Fly or Die?

fly or die

Wednesday, April 14, 2004
Prison without Astro Poxing Day 10. This is how prison feels like. Solitary confinement. Bad food. No visitors. You begin talking to yourself. There is also this strange urge to want to etch the walls with stick marks in groups of 5s. What can a gal do with herself all day? This one thinks up ideas. Seriously, you've heard of how people finish degrees in prison, read an entire library, write books, discover nuclear fusion (no, I made the last one up but you get the point). I am beginning to understand why. No distractions. Oh sure, you get the occasional rat which fights you for your slop. Or the Botak Chin look-a-like who'll punch your lights out (or worse) unless you give him your fag. But generally, in prison, you get loads of uninterrupted time. Without people, mobile phones and movies, there is amazing clarity. The solitude. The empty to-do list. The days of getting dressed to go nowhere. So like a witch, I rub my hands with glee over my pot of brewing ideas. 1) A neat campaign for my new client. Ooh, Heng and Susan will love it. 2) A pile of initiatives ('scam ads' to those who know what I'm talking about) to show to Big Billy. (Billy, you'll forever thank the day you hired me after this.) 3) 2 names for my future children so that I won't run into similar problems as James. If nothing else, this is one reason why everybody should get chicken pox once in their lifetime. When you spend less time looking at yourself, you see a whole lot more. Pencil chewed at 1:51:00 am //
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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

We tell our prospects. When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. - Leo Burnett

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