XXX cuteness!

I was just on facebookland and came up on a hong kong friends post.It just shows how each continent is a world of it's own.. The ads is about coca cola's Oasis drink. It's theme is played around with 2 girls one cup but in this case it's 2 japanese girl and one big rubber duck!! Her parents come bashing in scoulding them and telling them to drink water but they want something more and this is where the Drink pops in.. for people who dont like water!! The funny differenc between asia ads and the ads here in europe is that the ones there are always under the cute list. Everything is about being cute. Infact when Harmeet and i went for our 2nd year exchange to Hong Kong, we were traumatised with the ads there at the beginning but that was our mind opener to a whole new world of how people want to see their ads and what makes them get the products!! If they were to do the same here, i just think people will suffering from phycological traumas!! hahah

The great thing about this planet is that everything teaches us something new!

Never too late to learn something new!

When you least expect it..

The new ad for Shangrila Hotels by Ogilvy & Mather, Hong Kong.. holds one message that goes beyond words. It hit our hearts and gives that great feeling of how mankind is supposed to be. Loving each stranger as if they were part of the same family. How wonderful would it be if we returned to that all is one, one is all thinking. That everyone was respected Human, Animal or even a tree?

The commecial shows how in moments of desperation, someone or something will come for our rescue! Maybe a nice hot room, with silky bed sheets at the Shangrila wouldn't be a bad idea.. haha

Portfolio Night 8 Hong Kong

Last night was a night to remember. A night that concluded all the hard work, Harmeet and I have put into our wild portfolio. Days and especially long nights spent hiding in our creative secret place: POLYU school of design computer rooms. Our passion to create ideas that are not just there to make money and make clients happy but the ideas that will stand out and make living better, make life funner!! (Not sure if funner exists as a word) but i sounds good!

5.30pm: We find ourselves arriving at the Portfolio Night 8 event in Hong kong. Excitement fills our bodies as we head to the reception to get our name tags and find out which creative director will get to spy on our portfolio and see whether we have the ''creative sperms in us to give birth to some wonderful baby creations?''

The night was great: meeting so many creative people, getting great advice and not forgetting the yummy food and drinks waiting to get adopted by some hungry mouths!!

There are some lessons are learned for this experience:

1) Have faith in your work before you try explaining it to someone else.

2) Never feel bombarded when someone gives you comments but use it has a ladder to your success tree.

3) Have fun in what you do, no matter what!

Funky Adry on Portfolio website?

Chris Kyme spys on my portfolio

Whisper her!

For our previous Online advertising brief, we had to find an ad and from there create a online ad for that product that would attract people to click it on a website.

I was kind of lost on which one to choose to i opened a chinese newspaper i found lying next to me and the first ad i got was for Whisper's women pads. I thought it was destiny and started to get wild with ideas!

The idea that won first place in my list was to create a kind of game so that not only girls would click it but guys might get curious and might want to play the game and maybe choose the right pads for their girlfriends.

You open a homepage and on the left there is the Whisper Ad in dark blue that will stand out. The trick to grab the viewers attention is the jumping princess who wants to get on the magic carpet..

The viewer will then help her get on the carpet and the carpet takes off and starts the game. Just by moving the mouse left to right, you have to prevent her from hitting the evil starts that represent the tough moments of a woman's menstruation process.

After a while, she will enter a white vortex to end the game and finally the whisper logo appears saying : Whisper, The experience you'll never forget!

Happy CNY, Happy You & I

Last day of the wonderful long university break !! Happy Chinese people who surround the whole Island with their warm, excited hearts as they go to the temples to thank the Gods for fulfilling their prayers from the previous year and ready to dress in their traditional Chinese costumes, Round tables filled with all kinds of wonderful and interesting food like chicken feet popping out of the Chinese bowl. Everyone ready to start the new Tiger year 2010!

The festive season started on the 1st day as we visited a local friend's house and her other friends houses. Sitting happily on the sofa as they kindly served us with 101 plates of typical yummy cakes and unexpected red packets called ''Lai Shi'' which married people give the younger generations as they believe the more you give the more luck they receive! So we went home, that night, with not only a XXXL santa bag full of unforgettable experiences but also with a pocket filled with the weight of many red packets.. Lucky i had a belt, or else many Hong Kong girls would have got an unexpected Chinese new year surprise!! haha

Another very interesting thing that happens only on Chinese new year,besides the Grand Fireworks on the Harbour, is their fascinating Lion Dancing. Two guys get under a lion costume and start doing their lion king thing!! Jumping here and there and finally on their 2 feet, a scroll opens up from their hairy mouths saying GONG XI FA CAI!! which means: Congratulations and be prosperous! The Chinese phrase normally ends with: ''Hong Bao Na Lai'' which means Bring me the Red Packets.. haha Can't say Chinese people ain't smart!

The funniest thing was this morning.. as i woke up with the beep beep sounds of the sms on my phone. I see the words: Happy birthday!! I thought i was living some part of my dreamland movie and found out from my friend that the 7th day of Chinese New Year is the Birthday of Humanity! It's a wonderful to make everyone of us feel united as we get old together!!!

Happy birthday a tout le monde!!

The Hong Kong XXXperience

After many light years, i've returned to funkyadrys planet and ready to continue sharing you guys my wonderful experiences, thoughts, feeling and wild crazyness!

I wake up everyday and still can't believe i actually got the exchange to Hong Kong! I go to towards the windows of my mega galactic student hall's room and just start drooling with excitement waiting to get molested!!

Everything here happens fast.. i mean speedy gonzales fast!! People eating in 5 minutes the off to work, double decker buses that play formula 1 on the road and even the fishes in the amazing harbour swim so fast that the fishermen who spend hours under the caliente sun, don't even get a fillet o' fish! The fun thing about here is that cooking is optional as it's cheaper to eat out.. One food stall to another , we explore hong kong's varied cuisines!! not forgetting it's wild dim sum dishes that crowded the round chinese table. From sea weed, char siew delicasies to chewing gum jelly fishes and the free flow of chinese tea!! Drinking drinking and more drinking!! ( The healthy way) haha

The university experience is amazing! The joy of going into this super xxxxxxl university building and finding a bunch of funny, friendly hong kong classmates that are ready to open our eyes to a whole new experience! The difference between England and here is that everything has to be CUTE !! The girls are cute, the stuff they use are cute and even the ads they like are cute! It's a cute world!!

One thing that really impresses me about my adventure so far are the people and their strong faith! In this fews weeks, beside acting like good student doing productive work, we have been also exploring everything we can get our feet on and one of them are the temples. The feeling as you get into these big volcanic red chinese temples is unbelieveble.. Not only because your lungs gets high from all the incense being lited up as Chinese New Year is around the corner but to see all the chinese people going there to show their appreciation to the Gods for bringing their wishes to them. I was at Hong Kong's most important temple , Wong Tai Sin, and asked some people there about the chinese religious belief system and what i found out was that, every chinese goes to temples to ask for something and just before Chinese New Year of the next year, they have to return to say Thanks to the Gods. I then got curious about why they burn bulks of incenses and found out it was to feed the Gods as it burns and sometime people even burn paper made handphones, cars, houses, cash to feed their love ones up in the sky!

There's still so much to aborb in this spongy adventure!!

Check out the wild pics!