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September 27 Why?Why do people nod or shake their head while they are on the phone without uttering a single sound?
Did they think the other party will be able to see that nod?
*perplexed*  September 14 Idiotic, spastic sister of mine...'Nuff said... look at what she did to the eggs in our fridge....
*sigh very hard...*
September 12 After 6pm - while i was on leave...I wonder why clients always assume that we work after 6pm. (Of cos that is the general impression but seriously...EVERYTIME?!)
Was on leave last friday and client's were calling me quite rather consistently throughout the day...
I tried to be as upfront abt the fact that i was at home on leave... but they dun seem to get it.
Overall, i have to say they were still quite nice la.
Here's the conversation:
=============================================================================================================== Client: "Hi Elaine, are you free to talk? ..... (before i responded he rattles off) Elaine: "Erm, I'm actually at home now...." Client: "Oh! I'm sorry abt it... (continues to rattle off abt his great idea for his launch and ask me wat i think...) *ewey starts to wander off in her mind... while cursing about whether he was truly sorry...@#£%
Elaine: "I can try to retrieve the costings for you... but i believe there might not be media space given such short leadtime." (After i said some patronising things abt his GREAT IDEA).
Client: " It is ok! Hey, by the way, I'm so sorry to disturb you... i'd better leave you to rest. Get back to me asap ok?" Elaine: "Alright, i can only let you know by Monday!" Client: "Oh....... I am presenting the details to the mgt on Monday morning." Elaine (while mumbling to myself): "Ic Ic... tat means you want to information now la!" Client (I assume he felt sheepish): "eh..it will definitely be good if you could do so!" Elaine *SWEATS*
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So of cos i had to call 25 thousand other people to get all the data, consolidated everything etc and call him back.... and of cos, that was just him. Once again, I love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job.... I really do. Cheapskate PeopleWent to Cafe Cartel on Sunday with my mum and sister...
Was completely and absolutely appalled by this family that cut at least a loaf and half of the free bread (nicely ssponsored by Cartel) and ordered nothing else but 2 drinks (and free flow of ice water), together with at least 10 butter (stacked up on one small plate). They took as much time to eat as my family did.
I mean i know there are people who go for free things.... "free ma...dun take wasted". But this is possibly the first time i witness something so appalling. Think about it, maybe the family (parents and 2 daughters who are at least 18 and above) decided that "hey, lets have bread and butter for dinner today. Well, in fact... lets have FREE BREAD AND BUTTER today for dinner...." and they totter down to Cafe Cartel at Bukit Panjang plaza....
Don't see that happening in town thou.... at least not in this magnitude. Is it a suburban mentality?  September 07 I get your point... I REALLY DO!
06/09/06 10.51am
I have to get hi-res file before 1:30PM Sep 7,06 because all newspapers require me deliver materials before 2:30PM. This is absolute deadline, I can't help more. I spend 1 hour for burn 5 CDs, print 5 color proofs and go to 4 newspaper offices. So rush for me to do everything. 07/09/06 10.24am I have to get hi-res file before 1:30PM Sep 7,06 because all newspapers require me deliver materials before 2:30PM. This is absolute deadline, I can't help more. If client still make changer on the ad copy, I can't get material on time, the ad is not appear but you still pay to all newspapers. No choice
07/09/06 10.34am
Pls let client know newspaper's policy about material deadline. I tried my best and client should help me. 07/09/06 11.50am
All newspapers don't care you spend how many days for design, download onto CD-Rom, print color proof, etc. You must send material to them 5 working days before publication date. But you always ask me extend 3 working days before publication date. I tried my best and they accept urgent advice 3 days but you must follow me about time before 1:30PM today. This is Vietnamese newspaper's policy. I have to get hi-res file before 1:30PM today.
