The first week of school has been pretty slack. In fact, I haven't started doing any readings or tutorials (but I will right after this post). Have been meeting more new people, and starting to adapt to Melbourne all over again. It's always good to have more friends over here. Met a few new girls, and I'm loving the whole idea of going out in a big group of girls. :) I hardly do that while I was in SG because I only have a group of girlfriends (really, just literally one group) and 2 of us are overseas studying, and most of my other good friends are boys. So it's like a.. new experience for me haha!
Anyway, I've decided to blog because there was this small commotion over my model/friend, Zoe, going on in some blog. There are some things that I feel that I should share, because there are always good and bad experiences when you deal with someone. It's like how you can totally hate this girl in your class but she still has friends and you have no idea why they hang out with her. Or you're best chummies with this girl who is kind, caring, smart, rich etc. but there are still people who goes around spreading rumors about how arrogant she is and all. Disclaimer first, I am not referring to anyone in particular, just stating things in general. I can't control how others think or what they want to say, but if you don't like what I'm typing, you could really just not read.
What I want to say is, you've got to experience it yourself to know whether you can get along with others. You can't just please everyone, and you can't just be friends with everyone. There are bound to be people you'll dislike, or just be working partners, and full stop. If you know nothing about a person, then don't just base your perception of a person on rumors and only bad experiences. Even if you do, there is no need to spread these rumors that you don't even know is true or false to others. The cycle will just continue to go on, and what could you benefit from it?
Truth be told, I hired Zoe just like any other blogshops because I believed that she could boost the sales of my blogshop and it was time to have some changes. And yes, true enough, sales picked up, mailing list increased, and profits started rolling in. While her rates are high, I myself opted to pay her and take a risk in hiring her. That's the way things work when you're doing business, isn't it? If you're not happy with the quoted rate, by all means not hire her. It's a take it or leave it thing, simple enough for everyone to understand. If she quoted a sky-high rate, and people still continue to use her, they must have their own reasons to.
I've started hiring Zoe as my model since Sept last year and it's about 10 months of working with her. Initially I thought we'd just be woking partners because she's a well-known blogger and all. But time proved us wrong because we hit it off so well, and became good friends and we whatsapp each other every other day, even when I'm in Melbourne. We always have so much fun during shoots, I think we made a lot of noise in the studio. Just the last shoot, I got Chantelle to come over for a shoot with Zoe and I thought it'll be awkward and all, but it turned out well and we all had fun! Zoe's someone I could turn to when I need to rant, complain and all, she even gave me a big hug when she knew I was feeling really sad over relationship problems lor! She'll ask me how I'm doing from time to time, told me to study hard and all, just like how a good friend will.
I've heard many ugly stuff spreading around, but I think only we, the people who interacts with Zoe on a regular basis knows best what kind of a person is she. I myself know for sure that she's a friend I wouldn't want to lose and it's a blessing for me to know her, along with my other models, suppliers, manufacturers, because of S&T.
What I wanted to share is just my own experience with Zoe, providing people with just another view? There will bound to be ugly comments popping up from nowhere, but if it makes you happy, just post lor?
Here's a big picture of us to end off the post, till then!
