I talked to her just now and she totally ignored me, didn't even bother to look at me, or nod her head, and her eyes just fix to her laptop. I knew she heard what I said and again she chose to ignore as if I was talking crap. She only has this kind of attitude toward me. Why? Just because I did her thing wrongly, and that was the first time, it wasn't that big deal; or maybe because I'm such an inexperience intern who knows nuts about advertising!
She keeps asking me this question ever since she knew I'm leaving, "So, are you counting your days?" "Are you happy that you're leaving?"
and...
"I had an intern before and I allowed her to talk to the clients. She was good in handling clients and after that, she got hired."
What has this got to do with me? She loves to mention crap out of no where...
Yes, she has the brain, the authority, the knowledge, the experience, the money... fortunately, not the looks and body... she maybe perfect in advertising field but that doesn't mean she can have this kind of attitude.
She does not have the right attitude, the right personality, no moral, no humanity...
If I were to continue working for Dentsu, I'll have to report under her, 'Do you know that everyone has to report under me?' and my other colleague just gave me a good offer to stay back at Dentsu but I might just reject it because of her...
Last Friday was a friendly bowling tournament between the account servicing and clients. She was anti social and she kept complaining to me that goverment companies' events are expected. They only go for bowlings, karaoke sessions... whereas for Chinese companies for instance, they go for parties, wine drinking... (you can tell that she has a higher living standard)
She misses Chinese clients a lot and keeps complaining about Malay clients that they are stupid, but in order to please them, she has to think the same as them, as if she is not a Malay! She even did ugly faces to me while complaining...
At the end of the event, everyone shook one another's hands to say thank you. She dragged me out of the spot and a few seconds later, we were hiding behind a pole.
I asked, "What are we doing here?"
She said, "Hiding away from them?"
She continued, "Can you pretend like we're busy talking?"
My goodness, how rude can she be? I felt ashame hiding there pretending not to see the people passing by. And they are our clients!
After all, I thought I'm ok with her already but I was wrong and I'm still not used to her weird and arrogant attitude. Anyway I did not regret for not accompanying her that night, for she just didn't want to talk to any of them nor play bowling (even though her fingers were nicely wrapped, afraid that the balls might chip her precious nails...), except for the first time, she needed me so desperately.
Should I stay at Dentsu and suffer her weirdness or is there any OTHER better companies that I can go to?
current mood: work stress
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Monday, July 27, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
The Green Buddies
Dentsu Utama has this little CSR program called the Green Buddies that help save the environment and it really reminds me that I should start doing more about it too...
One of the few things I learned from them:
1. In a restaurant, ask the waiter to keep away all unnecessary cutleries/ dishes so that they will not have to waste water in washing additional stuff. Also, the minimum you can do is, don't waste food, at least finish your drinks.
2. Set a recycling corner at home and practice recycling.
3. Switch off electricity at the powerpoint whenever not in use and if can, unplug appliances too. The plug can drain up to an additional 10% of your
actual electricity usage even if it's on stand by.
4. At hotel, decline housekeeping if you do not need your room to be cleaned so often. Save the water in washing clean bedsheets etc.
5. Aluminium cans is easier to be recycled compared to plastic bottles. Hence, use more aluminium items instead of plastic.
This is what I've always been doing:
1. Avoid using plastic bags when shopping. I always bring my bag along so that I can store my shopping stuffs inside.
2. Reuse plastic bags. There's a whole bunch of plastic bags in my house as I hardly throw them away.
3. Reuse papers. Some papers were still left with ample space will be thrown into a box for further usage like printing. And some of the papers will be used for my notes.
4. Reuse bottles. Even though plastic bottles are discouraged to use, but somehow and unavoidably, there will be plastic bottles in my house and so, reuse it. But my family use our own bottles (except for my dad... I should buy him one too) which can last for years, more environmental friendly and is safer for health.
5. Never litter especially in public places like park. When you litter, everyone will follow; the place become dirty, it affects the ecology and people need to use more electricity and water to clean it.
6. Off unnecessary electricity.And I do scold my family members for not doing so.
There are lots more that we can do. If these few little things are done by each individual times 28 million times 365 days in Malaysia, definitely we can make a difference to the world in no time.
Hope this little blog can remind you of your part too! :)
One of the few things I learned from them:
1. In a restaurant, ask the waiter to keep away all unnecessary cutleries/ dishes so that they will not have to waste water in washing additional stuff. Also, the minimum you can do is, don't waste food, at least finish your drinks.
2. Set a recycling corner at home and practice recycling.
3. Switch off electricity at the powerpoint whenever not in use and if can, unplug appliances too. The plug can drain up to an additional 10% of your
actual electricity usage even if it's on stand by.
