NEWSWORTHY

easyOrange is online!

This is it, we're alive! Brunei now knows easyOrange.
Five months from concept and business feasibility to production and operations and launch. Five months... It's been a crazy five months but we made it! easyOrange is online!

It's in it's in!

Advertising

It's 4 in the morning and the whole office block is fast asleep. All but one new start-up advertising firm. Tomorrow's the big day. Our kiosks are getting installed on site tomorrow. We're all working to finish up digital ads for our new clients. I should take a step back and reflect for a moment. I highly suspect it's a question of how big egos can get.

20th January 2006 -
How naive Terence and I could have been? We thought we came up with something new, something that would revolutionize the globe. We thought we would be pioneers. Alas, we would eventually come to realise that we are fairly new at this, young blood out without a fear. Fear, it seems, would set in soon.

Between four partners, we've celebrated and cried of sorts together. We've seen one another at our best and invariably, our worst. We've managed to find the correct strategy to push one another, to grow off one another. Friendship is a beautiful thing.

Whatever the case may be, our little orange sextuplets are rolling out tomorrow, raring to look Brunei in the eye (a refreshing change from the workshop i guess).

And so it is, the dawn of a new renaissance in advertising- easyOrange has arrived!

Are we famous yet?

Watching the days go by

Have you ever felt that you've lost time? I don't mean, "Where did the week go?". It's more like, "Where did my life go?".

There are many aspects to this. People, places, jobs, hobbies. They all come and go, all a part of our legacy.

I remember
when I was little and wondered what the future holds for me,
when I was a little older and started forming my own opinions,
when hormones hit and what, at that time, felt like I was falling in love for the first time
when I left home for college and meeting people unlike folks at home
when I came home and found my first 'proper' job
when I was determined to make a career for myself at the hotels
when I moved from having shitloads of money and plenty of 'friends'
when I lost everything, but found my real friends
when I took a switch in career and joined the finance industry
when I quit the bank to pursue my own business with dear friends
when I found love and never had it

There are loads of things I remember, things that mould me, things that change me, things that made me pull my socks up and things that have an everlasting effect.

Everyone has a story to tell and this one is mine. I have lived a poor life, one that I had to struggle to survive in. And I have fought. And I have learnt to let go, learnt that there are somethings that are simply out of reach. I have learnt that no matter how out of reach somethings are, many, in fact, are WITHIN. I just have to reach out and grab.

And so it is, I've had a rollercoaster ride out of the past 25 years, and it's still good for another 25. Happy Birthday to me and everyone else around the world who was born on a 7th June. (Dean Martin baby!).

My sincerest gratitude to everyone I know for the priviledge and honour of having been and being or will be a part of their lives.

The past determines who we have been and shapes us into who we are. Tomorrow's past will be today's present. What we will be ultimately depends on what we do tomorrow and tomorrow's tomorrow.