Hoooboy, the Maxx-A-Million Contest has just been suspended due to the Fatwa's decree that all SMS contests offering players a chance to win money are all "haram". TV3 has decided to suspend all SMS contests on their channel until further notice, and we are one of those contests. Sad.
The void I'm feeling right now is most interesting. I've been crazily busy for the past 2 months and now all of a sudden, I have nothing to do! The feeling is almost floaty in a way yet my heart is thudding in my ears. Hmmm... It's like I'm the bee in The Flight of the Bumblebee but suddenly this mean kid comes along and pulls my wings out! I'm falling and falling but I haven't touched the ground yet?
When will I hit the ground? And when I do, what happenes?
Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Thursday, July 22, 2004
Frenetic lull... if that makes sense
Oh, everything's getting crazier and crazier! It's like a there are so many things in my head that I've blocked out all the 'noise', leaving a muffled cavity but the frenetic pulses are still dashing around in the background.
So many things to do, so little time. Anyway, just thought I'd change the colour of my blog to add a little fake cheer-fullness to it. The original blue/grey background was making me depressed even more. Hopefully this works. Well, back to work
So many things to do, so little time. Anyway, just thought I'd change the colour of my blog to add a little fake cheer-fullness to it. The original blue/grey background was making me depressed even more. Hopefully this works. Well, back to work
Monday, July 19, 2004
Trying weekend at Sure Heboh Ipoh
I took half day off today. I went to see the doctor about my rashes, did the usual routine and got a half-day MC. She took one look at me, listened to my erratic heartbeat and told me to go home and rest. What's wrong with me? Nothing much except a bit of a sunstroke, sunburns and taken over by heat rashes.
Interesting experience. I've never gotten rashes from heat before. This was a totally virgin experience with the calamine lotion and all. *grin* Very cooling, took the itchiness away before I could say 'gawd darn blasted rashes'. It starts from behind my ears all the way down to my cleavage. Let me tell you how embarrassing and unsightly it was that someone caught me scratching between my breasts. *ulkgh* I didn't know someone was above on the landing looking down! Bloody hell. Anyway, it was darn itchy.
So the reason for the whole episode today was because of my weekend in Ipoh. I was there to supervise the Maxx-a-Million roadshow in the Sure Heboh Carnival that ran from 17 & 18 July 2004. I had to be there as I'd planned a whole new agenda for this time round and I had to be there to make sure that things go as planned. Hah. Things didn't go as planned and I had to scrapped my plans and improvise. But at least we sold 50% more game packs compared to the last two weekends.
Funny thing was that on the car journey to Ipoh, I had a real bad tummy ache - I must have eaten something bad for dinner and it usually takes me a long time to feel the bad food. We had to stop at gas stations three times before we hit the Sg Buloh highway. Very embarrassing for me. And since I had not eaten a thing that day, my tummy felt like there was a dark pit inside demanding to be filled whilst the tummy ache wrenches took breathers. It was h-o-r-r-i-b-l-e. My colleagues wanted me to ditch the working trip and go home and rest but I just couldn't. Even through my haze of pain, I managed to convey that I didn't want to go home, that I wanted to go to Ipoh. I felt an over-whelming sense of responsibility for the Maxx Roadshows. There was no one else in that car that knew it what to do. They sighed and rolled their eyes and I know they were irritated with me then, but I had to go. And thank god I went If I didn't, I don't think they could've handled the various and many problems that cropped up.
Oh and there were 190,000 people there that weekend, all of which ambled passed our booth I'd like to think. There were so MANY people and it was HOT. I did my usual roaming to distribute leaflets, it took me half and hour to get to one end and another half to get back. I think all in all I spent 3 hours directly under the hot sun in a day. I cannot expect others to do things that I'm not willing or capable of doing. But nobody was dumb enough like me to do it actually. I was the only one who went roaming under the hot sun, and I didn't wear a hat nor did I slap on any sun block. *eeeediot* My cheeks are burnt tight and it hurts. But then I'm tan now, just my face though... next time I'll remember to strip down to the skin. *haha*
I'll be doing face peels in a few days time, and leaving a trail of DNA to boot. *Blech*
Though it was exhausting cos we worked form 11am until 8pm nonstop. It is not an easy job - it's unpaid manual labour. This kind of work, I do not think I can do for long. It's tiring and frustrating, I wonder how the promoters do it. You really have to give them credit for determinations and stamina.
