Another week gone...so fast, started the week with a bad note, work cocked up the moment i stepped into the office. Something that I made a mistake, well it was something that was caused by my carelessness that i got've to admit.
Back to the week, well wasn't a very hectic week but much to anticipate for next week after news year. Well what the fuck got to party tml haha i want to zouk it haha...haven had a gd time since the last time out at zouk and that was like ermm a mth ago...been real busy with project and office crap.
Well my back still hurts and I am really suffering from the pain, couldn't do gym like usual with the massive weights and stuff had to do things that were really light just for the sake of presenting myself at the gym. What was worse, after my evening run i had to sin by eating a chicken pie from Han's which mummy bought. Damn! Got to stop all these snacking, before i turn fat........night class ending soon, which means start on my portfolio and a rigrious timetable for physical workouts, don't want to look like a fat chunk of meat when I ORD.
Erm got tons of new resoultions, but some impt for myself to note:
1. consolidate a portolio
2. no more fucked ups in my work & my life
3. to paint my room
4. continue the routine training in the gym
5. work harder
6. party more often(allocate more time for that)
7. round up the brotherhood
8. Hope my ache on spine will soon go off
That practically sums up the more important stuff or should I say things that I should take note of. Well they look rather simple but its rather hard to make them happen, thats why they are my priority listees.
With this list I end my log.
Well tml is New Year's Eve.
If anyone is reading this crap
WISH YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR n happy holidays.
Saturday, December 31, 2005
Monday, December 26, 2005
woke up with the ache no more on my spine no more
Back to the said events in IAS, made some good friends, luckily no enemies...haha
Well fruitful it was to have been entertain by some of the industries past heroes, erm one the Lecturer who taught me Integrated marketing, had a rich CV consisiting of his last job in the industry as CHUO SENKO Advertising regional Executive Creative Director and a coupled with a few big MNC agency whom he had worked with abroad in UK and US.
Though it was a brief stint in IAS, the ideas and teaching imparted by them was an indeed inspiring. With a little bit of this and a little bit of that, just gives me a nibble of what advertising is all about.
After all the scary comments given by my lects both in design and marketing, these did not make me sway off the idea of dabbling my foot into the industry, instead it made me more keen in having a taste of what those said truth about the industry really is. I would trully recommend to my friends if any would to consider advertising as their career.
Finally to end what I have to say about the course which would end for me this 21st Jan. Is that I would continue to work harder in reaching my goal:
“Good ideas do not just circulate information.
They penetrate the public mind with desires and belief.”
- Leo Burnett
Here's an ad i saw in a website done by our local agency:
And i think it helped them won the best of show for this year's CCA
Finally all the pain no more gone, it feels that something was stolen from me last night. But thank goodness its something that I wish it has been stolen from me since last week.
Had an excruciate visit to Tan Tock Seng Hospital on friday, it has been almost 6 months now since I last visited TTS. The last time I went there was during my training days back in Training Command.
Well did a check on my ears last week at the walk in clinic there, fuck it was a 2 hrs wait for the doc. When it was my turn lady doc who examine my ears couldn't define the problem to me and so she refered me to the A&E dept, that hell wasted my whole afternoon at the hospital fuck. So this friday decided to make a trip to the A&E dept which the doc there couldn't help me with the problem cause apparently the apparatus that he had was useless, despite the fact that he constantly said it was something small, in the end he refered me to ear clinic. And finally got that damn white stuff extracted out from my ears. Relieved...well from this experince i finally learn that keeping the ears clean is trully important.
Sunday, December 25, 2005
Merry X'mas
hey hey hey....another christmas is ending so that spells the end of the year 2005. Well pretty much getting ready for a new year, wonder what I would do to usher in this new year.
This coming New Year would be one that would be a happy one for most of my dudes who are due for ORD from the crook national serivce, walking into another phase of our life. Am sick of the usual routine life working in the office at the station, it proves to be a place where I practically murder myself, with the constant dumpingof stagnant workfile poured onto me. Guess cobwebs might already have started its growth in my memory bank, well life is just that bad...
Like a wind, my stint at IAS is soon over, with the end of the design module which I will be undergoing a presentation this wednesday marks the end of a chapter in the school of advertising.
Learn alot from my lect Anthon Kiong though he wasn't from some big farking MNC agency but he sure knows his fuck. A Creative men who is able to accept designs that are edgy. Well he talks like and acts like an ah Beng but he defiently isn't 1. The school was defiently an eye opener for me, well always thought I knew the world but after going through just 4 modules in IAS, just tells me how much I stand and more learning and improvment must be made.....in the begining i thought working out an ad was simple....
