Kind farewell

What a sad day. I swear that I almost teared when I was bidding my farewell to my dear colleagues from CommsDNA. They will be dearly missed. To make the leave even harder to bear was the farewell tea that was organised by Mark Koh and Cindy. Of course, we were celebrating the birthday of Doris as well lah. Happy Birthday Doris!

Jocelyn and Juliana bought dinner last week at FlowerBed Cafe to bid me farewell. Doris and Deborah bought me tapioca kueh from Maxwell Market that made me all so sad. So simple but they remembered that that is from my favourite store. Where do I find such nice colleagues? Thank you all!

Food Galore @ CommsDNA

Dear Jocelyn, taught me so much about the business


Jocelyn's husband, slavery!


Pretty Shiai, as sweet as pudding


Mark Koh, Mary Mary Mary


Jean, efficient as always

MTV

A bottle named desire

Last night marked the last event that I was handling for CommsDNA. Once again, I proved that my social skills are right above the list of what I do best.

The Dom Perignon party was fabulous with attendance from socialites and celebrities. Eunice Olsen is currently my favourite celeb. She is ooohhh....so nice! She gave compliments to my suit and was engaging in a conversation. She showed no arrogance at all. Perfect!

Met up with more media people and the problem with getting to know them on a friendly note, if you do not invite one and invited the other, and all showed up at the event....you better go into hiding. LoLx. Especially if the journalist asks you, "Why did you invite Daniel and not me?" Stunned! Yet they are still understanding and willing to give you the story to it. So nice, right?

Briefly introduced to Ms. Tina Tan Leo. That woman is everything a woman would want to see herself in. She is so GORGEOUS! Aiyoh, I must say that a woman of her age would be sleeping at home but no.....she has to be at all the parties. GORGEOUS!

I am going to miss having to attend parties like these. Will be posting more pictures onto my blog soon.

Just do it? Coz I did it!

Despite uncertainties and disappointments, I did it! Overcomed my fear from performing well in PR. I just had to set my heart to it like what I have always been doing to whatever I want to do. Who said I cannot do PR? Well, for a new-comer I think, the results were pretty damn impressive! The media turnout was better than expected and entertaining them was a breeze. I had immediate recognition of being the guy that handled the account.

Compliment for the night:-

"If you did not tell me that you are just into your second month of PR, I would have thought that you have been doing this for ages....."

Reporter

Almost shed tears of joy when I heard that. There was a period that I was questioning myself and my abilities. At the deepest end of the pool, I made it single handedly with little supervision. Had almost no relevant media contacts, I thought I would not be able to get people interested in a party that seemed boring. But alas! I was proven wrong. The media showup was strong with many of them offering me stories even without my asking for one. They had so much confidence in me and the stories that I had interested them in. My product knowledge was not fluff. It was through reading and understanding the client's needs and wants.

Moving on, I wonder what lies ahead for me next week. I will just concentrate on preparing my leave and the post-event admin work.

Thank you all that came to the party and saw little of me. Very much appreciated. *Muacks*

All so quaint

Managed to squeeze in time for PS Cafe again on a week day night. I am so loving that place now. And I am not pressured to wear anything dazzling or glamourous to that all so quaint Cafe on Harding Road.

Caught up with Ashley for a a nice cuppa before he leaves for Perth. Brought back fond memories that we spent driving around Perth and late night chats at Fast Eddy's. Yes! I miss Fast Eddy's. Not only do I miss that, but I miss everything about Perth, cuddling in my winter clothes on a cold night and trying to be sane on a cold cold night with my heater on full blast.

What do I do?

Just another quiet weekend for me. Now that BL is back to Perth, I have very little company. It is a choice that I want my weekends to be simple and peaceful now. After all the exhaustion from work, it only makes sense for me to keep it simple and sweet. Getting worried for my event happening next Wed, wonder if I will make or break it. I hope that Harper's Bazaar is not going to pull out last minute on me. I really need that interview to happen as I only managed to get a few of the media in Singapore interested in Jon Kennedy.

Pictures: Brian's farewell

Gorged ourselves silly with desserts even after a satisfying meal at Tiong Bahru.


Picture with PS Cafe as the backdrop, for friends that never drops.

Cleaned up.

When all it comes to is a letter.

I finally submitted my letter of resignation. The feeling was pure bliss, the past 1 month seemed like forever. An average day starts 8.30am and I would be so lucky should I be able to leave by 7.30am. The workload is so intense that I had very little time to even reflect on my work for the day. I just had to execute and execute, I could not think at all. The very word to describe what I went through--Overwhelmed.

Less the work talk, I guess I should cheer up and look at finding another job that might be more of a match with my skills.

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Keep on smiling....that was what I had to do when I was working through the weekend.

Saturday:-

• 8am shoot @ Bukit Timah Nature Reserve
• 12 noon shoot @ Fitness First 1 George Street-Nike Rockstar Bollywood

Sunday:-

• Shape run @ Marina Promenade
• Shoot with Lisa Ang

The highlight of the weekend was simply spending time with my friends.

Suddenly after 3 weeks of intense working life, I have came to a conclusion, life is not a bed of roses. Just 3 weeks into PR life and it has completely zapped me off my energy. Incident after incident just seemed to have sucked my positivity away just like that. What happened to my positive attitude? I ask myself. Have I lost it in the midst of the screams? As I plunge deeper and deeper into all these, I awaken in the dark night only to find myself screaming in a lost. Is this what I really want? Is that what my life is mapped out for? Or is this simply a transition phase that I am going through? I have absolutely no idea. I have always gotten what I wanted and I will. But this time round, I question my abilities. I always tell myself that my attitude is what makes me special and is what that can see me through the storms. But I really am having second thoughts this time round.

I am finding it hard to rebound back to day one of working life, the happy feel and the zest of life. Now, it is worse than having to receive the order of guard duty on a weekend. What is guard duty on a weekend compared to working over the weekend? Hmmmm.....

I know that I am on the steep side of the learning curve, and not beong ashamed of this, I say that I am struggling at the deep end of the pool. Trapping water at this stage, but surely to sink soon. I do not know how to handle the pressure that I am carrying at the moment. I wish that it is as easy as dumping them off my hump. Argh!!! No one can understand what I am going through now, and so I just refuse to share it. No point sharing something that the other party would not understand. All they see of me know is fluffy Adrian hopping from party to party. Trust me, sometimes the parties are nice to go for. But when you have expectations out of the party, it no longer is a funny thing.

I just wish that I can put all these down and just escape to Perth. Carry on with my studies and see where that might lead me. Maybe I am just immature to handle the situations infront of me right now.

I need help and I need a solution fast. Before I sink further into all these and find myself in a stickier situation than now.

An evening of drinks makes the work worthwhile

Work may not have been good to me. But the fact that my friends from Perth are back in town makes the hardwork seem so far away. There is always drinks available with my friends, after a hard day's work.

Cheers!