Marketing seminar

On Friday morning Mr. Avila dragged everyone from ComTech back to college to sit for a short 2 hour seminar on.......Marketing.

Marketing???

Why were we listening to a seminar about Marketing when by right we are ComTech students? O__O''', well we finally found out during the very end of the seminar, but it was puzzling during the entire course of the seminar. Yes. I am aware that to a certain degree ComTech can be used for Marketing, vice versa of course. Even so.... I didn't think it was relevant at this point. Not especially when our guest speaker seemed to have us as Marketing students in mind, therefore focused entirely on Marketing? haha~

Nevertheless, I enjoyed it very much. It was inspirational and thought provoking. I'd say it was a Friday morning well spent because it didn't matter that I had to wake up just as early and just as dead on a Friday morning to drive all the way to college. It didn't matter that I got drenched in heavy rain to get to college. (Honestly after looking at a very dripping wet BK I shouldn't be complaining at all). It didn't matter that I couldn't find Audi 2 for ages.

I think Marketing is a pretty interesting course. I especially liked the Advertising portion of Marketing. I have always held interest in Advertising, even though I am pretty inapt at it. At one point I was actually weighing my decisions as to major into advertising, or language. The fact that I'm currently pursuing my studies in Sunway proves that I am going to continue with language.

And I'm going to succeed in this!! I will further my studies in Language until I graduate with a Masters and then travel all around the world. First stop will be Japan (a place I shall always regard as my 2nd home), then Switzerland (cause chocolate there is good), then to all the Disneylands in the world!!!!

Alright. A little straying off there. Haha. Back to the subject at hand.... It isn't just the advertisements on television, but the creativity of advertising that is expanded to using anything possible as a form of advertisement. Sponsorships, floor designs, body adverts, through the web. Fancy roadshows. I find it so intriguing and amazingly unique. The ideas can be so ingenious!

A vacuum cleaner billboard =D

Indeed it takes both common sense and creativity to pull it through. Common sense I have, creativity, not quite.

I look forward to our final projects, even though I know it will most probably be stressful. =D

With this post I shall add one of my favorite controversial commercial of the Pepsi Vs. Cola war that is actually banned. Click here to watch. (I'm a Pepsi supporter btw)

Playstation 3

WANT!!!!!!





Despite all the controversies and all the kinks and complaints PS3 owners have been ranting about.... I want a PS3! If you have so much to be displeased about the latest Sony game platform , please do the world a favor and pass them to yours truly. I shall be eternally grateful and hence shall present you with a bar of chocolate. =D

The platform had been released in Japan since November 2006. That was such a long time ago. I knew then that it would have been unwise to purchase it so soon. Sony was clearly pushing their options to the limit when they unveiled and released the PS3 in such a haste. This is due to the pressuring need for Sony to find a quick revenue regeneration following their heavy losses in some microchip investment gone really horrifically wrong. Unfortunately the unveiling of the PS3 didn't quite manage to generate as much feedback, or hype as Sony would have hoped for. Unless one is referring about the multiple cases of customers being shot and their platforms stolen, or neighbor murdered or campers robbed at gunpoint. Not quite the hype Sony was expecting to generate I hope. One of the more probably reasons as to why the craze was rather more subtle compared to the days of the PS2 would be be that in this era the war of the titans - namely Xbox360 and the Nintendo Wii (all also known as the 7th generation video game console) was also gradually taking over the scenes. Gone are the days where Sony PlayStation conquered the gaming scene.

Nevertheless, I'm a loyal Sony Playstation Generation fan. A very patient one at that. I have to bite my lips and force myself to look away whenever I see the consoles for sale on display. Close my ears when people talk about actually playing it. For now. Oh the torture.....

I don't mind not having a Xbox360 or the Nintendo Wii.... not that I don't want one mind you, I wouldn't complain ever receiving either one, or even both as a gift *hint hint*

For I know that the PS3 is going to be good. Sure they have all the up-to-date high technology incorporated within the console. Wi-Fi, USB 2.0, BlueTooth and what-nots. Honestly speaking I couldn't care less about how great the console itself is. I can think about that later. What I truly care about, are the games of course!

