Love Pink

Got this while at work at ION today

I love pink flowers.

I have never felt so happy and cheered up seeing flowers.

For once I feel like a normal girl again.

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My Not-Very-Typical-Day Day at Work

I guess I feel better after trying to shift my focus.

Though work is insane, I am glad I have some colleagues who are of the same frequency as me.

I asked one of them, is it normal to have never-ending tasks to do. She said yes. And she told me she realised she lost time & friends, as she had to spend lots of time at work during weekdays, and 1 of the weekends to sleep to replenish rest.

I guess the things that are keeping us sane in midst of these insane tasks, are our passion and support we get from each other?

I am not sure about other fields, but very often I realised people from my field needs to be positive, dedicated and passionate about what we are doing, and have power to “multi-task” (which I am still learning! haha!).

When I was in my first job, I often got into conflicts between my work and personal life, simply cos family & friends are not able to understand. I still remembered my then-manager-now-turned-good-friend advised me not to take their comments too personally and just do what we think is right.

I find it so uber useful now, and I am thankful for being in my first job few years back, that shaped me into a determined, positive, cheerful and strong person now.

My close colleague mentioned that we are, perhaps, employed to sort out the messy-ness, and to put things right. It’s tough on us I guess, given that most of us are only in our mid-20s.

Sometimes I feel drained having to cope with my own work – admin, coordinating, executing, communicating and planning – while meeting requests by others. I have yet to reach planning, simply cos the daily “fire fighting” leaves me brain dead before the end of the day.

Just imagine running an A&P department of an “MNC” alone – of coz la, my boss oversees my work and helped me when I am flooded with work that I overlooked.

Yet, after talking to my boss about my feeling that I am not able to cope, she mentioned that perhaps I am giving myself too much pressure. I felt comforted although friends said perhaps she didn’t want to see me go ;p

Perhaps I am too overly concerned about maintaining the brand image and delivering to customers – this is what I am employed for, ain’t it?

Part of my job requires me to communicate effectively and be tactful – which I really really enjoy. This doesn’t come in-born for me, but I am glad these 4 years of working trained me to be a tactful person who considers others’ feelings while we talk.

But I was surprised, and I guess I shocked everyone else who were still in office yesterday night.

We were rushing for the email blast to be, well, literally BLASTED out to the database. Yet I had to stay and verify the contents (which is also my fault as I didn’t ensure timely submission of info).

I was supposed to meet the boyfriend around 7 plus at Tanah Merah. Yet I was still in office at that time, and my colleagues could literally see my face breaking down as I was frantically trying to refresh my inbox every 10 secs.

I was still held up, when it was close to 8pm. Yet I couldn’t speak to my boss cos she was on the phone talking about some tacky issues.

I stood up and declared I am going off. All my colleagues stared at me wide-eyed.

I didn’t care what they will think and what my boss will think. Of course I still delivered what I had to.

I checked my emails and the web on my mobile phone and tried coordinating everything on the cab and while the bf drove us to the SITEX. I was amazed, and my boss decided to leave after I left.

She said thanks for coordinating, and I am glad that she wasn’t angry, cos I left without saying much to her.

I “continued” work this morning as I left things undone yesterday – as I lugged information into my heavy bag yesterday (hahaha).

Haha, so yes, this is A&P for retail business. But, boy, I am glad to be part of the dynamic team (as cheesy as it can sound ;p).

D&D!

Company’s D&D on last Wed!

Helped out at the recep cos I also had nothing much to do. Hehee..

OMGOMG. I think I need botox for my exploding big face. LOL!

Finally after filling our stomachs at nearly 10pm! LOL.

Together with my boss & the MD.

I think I seriously need to do something to my fat face ;p

Tweeeet Tweeeet

Will be participating in another flea this Sat!

It is held in conjunction with social enterprises + flea market.

Amanda Ling (keyboardist formerly from Electrico) will be performing : )

Haven’t really gotten the booth num yet… So……… Yea.

Anyway I have started a Twitter (tweet, tweeeet) account for my blogshop.

And, join me as a “fan” on Facebook  ;P

Right, I ought to do some work now hehe….

#4 :)

Am I really that busy? Hahaha, yes I am asking myself.

I guess this “break” is doing me good. Able to “purify” and sort out my thoughts. Sort of a detox ;p

New collection!

After feedback from some friends, I decided to enlarge the pics and insert more close ups.

But many times juggling the “roles” of an “employee” and the person to look at the big picture makes me giddy. Hahaha! So at times I cannot jump out of that “role” to see things from another perspective.

