Creative advertising

Some creative advertising poster I've found on my folder. I thought of posting it up to share. These are banned from where I come from. anything that would be suggestive, religion and violence would be banned.

Pictures of Singapore

I thought I would like to show some pictures of Singapore from my phone .

I used to frequent Tanjong beach club quite often. I love the sun and the beach. The live dee jay every weekend was amazing .

These photos are taken at some of my hang out places.

My school days

I saw this picture recently posted by a friend. It brought back so much fond memories of my studying days. The classroom were not air conditioned. It gets really stuffy and hot when the weather gets humid.
Now all of us worked in air conditioned offices. We wear nice suits and expensive perfumes. Although our standard of living improved, we may not be as happy as compared to our younger days? Obvious signs of aging.

kIRIN is coming!

I've been working on the international brand strategy for a while with my group mates. the module is about bringing a particular product into international market and discuss on the various marketing communication tools we will use to achieve on our objectives. It's really very tiring but fulfilling. All of us gave our best to this assignment. Rather, we gave the best to ALL the assignments being task to us (within our abilities). We were really glad and relief to know the tutor liked it but I'm keeping my fingers crossed. You will never know till you get your result. We walked out feeling really good about it hehe! I remembered how nervous we all felt before going in.

The greatest achievement in an assignment for me is not just about the knowledge I've acquired but also the friendship that has been forged along the way. I think I will miss working with them but I don't want to do this assignment again... I felt a little sad when I was walking out of the school because It suddenly dawned upon me it was our last assignment as a group.

I hope we will continue to keep in touch wherever we are or will be :D

Spring Forward!

I have already booked my tickets to visit my folks in summer. In a blink of an eye, ive already been here for about 8-9 months. It feels like it has been a long time but its actually not so long. I miss the familiarity and the convenience at home. Singapore is a safe country. I dont have to worry about going home at night and thank God for that. Im looking forward in meeting up ALL my friends and family. I just hope when i return to manchester, it will not be too difficult.

Even though ive left Singapore, im always concerned about the home issues on housing, job opportunities and economy. After meeting the high commissioner from Singapore, it set me into thinking about my future in Singapore.

As a student, my results are not great but good enough to pass. I graduated from a neighborhood school and struggle to get into our local university. I had to work full time and study part time in a private institute to  complete my studies. It dawned on me we are in a race. If you dont win the race, you have no second chance at all. While i struggle my best to work hard for a future, i see the government pouring out money to overseas students. Nothing wrong about that. But I just wish our government will look into the mid range singaporeans? And maybe giving people a 2nd chance in life? If they could spend so much money on non singaporeans, why not spend it on our own people?

At work, i do my best in what im task from my boss. I remembered working in an organisation where they employed Europeans to do the higher level managerial role. The company is a local company. As i work with them, i think there are many singaporeans who are more than capable to do the managerial role. Unfortunately, we will always have an expatriates over us. Just because of their nationality, they get the job. I have personally worked with expatriates who are really arrogant and think they are better than Singaporeans. What is more infuriating is the perception from Singaporeans that 'Ang mo' is better than us. This is not true. We do have good quality people. Of course, this is just a minority. Not all of them are like that.

I just hope to see that our government will take care of Singaporeans more. Employment in the UK is very different. Opportunities are given to their locals as priority. Unless the company has a very good reason to fill the position with a non local. Then again, in the UK they have different sets of issues.



 

Random pic on my iPad

Hehehe

Going spanish

I was invited by a classmate to go for a Spanish event some time this week. It was very nice to experience the different culture. We had a free tapas with every beer we ordered. I met some new friends. I like Manchester when I'm socialising around and getting to know new people.

Thankful

I had a bit of difficulty trying to move my old blog to a new blog address. I reckoned it is too much of a hassle so ive decided to create a new one.

I met a Singaporean couple today. They bought some Singaporean goodies and took me out for lunch. I've had a wonderful time hanging out with them and having some singaporean time. It means a lot to me to be able to speak in my own accent :D

Ive decided to keep this blog as a reflective journal about my life here in the UK. The experience has been fulfilling thus far. Some days are fantastic, some days i just wish i could be home in the comfort of my family but all is good :D