It's sales, not marketing.

My interview on Monday was a great disappointment. Turns out that a so-called entry-level marketing position or "Account Executive" is essentially a salesperson, knocking from door to door in a ghetto neighborhood and trying to "market" client's services. Now I know what it really means by face-to-face/direct marketing. I won't fall into the trap anymore.

I'm surprised at the number of these marketing companies out there, all pitching the same idea...like "face-to-face marketing has proven to be most effective for our clients" or "field training strengthens communications skills, emphasizes a good work ethic and develops skills for negotiating with clients". Fortune 500 clients...yes. Sounds too good to be true.

I remember in my 3rd semester in architecture, my instructor always forbid us to say "design" when we were presenting our projects. Because architecture != design. Design = make things beautiful. No, they didn't lie. It's just not my type of architecture.


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In one of the apartments, there was this real sweet baby neko, black and white just like nekochan. Heh wondered if all black and white neko are this sweet.

West Side Story. 8pm.

update:
Hmm...not as cool as I thought. A little disappointed with the songs. I got bored and almost fell asleep at some less interesting parts. >.<

This is GOOD news.

No doubt. It IS good news. Super good news. If it's about music, you definitely got to see it!! Listen.

Threadless submission

Update: As I figured, my design was declined due to too many colors. 5 unique colors only!!



I submitted an entry!

Obviously it's going to be rejected because I've used too many colors! 1, 2...5, 6, 7...argh I can't even count. By the time I realized I am only allowed 5 unique colors with no gradients and no halftones, I was already done with my thing and too lazy to make all the little changes. But since I was done, I just sent it in anyways. So check it out! :)

New Website!

Update: My website needs a new home. It will no longer be hosted at bravehost.net. Apparently, the ad-supported feature is not frames friendly. Screwed me big time. It's still there, so you can see how badly it is. Oh wells, so now back to http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~xwt. Till I find a good, preferrably free, host...

Somehow I was convinced that CMU removed my AFS account (turns out now that that was not the case) so I decided I will find some free web hosting servers online...and perhaps, do a makeover since the current/previous design is really too child-like (not child-ish, and definitely not ugly :p).

So go check out my new website at http://ryantan.bravehost.com. I know the url sounds stupid, but hey that's what you get when you want things free. The website is still being constructed, a lot to be added and tweaked, so stay tune!