Stolen PC and ipad....

 Dear Internet,

My house was broken into yesterday. And My PC and ipad was stolen.

While it will be difficult to trace the PC... (a Black CoolerMaster Media series), My ipad may have a better chance of being identified.

My ipad (the new iPad) is a black framed 64gb wifi only version with ' Journeying through the Tricade ' embossed on its aluminium back. It was stolen from my home in Kuala Lumpur,  Malaysia, and I am hoping to find the thief who stole my PC.

He has either formatted my ipad or have not connected to the internet. But the embossing still remains. He may sell it with an grey Ozaki cover as well.

If you know of such seller please inform me immediately at +60177030770 or email : triblade84@gmail.com

Thank you,

Justin Ong.

MBA: Entrepreneurship & Creativity - Session 1

Entrepreneurship and Creativity this semester is thought by Professor Nelson Oly Ndubisi. A well liked lecturer with the reputation of keeping the class lively and has an affinity with Durian.

His first session was held last Saturday 10-1pm as a replacement to his supposed KL Day debut for 2010.

This module of course takes us through the importance of entrepreneurship and its creativity, the theoretical approaches and behavior of entrepreneurs, six stage problem solving and many more.

This Module is a 50% coursework and 50% 2 hour examination of 2/6 questions.


He also emphasizes that everyone has creativity. It is more on how one expresses it. that makes a difference. Some may be creative in pre-conceptual creativity (Inventing innovations) while others are stronger in post conceptual creativity.

The session also encourages the students to identify our own strengths and weaknesses to better place ourselves in our team.

The Six stage problem solving process takes us through 6 roles
An Explorer, A Detective, An Artist, An Engineer, a Judge, and a Producer.

Each has its different approaches, and strengths to solve a problem.

Nelson takes a more light heart approach to things and plays around with the class. Encouraging more creativity I suppose as is the whole objective of his class...

...To tell us that all of us are creative.

First MBA Class - Innovation Management

The first Class of my MBA Wednesday 27th Jan 2010 held from 630 - 900pm ( We ended early this time). I noticed that quite a number of the students were full time students and that only a handful (Including myself) that were part time first semesters.

Veterans spoke freely and confidently from various backgrounds. R&D, Business, Law, accounting, Engineering. There were those with decades of experience but looked like teenagers.

Anyway my first class was on 'Innovation management', the lecturer, Dr.Rosniwati seem to do well as a moderator of the class, and i find that she was quite updated to the current affairs.

The class was more of an introduction; overview of the entire course. For this one, there will not be an exam, BUT there will be a group presentation as well as a 3000 short essay.

The Group presentation would be a 4-5 person group and would have to be an Innovation Audit on any company of which i would suppose will determine if they are of a steady-state nature or a discontinuous/disruptive nature, or a good mixture of both?

As for the essay, it would be on our 2-cents of how we would recommend some improvement to the Innovation department of that particular company.

Many issues and examples were flying into the discussion including, Air Asia, Apple, somehow Viagra came in as well, Virgin, Nokia, Toyota; many of which had their unique take in the business world.

In this context, an innovation would be an upgrade/evolution of a particular product may it be incremental or radical and would have to have to contain an economical value.

i suppose the gist of the first class was to open the minds of the students to what innovations can effect an economy, various models of which many of the Fortune 500 are based on. Only 60% of those who made it sustained through the decade. And What analyzing and recommendations could effect the outcome of each particular company.

Innovations are sometimes to the extent of braining the innovation team right to the resorts and away from restriction for they understand that creativity blooms with freedom.

During the breakout session, the Dr. came up with a small exercise. On whose innovation would be the best and how to think out of the box. We made paper planes. And the best would obtain the best revenue.

Which would be the case in the open market with plenty of contenders.

As a homework our team requested to come up with a Team name.

MBA Induction!!

