Sucky day
I f***ing hate today and it really sucked for me. Let me explain what happened….
The starting of the day, I was left with reports and news clippings to scan and paste on templates. So little articles about Citigroup that I actually freaked out because its so not Citigroup. Then I was asked to go to Club21 to get some folders and send it over to a butique at Star Hill Gallery, as a direction idiot, I did not know the ways around KL and it took me nearly forever to reach Star Hill Gallery. Thank God Amri and Choon did not screw me for this. LOL
After pestering those media people about the FedEx event at Kompleks MAB regarding FedEx donating 60 paper backs novels of various genre and a member of the MAB will demonstrate how to translate roman alphabets into braile letters using the embosser they donated last year. I ended up going home damn late, to add salt to the wound, I forgot to take my car keys out before locking the car which means no gym for me. Thank God Mr Tang was there to save me by getting the keys from my dad and pass it to me at ss2. God Bless Mr Tang!
Since Club 8’s song was being intro-ed by me on the previous entry, I decide to let you guys listen to Pelle Carlberg who’s music is quite entertaining as well.. And here you go, my personal favorite, I Love You Imbecill
Club 8’s Love in December
Definately a track worth listening, for the people who enjoy a relaxed and slow paced music, this is one track that will sooth your stressed soul. They are already out of Malaysia if you wanna see them live but heck, I believe they will be back to rock the Indie scene of Malaysia! and Enjoy…
Grey’s Morning Breakfast Show!
Like an intern, who thinks that I will actually get a chance to attend this breakfast show where presentations will be held to evaluate the performance and result of every staff at Grey! Today, my boss Wei actually asked me to attend this meeting as its one good way to learn from the people in the industry on how to present and also to answer questions without being weird, bombastic, and also sarcarstic!
By attending this meeting, it actually helps me alot as I learnt how to present an idea, a concept, a theory in a better and more productive method. I have to agree that one of our GCI’s director Adeline was the best presentor as he really stimulate interaction between the presenter and also the audience. Her topic was Dress to Success as we learnt how to groom ourselves in a proper manner not only for the company but also for ourselves.
There’s this guy from G2 that answers questions intelligently and helped his colleauge out. His answers totally shuts the person up and gained a hell lot of applause. I envy him for his ability!
Before they end the meeting, they showed us a yet-to-be-released CNY Perodua TVC. Its a 60seconds TVC with a humour touch but also has a emotional appeal. I was told that it can be seen on national TV on the 6th of Febuary. This TVC is very chinese with a very up to date topic, which is Big Ear Holes aka Tai Yi Long! That’s a hint already! 
Gong Xi Fa Chai dudes and dudettes!
Club 8 and Pelle with Tiger!
Isaac asked me for help at this Tiger Event called Labrador: Asia Tour Live in Kuala Lumpur last friday which is the 25th of January. Its a live band performance by these two swedish band called Club 8 and Pelle.
Club 8 is a band formed by Johan Angergard and his wife, Karolina Komstedt and she is hot! As in really hot! They played very well but somehow their style of music doesnt really fits the taste of Malaysians. The peeps from G2 and us actually sat outside to have our good load of Tiger Beer until they got bored and left for supper. However, they are very big in Sweden as they are part of this Indie label called Labrador! Dont know about it? Google! LMAO.
Seriously, she’s hot right? and guess what, I offered her a beer by opening it infront of her hubby! and she smiled back at me!!!! No joke!!!! But for people who likes a twist in Indie musics, go ahead and have a listen because you might like them after all.
As for Pelle Carlberg, he is the founder of a band called Edson, also under Labrador’s label was the spotlight for the night. Noted for his James Blunt like voice and excellent showmanship as he reacts very positively to encores and etc. But I dont really like the fella because he sings louder than Karolina when all of them performed together on stage as the finale for the night! Wonder how he looks like? There you go….
A Fruitful Day+Night!
Yesterday was one of the best day of my intership. Filled with wonders and excitements because I was allowed to help my supervisor out at this media tour at Bangsar Shopping Centre, although I didnt help much but I get to go to places I have never been to before and also see things that I have never been exposed to.
Then later in the evening, I went back to Dang Wangi to attend this Converse event by Issac and Ian’s company which is Catcha, the publisher of Juice Magazine. The event started of with some rock band called Bitter Sweet playing some decent music and Eugene actually won himself a skull cap! Thanks to me! hua hua hua! All of us including Issac and Eugene’s friends or should I say, us were syok sendiri-ing all the way by winning the best supporter award of the night it self!
