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Rush Hour 3

Nuffnang organised this community event at Vivo City GV Hall 4 yesterday where we get to watch "Rush Hour 3" for FREE plus a goodie bag too (which came in really handy as its filled with instant cup noodles & instant coffee from SUPER! haha.... a nuffnang stressball (I can pretend its the stupid creative agency and poke pins on it!) and a National Flag!! (suddenly I felt a little patriotic since I wasn't wearing Red & White on National Day yesterday).

The show started around 1:30pm or so.

Don't understand why the story line has to revolve around Chinese Secret Societies spreading their powers worldwide... This time to France! The scenery is very beautiful!!!

The plot is so-so... there were some farnie parts in the show... Haha... I luv George - the American Spy Wannabe. He was so farnie! Hated the americans as he thought they were violent, but in the end he helped to crack the case! : ) Especially liked his facial expression when he psychoed himself to think that he's a Great American Spy! hahaha

Some of the stunts were quite taxing for Jackie Chan as he's already 53 years old... I really feel the pain for him when I saw the NG shots which showed him getting hurt in some of the stunts!

Chris Tucker seemed to put on a bit of weight in the show. He was already a funnyman at the beginning directing traffic while listening to his MP3 and grooving and singing to the tunes... haha....

That giant martial arts student was very scary looking!!! But it was pretty farnie when the conversation took place between "You, Me and Him". HAHAHA

At the end of the movie, there's the NG shots. Jackie Chan was actually memorising without really understanding the meaning of his lines in the script. He kept getting "secret service" wrong, saying its "Seafood service". And there's one part where he barged into the room where Chris Tucker & Geneieve were making out saying "CHEESE!!" instead of "FREEZE"!!! hahaha

The show was okay in general.

I now pronunce Carolyn Chong as the dumbest woman I've ever worked with!

It's official! Not a doubt!

Carolyn Chong's middle name is STUPID. She is an account director from an advertising agency but she has the concentration level & brains of a pathetic 3 year old.

We suggested she came down to my office to go through the entire media plans for an important campaign launch in mid-August at 3pm on 3rd August. Guess what time did she arrive? 5pm+++

When she was here, her concentration level was only 20%. She kept asking the same questions over and over again. I wondered if we were not giving the clear instructions? However, she was distracted by calling her supplier, calling the media owner to talk about material specifications and calling her creative team to work on this and that! No wonder she can't take in what we said and had to ask over & over again at the face-to-face discussion!!!!! For goodness sake, there were 3 of us talking to her, and we took turns to emphasise on the various media buys, the material specifications & the material deadlines!!!! Even my director was around as she wanted to see for her own eyes how STUPID such a bimbo could be! (and also to see if she qualified to be a bimbo, but ALAS! Bimbo was too high-class for her!)

Nevertheless, after going back to her office, she called again & again asking for the same things that we've spoken about during our face-to-face discussion a few hours ago!! This is how stupid she is!

Trust me! The worst was on Saturday, 4th August, I received 5 calls from her within 1 hour. She can't consolidate the 5 questions and ask me at one shot. She had to call me within 5-10 minute intervals. The first question was the dumbest question I've ever heard from an ACCOUNT DIRECTOR (This only shows the designation is just a decoration, not earned through experience and hard work.). Just because it was stated at "PLASTIC BAG" from the material specs from SPH's document, and in our copy call, its "ENVELOPE", she got confused. And she don't understand why our buy was an "ENVELOPE" when SPH called it "PLASTIC BAG"? We had higlighted thousands of times, and I even wrote an email (so that I have black & white against a dumb woman in case if she refute any claims!) about clarifying against the terms used and to follow the specifications given in the copy call!!!!

Then when I send the revised flowchart to her, I had to call her and ask her if she wanted to go through it with me. And guess what! She told me she would call me 15mins later.... but that call never came through!

