Friday

My Friday turned out not-so-boring after all. Was quite stressed out in the day cos' had A LOT OF SHIT to do. Seriously. I like to think I can take a fair bit of stress, but yesterday was way over my limit. Got worse when my "baby" was criticised and not approved by the big bosses. Sigh.. that presentation was the brainchild of my CTO and I - it's a speech and presentation for Temasek Poly this coming Friday during their logistics seminar. And the title of our presentation? "Don't Waste Time on RFID". Catchy right? Attention grabbing right?? Sure to make people sit up and notice, and wonder what the contents will be, RIGHT??? The gist of the speech's about the homework companies need to do before taking up RFID. Else, "don't waste time on RFID". Geddit?

But bosses said it's a joke. Wtf? When my immediate boss told me I was like, "didn't they read the SYNOPSIS?!? That paragraph just BELOW the title?!" Yes I was pissed, cos' the synopsis explains how the title came about. That's what synopses are for. DUH. Well, apparently some people don't bother READING at all. CTO was rather disappointed too, cos' he got the idea from our HP (hewlett packard) partner about grabbing people's attention to make one's speech stand out. But our dear CEO's stand was 'Asians are Asians; can't adopt American style here.' Yeah, yeah. That's precisely why we're always behind them, you i*iot.. We're TOO CONSERVATIVE! So pissed. First time I actually felt angry at my workplace. Usually don't like to lose my cool especially not in the office. But the reasons they're givin me are really too damn ridiculous and lame.

Our dear Exec Director even told my boss,

"If rebonding works for someone, doesn't mean it'll work for u right?"

Mas was dumbfounded and unwillingly kept quiet cos' it's seriously a shut up and listen to me tactic. If I were there at the meeting, I'll reply our dearest Exec Director..

"If you never try, you'll never know. If 13 years ago, you think starting a business works for other people, but doesn't mean it'll work for me too, then there'll be no A*ut*s*an. Oh, and no EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR S**n KT today."

Take that, thou-who-debate-unfairly!

Grrrrr.... Stupid self-righteous people. Peeved me even more cos' it is precisely this kinda culture that restricts the power and potential of marketing. And I mean, CREATIVE marketing. Not the typical cookie-cutter ads you see, but images, words, even a nice showroom that takes visitors' breath away. Clarence came to my desk in the morning telling me how professional HP's Cool Town is. The set-up. Whole look and feel of it. He's gonna bring me along the next time he's going down.

"Hello Marketing! Look at our own demo room. So sad-looking."

"Hellooooo Mister? Not that I don't wanna do anything. It's always the BUDGET problem. I feel damn sad for our Sales team too: no paper bags, no tokens for their customers even. Even our namecard looks so bad. Have submitted some new card designs to management already, just pending for the go-ahead."

So yeah, my baby was renamed to "Are you prepared for RFID?" instead (yawns). Such an insult to my work. That title's so bland, it can AND WILL BLEND in with all the rest. Bleah. Talk about making an impact... bullsh*t.

Luckily things got better and cushioned that sucky sunken feeling. In the pantry, Stef mentioned about no plans for the night. I'm like, "Same here.." He subsequently suggested Paulaners. The second I heard that word, my arm shot up. I'm IN! Haha. Well the band's good. Met up at Marina Sq for Jap food with Ignatius and had some good laughs over things happening in the technical team at 2nd floor. Yakked about my fave backpacking pastime too! :)

Paulaners was PACKED. I forgot they're having OktoberFest celebrations. But we got a table nonetheless. The waitress recognised me and let me jump queue. Band was AWESOME.. Hendrix and his friend joined us and commented the place's great, will definitely bring his other friends along next time. Paulaners's boss should seriously start paying me for helping them advertise.. haha. Chungming and Jeanette came about 12plus, and we went Dbl O together. By then I was already a bit flushed. Cos' downed the beer real quick and it was a special brew for OktoberFest, aka "strong beer". Had about 1.5 litres of the malt drink swish-swooshing in my tummy when we left for Dbl O.

Rest of the night was whiskey coke (one whole freaking jug to myself, sabotage courtesy of Jeanette and Hendrix). It got to a point when I'm a bit gone. But still know what I'm doing of course. Concussed in Chungming's car and didn't even know he has sent Jeanette back AND walked her up! Hahaha. Got home, showered. Text Hendrix that I'm home safely and konked out with DAMP hair. Too tired to wait till its dry..... Lovely way to end the week :)