4. At hotel, decline housekeeping if you do not need your room to be cleaned so often. Save the water in washing clean bedsheets etc.
5. Aluminium cans is easier to be recycled compared to plastic bottles. Hence, use more aluminium items instead of plastic.
This is what I've always been doing:
1. Avoid using plastic bags when shopping. I always bring my bag along so that I can store my shopping stuffs inside.
2. Reuse plastic bags. There's a whole bunch of plastic bags in my house as I hardly throw them away.
3. Reuse papers. Some papers were still left with ample space will be thrown into a box for further usage like printing. And some of the papers will be used for my notes.
4. Reuse bottles. Even though plastic bottles are discouraged to use, but somehow and unavoidably, there will be plastic bottles in my house and so, reuse it. But my family use our own bottles (except for my dad... I should buy him one too) which can last for years, more environmental friendly and is safer for health.
5. Never litter especially in public places like park. When you litter, everyone will follow; the place become dirty, it affects the ecology and people need to use more electricity and water to clean it.
6. Off unnecessary electricity.And I do scold my family members for not doing so.
There are lots more that we can do. If these few little things are done by each individual times 28 million times 365 days in Malaysia, definitely we can make a difference to the world in no time.
Hope this little blog can remind you of your part too! :)
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
ねむい。。。
かいしゃでさむいとなにもしないから、いまわたしはたいへんねむい！！
つまらないね。。。ﾍﾞｯﾄﾞがいちばんほし！！それにきのごじかんしかねなかった。。。
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つまらないね。。。ﾍﾞｯﾄﾞがいちばんほし！！それにきのごじかんしかねなかった。。。
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Friday, July 3, 2009
It's HER again...
She can't stand my stupidity, that doesn't mean I can stand her personality.
"You seem clueless, Evon. Hasn't anyone taught you or explain to you how creative works? You seem lost. You won't learn this unless you have your own things, do you?" and bla bla bla which I don't know whether to thank her for teaching me (with a sacarstic tone) or not to thank her cause probably she wasn't even teaching me, she just can't stand my stupidity that she just wanted to nag at me.
This is really a hard way for me to learn,
but probably a quick way to learn,
and definitely a motivational way to learn...
Why is she sitting in front of me? *puke* *vomit*
I suddenly don't have the mood and appetite for Itallianies later...
"You seem clueless, Evon. Hasn't anyone taught you or explain to you how creative works? You seem lost. You won't learn this unless you have your own things, do you?" and bla bla bla which I don't know whether to thank her for teaching me (with a sacarstic tone) or not to thank her cause probably she wasn't even teaching me, she just can't stand my stupidity that she just wanted to nag at me.
This is really a hard way for me to learn,
but probably a quick way to learn,
and definitely a motivational way to learn...
Why is she sitting in front of me? *puke* *vomit*
I suddenly don't have the mood and appetite for Itallianies later...
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Just to complain...
There's a lunch today, for all colleagues and including me but I was afraid that none of my team members are going so only SHE was around in office, so I asked: "Are you going for the lunch today?"
Her: "It's compulsary..."
Me: "Then how are we going there?" (I thought maybe we are sitting someone's car, I don't expect everyone to drive and I don't have a car, so probably she could offer me a ride...)
Her: "Walk..." (sacarstically)
Me: "Oh... (innocently again!) But isn't that place a bit far?"
Her: "What kind of question is that?" (smiling a little awkwardly)
Me: "Oh, cause I don't drive?" realizing that I was being shot down by her again but she totally ignored me and continued with her work.
&^%$!@#$%*&*%^&^%$!@#$%*&*%^&^%$!@#$%*&*%^&^%$!@#$%*&*%^&^%$!@#$%*&*%^&^%$!@#$%*&*%^
I swear I will not swear but if I were given a chance, I swear I will swear right in front of her face.
Even if she offers me a ride later for FOC I rather WALK!
Then I asked another much friendlier colleague of mine: "Are you going to the lunch later?"
Good colleague: "Oh you mean the Sime Darby lunch?"
Me: "Yea..."
Good colleague: "Going... you wanna follow my car? Come la, follow my car. We drive one car." And she smiled... you see the differences between the good and bad?
Anyway, I'm all happy by now :) Just want to complain...
Her: "It's compulsary..."
Me: "Then how are we going there?" (I thought maybe we are sitting someone's car, I don't expect everyone to drive and I don't have a car, so probably she could offer me a ride...)
Her: "Walk..." (sacarstically)
Me: "Oh... (innocently again!) But isn't that place a bit far?"
Her: "What kind of question is that?" (smiling a little awkwardly)
Me: "Oh, cause I don't drive?" realizing that I was being shot down by her again but she totally ignored me and continued with her work.
