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March It All
Today, I realized that designing gets even more challenging most especially if you put a little glitter of marketing strategy in it. Same philosophy holds true if you’re just designing something you thought was simple and then seeing yourself out of the radar. Bottom line is, it’s not always about aesthetics — it’s also about brainstorming and rendering great user experience.
Yesterday, I together with my team drew some sketches of our desired layouts. This is the first time I made use of papers because ideas were exploding everywhere that even photoshop can’t jot it all in a snap. Funny because it really feels different when you go decide alone without other’s inputs. Indeed, three heads are better than one!
Of course I needed some smarts and a good dose of stubborn will power to make all these stuff happen but let’s not forget that sweets will always be my best comfort food of all!
But I don’t get to taste Cupcakes by Sonja forever. So, I do settle for something cheap over the counter sweets randomly — just enough to beat up pressure and stress.
Hectic Week
My first sticky note in my work station. I don’t usually jot down deadlines on a paper, I usually type it in a notepad instead. I know it doesn’t sound like a good habit so someone else did it for me. My workload is jam-packed until the end of the week, ya’y!
So here’s a glimpse of what I’m currently working on:
It’s a contest landing page. Well, this project come off a little easy for me because the scheme and concept itself is so me. I really do wish I can share everything that I’ve designed at work to all of you but I’m too lazy to update my portfolio. Can someone at least give me a hard push to keep me moving?
What’s Wrong?
Obviously, this is a hallway — hallway of the company I’m currently working in. So what now? Well, squint your eyes and look closely at these pictures taken by my co-designer, Roy. Can you tell me what’s wrong with these two pictures?
Come on, stare at it. Nothing? If you can’t see anything wrong about it, then you just unintentionally made me grin! *grin* Wanna know why? Simply because..
Early Presents
Never thought that the person who picked me in our Kris Kringle would be a “he”. Well, not actually — I wasn’t really sure until I found out yesterday. My monito has been very kind to follow what I’ve listed in my wish list. He admitted that he had a hard time buying what I wanted so he begged for a girl’s help to make all these possible.
Everything was placed inside this pink paper bag. I don’t know if he knows I like pink.
Something office friendly — mirror. I always wanted to have a mirror on my desk. Not because I’m too vain but because — just because. ;p
Something edible — polvoron. This is what I always eat every after meal. It’s definitely my brand of dessert next to chocolates. But this one is different because it has pinipig on it.
Something worth Php 300 — any Etude product. I’m glad that it was a lip gloss because I’ve been suffering badly with the cold weather and so as my lips. This Dear Darling is just perfect!
When I received these, I felt good. I felt bliss that it took me forever to thank the one who picked me. But when I came back home in Calamba and heard the news, I was a bit saddened. I realized I was too selfish to even rant about how distraught I was for not receiving gifts while there are tons of people out there in Iligan that are famished and fought for their lives. I didn’t know because when it comes to news updates, I’m always off the track, simply because there’s no way for me to watch the news during my stay in Manila. When I watched the videos and seen the photos, there’s a self-induced force that pushed me to help — I must help — and I did. I donated via paypal. I know that the amount wouldn’t suffice the whole people who were affected but I do believe that simple act that I did will help tons of people.
Kris Kringle
Wrapped gifts for tomorrow’s last Kris Kringle. The announcement of the Monito-Monita will be held tomorrow and I’m a bit excited of what memento shall I be receiving. We’ve got a wishlist to guide those who picked us for making it less lump in their part for buying/picking some stuff to give. I wonder if it’s a good thing because others don’t follow it anyway. As for me, I haven’t received any gifts from this person who picked me — and if tomorrow I won’t be receiving anything again, I might get huffy this time. I kid! I kid! What I meant was, I’m not an evil dictator of taste.. how come you didn’t give any? But then again, Christmas is all about giving. Too much of a cliché, but true.
Birthday Boy
Since Geno and I are always together, it wasn’t easy to steal a li’l time to prepare for a grand surprise for his birthday. But since I was a creative and a spontaneous girl, I was able to come up with something simple but sweet!
