Maureen Oh.. Maureen
You know what, I think Maureen and me are evil twins. We are so...so...so fucking evil that we did the same crime back in our old Agency. But her case was funnier! I swear to god, I was laughing like hell over dinner at Chilis KLCC and on my way driving home too.
It was shit funny!
If I were to write it down here it wouldn't be funny anymore, but I hope whenever I see this post, I will remember it again =)
The joke is about changing the number 2 to 3, on Intan, Adel and Bobby's list!
You see, in our old Agency we have tons of ice-cream and Yeo's drinks in the fridge for us to consume (courtosy from our Client lar...). It is NOT free for the employees, and you need to put your name down on the paper that is stick onto the fridge and you NEED to pay by every end of the month.
And just only we confronted, that we actually did something that is bad lar. Not that BAD BAD type, but sometime we did not pay for all the ice-creams and drinks we took from the fridge, but we actually write-off on other people's name. Whereby we turn all that number 2 to 3 and 1 to 10 at people we are mad about only - like Intan, Adel, and Bobby.
Hahahahaha... it's so funny!
Evil Uncle I am
I am such a bad uncle. I just curi my nephew's Vitagen in the fridge. But who care lar... buy him back another day lar ;P
Happiness Is...
To me, the definition of happiness is very simply.
'You wake up feeling fresh; have the urge to jump down from the bed; anticipating for great things to happen; and always with a smile!'
...that's my definition for happiness. What's yours?
It's Confirmed... Bad Luck Strikes Again!
Last Tuesday, I was called up by the MD of JWT, and he told me that he wanted me to meet this other person, Associate Account Director of the account that I will be working on.
I was stoned when he told me that because, I was actually prepared to work with P, not A.
Had a chat with A, and the conclusion is - NO VIBES!
Then had a 3some chat between A, N, and myself, and A was put in place by N - TWICE! It makes it even clearer that she don't know what she is talking about. She emberessed herself and it's hard for me to pay respect to this sort of person.
The sudden change of structure is due to the fact that the account that I will be working on is up for pitch! There is this market rumour flying around that C (the account / company) wanted to kick JWT out of the panel.
But N (the MD of JWT) still wanted me to join irregardless of the situation. I am skeptical about it. What if they lost the account and they have to fire me. I will be in the favour position of last in first out scenario.
Although he assure me that he will put me on other account should that happens, but there is still a clauses of reviewing my performance before deciding to put me on other account or worst case - FIRE ME!
To me, it's insecurities. What's better than I am comfortable with here I am now, continuing growing the accounts am working on?
So, I called N up and told him my decision.
Guess, I will have to wait until better option arises.
Luckily, I have not thrown in my resignation letter... *PHEW*
My Latest Career Move
People in the world, I am leaving this good old
EURO RSCG Kuala Lumpur and I am joining
J.Walter Thompson in August.
I am leaving because: - I need to build my portfolio - I want to meet more Agency people
- I want to learn other Agency's tools of strategic planning
- I want to widen my perspective
- I want to learn more skills from other bosses
- I want to earn moreI will be tendering my resignation once I've gotten my appointment letter from JWT.
Nevertheless, I still love the happening people in EURO, but its for my own career good, so I am leaving. It will be sad to leave, but I believe this will be quite a big leap for me. 2 and a half years of memories with EURO, I will keep it inside with me!
Actually, I can't wait to join JWT, although I am not sure why am I getting myself into a hot soup account again. But, what the hack, my priority now is to build my portfolio. So I need to move. I don't want to be a furniture in EURO. I need progression.
People of EURO, you know I love you all and I will miss you definitely! People of JWT, I am proud to join your family!
New American Idol - Carrie Underwood
Did you know that she has got a Malay name as well?
The Answer : BAWA BAWAH KAYU or you may call her
BAWA KAYU BAWAH =P
Hahahahahahahahah.....
Farnie!
