The regional editorial workshop was held in Chiang Mai, Thailand last Wed to Sat. Almost every writer made it there, some were just too busy to get away. Being away from work was stressful. As soon as I got back, I had to cancel my leave. No Merdeka celebration for me (more on that below). My projects are piling up and I don't even want to talk ( Read more... )

I suppose it was a blessing in disguise when we decided to stay put last weekend. Some strong wind must have blown the smog away on Friday night. The air was so much cleaner, the sky so much blue-r. I called my mother later and found out about the haze hitting Penang. Apparently it was very bad that visibility was very low, and the air was so ( Read more... )

Go anywhere in Klang Valley now and you're sure to encounter Darth Vader lookalikes/wannabes. The haze is back! It started earlier this week, Monday I think. And it got worse... the air is sooooooooo polluted I feel as if I'm a piece of meat being smoked in open air. Port Klang and Kuala Selangor have declared haze emergency. All schools in KL and ( Read more... )

The new IN thing - 3G communication. That's the hype in our telco industry at the moment. Maxis, Celcom and Digi are all rolling out their versions, on top of their current price war for the standard prepaid and postpaid services. I've been a loyal Maxis customer since the day I bought my first handphone (Nokia 3310), which I'm still using today. ( Read more... )

Tomorrow evening I'll be attending my 2nd lesson in the 5-month "Creative Side" course at IACT (Institute Advertising, Communication and Training). The lecturer is a guy who actually works in an advertising firm and I was quite impressed with the way he taught last week. The energy, the ideas, the debates... enough to keep me from falling asleep ( Read more... )

I'm going to Chiangmai, Thailand end of next month to attend an inhouse editorial workshop. Let's hope we learn something new this time round. Best of all, I get to meet my regional editorial colleagues once again (our last meeting was in Cebu, Philippines early last year ( Read more... )

Don't say I didn't warn you. I did mention in my previous entry that I'd discuss the latest HP book. So, here we are ( Read more... )

I'm sleep deprived. Imagine my suffering... I could only read Happy Potter 6 after Isabelle's gone to bed for the past 2 nights. I'm probably 1/3 through the book. Wish I had more time to read, but that will mean staying up all night, something I can't do when there's so much work to be done in the office. I've spent the whole of today counting ( Read more... )

I'm heading to the bookstore first thing tomorrow morning, if I can wake up early enough to join the queue to grab a copy of the latest Harry Potter book. Nan Chuang prefers to wait a few weeks for the mania to cool down before taking me to the bookstore, but I can't wait that long. I must find out what happens to Harry and gang tomorrow. The ( Read more... )

What a harrowing experience! It began with Nan Chuang coughing for the past three weeks, the severe kind of cough... continuous at times. Then he came down with fever that just won't go away for days. Being Mr Superman, he had to be forced to take medical leave from work. Just as he was recovering, his mother and I came with sore throat and runny ( Read more... )