Currently listening to:box of stones by benjamin francis leftwich
Status:neck aches. ugh.
Hi Guys,
There are pros and cons to everything, as per general knowledge. Take for example, books. Pros: authentic, liking the feel of holding it in your hands and flipping the pages, tradition. Cons: competing uses for diminishing resources (i.e. wood) when a more environmentally friendly solution would be an ebook. (LEGIT A LEVEL QUESTION)
Or Cats. Pros: The best companion in the world. Cons: Will never want to hang out with another human because you would rather be with cat, slow but sure degeneration in public perception to psycho introvert and possible murder suspect. You seriously can never talk about cats enthusiastically without people backing away slowly and giving you the crazy look. I am getting carried away talking about cats and need to get back on track.
Likewise, being back in media has both its pros and cons. I love my work, but- Cons: THE RETURN OF LOTUS NOTES. For those of you who don’t know, Lotus Notes is the corporate equivalent of your email management system, somewhat like Microsoft Outlook Exchange, and it’s about two million times more laggy than gmail. Also, when a new email comes in, this polyphonic tune blares in your ear in the middle of whatever john mayer song you’re listening to and scares the shit out of you.
However. Pros of this: weekly updates from colleagues worldwide sending round robin emails to all the Havas employees regarding interesting/cool news that they’ve heard of recently. Sometimes this takes the form of data analytics, which makes me hyperventilate slightly in a omg i thought i left econs and math behind me for good after graduating from jc. But other times, i get some of the coolest stuff ever in my inbox.
Check out what came in today!
THE WORLD’S FIRST INVISIBLE AD.
Lynx produces some seriously innovative digital work the world over (AXE in other countries) and probably none more so than this campaign that’s just launched in Australia, with the world’s first invisible ad installation using special LCD screens that can only been seen with polarised lenses.
People passing by a street in Sydney were handed polarised glasses which unlocked the content of the invisible screens, upon which the visuals couldn’t be seen by the naked eye. And in typical Lynx fashion, the content was out there, with couples making out and random dogs swimming in a room of water! Created by our friends at Soap Creative.
via digitalbuzz
It’s seriously one of the most amazing advertisements I’ve seen- i didnt even know this kind of technology was available! It’s insane. I need to get my hands on a pair of those rockinnn glasses.
You know what else is amazing?
Sexy Lexy’s shoot and interview for Onz.com.sg
Read her interview here and shop the collection here.
She popped over yesterday after I knocked off for an impromptu dinner- we went to Barpazza, one of my favorite bars/restaurants near my workplace. A pity its closing down next month, so those of you who want to try it should definitely go soon!
And lunch today with Christel and Rajeev, also at Barpazza:
The most amazing smoked salmon salad from barpazza with a ramen-style jap egg!
Seriously, I can’t believe they’re closing. Those of you who are intending to try it before it closes:
25 Church Street, #01-02 Capital Square Three, Singapore
Bon Appétit.
Also, since we’ve last spoken, i’ve read I’ve Got Your Number and re-read Confessions of a Shopaholic both by Sophie Kinsella. I know i was in the middle of A Most Dangerous Method, but it’s the kind of book that deserves a lot of attention and focus, and i’ve been absolutely bushed after work this entire week. Maybe over the weekends.
And yes, new web skin once again! I’ve been trying to fiddle with html and coding and whatnot which mostly resulted in me running away screaming and hiding under my blanket, but today the wonderful Ricky (my colleague, a coder from Havas) helped me tinker around with it and it’s up!!!! So excited about this- a little mournful over the loss of unpoppable balloons but i think I’m going to stick with this for awhile.
x
♥jem
Currently listening to:the scientist by coldplay
status:CAAAAAT!
Hi guys.
So last night, i attended Sony’s Walkman Z series launch party at Helipad and brought Cindy (vocal talent, host, emcee, etc etc etc) as my +1. Was a little flurried because i rushed down from a client meeting at Science Park, which is near NUS, except it’s way more secluded and therefore cabs are not aplenty. On that note, Silvercabs i called and made a booking and you said your cab was on the way and would reach in ten minutes- twenty minutes later it became evident that it was not, in fact, on the way, and when i called back a new customer service officer informed me that no booking had been made. WHY?! WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME?! WHY DO YOU CONTRIBUTE TO MY GROWING PILE OF TRUST ISSUES REGARDING UNKNOWN FIGURES ON THE PHONE?!
