Lord, I'm so tired. It's a fucking holiday today and I'm in at work. NO ONE else in in here. I was also working last Saturday and Sunday. I'm not sure how long I can last like this. My body is already telling me to stop. Eversince the AJTT project, I've been suffering gastric problems and now it's worse. I feel nausea for no reasons from time to time. And I eat so little these days. Example: A medium set of McD's Fillet O'Fish. I finish the fries and that's it, I can't go anymore. What the hell, man... And the most stooopid thing is that I'm no thinner for it! I ask you, is that injustice or what? I suffer and I suffer for nothing.
Anyway, this is just a ranting session. The whole of the 10 days stationed at the press centre was damn exhausting. I run the Press Centre for 10am - 10pm, on top of that I continue with my PR duties of writing press releases and getting them out. Then I still had to write the MC scripts for every single day. And every day there is a different activity and there are multiple activities and the retailers are so slack in giving me info that I do all of the research myself, rather than wait for them. And if they do give me the info, it's usually 3 hours before the event starts. Bleeding idiots. On top of that. I have to brief the MC every evening and sometimes I have to stay on to see that everything is ok. Then, after that, I go back up to the press centre and work resumes for me until 2 - 3am in the morning, churning out press releases and what nots. I've not had a weekend or a day to myself to rest since the end of the 10 day event.
I've been so busy and tired that I don't have the energy to meet up with anyone. For that I apologise to you, if you're reading this, Friend.
The only good thing is that I'm going to Cambodia tomorrow for a couple of days and I'm so switching off my roaming on my mobile phone.
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Saturday, December 01, 2007
Culmination of 6 months of late nights, hard work and endless phone calls
A Journey Through TimeI'm so excited and I'm also very tired and I think I have gastric problems. I keep burping all the time even though I didn't eat anything.
The past 6 months have been an interesting journey for me. All my hard work, my very late 3am nights, or mornings rather, and all the press conferences, interviews, long phone calls from strangers and pitches to editors... everything has come together to create 141's realisation of Starhill Gallery's A Journey Through Time.
It's pretty exciting to see that all 141'a very hard work will be taking off this 3rd - 12th December 2007 at Starhill Gallery.
I will be based in Starhill Gallery and JW Marriott until 13 December.
So people, please drop by and see A Journey Through Time, only at Starhill Gallery.
Haha, I'm so doing my PR spiel. But then, according to my lovely colleague, that's who I am. =)
I'm finally a REAL public speaker
Haha, no la. I just gave a briefing yesterday to a bumch of people.
Actually, I gave a briefing to 214 foreign media from all over the world at Renaissance Hotel last evening. The foreign media were flown in by Tourism Malaysia and they gave Starhill Gallery a slot to present something on A Journey Through Time. And of course, Starhill Gallery nominated yours truly to go up there on stage to present the briefing. We were given 10 minutes to do this.
The day prior to the briefing, Thursday, I was calm and controlled. I prepared a briefing deck and I prepared a press release complete with fact sheet and the schedule that was distributed before the presentation. I wore a suit and I had a laser pointer. I even prepared a script for myself.
Haha, the moment I stepped on stage, I couldn't see anything on my script. It was nothing but jumbles of lines that I didn't have time to look and read. So I did my presentation off the cuff! Whatever info I had in my head, which was A LOT, it all came out. My voice shook and I just said whatever I thought was relevant and interesting to the media.
I was initially told that I'd be presenting to foreign media from around the region only as that was the list I provided MOTOUR with. However, yesterday, when I arrived for the event, I noticed a lot of blond heads, sharp noses and frekled cheeks, and I didn't think much about it as there were other functions nearby. Imagine my surprise, when all those blond heads started filing in to MOTOUR's designated room and sat down. I later found out that the media were from the US, Germany, China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Australia, France, Indonesia, Hong Kong & Korea. OMIGAWD.
Anyway, I was told that I did fine by my PR Superior and my interns (who were cheering for me; they are so cute) and that the media sat up and took notice when I presented my stuff. Apparently, some was sleeping in the back when other presentations were going on. What more, during my presso, there was some technical difficulties and they couldn't play my informercial! That was horrid, when the infomercial was the best part of my presso. Instead, I read out one of the tactical ad copy to them and after that, I could see that more media sat up.
"To create a giant clock called the stonehenge, men dragged 240 tonnes of rock with their bare hands.
Now, see timepieces which took even more effort."
I am really glad that I did this. I'm glad I didn't chicken out and that I'd gathered my courage and I went ahead and did it. It feels damn good.
But then it didn't feel so good AFTER coz I got a massive headache from the adrenaline rush.... =P
Actually, I gave a briefing to 214 foreign media from all over the world at Renaissance Hotel last evening. The foreign media were flown in by Tourism Malaysia and they gave Starhill Gallery a slot to present something on A Journey Through Time. And of course, Starhill Gallery nominated yours truly to go up there on stage to present the briefing. We were given 10 minutes to do this.
The day prior to the briefing, Thursday, I was calm and controlled. I prepared a briefing deck and I prepared a press release complete with fact sheet and the schedule that was distributed before the presentation. I wore a suit and I had a laser pointer. I even prepared a script for myself.
Haha, the moment I stepped on stage, I couldn't see anything on my script. It was nothing but jumbles of lines that I didn't have time to look and read. So I did my presentation off the cuff! Whatever info I had in my head, which was A LOT, it all came out. My voice shook and I just said whatever I thought was relevant and interesting to the media.
I was initially told that I'd be presenting to foreign media from around the region only as that was the list I provided MOTOUR with. However, yesterday, when I arrived for the event, I noticed a lot of blond heads, sharp noses and frekled cheeks, and I didn't think much about it as there were other functions nearby. Imagine my surprise, when all those blond heads started filing in to MOTOUR's designated room and sat down. I later found out that the media were from the US, Germany, China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Australia, France, Indonesia, Hong Kong & Korea. OMIGAWD.
Anyway, I was told that I did fine by my PR Superior and my interns (who were cheering for me; they are so cute) and that the media sat up and took notice when I presented my stuff. Apparently, some was sleeping in the back when other presentations were going on. What more, during my presso, there was some technical difficulties and they couldn't play my informercial! That was horrid, when the infomercial was the best part of my presso. Instead, I read out one of the tactical ad copy to them and after that, I could see that more media sat up.
Now, see timepieces which took even more effort."
I am really glad that I did this. I'm glad I didn't chicken out and that I'd gathered my courage and I went ahead and did it. It feels damn good.
But then it didn't feel so good AFTER coz I got a massive headache from the adrenaline rush.... =P