The only thing I will complain about this time is people who are of higher ranking but not in the core project team dictating and over-riding my orders. I do not like it. This is my first project, of course I'm protective of it. I do not like people to come in and give commands or complain when they themselves have not done it. It extremely irritating to pander to them just because they are of higher ranking. But then when there are problems, they refer them to me and they are nowhere to be seen. The way I see it is that if you want to be the authority figure there, go ahead, be, but be all the way, not just half way. I'm accused of being too soft and that I should kick ass more often. I know that, but I do what I can and what I think is right. I've been doing this longer than her and I know what's going on, she doesn't. Somebody mention that I should talk to her about this but I can't. If I were to do this, it'll be career suicide at this point. I know I do not have the clout yet to make people in the upper echelons to listen to me. But my time will come.
What is wrong with this project has always been stinginess. Stinginess with money and stinginess with information. How do you expect people to do things when they are not updated constantly? Meaning let us in on the project meetings instead of just the three core people. Then we have to find out the hard way and usually too late to change anything. It makes me mad when people say, "You should know, you're part of the core project team". I am??? How come I didn't know that? Since when was I put in charge of the roadshows anyway? I don't really know. It just happened. Nobody appointed me as anything, but I seem to be the leader in this rabbit hop. *Blegh* And the project's only half way thru...
Interesting experience. I've never gotten rashes from heat before. This was a totally virgin experience with the calamine lotion and all. *grin* Very cooling, took the itchiness away before I could say 'gawd darn blasted rashes'. It starts from behind my ears all the way down to my cleavage. Let me tell you how embarrassing and unsightly it was that someone caught me scratching between my breasts. *ulkgh* I didn't know someone was above on the landing looking down! Bloody hell. Anyway, it was darn itchy.
So the reason for the whole episode today was because of my weekend in Ipoh. I was there to supervise the Maxx-a-Million roadshow in the Sure Heboh Carnival that ran from 17 & 18 July 2004. I had to be there as I'd planned a whole new agenda for this time round and I had to be there to make sure that things go as planned. Hah. Things didn't go as planned and I had to scrapped my plans and improvise. But at least we sold 50% more game packs compared to the last two weekends.
Funny thing was that on the car journey to Ipoh, I had a real bad tummy ache - I must have eaten something bad for dinner and it usually takes me a long time to feel the bad food. We had to stop at gas stations three times before we hit the Sg Buloh highway. Very embarrassing for me. And since I had not eaten a thing that day, my tummy felt like there was a dark pit inside demanding to be filled whilst the tummy ache wrenches took breathers. It was h-o-r-r-i-b-l-e. My colleagues wanted me to ditch the working trip and go home and rest but I just couldn't. Even through my haze of pain, I managed to convey that I didn't want to go home, that I wanted to go to Ipoh. I felt an over-whelming sense of responsibility for the Maxx Roadshows. There was no one else in that car that knew it what to do. They sighed and rolled their eyes and I know they were irritated with me then, but I had to go. And thank god I went If I didn't, I don't think they could've handled the various and many problems that cropped up.
