{"id":798,"date":"2010-01-15T12:50:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T04:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tzlee.com\/blog\/?p=798"},"modified":"2010-01-15T12:55:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T04:55:10","slug":"first-meetup-for-facebook-assignment-costs-6-wt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/first-meetup-for-facebook-assignment-costs-6-wt\/","title":{"rendered":"First Meetup for Facebook Assignment Costs $6! WT*!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so I went to NUS to meet with my FB Assignment group and parking my car outside COM1 costs me a whopping $6! This is serious daylight robbery. So where should I park? I&#8217;m not exactly familiar with NUS and am probably more <em>suaku<\/em> than the year 1s.<\/p>\n<p>I think my team has a good mix. We have a business guy, an electrical engineer, two <em>partially<\/em> geeky students (I didn&#8217;t make this up &#8211; they told me) and one <em>kaypoh<\/em> (busybody &#8211; that&#8217;s me). So &#8220;good&#8221; a mix maybe I&#8217;m getting a bit stressed out that we might be technically lacking. But don&#8217;t worry. I have faith in you guys. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<p>As a consolation, let me say something. Ugly (probably) sells. Yes, the crappiest, ugliest of all things usually sells well. Don&#8217;t ask me why. Here&#8217;s my observations.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google is ugly, but we use it over Yahoo or Bing.<\/li>\n<li>Gmail is ugly as hell, but we rather use it over Hotmail. (Sidenote: I&#8217;ll give some credit to Yahoo mail here.)<\/li>\n<li>Ebay ain&#8217;t the prettiest of all sites around, but heck it sells like mad.<\/li>\n<li>Facebook is kinda ugly and doesn&#8217;t allow me to customize a hideous pink background like Friendster, but it is the most hit site on the Internet today (don&#8217;t ask me why I know, I&#8217;m not supposed to tell, but I am certain of this fact).<\/li>\n<li>Most blogshops are ugly as hell. If you think they look nice, you need to see doctor. But the funny part? They sell too!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So here&#8217;s my takeaway point. Ugly (probably) sells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so I went to NUS to meet with my FB Assignment group and parking my car outside COM1 costs me a whopping $6! This is serious daylight robbery. So where should I park? I&#8217;m not exactly familiar with NUS&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/first-meetup-for-facebook-assignment-costs-6-wt\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[154,22,150,152,151,96,149,153],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-bing","tag-ebay","tag-facebook","tag-friendster","tag-gmail","tag-google","tag-nus","tag-yahoo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}