Yes like i was saying.
The launch party was held at Helipad, and was easily one of the best tech events i’ve attended. The band engaged was great- 53A, they play at Timbre Artshouse on tuesdays, and the entire ambience was pretty good. There were drinks and the lights were sufficiently dim as they should be when there are drinks involved because people tend to trip.. and stuff.
53A’s lead singer, Sarah Wee.
On hindsight, it was a really smart move to hire 53A and work the lighting- there were gorgeous models walking around giving us a preview of the walkman, and my goodness. When I slid on the headphones and listened to the music playing, i could hardly hear 53A. The clarity onscreen was so sharp it literally cut through the dim lights, very, very pretty. It’s a 4.3″ multi touch LCD screen, and the entire handset runs on Android- the first ever mobile entertainment player from Sony to be powered on Android actually! (INSTAGRAM!!! ok wait no camera. this was what happened when i got my iPad too i got all excited and downloaded instagram before realizing it had.. no camera.)
Later Cindy asked the model why she was so tall which kind of flummoxed her. Cindy you need to stop asking people questions like that or people are going to start comparing you to Karen Smith.
See what i mean.
I was initially a little confused and thought the walkman was a phone- it looks incredibly like my lumia, same gorgeous sharp display and everything. Turns out it does nearly everything a phone can do- besides take photos (sadly, no camera) and make calls. And more, actually: it you can use wifi/bluetooth to ‘flick’ your onscreen content to compatible TV/PC/home audio systems to stream your media from them! I’m going to figure out a way to do this with Andrea’s car stereo system secretly..
very friendly and fun loving models who pulled Cindy and I onstage halfway through 53A’s set! We ended up having our own dancing queen moment. In fact, we tried to pull some other girl up to the floor too… but we got rejected in a very panicky manner. Oh well.
Oh yes another thing i wanted to point out- i was so impressed by the organization of the food and what not! Usually at events they either have a buffet (messy) or waiters walking around handing out canapés (usually cubes of raw unidentifiable meat that leaves you very hungry and pining for like a cheeseburger or something) but last night they had staff walking around offering pre arranged gourmet plates of food to the invitees! I didnt have any because Cinch and I wanted to go for ramen (didnt happen long queue long story) after that, but at about 7:40pm like clockwork, all the waiters suddenly started handing out plates of dessert cakes! The transition was so seamless. Ten points for Waggener Edstrom, the PR company managing the event.
With 53A, mega talented band and you can like their Facebook page here.
So much win in one night ^^
To be honest, i was slightly surprised when i received the invitation for this event because my impression of a walkman is as follows
Yeah, you know it.
And attached was this photo of this mega high tech looking gadget and i was thinking to myself, are they inviting me to the launch of their new phone!? I know what walkman phones look like. They look like this:
All my friends had the W980i in secondary four and it had like an 8gB internal storage which was the coolest shit on the market back then. I remember because i lusted after it like anything but couldnt afford it (as usual). Digressing a little- am i just being weird or does anyone else wonder why they always put “orange girl” as their playing track in sony phones?
But then i reread it and realized that this gadget wasn’t the prettier reincarnation of the w980i, it was a mp3 mp4 i can’t keep up with this jargon man Mobile entertainment player. Now, i don’t normally keep an eye on the music player market because i’ve had my iPod since sec 4 and I’ve never had a reason to buy a new music player, so to say that this surprised me is somewhat of an understatement.
Sexy or what.
Between this and the PS Vita, Sony’s certainly on a roll with all these fancy new gadgets.
Now, to the player itself. There are a bunch of features that come with the walkman, synchronized song lyrics, mood sensor, fantastic sound quality and so on, but the one that really got me is the fact that its apparently also iTunes compatible, which will probably be a huge factor for people who are on 1. macs 2. iPhones 3. iPods… basically 90% of the entire world, is what it feels like.
