Thursday, November 05, 2009
Chirp Chirp

Right. I really shouldnt be blogging but this is too disturbingly real to postpone. Plus the 4th cup of teh I tossed back ensured that caffeine jitters will keep me on my toes with branding, remodeling and restructuring. I'm talking about the business plan we're apply for YES!, of course. Hope I'm still making sense @_@

Anyway, so we need to apply the graphics design and branding aspect into our own company right.
Tagline, check. Marketing plan, check (on paper, bah).
LOGO and COMPANY NAME, nadah.

Decided early on to feature sparrows so I did a google image search for reference line drawing.

50,000 images later, of which half comprises of dear sexaaay Johnny in heavy kohl-lined eyes, I came across this fascinating cross-breed:



The resemblance in the last pic is SCARY.

Sunday, November 01, 2009
A peek into the merge...

CUTE rite!!! Anyway more about these later. Does anyone have instructions on folding these???

Friday, October 23, 2009
My daily dose of sunshine

Yes, my dear Fay/office interns & bf, I'm addicted to watching this little sweetie-pie flaunt her skills at dismissing her adult charges.

WHATEVER!!!

Monday, October 12, 2009
I'm HIRING!!!

Will be in for the long haul with application for this and closing other projects.

Thank GOD for Honey who'll be helping me review my business plan and hopefully things go through for Creative Figs to get some funding from the gamen. And then we can rollll

Now all I need is someone who's awesome with web programming / graphics design, reliable, capable, high C (detail -and-task oriented) and most importantly, under the age of 26 for the application to be successful.

Any interested candidates? :)

The proof is in our work and how successfully we can build projects pieceby piece. If the question is, is it difficult to find people who share our passion for creativity, sure, it's hard. It's hard all over the world. But they are there; you just have to sort through the mess. Once you start sharing abusiness relationship, it is vitally important that a partnership isstruck. The goal is to earn their trust, and trust is not built throughsome presentation. Trust is build one meeting at a time, one campaign at a time,one project at a time. Hopefully there is an intuition up front, and hopefullywe can prove them right, and hopefully our intuition about them is right.

-John C Jay, Weiden+Kennedy, Tokyo

UPDATE: Praise God! Got a couple of ppl who've shown interest in the above post. I'm also rolling to get started on a bizplan with a new bizpartner (woots!) who's under26 (double woots!) and passionate about starting a design firm (dare I say triple woots?!)
So we have only 3 weeks to rush but praise God for the open door!

Friday, October 09, 2009
Undying Love

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

After waiting and then leaving in a flurry of curls and flounce one Saturday night, Little Miss Sunshine msged:

Hey darling, congrats n im so happy for u!!! Wana say, rmbr e time u chose God over ur past relationship? God saw your heart n He rewards, never shortchanges, she who is faithful. :D

Ironically, I got to introduce my other half to her other half, before her. Mr Ng must have thought we looked rather comical since we I never stop half-skipping-half-walking while hollering the introduction in our attempt to board the last train.

Erm.... Did I say other half?

Our friend tried to surprise me with breakfast at the door one morning.
Unfortunately, our broken doorbell smashed his hopes -_-

So he decided to make me run all the way to the main road one morning to help carry stuff from the cab. I thought they were his training materials for work or something until I saw these:



So that I can parade back home with them and show any passing neighbours, he says.
Also because I hardly receive bouquets and he remembered a nonchalant remark on roses I made.
Something about exorbitant prices during big occasions or something.
But I'll make these an exception :p

As a sidenote, the other stuff he was burdened with were the following:
a) Korean instant mee ("Cos if you need to eat instant, then u shd go for the best")
b) XiaoBaiCai, something fresh to go with (a)
c) Eggs, cos he remb how I only cook (a) if there's egg @ home
d) Quaker Oats muesli bars, in case I'm skipping meals again cos of errands

Uber touched cos I know how forgetful he can be so it can only be love for him to remember little things like that. And the bonus is how we both have the same love language, so we both give in the way we like to receive :) :) :)

Days before that, we met for dinner at Northpoint. The Jap village foodcourt thingy has some awesome selections for pizza and hotplate.


Was both embarassed and tickled silly with this childhood toy he bought.
(I brought it to my nose only to realise to my horror that I'm trying to smell a rubber flower -_- Not good to be romance-deprived for too long. Mayb that explained the roses...)


Monkey's ear aint tasting that great.
Alas we lost it while he was walking me back home :( :( :(


♥ You Stink! ♥


FYI, I wasnt arching my back but rather camwhoring with my arm in an awkward angle trying to press the camera button -_-
But whatever la ;p

Saturday, August 22, 2009
88 Palette: Purple Poseys

My new 88 original eyeshadow palette made this possible. My eyes I mean, not me traumatizing Hannie :p
Pretty affordable makeup for those adventurous with colours. One of the best buys I've made EVER. Some moons ago, I wanted to try out my Toshiba camcorder and recording makeup tutorials sounds like a pretty practical idea.
I'm still not too sure how it'll catch on though but I've doodled a few topics down:

• • Basic Makeup: What do you really need
  • Light Makeup: Ready in 5
  • Work Makeup: Ready in 10
  • Date Makeup: Ready in 15+++
  • Taking it from day to night
  • Do's & Don'ts for makeup
  • How to choose the right makeup
  • Do's & Don't for skincare
  • Day to Day Routine for Perfect Skin
  • Choosing the right skincare products

Fine, that's not "a few" but just a general idea. I might imitate some celeb's makeup look too (with 88 palette, nothing is impossible in makeup haha!)

What do you girls think? On a scale of 0-10, how much do you really think it'll benefit you?



Looks like Hannie can't decide :p

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

For the past few months, I've been in close communications with Wy, Sl, Rd, Gr, Jrm, Mt, Dn so there was no real inclination to write here. That said, I'm honoured Gs wanted to meet up to spend time to catch up, since the last time we properly chatted was like... last year? I love how it's like a quarterly spiritual review everytime we sit down to talk. Awesome stuff =) Looking forward to our meetup on Saturday. Perhaps this time, we can talk more about him than me.

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Things are looking up a tad better in terms of cashflow.

However, if I intend to hit anywhere near my target for my baby by the end of this year, I've gotta buck up on the sales front & apply those negotiation skills. So thank God for Jm who very nicely offered some big tips for my call script and helped remind me the true objective of cold-calling. About time I revisit afternoons of phone slammin's and quotation sending too =)

Since experience tells me the inertia of procrastination aint gonna get me nowhere, I'm gonna start rollin' on 14th September.

That said, thank God for Dn for the direct referrals =) Aside from my relief at finding a Christian friend in the marketplace, I believe this is one friendship that can go far :) woot woot!

Just as the thought flashed, Mg told me about another freelance graphic designer. Can't wait to checkout her portfolio. If work gets too heavy, at least I have the choice to delegate work and find some time to do something else before I turn into a hermit.

Thank God again for options :p

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Need to improve my time management. Need to stick with the plan and stop turning the priority into an option.




Which means I have to bugger off and go back to sketching.

Friday, August 07, 2009
Expert Drums - Smooth Criminal FC

Sunday, July 26, 2009
♡　魏如萱 - 買你