“I can’t believe I’m doing some fancy artsy fartsy stuff right now..” — tweeted last 7th day of December, just 2 days before his big day. What I tweeted was true because after some ages, I was able to hold craft materials (again) — something that isn’t in a form of digitized art.
Wrapping this whole thing sucks because the scotch tape I’m using to put it all together doesn’t get a hold to stick that much.
What’s inside it? Four (4) different kinds of clothing (tops & bottom). Yea! He has fetish for clothes and shoes so thinking what to give was easy. What’s challenging is the act of shopping by heading to male sections in the mall. Guys starts to stare and wonder as I do my mini haul.
Since his birthday falls under a weekday, the Marketing Department held a little surprise for him too! They spared 2 rolled cakes and one mini cake with a candle.
Well, that’s Part 1 of his birthday celebration — Part 2 is just happening “now” — which is obviously I’m not with because he’s with his circle of guy friends.
Yesterday, he told me he was touched and overwhelmed about everything that happened during his birthday. It felt good in my part because knowing he appreciated my effort is enough to ease the struggle I went through to make it happen.
But right now, I just suddenly fell flat on the floor wearing a poker face. Maybe what makes me feel bad right now is the thought of how he responds to his friends when they nag him to throw a party and jam till midnight. Given that it is his birthday, I don’t have the right to put a halt on the things that will make him happy. But knowing that he can sacrifice more for his friends rather than for me hurts a little.
- Left the office without thinking if I’ll be fine going home alone.
- Thinking if I’m hungry enough that we can eat dinner first before he leave.
- Pushing the party even though he suffers from headache and drowsiness because of lack of sleep.
- Willingness to stay late even though there’s something important to do the next day.
- Postponing a day with me to shop for a Christmas party’s costume.
- Not being threatened whether I’ll be fine to go home alone back in Laguna.
- And worst of all, not considering to invite me with the said party.
HE WAS ABLE TO SACRIFICE A LOT ALL FOR THE SAKE OF THIS EFFING DRINKING PARTY! But if I’m the one to plea? What will I get? List of all complains for not feeling well, for feeling sleepy, for feeling tired, for feeling lazy and the list goes on.
It’s okay if you don’t feel like inviting me over because you know I’m the first person who’ll kill the fun of yours in drinking and popping cigars. But you should have at least made sure we were okay before we part ways and not just came rushing with your friends. You’re even the one who told me that throwing a party would cost too much but does that mean buying them a few drinks wouldn’t hurt your pocket?
What’s even striking is the thought of how you handle memories. For you, it doesn’t matter that much because it’s something that will be fun for now and then later be forgotten. Does that mean I should’ve not exerted effort from the start? Ouch.
New Work Place
What’s good about the company I’m in to is that it’s continuously growing. Starting by the number of 3 people to hundreds of it and counting. Epic? Last Tuesday, we transferred to a better turf — same building, different unit. What I like about it is that it has a minimalistic look and the colors are bright and natural. The only downfall is that the aircon is always at its maximum cold temperature!! Wah-duh-fwak! So here I am, sniffing as I blog. Been suffering colds for almost 3 days.
Here’s my minimalistic desk. No office stuff or kawaii thing on it. Haha! The only thing that messes my table is my bag (which is still a total eyesore for me). I know this one looks better now compared to my previous desk.
There are only 3 designers in my department. Me and Geno are one seat apart from each other (he’s at the last). With us are these desktop pcs. We do wish that we’re using iMacs instead. Hoho!
Cup it Up
Before work, my breakfast could either be served via hot taho or hot choco on my table. As for today, I’ve been served with both! I was even gay when I noticed that the pantry’s paper cup is a girly one — something that I’m fond of but weirded me out.
My load of work is a li’l challenging knowing that I’ll be working on with a different kind of CMS — Drupal. They say it’s rather more complex than wordpress but as long as google lives, I won’t face a dead end. Well I guess trying out something else might have sounded a bit random, but I couldn’t be more than excited to get a hook on it.
