Me, Twitter and Butter Factory

If you follow me on twitter and saw my timeline last night, here is what I am going to say: social networking is really an anal sometimes. Why would I use such strong nasty word? Because I was (or I am, since I still can feel it now) so annoyed due to what happened last night. I tweeted this to one person (she works at butter factory!) because bloody DM didnt work. *tried zillion times of copy-paste for DM*

then right after this tweet, my friends who followed me replied the tweet as shown at following timeline:

Okay, I know all of those conversations above are in Indonesian, so if you do not understand it, I will not try to translate it, ask your other Indo friends to translate it for you if you really want to understand everything. 

Maybe some of you might questioning why would I go to butter factory in the first place? I need to admit that I need a break from my routine, thus I went to club for dancing. Yeah, literally dance. You can ask some of my close friends (let me know if you want to know who) that I can dance like nobody business if I feel the music is good. *Oya, can ask people who attended the PINTU Prom Night 2011 and saw me dancing*

Since I have roomie now, so I cant blast the music in the room  and dance as free as I can. Thats why I need some spaces to dance last night. Since the school about to start as well, which mean the hectic days will come, last night was also one of opportunity for me to express myself.

Last night was my second time went to butter factory. My first time went there, I enjoyed it, till I had piles of sweating all over me, and one of my friend of friend told me that I danced way much crazier than she did? I was laughing when she said that. Thats the reason I agreed with my friends when they asked me to go to butter factory last night, due to customer loyalty that being created from good experiences before.

But then, why would I tweeted such thing to the person in the first place? It because she is part of marketing person for the club, so she would know better. And actually I think the guy who checked our ID, actually can allow us to get to another room (for above 21), but since I bloody honest so we ended up at Fash. *I think it is due to my birthday only about 1 month to go* 

We paid, we put our bags, then we went in the Fash room, and you know what welcome us? This poster:

Thats the reason why I tweeted the person! In fact, all of us couldnt stand the crowd and leave quite early, with the fact we always took a break after 40 minutes being inside for 3 times are good enough for us to leave early and we rather had our supper instead.

I think next time, they shall put the poster outside the club, so unintended people who have no idea whats happening can know before hand.

And I just checked the website when I am doing this post, and the information there also was not so obvious, but there is such info, yet people might miss it when the majority part of the poster is not about the info! I did screenshot for that.

What will you take if such things happened to you?

For me it will be: check the website of club you wanna go (the date, the event, the cover charge, the admission age etc), do not anyhow tweeted (althought your DM doesnt work!), and bring your cool friends to accompany you whenever and wherever you are! =.=

Online Society Around Me This Week

This week I received three website invitations-only invitations from my friends. As you expected, google+ is one of it. But seriously, google+ sucks, coz I received 2 invitations from friends, yet I cant get in to it? =.=

What about other 2 websites? Let me tell you about my experiences from those 3 invitations. :)

1. Quora
It was ealier of this week when one of my friend, David Lam, asked me whether I am inside quora or not. Well, I told him that I do not, then ask him what it is about. Then he told me it looks like yahoo-answers format website, but you can get in by invitation only and the people inside are like minded people and also they have their own expertise. Well, isnt it sounds good? Coz you can get answers of your questions from people that is more qualified and you can get to know their profile as well by clicking their name. :)

Apparently after a day, David can get in to Quora. Salute to his efforts in finding right people within his network. So after knew about it I simply asked him to invite me. And here I am inside quora.

2. Senatus
Senatus is one of online media magazine. Well, initally I have no idea that it is by invitation-only, when I browsed their facebook page. But well, when Ms Gwen told me that she will send invitation to both of us, me and Terence, thats the time when I just found out about their invitation only rule. Well I think it aligns with their preposition of branding and their limit for invitations each person is also a great idea I think, because indirectly it showss how influences a person that you invite to society.

So this one is actually one of the channel to become social butterfly? I have no idea about that. :D

3. Google+
Well, as I said earlier, Google+ sucks for me, or maybe they are not really that user-friendly to non-tech-savvy person like myself? I have no idea about that. Since I havent experienced it by myself from my own account so I cant really give any comments about it. (I only browsed from my friend accounts for few minutes).

Well as I told earlier as well that I get invited by 2 friends for this booming trend for a moment, here are the emails invitation from Dea and Terence:

Thanks everyone for your invitations. :)

My Foodblog Exposures On My Internship

Because of above description on SGE website, few days back someone sent me an email to ask about recommended Indonesian food around Singapore. He asked me on behalf of his Indonesian friend who just moved to Singapore.

