8.17.2004
monday coffee

Just got home from a 'business' discussion with Nick, Johan and Carrie. She's finally setting up her cafe. Johan's finally got his confirmed PES status, and nicky is bogged down with Mr Tang's ever pushing for more out of the miserly sum of money he's paying him. I mean come on, think about it... for photography, videography, 2 days worth of shoots, he also wants a poster design, custom-made photo album, 40 pieces of special die-cut envelopes with custom printing and folds, all prints in 4R with white border, and a post-edit of the video footage into a vcd, mtv format. Guess how much? Professionally, i'd say something like 3-4K. And just becoz this pain in the arse is nicky's 'friend', we're charging 1k. WTF... and the best part was... this shithead is so darn rich he can buy the island of Bintan. Rich fucker. Sometimes it's almost irritating... it seems like the richer you are, the more stingy and calculative you are on your cash flow. And what's even more irritating is that these rich pots can spend large amounts of money on stupid golf games and pay their photographers walnuts... wait... it's pea...NUTs...

Ok... not that i'm getting much of the post-work... i'm just the shooter and thinktank.

Johan on the other hand, is highly frustrated that he's PES B... and with his acadamic qualification, i think his national service route aint looking too bright... it looks almost dim.. with a tinch of lens flare... Oh well.. at least he's finally getting to doing it. Stupid NS. I mean, how more not stupid can it get?

Carrie seems like the only one in her fairytale come true.. setting up her own boutique, at a location... that seems to have good marketing potential in the near future. Good thing she remembers us. And good thing she now has budget to pay us. I'm not saying that we folks are all money minded and all, but really... there HAS to be some form of... payment no? I guess doing charity all day ain going to make me a saint... so why not earn a little more.. there is some truth in motivation in the pay cheque. Think it makes me shoot better. > And this is exactly what people dun get... Like what nicky said.. about the IMPOSSIBLE TRIANGLE...

>think of a triangle with 3 sides
1corner is cost
1corner is quality
1corner is time

EG: If a job is done fast and of good quality.. it aint gonna be cheap
If a job is cheap and takes a short time for completion, it aint gonna be good quality
If a job is cheap and of good quality, it aint gonna take a short time
etc,etc,etc,etc.....

>and so the IMPOSSIBLE TRIANGLE goes on.....

Hmmmm.... we had such a long talk on Carrie's layout, theme, plan, colour, etc etc... Sometimes i think she's getting a really good deal getting the 3 of us out to talk. 3 consultations at the same time... But it's a good thing too, i learn alot about myself and from all the other ideas that we brainstorm during coffee. We really should record everything down one of these days...maybe we can sell it.. bwahaha..

| louis at 00:26