Monday, May 24, 2010

who's who in attic

we thought about starting a blog for attic; a place for us to write casual stuffs and not just work. we were thinking what should the 1st post be...since nobody has any idea, so i thought i should kick start it and do a short and simple write-up on everyone here.

i first met TERENCE several years back in a very cold winter...i remembered him being this funny guy freezing to death in shanghai. we went around searching for a decent place for him to edit. he is always saying, "it's cold..." and "i can't read this file". 2 years ago, out of the blue...he told me he wants to open an offline house in shanghai and asked if i'm interested to join him. it took me by surprise but obviously....i did join him! from that 'yes' we move on and here we are today, sitting in anice and quiet lane house in kang ping road shanghai. since then, i get to know terence more in depth and i found out he's not just that guy freezing to death. i usually call him "BOSS", but at times when he irritates me, i call him "TERENCE MANUEL" (yes in a loud voice)...

TH is the 3rd person in attic (after myself and terence)....he came in as a clean cut young guy. i remember he was holding his camera and he was going around the office taking pictures of the halfway done renovation. after spending the following months with him, i found out he is not that clean cut actually...hahahah....he looked totally different now (yeah, with long hair and all...right TH?) work wise, TH is always the reliable one...the cool dude to work with!

XIUXIU is the 4th person in attic.....a super super shy girl fresh out from her hometown. i remember she will blush at whatever we asked her, she still does now....but she will blush and gave us some very witty answers. the most frequent asked question from client is "hey, where did you find her? she's so cute and shy...." some foreign director even told me her face turned RED when they tried to talk to her after they got their coffee from her....

after xiuxiu, we have ECHO our lifesaver in the office!!! she's our finance cum office manager. she practically does everything for us.....hahaha.....she handles our accounts, she handles terence's crazy flight bookings, she calls up gardener, she pays our bills...yes, she does it all! i believed she had a hard time when she first started, coming from where she was originally (a systematic office with strict chinese bosses)...to a place full of crazy people! i remembered she asked me once, "is it ok for you guys to come to work in shorts and sneakers??? we can never do that in my old office". she is now wearing jeans and converse to work!

the 5th person in attic is JIMMY. from a normal young boy in his mid 20s, he has now transformed into a round and fat boy! our observation tells us; he eats when everyone eats, he had maybe 3 or 4 cans of coke in a day, he sits around in the office when he's not out of the office attending recording sessions or digitizing. recently, he started playing farmville and treasure isle in facebook....he plays without really understanding what the instructions says in english.

terence was always asking me to look for one more editor....everyday, he will repeat himself like a broken record, "chye, get one more editor". one fine day, a friend told me he knew a young editor from tianjin who has just arrived shanghai and is looking for a job. i arranged for a time for him to meet up with myself and terence and we got him in immediately and he did his first job the very same weekend. so here we are now, the 6th person in attic...a junior editor from tianjin by the name of WANG FANG. he might have a stern face but to us, he is our funny young editor.

it has always been terence's dream to has his own design department; to bring in motion graphics jobs and to introduce graphics to our clients. JEEP started off as a freelancer for us when he moved here from malaysia chasing after his lomography dreams. after several months of freelancing, he answered to terence's prep talk and moved into the room downstairs and with that we started our very own design team.

above all these boys and girls in attic.....we have a superstar and he is JEFFREY!!!! for those who have been to attic, you guys will know jeffrey, for those who hasn't...please come and check out his barking, his smile, his greedy eyes when he saw food....and his other signature behaviours :)

well, i can't be writing about myself here...all i can say is i have 5 sons plus a lovely jeffrey in attic. all with different character and habits. its not easy to manage them but with a lot of help from xiuxiu & echo, i am having plenty of fun!
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