Best is her BOSS - the Ang Moh who only knows how to talk! When I told her I had just spoken to the client and the client wanted me to call him directly to ask him to proceed with the colour proofs for one of the medium, he told me he's not very familiar with that and I should speak to that dumb woman! Then when she came to the phone, she told me "OH SO SORRY! I forgot to call me, but I guess its quite late now, I guess I will call you the next morning!" But again, the phone call never happened... Moral of the story - she's not only dumb & suffering from poor concentration, she was also forgetful!!! and not pro-active enough!

Nevermind, today we had to call her to go through the media plan so as to come up with a realistic launch dates & sustenance campaign as they always delayed the launch because the creatives cannot be delivered on time!!! Well.... if they continue to give crappy excuses like "client didn't give approval on time!", "insertion date is too near and material submission is too tight", I think they should seriously considering hiring people who could manage the client, as well as the material timelines.

Best part is she always asks us to talk to the client to postpone the insertion dates! We planned the insertion dates taking into consideration the material submission deadlines. However, if they can't make it, why should it be at the expense of the client & our company? We already did our utmost to help them with the extension of timelines, so they must do their part to chase the client for approval and chase their internal people for the materials!!! Asking us to manage the client on their behalf was just a selfish thought and we can't do their job for them!!!

I think hiring her is the dumbest thing that creative agency has done! And ironically, she was in that company for sometime, working on other accounts before she was transferred to this team to work on my client's business!

In order to stop people from killing themselves and getting herself assassinated, I think she should try her best to pass her IQ & EQ test and improve her concentration level by seeking professional help!

Also, I seriously think my client should call for a pitch and engage some company who can produce better creatives, have better working procedures in place and has a good account servicing team on hand!

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Scandinavia 8-22 July 2007

15 Days in Scandinavia... and I thought that was a fantastic trip! Beautiful sceneries, majestic buildings, lovely animals, cool breezes, slight drizzles, weird tour member, and of course, EXPENSIVE stuff...

After touching down at Copenhagen Airport Terminal 3 around 730am on 9th Jul, our first stop was to see the famous "Little Mermaid" at the harbour... According to the tour guide whose "england is too powderful", there were 3 vandalism acts against this statue. The most recent was sparked by the 911 incident where some insensitive cartoonist did a comic strip in the papers and the terrorists were angry and bombed the statue into pieces... Hence, the "Little Mermaid" we saw was not the 'original' piece as it suffered too much damage earlier on...

After which we visited the Gefion Fountain, Amalienborg Palace, Nyhavn, Shopping Streets and finally Tivoli Gardens. Tivoli Gardens is an amusement park with lots of rides (but more for kids), and a lot of restaurants. The ambience of these restaurants were generally very good, but I'm not too sure about the food because we ate from the cart vendor selling hotdogs!

The next day (10th Jul), we visited Odense (Hans Christian Andersen's birthplace!). We had to take the world's second largest bridge cum highway, Storebaelt, that linked East & West Denmark to get to Odense. Odense is a quaint little town, and I thought the houses in Odense are very pretty!

HC Andersen's house became a museum, showing his life as a young boy in this house. The house was really small! Hmm... thought 'ang mohs' are generally big-sized, but the house seemed fit for hobbits to live in!

11th July was a fun day for me as we visited Lego Land in Billund, Denmark. We had initially thought that Legoland was for kids, but some of the rides were quite thrilling. I thought the "Power Builder" was quite fun as we became the 'bricks' & the machine just turned and swinged us as if they were building something out of us.

There's also a 'miniature land' where famous buildings were made out of lego bricks. We can also see "Mount Rushmore", "Statue of Liberty", as well as "The White House" & "Amalienborg Palace". However, it was a rainy day today... we were wet even though we had umbrella or ponchos!

