Trouble in The Office

Montage-A-Trois

UN: PHYSICAL VIOLENCE in THE PLANNING CONFERENCE

I was immensely pissed last Thursday in the briefback after the brainstorming session.

All four groups were tasked to come up with the Next Generation Thingy, and I guess everybody got giddy at trying to outdo the other groups with their hip ideas. There was one group that got TOO excited. As I was going up the front to setup our group's presentation, Lisa from Brand was protesting in her annoyingly perky voice that it was *their* turn to present. I was already plugging my thumbdrive into the port when Lisa rushed up front, grabbed the mike, and inadvertently PUSHED me off the stage. It was a good thing a chair was nearby to catch my fall. Once I flicked on my slides, I walked across the platform to my seat on the other side and said, "Since you're so desperate to present, go ahead and have the floor."

Everybody was crazy on the whole thing. Some were chanting "Lisa! Lisa!" while I was trying to appear cool and unmiffed. (Later Drew tells me how transparently cross I looked with my tightly-knotted eyebrows.) It was like the WWF smashdown, with me, smashed-down, in the ring.

Anyway, Lisa carried on, and their ideas weren't as mindblowing and do-able as ours. I don't think anybody remembered what they presented. I'm not saying ours was better (although that's quite true), but the violence on Lisa's side was completely unnecessary for the quality of their work.


DEUX: LOST IN TRANSLATION

Been having troubles with the new brochures. We can't seem to check the final drafts properly because of the Thai texts. Unfortunately, when the translation comes in, the Local Mktg team have a lot of issues with the merchandizing being lost, literally, in translation.

'Ple from the Thai team suggested that we should study Thai so we could catch the errors earlier.

With 44 letters that resemble squiggles more than the Roman alphabet, I don't think so.


TROIS: REJECTION & ACCEPTANCE, ALL IN TWO WEEKS

My sci-fi story "The Black Coat" for the Specfic anthology (PSFV2) edited by D. Alfar didn't make the cut, suffering from structure problems and a need for polishing. However, my other little project "Highly Confidential: The Electric Journal of Ana Banana" under a penname Sally Magdangal, happily got in to Cozyreads first antho HEARTBREAK.

Both news kept me grounded. Winsome, Losesome.

Life goes on.

C'est la vie.

Carpe diem.

Bonna cera.

Adios, patria.

Saramhabida, Bo.

posted by Elyss @ 11:32 AM