Take 5

Read this in my chic pie's blog...been there done that. always love the way she crafts words so interestingly and uniquely. happy belated birthday chic pie! (sorry i couldn't make it to your block party..tho i still have your present with me..heh). hope things are better wherever u r at.

"The Creative Process
Because a friend asked me, "Why do you guys have to work late so often?"

The Creative Process
1. Brief given to designers
2. Designer brainstorms and comes out with 3 good options and concepts
3. Internal review of design schemes
4. Refine-ment
5. Not good enough because you see, everything must be perfect in order to preserve the highest design integrity possible = 1000 more internal reviews. Refine 1000 times more.
6. Finally everyone agrees on a final scheme
7. Proceeds to start on presentation package
8. Makes another 1000 changes to colour, tone and other minor stuff that only the designers will notice and which clients won't be able to tell any difference.
9. Boss injects a last minute idea seen from a magazine
10. Designers execute the idea unwillingly
11. Printer breaks down at the 11th hour
12. Cries, kicks the printer, tears hair.
13. Printer (who must be a female) decides to work again.
14. Presents the idea to the client, who has another idea of his own
15. Repeats step 1-14 until thoroughly satisfied.

Note: i'm not complaining. Like everyone else in the same circle, this process has become part and parcel, and i think i would still do that than anything else."

no longer doing that now...but i'm trying to learn to balance my work and life, when work becomes 24/7. And there are times when you don't really want to answer calls...and there are times when u do things so nicely and someone comes and messes it all up. so i'm learning to take things easy. to know that things can go wrong but it's not the end of the world. to know that God is with me and i'm not alone. i want to be a perfectionist but before i even reach halfway there somethings crop up and i lose the motivation to get it perfect. and i wish i can remember things better, clearer and don't make silly mistakes (esp those that costs me so much money). but i need to learn to cheer up and take things easy...and not worry!

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today i think i'll have lots to blabber.

listening to this song "Your grace still amazes me"

each time i fall, You pick me up. Your grace still amazes me. it's deeper, it's wider, it's stronger, it's higher than anything my eyes can see.
who has such patience?
1 + 3 = 4

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on a happier note, i love my new house even tho it's in a great mess and hardly anything has been packed yet, and we've still got things not done there and there we quite a few glitches we have to live with. we're looking forward to move in. :)