One for Da Man!

This is for Nigel, by his mentor, Dezi.  Nice one and I think it really shows the essence of Nigel.

All the best in NS!

Interns

      Gifts and Thank You Card from Celine                                             Farewell Pic for Nao (Drawn by Chew Min)

We had quite a few interns the past 1/2 year.  Some from schools requiring them to do their industrial attachments.  But we also had a couple of interesting ones.  1 is a Singaporean who lived most of her life in UK and another is an ‘A’ Levels student who didn’t go through “professional” training as an artist/designer.

The fact is that we are honored that these talented artists seek us out, looking for a place for voluntary internship positions.  And we are very happy to have them with us for the past months and lending their talents to our projects.

We wish them all the best in their next phase of life and we hope that we’ll meet again.

Operation M.A.C.E – Event

Here are some photos of the event where M.A.C.E was launched. The “Clean and Green Singapore – Schools’ Carnival” was hosted at Anchor Green Primary for a duration of 3 days from 10 – 12th November.

Booth Setup

GUY and Sypher was spotted at the event!

The M.A.C.E game booth was quite the crowd pullers during the event.

                                                 The students were good players!! Made it to stage 3 at the event!

The event do look quite fun with the game booths being so crowded. M.A.C.E Agents, Guy and Sypher even made an appearance to recruit new agents for M.A.C.E. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend the event myself as I was out of the country. Photos were provided by NEA.

We Have Moved!

We officially moved into our new office on 1st October 2009. Prior to that was lots of frantic packing and moving. I knew we had tonnes of rubbish in office, but seriously, I didn’t know we had that much!! Anyway, after a whole week of intensive throwing, packing and moving, we managed to move our stuff here. But sadly, I am still living out of boxes, only searching for what is needed when they are needed. Well. at least everyone seem to be happily settled in as it’s a much more convenient place.

Our new office is not really ready for any photos, so I am only posting one image of the stairways leading up to our workplace. Hopefully, in the near future, we’ll tidy up well enough to post more pictures.

A Hearty Meal

In celebration of the birthdays of 2 of our colleagues and our company itself, we had lunch at The Line at Shangri-la Hotel.

A hearty meal I would say, but really, the photos speak for itself. You can see some of our company fiercest eaters in action!

A Tribute to the new members of the T.E.A.M...

For satisfying our cravings for coffee, toast and pancakes...we salute u!

T.E.A.M = Together Everyone Achieve More

New members of the PD Design Studio

Hermit Crabs.
















After researching for some time, I finally got the crabs from a pet shop at $10 each. Spent the days that followed worrying whether they will die on me, which prompted endless searches on the internet for the dos and don'ts.

Bought a tank as well, but it turned out to be too small for the 3 of them. I will probably get a bigger tank this weekend, if time permits. Right now, the tank is too damn plain, watch out in this blog for updates as we decorate and upgrade to a bigger tank!!

A Post Dedicated to Our Design Studio By Ken

You know you are in need of some serious help if you repeat the same jokes for more than 3 weeks. You probably belong to the category of "No-Life Sad Twats" if you never seem to get out of the same discussion topics for months. The fact that your company is merely a 5 man operation of "24" American TV series addicts is almost disastrous.

Your lunch topic, "24". Your lame jokes "24". Your creative ideas, "24". Your maximum capability for mathematical plus and subtraction, bloody "24".

You are in deep shit.

PD Design Studio blog has been around for a month. Someone's got to write about "it". About what you asked? Bloody "TWENTY-FOUR" of course. True, May might have spilled out the fact that David Palmer was assasinated before Raymond get to Season 5. Paul might have more spoilers up his sleeves than our client's usual changes of moving the text blurb 5mm to the right. KJ might have mixed up Jack Scoffield with Michael Bauer. Raymond might have already close his brower for fear of spoilers ahead. But someone's gotta do it. And that heavy responsibilty lies on my shoulder.

I am burnt out with the recent dealings with the clients and projects. But I thought I could do something for our little blog corner. (remember, someone's gotta do it). Oh, don't you worry about spoilers, I aint got the energy to spilled out Philip Bauer is actually Jack Bauer's old man.. oops Raymond.

What I am doing is simple, just cut and paste a "24" article I wrote from my personal blog here. Easy task, some rediting, re-mastering, you get one full article feature on yet again, your favourite TWENTYFOUR!!

The recent atmosphere in the office of regular burning nights and hectic schedule long needed a break. I thought this blog post might bring you guys some smiles. So sit back and relax, here goes my written article about T......F... I don't have to spell it out.

(The below article is a write up from my personal blog entitled "Before I Knew It I was Hooked")

Enjoy.


Before I Knew It I was Hooked"

"The following takes place between 7am and 8am".

By the time it goes : "The following takes place between 6am and 7am", which is day 2, Jack Bauer would have already save the world under 24 hours yet again. Inevitably.

Its the same regime, expected outcome where the good prevails and the villians eliminated. The golden globe award winning TV series "24" stars Kiefer Sutherland, in reel life a CTU (Counter Terrorist Unit) agent dedicating his whole life for his country. Its not hard to imagine how successful the show is. Sutherland, who grabbed the emmy awards for his role in "24" signed a 3 year US$40million contract, repriving his role as Jack Bauer again.

Barely six months ago, when "24" season one landed on the sofa in my room (compliments of my younger brother who got everyone in the office discussing "24" during every god damn lunch), I left it sitting there for another 2 months.

Last night, I finished Season five.

For someone who does not worship TV and who would rather past his time hitting golf balls at the range, "24" has definitely twisted some of my leisure habits, drastically. I am now victimised. Great god of media have me hooked on high budget TV serials such as "Prison Break" and "24".

It is not surprising for me to get hook on serial dvds. But 4 years ago, something astonishing happened.

My good old dad is an extreme workaholic. He wakes up at 6.30am every morning, works 7 days a week, comes home late from work, and when the Asian Financial Crisis hits, he works 10 tens harder to fight back his construction empire. He went to China, set up his new plant, worked his ass out, and took his poor old lad (Myself) along to carry out his sadistic mission of torturing oneself at work.

One fine day, he cut short his work hours and dissappear from his office before lunch. I later learned that he has dedicated the rest of his days watching TV serials while his son is working his ass out in the sick China factory in Qing Pu, a southern back dated town away from Shanghai towards Suzhou. And it went on for a couple of weeks.

Of course this was for a very short period of time, before long he felt an itch in his backside and he's off to Totureville again. This is my good old man, whom I respect as father, a true businessman and a not to mention a devoted sadist at work.

Such is the lure of good TV serials. Don't get me wrong, I am not all ready to jump into the bandwagon of screaming housewives and aunties oogling at Korean men starring in Korean soap operas (May? You there?). But TV shows with budget matching that of Hollywood's movies does turn me on, very.

"24" season 6 have already premiered in the US. And the counter terrorist bug has already hit me. "Hands UP! CTU!! Put your hands over your head and slowly lower you weapon..." I am beginning to hear this in my head now....

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