Jingle Bell ***

HO  HO HO ! MERRY CHRISTMAS ^^.

Early celebration for the Christmas party on last Friday  night (16/12/2011) at my intern's company (IDC Training House).

A wonderful company I worked before. Hmm... I did mentioned in my previous previous previous post (back in 2010)! 

They moved into a bigger office at Puchong. As usual, they are very friendly and welcomed us all the time. *SWEET and TOUCH* (I miss them a lot)

They are like a big family , warmth and care for others. 

A little bit regrettable because only two interns (me and Sook Ping) attended the Christmas celebration. 

Anyway, we had a lot of joy without them too. (*giggle)  

*Sigh, some of them already forgotten my name, but, forgivable because between these 2 years, there are few batches of interns work with them. So........ is alright!! Haha, before I left I forced them to remember my name, I guess they will remember my name. (I'm PING, Ping = Pink, when you see pink color that's me) 

Hehehe, actually I only keep in touch with the Ms Finance (Grace) and Miss Marketing (Leena)... I guess is my fault too.  

Those people who attended the party are their staff and business partner. So, we (me and Sook Ping) are the two strangers. They were so surprised to see us, because, those interns never attended any of their gatherings. Hmmm, alright, next time. if there are any gathering or celebrations they organize (if they invite us) I will try my very very very very very best to attend... Because I like them very much. Hope to be one of their family member.  Hehehe (am I too greedy huh)

* great people is hard to find in this world, hold tight before losing them. so, i try my best to keep in touch with great people*

Alright, back to the party...... Christmas song kept on rolling.... *Jingle bell, jingle bell ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 

I met most of the ex-colleague, we chat, we ate and we play together. Hmm, they all kept laughing at my previous stupidity *arghhhh. But, its fine, at least they still remember my existence. Yay , we had a lot of fun. Hehehehe.

Chat with the big boss (Helen) who not facing the camera.

Eating session 

Wow, a lot of food, KFC, Pizza, fried mee, Friend rice, fruits , sandwiches, etc

Photos taking session 

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Ding Dong Ding Dong, Its time to exchange gifts ^^ eye kept blinking 

Guess which present is mine? 

I have no idea where is my present .

The guests were invited to the conference room and time to get your present.... 

Hehehe, I am captured in the pic

Here, I announced, 

people, please come forward and get your present according to your number !!^^

Yay, I got number 18.

A foldable bottle.

Oopys, forgotten to take a picture@@

Everybody, please don't unwrap your present first, lets have a group pictures !!!

 Right after the photo session

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 Okokok... everybody is busy unwrap their present, so am I. ^^

Alright alright, people , please show me what you get for your exchange gift ?

Hurray, here's the present I get.

Everyone looks so happy, I guess they all are  very satisfied with their gift.

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HOLD ON

I haven't shared those great people I met to you. 

left: new partner (not so sure who he is), Mr Than, Ms Leena, and Kishnu

Mr CEO, Mr Lutz

The founder , Ms Helen

My ex-marketing manager

Mr Ong , The IT manager

Mr Plantation, Zul

the bosses

(Mr & Mrs Seibt)

the two interns

Group Picture before we left

Last but not least

BYE BYE

will see you again

in the future

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My Graduation

Alright, I know that my convocation already passed for few months. 

And, I din't update any post about my convocation.

So, I plan to share a bit story about my convocation since I have no task in hand (my current job is too free).

My convocations falls on 9/9/2011 and the ceremony started at 2 p.m. at Wisma MCA. 

A bit disappointed that my housemate couldn't attend my convocation (so am I, hehehe), because our convocation falls on the same date but different session. Their ceremony was in the morning and mine was afternoon session.We both are too busy on our convocation ceremony. 

Since we are in the same hometown, no worries, we still can meet when we back to hometown.

Too bad, it is a rainy day. We couldn't took much pictures out of the building until the rain stop. 

The whole process is too rush, I couldn't meet most of my course mate and to take a group photo with them.

I just managed to get some of my close friends together in a corner to snap some memorable pictures.

Family Portrait 

Busy Contact My Friends

BFF

Present I Made for Them

Another Angle

Another group of BFF (Bitch Friend Foverer)

1. Found My Course Mate in the Crowd

2. Found My Course Mate in the Crowd

3. Found My Course Mate in the Crowd

Queued up before enter the Ceremony Hall

Snap a picture before we enter the room

In the Hall

Before we leave

Second last shoot

The final shoot

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THE END 

Bye bye to my campus life. I'll miss you very much. 

To my friends in the campus, thank you for giving me a lot of great memories (a good one and also a bad one). 