Its like this chinese saying: "I am like a frog in the well", jing di zhi wa. HAHA
Definetly no regrets signing for a night class there, it integrates all the elements that prepares us for the coming work life(not in deadlines but as in the knowledge thats impart to us as advertisers). Like the very practical scrutinies in life, and for this case our artwork.
Well a good ad dosen't work when you say it works, it has to be proven, facts and figures are what they see in the real world....what is asthetically beautiful dosen't mean it is a hard selling advertisment, you have to prove it.
Don't think you are a designer make you GOD, cause anyone can be a designer. But if you are able to integrate and put yourself in the shoes as a salesman or a consumer, then can you trully understand your client and sell their product. Like many great advertisers they were drifiting on different paths in life before knocking on heaven's path.
Making every second count in this line is very important, crucialness and deadlines are the killer words in briefs that are written by acct dept/ copywriters.
Well too much to be said already/has been said already......
A LATE MERRY XMAS TO ALL...............to continue my chronics on a life at IAS.
This coming New Year would be one that would be a happy one for most of my dudes who are due for ORD from the crook national serivce, walking into another phase of our life. Am sick of the usual routine life working in the office at the station, it proves to be a place where I practically murder myself, with the constant dumpingof stagnant workfile poured onto me. Guess cobwebs might already have started its growth in my memory bank, well life is just that bad...
Like a wind, my stint at IAS is soon over, with the end of the design module which I will be undergoing a presentation this wednesday marks the end of a chapter in the school of advertising.
Learn alot from my lect Anthon Kiong though he wasn't from some big farking MNC agency but he sure knows his fuck. A Creative men who is able to accept designs that are edgy. Well he talks like and acts like an ah Beng but he defiently isn't 1. The school was defiently an eye opener for me, well always thought I knew the world but after going through just 4 modules in IAS, just tells me how much I stand and more learning and improvment must be made.....in the begining i thought working out an ad was simple....
Its like this chinese saying: "I am like a frog in the well", jing di zhi wa. HAHA
Definetly no regrets signing for a night class there, it integrates all the elements that prepares us for the coming work life(not in deadlines but as in the knowledge thats impart to us as advertisers). Like the very practical scrutinies in life, and for this case our artwork.
Well a good ad dosen't work when you say it works, it has to be proven, facts and figures are what they see in the real world....what is asthetically beautiful dosen't mean it is a hard selling advertisment, you have to prove it.
Don't think you are a designer make you GOD, cause anyone can be a designer. But if you are able to integrate and put yourself in the shoes as a salesman or a consumer, then can you trully understand your client and sell their product. Like many great advertisers they were drifiting on different paths in life before knocking on heaven's path.
Making every second count in this line is very important, crucialness and deadlines are the killer words in briefs that are written by acct dept/ copywriters.
Well too much to be said already/has been said already......
A LATE MERRY XMAS TO ALL...............to continue my chronics on a life at IAS.
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
its getting bad
woke up with a sharp pain on my back near the top spine area, well the pain has been ongoing for the past week. Well I think I have injure myself during the sessions spend in the gym.
Was travelling on the train to work as usual, then suddenly i felt an itch on my calf but I dare not scratch it. I consider it as a taboo to do that in the view of the public, it was really very itchy and in the end I just hack with it and started lifting my legs up and scratched it...haha, luckily everyone on the train was like asleep or busy reading newspapers, this saved me from all the teaching in school about personal hygienes and social etiquette.
Pretty sick with all the songs that are in my IPod, I got to get new music to replace the current playlist or should i say add on to the current one, cause walking down that long walkway from YCK station to my station proves to be rather lonely. Nowadays just can't stand the moment of being lonely, thats why i think the music that is playing in my ears are turning monotenous.
Spend the last two days out of station, travelling back and fro from police cantoment complex with the usual NSmen's promotion documents.
Well early next year I will take on a role that I think would be a tougher challange for me which I will undertake and shoulder heavier respondsibilities. Which is like adding more spice into a pot of hot curry that is looking red hot already. With more important functions and events happening next year, I will have to be more vigiliant in my work...I hope I can, but I just can't help it but to think that its just too much for me to take it, I wish there was someone who could share my stress or at the least let me pour out my feelings.
