Friday, January 27, 2006

Nong Li Xin Nian

Happy Lunar New Year to all you folks! A good excuse to go around visiting people as usual...

Just sent the car for servicing...

Argh the right CV boot of my car has a layer of rubber gone and its spouting grease again... sucks... (1 CV joint=$135)

Brake rotors are worn out... sucks... (1 set of rotors = $70)

Let's sit down and consider these after the holidays...

My brother's school refuses to let him take Chinese B for the O levels although he's been consistently getting E8.... dunno what want to save the school's face or something... sucks....

Long holiday for me today from work but it seems they're making LE test computers right now to see if they're working and she has no idea how to do it... this internship thing is getting from bad to worse we're doing practically admin and other irrelevant work all the time...

ARgh. Lord help us through this nonsense please!...

But nevertheless, thankfully we have a long holiday now. Kinda sleepy now cause I accompanied my mom to the market in the wee hours of the morning... Good night~

Saturday, January 21, 2006

Exploitus Maximus

Being an intern in my company is terrible. We are there as a cheaper alternative to temp staff. I've been so worn out I haven't had the energy to blog. The only difference in treatment from temp staff is that we get ADDITIONAL stuff like working on comic strips, advertorial, banner artwork and design, advertisements, webpages. Been working with the printing press and learning stuff about bleeding, pdfs and so on.

Actually, the stuff is quite useful on hindsight although as part of the entire package they kinda expect us to cover their admin and running around first priority. I just hope I gather enough working experience to be useful somehow. I'm learnin quite a lot of InDesign and playing with Webpages and Fireworks on my own right now heehee...

*sigh*

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

and they lived happily ever after, we pray

1st post of the new year...

So how's intern life in a 'children's mag'? getting used to it though I feel kinda cheated that there isn't even a computer that can run any sort of design or editing software that is production standard... the editing is actually outsourced completely to India...

doing weird marketing stuff instead... it's quite a small outfit where everyone sort of does everything... and the company is entering a new area to do with tuition centres... lots of saikang basically but its not that bad as our supervisor is trying her best to give us relevant things like poster design, interview... although the technical support and tools are still sorely lacking...

and we actually haven't had the time to sit down and meet the boss to talk about what we're really going to be doing that's relevant to our field in school...

right now I'm kinda not very pleased with having to contend with quite a bit of marketing stuff and I'm supposed to take over somebody else's job on tracking the response to some seminar event... oh well...

LE's very disappointed too but I think we'd just have to do things bit by bit and fight to do the tasks that are relevant to our field... we need to convince the boss to take back more editorial control of the magazine... I'm planning to go through as many past issues of the mag to find grammar, design insufficiencies and other things.

The standard of English isn't very good and in fact cumbersome at times. Must convince him such a standard doesn't stand a chance against Little Red Dot and What's Up? which are excellent Straits Times publications. Time to research on the competition...

Attended a church wedding on Saturday of Mervin my Sunday school teacher. Admittedly I had missed a lot of lessons in the later part of last year when they were doing Ephesians but I remember quite a bit of Daniel. It's interesting to hear what gets said, what's in the oath and we learnt a lot about the significance of the institution of marriage as an ordinance of God. The catered lunch reception was fantastic the chicken wings were excellent and there were brownies with Ice Cream... Mervin's 29... and I'm already 24... *nooooo!*

More recently organized an A53 outing and guess what - Carol and Shawn tried to apply for a flat hahaha~ who would have guessed. It was unsuccessful but both of them are doing great and I really wish them the very best. Also, somebody in our group bought an OSIM U-Zap... HAHAAHAHAHHA

and the usual yadda about which gym is better and discussing workouts while we wolf down Ribs at Cartel... after that... a midnight supper at Simpang too...

... the girls from our batch are all working people and suddenly I feel so much older.....

Really have to put in effort to finish the worksheet before this Sunday's bible class... Wing sure left us quite a bit of preparation to do... but I think it really helps how the class is closely related to sermon...

Till next post,
Jerry.

PS: Happy New Year.

:P