25 Reasons You Might Be A Hardcore Web Designer

I found this on jei's facebook note. This is what i feel as a freelance web designer so far. Very true. Very very true. I hope my clients read it.

1. You’ve had a client that thought they knew more about design than you.
2. Your clients pay you for your professional expertise and skill, yet you’ve run into one of ‘those’ clients, that refuses to take the advice from the very person he/she is paying for advice (you).
3. You’ve had a client that insisted on using the font “Papyrus,” and you had to hold in your barf as you prepped it [the design] for printing.
4. You’ve requested a vector logo from a client, and instead, they email you a 72 dpi image they grabbed from a website.
5. You’ve used typography as a texture.
6. You don’t have a favorite font because you love “Typography.” Not Fonts. Choosing a favorite font would be like choosing a favorite child, it’s just wrong.
7. You collect as many free stuffs from the interwebs as you can on your hard drive, hoping that one day, that cool project will come along that you can actually use some cool shit on.
8. You’d rather have a free font than a free gallon of gas.
9. It’s hard to talk about frustrations at your job with a group of friends because they have no idea what “Vector” or “DPI” is, just to name a couple.
10. You’ve had a client ask you to “Make the logo bigger.”
11. You’ve had a client that insists on “filling up the space.”
12. You’ve learned to over-price web design projects because most clients are more picky about their websites than a high school girl picking out a prom dress.
13. You feel like you’re “On Call” half of the time because clients procrastinate so much.
14. You know keyboard shortcuts that require 4 fingers.
15. You’ve lost hours of work because an application crashed, and you had to start over from scratch because you were in the “zone” and forgot to save. Basically, you were having so much fun being creative that saving was the last thing on your mind at the time.
16. You’ve “Live-Traced” something.
17. You spend more hours per week looking at CSS showcase sites than you do at the gym.
18. The only thing that would make you happier than the demise of IE6 is world peace.
19. You’ve done everything but give up a body part to talk a client out of a “Flash Intro.” Yeah. I said it. Flash Intro. Sad, so so sad. (goes along with #2)
20. You have enough fonts on your hard drive to last you for: 1 font per day for about a decade, give or take a year or two.
21. You know, explicitly, what a “Flourish” is.
22. You worry about negative space as much as the content area.
23. You get phone calls from friends and family members on a regular, sometimes annoyingly-frequent basis, wanting your services for free or extremely cheap. (and the “portfolio” line makes you want to throw something across the room)
24. You’ve had a client that wants a website they can “update” on their own, but doesn’t know shit about websites.
25. You’re never more than 99% happy with your final product because you believe that EVERYTHING can be improved upon. (especially with those tight-deadline projects)
    

-Jay Hilgert

You are the big person

Again Pst. Phil preached about faith. I do remember about what he preached when i was a new comers back then, he said that TRIAL PURIFIES OUR FAITH. and today he mentioned again that THE PURPOSE OF TRIAL IS TO MAKE YOU A BIGGER PERSON.

With trials, i will never be the same again. Even God has set my purpose when i was in my mom's wombs. He knows my name, even He numbered every single hair i have :) and we will know our purpose, when we encountered God, when we know who we are in Christ. As simple as that man :) Another thing i learned, even God believes in me, even when I don't believe myself will get through it. Joyce Meyer tweets, she said, God is not looking for our ABILITY, but our AVAILABILITY instead.

You are the big person. God loves you :) Night.

Psalm 37:3

This is from my quite time on 18 March 2009. I'm changing my quite time method like Pst. Phil Pringle's blog. I love his blog man... Just contemplate on a verse, break it down into line upon line, or phrase upon phrase, just elaborate and flow with what Holy Spirit prompted me. Quite tough thou. But fun! Our christian life,,our walk with God have to be creative and colorful. ehehe.

YOU ARE THE LEADER

# The 6 most important words: "I admit I made a mistake."
# The 5 most important words: "You did a good job."
# The 4 most important words: "What is your opinion."
# The 3 most important words: "If you please."
# The 2 most important words: "Thank you."
# The 1 most important word: "We"
# The least important word: "I"

taken from here

kill the flesh kill the flesh

today's activity started with prayer :) eh eh, i pasted what pst kong and ko yohandi preached :)

"it requires 3 week to break a habit, and 3 weeks to form a new habit"
"make every single day count"

new room :)

hello. finally i moved house from peace center to serangoon central. the room is clean, my owner is very kind, she always mops my room every single day @.@ internet wise, there were a lot of unsecured wifi connection that i can connect to. hoho. ok, this friday i have animation submission =.="

God is good. Keep pressing on!