"Cancer. She got cancer..." How's that for an unexpected reply to a dull-day question about the timing of a meeting? And even more unexpected: Dickson gave this shock news with a chuckle. Sure we knew Dickson was a dick, but I hadn't imagined he'd laugh at the prospect of our Boss's impending doom.

Oh no, that's terrible... How awful I thought. I ( Read more... )

Yes, this *would* count as one of the worst days at work i ever did have. And if i defend myself for the shit i am in: i'll be getting fired for ruffling the cheap-as 2nd Chance-stylee feathers of the big hen. And i'm cornered because of the ambiguous male/female relationship of the bossbird and bossman... none of which is worth mentioning (unless ( Read more... )

My grasp of lingo is warped, so I've no right to giggle at examples of bad English. But seeing as I work in a place that fancies itself as an ad agency in "worldclass" Singapore, I surely have some right to mention little ironies my colleagues seem immune to. Today's would be email from a client instructing that: "i am actually looking for at least ( Read more... )

NOTE: This may be a VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE to some of you...

Please be informed that there's a foodstuff called Yen Yi Xiong that comes in small (mostly transparent) mini-biscuit sized packets. It is made by Chendu Xianbeier Food Co., Ltd.

And they might make you very happy if you have no access to -and miss- the cereal known as Quaker Kalas ( Read more... )

Just sussed the maybe-why reason that a client insists we use a particular headline for a large "lifestyle window" outside a large building on Orchard Road. The client is a large multinational F&B chain. Their desire is to be inviting. They intend to do this by ordering them thus:

Be welcomingI now suspect that they found this line in their ( Read more... )

Just got a message from my "Creative Director" (the Boss) that a tiny line on a tiny leaflet with a tiny lifespan "do not sound interesting" (that's a comment, not a command). Luckily she provided her own examples of "interesting". I could not make this up (unless I was pretending to be Gollum or Yoda):

Delifrances cakes make perfect for your ( Read more... )

Want to be Miss Singapore? To hedge your bets you might consider geting a job with, or studying under, my next oldest brother. He's in Leeds. It might be an idea because previous Miss Singapores include one of my Dad's former students, followed by one of my Mum's old associates. And Carol, the new Miss Singapore as of yesturday (I am told), is my ( Read more... )

funny old world. just been told to stop saying that i don't have a life. fair enough. this comes, in the same instance as being told that ETC are amusingly on MTV somewhere (?!!). some might translate that as being with "life". another such bit of "life" recently missed: an appearance in another avenue of teenybop media, LIME magazine (it's the one ( Read more... )

colleagues & i have just been informed (via art director) that we're not to use ear-pieces at work. bosses wary we get "distracted" -- unaware walkmen & iPods are employed to drown out the distracting jabbering of certain excitables; the distracting ever-rising porcine whine of the boss "negotiating" w/ clients; not to mention simpering stomach- ( Read more... )

The mind is permitted to boggle is it not? Especially when, an hour before deadline, one’s boss is capable of mangling a simple headline into this:

A package deal that's been make faster than ever!

I will soon have to write a rationale for this too. If only I knew what she was trying to say. And I thought her two “choices” from yesterday (same ( Read more... )