After visiting Legoland, we went to a small town in Kolding and there's this cute red house down the road where a posters exhibition was held. Out of curiosity, we stepped in to take a look. OMG! The steps were very steep and again, the house was very small!! This was supposed to be the "Old Burgher's House" and its the oldest house standing in this small town! I "stole" a lot of posters from this exhibition as I thought most of the posters were very interesting. The interior of the house was very interesting too! We took a brochure that had information about the Old Burgher's House. Very amazing....

On 12th July, everyone was dancing "ROCK & ROLL" on board the ColorLine ferry which we had to take to get from Denmark to Norway. The ferry ride was 3 hours and most of the old folks in my tour group couldn't stand the choppy waters and some vomitted, some had to shut their eyes and remain in their seats.

We finally reached Hovden, the town in Norway which we were supposed to spend the night. The hotel was so cosy and the surroundings were beautiful! I realised that the buildings in Norway were very much different from Denmark. The houses in Norway were all made of wood and they had unique 'hairstyles' on their heads! The purpose of having these grass & tress on their roof was to warm up the house during winter, and cool down during summer!

On 13th July, we travelled along the Hardranger Fjord and arrived at Bergen, the 2nd largest town in Norway. This was a UNSECO site. These buildings were built by the Germans. Strangely, Bergen was very susceptible to fires. I nearly contributed to a fire when I was trying to remove the candle on the table in the restaurant at a hotel the next day to place it beside a vase filled with plastic flowers. Luckily the fire was put out in 5 seconds... Or I could contribute to History!

Our first stop on 14th July was to visit the house of Edvard Greig -famous composer (the one who wrote Peer Gynt, as well as Piano Concerto in A Minor). After that, we took Fjord1 to discover the beauty of Sognefjord, the longest and narrowest fjord in the world! The scenery was breathtaking! Waterfalls abound! Seagulls too! I was a bit annoyed by the seagulls as they could look so harmless at one time, and then became pesky another minute by gliding and trying to snatch people's food. At times, they 'transformed' into bomber planes and start throwing 'missles'! ARGH! And every morning (when we stay in hotels near the sea), seagulls became our alarm clocks! The clouds were so low that we could just reach out and touched them! Looked like a place where immortals live (from those period dramas on Channel 8 or TVB)...

15th July marked another day of excitement as we were going to see the Briksdal Glacier!!!!! We thought it would be very cold but it wasn't. We had to take a troll car up & then walk a trail to get to the foot of the glacier. When I heard a rumble, I thought it was the thunder as it was still a rainy day... However, the rumble I heard was actually part of the glacier crumbling!! Yikes! It happened 4 times!!! OMG!! I was wondering how long this glacier will stand in front of our eyes... Global Warming is getting more & more serious... We should really do something to save the earth and protect our environment!

On our way up, there's this very majestic waterfall. The water splashed all over our faces and it was very cooling & refreshing! Think that's better than SKII! It's definitely the "REAL MIRACLE WATER". HAHAHAHA....Trolls were seen everywhere... Trolls were supposed to be kind & lucky creatures... but they were a bit too ugly! Hmmm...

We left for Oslo, the capital of Norway on 16th July. We visited the Stave Church before making our way to Oslo. The Stave Church was a unique architecture. You can only go in and visit the interior of the Stave Church when there's a funeral...

The Stave Church could only be found in the sub-urban cemetries in Norway... Its solemn yet stunning! On reaching Oslo, we had a city tour that included the City Hall of Oslo, the Vigeland Park & the Holmenkollen Ski Jump. The Vigeland Park was interesting as all the sculptures in this park was designed by Gustav Vigeland. Every sculture had to do with the different phases of life, and as Vigeland believed in "Rebirth", hence, everything was round... like "Circle of Life". The majestic piece was the "Monolith". There were a total of 152 'individuals' that made up of this Monolith and it represented "Circle of Life". There were a few other statues surrounding this Monolith, and if we walk in the clockwise direction, it depicts a human's life as a child, to growing up, to being in a relationship & then old life. We can find gay & lesbian statues also since the Norweigians have been very liberal and respected homosexuality since 'nong nong ago'...

