It has been rather quiet on this blogging front. Though ironically not due to decreased free time since this blogger started work. Internet access at said workplace has been preposterous to say the least. First it was the server, then it was Streamyx our un-lovely Broadband provider. All in all, we have been world wide web-less for the better part of this week.
With deadlines coming up in slightly over 7 days, the staff of Marie Claire is understandably perplexed. No, that is hardly strong enough to describe us. There have been frustrated screams, expletives in varying tones and volumes, banging of tables… The fact that almost half the staff chose this week to suffer PMS probably didn’t help either.
Blogging aside, I have also been unable to get on with my work (which involves lots of emailing and surfing the Internet), and I am, in the words of a certain White Chick, “so frickin’ pissed”. I doubt my 4 columns will be meeting my first deadline, which really doesn’t say too much for me, but then again, it’s not like I can help it.
Whinging aside, I do believe I am finally happily settled at Marie Claire. Work is getting increasingly interesting, if only because I am only in my second week and everything is an experience. I attended a L’Oreal press conference today, which although started late and went on a wee bit too long, taught me more about wrinkles and sun damage to the skin than I might ever have learnt.
Yesterday brought me to a photography studio where we do our product shoots and where I witnessed a Padini ad being shot. Their heavily preferred medium of communication is Cantonese, and since I understand they are going to be my new best friends for a while to come, I think my Cantonese is going to improve. But don’t test me on it.
Next week, I have in my organiser, a DKNY perfume launch, a Clinique event, an Escada fragrance launch, and plenty of “shopping” trips to source for clothes and accessories for a photoshoot. My sister would kill to have my job, and anyone who knows me will tell you that I am no shopper. But it sounds like a lot of fun, and I think it will be, though trust me, the launches are bound to get old after all of 5 of them. In the meantime, I can always make lunches or quick drinks during my excursions so if anyone wants to catch up, just give me a call and I’ll check my organiser.
Enough about work. It’s the weekend and I am oh-so-happy. Every Friday I say a little prayer of thanks for my 5 day week job, though now I come to think about it, I say it on Thursdays and Wednesdays and Saturdays too. Another road-trip has been scheduled for tomorrow so maybe the next time I check in, I’ll have something else interesting to say besides work.
In the meantime, take care y’all. Am missing all of you I do not see, and loving all of you I do. Which doesn’t mean I don’t love those of you I don’t get to see, you know that right?