The beginnings are always easy. No expectations, no background, full of hopes.....also its a Briefing so no pressure at all. But on the part of the organizers, a 1 and a half hour briefing turned out to be a 2 and an a half hour one.

Nonetheless, they were very accommodating and tried to shorten their presentations as much as they can without losing the gist of the presentation.

nothing much to say about the first day. Other than, I've decided to take 'Entrepreneurship and Creativity' and 'Innovation Management'. So my Mondays and Wednesdays will be taken up I suppose.

Till Wednesday then.

Cheers!

Juzzy Does MBA!

Happy New Year! Happy New Decade!

In a week's time, I will enroll as a student (once again) into the University of Nottingham in Malaysia to kick off my MBA course. Now I'm sure there are some who DO blog about their courses, so I too hope that this blog will keep me on track as I move along. Much like those video logs in Avatar. Which I think is an awesome movie :).

This is gonna be a 4 year course because I will be taking it part time. Hence i do hope there will be a difference when I graduate in the end.

On another note, I have also just joined the MII(Malaysian Insurance Institute) Toastmaster's Club. I figured if I had to go into the business/ management world, I should hone some public speaking skills too. Writing and speaking is two different things altogether. One cannot Backspace a sentence spoken. It'll probably also help with the communication for purpose of networking and future communications.

As for the Tricade? I'm in the midst of learning a piano piece called 'Way Back into love' from the movie "Music & Lyrics", Dad is taking me to the Driving range for Golf this Wednesday, and I'm locked in for a trip to Perth in April.

Tricade Challenge Kuuga? "Protecting everyone's Smile"? Well Ive been really good with One liners both on Sunday with the Outcast Group and yesterday with the Ex-Mumsu gang. And they seem to be ROLFing rather than just smiling,  so I must say I did a pretty good job. Still there's still the ultimate test of cheering up a down person. Its so difficult to not get sucked in too. But I suppose I'll have to workout the limits.

Well I guess that's progress for now. Hope to be updating more often on my MBA progress and hopefully getting feedback from more people. ^.^

Tricade Resolutions for the new Decade!

Heyas, its been awhile since I posted anything here. However, In the light of the new Decade,

and the existence of the 2012 end...I'm Challenging myself to make the best out of these final 3 years....IF it rains true.

If it does? I would have lived my life to the fullest!...
If not? 40 years down this path I will be able to say...I lived a fantastic Tricade!

Therefore my challenge is as such.... It will be divided into three Categories... Travel, Arts, and Life... This Tricade will be the founding 3 Year check list of Which I will spend this 3 years to the fullest.

Travel,

1) See the Great Pyramids of Egypt
2) Visit the Scrapers of Dubai
3) Sunset view of the Acropolis in Greece
4) Visit the Narwhals breeding @ Koluctoo Bay + the Aurora Borealis
5) Whale watching in Perth
6) Sakura in Japan
7) Snowboarding in Korea
8) Salsa and Tango in Argentina
9) See the vikings in Norway!
10) Romantic Dinner in Paris overlooking the Lourve

Arts

1) Learn 'Love Story vs. Viva La Vida' on the Piano
2) Learn ' Classical Gas' on the Acoustic Guitar
3) Learn '1 Kenny G song' on the Saxophone
4) Learn 'That Kamen Rider Kiva song' on the Violin
5) Learn to Free style with a 'Conga or a Djembe'
6) Play a solo on ShakuHatchi
Of course I'll need tutors... :P
7) Finish writing 1 novel
8) Toastmastery
9) Tango
10) Swing

Living

1) Conquer my fear of heights
2) Learn to Play Squash
3) Learn to play Tennis
4) Relearn swimming
5) Try golf again
6) Learn CPR & First Aids
7) 1 extreme sport
8) Finish my MBA
9) Watch the end of the World with a white puppy with black ears called Kiva from an unknown balcony overseeing the final city's skyscrapers...listening to 'Jon Schmidt'

10)and finally.. Learning what it is to be human....So when the time comes to face the one who determines whether I go to Narvana or Neraka....I can at least tell him.. the reason why human beings on this world ...no matter how innocent or twisted, no matter how selfish or selfless...should be spared the fate of extinction.

