The Malaysian Games and Comic Convention was last weekend and I’ve failed to make it. Regret! All those sweet superhero merchandise, toys, cosplay, comics, gaming news, taun taun & ewok smelling soap and a chance to meet the 501st Legion Malaysia… all hopes are dashed. Only thing to do is suck it up and hang on till next year.

The other reason why I was trying to make it there was because of a bag we sponsored for a contest. It was a brown Bootstrap Origin and the organizers got it decked with illustrations from a few many local comic greats, done is old school marker pen style. Well, the only glimpse we have are a few photos taken by G&B Comics which I’ve screen captured and posted here without their approval. So, big thanks for their snappy camera work and please don’t sue 8). If your in Singapore, I’m sure you’ll check out their store or website http://www.comic.com.sg/ for some superhero awesomeness. Or simply LIKE them on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/GnBcomic.

Lefty of Gilamon (dude holding up the bag) was one of the greats that had illustrated on the bag. With big thanks to the crew of MGCC for allowing us the great opportunity to play a small part in this amazing weekend. We’ll be looking forward to a much bigger participation next year when our operation here in JunkMonkey Central is a little more complete.

Have a super week ahead peeps!

Guest
Ong Ket Wei – http://www.facebook.com/ong7578

Ong’s Liutaio Workshop
http://www.facebook.com/ong7578
http://www.facebook.com/ongliutaio

ConcreteJungle is a search for entrepreneurs of business venture or projects of thought provoking proportion to learn their origin story. Learn about entrepreneurship from the experts.

ConcreteJungle is produced by Greenroom136.

I got to speak with Khai and we got a little too geeky into the world of film making in Malaysia.

Guest
Khairil M Bahar – http://www.khairilmbahar.com

Checkered Past
http://vimeo.com/user2182226
http://www.youtube.com/user/khaimano
http://checkeredpastproductions.yolasite.com/

ConcreteJungle is a search for entrepreneurs of business venture or projects of thought provoking proportion to learn their origin story. Learn about entrepreneurship from the experts.

The project is produced by http://greenroom136.com.

Guest
Iskander Azizuddin – http://www.facebook.com/iskaziz
Feisal Azizuddin – http://www.facebook.com/feisal.azizuddin

Alang Manja
http://www.alangmanja.com
http://www.facebook.com/alangmanja

ConcreteJungle is a search for entrepreneurs of business venture or projects of thought provoking proportion to learn their origin story. Learn about entrepreneurship from the experts.

WOW! Awhile back when we sent over our JunkMonkey Heretic to Carryology.com, we only expected a product review by one of the industry’s dedicated blog on the subject of Carry in hope of pitting our best bag to international standards. We really wanted to see where we stand and how we can be better at our game.

Well, Carryology (like so many instance) came back with more than what we bargained for. The JunkMonkey Heretic was pitted against one of Timbuk2′s (WHAT!!! AGAINST A GOD!) best and frankly, all I ask is that we survive the battle.

The review had given us a gazillion amazing points to ponder on for the next revision and we owe so much to Ando and the folks at Carryology for bringing us this amazing piece. Carryology, thank you!

OK! Back to work!

You can read the review here…

http://www.carryology.com/2012/04/19/bag-review-laptop-messengers/

Scoot is with [i]Store which incidently is one of our resell partners with stores at Digital Mall Sek 14 and Publika.

He just got our new Boostrap Rainmaker which he brought on his trip to Europe. Can’t wait to hear his feedback.

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Hello there,

Got you some pictures for greenroom. Nothing special.. just that it went halfway round the world and back !

Btw, managed to find some ways to enhance your bags. A week with your bag does yield some interesting facts.

Cheers
Scoot

Az Samad is a guitarist, composer and educator. He is one of many influential and inspiring musicians in Malaysia with fans spread out far and wide. On this episode, we speak to him about how he got into the business of making music while he shares a thing or two about how music marketing had evolved through the years because of new tech and social networking tools. Check out his work on his website; www.azsamad.com

JunkMonkey Central
The new office is amazing. Apart from the fact that I don’t need to work from home, the venue offers many opportunities for better scale of production. Not to forget the many venues for some amazing photography. We managed to setup a small little corner for retail. Not like there will be a tremendous lot of people driving all the way to Kajang just for us, but this space allows many opportunities for testing purpose. Fine tuning our approach to retail.

New Website
Our new website is finally up. We’ve been operating on the guise of a blogshop for awhile and as it did help carve the right story about our work, we knew deep inside, to continually scale upwards, we had to one day move away from the blog approach to a more focus approach. That day is now. We are still very much into ConcreteJungle and feels strongly that the podcast is an integral part of our business and community of fans. Perhaps, now I’ll spend more time on fine tuning production value.

Product Development
I’m a big fan of Kaizen culture. And continuous improvement is hotwired inside me. We’re working doubly hard to bring new features to our existing products while at the same time working on new products from scratch. Sigh… if only there were more hours in a day.

Well, its been a good start lately.