Oh and there were 190,000 people there that weekend, all of which ambled passed our booth I'd like to think. There were so MANY people and it was HOT. I did my usual roaming to distribute leaflets, it took me half and hour to get to one end and another half to get back. I think all in all I spent 3 hours directly under the hot sun in a day. I cannot expect others to do things that I'm not willing or capable of doing. But nobody was dumb enough like me to do it actually. I was the only one who went roaming under the hot sun, and I didn't wear a hat nor did I slap on any sun block. *eeeediot* My cheeks are burnt tight and it hurts. But then I'm tan now, just my face though... next time I'll remember to strip down to the skin. *haha*
I'll be doing face peels in a few days time, and leaving a trail of DNA to boot. *Blech*
Though it was exhausting cos we worked form 11am until 8pm nonstop. It is not an easy job - it's unpaid manual labour. This kind of work, I do not think I can do for long. It's tiring and frustrating, I wonder how the promoters do it. You really have to give them credit for determinations and stamina.
The only thing I will complain about this time is people who are of higher ranking but not in the core project team dictating and over-riding my orders. I do not like it. This is my first project, of course I'm protective of it. I do not like people to come in and give commands or complain when they themselves have not done it. It extremely irritating to pander to them just because they are of higher ranking. But then when there are problems, they refer them to me and they are nowhere to be seen. The way I see it is that if you want to be the authority figure there, go ahead, be, but be all the way, not just half way. I'm accused of being too soft and that I should kick ass more often. I know that, but I do what I can and what I think is right. I've been doing this longer than her and I know what's going on, she doesn't. Somebody mention that I should talk to her about this but I can't. If I were to do this, it'll be career suicide at this point. I know I do not have the clout yet to make people in the upper echelons to listen to me. But my time will come.
What is wrong with this project has always been stinginess. Stinginess with money and stinginess with information. How do you expect people to do things when they are not updated constantly? Meaning let us in on the project meetings instead of just the three core people. Then we have to find out the hard way and usually too late to change anything. It makes me mad when people say, "You should know, you're part of the core project team". I am??? How come I didn't know that? Since when was I put in charge of the roadshows anyway? I don't really know. It just happened. Nobody appointed me as anything, but I seem to be the leader in this rabbit hop. *Blegh* And the project's only half way thru...
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
By the hand of Tenaga and fate, I get to blog on my new iBook
I'm so stoked. This is my first blog on my new iBook! My 12-inch, 1GHz PowerPC G4, 30 GB and Combo drive iBook. ^_^ Yay! I've been waiting to blog on my mac for a few days now., since Sunday when I bought it but I couldn't as I really didn't have time. I could have blog about it at work but I didn't want to debut with another computer - I didn't want to tell the cyber world that I bought an iBook just yet as I wanted to do it 'properly'. *grin* Which I am now. Hee hee.
I can't believe I am now the proud owner of a brand new iBook. Oooohhh. =)) I've been wanting so long to own one and now I do! No offence to my old laptop which I have given to my sister to use, this is by far the greatest laptop experience I've ever had. Of course, my old laptop is still loved. It's like your first love - you never forget them. The poor dear is so exhausted it no longer even sticks its tongue out at me anymore. Even if it does occasionally sticks its tongue out, it refuses to swallow. *sigh* Poor thing. It has served me very well. We had our first Aussie experience together and then of course the little darling was a great help in all of my assignments. I shall miss doing my work on it. But I still visit it occasionally and give it a pat now and then. You can never totally forget your first love, y'know.