MBA practice Consumer analysis

Since no one reads this blog I shall make use of this to practice my MBA skills...So first chapter is marketing...

So according to this book...there are 7 steps in creating a marketing strategy.

1) Consumer analysis
2) market analysis
3) Competition analysis
4) Distribution
5) marketing mix
6) Econs
7) and revision...

so I suppose we could start from consumer analysis then...

So what is the need or use of a perfect man product?
Companionship, reliable, efficient, long-lasting, durable, compatible.

Who will obtain the product and who will use the product?
well since its an end product, I suppose the obtainer and the user is the same.

Ok involvement and all i guess can skip for now..lets move on to
demographic segmentation

Age - Young hehe prolly users between 18-24
Sex - Female
Income - I guess not really relevant
Martial Status - Singles required lol
Family Life Cycle - empty nesters or mate hunters lol
Education/Occupation - more matured the better but naive is okay as well
Ethnicity,religion, race: Asian, anything, Chinese or mixed.

haha dem this looks more like a dating recruitment than an analysis lol

Next up Marketing Analysis!

August 08 monologues

WARNING May be offensively funny!
You know my brother used to use this abbreviation a lot. SAD. Stands for 'Single available and desperate. Goes with Bad, Bi-available and desperate but thats a different story altogether.

SO anyway he recites this mantra like, well quite frequently and so it hits my muscle memory. So now I'm 'sad' most of the time. Only variable is not the S and A part but the D part.

And so Ive lived my life as a 'sad' person. Cause now, I find that women don't find me attractive at all. Don't ask me why. They don't find me hot, except for one, but thats cause she was curious why i didn't need a jacket to stay in the cinema.

Girls don't find me handsome, except aunties who of course dig young men. (Pause) watch out uncles lol.

But what i find that I can attract apart from flies, kids, gays and grandmothers, are people who have depressions in life. Regardless of gender.

Not because that I'm in a much worst state then them....well thats not the case ....usually. But because I somehow or rather am able to cheer them up.

How? u might ask? Don't ask me Im a comedian not a therapist for god's sake.

Measure of my ability?? cause i know usually when we measure a comedian we go like...hahaha this is hilarious this guy is good...or wth u suck. So theres only two grades, Good and suck.

But But I have testis!! 'Testimonials' for you dirty minded b*stards. I can proudly claim....That I can make a young girl, laugh! in 'I am Legend'. At the part where the zombies are huddling together in the building. Don't ask me dumb questions on why i was with young girls in a cinema, they were old friends k? And we were suppose to watch Alvin and the Chipmunks.

I can make tears of sadness turn into tears of joy within minutes! How? Again? haven't you learnt ur lesson? Im a dem comedian Dude!

But I do have my limits. Like every comedian, we only have a cup to drink from. Once we gypsies siphon off ur sad tears, we have to store it till we become full of depression ourselves. So thats why our jokes usually turn sour...at least for awhile.

But thats not the bad part. I find that usually, I have become a tears transfusion centre for most people. Its till the extent that they get on in their lives until something goes wrong, then they will find time to recharge and then head back in their life.

I mean...so where do I come in in their life apart from being a water treatment centre? Sometimes its so bad I feel like I must have lost my own life, cause in this one I feel like a spare.

Speaking about things that begin with the letter 'S'. I think my whole life's been surrounded by them. Im Single and straight, I dance Salsa, my favorite Superhero is Superman, Love sweet stuff, would enjoy sex if i weren't single i suppose, prefer skinny than chubby, almost everything to do with Ss. No 'ass' doesn't start with the letter S. But the act of does start with an...shoot! Mind U Im SAD not BAD.
- Juzzy Good Day!