I've seen many a game trailers available for PS3. I have been smitten-ed.

Devil May Cry 4


Final Fantasy XIII Versus

The two ultimate games I am itchingly dying to lay my hands on to play. Sadly for now, I can only rely on my other consoles for comfort.

An interesting class session : Facebook

This past week in ComTech has been extremely interesting. We covered topics involving the many issues generated by the existence of Facebook. The class took a very eye-opening turn as we are exposed to many little facts that I was unaware of, blissfully ignorant. Suddenly Facebook wasn't just Facebook anymore. Facebook was alot of things.

Trust.
Ingenuity.
Business.
Communication.
Barrier breaker.
Opportunity.

Did you know that Facebook's founder is only 23 this year?

Omg.

-and that he turned down a 1Billion Dollar offer for his company?

whadahew.

Did you know that Facebook is so great it's roughly valued at 15Billion Dollars?

Omg.

Did you know that Facebook isn't really make much revenue despite it all?

Omg

Do you know what Facebook is doing with our personal information?

Omg

Yea. Neither do I. And apparently neither does the rest of the world.

Then this will get you thinking, how on earth does Facebook earn their winnings? Surely the answer is pretty obvious, no amount of denials can cover this up. If one were to read their Terms and Conditions as well as their Privacy Policy (I know more people who have eaten live earthworms than people that that do) it is plainly obvious that Facebook wants to give us the impression we have the freedom to control our information and details, yet simultaneously reserves every right to our information to hold as their own. Now why would they want do such a thing? Yet again you know, Facebook isn't the only platform with such a working plan.

How much do you care about this given situation?

Firstly I will admit that I am a Facebook user. Prior to this I have yet to set myself in any social network of a similiar kind. That means I've never had a Friendster nor a MySpace or anything of the likes. One of the reasons why I started Facebook-ing was that some primary friends I recently met up again after 7 long years were all doing it. Then, it felt like a good idea to have my own account to keep in contact with them, especially since most of them soon headed overseas to pursue their studies.

And that is one of the few main reasons as to why I continue to Facebook with passion. Ever since I had my own account, I have been able to keep track and keep in contact with many friends that I had once deemed lost or unable to connect with anymore. I can still update myself with people so far away from me now that communication on a regular basis is so difficult, at the same time letting them know how my life is heading so far. CIMP's student council is currently using the Facebook applications to further help coordinate meetings and announcements and such. The various applications on Facebook creates interesting social topics with friends.

Granted, Facebook isn't the most perfect social network out there. There are many hiccups and kinks along the way that frustrates me up to no end too. I dislike the applications request and how it eats up my notification box. Or the fact that users can only delete it one-by-one.

Other than that I don't think I have much to complain about Facebook. In my opinion, they can do whatever they want with whatever meager information they have about me. As long as I am sure that the information I release will not harm me in anyway, cannot be used in fraud or bank robberies, cannot be traced to my current exact location at any given time, cannot be used by sick serial stalkers to hunt me down..... then I am okay with whatever they want to use it for.

Web 2.0 through blogging

Web 2.0 through blogging.

Of late the in trendy rave is all about 'blogging'. Just about everyone has a blog, or reads other people's blog. Its the new way of connection, the latest 'cool' and fast option to update ourselves with each other's lives.

Not only does it serve as an online diary, blogging platforms are also utilized as a site for information exchange, social network, advertisements and campaign movements. Bloggers have the ultimate freedom to pen down just about anything that comes to mind without constraint. The ability to remain anonymous while blogging gives them the ability to also touch on sensitive topics that ought to be heard and remain undetected, safe from prosecution. Somewhat.

There are influential bloggers even within Malaysia. One of which whom I highly admire - Kenny Sia who blogs at www.kennysia.com. His blog is so well received in and out of Malaysia. With a cynically sarcastic personality, he takes on current local issues with a very mock Malaysian attitude that is both funny and eye opening at the same time. Kenny Sia is almost like a local celebrity. Only through blogging and the occasional usage of YouTube for his video blogs, Kenny Sia holds the ability to influence the Malaysian society and their thinking.