their hands in the air saying Yeah Yeahh Yeah! and in between performances they aired music videos which still kept the crowd going (For the most part ) What irked me though, was the choice of songs of the videos. It seems that that as long as you were Top 40 you were in. So call me a conservative, but when songs glorifying  female derriere pop up, I'm not one to condone the fact that young (or maybe not that young) school children are exposed to this. I'm also not saying that they never get exposed to stuff like this, but.... you'd think that an organization (of sorts) that wishes kids "GOOD LUCK for your PMR" would be encouraging something like this?

Like I mentioned earlier, based on their ads, it came across as a for all ages thing, even kids included, seeing how there were actually kids there with their parents. yes,kids. running around. main-main catching.

Which bring us to the clean fun.
A number of the rap verses were peppered with swear words. Performers actually using the big F word when hyping up the crowd (of kids). I'm not sure what the planning was like when they let kids in and then gave no restrictions to their performers.

I'm not going into details.Maybe not now. Just dissatisfied that Hitz.FM which has a large following of young people are not being responsible in how they present themselves or in how they are indirectly encouraging such behaviour. I'm not angel and I'm no prude, but I definitely wouldn't want to be a "source" of "encouragement" when it comes to things like this, as menial and small it may seem.

Dreams #5632

This is an old dream,but,finally got around to getting it down.(for reasons)

As usual in the array of non-sequential dreams, this one stood out.It was, lets call him Lex, and it was a regular day in the car. He was driving ( it was either of our cars,that i remember clearly) and we were just talking. Nothing unusual there. I was looking out the passenger side window while talking and we stopped at a traffic light. I turned back to look at him and was startled as he was leaning in close to my side, looking intently at me.

More curious than freaked out, I stared back, albeit questioningly. Then BAM. He kissed me. I was surprised at first, but I didn't stop him. A short while later, we pulled apart, as the light turned green. He straightened up and put the gear into drive. I was quiet, wondering what just happened and he shot me a grin.

"I always wanted to try that"

I only smiled and said, "really" (without the ?)

And then for the next part of the dream was just grey industrial buildings.
And normally I don't mind telling my dreams, but this took me awhile to get out.for some reason i was pretty embarrassed.

dreams#3451

it was so odd. in my dream i was about 26?27? my hair was long and all black,but slightly wavy. i was wearing loose boot cut jeans and a plain tank. i wasn't wearing thick framed glasses anymore,but normal wire frames. I met up with a bunch of people in a restaurant, they were surprised that i was in such a hurry. They asked us to have a seat, but i had no time. i passed around the wedding invites, remembering clearly asking them to not tell anyone or talk about it outside this circle. i wouldn't tell them why. Some expressed how disappointed they were in not being asked to help plan for it,and the fact it was exclusive and so hush hush.

i remember feeling bad for letting them down and not letting them be involved with the planning,but i can't remember what my reasons were.

i cannot remember who i was going to marry. and i'm surprised my hair is all black.given the colour it is now.
i have not worn bootcut jeans in forever. what happened to my glasses!

RESOLUSI #323 of 2012

look in the mirror everyday and like what i see. Be it just jeans n tshirt, be it without make up... I WILL BE HAPPY. try to stop judging myself and my flaws. So what if my arms are big and flabby, my thighs touch and i have a slight muffin top. if so many other people can be happy in their own skin, why can't i?

why do i allow what people say about my weight to affect me? they may say i'm fat and flabby , i have bad skin or that i look pregnant, my thighs look huge, why is this pimple so big... I should learn to let it go.

I can do better, but I AM GOOD ENOUGH.