But I know that Issac is terribly saddened by the fact that he was only a step away from winning himself a pair of Converse shoe! Damn that guy, he was lucky! Issac played that musical chair thingy but he was the first runner up but he get something though, maybe a pair of shoelace.
At the end of the day, I am richer with a converse t-shirt, a box of cookies, 2 note pads and hell lotsa experience!
Random Thoughts
Some of us may have doubts in working as a PR practitioner after our grueling internship which is still on the way. Most of us thinks that all we do is just media monitoring, reports, and more reports. Judging by what my colleagues is doing, I guess this is the way of PR but it is interesting to work alongside this peoples as they have really funny thoughts but yet complicated lifestyle.
But I guess this PR thing is slowly growing inside me and I believe I should put in more effort to get the max out of it. But I gotta admit that I am a slow learner and I dont mind getting screwed for mistakes I have done but this is the way to improve isnt it? Anyway, besides media monitoring and reports, I guess we are going to do press releases pretty soon.
Oh.. guess what? The Pavillion is right infront of my office and I didnt know that until Eugene asked us whether we wanna have a stroll since we have lotsa time during lunch. haha Joyce!!! are you jealous?? JCO is just 5 minutes away from where I am working!
To MC: G2 and GCI is under the Grey World Wide group, its just that G2 is all bout events and GCI is all bout PR. 
How’s your internship?
Third day at work and some random thoughts
Although I am not complaining for all the scannings I did and the soon to come reports tomorrow, I am feeling satisfied for the stuff I have done so far during my internship. After all the media monitoring and scanning new clippings, I get to photocopy the reports and was given the reason to do so, because when the older interns left, nobody is free enough to teach.
Saw Choon who is incharge of P&g, Club21, and ofcourse the very best, Baskin Robins! Oh and he gave us some DoDo bird keychain from his Mauritius trip and that place sounds like a nice place to me. Ok, back to the topic.. I got off from work at 8pm because I really wanted to finish Hazel’s work and to not drag it any further. Hazel suddenly makes me hate those banks now, namely CIMB, Citi Bank, Public Bank, Standard Charted and etc. I wanna go look at Baskin Robins instead~~~~~
At this point, I realised that I need a direction to not only for my career but also what I wanna achieve in my life. As of now, I find PR really interesting from the articles I read and the way people behave in this industry. Seriously, they are fun to be with and they talk about just anything and everything. Hopefully I will find my direction from this latest passion of mine and hopefully I will get to do more interesting stuff at GCI such as Press realeases, Feature articles and ofcourse lots of brainstorming to share ideas!
Second Day at Work
LOL now it sounds like my report of everyday’s work.
As usuall because I start working the moment I stepped into the office and do media monitoring before scanning those reports and news clipping into the computer. But now I know that media monitoring is kinda important as it not only tell your clients that you did something but also to help you to be aware of things happening around and take every opportunity out of it!
During lunch hour, manage to have lunch with Eugene but only for a short while as it was very packed at Wisma Genting’s cafetaria then we decided to have a stroll at Hill and Knowlto, and I saw his colleague which is another intern from Monash but she’s not that “leng” as he said. Soon after getting back to the office I start scanning the leftovers from Hazel and worked till 6.30pm! and its pouring. Why all the bad luck fell on me one?
But I manage to learn and absorb some stuff from them. So its still ok and now I am looking forward to some other stuff to do after I get used to media monitoring and hopefully I’ll get to learn more before this internship ends.
I know its late but I was tired mar…
P/S: Angel, GCI is a PR company under Grey Worldwide come look for me ya?
First Day at Work
Well, my first day at GCI turns out quite well with lotsa works and I ended up going home later than I expected. Our supervisor/immediate manager is Alisan, she’s from UK and she’s very very nice. Alisan doesnt mind teaching us new interns about how to do our newspaper clippings and how to do reports. Pretty interesting as how things were being done here and everyone is being very nice in guiding us through.
As usuall, nobody likes to do media monitoring/read newspapers due to its boringness and etc but infact, its where money came in for PR agencies but really, its damn boring and stressful as we cant afford to miss out any news of our clients and competitors. Interesting isnt it?
Then we had a brief meeting with out boss, Wei which is superb in the way he thinks and I admire his creativity as he can really get something out of no where! He explained how advertising and PR works in the past and now, showing us the importance on how a brand should carry themselves and etc.
To make things more interesting, Wei actually let us in for a brainstorm session for a new shopping centre in KL and the session was superb with everyone coming out with different ideas and interesting ones! This is where I found out how people in the industry really work and their excutions and ideas are really different from what we are doing in the Uni and this opened up a whole new horizon for me!
However, I am not very looking forward to work tomorrow because I have 5 more banks to scan!! *faints* nites then..
