yet another day at work, along with other random tales

A few interesting things to note today.

I went for my first press conference (and promptly felt so lulled to sleep, the settings were too much like college lecture theaters la)! It's the whole hoo-ha about the new Sports Hub that's gonna be at Kallang. And I agree with the guy, Kallang is Kallang and the city area is well, the city area. So fault me for being too Singaporean, the city as I know it is Orchard, City Hall, Raffles Place and Dhoby Ghaut. Anywhere else other than that isn't it.

I was basically late for work when I got the call from my editor. The conference was at 11 and I had to rush down. My Canon was home so I had to use the magazine's Nikon D70. Not as heavy as I thought but it took me awhile to figure out which toggle/switch/whatever/wheel was it to change the F stop. That figured out (much later when the conference was about to end), I took a cab from work to the National Stadium. Power. I felt like a small fry and I did want to ask some questions but felt a little nervous and shy. There was this lady from The Edge who kinda looked at me as if I was a poor little dear. Ok, simply put, it wasn't a nice look and she probably think I was going to fuck up and do something stupid.

Mayhaps that's just paranoia speaking.

Some other people from various publications and the people who were bidding for the project. Nothing new. It was a rather long presentation that had me drowsy and fighting to stay awake. Plus, it was freezing cold! No food either. So much for Kenna Griffin saying that press conferences usually had food catered to the media. Then again, there wasn't much of the media so I guess they wanted to save money too.

Think I should bring spare clothes for when I have sudden press conferences jumping out at me. As it stands now because I only took 4 measly pathetic shots (lighting was -seriously- fucked up and I didn't want to use the flash. oh how I envied the other photographer who didn't have to jot down notes and ask anything but just stand and take photos. sigh) and am gonna have to figure out how to write the article and make use of that.

Ho well.

Anyway this Friday or Tuesday or whatever day it is we're all doing some shooting thing at SAFRA. Quite cool. Feed my blasting-people's-head/brains-off fix. There's also some Captain Ball's match that I'm playing. One of my female colleagues is also taking part in the NUS Biathlon. Power. I can barely run and all I do is dream and fantasise about running. Pretty pathetic huh?

The chicken rice near the office is pretty shiok and cheap too! I guess SGD3 is standard for chicken rice everywhere. Save maybe for Bugis. But that's a different story. Everyone thinks I'm the female version of Skeletor (or rather, it's only Imran). But it isn't true! I gained back the weight I lost! Gonna have to schedule a meet-up with him and the Original 6.

So now I have 2 articles to write, an email blast and a bunch of photo-editing duties which pretty much run up my alley.

Meeting the Arab later to have some closure talk. Which is good and somehow I guess, about time because better now than much much later. I'm fine if you're wondering. This time, I need to stand up for myself and make sure that spine of mine stays intact and not run. Probably meeting the Brother and Adik later as well.

Hmmm. Time flies pretty fast suddenly. An hour and a half till I clock off work. Woots! Last night was an odd night, thinking about a lot of things that I shouldn't be thinking about. Yet strangely enough, it wasn't as drastic as it may have been before. Perhaps it's all the maturing nonsense I spouted a couple of entries below.

Got to get my life back on track (not that it isn't already) and most importantly, to get myself fit for a year of sports and fun! How cheesy. Some schools are still being a pain in the ass. No matter. Ups and downs. I just have to focus on the articles and get it right (or at least 75% feasible for printing).

Loving the world, you and me.









♥ Lin