&^%$!@#$%*&*%^&^%$!@#$%*&*%^&^%$!@#$%*&*%^&^%$!@#$%*&*%^&^%$!@#$%*&*%^&^%$!@#$%*&*%^
I swear I will not swear but if I were given a chance, I swear I will swear right in front of her face.
Even if she offers me a ride later for FOC I rather WALK!
Then I asked another much friendlier colleague of mine: "Are you going to the lunch later?"
Good colleague: "Oh you mean the Sime Darby lunch?"
Me: "Yea..."
Good colleague: "Going... you wanna follow my car? Come la, follow my car. We drive one car." And she smiled... you see the differences between the good and bad?
Anyway, I'm all happy by now :) Just want to complain...
Monday, June 22, 2009
The Minorities
Tiff named Yang and I the minorities in office. It is not really an appropriate term but somehow accurate.
I talk to my computer (chat online) and no one else,
I eat with myself and no one else,
I have working hours like the kakak who makes sandwich everyday,
and the receptionist who sprays the purifier every morning,
Other than that no one else,
I am so free that I can view every possible shit in Facebook like no one else...
So am I the minority in the office?
I talk to my computer (chat online) and no one else,
I eat with myself and no one else,
I have working hours like the kakak who makes sandwich everyday,
and the receptionist who sprays the purifier every morning,
Other than that no one else,
I am so free that I can view every possible shit in Facebook like no one else...
So am I the minority in the office?
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
I Know Nuts About Marketing Communications!!!
I finally get to eat with SOMEBODY today during lunch break. But little did I know the happy feeling turned into the guilt and doubtful feeling...
'Evon, what do you learn in your college?' Good question!
'Have you ever taken Strategy & Planning this subject?' Pardon?
This was the colleague who asked me to be initiative and ask people out for lunch and today I ate with her. A total of 1 hour and 15 minutes of pressure.
Me: "Who's Omar?"
Her: "You don't know who is Omar?" With surprised tone.
Me: "No..."
Her: "I know you're new, but this is not an excuse for you not to know the people around you. If you were in another company not knowing who your CEO is, you will be scolded, and I'm serious about this. You should start asking people around you more about this company..."
Me: "OH...................................................."
Her: "Do you know there's someone who even asked Omar what is Dentsu's working hours? Do you know who the person is?"
Me: (thinking deep inside... this question is so familiar. I asked this during the first meeting with my supervisor) "NO!"
Her: "There's someone who asked him... I can't remember..."
Me: (Is she testing me? Can she not think who that person is?)
Her: "You know, it's a funny question to ask. In advertising field, we don't have a so-called 'working hours'"
Me: *nodding my head thoughtfully* Did she know something...
Speaking of working hours, so I stupidly asked...
Me: "So, usually all of you work OT until what time?" Seeing that most of them work till night time.
Her: "We don't OT. We just work. There's no working hours in advertising. Do you know that, Evon?" I hate when she asked, do I know this, know that. Obviously I know nuts!!!
Me: "Oh, I mean, what time do you usually go back?"
Her: "It's just like events, there isn't a specific time for you to work... you get what I mean?" She knows I'm into events.
Me: "Yea..............................."
To avoid awkward silence, I stupidly asked again...
Me: "So, where did you work previously?" Knowing that she is also new.
Her: "I've worked for Sachi for 4 years before coming here. I had an account handled by myself and some Account Execs working under me. Dentsu all knows about it. And Dentsu is my 4th company..." She does have some high portfolio I must say. Seeing the way she sees things, her experiences in advertising agencies.
Her: "I used to work for Astro, but I rejected... with personal reason." and the way she talks to my supervisor. It's like, "Not now..." or "I can't handle this now..." or "I have something else to handle..." without further entertainment. "I got to go to the loo. Do you need to?" If my English is slightly bad, I wouldn't have understand her English. I guess she has the quality to behave the way she is.
Me: "Oh... Where is Sachi?" I honestly know Sachi. I heard Yang saying it before but just didn't know where Sachi is located.
Her: "You don't really know about Advertising Agency, don't you?"
Me: *shook my head slowly*
Her: "You see, even if you're into events, you need to know all this. It's really important. Probably next time when you're having an event, you need to know which agency that you can work with. There's something you can start doing right now. Is to do more research. Research about advertising agencies, event companies..."
Me: *stare at her blankly* I was really speechless.
Her: "Don't be afraid... I'm not scaring you. That's work! You need to be prepared."
Me: *nodding my head as if I was listening to some rock music*
Her: "Just to let you know, there's favoritism in advertising. Ashraf has good PR skill which he can deal well with the clients... but I'm different. I don't like PR and I don't need them."