The reason I'm able to blog now at such an early time is because fate has handed me time on a bronze platter - no electricity means no can do work as computer not working, lights not working, air-con not working and the only thing working is the phone which you can't really use as you can't see where the buttons are, so EVERYONE on third floor left; only the third floor is affected - so I'm now at home, blogging on my new iBook, ^_^ I've not been home so early in such a long time. *blissful sigh* Usually I get home about 10pm nowadays what with the MaXX-a-Million project and all. The power was fluctuating the whole day after lunch time for some reason. There were surges and of course computer freezes. It was hell for the tech guys, and today Leonard, our Central Tech Officer wasn't in, so the tech boys had to handle everything on their own. I teased Ken, our Financial Controller, that he must have forgotten to pay the electricity bill and that's why Tenaga is switching our electricity on and off to remind us to pay up! And he replied, "No, we always pay half first, that why. The other half must be due." Hahaha! Internal joke. *grin*
It's an amazing feeling. Typing on this is almost... *shiver* heaven. Plus the feel of this baby and the aesthetic value of it all... BLISS. And it plays heavenly music, it talks to me, I can watch videos, and it rips CDs... sigh... Seriously, sigh. The memory is fast running out as I'm ripping as many songs as I can in it, esp all my Chillout music. Right now, I'm playing Moby's Whispering Wind and ohhhhmeeegawdds... watch those goose bumps pop up and down with the soothing rhythm. Serious. If I were bolder, I'd say this experience is almost... orgasmic. *_*
I can't believe I am now the proud owner of a brand new iBook. Oooohhh. =)) I've been wanting so long to own one and now I do! No offence to my old laptop which I have given to my sister to use, this is by far the greatest laptop experience I've ever had. Of course, my old laptop is still loved. It's like your first love - you never forget them. The poor dear is so exhausted it no longer even sticks its tongue out at me anymore. Even if it does occasionally sticks its tongue out, it refuses to swallow. *sigh* Poor thing. It has served me very well. We had our first Aussie experience together and then of course the little darling was a great help in all of my assignments. I shall miss doing my work on it. But I still visit it occasionally and give it a pat now and then. You can never totally forget your first love, y'know.
The reason I'm able to blog now at such an early time is because fate has handed me time on a bronze platter - no electricity means no can do work as computer not working, lights not working, air-con not working and the only thing working is the phone which you can't really use as you can't see where the buttons are, so EVERYONE on third floor left; only the third floor is affected - so I'm now at home, blogging on my new iBook, ^_^ I've not been home so early in such a long time. *blissful sigh* Usually I get home about 10pm nowadays what with the MaXX-a-Million project and all. The power was fluctuating the whole day after lunch time for some reason. There were surges and of course computer freezes. It was hell for the tech guys, and today Leonard, our Central Tech Officer wasn't in, so the tech boys had to handle everything on their own. I teased Ken, our Financial Controller, that he must have forgotten to pay the electricity bill and that's why Tenaga is switching our electricity on and off to remind us to pay up! And he replied, "No, we always pay half first, that why. The other half must be due." Hahaha! Internal joke. *grin*
It's an amazing feeling. Typing on this is almost... *shiver* heaven. Plus the feel of this baby and the aesthetic value of it all... BLISS. And it plays heavenly music, it talks to me, I can watch videos, and it rips CDs... sigh... Seriously, sigh. The memory is fast running out as I'm ripping as many songs as I can in it, esp all my Chillout music. Right now, I'm playing Moby's Whispering Wind and ohhhhmeeegawdds... watch those goose bumps pop up and down with the soothing rhythm. Serious. If I were bolder, I'd say this experience is almost... orgasmic. *_*
The frenzy heightens still
The Maxx-a-Million juggernaut hit a small asteroid yesterday. Yesterday, published in a small column was an article announcing that the government has issued an order that all radio and TV stations airing SMS contests must be stop immediately.
Thus yesterday was filled with press interviews and meetings and damage control. The top people are handling this and so far I've not received any orders to stop my roadshows. After all, the MaXX-a-Million contest is so much more than just an SMS contest - it is a multi-platform contest that incorporates TV, SMS and encryption technology. 'Sides, can you imagine the amount of money already sunk into this project? If we were to stop now, a few million dollars of everybody's money will go down the drain.
So I'll be going to for the Sure Heboh Carnival in Ipoh this weekend. In fact I'll be going to all my roadshows this month. *sigh*
Anyway, can't blog much as I need to prepare another report and briefing for the air-time people going to help me in Ipoh this weekend.
