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Monday 14 Jan 2008

A day I do not need to go to work. Thought of treating this day as a resting day. But there are still alot of things to do. Tidied up my room, changed the bedsheets etc. Then, went town for a haircut with mummy. I always go China town for my hair cut, and I really LOVE the goreng pisang(fried banana). I will never give it a miss whenever I come to People Park Centre. Then requested for a wild haircut. A haircut that is completely different from the current one. So, I had 2 layers of fringe. The inner fringe is shorter, covered by a longer fringe from the outside. Then, the hair dresser told me that she’s doing eye lash perming for $30. So, I tried it. After all this, it was already late. Reached home at around 1015pm without having dinner.

Back home, I still have to work -replying clients’ emails, setting up their accounts. Didnt really sleep good that night.

Tuesday 15 Jan 2008

Woke up in the morning to go to work. I wish I can have all the time to sleep. Rest is essential for me. After work, went Watson with Ah Hong Jie² and bought eye lash curler, mascara and make-up remover. Back home, continued the same old routine. Check my hotmail, check my blog, check company’s email, set up client’s account, check forum.

Wednesday 16 Jan 2008

Same old routine. Then had vegetarian lunch at TJPG market. Then, we went to Donut Donut to buy donuts. Then, went to the fruit juice stall. Last week I drank fruit juices that helps maintain good skin complexion. This week I had fruit juice that helps me to maintain good figure. WAHAHA

Thursday 17 Jan 2008

Same old routine. I can drop down dead at this point of time. But, i just hanged on till the end. Made overseas call for seek help on some software. After work, went to meet the brothers and sisters for bbq. Halfway during the bbq, it started to rain. We took out our umbrella and sheltered ourselves under the umbrella. Covered the food with paper plates. After some time, the rain stopped and we continued our barbeque. Then, we found out that we didnt covered the opened mashmallows. So some of the mashmallows were “soaked” in rain water. BBQ mashmallows. Initially, I wanted to go home at around 830pm because i still need to work the next day and going concert that evening. But ending up, I only managed to reached home at around 11pm. :dead tired: Then, continued to work, checked email, replied clients’ emails. Within a day, I received 21 new emails. :S

Friday 18 Jan 2008

..A very memorable day..

Amazingly, I didnt take a day off from work to fetch Jay Chou from airport. Yeah.. He’s coming to Singapore for his world tour concert. Frankly speaking, I wasnt as excited as I was the past few years.

The craziest things I did for Jay
1. Met Jay-Chou.net friends at city link to make Initial D Banner and Placards. (18 June 2005)

2. Went airport and waited for Jay to arrive in Singapore. Then, took cab down to Shaw House and waited till the evening for the Gala Premiere (21 June 2005)

3. Went to his Secret movie Gala Premiere (30 July 2007).

Shall blog about his World Tour Concert 2008 in my next entry.

For that, they were fined the maximum of $1,000 on Tuesday for entering a protected place.

After getting the boarding passes for their flight, they entered the departure hall where a notice states ‘No entry except for passengers with boarding passes and proceeding to their next destination’.

The two telemarketers did not proceed to board their flight, but instead went to meet a celebrity idol who was arriving the same day.

Although the statement of facts in court did not say who the idol was, it was known that Jay Chou flew in from Hong Kong that day for a two-day whirlwind trip to promote his directorial debut ‘Secret’.

The two were later detained by an Immigration and Checkpoints Authority officer and the police were called.

Sin and Soh admitted that they had bought airline tickets to meet their celebrity idol at the departure hall.

Under the Protected Area and Protected Places Act, they could have been fined and jailed for up to two years each.

Here I am, helping my client to advertise. If you are looking for gifts for your loved ones, try An Immanuel Valentines.

They provide you different services such as ordering their special bouquet or even personalise your own bouquet. They provide delivery service on Valentine’s Day (14 Feb 2008) in places like NUS, SIM, Boon Lay MRT, Plaza Singapura at designated times.

So what you waiting for?

Visit An Immanuel Valentines.

This time round, I designed a shopping website - An Immanuel Valentine’s. Immanuel means God is with us.

To me, this is a really very challenging project. Not only I started the html coding from scratch, I was also restricted from using the brushes I have in Photoshop. Since this project is for commercial purpose, I can only use the basic brushes Photoshop provides, instead of those nice and fanciful brushes other people have created.

This project was given to me only yesterday (12 Jan 08) and I was supposed to do everything before monday (13 Jan 08). Given the limited tools for designing, I tried to make the banner of the website.

In the end, I only managed to come out with this banner on Saturday.

After creating the heart shape, the design was still plain. So, i went online and used this quote “For yesterday’s memories, today’s love, and tomorrow’s dreams I love you“. Couldnt find who’s the author of this quote.

Then today, I was told that the banner was too plain. I think.. think.. and think.. Finally,I made use of the little flowers Photoshop has and created this:

So, I created the html codes. I was told to make the website looks something like my blog(for your information, it is called Iframe). That means only the middle portion(the blog entries) refreshes on its own, without the whole page to be reloaded. I tried a lot of times to create the codes, but it did not work. The html codes seemed to be broken. After trying like dont-know-how-many-times, I successfully make the links work.

Then, created the little logos.

Then, added the content. Beautify it. Create Google Calendar, Hit Counter etc.

I was happily doing all these things in Geocities and suddenly, I saw the terms and conditions for using the Free web hosting service. No commercial purposes is allowed. So, I had to transfer everything to blogger.

Actually, at the “EARLY BIRD SPECIAL” section, I was thinking of doing a marquee on the products. But in the end, it was changed to the Early bird section. The flowery design at the Early bird section was copied from the banner. I did a color balance- so it changes from a pinky color scheme to a brown color scheme. Personally, I like the arrangement of this flower pattern. I didnt expect myself to come out with this swirling effect of the flowers(See Banner)

My own rating of this design(5 stars MAX):

See the number of hours I’ve devoted on this design.. and this is the reason why mummy is nagging me now.. I think i need a break..

My Time Log
5 hours doing the basic html codes
2 hours adding the content
1.5 hours designing banner and logos.