I’m in Singapore at the moment, working as an in-house freelancer at The Food Newsgazine company. My 3rd day today and I’m loving what I’ve done so far although the traveling to and from work is a pain. But the food here is great! Seriously!

So far, I’ve done some book-reviewing, a crabs restaurant’s newspaper advertisement and some pages for the newsgazine.

Yep, I’m having fun.

Here’s the Valentine’s Day card I created for Pierre.

I created a Valentine’s Day card for my boyfriend, Pierre. I haven’t been creating cards for him for a long time. I just thought I’d be creative about it this time. I’ll post the image of it when he receives the parcel :)

Oh by the way, Kathlyn has put up my favourite love story on http://blessedemon.kicks-ass.net. Oh, Cy Rimmon! Oh bliss!

Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! In love or not!

I’d like to do the honours of introducing a gifted young writer – who is a dear friend of mine and darling sister to my boyfriend – Kathlyn D’Souza. She writes love stories in a witty way you never thought you could put into words. Her writings will go deep into your soul and make you melt, gasp, laugh and cry. Her characters will stay inside your train of thought as you go about your daily routines. I dreamed about one of her characters once, no kidding, because the character was significantly heartfelt. I hope that one day she’ll succeed on getting her stories published. I’m behind you all the way, Kath.

If I had a wider vocabulary to describe her writings, I would pick the most suitable word for her but for now, any word that I would put to describe her now would only be an understatement. She has written more than 9 stories and completed 2, which one of them is now online.

Show some love by checking it out at http://love.thruhere.net.

p/s: Finish up My Blessed Demon quickly, Kath :)

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Oh and Happy Chinese New Year of the Rat! Gong Xi! Gong Xi!

I went for a job interview at Sri Pelancongan Pte. Ltd. (a subdiary of Sabah Tourism Board) for a Graphic Artist position on Monday. It went quite well. Though, I still have to wait for them to get back to me. Fingers crossed :)

Prior to the interview, they asked me to design a Christmas greeting card and a flyer for Sabah Fest 2008. I ended making a series of Christmas greeting cards that look nothing like a typical Christmas greeting card.

I figured that people would want something they want to keep – something memorable. So I made ornament-like greeting cards. I thought that instead of creating typical folding greeting cards, why not make something they’d hang on the Christmas tree instead of putting it away right after reading it or just pasting it on the wall for only one Christmas and forgetting ’bout it the next year? Might as well create something they’d store with the other Christmas decors and most probably would hang it on their tree the next year, too. Aye? Aye?

Seeing that they want a design to promote Sabah and their target audience would most probably be foreigners from four-season countries. The best way to portray Sabah during Christmas would be the sun since Summer is the best time of the year! A warm and sunny Christmas instead of a winter Christmas. I didn’t do the cliché Santa Claus, snow, candy cane and chimney thingy. Instead I picked our magnificent Mount Kinabalu, our sandy beaches, our rainforests and the ever-famous Orang Utan. More than enough to attract you to spend your Christmas in Sabah? :)

As for the Sabah Fest flyer, I didn’t and couldn’t find the details of this year’s event, nor did I know whether I was supposed to come up with a new logo. Though it did say “colourful” in its description, so I figured black would be the best way to bring out the colours in the photos. And since Sabah is known for its natural beauty, then green and yellow would be best to accompany the monochromic hue.

I apologise for the poor photo quality, I took it from last year’s Sabah Fest’s gallery. Don’t mind the second girl, either! But that was the best photo I found. The first girl looks lovely though :) I hope they bought my ideas though ’cause I put a lot of thought into it.