After more than half a million online votes and over 350 entries received, Aloft and MTV revealed the winners of the second annual Asia Pacific edition of music talent discovery competition Project Aloft Star. The contest aims to identify and support the hottest emerging music artists throughout Asia Pacific, with three competition clusters.

This year’s cluster winners are:

Gusian Yu (China) – View his winning entry.
The judging panel comprised the following representatives from Aloft Hotels, MTV, celebrities and music industry experts:

For Southeast Asia

1. Paras Sharma, Vice President, MTV and Comedy Central Brands and Digital Media, Viacom International Media Networks Asia

2. Vincent Ong, Senior Brand Director, Asia Pacific Brand Management, Starwood Hotels & Resorts

3. Aliff Aziz, a Singapore born singer and actor who won the reality TV singing competition, Anugerah when he was 16 years old, making him the competition’s youngest winner. He is currently working on his fourth album, having just released his current single “Selayaknya Aku”

4. Aziana Ali, General Manager – Marketing, Sony Music Entertainment Malaysia

5. Valent Soisuvarn, Executive Director, MTV Thailand

For China

1. Charles Chan, Creative Director, Head of Content Production, MTV China

2. Master Dong Shan, a pop singer who won multiple newcomer awards when he debuted. His fourth and latest album《四张机》 was released this year.

3. Shan Qi, renowned planner-musician-producer-director who is also known as ‘China Fashion Festival Godfather’

4. Sofia Wong, Hotel Manager, Aloft Guangzhou University Park

For India

1. Bobin James, Head of Programming and Artist Relations, MTV Indies

After winning the #BlogForZovi contest held by Zovi, I got this opportunity to guest blog for the brand. This post is the second guest post I am writing for them. You can read the first one here. In case you are unaware of what I'm talking about, read the winning post.
This blogpost is part of #BlogForZovi held by zovi.com.

After winning the #BlogForZovi contest held by Zovi, I got this opportunity to guest blog for the brand. This post is the first guest post I am writing for them. In case you are unaware of what I'm talking about, read the winning post.

As a part of the prize, I was asked to blog on a specific theme. The theme I  received was "The Spring/Summer look". Since, I am no expert in fashion, I might not meet the expectations you would have made after reading the title. However, I am trying my best, and would love any kind of feedback.

As the title of this post reflects, I had been to Ooty the past weekend. What better place than such a beautiful hill-station to spend time with friends, and also flaunt the new summer look (courtesy Zovi)? (If you are interested in the complete trip details, hop over to my friend's blogpost where he has shared his experience.)

This time, I selected the following items (Thanks Hemanth for helping me choose them) -

Evening Cricket White Graphic T-shirt
Slim Fit Casual Blue And White Checkered Shirt With Welt pocket
Slim Stretch Fit Black Solid Trousers

This time, too, I was happy with their delivery service. Due to my late activity, I placed my order on 17th Feb. But I had to leave for Ooty on 21st Feb, so the max I could afford was to get it delivered by 20th Feb. This is when I tweeted them this:

@zovi Placed an order ( # ZRB9EU) for #BlogForZovi guest-blogging. Can you deliver it by 20th (Friday) of this month ?
— Garg Ankit (@graciousgarg) February 17, 2015

To my surprise,  I received the order the very next day! It was awesome. In this context, I would like to mention that there are tons of brands existing to sell their stuff to you. But, successful are the ones who delight their customer. Zovi does that - delights me every time. Are you aware of the bad experience the guys at Emirates gave me? Read here.

On my way back from Ooty, I got the following pictures clicked (Thanks Bhaskar for clicking them for me) -

If you feel like, go ahead and buy some of the cool stuff that the team at Zovi has to offer, and flaunt in style.

This blogpost is part of #BlogForZovi held by zovi.com.

UPDATE: This blogpost won the third prize in the contest.

We have two bloggers as our 3rd winner @graciousgarg & @amolwagh. Congratulations to both of you :-) Will mail you the details!
— ZOVI (@zovi) February 2, 2015

Other results include:

First prize: @Phantom_Delight (Winning post)
Second prize: @thekopargaonkar (Winning post)
Third prize: Yours truly and @amolwagh (Winning post)


In this modern world of technology, comfort is something one looks up to. The joy of ordering something at the click of a button is immense. One doesn't need to go window shopping in the scorching heat of the sun. Instead, everything can be sought and bought from the chilling air-conditioned room, or from a poolside lawn. And what can be more comfortable than to be able to order the latest fashion trends online. Zovi is one such web service. It offers a wide range of fashion apparels for men and women.

Recently, I got a chance to buy stuff from this website. It's not that I was using their service for the first time. I had once bought a pair of polo t-shirts for office use. This time, I have gone a step ahead, and ordered a few more items.

Let me take you through my shopping experience with them. I selected the following items (Thanks Hemanth and Gaurav for helping me in choosing them) -

Masked Spiderman Graphic T-shirt
Grey Zippered Sweatshirt With Red And Blue Stripes And Hood
Black Canvas Mid Top Sneakers With Contrast Grey And Green

After I was done choosing, the checkout page appeared like this:



As can be seen in the pic above, they were expected to deliver the products by 21st Jan. (Note that I placed the order on 12th Jan.)

I didn't bother much, and proceeded to the order confirmation page, which looked like this:



As you can see, the delivery time was now reduced to 20th Jan (one less day). I was happy to notice the reduction in the delivery time, but was still upset since it was going to take so long. I decided to contact them, and see if it would help. This is when I tweeted this:

@zovi I felt the delivery time is quite large. I just placed an order, and it says it will deliver by 20th! #BlogForZovi
— Garg Ankit (@graciousgarg) January 12, 2015

To my surprise, I didn't get any response! I thought that Zovi, like many others, have a shitty customer support. But, too my surprise, I received my shipment on 16th Jan. This was awesome, because it took them only 3 working days (note that 15th Jan was a holiday) to deliver. I was highly impressed by their service.

A couple of days later, I tweeted them this:

@zovi received my order #BlogForZovi pic.twitter.com/Nq9nvglONr
— Garg Ankit (@graciousgarg) January 19, 2015

And they replied with a retweet:

@graciousgarg Awesomeness, thanks for the update :)
— ZOVI (@zovi) January 19, 2015

After receiving the shipment, I decided to try it on. Below are a few images (Thanks Bhaskar for clicking them for me) -


Model: Yours truly ;)
Image credits: Bhaskar Trivedi Photography
Venue: Lalbagh Botanical Garden, Bengaluru

As you might have noticed, I have bought a cool Spidey t-shirt long with a zippered sweatshirt-cum-hoodie and a pair of sneakers. All this sum up to make a fashionable winter look that I have tried to create. Without the sweatshirt, the look is equivalent to a casual look that one can put on for office wear as well. But since it is the month of January, I decided to also put on a sweatshirt to keep up with the falling mercury.

I like the products. Hope you like them, too!

If you feel like, go ahead and buy some of the cool stuff that the team at Zovi has to offer, and flaunt in style.

This blogpost is part of #BlogForZovi held by zovi.com.