Me: "As in he will do according to clients' requests?" Evon, can you ask something smarter? You know what is S.M.A.R.T?
Her: "Evon, do you know what PR is?"
Me: *Eyes big* (Do I know what PR is??!! This is an insult!!!) "Errr... yes? He has good relation with clients?"
Her: "Ya. That doesn't mean he has to do whatever the clients want. That is dumb. I wouldn't do that."
Me: "OH............................................"
Her: "Well, let me buy you lunch since it's your first week."
Me: "Second." Just somehow feel like answering back.
Her: "Oh. Anything." And I paid the lunch because she has forgotten her purse.
Her: "Feel free to ask me anything!" And she smiled sincerely at me. That freaks me out! I swear I will not ask her stupid stuff again... that makes me a total idiot. And finally, lunch is OVER!
That lunch left me empty. Left me wondering the biggest question of all times: What have I learned throughout my 4 years' course? What do I know about advertising? What do I know about events? I guess I know nothing... I know nuts about Marketing Communications! Yes, I know nuts. Ask me about nuts. I know all kinds of nuts... peanuts, hazelnuts, walnut, coconut... you name it...
Not only she left me empty. She paid me back a RM5 notes and left FOURTEEN 50 cents on my table without saying a word and also left my wallet dead heavy... And after today's lunch, I've decide to eat lunch with me, myself and I ONLY :)
p.s. I realized there's really a lot of things that I should know by now. I don't want to be a 'noob'. So, I started doing research on events companies. But still feeling useless :(
'Evon, what do you learn in your college?' Good question!
'Have you ever taken Strategy & Planning this subject?' Pardon?
This was the colleague who asked me to be initiative and ask people out for lunch and today I ate with her. A total of 1 hour and 15 minutes of pressure.
Me: "Who's Omar?"
Her: "You don't know who is Omar?" With surprised tone.
Me: "No..."
Her: "I know you're new, but this is not an excuse for you not to know the people around you. If you were in another company not knowing who your CEO is, you will be scolded, and I'm serious about this. You should start asking people around you more about this company..."
Me: "OH...................................................."
Her: "Do you know there's someone who even asked Omar what is Dentsu's working hours? Do you know who the person is?"
Me: (thinking deep inside... this question is so familiar. I asked this during the first meeting with my supervisor) "NO!"
Her: "There's someone who asked him... I can't remember..."
Me: (Is she testing me? Can she not think who that person is?)
Her: "You know, it's a funny question to ask. In advertising field, we don't have a so-called 'working hours'"
Me: *nodding my head thoughtfully* Did she know something...
Speaking of working hours, so I stupidly asked...
Me: "So, usually all of you work OT until what time?" Seeing that most of them work till night time.
Her: "We don't OT. We just work. There's no working hours in advertising. Do you know that, Evon?" I hate when she asked, do I know this, know that. Obviously I know nuts!!!
Me: "Oh, I mean, what time do you usually go back?"
Her: "It's just like events, there isn't a specific time for you to work... you get what I mean?" She knows I'm into events.
Me: "Yea..............................."
To avoid awkward silence, I stupidly asked again...
Me: "So, where did you work previously?" Knowing that she is also new.
Her: "I've worked for Sachi for 4 years before coming here. I had an account handled by myself and some Account Execs working under me. Dentsu all knows about it. And Dentsu is my 4th company..." She does have some high portfolio I must say. Seeing the way she sees things, her experiences in advertising agencies.
Her: "I used to work for Astro, but I rejected... with personal reason." and the way she talks to my supervisor. It's like, "Not now..." or "I can't handle this now..." or "I have something else to handle..." without further entertainment. "I got to go to the loo. Do you need to?" If my English is slightly bad, I wouldn't have understand her English. I guess she has the quality to behave the way she is.
Me: "Oh... Where is Sachi?" I honestly know Sachi. I heard Yang saying it before but just didn't know where Sachi is located.
Her: "You don't really know about Advertising Agency, don't you?"
Me: *shook my head slowly*
Her: "You see, even if you're into events, you need to know all this. It's really important. Probably next time when you're having an event, you need to know which agency that you can work with. There's something you can start doing right now. Is to do more research. Research about advertising agencies, event companies..."
Me: *stare at her blankly* I was really speechless.
Her: "Don't be afraid... I'm not scaring you. That's work! You need to be prepared."
Me: *nodding my head as if I was listening to some rock music*
Her: "Just to let you know, there's favoritism in advertising. Ashraf has good PR skill which he can deal well with the clients... but I'm different. I don't like PR and I don't need them."
Me: "As in he will do according to clients' requests?" Evon, can you ask something smarter? You know what is S.M.A.R.T?
