Enterprise Award

I was represented my company to go for our principal Channel Summit in Kuala Lumpur city and received the South East Asia top sales award from the principal last 2 weeks ago. This is my first time to attend such an event and receive such an award. It's a definitely good exposure and experience to me.

The summit was held at a grant hotel in the middle of the city, which the hotel room is impressive. Of course, it is not cheap as well. No doubt, the overall event and workshops were boring to me, as all the sales directors were trying to give marketing talks and statistics to motivate their partners (customer) to sell more. But there are something to learn as well on the other hand, like what are the key point to sell, what is the market direction, etc.

Anyway, my company was awarded with the top sales based on last year revenue performance. It is proud to represent my company to receive this most valuable award, and follow by a media release in the local newspaper. 

IT industry is very competitive, especially for the hardware manufacturer giant like Dell, HP and IBM. They keep acquiring other smaller companies to make them stronger in terms of solution and revenue. For system integrator like us, it may be a good news, as we can sell more under one single solution provider. 

The stiff competition also reminded me that I cannot just stay as where I am today, even though I'm still a lot behind the schedule. I must continuously create value for myself, my company and also the society. It sounds like a never ending tough life. But if you think it has a lot of fun, then it will be. Cheers.

A Trip to Germany (Mar 2012)

I made a business trip to Germany for CeBIT about 1.5 month ago. It was an eye opener for me as this is my first time to Europe.

I have dropped by Munich, Hannover and Berlin cities. All of them have their uniqueness. Munich is a must go through airline transit city, if you are taking Singapore Airline to Europe. The CeBIT was held at Hannover, the largest exhibition center in Germany, where Berlin is just one of the top tourist spot I went there for vacation after CeBIT.

Munich city, you can see Merc, WSG and BMW everywere.

Out of the 3 cities, my favorite city is Munich. The city itself look very rich, comfortable and relax. Germans in Munich are very friendly. The railway and road system are very establish as well. I really like the shopping area. Needless to say, there are a lot of pretty women as well.

Hannover is a small city which has about over 500,000 population. Nothing much in Hannover, but it's a good and relax place for vacation as well while having an exhibition there. I only stayed there for about 2 days.

Berlin, a sad historical city

Berlin is more like a historical place for tourists, where there a lot of hot spots for tourists. I joined the day tour, get to know some other tourists around Europe, and it was having lots of fun.

Overall, it is not a cheap trip, but have great fun and lots of exposure for this trip. Surprisingly, I found not many skyscrapers in Germany and I'm not sure why too. I'm looking forward to visit other Europe cities in the near future.

My coming business trip will be down to Melbourne and Sydney, Australia end of this month, which is my first time too. Looking forward to the trip.

KIA Design Huge Transformation

What a big change for KIA these few years, isn't it?

KIA Cerato, Optima and Sportage. All of these models have 180 degrees changed of design from the previous model! I have seeing a lot of KIA new cars coming out of the road recently, especially Cerato, Optima and Sportage. This really reflects their recent success of their outlook design!

KIA Optima Version 1

KIA Optima Version 2

But why KIA has the ability to change from the ugly design series to so successful design series within such a short period? It's just because KIA's management made a prudent decision of hiring Peter Schreyer as their Chief Design Officer. Peter is well-known for his Audi TT design. 

Now these few models are really cool, we are anticipating more successful outlook models are coming. 

It makes me think of my national car manufacturer, PROTON. My questions are, why PROTON cannot do the same thing? What is the purpose of PROTON existence if it cannot success after so many years? What is the road map for PROTON for the coming 3 to 5 years?