Bye bye Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR).

Please Remember My Name

Everyone has a name.
I have a name too.
My name is Ang Shiao Ping.
Is that really hard to remember ones name after you had work with for almost a month.
The first day I met you,
I remembered your name because you are going to be my superior.
And now, you are my superior.
But worst, you hardly called my name.
You called me "Ei" but not it's my name.
I can ignore you.
Because my name is not "Ei",
My name is Ang Shiao Ping.
Because I'm new in the office,
and you are my  superior,
so, I forgive you.
But, today is the fourth week.
I'm still "Ei".
No, I'm not "Ei".
Please don't called me "Ei".
What I want you to do is:::: (as below)

Remember one's name represent you are a well mannered person.
It shows you paying attention to the people around you.
Also, you respect others.
Especially in a corporate world, doing business with others.
Remember your colleagues or clients is very important element.
(of course, i'm not good in remembering people's name, but at least a month you should have remember my name, right? )

Just to show you a video regarding office etiquette.

Alright, now I would like to share few link on how to remember one's name.

 1.   Tricks to Remembering names.

 2.   How to remember people's name.

 3.  Networking How to Remembering Names of People you Meet.

Alright, is time to stop writing. Bye.

Frienship

I saw my friend status: "Defined Friendship".
Then, I decided to blog it out.
What do you think about friendship? And what did friendship means to you?
For me, "Friendship" is a very complicated things to be define, it's also depends on individual.

In the past , definition for Friendship for me is easy, you play with me, talk to me and sit beside me. Then, you are my friends. (I mean kindergarten, primary school and secondary school )
Friends is people who around me, we play, we hang out and having joy together.
I believed that, some of people having the same thought as me. No doubt, there are people have different kind of thoughts, as I mentioned before, "Friendship" is a very complicated things.

Still, the most important elements in friendship is sharing and caring.

Friendship is never perfect.
They comes and goes without letting you know.
They might sustained, they might not.
They might be your true friends, they might not.

You are representing a bus,
and friends are representing the passengers.
You never know when are they coming to you,
and when are they going to leave you.
 For me, the passengers are the HI and BYE friends.

A long lasting friendship,
they always on and off appear in front of you.
When you need a hand,
they will come to you and give you a hand.
Although they are not around you so often,
but they always think of you,
and miss your existence when they are alone.

Good friends,
they never hold you back,
they encouraged you,
they will share and care about you.
They concern about your,
they pay attention to you.

Hi Bye friends,
they will say Hi to you when they need you,
and say Bye to you when they are done with you.
They are selfish ,
they are heartless.

In my life time, I have a lot of different kind of friends.
Yup, I am 24 years old, in this young age.
I had seen a lot of different kind of friends.
They might nice to you, but actually they don't.
Some of them are arrogant,
some of them are selfish,
some of them are not understanding,
some of them are too over (seized things from me).

So, what? This is life right!
You will meet different kind of people,
and then what?
You learn from each of your friendship!!

Even now? In the office?
I don't know them, and hardly know them.
They don't even bother about you.
So, what? I am bored. No friends.
What am I going to do?
Do my own things, and no need to communicate with them.
Ya right!

For me,
no friends = no life.
keep my mouth up = i am going to die

hahahahahahaha.
This is a bored post.
I am bored in the office, not task to do at the moment.
So, I blog!
God save me!!
Friends, rescue me.

hahaha. stupid blog.

 

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Been a long long time never put much attention on researching on an issue or topic. Basically, I do research because of my assignment and presentation. Otherwise, I'll will never ever put my effort on reading through all the articles word by word for my understanding, unless the articles or issues are interesting enough to grab my attention. 

So, the topic that I to blog today is Marketing is not equal to Sales. 

The topic is aren't interesting for me because I only read those bizarre articles, gossips and entertainment news. 

So, what about marketing and sales topic?

Story begins,

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I went to an interview last Saturday (10-12-2011). A day I'll never ever forgot in my life time. 

It's a second interview for marketing trainee in company A. The job responsibilities is not what I expected before, because is all about sales and hitting the sales target.

The causes that lead me to search on " the difference between marketing and sales" because the Branch Manager, named Tim had interviewed me.

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He is a *DickFucker who look down on me. Saying that I'll never ever success in my life in marketing and sales field. And there are a lot of restaurant hiring people to work for them, and why not I go to apply job there. *shytt. 

Also, he asked me to tear off  a piece of paper in my notebook to sell for RM 1. If I cant manage to sell it in 10 mins time, I am fail. 

Seriously, I'm going to burst on the spot. Fine, I don't argued with him, and I want to prove to him that I'm not a loser, I can sell that piece of paper for RM1. 

