End of School Life Special: Part C (My Random Presentation Slides Part 2)

Oh oh. Its been more than a week since my last post … I have been “busy” watching tv shows, J dramas I bought, celebrating my birthday and of course finding a job. I have a job interview on Wednesday and hopefully I will get the job. Dear blog, I’m so so so sorry about not updating you as often as before. I promise that I will update you at least 2 times a week for the next few weeks of even months. I love you blog.

For this post, I continue my End of School Life Special with Part C2 of the special series!!

Part C2 will carry on from the last post which showcased my random presentation slides. Last time I showed you 5, and now I will show you another 5 of my presentation slides I made in school. I usually customize my powerpoint presentation slides to match the topic or company the project is about, although sometimes, I get lazy and use readymade templates for the slides. The selected slides below taken from my group project or case study presentation slides are mostly the ones which I customized. Nobody wants to see those readymade templates which you can easily find right. Hope you like them. =)


These selected groups of slides are the next half of 10 powerpoint presentations I will be posting. The first 5 can be found by clicking here.


1. Anti-Drink Driving Slides


2. Best Buy Slides


3. ERP slides


4. AEC Slides


5. Dell slides


Nothing much to crap about for each set of slides so I decided not to say anything and let the pictures do the talking. Once again …. Just SEE and GO.

2 more to go in my End of School Special. Next post in the series (don't know when): Its back to My Random Group Project Visuals!! It will be part 3 and last of the random visuals before the final series post - My Bo Liao Guide to Forming a Good School Project Group

On a side note ….

There is a major change in my life … something that will alter my lifestyle, how I do things, how I look at the world etc etc. I didn’t have to make the change as life before the change was great. However, I felt that the time is right to let go of something wonderful, almost perfect in place of something new which may or may not be as good as or better than its predecessor.









My itchy hands struck again …..








Despite having a phone which I felt was almost perfect and declaring my love for it through some of my blog posts, my bad habit of wanting to try out new gadgets led me to changing my iphone to this new baby ….







I have only used my new HTC Hero for a few days and have not really explored all the functions and potential of the phone so I can’t comment on whether it is better than my iPhone or not. What I can say at the moment is that I like the interface and widgets of the android based phone but I’m missing some of the apps and the Safari browser I had on my iPhone already he he. Hopefully the upcoming firefox browser will be better than the one they have now on the Hero. One thing I couldn’t do with my iPhone which this phone can is using Starhub’s TV on mobile. =) I used to be able to use this service on my old windows mobile based phone but had to live without this feature when I was using my iPhone. I’m glad that I can once again watch Starhub’s channels on the go and will definitely be using this more often when I go out, or maybe even when I’m at home lying on my bed heh. The connection seems more stable than the last time I used it. No lag experienced while watching so far sia. Will try at more places in the future. =)

More about my new Hero and TV on mobile in future posts. =)

P.S: Please note that these slides are for our school projects, and the companies mentioned are not involved in what we have included in our projects. Cheers. =P

P.S2: Starhub TV on Mobile is free every Monday!!

(Images Taken From: My previous school projects, My digital camera)

End of School Life Special: Part C (My Random Presentation Slides Part 1)

Hee hee ha ha. Sorry for not posting for such a long time after I said in my previous post that I will be posting more often. I shall not over promise in the future. Since that post, I actually got an interview and a job offer but I think the job is not for me. I also got sick again =( This time I had cough, sore throat and more recently, diarrhoea (spell checked)!! I also went out a little, partied a little, drank and ate a little (okay quite a lot) and went to a IR (Integrated Resorts) Jobs preview session. I might be working at one of the first 2 casinos in Singapore next year. I want to be part of history! We shall see how it goes he he.

Okay, back to the topics of the day, my very confusing End of School Life Special …. part C1: My Random Presentation Slides!!

In this post, I will switch on my slack mode and just show you some pics of the 5 of the group project presentation slides I made (mostly). I usually customize my powerpoint presentation slides to match the topic or company the project is about, although sometimes, I get lazy and use readymade templates for the slides. The selected slides below taken from my group project or case study presentation slides are mostly the ones which I customized. Nobody wants to see those readymade templates which you can easily find right.


