QBJs in the front seat! Contortionistic Stunts! Free show for all to see!
(Stay tuned for Part 2, folks! Not to be missed!!!) *woot*
Monday, September 26, 2005
Monday, September 05, 2005
Content on MSN.com is actually readable, even...addictive?!
http://msn.match.com/msn/article.aspx?articleid=4533&menuid=1&lid=428&ER=sessiontimeout
http://women.msn.com/relationshipsindex.armx
http://women.msn.com/160458.armx
I even like MSN Today... geez!!! Whatever happened to reading quality content online (and offline)?
You know, heavy, intellectual, current affairs-oriented newsy stuff, like...
http://today.reuters.com/news/default.aspx
http://www.bbc.co.uk/?ok
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
http://www.economist.com/index.html?uviewed=3
http://www.time.com/time/
Or stuff that one finds relevant to career development and the acquisition of more knowledge, post-university corporate world information, the like...
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/index.jhtml
http://www.darwinmag.com/
http://www.entrepreneur.com/
http://startup.wsj.com/
http://www.marketingprofs.com/
We just don't have the time to read anymore, do we?
I've been stuck in Malcolm Gladwell's Blink for ages, and this other book, The One Minute Millionaire, by Mark Victor Hansen & Robert Allen, for even longer. Not that I dislike the 2 books...it's just slow going! This coming from someone who devoured The Lord of the Rings in its entirety (Fellowship of the Ring, Two Towers, Return of the King, and the Appendices) within a few days (less than a week, for sure), The Silmarillion within 3 days, and most other books within a few hours (thicker ones go up to a day at the most).
Maybe it's tougher to read on the computer. Maybe non-fiction is more difficult to read continuously, and tends to be easier to take up and put down. Maybe The Working Life just doesn't allow the time and energy for reading - and I'm talking about the meaningful, constructive, brain-feeding, truly enjoyable kind of reading that only bookworms can understand. Maybe it's age!
Or there's just too much entertaining, attractive, useless, trivial crap out there that just hooks you in and gets you to waste time reading bullshit...just for mental recreation, just to let your brain relax in the embrace of trashy news and utterly forgettable information...
I don't know. Am I just being neurotic and anal, now?
I am disappointed, though, that Mediacorp Publishing has acquired Elle Magazine. It's the only female magazine that I bother buying & keeping...if the content quality drops then, well, there's no more hope!
Here's the article:
Marketing Weekly, 31 August 2005
MediaCorp Publishing takes control
By Clarice Chiam
Singapore - MediaCorp Publishing (“MPB”) has acquired Hachette MediaCorp (“HMPL”) in a move that will see MPB publishing Elle Singapore under licence from Hachette Filipacchi Presse S.A directly.
MPB released a statement saying it decided to do away with the original joint venture between itself and Hachette Filipacchi Presse S.A in a bid to “respond better to the magazine’s reader and advertiser’s needs” as it will handle all aspects of publishing from content creation to marketing and distribution.
“The acquisition of HMPL is in-line with our strategic plans to streamline our corporate structure as we expand into the region,” said Philip Koh, CEO of MediaCorp Publishing. MPB also holds the licence to publish the Malaysian edition of Elle.
http://women.msn.com/relationshipsindex.armx
http://women.msn.com/160458.armx
I even like MSN Today... geez!!! Whatever happened to reading quality content online (and offline)?
You know, heavy, intellectual, current affairs-oriented newsy stuff, like...
http://today.reuters.com/news/default.aspx
http://www.bbc.co.uk/?ok
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
http://www.economist.com/index.html?uviewed=3
http://www.time.com/time/
Or stuff that one finds relevant to career development and the acquisition of more knowledge, post-university corporate world information, the like...
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/index.jhtml
http://www.darwinmag.com/
http://www.entrepreneur.com/
http://startup.wsj.com/
http://www.marketingprofs.com/
We just don't have the time to read anymore, do we?
I've been stuck in Malcolm Gladwell's Blink for ages, and this other book, The One Minute Millionaire, by Mark Victor Hansen & Robert Allen, for even longer. Not that I dislike the 2 books...it's just slow going! This coming from someone who devoured The Lord of the Rings in its entirety (Fellowship of the Ring, Two Towers, Return of the King, and the Appendices) within a few days (less than a week, for sure), The Silmarillion within 3 days, and most other books within a few hours (thicker ones go up to a day at the most).