So much work. But then it beats being bored and listless. =P
Thus yesterday was filled with press interviews and meetings and damage control. The top people are handling this and so far I've not received any orders to stop my roadshows. After all, the MaXX-a-Million contest is so much more than just an SMS contest - it is a multi-platform contest that incorporates TV, SMS and encryption technology. 'Sides, can you imagine the amount of money already sunk into this project? If we were to stop now, a few million dollars of everybody's money will go down the drain.
So I'll be going to for the Sure Heboh Carnival in Ipoh this weekend. In fact I'll be going to all my roadshows this month. *sigh*
Anyway, can't blog much as I need to prepare another report and briefing for the air-time people going to help me in Ipoh this weekend.
So much work. But then it beats being bored and listless. =P
Wednesday, July 07, 2004
I've bitten off more than I can chew
I cannot believe this. I'm so stressed right now that everything is beginning to kaleidoscope. It's all turning into one big blur. There are so many things that I need to do and should be doing that I'm beginning to hyper-ventilate. They've put me in charge of the roadshows and Sure Heboh, and now I've got another piece of lamb on my plate - coordinating all the booths at ExploRace. Ohmegawds...
If you're not sure what project I'm talking about, please click on the
MaXX-a-Million link. MaXX-a-Million is a contest in conjunction with TV3's 20th Anniversary. Go and check it out people and buy the game packs and play to win RM1,000,000!!! Whoo hoo!
What would you do with RM1,000,000???
If you're not sure what project I'm talking about, please click on the
MaXX-a-Million link. MaXX-a-Million is a contest in conjunction with TV3's 20th Anniversary. Go and check it out people and buy the game packs and play to win RM1,000,000!!! Whoo hoo!
What would you do with RM1,000,000???
Monday, July 05, 2004
I've passed the 12 hour mark... and then hit the 15th
*added on July 7, 8.38am*
Somebody asked me on chat what time did I go home that night... well, I got home around 12.05am in the morning, but I left he office at 11.45pm. I helped her as much as I could but even then there were limits. I've hot the 15 hours mark and I was damn tired, and I had to wait for her to finish her stuff in order to help her. So effectively, I was waiting around doing nothing and waiting to do something. Darn waste of my time.
Anyway, the next day, I got in at 8.15am and she was already here trying to finish up! She still wasn't done. So I helped her again. If I were mean, I would've made myself scarce and let her boil in her own doings. If I hadn't helped, she would've still been doing her stuff today. Haha.
Incidentally, the PC was so-so only. It was not a complete success and the tunnel was a white elephant coz not everybody was ushered to the right entrance!
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I've passed the 12 hour mark
Yeap, I've been in the ofc for 12 freakin' hours and I've not seen the sun that long as well as I didn't have time to even pop out to get something for lunch.
What am I doing here still???
Well, I'm waiting for that idiot woman to finish her press release do that I can print it and compile the press kit. She's like taking her own sweet time.
Not only that, she doesn't want to be there at the PC tomorrow. I can only surmise that the reason she doesn't want me there is because she doesn't want me to learn more things. She's is the most selfish and insecure french poodle I've ever met. Even Siu Tin tried to get her to let me go but she came up with excuses as to why she doesn't need that many people - manpower - for the PC which is ridiculous. I'm also part of the Public Relations Dept and she doesn't want me to go. In the end, I just went to Helen to ask if I need to be there and Helen said yes. *smug* I know I'm a sly little b*tch but she was really making me angry.
I'm even nice to her that I'm staying back to help her finish HER work. I've been in the office since 8am this morning and it's 10.21pm now. I'm so tired.
Somebody asked me on chat what time did I go home that night... well, I got home around 12.05am in the morning, but I left he office at 11.45pm. I helped her as much as I could but even then there were limits. I've hot the 15 hours mark and I was damn tired, and I had to wait for her to finish her stuff in order to help her. So effectively, I was waiting around doing nothing and waiting to do something. Darn waste of my time.
