Chinese New Year
I know. It’s been ages since the last time I posted something in my blog. It’s not that I don’t have anything to post. What’s ironic is I do have a lot of things to share. There are photos from my trip back to the Philippines last Christmas, my thoughts about finally saying goodbye to my twenty-something years, crayonslife’s design enhancements, my wedding preps and a lot of web design projects from 2009.
As of now, I can’t find the words to describe the things going on inside my muddled mind. So let me just share with you these simple photos that I was able to capture these last few days with my point-and-shoot camera. While the city is covered in red and everybody is bathed in the excitement of the Chinese New Year, these are the images that captured my eyes.
Happy Chinese New Year to All!!!
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Me As A Design Machine
Presenting Forecept’s new Design Machine: She comes in a small package, barely five feet tall, with long black hair (that still keeps on getting long because she finds the hair salons in Singapore very expensive) and bright-colored shoes. A Filipina with 6 years of design experience behind her, this little woman braves six people (read: Project Managers/Account Executives) who regularly turns on “The Design Machine” to create new web design, revise the new web design, create simple flash animations, draw stick figures and rough storyboards, create direct mail marketing designs, design new logos, brainstorm for a pitch project, understand creative briefs and try to create a design brief for clients who wanted to have a website but don’t have any idea on what to place on their websites. This design machine can work with grace under pressure, fragile yet hardened by experience, works best when listening to her favorite music [...]
34 days and 2,285.75 miles
May 15, 2008
34 days and 2,285.75 miles away from the Philippines, my employer informed me that I have to wait another 7 days for the approval of my Employment Pass from Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower. So it’s another week of doing what I want to do whenever I feel the urge to do it. I’ve really tried to plan my activities for each day, and at times I was able to follow them. But most of the time, I would take a detour from my plans and let my whims and mood take over.
It was the 5th of May, 23 days and 5 interviews later, that I received a job offer as a web designer for a web design company. I felt utter relief and the plain old feeling of happiness when you have finally been given the thing that you need most. 23 days of stress and a feeling [...]
Stepping Into A New State of Strangeness
I boarded the 2:45 flight of Philippine Airlines and arrived at Changi Airport at almost 7 pm on April 12, 2008. I felt really strange, for the sun sets late along Singapore’s horizon, and the sun is just starting to hide at 7 in the evening. I had this feeling that the clock is only pointing to half past five. It’s a bit disappointing, ‘coz I thought I’ll be witnessing a magnificent sunset while the plane is landing as I set foot on Singapore’s land for the first time. Turns out that it’s not the cinematographic event I had in mind.
I felt like a zombie, an outsider looking in on another person’s life. Slowly, I became an outside observer of the person living inside me. I watched as I mechanically go through the immigration and collect my luggage, headed where the arrow pointed the exit and thought to myself, at [...]