Maybe it's tougher to read on the computer. Maybe non-fiction is more difficult to read continuously, and tends to be easier to take up and put down. Maybe The Working Life just doesn't allow the time and energy for reading - and I'm talking about the meaningful, constructive, brain-feeding, truly enjoyable kind of reading that only bookworms can understand. Maybe it's age!
Or there's just too much entertaining, attractive, useless, trivial crap out there that just hooks you in and gets you to waste time reading bullshit...just for mental recreation, just to let your brain relax in the embrace of trashy news and utterly forgettable information...
I don't know. Am I just being neurotic and anal, now?
I am disappointed, though, that Mediacorp Publishing has acquired Elle Magazine. It's the only female magazine that I bother buying & keeping...if the content quality drops then, well, there's no more hope!
Here's the article:
Marketing Weekly, 31 August 2005
MediaCorp Publishing takes control
By Clarice Chiam
Singapore - MediaCorp Publishing (“MPB”) has acquired Hachette MediaCorp (“HMPL”) in a move that will see MPB publishing Elle Singapore under licence from Hachette Filipacchi Presse S.A directly.
MPB released a statement saying it decided to do away with the original joint venture between itself and Hachette Filipacchi Presse S.A in a bid to “respond better to the magazine’s reader and advertiser’s needs” as it will handle all aspects of publishing from content creation to marketing and distribution.
“The acquisition of HMPL is in-line with our strategic plans to streamline our corporate structure as we expand into the region,” said Philip Koh, CEO of MediaCorp Publishing. MPB also holds the licence to publish the Malaysian edition of Elle.
Sunday, September 04, 2005
New Job
Rather slow news, am afraid! But who reads this crap, anyway?!
Made a really fast job-switch on the 25th Aug, leaping from MICE(Meetings, Incentives, Conventions & Exhibitions, oh what a relief to say tata to all that long-winded hogwash!!!) into Publishing.
(It feels like a right move back towards the creative industries, although still a different environment from advertising. A constructive, positive, motivating career move for yours truly. Hopefully!!!)
Must say I pulled a really speedy hat-trick for this whole episode; making up my mind to quit the current job, job-hunting, going for interviews without being obvious about it, succeeding, getting the offer, agreeing, resigning (it was a shocker to one of my bosses - had to suffer his shocked shriek over the phone), and doing handover...all in a matter of one month or so.
...And in the midst of all this, organising the last - probably the most memorable - networking event I would do for SACEOS... Schmoozing/grovelling with the potential and new members (to recruit them, of course - oh how dedicated I was to the recuitment cause for an utterly shitty association - until my last day I was still worrying about the membership stuff)... Juggling a social life, friends, family...
And trying - eventually failing, though it was not due to my being preoccupied with work or my bad time-management (but then, it just isn't so simple, is it? I'm suggesting something rather unfair) - to maintain a relationship with someone who was almost, but never completely, there for me.
Can't blame him, really. To be objective, circumstances broke us, and perhaps we were just not meant to be. There were so many issues that still remain unresolved, but I have to move on. I still wonder about how self-centredness/a lack of selflessness marked it all, or could have made it better or worse. So many tough questions that may never find answers. Questions about respect, trust, intimacy, honesty, religion, family-issues, communication, life perspectives, self-awareness, understanding each other...I probably made some mistakes I've made before and some new ones too, some of which I regret, others not at all. We were equal and yet disparate, similar and yet different; our being together was right and yet wrong, good and also bad... it also ended, though amicably, without real closure. (My fault, that.) Yet despite the worry/pain/sorrow/misery and all that post-breakup shit, despite it being so short-lived, he was worth it, somehow. Yet I've never been able to figure out how exactly he was worth it...still can't. *shrug* Now you can all accuse me of thinking too much, yes. I cannot escape this rather pathetic mental activity, though. I'm a brooder. (Doesn't that sound like a bird-like thing to do? ;p)
Thus, I departed without ceremony (only a rather uncomfortable, even unpleasant Pizza-Hut Delivery farewell lunch...the triple-cheese stuffed crust pizza was awesome, though! Highly recommended for cheese-lovers.) from www.saceos.org.sg (That damn lengthy organisation name shalt plague me no more!!! Now they can self-destruct and rot for all I care. Suckers. In every sense of the word! *grimace*) and made my entrance into www.paperclip.com.sg (Just by comparing the 2 websites, you can see the difference in the identity and culture in these 2 organisations. Says a lot.)