These selected groups of slides are the first half of 10 powerpoint presentations I will be posting. The next 5 will be shown in the next post.

1. Esprit Slides


2. Samsung Slides


3. Tampines Clicks Slides


4. Osim hPhone Slides


5. PicknPay slides


I know it’s not as good as those pros and mac users la, but nonetheless I enjoy making slides and if there is a job that just requires me to make powerpoint slides I will apply for it man lol. Don’t like giving presentations though. Unfortunately, my course and maybe future job require me to give lots of presentations. I’m more of a behind the scenes guy heh.

Nothing much to crap about for each set of slides so I decided not to say anything and let the pictures do the talking. Just SEE and GO.

5 more sets of presentation slides coming up in the next post (no fixed date) which I think are better than these early batches of slides I made!

P.S: Please note that these slides are for our school projects, and the companies mentioned are not involved in what we have included in our projects. Cheers. =P

(Images Taken From: My previous school projects)

End of School Life Special: Part B (Random Project Visual Part 2)

Part A - Introduction + The Project House
Part B - My Random Group Project Visuals (part 1, part 2, part 3 tba)
Part C - My Random Presentation Slides (tba)
Part D - My Bo Liao Guide to Forming a Good Project Group in School (tba)

Wow I got BBQed alive while watching a race between a car and a plane. Suffering from severe sunburn now lol. Pain ahhhhhhhhh!! It was worth it though. More about that next week he he. Today’s post is about part B2 of my End of School Life Special – A 4 part (extended to 7) series about my group project life.

This third post is Part 2 of Part B (My Random Group Project Visuals) and will feature project visuals with my project mate Alan! He is the joker in one of my groups in poly and I think his long hair makes him look like a star, so my group members usually get him to be our model. Some of the visuals have my other group mates in them too. I’m not in any of them as I’m a camera shy person and it would be a little weird for me to design posters with me in them.

Let’s begin Part 2 of Part B now! =)


I have already explained what this part is about. If you want to read what I wrote again please go to my End of School Life Special: Part B (Random Project Visual Part 1).

I shall now copy and paste the next few sentence from my previous End of School Special post. Ctrl C ….. Ctrl V > {Okay, these are visuals from 4 of my projects for part 1 of the Random Group Project Visuals. Some I have done many years ago so forgive me if I forget some information regarding it. I will just crap my way through like I usually do and you won’t notice anyway, unless you are one of my previous group mates he he.}

There is a video for one of the projects he he. Go see if you like it =P Alan, if you somehow found out about this post and are reading this now, Hi Hi, you are so handsome like model!! Thanks for your free modelling!!

I will try to shorten my commentary on each project for this post due to my laziness. I have been busy watching J Dramas and Animes …. Sorry =P Maybe it’s better this way too. You can finish reading this post fast and move on to a less bo liao activity.

Okayyyy … lets finally move on to the first project ….

1. KoolWerkz


For this Integrated Marketing Communications project, we have to really test our limited photoshopping skills and come out with a direct mailers for café owners and managers, ads and point-of-sales materials (if I’m not wrong) for KoolWerkz. Basically, our job is to beg them to take in this brand of ice cream. KoolWerkz is actually a brand from Temasek Poly and the ice cream is invented and made by Temasek Poly students (I think heh). They just came up with a 97% fat free ice cream (a few years ago when we were doing this project) and we were supposed to come out with a creative brief.

Mr. Alan is not used much here, only appearing in one of the pictures. See that guy in the “Mirror & Basin mock up” above? That’s Alan posing in our school’s toilet ha ha. The cartoon character in the instruction sheet is inspired by him too he he. I think it’s drawn by Alan. So cute hor. I wonder if they still have this ice cream over at my poly.