Something Funny From Radio
OK, now I remember something funny! I heard this station program promo something like:
'The movie HOUSE OF WAX is actually not a horror movie, but it was quite hilarious. The movie is about ......... and the actual horror part was PARIS HILTON acting in it'I go... hahahahahahahahahhahahahaha non stop! I swear this is funny and it was from 92.9 - Hitz.FM
Fucking FUNNY!
Anyone Out There Rescue Me?
Hey hey hey peeps... I have no plans tonight.
I am still in the office, you can call me if you have any great plans for tonight!
My number 012-XXXX728.
This message will be deleted when I decide to leave the office.
Forever Love
I just had the urge this afternoon to own the album of the songs I listen god knows how many times yesterday night and this morning -
Two Less Lonely People In The World, by Air Supply.
And yes, I suddenly went to Bangsar BSC to buy the CD, at 3:50pm, working hours on a Friday.
I ran out from my departmen, telling my reception that I am going out to meet my media planer and then Client. Oh god forgive me, I am so evil.
Before I leave the car pack, called up Sheley to meet me at DOME BSC for a short bitching session. Yes, she is the media planner that I mention. Meeting with media planner is the real thing, but not the Client part....
Got off my car, I then rush to the CD store to search for the album. And happily spent RM43 on what I found -
AIR SUPPLY, Forever Love, 36 Greatest Hits (1980 ~ 2001), Double CDs.
Whether it is a good buy or not, I don't care, because all I want is to own that song!
Crazy me...Meet Sheley at 4:15pm sharp, had a Twister, bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch and bitch, then go back to work at 5:30pm.
My boss only came in at 6:00pm, today - Friday, 10th of June?! WTF?!?!!
Gone through the presentation paper with him. Generally, he is ok with the brand plans I mapped out, so I just need to clean up and send it to him by
TODAY! Bloody hell, if he came in earlier, I wouldn't have to stay that late right? Cheebye!
It's now 8:30pm.
Two Less Lonely People...
I love this song! Anyone got the CD for me to borrow? I promise I will return it! Or please tell me if you know I can find this song / CD somewhere.
By the way, Air Supply sang this song.
Listening it for the 58 times tonight, and more to come =P
Figure Figure Figure
It was the worst day of my life! Dealing with figures after figures after figures! Swear to god, I have not done so much figuring (as in calculating the figures that can be achieved by end of year 2005), and I think I did a bad job, but then again, managed to consult my favorite finance person – Soo San, for help. Oh… she’s so lovely! Thanks Soo San.
So besides dealing with that I also have to deal with my own personal figure too – I mean physically. I have been procrastinating going to gym for workout. Yes, I don’t have the time. And not like I didn’t want to check out the cuties there, but the bottom line is… I am a lazy mother-fucker!
Going to meet up with Ming Ming Chua later before she departs to Bangkok tomorrow. I think I will miss her. In fact, I started to miss her already. Good thing, I am going to meet up with her later, so we can have a good chat before I miss her too badly =P
The worst part of tomorrow is that I will have to wake up early at 6am to leave my house before the jam starts. Because this big shot from EURO HQ is coming down for a visit and discussion with the management. Chit, nicely just sent an email out this evening, reminded us to come in before 9am, and CLEAN up our table too. FARK. For those that have seen my table, trust me, there's a lot cleaning to do.
As I suggested, maybe I shall just burn my table, as it is full with papers, so it makes it easier to clean. Ahahaha… all I need to do then, is just swipe the ashes into the bin, so I can see my desk again.
OK, have to go back to cleaning my desk now. Oh… shit…. Where did I place my pen drive already? Shit shit shit shit shit… fark fark fark!!
I Hated Her Gutz, So I Decided To Reply Her Email
This afternoon when I check my email from my notebook at Twisted, I was so
FUCKING-ly pissed off. Read the below:
Nicky,
As spoken yesterday, pls provide me with what you think is the best solution to solve this estimate.
