I realised it has been so long since I last updated my journal. The reason is probably attributed to two main reasons; firstly I did not have any data plan to my iPhone which made it hard to update on the move as I usually do, and second, I started work just about the time I did my last post.

So many things have happened in the last four to five months. It's quite amazing that I have left national service for quite a while and moved on with my life. Towards the end of the term, I did ask God for peace and rest since I have been working so hard in the last five years - school, working freelance simultaneously and proceeded for enlistment to the army. God was good because He allowed me two months of rest and provided where it was required.

Close to two months of rest and after few rounds of job applications, I landed myself a job in a boutique Public Relations (PR) agency. Well, it started out as an internship because they were not very sure if I was suitable for the job. After two months of slogging long hours and diving head first into several projects, I was eventually moved into a two-month temporary staff contract. Well my bosses and senior management was relatively satisfied with my performance. Eventually, they offered me a full-time position as a PR executive. I was delighted! Come on, slogging so hard with an internship or temporary staff allowance was not the best way to justify my hard work. I began to realise that my role was not just as an executive, I was also a scribe, administration assistant, close-to-being-a-PA and almost anything you can think of. I was the saikang warrior (you do everything and anything!). The turnover rate was high and many had come and gone.

In the last five months, I also turned twenty-two. Funny, I barely had the opportunity to post photos and felt ill during that time of my birthday. It sucked to the core and unfortunately, the agency did not practise birthday offs.

I also met my now-partner whom I got visually acquainted in late August at a friend's birthday party. Shy and coy, we did not dare to approach each other at the party. We went out briefly and soon started dating and became partners. I have always believed that love should not be too difficult. It was definitely the works of God and His blessings in our lives that we met and were the right fit for each other. We both have our idiosyncrasies but I do not think that would stop us from being with each other.

Sophia, my dear best friend, came home and was looking for a job. Initially, I was rather reluctant to introduce her to the small agency. There was not really much nice things to say about work, but then again the start of working adult life was and will always be hard. I prayed and understood that having my dear friend in the same work place is not so bad afterall. Althought we were not really working with each other, we are always a constant support for each other in bad and good times. If there were things we learned in the last five years being best friends, we probably had know it then.

So today, here I am with new names and projects to my portfolio and resume that I can be proud of. Sheer hard work and keeping myself out of the rut seems to be one of the important things that I have to keep up with.

I need more photos in my blog. Ha ha! Unlike Sophia, I'm not so much of a fashionista in the office. How exciting can shirt and pants be right?

Till then.

immadrawing ... proposals, timelines, media releases, emails and bitchy msn messages.
(technically I do not have time to draw much. its typing and words, which I'm not very good at FYI)

whoa. this whole week since i came back from bangkok has been a busy busy busy busy busy week. fine i dont have assignments to complete and family members coming to visit, but i do have a new baby nephew! he was born on 1 june at 2158hours. how cool is that right? i have been spending my days either babysitting my three year old stubborn niece who refuses to listen to me (because i seem to be the fierce one around, either that or she just wants some attention now that her parents have their hands filled with a new baby boy) or making sure baby nephew had milk for breakfast and put to sleep while my sister enjoys her post-natal massage. this is only because my brother-in-law has to go back to work. it seems that their welfare and leave policy sucks because i remember in the army, even daddies get a period of paternity leave to take care and enjoy their newborn. heh.

anyhoo. the first week is over, i think next week should be less stressful for me. i need to concentrate on getting a job. if you havent heard, i got rejected by my one and only application because the company decided to change their hiring direction. after waiting for almost four weeks, they informed me that they would want to hire a brand manager and not a brand executive. since that is the case, i totally dont qualify. if you see this post, please pray for me. need more doors to open and eventually a good news.

patience and not falling apart is the key to this challenge. its absolutely about trust in God that He will make things happen.

hello you! i'm typing this entry as i am waiting for my clay mask to dry and do its magic and listening to britney spears single "if you seek amy" on the background right now. currently posting this entry from bangkok, thailand! i had so much fun in the last 3 days, especially hanging out with Adri, Thomas, Gerry & Joel. they are such a funny and fun bunch to hang out with. we partied, ate, walked and shopped tons!

well photos will be up on facebook or here when i return from bangkok.