Well, my first reaction: what? how did the person know my email? After I read his intro then I recalled again, I remembered him vividly. He is one of people that I met during Echelon Day 0 networking dinner. He is not in my name card list that I put previously, because he never gave me his name card. :(

But I am a nice guy (obviously), then I replied to him, which apparently later on he intro me to his friend. Well, on the replied email I put quite some of recommendation places and of course I did free advertising about my foodblog in that email as well! Where there is opportunity, you shall grab it fast. LOL

Below is the print screen of our earlier email

Six Weeks With My Casual Dress At Office

Last week marks my sixth week of my internship, means it is already halfway for me! :)

There are more of fun and learning for me rather than any pains that most of my friends bragged about during their internship. As all of you can read from my earlier post, A Quick Glance About the Author, currently I am doing my internship at SGEntrepreneurs.

Well, basically what I do during internships are quite interesting in my opinions, coz such experiences are the things that I never experienced before in serious manner.

1. Writing
I like to write, but not about news and such. For the past 6 weeks, I have posted more than 20 news articles. Among those 20 news articles, we have 1 new section of article that we plan to publish it periodically: Key Indonesia Startup News (9th Jun edition and 23rd Jun edition). Well, it has nothing to do with I am Indonesian, it just a coincidence. :)

2. Running A Contest
Indeed running a contest is not as easy as it looks. Although you have great idea how it will work, yet executions of your idea are the crucial part here. We had one contest before that I was mainly in charge: Echelon 2011 SGE Ticket Giveaway. The responses that we had during the contest wasnt that bad in my opinion. During the contest, I see the power of social media whereby twitter is more useful than facebook in term of spreading the words about the contest to attract the traffic.

3. E-Newsletter
Well, it is true that I should know about basic html coding when doing wordpress blogging, but preparing E-Newsletter is more challenging. It is really challenge your eyes, but after you get used to with it, then it will be like a piece of cake for you. Initially it took me like half day to prepare it, now if I know all of the content inside the newsletter, it will only take me about 2 hours. :)

4. Networking With Others
This is what I like most during my internship. I have no idea why I like networking, maybe it is my basic nature loves to socialize with others. But as an intern, you will feel like a small fish in ocean (yeah I am the Nemo maybe..haha). But well, I did manage to know some other amazing people, some are written in my previous post: Have You Ever Heard About Echelon?

5. Other Marketing Tools
Well, as I told my employer earlier before I get into the internships, I want to get to know more about marketing stuffs. Well, she is really open and frank about it to me, and she shared to me quite much about the condition and environment at this industry. Gaining a trust results in access of few stuffs where I learn a lot from that. I can say that all of my suggestions regarding marketing strategy is more of by looking though statistics that we have and looks at how the market plays and twisted a bit here and there to differentiate it. Well, I think thats the basic thing we learn from school, but I just experienced it from the past 6 weeks during my internship and I am really enjoy it so much. So far I knew that bit.ly is really useful, then I know also about mailchimp. LOL I am not a tech-savvy, so pardon me if I sound like an old generation. =.=

Well, thats the major things that I've done for the past 6 weeks, not much maybe as other people experiences, but I am really looking forward to the next 6 weeks that I have. And actually I am considering to work part time during school term, since I only have 9AUs for next sem. Meaning I only have 2-4 hours of school from Monday-Thursday, and I am free every Friday for next semester!

If you are aware of the title of this post, it is true that I always wear tees to office, either with jeans, pants or short, depends on my mood and events after office hours. :)

My Freaking Early 21st Birthday Gift!

I have no idea what came up in my friend, Dinda, at that time. She simply gave me freaking early birthday gift! I was not expecting anything really that early! 4 months earlier than my actual birth date? O.o

Well, the bag is really useful for me, because I am really using it whenever I go during my summer internship (my summer internship doesnt require me to be in formal dress). And you know what? My boss even told me that the bag looks nice, but too bad I do not have this brand card name where I can give to her if I had thus she might know where to buy it. :(

Well, I do not mind be marketing guy tho, by simply provide me with the product and I wear it? haha.. :P

Talk about the brand, this brand is actually made in Indonesia. It is handmade, so the quality is better than the mass production by machine and with their competitive price with other brand at the similar class. It is about 70sgd if you buy it in Indonesia, the shipping cost will be waived if you are around Jakarta and Bandung!

Seems like I am promoting this brand? Haha.. Not really, because just want to share with my friends who asked me previously about my bag. Seems like there are few others who were interested as well when saw me used this bag, thats why I simply writting this blog post. Oh for you who want to know more about this brand, simply come to their facebook page: mouton leatherworks.

Oh, not forgetting to say thank you to Ayu Dyani because she was the one who deliver it to me all the way from Indonesia to SG! :)