from bimbo to tech junkie

it came as no surprise to me when people tell me that their initial impressions of me, especially after meeting me for the first 2 minutes, were somewhat of a bimbo.

even after so long, i can’t decide if this should be a compliment or an insult.

but i wouldn’t blame them. looking at it from someone else’s point of view, if i were to meet me for the first time, i might have just arrived at the same inital conclusion.

possible thought-process during an initial meeting:

face warpaint a.k.a make-up - check.

perfume - check.

looks like she might be a little vain (little is subjective, okay) - check.

clueless with serious IT stuff (like fixing own PC) - check.

conclusion - bimbotic woman. check.

plus, the fact that i’m in public relations doesn’t really help the case because it seems like most people generally misunderstand the nature of this industry. public relations, as far as these people are concerned, is an industry full of glitz and glamour, exciting events and happening parties.

yes, i wouldn’t deny that people in the public relations industry do have some opportunities to be part of such merry-making events, but the enormous amount of hard work, effort and sweat that pr professionals put in towards their work often slip by - unnoticed.

with such misconceptions, it is small wonder that some will label me as bimbotic during the inital meeting.

however, things have taken a slight change recently. although i am still in the same industry, the nature of my clients’ industries have altered substantially.

from dealing with lifestyle and consumer to enterprise technology clients, i have to say that the transition isn’t easy at all. i had to grapple with new concepts, applications and jargons which were totally foreign to me. i had imagined that the learning process will be long and painful.

but surprise, surprise…i think i might actually have formed an interest for this aspect somewhere along the learning path. i actually found some of these stuff amazing, and get this, interesting!

even i, myself, am pretty shocked at this realisation.

what happened?

from a complete technology idiot to this. who would have thought?

oh gawd, i’m a tech-geek wannabe.

but the make-up, perfume and slight vain-ness still stay. heh.

The Undomestic Goddess in me

I have just finished reading the book - The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella recently.

Basically, this novel can be summed up as below:

A woman, who was obsessed with climbing the corporate ladder in a prestigious law firm, was well on her to making partner when she made a simple yet terrible mistake at work. Unable to face the music, she walks out of her existing lifestyle and landed herself in a job of a very different nature - a housekeeper. As clueless as she was with household chores, the novel depicts her journey of discovering herself, of life’s simple pleasures and most importantly, of love.

Cheesy as it might sound, the style of writing in this novel is simplistic yet engaging. It is unpretentious and does not attempt to awe its readers with impressive yet unreadable vocabulary.

I believe this book will strike a cord with many women…as it has, for me.

Since young, I’ve always dreamt of becoming this wildly successful career woman and I thought that I will do just about anything - such as sacrificing all my time or social life to attain that goal.

You might ask, “Why?”

Maybe it was due to the hand that fate has dealt me, I grew up in an environment that had me constantly worrying about being able to afford school, medical fees etc. I had come to realise the importance of financial ability and money at very early age. That realisation, coupled with watching too much drama-serials on the television, had fueled my desire to be somebody in the corporate world. Because all the high-powered career people, on television at least, had everything that they desired for - in the material sense at least.

Believe or not, I even had an idea of how I want my office to look like. I have that image in my head since 9.

However, during the process of growing up especially in the recent years, I find myself questioning that belief.

Is climbing that corporate ladder really so important? Life, in itself, has so many aspects - Family, friends, love, getting to know the world and its different countries or cultures…Is having a highly successful career really that important so much so that it warrants the sacrifice of all the other aspects?

I’m definitely not saying that having a successful career is not important…but to sacrifice so many other aspects of life to achieve that success - is it worth the price?

Reading this novel certainly invoked some reflections upon this issue, but one thing’s for sure, I’ve realised that there’s more to life than work…and we should fully embrace what life has to offer us.

I’m just struggling to cultivate a firm belief in it.

Let’s all work towards that, shall we?

*Book rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

of work, work, work, work

i’m dying.

seriously.

it has been a mad house at work recently and it seems like we’re taking on more than we can handle. to make matters worse, one of my colleagues AD has been sick and now, she’s infecting me and another of our colleague.

although i’m not feeling well, i can’t take mc…i can’t allow myself to fall very sick because the workload is increasing at such an exponential speed that it’s impossible to catch up. nonetheless, i’m going to try my best…or die trying, whichever comes first. haha.

everyone pray for me that i don’t fall sick!  =(

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to suzsays:

i’m no expert on wordpress and is new to it as well. i’ll tell you what i know and hope it will help. the steps are as below.

1. you’ve got to host your image on picture hosting website. this is NOT the wordpress website, it is another website that allow you to “save” your image on their website, something like an online harddisk. the one i’m using now is photobucket.com. it’s a free website, but comes with limited space for your images.

2. after uploading your image to the picture hosting website, urls tags will be generated automatically for you by these websites. take note of this url tags.

3. in your wordpress, go to “insert image” on the formatting bar while u’re in the ‘write post” screen. copy and paste the url tag mentioned in step 2 to the url address in the insert image box.

4. picture will be displayed exactly like your original size.

hope this helps!