After more than one week, all I can say is: "Yeah!"
A much better place to work, kinder bosses, fun-loving colleagues...it feels almost surreal to get this lucky. It's quite close to a dream job in my book, but then again my standards are pretty off-the-mark from what most people may label as "benchmarks for a dream job" anyway.
I have to thank God for this, I know. :D
In other news: I'm doing a series of collaborative artwork with Shaun Ee/Doodle of Garden Silly - www.eeshaun.com - fame to print on t-shirts for www.nakedwhine.com. More updates soon!
How are you doing, though? Let me know.
Made a really fast job-switch on the 25th Aug, leaping from MICE(Meetings, Incentives, Conventions & Exhibitions, oh what a relief to say tata to all that long-winded hogwash!!!) into Publishing.
(It feels like a right move back towards the creative industries, although still a different environment from advertising. A constructive, positive, motivating career move for yours truly. Hopefully!!!)
Must say I pulled a really speedy hat-trick for this whole episode; making up my mind to quit the current job, job-hunting, going for interviews without being obvious about it, succeeding, getting the offer, agreeing, resigning (it was a shocker to one of my bosses - had to suffer his shocked shriek over the phone), and doing handover...all in a matter of one month or so.
...And in the midst of all this, organising the last - probably the most memorable - networking event I would do for SACEOS... Schmoozing/grovelling with the potential and new members (to recruit them, of course - oh how dedicated I was to the recuitment cause for an utterly shitty association - until my last day I was still worrying about the membership stuff)... Juggling a social life, friends, family...
And trying - eventually failing, though it was not due to my being preoccupied with work or my bad time-management (but then, it just isn't so simple, is it? I'm suggesting something rather unfair) - to maintain a relationship with someone who was almost, but never completely, there for me.
Can't blame him, really. To be objective, circumstances broke us, and perhaps we were just not meant to be. There were so many issues that still remain unresolved, but I have to move on. I still wonder about how self-centredness/a lack of selflessness marked it all, or could have made it better or worse. So many tough questions that may never find answers. Questions about respect, trust, intimacy, honesty, religion, family-issues, communication, life perspectives, self-awareness, understanding each other...I probably made some mistakes I've made before and some new ones too, some of which I regret, others not at all. We were equal and yet disparate, similar and yet different; our being together was right and yet wrong, good and also bad... it also ended, though amicably, without real closure. (My fault, that.) Yet despite the worry/pain/sorrow/misery and all that post-breakup shit, despite it being so short-lived, he was worth it, somehow. Yet I've never been able to figure out how exactly he was worth it...still can't. *shrug* Now you can all accuse me of thinking too much, yes. I cannot escape this rather pathetic mental activity, though. I'm a brooder. (Doesn't that sound like a bird-like thing to do? ;p)
Thus, I departed without ceremony (only a rather uncomfortable, even unpleasant Pizza-Hut Delivery farewell lunch...the triple-cheese stuffed crust pizza was awesome, though! Highly recommended for cheese-lovers.) from www.saceos.org.sg (That damn lengthy organisation name shalt plague me no more!!! Now they can self-destruct and rot for all I care. Suckers. In every sense of the word! *grimace*) and made my entrance into www.paperclip.com.sg (Just by comparing the 2 websites, you can see the difference in the identity and culture in these 2 organisations. Says a lot.)
After more than one week, all I can say is: "Yeah!"
A much better place to work, kinder bosses, fun-loving colleagues...it feels almost surreal to get this lucky. It's quite close to a dream job in my book, but then again my standards are pretty off-the-mark from what most people may label as "benchmarks for a dream job" anyway.
I have to thank God for this, I know. :D
In other news: I'm doing a series of collaborative artwork with Shaun Ee/Doodle of Garden Silly - www.eeshaun.com - fame to print on t-shirts for www.nakedwhine.com. More updates soon!
How are you doing, though? Let me know.
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