Ermm tml is another day at work again, IPPT(Individual Proificiency Physical Test) for the NSmen which I will be the tester again. I am multi tasking everyday with so many job scoopes to cover, I wish at times I had more brain cells, more arms and fingers that could cater to the needs of my job, erm ya maybe I should just ask that for my christmas present this year from that good ol santa....haha just joking.
Well farhan is going for his physical training instructor course which starts at the beginning of Jan 06, being the alumni of the course Din and I gave him tips on how to cope with his fitness and endurance during the course.
Well the back is really killing me got to end this chronic. Friday will be a day off for me haha again, but this time round got to go to Tan Tock Seng Hospital to check on my ears, and then if time allows I want to get my RED Wings...hahahaha maybe I will blog again on christmas eve, if i've got the time.
Was travelling on the train to work as usual, then suddenly i felt an itch on my calf but I dare not scratch it. I consider it as a taboo to do that in the view of the public, it was really very itchy and in the end I just hack with it and started lifting my legs up and scratched it...haha, luckily everyone on the train was like asleep or busy reading newspapers, this saved me from all the teaching in school about personal hygienes and social etiquette.
Pretty sick with all the songs that are in my IPod, I got to get new music to replace the current playlist or should i say add on to the current one, cause walking down that long walkway from YCK station to my station proves to be rather lonely. Nowadays just can't stand the moment of being lonely, thats why i think the music that is playing in my ears are turning monotenous.
Spend the last two days out of station, travelling back and fro from police cantoment complex with the usual NSmen's promotion documents.
Well early next year I will take on a role that I think would be a tougher challange for me which I will undertake and shoulder heavier respondsibilities. Which is like adding more spice into a pot of hot curry that is looking red hot already. With more important functions and events happening next year, I will have to be more vigiliant in my work...I hope I can, but I just can't help it but to think that its just too much for me to take it, I wish there was someone who could share my stress or at the least let me pour out my feelings.
Ermm tml is another day at work again, IPPT(Individual Proificiency Physical Test) for the NSmen which I will be the tester again. I am multi tasking everyday with so many job scoopes to cover, I wish at times I had more brain cells, more arms and fingers that could cater to the needs of my job, erm ya maybe I should just ask that for my christmas present this year from that good ol santa....haha just joking.
Well farhan is going for his physical training instructor course which starts at the beginning of Jan 06, being the alumni of the course Din and I gave him tips on how to cope with his fitness and endurance during the course.
Well the back is really killing me got to end this chronic. Friday will be a day off for me haha again, but this time round got to go to Tan Tock Seng Hospital to check on my ears, and then if time allows I want to get my RED Wings...hahahaha maybe I will blog again on christmas eve, if i've got the time.
Monday, December 19, 2005
time to take a breathe
Time to speak my unruly life which i think is rather true....been thinking so much though the date till it ends is still seemingly far. Well 11 more months to go, I would say its fair enough that I am making my plans.
Ermm is all this thoughts what you call mid-life crsis, if it is its really pain in the arse. Hahaha....
Looking at Tong's blog, hes been travelling non-stop around the region taking photos...well thats what I call good life, comparing myself to him who is still pitifully stranded in a job that I was force to undertake, shouldering responsibility that i have no background knowledge, diagnosing symptoms of the illness in the job scope like a doctor that hasn't been certified. Well you can't blame me if anything were to go wrong cause I tried my best to accomodate to what they require of me, very often i think that my term of good is just not enough for my masters.
Sometimes I wish life in NS could be a little bit more fun, with a bit more spice added to its already colored substance that is still kepping it alive.
Well it was a rather sad week, cause a collegue's father had just passed away from throat cancer, its the 2nd friend whose dad passed away. Why is all this happening, its already a curse to be in NS and all this just adds on to the sorrow.
Well think i hurt my spine while working out in the gym, but still I am working out...(I am just vain) no la! Thats the only time I get to work my body muscles and not rest them for too long.....cause sitting on that big chair in the office just makes me feel fat, I promise myself that after the whole ordeal in NS I will still remain in TIP TOP condition. So gym sessions and occassional 2 - 5km runs are still a routine for me.
Work is never ending for me after a work is clear new ones just happen to be pile up in front of me. Mondays are the worse days its a killer, got to handle so much stuff for the PNSmen...from logistics to their basic essential needs for their reservist. I feel so much like a nanny at times, got to take care of their uniform, their Fitness cause I am a fitness instructor and also their schedule. Everyday in the office I am learning to be a better multi tasker, everyday proves to be a challange for me, if I am able to get pass a day it means I have reach a new level. Cheesy it may sound but its rather a fact.