Anyway, the next day, I got in at 8.15am and she was already here trying to finish up! She still wasn't done. So I helped her again. If I were mean, I would've made myself scarce and let her boil in her own doings. If I hadn't helped, she would've still been doing her stuff today. Haha.
Incidentally, the PC was so-so only. It was not a complete success and the tunnel was a white elephant coz not everybody was ushered to the right entrance!
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I've passed the 12 hour mark
Yeap, I've been in the ofc for 12 freakin' hours and I've not seen the sun that long as well as I didn't have time to even pop out to get something for lunch.
What am I doing here still???
Well, I'm waiting for that idiot woman to finish her press release do that I can print it and compile the press kit. She's like taking her own sweet time.
Not only that, she doesn't want to be there at the PC tomorrow. I can only surmise that the reason she doesn't want me there is because she doesn't want me to learn more things. She's is the most selfish and insecure french poodle I've ever met. Even Siu Tin tried to get her to let me go but she came up with excuses as to why she doesn't need that many people - manpower - for the PC which is ridiculous. I'm also part of the Public Relations Dept and she doesn't want me to go. In the end, I just went to Helen to ask if I need to be there and Helen said yes. *smug* I know I'm a sly little b*tch but she was really making me angry.
I'm even nice to her that I'm staying back to help her finish HER work. I've been in the office since 8am this morning and it's 10.21pm now. I'm so tired.
Sunday, July 04, 2004
Sure Heboh at Kepala Batas
Just came down from Kepala Batas, birth place of our PM, for the Sure Heboh Carnival. Megosh, I'm tired. Had to go there to oversee the Maxx-a-million promos. It was BAD. I think for the whole weekend, we only sold 8 game packs. It's not the promoters' fault. It's just that this is the presell part where the advertisements aren't even out yet - no one knew about this and it took all my promoters' strength and wills to explain the concept over and over and over again to a bunch of idiots who came in for the shade and not to listen to the pitch. There's a lot that I would like to bitch about but I'm just too tired now. But I will say this, people there have bad dirty habits as well as are infinitely lecherous and ignorantly foolish. Unfortunately, they are our target market. =/
I'm sunburned too. Today, when we got there and I saw how bad our sales was, I grabbed a stack of 500+ leaflets and did a few rounds around Sure Heboh, handing out the leaflets with a smile and Thank Yous.
I've scheduled an emergency meeting with SynergEx, the event management company we hired to oversee the whole MaXX-a-Million roadshows. We will be discussing how to salvage this, the next Sure Heboh will be in two weeks in Ipoh. Hopefully we can do something by then to pull out of this horrible phase. There must be.
I'm sunburned too. Today, when we got there and I saw how bad our sales was, I grabbed a stack of 500+ leaflets and did a few rounds around Sure Heboh, handing out the leaflets with a smile and Thank Yous.
I've scheduled an emergency meeting with SynergEx, the event management company we hired to oversee the whole MaXX-a-Million roadshows. We will be discussing how to salvage this, the next Sure Heboh will be in two weeks in Ipoh. Hopefully we can do something by then to pull out of this horrible phase. There must be.
Thursday, July 01, 2004
Critically swamped
with work...
Maxx-a-million starts this weekend and I'll have to go down to Kepala Batas on Saturday to oversee the Sure Heboh event.
It's been one hell of a week. Nancy has been on emergency leave since Monday and I've been left to pick up the slack.
On top of the maxx-a-million contest, there is the A&P plan for the new marvellous monday timebelt. They want to have a launch on the 8th and nothing has been finalised. Not even the venue.
I'm just waiting for the axe to fall.
Maxx-a-million starts this weekend and I'll have to go down to Kepala Batas on Saturday to oversee the Sure Heboh event.
It's been one hell of a week. Nancy has been on emergency leave since Monday and I've been left to pick up the slack.
On top of the maxx-a-million contest, there is the A&P plan for the new marvellous monday timebelt. They want to have a launch on the 8th and nothing has been finalised. Not even the venue.
I'm just waiting for the axe to fall.