moved!

I'm officially moving! Alas! So much fond memories here, for the better, this too shall go!
Here's the new address and do pop by to say hi!



good bye and hello!

21 suggestions for a successful advertising career

Lets be a little texty and feast in the visual of text shall we?

1. Find the right place to gain as much experience as possible in the shortest amount of time. This may mean a hot-shop independent agency, a large multinational or hopping jobs every 2 years depending on the available options you may have.

2. Work somewhere that's worthy of your time and talent. Don't settle for any job.

3. Put more effort into your job than expected and do it cheerfully.

4. Become the most positive and enthusiastic adman in the agency.

5. Be forgiving of yourself and others. We're humans and we make mistakes even when we only have good intentions. Don't allow such mistakes make you lose sight of long term goals.

6. Be generous with your contributions to the team's work. Do not try to take credit for every idea you came up with.

7. Persistence, persistence, persistence. Great work never just falls into your lap. You need to work for it, refine it, perfect it.

8. If you clearly see you're going into the wrong direction with your strategy do not be afraid to stop and rethink everything even if it means you have to start everything from scratch.

9. Discipline yourself to save money on even a modest salary. This will give you the freedom to change jobs when things go bad and will allow you to take meaningful holidays that refresh your mind and body.

10. Commit yourself to constant improvement. Technology and the industry is developing really fast. You have to keep up.

11. Commit yourself to quality. Do not ever settle for something less than your outmost best. Perfect your work till time allows.

12. Your professional happiness isn't based on the number of awards or how much you make, but on the relationships you have with your colleagues and clients. Treat them with respect.

13. Be loyal to your clients and your agency. It will be appreciated even by the competition.

14. Be honest with your work. Never lie or mislead the consumer. If you do you will feel miserable about your profession.

15. Be a self-starter. If you identify an idea take charge and go for it.

16. Do not blame others. If you're unhappy about something take the initiative to change instead of whining about it.

17. Be decisive even if it means you'll sometimes be wrong. Timing is everything in advertising.

18. Be bold and courageous with your work. When you look back on your professional life, you will regret the the things you didn't do more than the one you did.

19. Do not overestimate the value of formal education. Most successful adman never had formal advertising eduction. Real work experience is more valuable than any education.

20. Eat healthy, do sports. Your mind and body are your only tools available to you. Do not abuse substances. Save them for those critical special times when you really need a boost.

21. Don't take all advice for granted. Pick what's useful for you. Make up your own rules and change them at your will.

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And how can I have a post without a visual? Ponder through.. .. twenty-one pointer is not that short afterall.. .. Hmmmmm.

Rumble Rumbo

I am bored to tears. So, there's a need to rumble. I was flip flopping around till I saw this site, Life Before Death. Ahhhhh, I would say it's a very interesting site, it consist of living on after you are gone, a party to die for, how to write an obituary etc. Ahhh yes, seriously, not that I am thinking of death itself, but it just happened upon that click. Oh wells, the list went on for what are the things you want to do before you die, the music yadayada..

Ok, my point is, Life is SO short.
Are you painting a rainbows every single day? So, I made a list of to dos myself
(Sound like some new year resolution ay?) Good gracious me. Its an expanding list and it sound more like a shopping list! Glasp! (An end to all new beginning my dear.)

Whatever it is, I am working towards mine. I promised to fullfilled every state I made. And you know what, I am pretty impress with myself lately. HAHA.

I will share it with you, here, whenever I attain each state.

Keep an close watch on me. The eagle is about to take off.

Rumble ends here.

The half pulled rabbit.

The idea of popping champagne fascinates me.

What exactly is your idea of popping champagne?
To me, it is the very sense comprises that cherry which glazed off emotions.

I told L I would empty my vault for the celebration. Yet I was question by T for my motive behind those act. Oh, perhaps this is why it fascinate me, as every perception is a mental sense that lead to the physical act for popping champage.

Attest or bring it away?


hunting space

The plant named Poppy

Poppy, the seeds used, whole or ground, as an ingredient in many foods.

Poppies have long been used as a symbol of both sleep and death: sleep because of the opium extracted from them, and death because of their blood-red color. In Greco-Roman myths, poppies were used as offerings to the dead. Poppies are used as emblems on tombstones to symbolize eternal sleep. This aspect was used, fictionally, in "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" to create magical poppy fields, dangerous because they caused those who passed through them to sleep forever.

How magnificent they are, concrete with the monuments thicken with the facts.

The taste of the seed some what resemble sesame, yet, a punch was added to it. Indeed, drowsy. But do you call this a drug? Or the natural form of a sleeping pills?

If, this is what addiction is, I am a drug addict. Not only to the flower named Poppy. But to many others.

That bar of chocolate.

Two lines, it can be seen as two parallel lines of which never it would cross. Or, a constant moving objects. That, acting upon either ways. Like an arrow, or a pixel.

With a little imagination, probably, it would turn into many else. With my limited source of imagination, I look upon as a bar of kit-kat.

In many case of how the brain works, it is entwined.

My dear friends, I am going for a break. For how long? Well, I’ve not set a date either have I enclosed the idea of what a break is.