Ermm is all this thoughts what you call mid-life crsis, if it is its really pain in the arse. Hahaha....
Looking at Tong's blog, hes been travelling non-stop around the region taking photos...well thats what I call good life, comparing myself to him who is still pitifully stranded in a job that I was force to undertake, shouldering responsibility that i have no background knowledge, diagnosing symptoms of the illness in the job scope like a doctor that hasn't been certified. Well you can't blame me if anything were to go wrong cause I tried my best to accomodate to what they require of me, very often i think that my term of good is just not enough for my masters.
Sometimes I wish life in NS could be a little bit more fun, with a bit more spice added to its already colored substance that is still kepping it alive.
Well it was a rather sad week, cause a collegue's father had just passed away from throat cancer, its the 2nd friend whose dad passed away. Why is all this happening, its already a curse to be in NS and all this just adds on to the sorrow.
Well think i hurt my spine while working out in the gym, but still I am working out...(I am just vain) no la! Thats the only time I get to work my body muscles and not rest them for too long.....cause sitting on that big chair in the office just makes me feel fat, I promise myself that after the whole ordeal in NS I will still remain in TIP TOP condition. So gym sessions and occassional 2 - 5km runs are still a routine for me.
Work is never ending for me after a work is clear new ones just happen to be pile up in front of me. Mondays are the worse days its a killer, got to handle so much stuff for the PNSmen...from logistics to their basic essential needs for their reservist. I feel so much like a nanny at times, got to take care of their uniform, their Fitness cause I am a fitness instructor and also their schedule. Everyday in the office I am learning to be a better multi tasker, everyday proves to be a challange for me, if I am able to get pass a day it means I have reach a new level. Cheesy it may sound but its rather a fact.
Friday, December 16, 2005
hit me part II
Well finally got to blog again. I know whether i put in another entry anot at the end of it, it would still be read by myself...hahaha. But as promise and a promise to myself that is I've got to finish up the chronicle that I left out from the last entry, about my trip to genting though it has been pass for like a god damn 1 month, but well it would be interesting to read my experince up there and hopefully through out the whole entry there won't be that much grammatic errors.
Ermmm where was I where did I last stop....oh ya, about the recce when i reach genting I think I was still not able to adjust to climate there and the dizzy spell just got on to me, I couldn't explain how it came about but it was rather bad, at some points I almost blacked out, so in the end didn't do much recce with Vincent just got ourselves each a set of burger king meal and happily set back to our rooms to take a rest. For that first night there, we practically did nothing much but just use up all the complimentary tickets that the hotel had given to us, was suppose to catch a movie but at the end of it everyone was too tired and many of us upon reaching there own rooms, just drop dead on their beds and were reluctant to get up.
On the second day, everyone got revitalise from a good night sleep and were pretty much hyped up for the KL trip, which our officer SSSGT Hock Lee has promised to take us around. He was definetly the man for the job, hes been to KL and genting numerous of time, often I ponder if hes not a police officer he could just switch job and work as a tour guide...hey hes got the potential ok but well i guess hes got higher aspirations then just being a silly tour guide whom i have always thought as someone who stands infront of a bus trying to get everyone's attention and no ones listening(pretty sad case).
Well after lunch we set off for our trip to KL, we took a cable car from the highlands to a bus terminal at the foot of the hill. From there we each paid 3 bucks for a bus trip which was 1 hour to a bus terminal in KL. When we got there, we were really fortunate to have Hock Lee around, he brought us to a some train station which look very very similiar to our LRTs in choa chu kang, Nasri, Adrian and I were very keen in visitng the Menara Tower, to the 3 of it was like if we are in KL its an attraction that we can't miss....hehe well the view up there was indeed amazing we could see the whole city compared to westin stamford it really proved that why we are that small in the map. Though the weather that day wasn't that good but it was well worth it as the sight was rather breathe taking and it just blew our minds apart.(too exaggerating) After the visit there we went to times sq, the so called biggest shopping arcade in KL well it is about 10 - 14 stories high, but i could tell you its nothing fantastic and there is nothing much in there, all the high end stores are all located at the 1st and 2nd floor of the building and there isn't any high end fashion labels there, I don't know if its me as a singaporean who has a different taste in fashion or are the fashion trend down there too outdated. There wasn't anything that caught my eyes though i brought enough cash and initailly had the idea of getting some apparel back, but well the things sold there just turns me off, espcailly when my friend wanted to get a swatch watch and the only boutique in this giangantic shopping happen to be closed down. Well shop and ate till around 9 plus bought some supplements from a supermarket at the mall and Din suggested with drop by the red light district there. But fuck i tell you for this we had to rush back to the cable car terminal cause the terminal closes at 2330hrs. We board a cab in times square, I tell you the cab service in malaysia sucks and its we waited for around 20 mins for a cab and the drivers there even after paying a standard tickets we still had to bargain with the fucking cabby driver....fuck shit.
