Latest PR trivialities from the rumour mill

News coming from a better-informed source on industry happenings than Marketing Magazine is always welcomed, especially when it is a piece of negative news regarding a certain brightly coloured Public Relations agency which I absolutely detest.

For the purpose of this entry, lets call my source "Live radar"

Live radar has it that the PR agency's cocky-windbag of a PR Manager pissed off a major client and told her to "Fuck off" upon her scrutiny of his lacklustre work, mostly because he was unable to deliver what was expected of him.

In addition to that, the EXTREMELY high turnover rate of that particular company for the past 1 year has been under constant scrutiny and a hot gossip topic among industry people, including the recent resignation of a respectable and experienced senior within the company.

I could go on and on about how that aforementioned Manager looks like the kind of fish stewed in curry fish head because of his huge prominent fish lips and fish-like jaws; or how I mistook a HUGE sack of potatoes lying on the floor at a grocery store, for one of their top executives and yelped in horror. (The key word is HUGE, hence it is hihglighted in bold)

Disclaimer: The above narrative is completely fictitious (if you believe me) :D:D

Play in the LUXE mansion

Fancy being served with strawberries-in-champagne by sexy male butlers (read:topless and buff)?

Wanna be among the first in the whole of Asia Pacific to preview?

Then RSVP to my gmail by 10th October 2008 (FRIDAY) with your contact details and I will reply you.

My office contact details are being cropped away to prevent some jokers from dropping bombs.

To DIDA: Too bad, I would have asked you, but now I can only ask Lisa. lol~

Put your old bras to good use

Do you have bras that you refuse to wear because they look like they are for women above the ago of 70? Or perhaps they just don't fit any more? Donate them to The Salvation Army through any Chalone outlet this October. Donated bras can be of any colour and brands but should be in clean, good and wearable condition.

On top of that, get a rebate value of up tot $40 if you purchase a Chalone bra at the same time.

October is the Breast Cancer Awareness month, and in support of the activities organized by the Breast Cancer Foundation. Breast cancer is the commonest cancer in Singapore women and about 1000 women are diagnosed with the cancer annually. Wear the pink ribbon in support of the activities organized by the breast cancer association.

Manipulation Centre

Came across this while wandering around Chinatown Pearl Centre...

I shudder to think what kind of "manipulation" goes on in there...

It's great being a woman

I came across this while surfing, and I had to share...

HAPPIEST FAIRY TALE EVER!

Once upon a time, a guy asked a girl “Will you marry me?” The girl said “NO!” And the girl lived happily ever after and went shopping, dancing, camping, drank whole bottles of wine, always had a clean house, never had to cook, did whatever the hell she wanted, never argued, didn’t get fat, traveled more, saved money, and had all the bed and bed-sheets to herself. She went to the theatre, never watched sports, never wore fricken lacy lingerie that went up her arse, had high self esteem, never cried or yelled, and felt and looked fabulous all the time.

- THE END -





It's funny, but I shared, mostly because it seemed like a good prologue for showing-off the half-page advertisement on the Straits Times, starring me.



Like the title suggests. It's great to be a woman.

Becoming a maid

"Auctioning myself off as a maid for S$3000++ a month. Cleanliness not guaranteed. No extra services."

For some strange reason, I have a knack for steering conversation topics towards that pertaining my friends' domestic helpers...that got me thinking about the potentials of a career swtich. To maid-ing. (My boss will start to sniff at me suspiciously if he reads this)

"I overpay my maid so that she will stay. She comes once a week and has been cleaning for my family for the past 10 years."

"I think my maid earns more than you in a month"

"My maid works for half a day and I think she's paid about $3K plus from all the homes that she works for"

"I introduced my maid to all my friends and now she earns a tidy income cleaning house for all of them"

The best part of being an ad-hoc maid is that you don't pay taxes. No income tax, no GST and all the smlj taxes that the gahment throw at you.

Forget about being a public relations executive, forget about a career in teaching, even modelling isn't as lucrative as there are good months and bad months as trends fade in and out. Cleaning on the other hand, never goes out of fashion and is always in demand, consistently.

"But my cleaner works long hours/ My cleaner works very hard."
Well mister, so do I.

"The detergent and soap is bad for your hands and skin"
Well, my hands aren't very nice in the first place. I've already conceded that men with a thing for hand will not give a hoot about me, so why bother. Plus there's a thing call 'glove', that people wear when they perform domestic chores.

"It's hard labour"
It pays me to train my fat ass into a cute(r) ass, which in turn has a 50% chance of distracting my employer from the fact that I am actually terrible at cleaning.

Any takers?



Disclaimer: It's one of those crazy ideas that is conjured out of a hard day at work.

A beautiful thought

Although I've pretty much decided on my career path for the next 5 years, my passion for teaching and the holier-than-thou aspiration of inspiring kids hasn't been extinguished. Either that or I'm just masochistic to want to subject myself to such horrors.

So gathering a troop of 2 friends (1 confirmed, 1 still pending at the time this entry was posted), we've decided to seek out all voluntary and community service homes to volunteer our expertise on a part-time weekend only basis. An excursion to Fort Siloso every now and then, English and phoenetics classes, drawing lessons and Christmas parties, all sound like meaningful ways to spend weekends.

**Any organizations with vacancies for 2-3 female volunteers please let me know.