Nevertheless, I will allow the post to be post till the last dated date. Pardon me for this decision. It is a heart breaker, and I was torn apart.

I understand with the polls, ’give away’ took the higher percentage.
The highlight, perhaps, I would end off with a give-away. I will rope you in the situation when I got that post done up.

For now, I would spread the love till then.
Inspiration will not be stopped here. I maybe inspired in another forms, thus an act to share all over again. However, let me be selfish, still, keep me in loop.

Thank you so much for coming by.

I can’t say no more.

Be good, be well.

Spread Design Love.

Love
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Wonders of the world

I was reading up one the wonders of the world the other day. I didn't know there's actually a various list of the wonder world. It is actually a very good read if you have no idea which are the wonder world.

Wonders of the World have been compiled over the ages to catalogue the most spectacular constructions and natural things in the world.

PS// The above image is blue mosque, it got nothing to do with the wonder world. Still, don't you think its jaws dropping?

The beauty within

When a fragile beauty is hidden inside, we hesitate to touch, for fear of spoiling or breaking it. At that moment of hesitation, we perceive the object a little more sensitively and delicately than usual.

Kenya Hara

another approach of design

Verbalizing design is another act of design.

-Kenya Hara

The Colours of Wind

My Inspiration
This piece of work named, "The Colors of Wind", wind shape landforms, wind moved great distances, the movement of wind brought us lush greenery & the waterfront promenade. The colors are inspired from the kaleidoscope activities Marina Bay have to offered. The fluidity of the flow acts as the rhythm acting as the prime of waterfront land, thriving with energetic. Change in a new concept of city living that embraces the city beat, the people, aiding plants all life in dispersal of growth.

Here's my entry, to vote, comment are most welcome.



Hooray to the upcoming weekend!!

With all my love.

You've to click for the bigger view, yep, I decided to share and did a print screen on the mail.
I thought it was funny. Haaa. Two crazy people. Happy Birthday to you!

Will you respect it?

Can In-house Design Departments Be Respectable?

Go on, read it, amazingly useful.

What say you?

The 10 Commandments

Think Bakery

Quoted Source:

Top Ten Unspoken Rules of Blogging

10. Don’t be boring. I once read a book by the lovely Maggie Mason of MightyGirl fame entitled No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog. She’s pretty much right, and we’ll leave you to fill in the details.

9. Which brings us to our second rule: Link to others frequently. Chances are, they’re smarter than you, and have funnier things to say. And who knows? Maybe they’ll return the favor and give you little linky back. This is how your blog grows!

8. Be yourself. You know how you can see through your co-worker when she tells you she listens to Laura Marling [she's totally a Timberlake fan]. Yeah, that works for online, too.

7. Find your niche. This goes without saying, but pick a topic and focus on it. It’s ok for your topic to be broad, but don’t make it scattered. Your audience will thank you with RSS subscriptions.

6. Stay positive. At least, remotely positive. No one likes to read a Mean Mary. Plus, you’ve gotta watch what you’re saying when the entire world is listening.

5. Bring originality. The best blogs bring something other than a round-up of overexposed links and articles. Whether it be personal photography or a bit of personality, bring what you’ve got, because no one else can.

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Quite a read ay? It says top ten, move over. I thought its a useful feed. So come on, lets share. It's mid week! Stay thankful!

WONDERWALL / Masamichi Katayama

I bought my reading cap to work this whole week, but this morning in particular, I'd the real intensive reading mode turn on. Therefore, the labour of this taxing entry. I was reading through one other article this morning, and was pretty inspired to blog about it.

Anyhow, this is only a tip of what I'd read. And right below, stood a chunk of my own thoughts.

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Masamichi Katayama interest in design has always been broad. While respecting conventional and traditional aspects of architecture, he believes in breaking boundaries, and he is on a continual search for new ideas. Hence the name, Wonderwall: a continuous endless journey. Each project is conceived from scratch, rarely repeating details and ideas used in past projects. When designing retail spaces, not only does Katayama address all the elements of the interior, such as lighting, materials, and proportions but he also considers the actual experience of shopping. With restaurants and office spaces, while the actual design may be a crucial element, the interiors are not complete to him without achieving comfort and function. To Katayama, conceiving an interior is about producing a total concept, and his intentions are to create an environment that would touch the subconscious of the consumer and occupant.

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I like the way he conclude his direction & belief in this work profile. No doubt this article comes from a architecture designer, but whatever it is, they’re the fields that fascinate me, and that I want to learn more about. Their work influences so many aspects of our world yet most of the time it’s taken for granted. I think that, especially today, it’s crucial for us to re-examine how we make, use, look at consumer products at every level.

But, I am not deducing it as a whole but by the details of the elaboration. Its like reading between the lines thingy.

It's very true and applicable for each and every designer out there, it set off as a reminder that we constantly have got to remind ourselves with. The sensitively one should stick with as well as the aspect of ones' behaviour.

Well, probably this set apart, the label of gey gao-ness. So much so, embrace the title, for that, there'll be effective living environment. Don't ya think? I fancy the way this being camouflage between the lines, for it bring forth another level of subconscious behaviour. Kudos to the senses of human!

In every other matter I found the last sentence sum the mass up, so simple yet so intricate.