Her: "Evon, do you know what PR is?"
Me: *Eyes big* (Do I know what PR is??!! This is an insult!!!) "Errr... yes? He has good relation with clients?"
Her: "Ya. That doesn't mean he has to do whatever the clients want. That is dumb. I wouldn't do that."
Me: "OH............................................"
Her: "Well, let me buy you lunch since it's your first week."
Me: "Second." Just somehow feel like answering back.
Her: "Oh. Anything." And I paid the lunch because she has forgotten her purse.
Her: "Feel free to ask me anything!" And she smiled sincerely at me. That freaks me out! I swear I will not ask her stupid stuff again... that makes me a total idiot. And finally, lunch is OVER!
That lunch left me empty. Left me wondering the biggest question of all times: What have I learned throughout my 4 years' course? What do I know about advertising? What do I know about events? I guess I know nothing... I know nuts about Marketing Communications! Yes, I know nuts. Ask me about nuts. I know all kinds of nuts... peanuts, hazelnuts, walnut, coconut... you name it...
Not only she left me empty. She paid me back a RM5 notes and left FOURTEEN 50 cents on my table without saying a word and also left my wallet dead heavy... And after today's lunch, I've decide to eat lunch with me, myself and I ONLY :)
p.s. I realized there's really a lot of things that I should know by now. I don't want to be a 'noob'. So, I started doing research on events companies. But still feeling useless :(
Monday, June 15, 2009
Definition of Internship
Internship= work
work= no life
no life= dead boring
dead boring= sien
sien= feel like dying
That's my working condition at Dentsu Utama for now... I hope...
My to-do-list:
1. Shahrin (my supervisor) will teach me more about my job- he's currently very busy
2. 9.30am internal meeting- cancel (I was really looking forward to this meeting so that I can get closer with my colleagues and also get to know their work progress...)
3. Send materials- done
4. Get Account Exec copy from Angie- Angie says later cause she's busy
5. Remind Nawwar of the color proof biling- Nawwar won't be in for today
So, what am I left to do?
1. Read news at www.thestar.com.my- done, long time ago
2. Check both my yahoo and hotmails- considered done, checked the important ones
3. After checking mails, forward mails- considered done, getting bored forwarding mails
4. Facebook, reply and post comments- done
5. Play Word Challenge in Facebook which I got addicted to recently- cannot play cause need to install the Javascript, tried to install, CANNOT, cause need permission from the admin... so smart!
6. Blog- 2nd blog already, might blog more later if I finish doing all the things on earth
7. Chat- since morning, non-stop!
Basically, I'm now very healthy, every morning sure 'pang sai' in office,
very knowlegable and updated, everyday sure read a lot of news,
very quiet, haven't been so quiet (for a week already) in my life,
very anti social, eat alone everyday (my colleague suggested me to start asking people out for lunch... I will take this challenge asap!)
and last but not least, very very boring person... never been such a 'lifeless' person before T.T
by the way, I found another person who is now as bored as me...
she's jlo, she's now viewing back her own photos, 'zi high' and also doing some 'renovation' over her friendster pictures...
Ok, I should stop facing the computer and start doing my Japanese revision and my co-op report. My conclusion here would be, work= hell :)
work= no life
no life= dead boring
dead boring= sien
sien= feel like dying
That's my working condition at Dentsu Utama for now... I hope...
My to-do-list:
1. Shahrin (my supervisor) will teach me more about my job- he's currently very busy
2. 9.30am internal meeting- cancel (I was really looking forward to this meeting so that I can get closer with my colleagues and also get to know their work progress...)
3. Send materials- done
4. Get Account Exec copy from Angie- Angie says later cause she's busy
5. Remind Nawwar of the color proof biling- Nawwar won't be in for today
So, what am I left to do?
1. Read news at www.thestar.com.my- done, long time ago
2. Check both my yahoo and hotmails- considered done, checked the important ones
3. After checking mails, forward mails- considered done, getting bored forwarding mails
4. Facebook, reply and post comments- done
5. Play Word Challenge in Facebook which I got addicted to recently- cannot play cause need to install the Javascript, tried to install, CANNOT, cause need permission from the admin... so smart!
6. Blog- 2nd blog already, might blog more later if I finish doing all the things on earth
7. Chat- since morning, non-stop!
Basically, I'm now very healthy, every morning sure 'pang sai' in office,
very knowlegable and updated, everyday sure read a lot of news,
very quiet, haven't been so quiet (for a week already) in my life,
very anti social, eat alone everyday (my colleague suggested me to start asking people out for lunch... I will take this challenge asap!)
and last but not least, very very boring person... never been such a 'lifeless' person before T.T
by the way, I found another person who is now as bored as me...
she's jlo, she's now viewing back her own photos, 'zi high' and also doing some 'renovation' over her friendster pictures...
