Run Jess Run!

The submission made it in time!
Friday, 3pm. Big PHEW! Jess & Jeff's Amazing Race Asia submission reached AXN in time.
It was a big risk yesterday that we had to take yesterday, whether or not to use DHL's normal service or overnight (100% guaranteed) service to Singapore. Seeing that the difference was RM120, and that we were broke, we decided on the normal service.

We finished our video on Wednesday night. Yea, cutting it a little too close weren't we? And we had to finish the last bits of the video after 1 beer and quarter of vine each, since we were celebrating Jeff's belated 28th Birthday at Vintry.

Calamities which we faced :
- The last bits of the video with me inside had me with only one side of the contacts, because my left eye was bloodshot ( not from the wine ) and it was hurting.
- Our final video was close to 5 minutes long, so one eye jess here and jeff had to be brutal in cutting down the time. Oh while we are at it, we kidnapped Jo from her bed at close to midnight to get her to hold the video camera for us
- I didn't have a recent passport picture ( and i was too busy running around during work to do it ). Thanks to technology and the changgihness of digital cameras, I managed to capture a "passport" picture of myself, half high from the alcohol, one eye blind, stinky 3 day old t-shirt that says "I'm incredible" and a pasty oily face.
- Tada, after everything was done, forms filled up, photos taken... we couldn't play our video on a DVD player. The time, 3am. ARGH! That means, that leaves us Thursday morning to convert the video into a VCD / DVD format!!
- Frantic calls and sms-es were made whilst i was driving my self to work, to check on how we could get the video into a DVD format. And both Jeff and i had 11am meetings.
- After half a day of frantic calls, getting Julie ( thanks babe!), Chu ( our IT guy at work ) and Arleen to help convert our video, we had to rush ourselves to DHL. Problem is, we both have 3pm - 5pm meetings, which means might miss the courier deadline.
- Much excuses made to wiggle ourselves out of the office, me passing the VCD to Jeff at his BAT office, and then off to DHL.
Before the Amazing Race Asia has even started I am already feeling tired!

Work is on again!
It didn't help that finally God heard my prayer of "Give me some work before i go nuts". Right when there's a personal project that is rushed, work begins to pile itself.
- The approval for 3 TVCs came in. Which means going on shoots, and this being overnight shoot. Another zombifying day.
- One other client kept rejecting our creatives. Finally after a long uphill task, they've approved the press ad. Another rush, we have already exceeded our deadline for the other POSMs.
- The adrenaline rush that i experienced this week is really amazing. I could literally feel my creative juices oozing out. During trainings, brainstorm, discussions & personal projects, the ideas came really easily.

This week flew past really quickly. Too many waking up at 6ams and sleeping at 3am, makes me delirious in the head and a liver that quivers ( i didn't have enough of vine at Vintry!)

Fun Bits
- Vintry : Small little reunion with Chris, Jeff, Kelvin & Jean. Good food, good vine ( just not enough) and good company! Though Jeff was the birthday boy, Kelvin took most of the bantering as we spilled his "ex-es" story to Jean! Sigh, nothing too scandalous, though lots of colourful characters that he dated.

- The Traveller : Spinning a story for The Traveller. They recently won Tatler's 2007 Best Travel Agency in Singapore ( Yay Aunty Yvonne!). Best bits about writting the story is to imagine that i know Singapore really well, and romantising it for a traveller.

- Babysitting Bessy : Today's the first day Bessy came to stay with us for the weekend, as Yuez & Nut climb KK.
Now i truly understand how tiring it can be for Yuez, as her little girl is really really really hyper. 6am wake up call for me, to feed her and a 2 hour wait for her to poo poo, because she's gets so excited and just want to Play. Even Winston's energy level couldn't match hers. And it's really funny to see how Uncle Winston gets all grouchy because of Bessy's over-enthusiatic love for him. Jumping on him, smelling his "ku ku", licking him, prancing around in front of him taunting him when he's at his Lazy Dog pose saying "come get me, come get me"

Unwinding for the evening
It's Friday evening, I'm sitting in my room in the office, chilling whilst waiting for the rest to finish off what they have so that we all can go for... BEER & DINNER, yummy yummy chicken wings, kam heong la la at Jalan Alor, and then heading off to Atrium at 10pm for Little one's birthday do. Hic! What bliss!