immadrawing ... flashing lights in the clubs

just a little marker that i have been jobless for more than 2 weeks now. but i'm still a happy man (note: man, because i am no more a boy as i have finished my service in the army. hahaha!) because the Lord has allowed me to rest. He, too, has allowed me to enjoy myself by catching up with close friends and spending quality time doing nothing. heee. i am BLESSED. just photos from my little outing with my god sis, jasmine. we hung out after church because she wanted to check out bags at miumiu. so we had lunch and dessert which made both of us happy! desserts make people really happy! they are one of the best things in the world, after love. lol

i figured i actually miss shopping. weird right? this fashionista (as so my friends call me, but really i'm actually an innocent art & fashion admirer! =D ) making such a confession. well maybe when i have a job and more money, i would definitely love to shop. i saw so many things that i like (well i think i like.. lol)  or could use when i start work.. like a Jack Spade tote or a new pair of shoes... or some new shirts! lol.

please pray that offer details would be completed this week before my bkk trip this thursday. thankews lubchews muchmuch!

well Valerie is leaving tomorrow, so i'm a little sad. i mean i get to see her once a year, NOT ENOUGH i must say. well i havent uploaded our photos yet, i better do it soon. gonna missssssyouuuuuVVVAAAALLLLLLLLL!

because saaaa-laaaa-laaaaahhhh bought me a lil gift from melbourne, i made an attempt to take a sexy photo and upload it here. HURRR. sa-rahrah... thankews. i lubitandchews too. =D

XOXO


 

dedicated specially for Valerie!

i know its really awesome that she is back from far far away, a place called Calgary in Canada.so i got to meet her when she was back (pardon me it was almost a week ago. heeeee!). so shanee, sandee, val and i got the chance to catch up over cold rock ice-cream @ holland v.

"val sweetie, it's really great to see you again. although its just once a year, for now. ;) praying that you will get well soon. you are such fun and a unique individual, i'm so happy to see you have grown up so much. glad to have you back.. lots of hugs & kisses."

ice-cream to make your day,  sir?

valerie with the MIA "lovebirds" crew - sandee & shane

fizzles&val: feels good to be back eh? =D



xoxo




PS : pardon the photo editing. due to poor exposure some had to be edited and done pretty late. Zzzzzz. enjoy peep-os.

Officially, it has been 1 week since I ord-ed. My sincere apologies for this late post. It's been one hell of a week of catching up with friends in a giant-ass net and celebrating with others my ord. I've been having such an awesome time although sammie&sophie aint here in Singapore. Please come home soon you girls. Missing you tons.

Well Valerie is here though, photos will be up tomorrow as I have to turn in early for a volunteer session tomorrow at 7am.

I would think it would take a while to get used to this civilian life after being in it for 1year and 10months. It takes a while to get used to not feeling guilty about waking up late. These past couple of days, I have been waking up later than 10am, which is by far the later timings I have had. Even when I go partying, I would usually sleep latest 4pm and wake up at about 10am. Now, I sleep about 2am and wake up at 11am or WORST, 1.45pm yesterday. Talk about timings! We had a little pot luck gathering at Sandee's for Val. Shane&Sandee gladly cooked for us all and it was delish! After that, we all went to watch Angels & Demons. Man! I really really liked it. I mean, I'm not a fan of mysteries and clues searching (blame it on my attention deficit problem) but hey it was really good. Vatican City is sooo pretty; makes me want to go there for a really long holiday! Well anyhoo, we ended up late about 1145pm, which I did not have to worry about waking up early the next day. Thus, accompanied Rahrah to the bus stop as she was meeting Adri and went for supper. Woot! Yes! READ: SUPPER. I only got home, washed up and ready for bed at 2am and slept till the afternoon 1.45pm. I had to applaud the rain the early afternoon because it created such a nice weather to sleep in. ILOVESSSIT! ;) According to Nic, I only got up after 2pm. So whatever right... I'm just bumming around. Ha ha. Nic and I went for breakfast+lunch+dinner at LJS because we could not decide on where to eat at about 4ish in the evening. Guess what I did after I got home! I went to ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZzzzzz from 6pm to 9pm. Yeah. HAHAH! WOOOOTTT! I love it. Ha Ha Ha!

