Casual wonderment.

One week into my internship and I'm finding myself questioning the idea of how casual can I go without ending up looking like I'm the hired help who clean offices. How can I not ask myself this when some of the really talented workers look more 'morning-jogger-by-the-beach' than 'educated-professional-worker.'

I do know that in the creative field, most people tend to dress down a little compared to people working in say, management and finance. Dressing down to me probably means a basic shirt, slacks, belt and leather shoes combo, sans tie unless there are meetings. But I didn't expect that they would dress way WAAAAAY down. I mean t-shirts, cargo pants and sweats?! Is that even possible? I didn't even considered polo tees to be office appropriate let alone t-shirts. Might as well wear beach attire. Oh wait, I think I did spot some flip flops around.

- Dress up?


- Or Dress down?

So my question is what should I wear to work? Should I conform to the rules of comfort over impression and risk looking like a tantric yoga student, or should I step it up and do the full on crease-less ironed shirt, impeccable slacks and spotless leather shoes?

poll by twiigs.com

Stay tuned for more.

A terrible price to pay

So today was not the ordinary typical day at work. Instead of AutoCAD-ing endlessly on the computer, I was assigned to help out in taking measurements of a building they are thinking of demolising which is situated at Gurney Drive. If I could describe it, I would say it's an old, dilapidated anglo-malay styled bungalow. It may have been a nice house to live in way back when bicycles dominated the streets of Penang. It faces Gurney Drive and occupies the chunk of land all the way to the back street. And the sea breeze was great too, except for the fact that it's run-down, abandoned, dirty and with an appropriate touch of creepy. Oh, and it has a basement too! Here's how it looks like:

- the bungalow.


- As I was driving to get to the place, it hit me that I really never take advantage of living so near to Gurney Drive. I should start going there for walks or people watching more often.

Speaking of driving, by now everyone knows that the petrol prices in Malaysia have spiked by a horrifying amount. I think it's utterly crazy and many people would agree with me. I mean 78 cents?! 78 freakin' cents?! That a 40% increase! It's madness, I tell you MADNESS!!! Couldn't they have slowly raised the rates little by little over a longer period of time instead of implementing such a drastic and shocking change so damn fast. Why don't they just charge us for every step we take or push us off a cliff 'coz that's just slightly worse than what they have done. They could probably also raise electricity rates...oh wait...that's happening too. Hike up food prices? Check! Chop off our legs? Double check that!

And it was quoted somewhere that petrol prices may rocket up to 3 or 4 ringgit by August when they COMPLETELY saw our heads off remove the subsidy. Why doesn't the government just squeeze every living breath out of us. They've already pushed up the gas prices, next comes raising electricity tariffs and this will unavoidably cause an increase in the prices of food, retail, transport and every sector imaginable. And our income on the other hand...oh right...that stays the same f*ckin' amount.

Now if you'll excuse me, i've got to switch off the light in my room, go hog some petrol before the next price hike and cut out discount coupons for groceries and other ridiculously priced things.