So, I tear off the a piece of paper from my notebook and said, Shall I go to sell the paper??

As I leave the table, I started to doubt myself... OMG!! Seriously, am I gone mad!!! A piece of paper for RM1? Seriously?  

Shit !!!! Alright, I went to StarBucks nearby because there is the only shop that have customers. There are two tourist from "I've no idea".

Thank God, there is a Malay guy( Mr Aidil, Founder and CGEO of AkarInsan) sitting there with some documents and a laptop. 

Ok, that's the only hope for me. So, I stand up straight and approached him.

Alright, the first thing I do is, I put the piece of paper on the table and very straight forward: Sir, can you buy this piece of paper for RM1 because I'm in an assessment? 

Mr Aidil replied: You know this is crazy, right? 

*Yes, I understand I am crazy, but I've to do so in order to prove to that shytt and show him my ability that I can do well in marketing and sales . And please Don't underestimate me and look down on me. 

Mr Aidil: Sure, I'll pay for this piece of paper. And please write down your name and your contact for me in the piece of paper. He told me to show his name card to the shytt interviewer.

* He gave me his name card and ask me to send my resume to him and we had a little conversation. But, hopefully he get back to me after I send my resume. 

Alright, when the time I get back to the coffee shop where I had my second interviewed just now. Mr Tim, already paid the bill and going to leave as soon as I back to my seat. I felt myself being humiliated. So, I just throw the money and the name card on the table and told the Fucker that Mr Aidil had bought my piece of paper and showed him his name card.

The End

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Alright, start to the main topic. Mr Tim, keep on saying that marketing is sales, sales is marketing. 

After heard him blablablablabla, and I decide to do a research on this topic. 

Sorry, I am not philosopher that read all the articles, books, case study, journals.

I will just roughly write my point of view on marketing and sales, and what they means to me. and the differences.   

In my point of view, 

Marketing is a process of planning. Its a tactics to drive sales. They identified the target market plan a series of marketing plan to introduces their product and create awareness to the public they targeted. Marketing is a large scale, while sales is part of the marketing, Sales is not equal to marketing. They are both important, they rely on each other to success in a business, but it does not mean that they are the same. Sales occurs when it involved in a process of exchanging goods or money; action of selling something. 

There is a marketing management cycles, from this you can easily understand what's the different between marketing and sales. 

In a process in marketing called Marketing Management Cycle:

from planning -> implementing -> monitoring -> correcting (it's happened like a cycle, not one way)

Sales only happened when the marketing plan was set up, identified and approved by authorities. Then only comes to sales. "Sales target" represent the feedback, example the awareness of the product to the public. They monitor the success of products through the sales of the product, they used the feedback and the result of the sales to evaluate whether the marketing plan are success or not. 

If there are an error on the plan, they will redefine and correct it to make it perfect. That's the reason the process is on-going. 

So, its clearly shows that marketing is a whole and sales is a part of the marketing. No doubt sales is an important segment in the marketing process. 

BUT, what I want to identify here is Sales is not equal to Marketing, 

As I mentioned before , Marketing as a whole and sales is a part of the marketing. 

Mr Tim, 

Through the way you talk to me and blablabla..... I can see that you are a very very very ambitious person to hit the target in order to get a better paid. Alright, I admit I like money, but I don't like to do your kind of sales and marketing you said. Frankly speaking,

 what you do in your career is to hit the target sales. And you do not need to plan any marketing plans... you implement the marketing plan that plan by the company M that you work for. Alright, you help them to hit sales and make profit, but you are not the planner for the whole project...

So, you must at least understand where you stand. You work in an outsource marketing and sales company, company "M" hired your company"A" to market their products. You are only implementing their marketing plan. You're still a SALES PERSON although you are a branch manager in your company.

 A real marketing planner do not need to hit target sales, they just need to plan, identified, monitor, evaluate and correct their plan. They identify the SWOT (Strengths, weakness, opportunities and threat), they need to have a lot of ideas on marketing like how to advertise, educate and influence the public towards the product. And you , the sales person who only need to hit the target sales with your persuasion skill. So, there is a differences between marketing and sales. 

AS a REMINDER for you as a Branch Manager Sales Person , Tim. You're implementing the marketing plan that planned by company M. 

Before they hired your company, they already plan the full package of marketing plan. Again,  you're the sales person who  helping them to make the sales, implementing their plan.  

P/S :  this is only my point of view. muahaha. and i am saying a large scale of marketing. Please do correct me. All is my point of view only.. hehehe, cz i want to express my feeling toward the interviewer.