2. Journey to the East


This project is for our entrepreneurship module where we have to come out with a business plan with all the marketing plan, fanciful accounting and stuff. We used Alan’s idea of a Chinese fast food restaurant and got him to be the mascot of his fast food restaurant. We got him to pose, cropped him out and place his modified pic into the logo. The logo is featured prominently on the store design, website and packaging etc.

There are Chinese fast food restaurants in Hong Kong and I hope someone really opens a fast food restaurant like Journey to the East with home delivery service. No … food courts are different from our fast food restaurant! I want kung pao chicken rice (at McDelivery rates) delivered to my house now!!

3. Tampines Clicks


For this project, we had to promote this website called Tampines Clicks which is no longer available the last time I checked lol. I think it’s because they didn’t use our idea. It’s a website that allowed residents of Tampines to blog on if I’m not wrong.

We suggested having an Amazing Race type of event for schools around Tampines to take part in to promote this website. Banners, posters and outdoor ads will be used to inform people about this event. As you can see, out dear Alan is in the poster, banners and the outdoor ads. Even the pair of legs you see in one of the outdoor ads belong to him heh. Teck, Elizabeth and Monica joined in the fun and appeared in the banners and posters. We actually printed out quite a large banner for our presentation to score some brownie points and got chosen to present in front of our cohort =P I heart our slogan! Create, Connect, Clique!! =)

4. Sony Ericsson


This Sony Ericsson project is for our Sales Management module. We are suppose to investigate consumers’ perception towards the Sony Ericsson range of Walkman phones in Singapore, conduct a detailed analysis of their market share and come up with short and long term sales objectives and ways to fulfill them. As you can see from the images above, there aren’t many visuals made for this project. However, we can also see that once again, Alan is the model of the day. Look at Alan, dressed up in different clothes for different occasions. Clothes are sponsored by Alan’s closet.

Although we didn’t have many visuals for this project, we did make a commercial, which set us apart from other groups then heh. This amateurish commercial made with Windows Movie Maker (you know, the free video editing program you get with your Windows) was shown to all marketing students, increasing Alan’s popularity in school. It was the highlight of our presentation and lots of cheers and laughter could be heard when the video was played.


In the video, there are 6 scenes, and some for 2 scenes we couldn’t actually film at the intended location as our commercial making budget is $0. The first scene is shot in my room, second scene (exercising) at my school’s gym, third (on a plane) we can’t possibly board a plane and film so we did a very bad impression of it, fourth (chilling out) is at my house’s void deck, fifth (at a club) in my mother’s room and the last scene is at some random place I forgot. I actually like what we did with the clubbing scene with Alan as the DJ and the very corny looking DJ console. The lighting effects really made it look like a club I think heh.

Here are some behind the scenes pics of the clubbing part ..

As you can see, the DJ console is made of LDs, CD, boxes, cardboard sheets and our poster lol. All recycled stuff we found in my house. Love how it looked in the video though he he.

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Okay, I shall stop my nonsense now. This is the end of Part B2 of my End of School Life Special. 4 more parts to go!

In my next End of School Life special (god knows when I will post), I will take a break from showcasing my past project visuals and switch to PowerPoint slides I made during my days as a student. There will be 2 posts on PowerPoint slides and I will then switch back to the last part of Part B (My Random Group Project Visuals). Confusing? I love confusing people.

I also love projects and designing amateurish visuals for it!

Next time on my End of School Life Special – My Random Presentation Slides Part 1. Stay tuned!! Might be anytime from 1 week to 1 month later!!

One of the slides I actually used (taken from my old nufc post) …


(Images Taken From: My previous projects, my previous post)

End of School Life Special: Part B (Random Project Visual Part 1)

Part A - Introduction + The Project House
Part B - My Random Group Project Visuals (part 1, part 2, part 3 tba)
Part C - My Random Presentation Slides (tba)
Part D - My Bo Liao Guide to Forming a Good Project Group in School (tba)

Hello again. This is the second post of my “End of School Life Special”. In my first post, I mentioned that it a four part series which may expand to six parts if I dig out to much stuff for part B and C. Now that I have gathered most of my random group project visuals, I have decided to expand the four parts into seven parts! Part B (My Random Group Project Visuals) will be expanded into 3 sub parts and Part C (My Random Presentation Slides) will be expanded into 2 sub parts. To make things even more complicated, I have decided to post part 1 and part 2 of Part B (My Random Group Project Visuals) first, followed by Part C (My Random Presentation Slides). After posting the 2 parts of Part C, I will then post the final part of Part B (My Random Group Project Visuals) and I will end the seris by posting Part D (My Bo Liao Guide to Forming a Good Project Group in School).