07/09/06 1.30pm
Newspaper don't accept to extend material deadline more because they extended so much. They require me deliver materials at 2:30PM so I have to get hi-res file at 1:30PM, one hour for download hi-res file, burn 5 CDs, print 5 color proofs and go to 4 newspaper offices. So rush for me to do everything, if having any problem I don't know how. 07/09/06 2.52pm
Now it's 1:50PM. When can I get FTP site ?
07/09/06 3.04pm
Staff of newspaper chase me materials because she needs to check content of artwork before send it to her boss for checking again. I worry so much with your absolute deadline. Pls hurry up
Newspaper office will close at 4PM. Now you don't send file how I can complete everything. Printing house spend 1 to 2 hour for printing color proofs, I can't control printing house. I can't control download file from FTP site how long. This time has many traffic jam how I can go 4 newspaper offices within 1 hour. I can't do everything within 1 hour. 07/09/06 3.41pm If I don't get file at 3PM, i can't do anything. I can't help you more. Ewey: I really get the point leh.... do you? Fire FightingSometimes i really wonder if my job is exciting or not...
Seems like clients think we only need to wave a wand to make things happen.
- wave a wand and they get all the details of all they have done since 2003 to 2006.... within the hour.
- wave a wand and you are supposed to deliver 400 plans (of cos i am joking abt 400)..... within the hour
(of cos in actual fact, you need to brief media owners, get them to brainstorm, get approval for the proposals...evaluate the proposals and the list is endless..)
- of cos....we can wave a wand and make sure newspaper offices in THAILAND AND VIETNAM stays open JUST for CLient and wait for client's artwork to reach them.... - wave wand and produce a presentation within a day (at the same time, i am fighting ALL the above fires.....)
(oh...i forgot to mention that while i am waving my magical wand... i had to go out to attend meetings with clients, with clients and editors of stupid magazines.... attend meeting to have conference call with Japan, vietnam and thailand...all of which took up plenty of time)
time just whoooshes byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
i eat my lunch at my desk (gobble actually...)
if i can, i would like to eat, shit, smoke and sleep at my desk manz!
i love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job i really do... i think. September 04 Perv*rts: Part IIPart II: I have currently learnt that there are indeed snobbish people out there! 2 families (of my sister's friends) have decided that 1)my family is indecent and thus their children should avoid association with us. 2)my dad is a taxi driver thus we belong to the lower class citizens and their children should avoid association with us. Now now, i've heard of snobbish people and snobbish people but I dun see why 1)because we smoke therefore we are of a lower class and 2)my dad is a taxi driver thus people should not assoicate with us. To Family 1: 1) Hello earth to Mars... the last i heard, your deseased hubby used to be good frens with my uncle and mum when they were still young. 2) Your son was almost a social outcast but yet my sister and her lovely friends still love him to bits. 3) U dun smoke and thus we are sluts? 4) Oh...did i mention that my sister seems to have fantastic grades in school (then and now)? Must have been some kind of filth that her mind is filled with.... 5) We are so sorry we made your hubby's funeral filthy by turning up to pay our respects. To Family 2: 1) Hello Earth to Mars again... the last i heard, you stayed downstairs (we were once neighbours) in a HDB flat as well?????? So what if you stay in a condo now!? 2) My sister and myself studied in the same school as your oh so precious daughters. (not so up market afterall eh? Raffles Girls? What a load of bull.... ) 3) My dad may be a taxi driver but he earns a decent living and has brought us all up! Well fed, healthy and with proper moral values.... What so low class about that? 4) My mum stays home to shake her legs like a tai tai (abeit a HDB tai tai but a tai tai nontheless) for the 28 yrs (so far) that she married my dad. No need to slog like you.... 5) Your kids have benefitted much from my sister, she has showered them with plenty of love and even teaches them tuition and helps them with their schoolwork. Now now, that's disgusting isn't it? What a load of filth your daughters must have been filled with.... low class taxi driver crap isn't it? I may be bitchy but i love my family and my friends... there are more filthy things out there than being a taxi driver