When I was in poly, most of my classmates want to go into events management. It was THE glam job. Most of us like to do marketing too. We love advertising campaigns and we trade funny ads online. And the most glamorous job was snagged by this girl who worked in Club Med's marketing department and has to fly regionally to continually develop the brand. We were howling like green-eyed wolves as we bitched about her.
I was chaffing to myself when I remembered fondly about this. I remembered thinking to myself,'Wah....what would I give to be able to fly around to work? And to do marketing too?' Even though it is a shit job getting our Melbourne 'pretty-fied' I thought what I am doing today comes pretty close. I get to fly, no? Yeah, although to Melbourne only, but comparing the distance flown, it is sort of regional for SE Asia.
And beautifying the lounge helps to promote the Rex brand further. I am a firm believer of the vicious cycle. If you do not put in money to beautify the lounge, no one will want to join the lounge as members. The very reason why we want to have the lounge is to create a haven for frequent, loyal customers to chill out and perhaps catch up on an email or 2 while waiting for their flight. This perceived concern for loyal customers will build up Rex brand and of course helps to strengthen our slogan 'Our Heart is in the Country'.
If we are sloppy in the lounge, members will think we do not value them and thus would think their business is valued else where, like Virgin Blue for example. So, my task today is to be a do-er. Do up the Melbourne Lounge!
Of course I am by no means an interior designer but I thought I did a pretty good job. Hehe. If I wanna sell the gourds, I better say sing high praises about my gourds right?
Mind you, I got to shift the furniture, buy the lamps and what not and conceptualise the layout myself leh. Quite hard work.
I thought the layout looks heaps better and I hope you will think so too.
Before
Looks woe begone. Sad and lonely.
After
Wah! So nice!
Of course all this is not achieveable by my own. I have support of my colleagues to have this happen within a week. Thanks all!
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Random food for thought
I was listening to radio on my way to the office before catching the flight to Melbourne today and the hosts Merrick, Russo & Kate of FM96.9 were talking about relationship problems and had a radio host from LA called in from US to share about her new book on relationship deal-breakers (ooh, fancy words).
Anyway, the hosts invited people to call in to talk about their relationship deal breakers and whether or not should they stay in their current relationships.
So this girl called in. Her story goes:
She is 23 this year. She has got a son who is turning 3 this year. Her partner still stay at home with his parents and she stays with her parents. She is asking if she should break up with him.
As the radio hosts probed (all 4 of them), then the whole story came out. The partner is at home because he is a substance abuse addict and his parents controlled his money strictly so that he will not use the money to buy substance to sniff. They have stayed together before, but he had to move back to his parents as he cannot control himself on his addiction.
And she whined the entire time that his parents should not be so controlling and let him leave them to stay with her. She thought the whole issue is the guy's parents.
The LA host correctly pointed out that she should prioritise in this situation. Cos the entire time she was talking, she did not even mention anything about the son. She was just going on and on about how she can only meet the partner on the weekends and she has to pay for the date cos she is the one with the money. And why he has not proposed to her yet.
And the LA host continued that perhaps this guy is staying at home is trying to 'hospitalise' himself. By restricting the money to his parents, he might be trying the break the habit. This girl should be supportive.
So in the end, the LA host concluded she should do the following:
1) take good care of the son
2) support the partner on his stay at home
3) motivate him to stay clean
4) plan/save money for the future
I thought the host speaks for me as well. This girl has got to grow up. The very fact that she had a kid when she is only 20 years old. And her partner has such a serious issue that should be dealt with first; instead of blaming the parents superficially about controlling their son's financials and wondering when he is going to propose. If it's me, I wouldn't want to get married to a guy who is still an addict! With a child, how would you expect the guy to provide for the family?
What do you think?
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