Sunday, November 23, 2008

Back from class gathering.

I cant believe it, we actually had it in a FOOD COURT? Unbelievable. And whats even more unbelievable...having known each other for years, we have never ever ate together in a food court before. This is the first time.

WOW.

Alrights anyways, I'm still veeeerrry awake, with thanks to that Cafe Mocha in Haagen Daaz, while my body is dozing away, thanks to that Tequila mix beer. That might result in me typing rubbish at this hour, I'll re-read my blog by Monday and remove crapz (if any)....


5 minutes after Zicheng met us. We havent met for months!
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My hp cam is not that bad u know, at least u guys still have heads.
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We were taking snaps with two different cams at the same time, that explains his eyes.
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Esplanade's lightings are so much nicer than Orchard's! Its a glowing royal shade of blue, beautiful. I'm so sick of the candies sweeties at Orchard, especially that family of awful looking wierdos on top of the ERP. Urghz.


I think Zicheng agrees with me.
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Oh btw, we were at Esplanade's Haagen Daaz. I brushed past Carolina without recognizing her!


The pretty and getting prettier girls. I missed out Huimin! Heard that she's using Garnier lightening cream and it really works, her face is bright healthy-white.
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The German will shake their heads if they know that you are having Caffe Latte at this hour girl.
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No matter how I slurp it in,my face still looks bigger than mickey cheng's.
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More pictures will be posted at Dengli's site (go Influences>Dengli). We had a really short chill at Paulaner (over at Millenia Walk), I like that beer! Taste easier than Budweiser, but it only took me few sips to get heavy-headed. I told Gwen that I dont really see the need in improving on my alcohol, I'm having second thoughts about it now.....

Hmmm. Its actually a wierd combination today, missing out in action for quite some time since the last girl's meet up, and then Zicheng popping out of nowhere, and then so many love stories from here and there. But its all so sweet, to grow up and talk about the past, laugh about stupid crushes, debate about love approaches and even, to talk about Recession. I remembered I did really badly for a history test in my sec days, I wrote crap (really crap) for an answer to the question "Explain the causes and effects of Wall Street Crash.".

I thought Wall Street was a street name. And I thought the street , literally, crashed. So I wrote something like, buildings crashed, cars damaged, many people suffered in the scene...bullshit like that scored me 2 points. 1 point for writing my name and 1 point for "many people suffered", which turns out to be true. What a nice teacher I had.....she called me up to her desk and asked if I studied for my test. It was plain obvious that I didnt even flipped a page of the textbook.

And now. Less than 10 years after that paper, we are facing with the Wall Street crash. Again. Wow. I've heard Recession twice in my life, one in 1997 in Hong Kong (back then I didnt really know what it meant) and then one more time few years back. And its back again, our old friend. I'm calling Sandy every day to check if she's being retrenched, papers said that Citibank are removing employees off their list, erm, basically thats what happening to ALL the banks in the world.


Earlier this month, we are so affected. Our office line didnt ring for the entire day. Freaked me out. Started to call all clients, even those that I didnt really wanted to talk to ever again, to check on the happenings in the industry. Some earned by loaning out studios, many complained that its so quiet, some (might as well) went on holidays. Thanks to Lehman brothers, the big pockets have no $$ now, and therefore have no $$ to advertise, and therefore no jobs for us.

Fortunately, projects start reviving last week, seems like the big pockets decide to get something to assure the public everything's under control, trying to win back the hearts....its a good thing for us *v*


Been down for the Isetan Launch for their Men level on Thursday. Its major-er than we thought!

My client was such a sweetie to entertain us and introduce us to everyone she sees, even our competitor agency -_-. Ha.

They serve great canapes and, though Ana said that its cheap wine, I've never seen her with an empty glass for more than a minute.
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Gwen had 6 glasses! (While me and giena sipped orangina....)


The fashion show itself was on the Escalator. Nothing new in Taiwan and Hong Kong, but not all shopping centres in Singapore have as good a layout of flight as Isetan Scotts.
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Ana and Camila.
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Sunday, November 09, 2008

Blogged on 9th November, edited today

Its Sunday and I'm at work. IM AT WORK!





Woke up early 530am in the morning, the rain is thumping against the window, such a wonderful Sunday morning for sleepers. Aw. Force myself into the shower and 715 Im at Park Mall. Checked in my Yoville, earned my $$ and off we went to Sentosa for outdoor shoot.




Sand's wet. Sun's not out. Other than that, everything is cool. Especially the girl we are working with, Jennifer is a cute funny darling. She was so excited when she saw the merlion la! It is really strange to be in Sentosa at such an early hour...family yawning and stoning from their tents, golden retrievers chasing each other, empty shore, empty KM8.



Went over to No Signboard for lunch. But believe it or not, Gwen and I werent really happy over that meal. -_- Erm, except for the red wine?

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The same pic I posted in newstation, check out my shoutouts there.

I hope he doesnt read my blog, but if if iiiiif he did, I'm gonna say it anyway --- I'm totally disgusted by the photographer. Eww. I thank him for his effort, I admire his ability to produce such tasteful pictures, but excuse me sirrree, I'm really turned off by you.

Rushed back to the agency right after our lunch. Gwen was really high, thanks to all red wine, but the temperature in Park Mall drowns all high spirits. Mr Park Mall Management, please have a heart and turn on the air con on Sunday! All of us, including the models, the model's parents, blah blah blah were suffocating inside the small little studio, fighting for oxygen.

Well I cant upload all the pics for show, but this is what I can reveal at the moment...

Dying of the heat in the small room...gathering around to see the pics
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Forgive me for the shark clip, its Sunday!
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Trying to get the right pose...
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Poor girl, the spotlight is a heat transmitter!
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Doing up the props...the Matrix Evelyn and No-eye Wendy.
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Taking secret snap at Aimee, but she's too camera sensitive~
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Im hooked up with Pearly Soya recently...the icy-drink turned warm once I stepped into Park Mall.
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We all love Toki Doki. (the name of the brand of the fan)
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Changing background again...
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Giena looks bored cos she's broke in Yoville...
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And behind the scenes for another calendar shoot day...

The Pinochio bow tie.
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Guess who's the photographer??
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Checking out the pics...
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What am I laughing at? And there goes the tokidoki fan again....
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Gwen The Ballerina...
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Kungfu Ballerina I meant.


Its not everyday when Keith gets so mum....
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I've been dragging to post this post for 2 weeks, omg! There are loads of pictures, but cant upload it at the moment cos our calendar is not out yet. We are all anticipating for it, hope that the printing company dont screw it up (cos thats what happened last year).

Company events has seems to be part of our weekly routine. Last week's Front Row S/S Collection 09 at Old school was SOTIRING. I had never imagine myself climbing the Great Walls of China IN singapore. We walked over to The Cathay, climbed that crazy flight of stairs that really made me and Gwen cry...in heels, my dear, 3 inch heels. Urghz.

And to top it off.....NO AIR CON. Everyone was sweating like mad, and its so tough to look good when you are all wet. -_- The show was oookkkaaay, am not very impressed with the designs but its always good to see Singapore Fashion Scene building up. *Gweeeeen! Singapore is NOT dying you know!*

The best thing is, there were so many people that shares the same dress sense as me. I felt totally at home! Dr Martens, Martin Margiela to-be, CDG, Vivienne westwood...surrounded by them. I saw at least 3 D.M that night....worn by both sexes. It might sound lame to count but I've NEVER seen more than 1 stranger wearing it in Singapore in one day.


It was so scary to look down frm the top of the stairs. 3 levels high at least, i swear.
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Trying to look up but all I see is Gwen's butt.
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