Btw, Pris spoke with me and she still has issue with your est no 5664 (Utusan Malay Market) - On the same note, pls also provide me with what you think will be the best solution to solve this.
Thanks! :-) <----- The evil smile!!!!! MARGARET CHEW
Brand Director Then, I replied with my loard of
BITCHNESS attitude and writing style.
Dear Margaret,
Sorry for the late response, as you are aware I am out of the office getting the 25th anniversary TVC production done. Material is due tomorrow.
Malay Mkt Estimates Solution
I believe we all agreed on the Malay Market estimate earlier before I send out to the Client. Doris has told me that Pris has got issue with one of the estimate. But now, I am not aware if the Client has got issue with the Mother's Day production estimate OR the master estimate for Strategic Planning and Project Management Fee.
Client has always thought our cost is too high, but I think it is now a matter of if we should bring down the cost lower, just to get them approve and sign the estimate OR we shall just stick to the principle to enforce and educate the Client to agree on the rate according to 4As. As we all know that there wasn't a contract / structured fee being presented to the Client before.
Since it has been numerous time where Client requesting us to reduce the cost for this estimate, I think it is best that we either get advise from senior people like John / Chit OR they can speak directly to Priscillia in regards to this matter.
Next Step:
Let me speak to John on this again. He is aware about it. Will see what he thinks then.
25th Anniversary Estimate Solution
I have spoke to John earlier on this issue, and he is aware of the cost that is currently reflecting in the estimate. I went ahead to make the decision and then seek consensus agreement with Desmond, traffic and John. Apology for not able to show it to you on time as you were away.
As I share my rationale to John / Traffic and Desmond, the Concept / Strat Plang / Campaign Mngmt cost are as such is to cover your time / John / Francois / and Creative Director's time spent over this campaign. I think it is reasonable to charge that amount of cost for us spending about 2 months cracking ideas and creative as Client kept changing their mind and direction.
For other estimates, we try to charge as low as RM500 per estimate to cover Desmond / Shane / and my time of running around - Project Management Fee. That only I think it is fair for the time we log into our timesheet every morning.
Next Step:
John is aware of all the above. And he did ask me to get Pris to speak to her in regards to the estimates earlier. He spoke to me this afternoon before he went off to Singapore. I will touch base with him again on this issue to seek the best solution to get Client to sign off the estimate when he is back in KL again.
Thanks =) Don't you just hate her gutz and love my tone and manner.
Such a FUCKING CHEE BYE PO, she is!=P
Evil Wednesday!
Today, mark the worst day of my week for the month!
I woke up in the morning, embraced with hopes and happy feeling. But it was all ruined in the hand of Margaret Chew. All thanks to that big time Mother Fucker, Chao Chee Bye, Kan Nin Nia Margaret Chew. I now realize she's not just only a useless Brand Director, in fact someone who plays major politics in the Agency as well. Chee Bye!
I will protect the names of the innocent, but NOT some
FUCKERS!
Evil Strike #1 Walk into the office happily, then suddenly realize that I have a budget meeting to attend to. Fuck, I have not done anything. But OK, I know that's clearly my fault.
Evil Strike #2 Sat down with Margaret Chew to talk about the projection. That's when she started very nice with me. And hey, I did sense something's going to happen very soon. Oh! Why am I not surprise? Cause, I am immuned!
Evil Strike #3Went into John's room and he wanted to discuss on the budget issue. Actually, before that I saw his Charlie Angles was busy preparing all the documentation for the budget meeting. HACK! Do, I need to prepare that too? I wonder. And I think I have to prepare too, but FUCK it. Time was too short and I have no time to do all this documentation, so I went into John's room bringing my notebook only. Then he asked me to show him the stuff, I went... 'Erm... what stuff? I have the project pipelines in thoughts to share with you only.' He wasn't very pissy about it, neither he was OK with it. So, he asked Dawn to bring in the budget recon documentation to show me and asked me to follow it. 'OK' I said. And, Margaret Chew, as the Brand Director, did not even preempt me on the above and she tried to look so innocent during the meeting! FUCK! She probably don't even know what she need to do! Can't live up to expectation, how to become a brand director lar? You tell me?! Thenafter, John said, he needs it by 2pm. And, she nicely ask me to show her before presenting to John. I'm like, double OK!
