Thursday 7 August 2008

twenTY

I'm Officially 20! No more 19....nineteen....and according to Audrey, I'm in my Ty already instead of Teen....Not really jumping up and down though...It's kinda awkward...that feeling...indescribable... so yay! I'm 20....Twenty!

Happy Birthday Jon! After 20 yrs of adventures....

Tuesday 5 August 2008

VMS = Vaio + Movie + Story

I was told to attend the Vaio Software Training at Times Square as it is a compulsory training for me. At first I didn't want to go as I already know all the software. Instead of wasting money going there, I rather stay in Sony Style to train myself. It seems that they manage to arrange transport and were forced to go!

During the the training, the trainer, Simon Khaw whom I know since last time instroduced a software called Vaio Movie Story which our dear brother Justin used it to produce his Distinctly Penang. He officially announced a competition to be held among outlets and dealers. First prize would be a Vaio Laptop! However, this kind of competitions does not attract Sony Stylers as most of us do not have the time to do this kind of thing. There is no theme/tittle, so it all depends on the user's creativity on delivering the message.

To produce a video using that software takes only a few minutes quote Simon Khaw. But for my experience, it took me about 2 hours to finish the whole project.

For me, I actually had a bunch of ideas but I'm just afraid it might not be a success as each participants are only allowed to submit 1 submission.



At the end, I choose to present these!



Press play and pause. Leave it finish loading.
I would like to request you to pause your current playing music/turn on your speaker
Don't run other programs when it's playing because it lags.

Photos and videos courtesy of Jonathan and his Canon A630

I absolutely got no idea why when I uploaded it, it turns out to be squeezed...

Monday 4 August 2008

Sssp...Lizards

It was first announced during May about the launch of First Batch for Vaio CR series with Lizard Skin! It's a total WoW factor for Vaio fans as this is their first attempt on this kind of design for the market as for what I think that Malaysian Market are too realistic and most of us Malaysian would actually thought that 'Is it necessary to have that?'. That what makes it hard for Sony to penetrate into the Malaysian market.

Anyways, this is something new for Sony Vaios and I think it's somewhat similar to Acer's Lamborghini Laptop? Or Motorola's D&G version? For this CR Lizard series, No! It's not real lizard/crocodile/snake/reptile/whatever you name it skin. It's actually a plastic layer being mould into reptile skin texture. What is the difference between the Lizard Vaio and the normal CR353? There is no differences other than the price which Lizard cost RM4688 and CR353 cost RM4488! So I guess you should know which model Malaysians would definitely choose?

I dare say Sony is wise on making use their staff's abilities whereas it's not in the staff's job scope.

Yep, you got it right! It's Me that I'm talking about!

I realised that Sony Style does not have any windows displays at all and I proposed to the manager. Yep, he agreed and he had the intention on reviving Sony Style's window display as I told him about our windows display assignment.


Silver Lizard

Pink Lizard

To decorate the Silver Lizard seriously took us lots of hassle to finish it! First they got the Pink Lizards deco on my day off and finished it on the second day. That is already done with no worries. I seriously took sometime on figuring out on what to decorate the Silver Lizard. At the end, I turned to home deco and that is what I came up with. But for the Lizard, I got the idea of getting some plastic Lizards in Toy City and some model figurings paint. Those paints are exactly like car paints and bare in mind that it's expensive too! Took me some time to fully color the lizards to silver. I dare say that this is the best piece I did in Sony Style.


Sony Style which is a Sony direct store. The product pricings and free items packages are controlled by Sony Malaysia Corporation! We here are just to provide services and to sell (if you want) absolutely got no control on the products pricings.

There are times where you hate customers...Yup, after the display I actually hated this particular customer. He beg and begs for discounts and free stuff! Come on la~ This is KLCC, and your getting a Vaio... So daring to beg for discounts and free mouse. If you can afford a Vaio, you definitely can afford to get a mouse. Worst of all, he actually asked for that Silver Lizard for free?? Was angry at first due to the fact that it took me long enough to paint that Lizard! But then was curious about what for he want that Lizard? Knowing Suresh's perverted brain, he looked down at his pants and said "Order the lizard to Open Mouth but Don't bite!"

But time do changes things. Is Malaysian market still that realistic? I dare say maybe. For the whole period working in Sony Style, it seems that Malaysians started to enjoy the fancy fancy gadgets made by Japanese innovative brains. From things that makes sense to things that are not making any sense at all! Well, they got me brain washed successfully for sure~ (there's a particular gadget I totally fall for it!)