and having a family who has a common vice... smoking. Perv*rtsGotcha! I aint talking abt perv*rted perv*rts per se....but more in reference to the likes of mad and evil cows etc in general. Today I'm going to talk about 2 groups of perv*rts as this weekend has been generally very eventful for me.... so there! read on....... Part I: I am convinced that someone up there wants me dead. So the weirdest things have been happening to me. The best and most effective way to get rid of me is to do something to my bike. Think about it, maybe one day... a powerful omnipresent person (You know who i am talking about...3 letter word...start with G and ends with D.) decides on the spur of the moment and says, "Take out a part or two out from her bike and let this pathetic dumb creature die on the road." Then again, i think if He created me, he wouldn't want to kill me just like that ya? So there... my conclusion, some perv*rts out there have nothing better to do However, fortunately for me.... i did not 1)die in a horrific accident and 2)did not get injured. I just risked my life trying to get home, get my bike to the workshop (at 1130pm) and fortunately for me, the mechanic happened to walk out of the already closed shop to get something from his car and saw me park my seriously damaged bike outside his shop... and he decides to take that particular part out from another bike in his shop to temporarily fixed it on my bike so that my poor engine oil will stop flooding the roads (and my feet) and i can thus ride back home safely to wait for him to order that part (he said, this kind of parts must order cos it doesn't get damaged in general! and that of cos (you silly cow), it has been stolen from your bike. With a screwdriver, tonnes of strength... and a completely perversed mind.) More money will be flowing out of my pocket obviously. Donations are welcome....
September 01 Working With VietnamHere's a brief correspondence between my counterpart in Vietnam and me... Ewey: Client would like to paginate their ad in upfront news section. Please advise the addtional cost involved. Vietnam: Client artwork can not be placed beside news section. Everybody want to be placed on first page of advertising section of Tuoi Tre and Thanh Nien newspaper so you must book half month or 1 month or 2 months before publication date. I will check another newspapers tomorrow because they closed at 4:30PM. You can not choose any position on any newspaper. You book first you appear on first, you book second you appear on second, continue like tat.(Ewey: Say...FIRST COME FIRST SERVE LA! *muahahahah*) Ewey: I noticed you did not include saturdays and sundays in the first week of the schedule. Is there a particular reason for it? Vietnam: On Saturday and Sunday, Vietnamese will go to supermarket, cooking, look after the kids, watch TV, go shopping, go picnic, etc. Few people will skim newspaper then do another things
(Ewey: at this point in time, i almost fainted from LoL-ing so hard.... ) Ewey: Please kindly assist to push material deadlines to 6th sept. Client is unable to provide materials by 4th Sept. Vietnam: C**at always deliver materials on the absolute deadline. If newspaper don't accept your artwork, how can you have time to change another. Last time you sent client artwork on the absolute deadline. Advertising staff of newspaper didn’t have time for checking content and picture of this artwork. client artwork appeared and newspaper offices received complain email from reader about Client artwork with title "Advertisement is not true". They require newspaper should fire this person who approved this advertisement.As a experience lesson from this problem, newspaper require must send material on time (5 working days before publication date). They need time for checking and approval artwork. Artwork has any problem they will return to client for changing. must send materials before 9:30AM 5 Sep.06 so your hi-res file must reach me on 4 Sep.06.If client provide materials by 6 Sep.06, pls change booking to star on 13 Sep.06
(Ewey: at this point in time, i fainted. Wah! people get fired there leh... how scary is that?) And oh by the way, i hear that my vietnam counterpart has to cycle to the post office to post the materials.... I am learning a new way of life - the things we take for granted!
*Disclaimer: certain names have been changed to protect the privacy.... |
and thus decides to ad hoc-ly remove parts from people's bikes (i just happen to be the one who always...without fail be the selected victim) so that these poor dumbos die on the road due to horiific accidents. |
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