The entire event was apparently photographed on Sony cameras (a nice touch i think), and i’ll post up the official photographs when they’re sent to me!
Once again, thanks Sony Electronics and Kenneth from Waggener Edstrom PR for the invitation 
After the entire event and failing to get ramen thanks to the crowds, Cindy and i went for a relatively late dinner at Manhattan Fish Market.
We had the manhattan gala (?) platter or something like that which we almost instantly regretted because it became rapidly obvious that we couldnt finish it between us. Besides, the only seafood i eat is fish, which meant that all the prawns and calamari and what not were Cindy’s burden.. something she wouldn’t stop going on about.
Loving the Singapore night skyline and ever so grateful i work in the area, privy to such scenery on my way home every night. xx
In any case, work these two days have been insane. Insane is good because 1. i am not, instead, bored, and 2. i am actually doing something productive with my time and i receive consistent validation in the form of ‘you must be adequately coherent because here’s more work for you’ and you all know what a sucker i am for validation so obviously i fall in love with my email and microsoft word and immerse myself in nonstop writing.
Despite this, its about seven different levels of exhausting and i am telling you there is no better feeling than coming home to Cat after a long and draining day at work.
This cat i tell you, incites emotion in me i don’t know how to deal with. She is borderline psychotic and flips around on the floor like a mad fish and it’s difficult as anything to catch her when she goes off like this, but when you do, she goes all soft and floppy in your arms. SO. SOFT. LIKE TAUHUEY. Obviously my ability to draw parallels and accurate imagery has diminished somewhat after the end of year one. Not the point.
And she’s so huggable i just want to hug the meow out of her all day! I don’t quite know how to express this so it usually cumulates into me shouting at her I LOVE YOU!!! I LOVE YOU!!! and her licking her paws and obviously not giving a shit about me.
Yeah. That’s how i roll. I am the epitome of how to express affection in a non awkward manner.
I am going to have to work on my interpersonal skills because i think when your own parents give you wtf is wrong with you looks.. you know its time to work on your interpersonal skills. Interspecies. Whatever.
Thanks once again for the wonderful night, Sony! I LOVE YOU!!! I LOVE YOUUU!!! Okay, going to shut up now.
Bye.
x
♥jem
Currently reading:a most dangerous method by john kerr
Status:bookworm
Hi guys,
So i just got back the long disused iPaddington from Penny, who’s brother needed it for his ADM art show, and I’ve been compulsively downloading apps because it was completely wiped during this software update he did. This is exciting news, guys. For the longest time, ever since the clock i bought for my dorm room died, i’ve left the ipaddington on the shelf with this cool clock application displaying on the main screen, and i’ve been consistently frustrated with the damn thing because it keeps running out of battery. Turns out it’s probably because the iPad isn’t meant to be used as a clock, who knew!
Anyway, i’m trying out this new thing where i try not to use the ipaddington as a clock and actually make good use of it, so this explains the compulsive downloading of apps. So in other news, I HAVE IMESSAGE FOR IPAD NOW, GUYS. Yes i realize i am ‘late to the party’ as so many of you deigned to inform me on twitter, but whatever this is exciting to me. Other things i have include SCRAMBLE WITH FRIENDS, DRAW SOMETHING and TEMPLE RUN.
Speaking of Temple Run, someone sent me this
“I’m done with temple run. DONE.
i don’t see why i have to die when i fall off the trail
like, can’t a nigga swim?!”
Uhhuh.
I also downloaded this amazingly gorgeous application, Paper, on the iPad. Previously i’d been doodling on this app called smartnotefree (sorry to the reader who asked me and i replied draw free, i remembered it wrongly and it wasn’t with me so i couldnt check), but Paper is a whole new level of gorgeous! The app itself is free, but obviously i went to buy all the damn brushes because i have no modicum of self control. I’m the marketer’s dream consumer, right here. Smack a bit of fancy advertising and i run after you waving my mastercard in the air like Becky Bloomwood in Confessions of a Shopaholic. Anyway, to make good use of my US$8 (its $2 per brush, which isn’t that bad if you think about it because pens in real life cost $2 too and if i draw on the iPad I’m saving paper and helping the environment!!!.. i am so full of bullshit.) i’m going to try and use this app as much as possible. Picture above drawn via the app, Virtual pens don’t run out of ink, HA. one up on you, signo.