Hope you understand what I have just typed lol.

Let’s begin Part 1 of Part B now! =)

Welcome to part B of the End of School Life Special. In this part, I will showcase some amateurish visuals of my previous group projects. Although I have been in different groups, I usually try to be the one making the visuals as I enjoy doing it. In case you are wondering why they don’t look professional, it is because they are not meant to be lol. I am just a marketing student with limited designing skills and not a design or multimedia student, so I think it’s unfair to compare them to those pro looking design student's works ha ha. They are really very talented. In work life, the marketers usually get professional designers to design anyways heh. (Sorry. Trying very hard to give excuses for my not so pro looking designs =D)

The visuals are not as important as the reports and in most cases are not required. We like to add them in for some extra points to help us score better he he. You know, it gives the person marking the report the impression that we have put in a lot of effort into the project heh. For those who still have school project to do - For your info: I think it usually works lol

At the end of the day, for us marketing students, the 20+++ pages reports (60++ with appendices) are the most important aspect of our projects. Nevertheless, we had lots of fun coming up with ideas for the visuals and designing them. We are also very kiasu and like to give tutors something extra. Sometimes, some of my group members end up being models for the posters or actors in videos lol. You won’t see examples in this post, but I promise I will post them in the next post he he.

Okay, these are visuals from 4 of my projects for part 1 of the Random Group Project Visuals. Some I have done many years ago so forgive me if I forget some information regarding it. I will just crap my way through like I usually do and you won’t notice anyway, unless you are one of my previous group mates he he.

1. Corny Nutters

I used photoshop for the first time in my life for this project and I had a lot of fun exploring how to use the program heh. Like many casual users, I was not taught how to use photoshop so a lot of patience is needed when trying to do certain things. Google is my best friend and tutor for Photoshopping stuff lol.

This project is for our Retail Management module and our task is to come out with a concept for a push cart and actually implementing it! We had to think of what to sell, come up with our own brand name, logo etc. One of my favourite projects of all time and I had lots of fun doing it.

After a long and hard discussion, we decided to sell Kachang Puteh (assorted nuts) and cup corns. We decided on the name “Corny Nutters” as it is easy to remember and so corny. I think it’s a great name! As it was my first time using photoshop and my drawing skills ain’t that fantastic, the logo I made was really simple. I think it’s really cute though he he.
We got our nuts on consignment from the really helpful people over at Tong Garden who even offered us a “keep the nuts warm” thingy as seen on the “Nuts Section” picture above for free! In return, we advertised their brand for free by pasting their logos on our store and our “Nuts Packaging” (see pics above).

As our logo looks kiddy, we are stuck to being cute, so we decided to have a childhood theme for Corny Nutters. We had balloons, a bubble blowing rabbit, some primary school snacks and toys for prizes. We also went around throwing those mini bombs and the press and wait for it to explode thingy (forgot what they are called … those you played when you were young). Our uniforms were school uniforms as seen in the “Push Cart” pic above. Easy to get and it fits our theme he he. As you can see from the pics, the store isn’t the best looking one due to our lack of arts and craft skills. We did win others in terms of the size of our stall as we had a Nuts Section and Corn Section in addition to our push cart. Our cute logo, fun atmosphere and friendly staff (us) also won the hearts of the lecturers and tutors. One of our lecturers even helped us sell the nuts lol. We also had some bulk purchases from the tutors! Our cup corns section was really popular and we sold all our cup corns! We had to make a last minute sold out sign for our cup corns lol (see pic above).

