Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Ogilvy Family

This was our 4th get-together, organised by Victor Ng. Victor is one of our longest serving Creative Directors at Ogilvy, before he left to join the competition. Now, after 35 years in advertising he has thrown in the towel - that doesn't sound quite right because he's a gym freak!
Anyway, back to our lunch at the Bangsar Seafood - there was Stephen Bong, Kok Hong Kung, Micheal Tang, Ronnie Liu (yes the same of DAP fame), Liew Kok Heng, Rabin Paul, Kat Chan, Brenda Boler, Laura Kamaruddin, Bobby Chan (who has just rejoined Ogilvy), Angelina Vallenuva,Victor and I. The chats would frequent the way we were, those good times, when the job was not just a job - it became our lives, and how things have changed, how the young nowadays don't have the passion, how it takes days to do this and that, and how technology has to be blamed! The good old days will always win during such conversations, but it is so true. Whatever we had put into our time at Ogilvy has a place in us, thus the Ogilvy Family get-togethers. The next will be August 23rd, organised by Stephen Bong. Long Live Ogilvy!

1 Comments:

Blogger adriene said...

Hi there Kak Faridah,

Surfed on to your blog when I did a search for Stephen Bong, my old ad lecturer.

If it is any consolation, I did feel the sense of Ogilvy family when I was working there from 2004-2006. I felt proud to be a part of it. I only left because I got a scholarship to further my studies. I still stay in touch with Ogilvy colleagues, and some I even chat with online daily. I guess they are no longer my colleagues, but they are now my good buddies.

Take care Kak Faridah.

adriene

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