Dreams

Copied from Randall Munroe's xkcd. A little inspiration. Better than a sweet chin music kick to smack some sense out of our soul-crushing corporate existence.

Highlight: My Friend Layds

I just checked out of curiousity what a real designer's portfolio should look like and baboom http://www.ladykrystle.com/ the lady is my friend back in college and incidentally her name really is Lady.

She studied for two years in New York at Parsons New School for Design, which caters to those who don't favor the Old School.

I can honestly and with envy, say these are promising and she really has a knack for it. I would want to wait for the day she would become an underground celebrity like Konstantin Gayday or Akira Isogawa (which I found out are actually fashion designers and that I don't really know crap about famous movers in graphic design and that I just got them from the background that I have in iGoogle.) I'm also thinking of this Spanish graphic designer dude who makes prints for notebooks and pencil cases.

I've been Googling in vain for 2 hours so I'll just leave at that. Yeah, I'll wait until LKT is an underground sensation so I can be a dick about how I was so into her designs before they became mainstream.

Guys check out my new halloween costume.

I'm posting my favorite here (screen captured without permission, sorry). See that's her (or someone she had to eventually treat to burgers) behind the poster. Great huh? Yeah, that's LKT for you.

Maron out.

Coming Up

I'll be working soon. It's been a nice month off, but after several lists, downloads and objects of attention, it's time to face reality. In order to live, one must have a livelihood.

Anyway, I'm right on track with my 50-year plan. Although I haven't found the friend who'll I'll eventually confess my love to in 2 years, I'm hoping some local girl here will come around.

That's that. Life's too short to keep running away.

Maron out.

Excel is My Bestfriend

I'm not good at keeping a schedule in my head. When left free, I'd rather sleep and dream or read comics. That's what I've been doing the past month, if not keeping with the internets subculture.

Anyway, I'm leaving the internets and comics and daydreams on September. I'll be back in the corporate world, and from what I learned in the past two years, keeping a schedule and lists of to-dos makes sense. I wouldn't want to drift back to dreaming when I don't have clothes to wear the next day.

Here's to Excel.

Maron out.

Looking Forward

First time in a long time I'm going out. Yeah, celebrate good times *c'mon (music follows)*. Anyway, it's a good feeling to finally relax and take a break, work is coming along swimmingly and I pray everything starts going well from here on.

Maron out.

Getting Booked

The company is confirming my position. And I just realized how convenient it was that the address was Kaki Bukit. I guess I should wear Khaki on my first day in order to Book It. Haha.

Get it? Khaki Book-It?

Shit.

Sign-Off

Well I'm off to check with an employer on their contract and apply for my employment pass. Yeah, this is a good day. I should probably celebrate this weekend.

Evangelion Rebuild

I'm reading the Google entry on the Evangelion (series, glossary, angels). Apparently director Hideaki Anno will be making 4 new movies rebuilding the whole franchise. Apparently this started 2007. And apparently there are a lot of things that I haven't appreciated in the series before when I was the same age as Shinji and Asuka. Now I'm the age of Misato, I begin to understand why the movie was made that way and why it started out from a mecha series and ended to a soft sci fi-metaphysical-psychological head trip.


I will be downloading the 1st and 2nd releases. I hope the 3rd and 4th releases would finally put a better conclusion to what happens to the Human Instrumentality Project instead of just having Shinji and Asuka on a sea of LCL vs Shinji being applauded for finally realizing that individuality is worth it despite the "Hedgehog Dilemma."

I sense another short bout of clinical depression looming.

Maron out.

Starting the day right

I know I put this reminder for me, but the day's not the same without looking at some lists and Buzzfeed.

Yeah, if I could just get myself to stop procrastinating...

Anyway, sandwhich time first, and then let's start screwing this one up right.

For Planning

This should remind me to start plotting some crucial stuff:

1. At home
2. Work
3. 2-week plan

Ok, let's screw this one up right. Big days starting tomorrow lah.

Maron out.

Someone Did A Good Job

I have to say Meki here is doing a good job http://ateneographed.blogspot.com/. Sounds family? The dudes in the chatbox says it's inspired by http://thisisindexed.com/. There you go. No shame in adopting xkcd then since we are all share the same sarcastic viewpoint. It would help if they didn't sound so condescending about knowing it.

But maybe I'm just biased. The dude who said that did end up with my college crush after all. Damn.

Update/Upgrade

I just updated the sidebar links and my html tagging knowledge. Anyway, if you want your blog linked, just buzz.

Just Dance

I'm giving my harmonica skills a shot. I just became a part-time dancer in Singles for Christ. This gives a whole new meaning to "oh for Christ's sake."

Practice starts later. Theme: cheerdancing. Hah! Goodluck to the audience. Anyway, I've been looking forward to do some physical workout.

I Killed... Singlish

The manager painted a picture of stress.

"This is you... *somewhere in the middle of a disorganized, multitasking mess where resources are hard to come by and travel to obscure unruly places via a small turbulent company plane is common*..."

I almost died. But no, this is me and this is the situation presented, YET AGAIN.

Time to give my so-called skills a run for its money.

I think I killed in that interview, otherwise it wouldn't have taken that long, or so the HR dude claimed.

However what I liked best was this exchange:

Manager: "We support several mules."
Me: "Mules?"
Manager: "Yes paper mules, 14 of them, mostly in Indonesia. We have one in Brazil."
Me: "Oh you mean mills."
Manager: "Yes, mules."

I love Singlish.

First Interview

Nothing lifts the spirit more than getting a call from a potential employer. After 9 days here, I finally get to wear my long sleeves again.

Wish me luck!

Feeling Domesticated

It's day 8 of my life in Singapore. Yeah, so fast. I'm still looking for work though. I hope the company I referred to my blog take me as their web consultant *ahem* *ahem*.

This day is starting out domesticated - washing dishes, ironing laundry, cooking (or rather reheating) for lunch. Ah yes, the little things in daily life.

Now my sister is asking me to fax something in the community center. Guess I better wait for her to come back, since apparently, I can't leave the flat alone. I don't have a key.

Well, that's all for today.

Maron out.

Bye

She says,

"I just wanted to let you know that I've held myself from falling in love with you because I already know this will happen."

Well.

It did happen.

Goodbye, love.