Thursday, May 28, 2009

New beginnings.

Today I closed a chapter in my life, but as with all things - this ending is followed by a new beginning.

I'm truly grateful for the friends I've made in this place - that's right, friends, not just colleagues - and I'm touched that they bothered to put together a 'farewell TBWA game' just for me.

I'm really going to miss the agency, and all the people that I've come to know and love\hate (you know the feeling, it's a love\hate relationship).

Now it's time to get out there and experience all the incredible things, life has to offer.

'go'.

(this 'go' campaign will haunt me for a long time to come, especially since my farewell card and game was all centered around it).

But all the same, I love the brand. I've loved it from the first day I started work on it a little under 2 years ago. It is afterall, the universal currency of life.

It truly is.

Sunday, May 24, 2009

I used to think that there was so much I wanted to do with my life.

I wanted to fly high, and see lots. I wanted to travel the world, live in a big city, and have a kickass career. Maybe own my own business.

And the voyeur in me only made it so much worse - it used to be blog surfing, these days it's Facebook. I'd often look at pictures of people's fabulous lives of parties and booze, supplemented by their high-flying 'banking' jobs and whatnot, and I'd wonder to myself how I got to be so medicore in life.

But tonight, as I'm tossing in bed and unable to get to sleep, I'm inclined to look at it from a different point of view.

I'm not sure that this is really what I want in life.

And as a matter of fact, I'm not sure what I want at all.

What's becoming slowly apparent is my envy these days stem not from looking at the pictures of people who seem to have it all - the beautiful, eloquent, rich ones who mix with other beautiful, eloquent rich ones. But rather, the ones who radiate true happiness in their pictures. The ones who don't let their lives be ruled by labels and looks.

I envy people who are natural 'people-persons'. I used to be like that, but it was oh-so-long ago.

I love to death my girls, but just sometimes, I wonder what it'd be like to have a slightly larger group to do things with.

I think I'm rambling, and I'm not at all sure what I'm trying to get at.

Like everyone else, I'm just trying to make my way in life. Figuring out who I am, and where I fit in. And I can only hope that the person I'm growing into, isn't someone I'll come to resent one day, much further down the line.

Good night world.

Sunday, May 17, 2009

adidas Sundown Marathon: 13 days to go

And just like that, we're close to finishing up the first half of the year.

It seems like forever ago that I signed up for the adidas Sundown Marathon, and now there's less than 2 weeks to go.

I keep telling myself I'll survive the run. Of course I will.

"I can, I will." - taken from the staff training manual of a certain airline that the boy's working on at the moment, this line just absolutely cracks me up.

And if I can't, "I will say 'no' the 'yes' way".

Whatever does it mean anyway.

Ever since my brother-in-law learnt how to upload songs to his iPod, it's been a early-90s Mandarin/Cantonese song marathon every weekend when I go over to play mahjong. Think Emil Chau and Jacky Cheung.

For some reason, that era of songs always make me a little melancholy. Or maybe it's just Chinese songs in general - very emo.

One of the songs I've particularly taken to is 'Feng Yu Wu Zu' by Emil Chau.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9b4Pnpbx4Q&feature=related

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Saturday musings.

It looks all bright and cheery out today, you almost can't tell that it was pouring just half an hour ago.

I know I should be a little more excited with a new job coming up, but I can't help feeling drained by my current still, even though there's only 2 more weeks of it to go.

I want to get myself a new notebook to start a new chapter in my life. I think that's what I'll do.

And a new macbook too while I'm at it - I wish.