Ok, I should stop facing the computer and start doing my Japanese revision and my co-op report. My conclusion here would be, work= hell :)
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Work @ hell?
One of my colleagues welcomed me by saying, "Welcome to... hell!"
It isn't exactly that 'hell' in Dentsu... it's just boring to HELL!!
While working,
I face the computer most of the time, facebooking and chatting...
I finally get to read my over thousand of unread mails...
I finally get to read news everyday, so now very up-to-date...
I finally get to sleep and wake up early, healthy lifetsyle...
Just that I don't talk much, and nobody does to me either,
I eat alone, walk alone, everything also alone...
Whether it will be like hell or not,
that I leave it until the time comes,
then only decide whether hell or not...
so far, that's my life @ work :)
It isn't exactly that 'hell' in Dentsu... it's just boring to HELL!!
While working,
I face the computer most of the time, facebooking and chatting...
I finally get to read my over thousand of unread mails...
I finally get to read news everyday, so now very up-to-date...
I finally get to sleep and wake up early, healthy lifetsyle...
Just that I don't talk much, and nobody does to me either,
I eat alone, walk alone, everything also alone...
Whether it will be like hell or not,
that I leave it until the time comes,
then only decide whether hell or not...
so far, that's my life @ work :)
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Dentsu Here I Come!!
Dentsu is a Japanese company and Dentsu decided to invest one in Malaysia which is called Dentsu Utama (number one in Malay) in 2005. Its clients are mainly Japanese companies such as Toyota's 6 models (Honda, Accord, City, Civic etc). Dentsu Utama is located at Damansara Heights which means I would have to travel 30 minutes just to get there.
Yesterday's meet up with Dentsu's senior account director wasn't an interview,
it was a briefing on what the company is about,
what I will be doing throughout the 2 months and some chit chatting...
I will officially become a Dentsu member next Monday, wearing full formal attire, working from 9am-6pm daily as a coordinator that deals between clients and creative team. Hopefully I will get to learn a lot about advertising (though not really my interest, but somehow wish to give it a try).
1 advertising company 1 internship job,
Finally, no longer JOBLESS for at least 2 months...
p.s: Yang, don't be jealous ;) wish me luck! By the way, I might get to speak Japanese cause there are 2 Japanese colleagues :)
Yesterday's meet up with Dentsu's senior account director wasn't an interview,
it was a briefing on what the company is about,
what I will be doing throughout the 2 months and some chit chatting...
I will officially become a Dentsu member next Monday, wearing full formal attire, working from 9am-6pm daily as a coordinator that deals between clients and creative team. Hopefully I will get to learn a lot about advertising (though not really my interest, but somehow wish to give it a try).
1 advertising company 1 internship job,
Finally, no longer JOBLESS for at least 2 months...
p.s: Yang, don't be jealous ;) wish me luck! By the way, I might get to speak Japanese cause there are 2 Japanese colleagues :)
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Life in Red...
Don't ask me why I posted so many blogs in a day's time..cause I'm addicted to blogging..anyway I found out that none of it mentioned bout my current working life..so here it goes:
I'm currently having internship in Red Communications, my supervisor is an executive producer, so far I have not seen her work but I'm really eager to know...she took me in the first place is to get involve in an independent movie entitled "Karaoke". And the director was quite well known- Chris Chung.
I was really looking forward to work with them, the moment I confirmed working with them, I wanted to start work immediately. I was so looking forward. Probably becasue the company is really new and beautiful. I like the interior design and the color.
The first week was qutie a disappointing one. I mourned for not having things to do and waited every day for the moment to come by, the moment I will get on board into the same boat as my supervisor and team. I was really eager to learn and experience what it is like being invovled in a production as my supervisor promised me that I will be involved from the pre-production which is the planning part til post production (other interns followed out for shooting already). And my timing was really just right. I thought I had better opportunity to learn things here rather than in MYC (my previous internship co), cause apparently my timing was not right during that time. Most of the projects were already handed by the interns who went in earlier.
Anyway, I made a few small mistakes during the first week. I was so disappointed with myself that I can't even handle small stuff, no wonder my supervisor didn't give me much things to do. All I did was to (btw, her name is Mona Lisa, LOL, nah, it's without the Lisa) photocopy documents, read the script, did some transcript (which they called it editing, sounded so nice), did some research and callings etc. Of course, I had fun in assisting the casting part, but it wasn't my supervisor's project. I helped out in the casting because she didn't have anything for me to do. How sad...
