Tuesday, July 29, 2008

IVP - Philips Design Centre

Okay, will make this quick cos I want to go and sleep! Teens, we are so deprived of sleep nowadays...XP
So today for IVP I went for, I would say, a talk at Philips Design Centre. It was all about product designing etc. and the presentation was given by Ms Liz Teh. It was actually quite interesting to know all that even though my brain kinda switched off somewhere while she was talking about the designing process. She got kinda pissed halfway though cos some of us were literally falling asleep (with their heads on the table, eyes closed etc). I could tell when she said,"Maybe it's time for some of you to wake up now and pay attention." Woah, that was like pricking a needle into our skin so those sleeping just jumped up (I didn't cos I was paying attention) and started watching the video.
At the end of it all, there was a Q&A session where I asked a question, though misinterpreted by most. I have absolutely no idea why the rest thought my question was funny, I mean, what part of, "So what you do is find a problem and when you're done with it you just find another problem" funny? But it does lighten up the mood in the tense and gloomy environment :)
We managed to get a peek into their actual workplace eventually. Dude, it was CLASSY! The furniture were all so, well, classy and there were like so many flat screen computers (like huge ones), screens etc. HIGH TECH MAN! It's seriously cool to be able to work there. Managed to peep (from the side) at one of the person's designs that he was working on. It was fantastic! It's like really pretty and all, sort of reminds me of the Hp commercial. But it was really quiet in there. It was rather embarrassing because we were clogging up the whole doorway and there was this guy (he had a nice jacket XP) that was standing around behind us and Jodie went like, "Are we blocking him?" So we made space and he just slipped into the office with a soft,"sorry" and chatted a little with his colleagues over on the technological design side of the room. He could have said "excuse me"...
Working there must be really cool but I suppose I'll never get to have such an occupation. Apparently my left brain is stronger than my right... Ahh! It's so cool!

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