Enough of my sleeping disorder rantings. I'm still waiting for my job offer to come in this week. So please pray for good news!

XOXO

i dont know why it keeps happening to me, but i keep losing all my bookmarks on firefox. it's either when i open safari all my firefox bookmarks disappear and i cant restore them either, or when i update my iphone. its kinda getting to me because i need all the info on that bookmarks, sometimes really cool info that you refer to for work or get inspirations from. urghh. i really wonder why it keeps happening. geezh!

the weather in singapore has hit a minimum of 33 degrees. boy thats HOT! so hot it is always annoys me. argh. but its good cos it makes me wanna stay in my trunks and soak at the pool! ahahahhaa.

well, an update after a week of activities. i've been so packed with deadlines and events, finally i'm counting down to 7-teen days to ORD!! i must say i am getting really excited about ord-ing. its been such a long while and i'm ready to get back to my civilian life. my branch office ended out chalet cohesion yesterday, and i am glad that we received good feedback and compliments over the success of the event. glad that all went smoothly and everyone was happy! (: objectives met, so i better get an outstanding for my certificate of service. HAHAHA!

my interview last tuesday was postponed to first week of may as the regional marketing manager has to go away and wont be back till first week  of may. so i do suppose they would call me for an interview scheduled sometime around that time.

horror highlight this week has to be the corruption of my presentation file for the interview. although the interview was postponed, i still had to submit the presentation slides to the brand manager. story goes: the day before, i had plugged my thumbdrive (and stupid me did not back up the slides) into my camp laptop. due to security guidelines, they had to unlock the thumbdrive. to my horror, on the day of submission, i realised that all my files in the thumbdrive became corrupted! my heart just sank and i immediately pressed the panic button. trying to recall the entire presentation content, boy it was such a stressful time for me. but i'm glad it's over, i tried my best to submit before the end of the day. i hope they are impressed with the slides. (:

well all of you out there with exams over or assignments due, please work smart. remember to take a break and enjoy yourself.

xoxo

since I was at the library to pick the books from my project with NLB, i figured i might as well borrow some art books to keep me occupied till end of this month. after 30 minutes trying to select the better ones, i found these four below. quite happy, because one is on art history (which many of my design seniors feel that every designer should know their art history!), two on typography and lastly was design for communication.

imma pretty eggcited as I am counting down less than 30 days to the end of this business in the national service. busy clearing all my junk so that I can hand my stuff over to the next clerk and my supervisor. i am actually nice enough to 'clear' my stuff before leaving, many just dump their stuff to the one next in line. so my understudy is actually quite grateful.

for those busy mugging their days and nights away for the exams, i too shall pretend to mug on these books and integrate new skills in my head and talent.

if you have been overseas or simply ignorant and not heard that UNIQLO is out in Singapore, well it's out. i own 2 pieces from UNIQLO, a pair of really leghuggingsticktomyass skinny pair of jeans and a pretty grey sweatshirt jacket both from Japan. so the girls decided to check out Tampines One, a new mall next to Tampines MRT station, we had lunch there and checked out UNIQLO.

PS: its a pretty small place with a million people, which kinda annoys me because i dont like much crowds esp in a small mall. freaks me out a lil and makes me wanna go home. took some shots of the new UNIQLO store and extremely long queue. I like UNIQLO, but now that it is Singapore, it breaks my heart. ): American Apparel, here I come. (maybe, i like my kelly green slim fit nylon tafeta pants which i wanna get!)

Since today is Easter Day (Christians celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ after his crucifixion on Good Friday,) i wanted to share my testimony of God in my life. The same testimony i shared during the Good Friday session at Dy's place.

My cell and I had an awesome Good Friday harvest at my cell leader's place. Themed "Jesus Loves You!", we sang worship songs and watched about 25 mins long clip from The Passion Of Christ. Touched by the love of God, I cried during the presentation of the clip. Hee. Just want to thank my cell leader, Dy and his wife, Kai Yun for leading in the session. I was glad to be used by God, in hopes lives were touched. And we had nasi lemak for dinner! Well I had a lot of nasi lemak, because I love nasi lemak. HEE! However, everyone was so fast I didnt manage to capture photos of the nasi lemak... OH well! ehehehe!