Hardly felt this way at work for a long time. everything is pressing for time. resources are tight. client is pressing. feedbacks are pouring in. new projects find themselves into my mailbox while current projects are still very much alive and kicking.
well, i’ll get thru this somehow, someway, someday…Bejewelled to fight stress…but that doesn’t help me to score well in the leaderboard….ok, back to work again…
Lately, I’ve run into some rather strained customer relationship issues. Was actually sorting out my thoughts last night to evaluate each of those people’s character. I felt better today as I think I’ll like to still portray myself professionally and sweep their unreasonable requests with techniques and treat their rattling with a pinch of salt.
I think this job has exposed me to many sides of human faces. I definitely see more human behaviour as compared to my previous job that is only dealing with schools and teachers. But is ok, I grow stronger out of it. Just that sometimes I felt so stress and strain. Probably is my character that bei always scold me also. When things happened, I tend to think is my fault first. Ok, I’m going to see a wider picture and evaluate.
Summary of character of people I met:
- Stingy but yet wants a lot out of the price they pay
- narrow minded, tend to pick on every single thing they see…even if is unnecessary
- lustful man…haha….who likes to put their hand on your shoulder and calls u “dear” to cut down price
- slave-to-their-masters, people who said OK, Yes, No Problem to you but when their boss raise an eyebrow, the senario is changed 180 degrees
My favourite online magazine – Smashing Magzine has given me a good link to read at their monthly Best compilation. “How to disarm 10 difficult client observations/requests”
yeah…hit but the above combos lately…but is ok, I’m well amoured and 稳如泰山!
I think is the 1st time in my life that I detest doing design. Or rather, I dun term it as design…it is merely follow instructions and do and I'm damn sian about it. I'm not supposed to do it..but what to do? my newly-employed designer is going to step into office only on 23rd Nov..
but seriously, i wanna embark on my own design stuff….anigned.org is stuck…hwtravel one i think can be better…but no creativity juice lately…all being sucked up by stupid people…I rather do a MSN HI-FIVE icon that JJ asked me to do lor…
ok…enough of complain…back to the mundane "design" job 
Deng and Gina were having their usual online chats. Gina was in Boston doing her studies in CS while Deng was in Singapore finishing her final modules in NUS. A sudden thought by one of the party was voiced out, "Why not we get our own domain name?" As random as it could get, the thought intensified and a name was given to our private cyber space. We called it: ANIGNED.
Can't decipher Anigned? Try writing it from right to left. Yup, you should get it. It will be spelt as dengina. A common 'G' that links deng and Gina. But the conventional left-to-right spelling didn't look cool and sounded weird. So the wacky Gina suggested the reverse spelling.
Boy, you're still reading our origin? ok then, I shall go on….
Thus, Deng registered for anigned.org and got the hosting set up.
We got our personalised email addy and set up a few for our dearest friends and family. Gina was enthusiastic and set up her online presence at na.anigned.org. Ironically, Deng, being the website enthusiast was so busy with whatever she had to and deng.anigned.org remains "Under Construction". Deng hopes to put up stuff on it very soon. She has a tonne of "TO-DO LIST" 
Finally, deng sets her footstep right to launch anigned.org on 23 August 2006, in commeration of Gina's 27th Birthday as well 
anigned.org will remain as a cyber space for the anigned to shout like no-body business and for anigneders (our friends) to have a good involvement in all our updates. Stay tune folks!