Evil Strike #4 Just when I came back from lunch with my lovely traffic and studio people, I received the below email from the DUMB ASS brand director. Please it for yourself.
Hi Nicky,
I just received a call from Pris re above. She has a big issue with the estimate no 5751 (which I need to question you too).
When Des first did the budget excel sheet, I remember that there was only one Project Management Fee (which covers all of our time, plus the top people's). Why is there now individual project management fee for each and every item, on top of the fee which I had already worked out earlier.
Why was the est diff from what was done on the excel sheet? If you intend to change, pls check with me (I am sure you would have spoken to John about it), but, pls remember the estimate was done by Des and myself;hence we would know how the charges came about.
I need to know where you are coming from as Pris is very unhappy with this.
Secondly, I would really appreciate if you would have told me earlier about your decision to incerase/change the estimate, because I don't like to be put in this situation.
Thanks!:-)
MARGARET CHEW
Brand DirectorIt was not like I have not told her about the issue before. I did. But she nicely choose to forget about it! I told her there is a reason why I actually decide to do the add in the project management fee for all other jobs and I seek John's consensus agreement. Margaret Chew, for your information, I don't report to you! I report directly to John, OK!
I did not reply her email, as I don't think it is necessary. I need not to be bitchy, but I think it is redundant to reply to her, as I already explained myself earlier, few weeks before I received this stupid email.
Evil Strike #5 After almost 45 minutes of Margaret Chew standing behind me telling me what to do on the budget recon sheet, I then print out and show it her and for her to bring it into the meeting for discussion. She's like 'Oooo... add this, add that... put in this figure and that figure...'. Of course, I have my thoughts and opinion, so kind of tell her what I thought. The discussion was healthy, nevertheless I did not expect something worst to happen. It was when I was at Twisted for offline, and I received the below SMS from John.
'Nicky, the budgets sent r rubish. What the fuck r u doin? Wastin my fucking time.' Then, I replied the below:
'OK, I am not sure if I am doing the right thing and its my first time doing it. Very very sorry. Didn't get it done up to your expectation. But I did it together with Margaret and she was OK with it before I went to twisted. I will be back after offline. You go through with me and let me understand what I did wrong then.' Few minutes after, I got another John's reply.
'Yes, pls!' I have no idea what I did wrong with the budget recon sheet, but all I did was basically follow Margaret's instruction with the budget summary thingie, and she was OK with it.
However, I called P to find out more about the budget meeting, and I ask her when John was being questioned about the budget sheet, did Margaret stood up and say anything about it? And apparently, NOT! She kept silence... as I heard from many of them, which includes J, my another boss. I have no problem with J's account, and the budget meeting went quite smooth with XXXXX XXXX account. That I did it myself OK!.
Anyway, my point is that I can accept critics and scolding from bosses, if I did it wrong OR not up to expectation. That's fine, because I did it on my own and it fuck up, I will take responsibility. BUT not when I was guided and supervised by someone senior like Margaret Chew - the brand director. If you remember, I mentioned earlier that she was all time behind me telling me what to do and what not, and I was merely typing them out only. She takes the credit and push all blames to me.
Harrow, take some RESPONSIBILITY! What the FUCK!
When I came back to office, John was gone. My another boss, J was still around, so I bitched to him about it. And he says he is going to have a talk to John. He just called me and he says he needed to talk to me later.
I did told J that I will not take this shit anymore. Take it or leave it. It's either she back off and let me to handle the account myself, or John take the account away from me. I know my traits and quality. And I understand the company needs me more than I need them!
Evil Strike #6I was working late till 3am in the office yesterday!
FUCK LIFE!