During our free time, we visited Hard Rock Cafe Oslo, Norway Royal Palace, The Parliament House, Oslo University, National Theatre and some shopping malls.

We reached Sweden on 17th July. The weather became exceptionally sunny after a gloomy morning in Karlstad whereby we can't make out the biggest lake in Sweden Varnm. That felt like summer man!!!

18th July marked our city tour in Stockholm. Stockholm was an interesting city. The City Hall was majestic! The nobel prize was given out in Sweden at this blue building, and usually, the gala dinner was held in City Hall! OMG!!! We walked on the steps where the royal family once walked on.... (actually, they still have a royal family). We also visited the old town & the Royal Palace... there's the change of guards parade going on and we saw a military band. The band played ABBA's song! Very nice!!!!

We didn't go into the "palace" to take a look as we need to go back onto our coach to go back to downtown where we did some shopping at NK Department Store (which is our Takashimaya equivalent). There's a pastry shop at the basement that sells nice almond tarts.

We had to rush to the harbour to board our cruise to Helsinki tonight! We're taking Mariella Viking Line and dinner was served at 5pm!! The ship left the harbour at 4.45pm... it was drizzling and after the rain, we saw rainbows!! OMG!! We saw the rainbow 5 times and one of them was a 'double rainbow'!!! Oh.... its been so long since I last saw a rainbow....

We reached Helsinki at 9.45am... Upon arrival, we went to visit the Uspenski Orthodox Church. This church was erected when the Russians were ruling Finland. The church was majestic! We could also catch a glimpse of the Lutheran Cathedral afar... After that, we visited the Fish Market and we bought the "Fried Fish" from one of the stalls as our tour guide as this dish was only found in Finland and only during summer... it was a bit like eating Ikan Bilis, but its bigger and I think its very tasty!

Opposite the Fish Market would be the Parliament Houses, as well as the Royal Palace.
We visited Lutheran Cathedral, also known as Helsinki Church. The church was very majestic!!! I really loved the colours and the architecture a lot! On top of the church were the statues of the 12 apostles!

The Helsinki University & Library were just beside the Lutheran Cathedral. The Senate Square was in front of the Cathedral and there's a statue of the King. In front of the Senate Square was an ice-cream kiosk that sells very nice ice-cream! Slurppppppp

We also visited the "Church in the Rock", as well as Sibelius Monument. There's this very naughty boy whose head got stuck in one of the 'tubes' of the Sibelius Monument.
After that we're free to roam about but we must make it back to the 'bridge' to the fish market by 4:30pm. We almost couldn't make it back on time because one fellow member went 'missing'... Sigh... that woman could be trouble at times... but we are back anyway!

We reached Stockholm on 20th July around 10am. Our first stop was the VASA Museum. VASA was a huge warship with elaborate carvings, but it sank the moment it went out of the harbour and they are still trying to find out why the warship sank...

After the VASA Museum, we went to the city centre to find food!! Lunch was scrumptious FISH SOUP at a place called ""Kajsas Fish" at the basement of a department store (which is opposite the blue building where the nobel prize were being presented). The Fish Soup was delicious and it costs 80SEK. Very worth it as its one big bowl and the drink (plain water) and bread & salad were free-flow!!!! Yummy!! I don't mind a second helping!

After that, we had some free time so we decided to walk back to the Old Town. We saw the Harry Potter Craze outside a bookstore in the Old Town. All of them were queueing for the Harry Potter book launch on 21st July and they were dressed as characters from the book!

We also visited IKEA but we didn't eat meatballs! haha... We bought shopping bags from IKEA instead.... hahaha.... well... I had to dump all the 'tax refund' in a hand carry luggage so that when they want to check the items, its easier for me to show them than to open my big luggage! The IKEA was huge!! and it was just opposite our hotel.

Of course the fun doesn't just end there... wait till you hear about my tour group! There's an adventure EVERYDAY!