I am Thompson Boy

As I was surfing around to look the the usual blogs, guessed what I bumped into? Hell. I don't need any persuading to click and I was immediately taken to the latest for Marc by Marc Jacobs and I really hate myself. Hate myself for not being rich that is. Check out Little Miss Marc (and Little Mr Marc as well?), I have always been crazy about LMM ever since I saw it on some of the tote and shit but it's just so freaking expensive. What do you think? Isn't LMM the cutest thing on earth?

Try as I may Hard as I try You on my mind Hard to get by Stone or Stone+ is one of the more popular photograph collections from image bank. Now some of you might have heard about image bank before - basically a collection of editorial and creative images for us advertising and creative to use. Saves time and money if you can't afford a shoot or just need that little bit of inspiration. I go there from time to time to look for strong pictures or just to find something that says what I am feeling at that particular time or momemt. Anyway, I am just talking thrash.

The thing about advertising is really funny, no matter how much I write and talk about it one can’t really understand the scope and the power of the profession unless you are in it. To the people who are in it (long enough anyway), we bitched about how hard life is but fundamentally speaking, we are a bunch of people who are passionate about the things that we do. No where else or anything else can come closer to that. But what happens if you are in it for the ride? Or just glam? Most of them doesn’t last long and if they are – a pain in the ass to work with. I am not about to say that I am the perfect worker or the most hardworking around and in fact I considered myself as lazy but like how my Traffic (coordinator for work flow) put it – everyone is born lazy and wants to be lazy but we have no choice but to do. However there are some people who are willing to just be lazy and do not care. And that person is my immediate manager. I know that I have been complaining about her in th...

As I got home from the wedding to a quiet house on a Saturday night and took off everything, something got me thinking. After watching bits here and there on the TV, I’ve decided to make most of the time that I have by uploading the pictures from phone. Besides there’s a year end evaluation form which I needed to complete. I am pretty bad at it – just uncomfortable selling myself but it’s something that I needed to do. I have just been confirmed after working for 3 months which is a good thing. But nothing comes without a sacrifice. I was just having a drink (which went up to a couple) after work on Friday – it was a very long day and I was really drained and got to chatting with all my bosses about work, life and our current problems. On one hand I am glad that they acknowledged the fact that I have been putting up with all of nonsense ever since I’ve joined them. The most dire thing was that I am actually carrying out the task of 3 person. Not only that I need to look after my ...

See, this is yet another ranting post - why H&M is sooooooo much better than all the crap out there. Look at the hot mess campaign, look at the prices. And how about the Roberto Cavalli for H&M collection? Snapped up before you can say major and all on ebay now fetching tons of cash. Check out all that hot shit For 15 quid, yes I love it, love it, love it Hot mess. I love it too Fei Mui, please get us girls something y'all when you go over to the warehouse sale.....PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

So today I went ahead and did something that I have not done before and mind you there’s isn’t much. Cookie wasn’t impressed as usual but it is really something that I used to do a lot with my sister. I really miss that cow, our impromptu trips to town or anywhere else to hunt for bargains in the most out of the world place. So to substitute for the absence of my sister, I was constantly on the phone with her. I certainly need to do this again when she comes back. Lately I have been eyeing some new articles and accessories to expand my look and usually I would just go to ebay and everything can be settled rather cheaply. However this time around, I can’t really find anything and even the cheapest cost a lot (they take cheap stocks from China/Hong Kong and then sell it on ebay UK) so I gathered that I would probably end up paying the same amount or even lesser if I take a stroll to town and look for them. And there I went to the most unlikely of places – Sg Wang. I can’t remember the la...

All this talk of Christmas and me deco-ing my blog has gotten me into the winter wonderland mood. What more, I have begin to irritate my colleagues by playing Mimi’s All I Want For Christmas (well, technically someone asked for it). In the midst of all this, I had this big yearning (as I was telling someone about it) to just don on a cute little red cardigan (which I don’t own) with this cuter black skinny tie (which I don’t own as well) over my slim fitting white long sleeved shirt. I know it’s really hot here in Malaysia and I guess I didn’t realised that I was channeling the old Beckham here. I had an instant urge to just get down to Starbucks and order my favorite drinks and just hang with the girls. I am unsure about the smoking part because somehow it just doesn’t go with the mental visual. Anyhow all I managed to do was just get home (rather angry cause stuck in the jam) and had dinner. Over dinner, mum was telling me about this sick cat outside the house and how she managed to ...

Just a quick note that I am very much excited because it’s going to Christmas very soon and it has come earlier to me this year. Queen Bitch gotten me the new Starbucks’ 2008 organizer and I have to say that my friends, all of them have been very good to me. Cookie’ve gotten me the one for last year but this year’s really kick some design ass. There was so guys over at work (you know designers) and they would gladly spend tons of money buying miniatures and toys and all those stuff and I found out that this year Starbucks has bought in tons of Christmas themed items so it’s not just the usual bear (which btw cost 50 bucks now) and mugs. I can’t help myself and gotten a pair of these ceramic tree ornament. Not that I will be putting up the tree. I am just too lazy for it. I know that I have been behaving quite well of late, vowing not too buy any more crap and I have certainly stuck to that. I mean there’s enough fridge magnets styled Bearista to fill up the whole fridge and it hurts to...

I am sitting here in the balcony of my bff’s apartment staring out into the view. Things look different when it’s day and it’s the first time that I can see the lake clearly. It’s beautiful and after all I am a water kind of person – poor (or rich cause you need the dough to have a place with a view and adjacent lake) men’s version of a sea view. I have decided to get out of my house as I can’t stand my dad’s constant TV playback on top of the volume and something just strike a chord in me – I bloody need to get out. Be it shopping (more like window shopping) or something. Then again having me out in stores is not going to do my wallet any good and I am not about to risk getting myself embroiled in holiday traffic madness. Yesterday was the same though, after a long day and passing over the invitation to Mambo I found myself driving over to my bff’s place. I have sort of become her mistress as everytime her man is not around, there I will be. It’s not too bad, usually we parked our ar...

It's so funny to see things on the other side as I was just reading my last year's blog entry on Kancil awards (it's basically the only local advertising excellence award night)and my oh my, the table has turned. Last year I was determined to make award winning as part of my KPI (Key performance index) and I indeed tried very hard but nothing really came out from it. This year, I watched the accounts that I used to handle win this and that and I was thinking, if only I have stayed for awhile more. Another bitch (ex colleague) who is also known as My Girlfriend was sitting not too far from our table has the cheek to come over and told me that I could join their winning table if I wanted to. Thinking about it all over again, I am so much better off than them. Sure they are winning some Kancils but that's about what they have to cheer about these days. People are leaving, the accounts are shrinking, times are getting harder and there's little to be happy about. I am ...