So today is the starting day of Lent. Less food eating, more praying. Ngam kaitu?

Got the ash on my forehead yesterday at St. Thomas Church, Kepayan. We got there half an hour earlier and only to find that it was packed with people and there was no seat left! For the first 15 minutes we were standing, my fiance was already complaining. 20 minutes later, I complained how painful my legs are. Then we poked my sister’s back.

“What?”

“We’re leaving.”

“But we just arrived like 20 minutes ago?!”

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So we I forced myself to take the pain, took my lavender-colored hand fan out of my bag and start fanning myself. It’s burnin hot, yo! Anyway, I must say that I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the choirs of St. Thomas Church, Kepayan. They have awesome song arrangement and beautiful voices (tho there are some salah gitar code at some certain songs, but all is forgiven!) and great choice of hymns. Me loike! I think it’ll be more awesome if they can afford to get good guitars like washburn electric guitars for their team. Would be awesome to have electric guitar in a church. *wink* Oh! I also love the fact that they used a piano (using a keyboard) for most of their hymns. Sooooo nice. Thumbs up for your guys and girls at St. Thomas Church, Kepayan. :-)

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I know it’s the month of Lent and we’re supposed to humble ourselves, be kind, pray always and all that goodie stuff.. but I think it’s not so wrong to show off a bit of a design work that I did last week. I made a custom design blog!

What do you think, nice kah? I’m open to criticism (yang membina). :-P But if you think it’s nice, then, THANK YOU! *hee*

Oh! Just so you know.. we managed to go through the whole session of Ash Wednesday mass. I sang ALL of the hymns and we left the church after the mass ended.

God bless.

This would be my first headache since the coming of the year 2012. Gah, how I hate this! I HAVE to blame it on the hot weather of the city. And no, putting on a ray ban or Gucci shades wouldn’t help either. OH well, I guess the grass is greener on this side but the weather is not too friendly. At least to me. Particularly my head.

Anyway. I was called by this huge, international makeup company for an interview today. The interview went ok. The salary offer was great. They even offered a meal allowance, makeup allowance, overtime allowance, sales commission.. and I heard that there’s also shoes allowance! Ha ha.. mana mau cari tuh? BUT the only con is: the working hours! Gahhhh.. why must there be a con. Can’t they just give me pros without the cons? :-( AND.. I will have to work on weekends. So sad. Anyway, I’m gonna give it a thought before deciding anything.

On the other hand, I’ve been actively brushing up my designing skills once again. I managed to design a new logo for a client before Christmas and this was what I did:

Just a simple black & white logo as per requested by the client. And we have another happy client! :-D

How do you like this business card?

It’s a card I designed for my fiancé at our new business place. It’s a bar, supposedly an Irish bar, but now we’re putting in some Borneo elements into it where we have nightly Poco-Poco and Sumazau dance activity.. and probably Ngajat too!

So that means, in the meantime, I’ll be having two jobs right now: Freelance Graphic Designer by day, buruh kasar at the bar by night. LOL. Coming up next, I’ll probably jump into the business card printing business as well. :-P

If you happen to be in KL, look me up! Maybe we can be Poco-Poco partners! *wink*

Here’s an additional sample to what I’ve been working on lately:
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Wedding cards for the soon to be bride and bridegroom.

I’ve actually submitted the sample to another website that offers services and infos about anything related to weddings – They provide info for services such as bridal makeup, photography, food catering, flowers etc. Which got me into thinking of getting help from a business website builder company to help me build an official business website for my freelance works. That would be an awesome idea, ya?

A professional-built business website could probably bring in more customers to my sites, since I do not have the expertise of building a website, especially those with flashy flash thingy. I’m no pro coder and builder, I’m just a graphic designer. :-P To achieve a great looking website, I’m gonna need people who actually eat and sleep building websites – like them guys at web-deva.com. :-)

Well hmmm.. this should go into my consideration box.