Wednesday, December 06, 2006
JON'S 2ND LETTER!Hello all!
I expect that all of you must be waiting for Jon's 2nd letter.
Here it is (:
"Learning the ropes"
The past 2 weeks a lot of time has been spent on reflection and its been very rewarding. Things are put in perspective and I tried to look at things from out of the box. Sometimes we all get too caught up with the things happening in our lives that things seem a lot more serious than they really are. Its good to take some time and step out of the daily routine once in a while. Take a walk in a park, or go to the beach to get focussed. I did and It did me some good. It is only through self awareness that one can improve and improving in whatever we do is really important. Being stagnant is never good. They always say "the idle mind is the devil's workshop", I have to agree.
There has been a lot of talk about me in the tabloids and it does get rather trying on my end because when something "juicy" is printed. I get a barrage of phonecalls and everyone wants to know if the "news" true or what is my stand on things. Imagine having to answer the same questions every single time you meet somebody and you get the idea. Haha. On the plus side at least I am deemed "newsworthy" by the tabloids. I was doing some thinking and wondered why people believe tabloids (especially in Singapore) and I came to the conclusion that its because locally, the covers for tabloids are "posed" for, professional pictures are taken and there are "proper" interviews conducted. Therefore they seem highly credible. However, my interviews, quotes have been twisted out of context before(to be fair, not always though), and stories have been churned out of thin air on more than one occasion. So do take whatever you read with a pinch of salt yea? Don't believe everything you read. (if you guys are sharp enough you would be able to see how the tabloids orchestrate articles and times it in such a way that sales can go up. Kudos to their planning, actually. It was pretty well executed.) "Que sera, sera" I guess.
Did any of you manage to catch Casino royale? It was really good in my opinion. I went for the premiere and enjoyed the movie thoroughly, i like that there wasn't too much of the "out of this world" gadgets. It was grounded and believable, with a great plot and great directing. I ike the theme song too. When I was watching the starting credits I was listening to the song and I thought, "This guy really sounds like Chris cornell from audioslave, but the music does not sound like the band.." and then I saw that the theme was performed by Chris cornell sans the band. Love it when I get things like this right. Hahaha. The little thrills in life.
You may have read in the papers that I am one of the non paid ambassadors for motorola's RED campaign. I am really happy to be chosen for this campaign as its really for a great cause and the best part is its to no disadvantage to the consumer, it's a business plan that is sustainable and doesn't ride on the name of charity. It's a campaign started by Bono from U2 and Bobby Shriver of DATA. Do read more about it at http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/RED/ and you will see why I am proud to be part of this project.
My spare time has been squeezed with watching episodes of Frasier, a friend of mine was kind enough to lend me all her Frasier DVDs and I have watched all of them from season 1 to season 5. She has the complete series. Its really funny and witty, some episodes really crack me up. Did you know that the voice of sideshow bob in the simpsons is Kelsey Grammer? He speaks really well and did a real good
job as Beast in x-men too. His personal life however, is quite tragic but that doesn't change the fact that he does great work. Oh, its getting late. I'd better turn in, I don't want to late for tomorrow's calltime.
See you soon,
Jon.
Do direct your replies & comments to the forum, there is a special thread there created for those replies to his letter.
Remember to come down to the recording tomorrow as well as the events over the weekend! AND, also "take what we read with a pinch of salt." (; I think we all know what that means.
Have a good day!
Colleen.
@ 12:21 PM