Download it here.
I’ve also started reading A Most Dangerous Method by John Kerr, which a reader recommended back in March. Thank you, whoever you are, and i’ll let you know how i find it!
It’s supposed to be really good, a story about carl jung and sigmund freud. Good enough to be made into a movie anyway, starring michael fassbender and keira knightly. P r e t t y e x c i t e d about this, sunday nights with books and such.
In other news, nothing much has changed since i last touched my iPad for something other than to charge the stupid clock, i still have no hand eye coordination and i still suck at all the games. I thought my luck would change and it was just angry birds, but no.. I’m currently getting my ass kicked by about 8 different people on scramble with friends. If you would also, like to kick my ass, start a game with me- my username is jemmawei!
Something that has changed recently though, is my friend Zhiling’s hair:
THAT HAIR.
It’s done in teal and had faded very prettily to varying shades of blue and green and emerald, making me lust after different dye boxes on the shop shelves… but no. The last time i dyed my hair pink, it disappeared in three days. My hair seems to have a mind of its own, and when it starts gobbling up hundred dollar dye jobs just to prove a point, you just really don’t want to mess with that.
x
♥jem
Currently listening to:nothing much
status:sleepy.
Attention whore this one.
Hi guys,
introducing le workspace:
such a scenic environment, I’m thinking. Ever since i’ve returned to Havas i’ve been situated in the new office, and the warmer lighting makes so much difference. I really love far east square because its situated on the green line and surrounded by so many lovely restaurants/cafes, even if cab drivers do try to send me to orchard road more often than not. But of course i didnt come on today to ramble about office spaces (or did i). Here’s an ad Miko showed me at work which i absolutely loved
PRESS BUTTON FOR DRAMA!
I need one of these buttons in my life. Think of the possibilities! If i had one of these when i was in jc.. lets just say wednesday afternoons would not be spent dozing off in chinese class.
Last night, I attended RGS Choir’s concert at SOTA, and was so pleasantly surprised by the voices of kids so young. I don’t know if the sing-off has started to rub off on the choral scene, but their rendition of Somebody that i used to know, Rocketeer, and the broadway medley was pretty impressive.
my baby sister who just finished her first full fledged concert! i kind of miss the jitterbugs you get before going onstage and the concert rush you get after- nothing else really compares now. Or possibly its an age thing, the older you get, the less volatile you get.
Anyway i came home today to a pleasant surprise
MY BABIES HAVE ARRIVED! HURRAY TO SCRATCH FREE MACBOOKS FOR THE ACCIDENT PRONE TEENAGER!
k so that didnt come out right. Nevermind.
And I’m not the only one excited by this development, Athena dived right into the boxes they were delivered in and started making a nest.
Sometimes I’m not sure what animal she thinks she is. I’ve tried showing her mirrors, photo booths, pictures.. and still she chases her tail like a dog.
Over the past few days I’ve read a bunch of books: Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of no Importance and An Ideal Husband, Rick Riordan’s The Serpent’s Shadow and Michelle Hodkin’s The Unbecoming of Mara Dyers. The first two were lovely, but that might be personal bias because i love oscar wilde and all his ridiculously hilarious plays, and yes i am aware that riordan is classified under children’s literature but hey, one cannot read plato all the time, okay. one’s head will explode. And the last, well-
I was really excited about Unbecoming because of all the great reviews i’d read on it online, an average of a 4, 5 star rating, so on and so forth. However, the book itself was.. how do i describe this? Lacking. Maybe its the pre-read expectations. Maybe its the gorgeous book cover. But the actual reading process was drawn out; the book’s protagonist is a teenage girl, and the book sounds like it was written by a teenage girl. The male protagonist was a little too perfect and reminded me uncomfortably of a certain E. Cullen we all know. It borders on predictable- by chapter three, i’d guessed at the main secret surrounding the core of the text, and there was insufficient back character development. Furthermore, by the end of the book, hardly anything is resolved, and there are plot holes left hanging with the whispered promise of resolution in the sequel.