Well in the end we reach the cable car station in time and caught a cable car up to the hotel, the trip up in the cable car was really an experince many of times throughout the journey we could hear lots of different sounds and the cable car was swaying vigrousily from left to right cause the wind was blowing hard on us, it was really scary balls shrink our tone of voice changed as well, I could see eveyone having a hard time swallowing their last bit of saliva after the last sentence through the conversation before. But still we made it safely back to the hotel, had a good rest and prepared ourself for Home....
Ermmm where was I where did I last stop....oh ya, about the recce when i reach genting I think I was still not able to adjust to climate there and the dizzy spell just got on to me, I couldn't explain how it came about but it was rather bad, at some points I almost blacked out, so in the end didn't do much recce with Vincent just got ourselves each a set of burger king meal and happily set back to our rooms to take a rest. For that first night there, we practically did nothing much but just use up all the complimentary tickets that the hotel had given to us, was suppose to catch a movie but at the end of it everyone was too tired and many of us upon reaching there own rooms, just drop dead on their beds and were reluctant to get up.
On the second day, everyone got revitalise from a good night sleep and were pretty much hyped up for the KL trip, which our officer SSSGT Hock Lee has promised to take us around. He was definetly the man for the job, hes been to KL and genting numerous of time, often I ponder if hes not a police officer he could just switch job and work as a tour guide...hey hes got the potential ok but well i guess hes got higher aspirations then just being a silly tour guide whom i have always thought as someone who stands infront of a bus trying to get everyone's attention and no ones listening(pretty sad case).
Well after lunch we set off for our trip to KL, we took a cable car from the highlands to a bus terminal at the foot of the hill. From there we each paid 3 bucks for a bus trip which was 1 hour to a bus terminal in KL. When we got there, we were really fortunate to have Hock Lee around, he brought us to a some train station which look very very similiar to our LRTs in choa chu kang, Nasri, Adrian and I were very keen in visitng the Menara Tower, to the 3 of it was like if we are in KL its an attraction that we can't miss....hehe well the view up there was indeed amazing we could see the whole city compared to westin stamford it really proved that why we are that small in the map. Though the weather that day wasn't that good but it was well worth it as the sight was rather breathe taking and it just blew our minds apart.(too exaggerating) After the visit there we went to times sq, the so called biggest shopping arcade in KL well it is about 10 - 14 stories high, but i could tell you its nothing fantastic and there is nothing much in there, all the high end stores are all located at the 1st and 2nd floor of the building and there isn't any high end fashion labels there, I don't know if its me as a singaporean who has a different taste in fashion or are the fashion trend down there too outdated. There wasn't anything that caught my eyes though i brought enough cash and initailly had the idea of getting some apparel back, but well the things sold there just turns me off, espcailly when my friend wanted to get a swatch watch and the only boutique in this giangantic shopping happen to be closed down. Well shop and ate till around 9 plus bought some supplements from a supermarket at the mall and Din suggested with drop by the red light district there. But fuck i tell you for this we had to rush back to the cable car terminal cause the terminal closes at 2330hrs. We board a cab in times square, I tell you the cab service in malaysia sucks and its we waited for around 20 mins for a cab and the drivers there even after paying a standard tickets we still had to bargain with the fucking cabby driver....fuck shit.
Well in the end we reach the cable car station in time and caught a cable car up to the hotel, the trip up in the cable car was really an experince many of times throughout the journey we could hear lots of different sounds and the cable car was swaying vigrousily from left to right cause the wind was blowing hard on us, it was really scary balls shrink our tone of voice changed as well, I could see eveyone having a hard time swallowing their last bit of saliva after the last sentence through the conversation before. But still we made it safely back to the hotel, had a good rest and prepared ourself for Home....
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)