The money we earned we got to keep and some groups were also selected to set up our stalls on our poly’s Open House for extra cash! We got selected and got to sell Corny Nutters to cute young girls who just graduated from secondary school! After some creative accounting, according to our report, we managed to earn quite a lot of money! Go Corny Nutters!!

2. BreadTalk

I realized that I wrote too much on the Corny Nutters part so I will try to be less long winded from this section onwards heh.

For this project (Brand Management Module), we had to find out if BreadTalk is a “Genuine Brand” in consumer’s mind and come out with ways to improve its image.

For the investigation part, we had to come up with a questionnaire and get real customers to answer the questions. Different groups were sent to different outlets to conduct the surveys and we were rewarded with some cute BreadTalk collectibles. Too bad I don’t have any pics of them. We also did some store observation on our own to further enhance the credibility of our findings.

I won’t talk about the findings as I think its confidential he he but the visuals above are some of the things we recommended. The new uniforms recommendations are drawn by our very own Alan and the magazine insert which will pop up when you open the magazine is done by Teck (he actually made a mock up). All the visuals (same for other modules) were printed for the tutors to get a better feel of how they will look like during presentation. We love printing posters!

I actually designed a cute BreadTalk mascot which is a bun with a chef’s hat, but I can’t find the image. I think a few visuals are missing too. Damn.

3. Esprit

This project is for our Strategic Marketing module and we are supposed to communicate the brand personality and rejuvenate the Esprit brand. As we had lots of projects to complete at the same time that semester, we didn’t have much time to create lots of visuals.

We came up with different versions of the esprit card, made a mock up magazine insert which is actually based from an actual magazine insert :P and focused on the service staff of Esprit. Alan, our resident fashion designer once again drew the uniforms. The female model looks familiar right? It is the same model from the BreadTalk project he he. Sometimes, when you do not have enough time, you have to compromise and reuse heh. Our Brand Management and Strategic Marketing tutors are different, so they won’t know I think.

Esprit models used are from Esprit’s annual report. Annual reports and official websites are great sources for getting companies’ images to use for school projects J. When it is for educational purposes, everything is okay as long as we cite the sources right? We do use our group mates as models for some projects but in this case, we felt that we needed better looking models ha ha (joking). It would be weird if we posed for the front cover (see pic above) instead of using the Esprit models right? =P

I remember for the presentation of this project, we screwed up the files in our thumb drive and had a little delay which angered the tutor a little. Lucky for us, our presentation was good and the presentation slides had lots of nice looking customized diagrams. The tutor ended up smiling and praised us instead. Phew.

4. Samsung

Wow this post is getting really long. I hope you are still reading it he he. If you are …. Hi! This is the last one for this part, hang in there. Luckily I had the foresight and split Part B into 3 parts before this post, or else the post will be freaking long man.

(Sorry, I just made this post longer with some crap. Okay, back to business.)

The last project featured today is my global marketing project for Samsung. The purpose of the project is to look into Samsung’s online strategy as a whole to cater to the youth’s in South East Asia. I think we needed to bond with high-life seekers.

This project actually consists of 2 projects that are interrelated to form the whole campaign. I forgot which is for which but the visuals I gathered are used in either one or maybe both.

As the focus is on the online strategy, most of our recommendations are online based. We have a windows messenger ad, website advertising and a microsite for our campaign. We actually created a fake website for this project and used my previous blog’s address for it lol. A customized skin was made as seen in the “Campaign Microsite” pic above. The links actually work and had relevant information in each section!

To bond with the high life seekers, our theme was “Fame & Glamour” and one of the suggestions we made was to sponsor the Singapore Fashion Week. We also had a contest where participants had the chance to star in the next Samsung commercial and a “Fame & Glamour” cruise touring around South East Asia featuring Samsung products. Celebrities, reporters and some of the contestants will be invited to the cruise. When we presented, we actually fitted a golden cloth onto the tutor’s chair, placed some champagne on the table and gave an invitation to our imaginary cruise to the tutor lol. That really made him a very happy tutor he he.

