Cleo Day # 1

The day before the first day of work, I couldn't sleep, I planned to sleep at 10 11pm but ended 1+ 2am only slept, what more, I kept waking at 4am, then 6am, then 7 thinking it's time to prepare already. Part of the reason was also cause my room has the smoky smell which makes me even harder to sleep. Previous tenant a smoker =(.

Anyways, woke up super early at 7am, the office is just 5 to 6 mins walk away, I got ample time to prepare. I reached the office at 840 and waiting like a fool till 920am before they at last told me which place to sit.

Mean time, I secretly snapped the front desk and entrance before the receptionist arrived.

Tadaa, this is where I work, ACP Magazines.

The firm has various division like women's weekly, bazaar, cosmopolitan, etc. And I'm under the Cleo division. Different division has different partition colours, for cleo, it's pink. I'm under Sabrina, the fashion stylist in Cleo, she has 14 columns in the mag so imagine how much work she has to do, she's only 29!

Her time at the office is limited as she is always on the go, outside sourcing clothes, photoshooting bla bla. She said if she's not in, I may use her computer. If she's in, I can only sit at a tiny place with a stool, pathetic much. Anyways, I do not know what to do so I just asked the people around if they need any help. This step has caused me disaster. The lady, Deborah, 26 told me be careful what you wish for. Indeed, the assignment is a tough one since I'm no writer. She's from the editorial team, has 5 columns in the mag on lifestyle. Banggg, she asked me to research on new ideas on what to write in each of the 5 columns, give her at least 5 ideas for each, meaning 25 ideas.

Around 11am, Sabrina came and asked me to follow her to 1Utama. There she asked me to return the accesories, clothes to the shops that she loaned from. Later, have to sourced from pdi, eclipse and quicksilver. She asked me to pick the watches and blouse from those outlets. My first time to 1Utama, don't even know which shop is at what floor, have to keep asking people around. She told me at 250pm had to meet her in a studio for a photoshoot and sms-ed the address to me.

This is the studio.

Waiting for the model to come and shoot.

Back scene, me doing the job of hanging all the clothes sourced on the rack, placing the accesories nicely at the table. After the shoot, have to keep them all again. They were heavy, soooo many clothes.

The model is only 16! My goodness, she certainly look at least 20s, but she's so pretty and talllllll, russian girl. That day, she wore 4 sets of attire for the shoot, one set needed to pose at least 20+ times or even 30. Therefore, after all the make up, styling of hair, the photoshoot started at 4+ till 7pm.

Dinner-ed with a friend at a malay restaurant, in sunway giza I think.

Interesting 1st day.