Life on a fab lane!

My Dear Friends

Thank you sooo much for your motivation. I see that my regular readers have kept up to date with my musings....THANKS SO MUCH, VERY VERY MUCH Sek Hin for the motivation, Amrita (from Stockholm must be you la, who else) and friends at MTM. At least it'll keep you entertained from the humdrum of daily official reading materials eh....

And dearest Sek Hin, you said "Yus, you wrote from your heart"...........I'm speechless!!! It's like Marco Pierre White telling me "Yus, you cook like me".....I'm soooo honoured :)
And more motivated than ever to write!

I had an interesting day at work today. A couple of us were selected by our CEO to be involved for a photography shooting session. He was scheduled for an interview with an international travel trade magazine and our PR has engaged a professional photographer and a make-up artist. To make it worth the RM $$$$ that was being paid to the photographer and make-up artists, he has ordered 4 keys staffs to be involved for the photo shoot and make-up session as well. Well...err...I'm one of the key staff in case you don't notice that hint...heheheh

Yeah...everybody whined and groaned, complaining they had a lot of work piling up, these kinda things are just a big waste of time bla bla bla....    As for me...I just kept quiet and remained blase' about it....all in a days work eh..

Despite those complaints, I betcha each of us were secretly thrilled. You can see that in their smiles as they posed for the camera, from their chatters as they wait for their turn, and finally, I heard this from the last person I thought would make such a remark, my GM:

"We must engage this make-up artist and photographer again when we have our official launch. I like her makeup!"

hahahah!!!!!  She only human ah... (FYI, our official launch is scheduled on 23rd Nov...I'm sure there will be more interesting story to tell.)

Each of us had some portrait shots done and then some group photos. Surprisingly I did not take long to give 'good' poses. Well that was what the photographer said...hhmmmmm....can you imagine how big my beaming smile was :)

I must say a big thank you to:

• The patient and skillful lady photographer. She may not be Anna Liebowitz, the world famous photographer but she can be the sister, she made me look 'dynamically attractive' (if I must say so myself) in all her shots. Brilliantly fabulous!
• The skillful make up artists (who used all MAC products....I soo like!) she covered all my flaws and facial imperfections and turn me into an Asian Kimura Lee Simmons minus the diva antics. Gorgeously fabulous!
• Kimura Lee Simmons of course for all the photo and posing tips.....I knew it! All those hours spent watching her show and listening to some of her piratical tips on posing for camera really came in handy and it worked! ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS!!!!!

 As you can see, I am shameless Kimura wannabee....Fabulosity!

The Return of Ms Wannabee!!!!

WELL MY FRIENDS!!!!!
I am soooo sorry, I know, I know...I deserve to be shot! I said and promised that I will be more diligent but what happened? Silence from the last 7 months! Shame on me, shame on me....
I am sooo sorry....well my close and dear friends who are here know what's been happening but so sorry (yeah again,sooo very sorry) to my close and dear friends who are not here.

Even Murad! You called all the way from SF and yet...I still did not update my blog. Well....it is not a case of losing interest....there was a bit of writer's block (yeah....maybe I'm over-dramatising it a bit), but really! I did suffer writer's block. I just don't know what to write! And when I knew,,,,,I didn't have the drive to update....

Apart from that...my life have undergone a major change. I finally changed my job...a job that I have held on dearly for the past 10 years, the one that gave me great friends that will hopefully stay my friends until I die and the one friend that I owed allegiance for the next 7 generations....the job that paid for my holidays, the clothes on my body, the shoes that I walked on and the Prada that I carry...the job that gave me the best 2 years of my life in HK plus the 5 to 7 years working hard (and sometimes not so hard) that took me almost everywhere too (except North and South America, Europe, Middle East, Australasia and Pacific, the North Pole and the South Pole). Okay, when listed like that....that doesn't sound really impressive??? Oh well...

Oh well...I finally found the courage to leave and move on to another new direction in my life. I wanted a new challenge, a new environment, a new employer and new new salary (with whole new perks) and I got it! Thank you Lord :)

Anyway, that is the official story and I'm stying with it. The unofficial ones.....hhmmmm let see.....
I wanted to go, NO! I needed to go because I don't think I could move on anymore, what I had in me is not enough....nobody is indispensable...I needed to go because I started losing interest in doing the same things over the years, facing egocentric and idiotic clients and following too many procedures...and so....when the opportunity came, I left.....

And so....on Friday 13 August 2010 (unlucky date? luckily I am not superstitious), after a last trip to China (gosh! Can't remember what city it was).....I bid my farewell to my second home the past 10 years...Goodbye MTM!

On Monday, 16 August 2010, I started at my new work place....the Bureau. Goodbye Med Comm, HELLO Tourism!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No time to rest or dwell...I was push headlong into endless rounds of meetings with high profile people, trainings and work. Oh back to that 13th August weekend, The customary farewell dinner was given...I received a SUPERBLY PREPARED GIFT OF LOVE FROM HOHUI, ANDREW, JESSICA, SEK HIN, STEFANIE, WAIKIN (who left 2 weeks earlier than me but managed to leave her mark as well) and, HENRY (the new guy). As far as value goes, it was priceless, not even anything from Tiffany or Mont Blanc can rival that lovely gift from my 'ex-colleagues'...feel sooooo akward to address them as my 'ex-colleagues'. And apart from that......I also received a lot of supportive and tearful goodbye messages from my MTM fraternity  ....they all said nice things to me....I feel soo like Mother Teresa :)

Luckily I'm writing these now...after 2 months. Had I wrote these things earlier, I would have cried buckets! Tears of sadness because I am leaving dear colleagues who were like family and tears of joy because everybody had soo many nice things to say about me....(some ppl only get this after they die). hahahah!!!!!

And so I started my new work.....I said I wanted new challenge ...and yup! New challenges it was. I can't complain much, I just hope I will be able to deliver what they expect of me. I should have known that during the interview, I asked for this and that and they (my new employer) only said okay. I should have known the enormity of the job. They really have high expectations from me and I hope I'll survive and can show them that they have chosen the right person indeed.....

And soo...Ms Wannabee is a step to being closer being what she wants to be.....a successful, confident, self-assured, financially independent women of the new millennium plus cheerful, hot and gorgeous (but still cannot fit into her size 10 bikini!).

I'll be back again love!


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