Fly or Die?

fly or die

Monday, January 19, 2004
Matt the EgoManiac All in all I would call it a good distraction to my otherwise single-minded life. Trish, a long time friend from school, called and we decide to meet up in Mid Valley. Halfway through my second Latte, Trish came in followed by a-friend-I-bumped-into-on-the-way-here. Liar. She plonked herself beside me, her eyes beaming with naughtiness. "This is Matt." I thought this was supposed to be a giggly girl session - where we talk about old cranky teachers; and the time Trish called up the "you want luv?" hotline scribbled on the toilet wall. No. It seems, Trish had other plans, which I did not plan for. Like all my attached girlfriends, she has good intentions which on closer examination are truly bad. I shook Matt's hand limply. And he quickly went to get coffee. My eyes narrowed menacingly at her. "He's very smart," she half-whispered. "The book reading type." I rolled my eyes. "Trish, you know better than to do this ... to me!" Matt comes back with a Grande Latte. Hmmph. To compensate for shortfalls elsewhere? To be fair, he does not look like the hunchback of Notre Dame. He is well... okay ... in an okay sort of way. Sorry. I am always incoherent when it comes to men. He starts talking about his work in IT, how he dabbled in web designing ("I'm quite a pixel artist") before he discovered SAP ("I really love it when the systems go live") to be his forte. ("I dive", "I always bring my digital camera around", "Here are some pictures of me at The Beach") Matt - the man about town, his name in lights! Hurrah! Trish makes little eye darts towards me. I don't dart back. I let her see my growing grimace. Suffer, woman! But still I am too polite. I choke the urge to shout "Stop it! You egomaniac!" I do TextTwist in my head and wonder when the weekend will end. Pencil chewed at 5:41:00 pm //
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A neurotic, nail biting, slightly schizo, caffeine crazed copywriter who doesn't know better than waste her life in the pursuit of the golden pencil a.k.a The One Show. To console me, click here.

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people mentioned in this blog

I realised that it is increasingly difficult for you to identify who's who in this blog. So here's a rundown. Will try to categorise entries to names but that will take some time, cause I still haven't figured out how to do it.
In the agency
Big Billy - Boss, my Creative Director
Donna - beautiful bimbo Account Executive
Heng - the art director I used to work with
Hoe, Mr - my favourite client
Jenna - the art director I'm working with now
Susan - street smart Group Account Director
Tina - my Traffic Manager
Tomas - fellow copywriter, confidante

Beyond the agency
June & Mila - my best gal pals
Matt - the guy dating me
Minnie & Moe - my guppies
Trish - the friend who set me up with Matt

*all names have been changed.

my zany portfolio

I'll paste work here periodically. But none of them will be real client work - just my own initiates and doodling.

awesome ad of the week

G-Day Coffee TVC. Scene opens on guy trying to slide down a dry water slide. He gets stuck. He finally manages to squeak all the way down. TVC ends with him savouring a mug of G-Day coffee and the tag "Save water for G-Day coffee". A bit unreal but I love the humour. And the talent, the Each Other actor (I forgot his name), is super. He makes it work.

wished i wrote that

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