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Okay, that’s all for today folks! I just realised that I have typed almost 2000 words. Woo hoo, I have just completed an individual essay! No grammar check and typos are done though as this is not graded, so if there are any mistakes please forgive me he he.

In my next End of School Life special, I will feature 4 more projects =) Most of the visuals will have this guy in it.

He is Alan, the long haired “fashion designer” and poster boy for most of the projects when I am in the Tecky Team, one of the many groups I am involved in my life as a marketing student in poly and uni.

Tecky Team consists of: Alan, Teck, Jansie, Elizabeth, Monica and me. I did most of my poly projects and spent the most time doing projects with the Tecky Team.

I love projects and designing amateurish visuals for it!

Next time on my End of School Life Special – My Random Group Project Visuals Part 2: The Alan Chronicles. Stay tuned!!

(Images Taken From: My previous projects)

My last Group Project & Presentation

I have finally completed my final school group project of my life!!! Yesterday, together with my group mates this semester - Jiayi (sis), Rayne, Shawn and Wayne, I also did what may be my final presentation of my life (unless my job requires me to do so in the future). Due to my involvement with my project, I was not able to blog, sorry about that blog. Don't worry blog, I will be really free for the next few weeks and will try to update you more often.

So ... what have I been doing for the past 5 days since my last blog post about the awesome Bully Beatdown show?

Thursday
I slacked for a bit to prepare for the stress which my final group project will bring me. I also jogged for the first time in 2 years!! Oh my god!!! Darryl and Jasmine (wearing the Nike shoes I won) came over to my place to accompany and motivate me to lose weight. We jogged around the big field opposite my house and it felt great! Although I stopped and walked for around half of the route he he, I think it's a good start, considering that I have not had any form of exercise (okay maybe finger exercising when i typing) for the past 2 years. I thought I would faint after the jog!! Thanks Darryl (old boss) and Jasmine for coming all the way to my house to jog with me. Will be jogging more in the future and lose 10kg by September, the day I receive my degree in Perth!! Hope I look better in pictures then, my poly graduation pic sucks!

Friday
Did my part for the project + prepared customized PowerPoint template

Saturday
All my group mates came over to my house, the usual meeting place for most of my group projects in poly and now in Uni. After slacking around for a 2 hours, we finally started serious work after lunch. We had some discussions, laughed, goofed around, watched a little tv, bought some Scratch It cards and bet on the England match (4, 5, 6 goals - yes we won!), did our assigned parts, ate dinner, watch the England match live, continue doing our parts and finally finishing all the contents of the project at 2 plus am.

Just for laughs - When Shawn and I were walking out of the carpark, he slipped on a puddle of water and I laughed at him. When we came back I slipped on the exact same spot! So pai sei!! Luckily for us, no girls were around then, only a man washing his car and we did not fall on our butt. I wonder how many people slipped on that spot. The guy washing his car must be constantly looking over to see if anyone else slipped and laughing his ass off.

Sunday
I converted the content into PowerPoint slides for our presentation on Monday.

Monday
QC (quality check) and printing of slides (for tutor) and my final school presentation! I don't know why, but after so many presentations since my poly days, I still get nervous before presentation and need a stick of cig and some Mentos (why? See below, P.S section) to calm myself down before every presentation. I call this the "SPR - Sean Pre-Presentation Ritual".

I shall end this post with a picture of my last slide of my last ever school project presentation =)


Do you have any pre-presentation rituals to share? More posts about my projects in the future =) ....

A few more weeks of online discussion and 2 papers for my final exams and I'm done!

P.S: Ya, those Mentos commercials really influenced me to think that I could do anything after eating a mentos lol

Remember these????



"It doesn't matter what comes, fresh goes better in life, with Mentos fresh and full of life. Nothing gets to you, staying fresh staying cool, with Mentos, fresh and full of life. Fresh goes better, Mentos freshness, fresh goes better with Mentos, fresh and full of life!
Mentos - The Fresh Maker!"

With Mentos I will overcome every obstacle!!

Another episode of Fighting Spiders today yeah

(Image Taken From: My presentation slides)