I went scouting location in the first day with Mona and I grabbed my opportunity to ask whatever I can. I get to know a bit more about her and she told me to be prepared for she had scared away a few previous interns. She didn't know why but all she knew was they were either lazy or they put themselves as high as director's position. But that didn't convince me. Later that day, 2 more of my colleagues told me it will be really challenging having to work under Mona. Ask me if I was afraid. My answer was not quite, but I found it rather challenging and interesting. I will want to work even harder.
Honestly, anything regarding work will come first. I can push away everything just for work. Someone called me up for a shooting on Sunday and I promised straight away. However it was cancelled and my supervisor told me to enjoy my weekends while I still can...
She was right. My waiting and hardwork finally paid off. I am officially on board. She had me involved in a meeting for this project and I had my first shooting last Tuesday. I kind of replaced Mona in the shooting though it was really a small and casual shooting. At least, I get to prepare props and the production box which I found out that other interns do not have the chance to prepare it. It seemed easy, but trust me, searching for props, and the entire wardrobe for talents' clothes wasn't easy at all, it's tiring!!
Despite all the bad comments, I found out that Mona was quite nice, having her to be quite caring for me. She iron the talents' clothes herself while she forced me to have my breakfast (reached office 7am that day...) and she wished me good luck! Chuak sai ah! haha... She even gave me RM100 to buy stuff for the shooting and I only spend around RM20.
The shooting went well (please refer to the post "My Very First"). Special thanks to the NGs. And I'll have my second shooting next Monday, this time again I am preparing the props and production box. I also get to secure the location. There was one even bigger task for me which is casting extras. Casting was never easy especially when you will need to deal with so many different people. And the sad thing is I only get to choose ah-peks and aunties who are 30 and above. If I'm looking for younger ones, they will need to have the 'kampung' look. Which is quite sad la, it was torturing that I don't get to pick the good looking ones...And out of 10 aunties, only 1 pick up their phone. Memang aunties, better off without phones...so hard to contact them!
Last but not least, I get to design the crew tags!! Special thanks to Yang for teaching me a bit of Photoshop (cause I gave back to the lecturer half of what I learned XD). I always wanted to practice back how to use Photoshop but nothing motivated for me to do so until that day... Finally, I'm quite familiar with it now. Even Yang also not as expert as me liao.. LOL!! And Mona like my design, well, at least she didn't complain or ask me to change anything. Will upload it once it's finalized.
Probably I am the 'backup system' for this project, as in I'll need to be ready to prepare anything for the 'war' anytime. Probably that was why she let Yang to do the editing for the shoot I went. I was at first quite depressed and upset with the decision. Cause I was so free last week and she told me there was nothing much for me to do, but she gave other intern who is not under her to do editing.
Don't worry Yang, I begin to enjoy my working life now. It's getting busier and busier and I even need to work on a Saturday till 6pm! And so far, Mona really treated me quite nice. I think the most caring among all the supervisors? She waited for me that day to finish work (I finished at 10 something, and she waited). It is also very kind of her to make sure I'm doing the right thing and I really want to thank her for trusting me. I might be her best ever intern?? (I'm thinking way too far...)
I'm content with what I am doing in Red now. I prefer this way as I can try many different things rather than just doing transcript or in charge of just one thing. I believe I can learn more things during the actual shooting. So wish me luck! I'll pray hard that the entire shooting will turn out to be great and I will not do any mistakes. I might fall in love with this industry. Or should I say I'm afraid I'll fall in love with Red? I'm a Mar Comm student and I'm supposed to be in love with events!! NOOOOOO!!!!!
btw, I met a friend of mine, Effa in the office and too bad, I didn't have the chance to even say hi to her. And apparently, Mr Patrick (my former lecturer) was quite famous in Red Comm. He used to work there I guess. And my boss' son is studying in UCSI, no wonder Red loves UCSI so much. They hired 3 of us at the same time...
to all other interns, hope u're enjoying ur work so far :)
argh!! My dad just informed me that I missed out a wedding buffet! Damn!!!
I'm currently having internship in Red Communications, my supervisor is an executive producer, so far I have not seen her work but I'm really eager to know...she took me in the first place is to get involve in an independent movie entitled "Karaoke". And the director was quite well known- Chris Chung.
I was really looking forward to work with them, the moment I confirmed working with them, I wanted to start work immediately. I was so looking forward. Probably becasue the company is really new and beautiful. I like the interior design and the color.
The first week was qutie a disappointing one. I mourned for not having things to do and waited every day for the moment to come by, the moment I will get on board into the same boat as my supervisor and team. I was really eager to learn and experience what it is like being invovled in a production as my supervisor promised me that I will be involved from the pre-production which is the planning part til post production (other interns followed out for shooting already). And my timing was really just right. I thought I had better opportunity to learn things here rather than in MYC (my previous internship co), cause apparently my timing was not right during that time. Most of the projects were already handed by the interns who went in earlier.