I am glad for advice and support from friends!! What am I to do without you?? ;p

I am aware of friends who have helped spread words around for my blogshop. Now we are running a promo for mailing list members. Of course that applies to personal friends.

1. Blog about us and provide a link to our blogshop. Or mention us on your facebook status and provide a link to our blogshop. $5 e-voucher will be issued once u email us the links.

2. Spread words about us to ur friends. If ur friends decide to purchase any item from us, mention ur name as the referral. Both u and ur friends can get $5 e-voucher.

3. Highest blog hits or referral can stand to win $40 e-voucher (by 24 Aug 09).

4. With purchase of any items from the new collection, u are entitled to purchase from our still available list at 20% discount!

Hehe…. That’s all!

P.S.: Yes Stef Sun concert picssssssss. Hahaha!

I won’t be the “Loser”

Sometimes I still get the “doubts” flooding into my mind. Then I told myself, I have got to be positive and strong.

Right, perhaps I will face being “poor” again. Perhaps I need to survive on a loaf of bread for 1 week. It’s alright.

I tell myself it’s alright, cos I know in the coming weeks, I won’t be dreading and pulling myself out of bed every morning; I won’t be waking in the middle of the night, wondering if I need to work – even on weekends – anymore.

Facing different people and different “faces”, is what we have to do while “growing up”. But somehow, some people just make me feel sick in the stomach.

How fake can some people get. To just get to the “top”. I wish u eternal happiness.

That aside, lately I kept reading about the decisions of some other people who, also, left their work in this lull period.

Saw this article on My Paper yesterday:

I hope the words are not too small. :>

Aspire to be

Though I always try to think positively, at times I get hit by “doubts”, “uncertainties” and “directionless”.

Makes me……….. Slightly demotivated, and wondering why shd I try to be different.

I was supposed to be on leave yesterday, however had to go back to office cos a writer needed “images of watches”. And I thought no one’s in the office because my colleague said so. And he and the admin might not know how to download the product image.

Anyway, when I got to office, I got a shock because there were about 10 questions I had to answer. Basically the history of the co/brand, brand spirit, etc.

And I was slightly irritated because it was not true that no one’s in the office who could have helped me. However I was not totally irritated by the fact that I had to go back. I was largely irritated because how could you say something you are so sure of, well, in such a sure tone???????????

Ain’t the first time and I am perplexed. Simply cos I am not such a person. So I cannot understand.

But anyway, what I wanna say is, perhaps it is a blessing in disguise. As I search for answers and formed my paragraphs, I realised Dreams and Passion are 2 large components for youngsters. Which was formed as part of the “marketing message” for our product.

With no Dreams, I am nothing.

With no Passion, I am nothing.

I am feeling thankful.

Evil?

It’s funny.. I was just thinking about the nature of a marketing personnel’s jobscope..

Are we doing everything and anything to get sales?

And if you are familiar with my personality, I have to say I really tried striking a balance while at work.. But of course, I couldn’t deny the “happiness” within when we see the growth in sales..

Seth Godin came out with this article: Is Marketing Evil? I’d say it’s quite amazing..

Fashion House

So I was out almost the whole day..

I am grateful to our boss, for “planting” me into the meeting today.. ‘Cos one of the staff from Tokyo HQ came for market research, and today they were supposed to have meet-ups and discuss about fashion trends in Singapore..

And it so happened I am totally clueless about the street fashion brands that they brought up.. ‘Cos I am too commercialised (hahha) – I only know Zara, Mango, Forever 21, Topshop, etc..

A lady asked me: are you familiar with the fashion brands?

I swear I almost die from embarrassment in the cab.. >.<

My ex-mgr who hired and oriented me, ever mentioned to me that our brands are in the “young fashion” category…

Well…..

FASHION…

‘Cos I have been frequently mistaken as younger than my actual age, I often try to dress more “maturely”.. It was only recently I realised that from “mature”, I gradually shifted to being “auntie fashion”..

I must jump out from the lao auntie mode!!!!

The Rules….

I happened to see this book at Times a couple of weeks ago. I was, well, quite fascinated by the “rules” inside..

Anyway, I just had this 感触 while watching 珠光宝气..

Ada Choi’s character went to work in this PR firm. On her first day, the (female) boss called Ada Choi into her office. Ada Choi thanked her for the opportunity, and mentioned that she will put in her best efforts to learn.

The boss, being demanding and slightly perfectionist, said a company do not hire you to learn, if you need to learn, you go back to school.

I can only say…. How true it is…..

Of course I understand there is a learning curve/period or whatever, but how can we know if someone has put in his/her best efforts to learn whichever procedures they need in order to complete their tasks?