At the same time, its not a bad book. It’s grammatically coherent, and despite my grouses i do want to pick up the sequel when it comes out this fall. The protagonist goes around confused most of the time, trying to figure out how she feels, and it struck me that this is pretty much a perfect description of the book- i don’t know how to feel about it.
In other news last night i watched the season finale of The Vampire Diaries season 3 and it had me sobbing like a baby. Seriously, TVD is the only show which does this to me. I was literally a sobbing mess, like GAAAAH ALL THESE EMOTIONS WHAT DO I DO WITH IT WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME WHY and ok fine its a show about vampires but its a pretty damn good one. If you watched the finale and didnt tear up, I’m sorry to inform you that you possibly have a black, black hole where your heart should be and this is a dire condition with no known cure. What i am saying is i am not ashamed of who i am, that is, a teenager with EMOTIONS.
right that was sufficiently awkward, so
bye
x
♥jem
Currently listening to:Levels by Avicii
Status:tired as anything
Hi Guys
One of my favorite things about working in media has always been the parties the way nothing is really confined to one genre. I’ve written copy and social media decks for banks, beauty companies, electronics, car companies, architectural firms.. and because of all the background research i do, i come across a lot of weird interesting things.
FOR EXAMPLE
did you know
when ants are drunk, they always fall over on their right side?!
Ok i was super amazed by this but noone found this funny at all besides yours truly. In any case i don’t know which i take more exception to, the image of a hundred drunk ants falling over to their right or the fact that someone actually bothered to get a bunch of ants drunk. Yeah, bitches be crazy.
Anyway, today while doing research for a new client, i came across this:
wth is this, you may ask? (and rightly so)
it’s called the Lost In Sofa by tokyo based designer daisuke motogi and one of the coolest thing’s I’ve ever seen.
Basically with the Lost In Sofa, you can stick your unfinished book/ pens/ remote controls/ chargers/ cats into any part of the sofa and come back to it later! ok i was kidding about the last one, but still.
HOW
COOL
IS
THAT
its like a freaking black hole of objects! I want one. I’m going to construct one with a bunch of burlap covered rubixcubes.
So in other news you can sort of tell when someone is a sloth when they start talking exclusively and enthusiastically about sofas.
anyway. thanks for all the feedback and compliments over the new layout, although i’d prefer it if you guys didnt keep trying to burst the damn balloons.. they don’t pop, okay. no, that wasn’t a challenge to try it! i’ve got this irrational fear that someone will poke a hole in my site sooner or later.. So yes, still trial and error-ing till i find the perfect layout I’m happy with.
k v tired so abrupt ending right here
goodnight, all
x
♥jem
Currently listening to:Dance me to the end of love by The Civil Wars
Status:meow
the view over my left shoulder at work
Hi guys,
So the switch from night owl to office girl has been a bit of a bitch in terms of sleeping hours and i would probably be late every day if not for this baby here who wakes me up each morning by jumping on my bed and trying to snuggle.
This evening the retard burrowed her way into one of my envelopes (no idea what she thought she’d find, fish?!) and couldnt get out
Apologies, I’m forever trying to get good shots of her but i can’t get her to sit still unless she has one end stuck in a brown envelope.. maybe when she’s older and less hyperactive. Or possibly she has ADHD, in which case i will never have any good photos of her.
After work this evening i attended La Risonanza V, Meridian Choir’s fifth installment of the risonanza series. An evening of flurriedly trying to battle off the rain and the working crowd rush at the train station, its been a year and I’ve forgotten how truly horrible it can be, trying to get out of the CBD at 7pm.
Managed to sneak backstage after the concert to see the choir despite the angry looking stage crew bouncers or whatever you call them. I think this pretty much qualifies me as groupie expert 101, no?
x
♥jem
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