Anyway, I made a few small mistakes during the first week. I was so disappointed with myself that I can't even handle small stuff, no wonder my supervisor didn't give me much things to do. All I did was to (btw, her name is Mona Lisa, LOL, nah, it's without the Lisa) photocopy documents, read the script, did some transcript (which they called it editing, sounded so nice), did some research and callings etc. Of course, I had fun in assisting the casting part, but it wasn't my supervisor's project. I helped out in the casting because she didn't have anything for me to do. How sad...
I went scouting location in the first day with Mona and I grabbed my opportunity to ask whatever I can. I get to know a bit more about her and she told me to be prepared for she had scared away a few previous interns. She didn't know why but all she knew was they were either lazy or they put themselves as high as director's position. But that didn't convince me. Later that day, 2 more of my colleagues told me it will be really challenging having to work under Mona. Ask me if I was afraid. My answer was not quite, but I found it rather challenging and interesting. I will want to work even harder.
Honestly, anything regarding work will come first. I can push away everything just for work. Someone called me up for a shooting on Sunday and I promised straight away. However it was cancelled and my supervisor told me to enjoy my weekends while I still can...
She was right. My waiting and hardwork finally paid off. I am officially on board. She had me involved in a meeting for this project and I had my first shooting last Tuesday. I kind of replaced Mona in the shooting though it was really a small and casual shooting. At least, I get to prepare props and the production box which I found out that other interns do not have the chance to prepare it. It seemed easy, but trust me, searching for props, and the entire wardrobe for talents' clothes wasn't easy at all, it's tiring!!
Despite all the bad comments, I found out that Mona was quite nice, having her to be quite caring for me. She iron the talents' clothes herself while she forced me to have my breakfast (reached office 7am that day...) and she wished me good luck! Chuak sai ah! haha... She even gave me RM100 to buy stuff for the shooting and I only spend around RM20.
The shooting went well (please refer to the post "My Very First"). Special thanks to the NGs. And I'll have my second shooting next Monday, this time again I am preparing the props and production box. I also get to secure the location. There was one even bigger task for me which is casting extras. Casting was never easy especially when you will need to deal with so many different people. And the sad thing is I only get to choose ah-peks and aunties who are 30 and above. If I'm looking for younger ones, they will need to have the 'kampung' look. Which is quite sad la, it was torturing that I don't get to pick the good looking ones...And out of 10 aunties, only 1 pick up their phone. Memang aunties, better off without phones...so hard to contact them!
Last but not least, I get to design the crew tags!! Special thanks to Yang for teaching me a bit of Photoshop (cause I gave back to the lecturer half of what I learned XD). I always wanted to practice back how to use Photoshop but nothing motivated for me to do so until that day... Finally, I'm quite familiar with it now. Even Yang also not as expert as me liao.. LOL!! And Mona like my design, well, at least she didn't complain or ask me to change anything. Will upload it once it's finalized.
Probably I am the 'backup system' for this project, as in I'll need to be ready to prepare anything for the 'war' anytime. Probably that was why she let Yang to do the editing for the shoot I went. I was at first quite depressed and upset with the decision. Cause I was so free last week and she told me there was nothing much for me to do, but she gave other intern who is not under her to do editing.
Don't worry Yang, I begin to enjoy my working life now. It's getting busier and busier and I even need to work on a Saturday till 6pm! And so far, Mona really treated me quite nice. I think the most caring among all the supervisors? She waited for me that day to finish work (I finished at 10 something, and she waited). It is also very kind of her to make sure I'm doing the right thing and I really want to thank her for trusting me. I might be her best ever intern?? (I'm thinking way too far...)
I'm content with what I am doing in Red now. I prefer this way as I can try many different things rather than just doing transcript or in charge of just one thing. I believe I can learn more things during the actual shooting. So wish me luck! I'll pray hard that the entire shooting will turn out to be great and I will not do any mistakes. I might fall in love with this industry. Or should I say I'm afraid I'll fall in love with Red? I'm a Mar Comm student and I'm supposed to be in love with events!! NOOOOOO!!!!!
btw, I met a friend of mine, Effa in the office and too bad, I didn't have the chance to even say hi to her. And apparently, Mr Patrick (my former lecturer) was quite famous in Red Comm. He used to work there I guess. And my boss' son is studying in UCSI, no wonder Red loves UCSI so much. They hired 3 of us at the same time...
to all other interns, hope u're enjoying ur work so far :)
argh!! My dad just informed me that I missed out a wedding buffet! Damn!!!
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