What clients say and what they mean (interior design)

1) what they say

 "Design something simple"

what they mean

"cheap cheap cheap, everything has to be cheap"

2)"I want luxurious design"

what they mean

"i want shiny glossy things in all four corners of the wall, empty wall is INSULTING! Marble and gold lining the heck out of everything! Ah....and i want it 'simple' (cheap)"

3) "Think outside the box"

what they mean

"college student designs"

4)" I want something unique, never been seen in the world"

what they mean

"college student designs (without the research image)"

5) "ASAP"

what they mean

"i don't really need it tomorrow, but, oh well what the heck, i paid u , tomorrow it is then" (well to be fair some of the time they are really in a hurry)

6)"slight changes"

what they mean

"i like what you did, but i saw this fantastic research image on the net....all u need to do is change the wall, the ceiling, the floor, and pretty much all of the furniture....no problem right...i need it tomorrow"

7) "it looks very 'indian'" (applicable only in Malaysia)

what they mean

"too much colours" (i am not racist but base on my experience most of the time that's what they mean)

8) "european style"

what they mean

"china style that TRIES to be european style" (coz most of the research image they gave me is from china)

9) "your design fee is too expensive"

what they mean

"I am under the impression that i only need to pay u 50 bucks or preferably free"

The Chronicles of Procrastination

1)It's morning, u have a whole day ahead of you so you thought, hmm why not you takeit  easy and sleep a little longer, before u know it, 3 f*cking PM

2)Technically u just woke up so you thought, "ah, why not i take a rest for a while", have some "breakfast", watch some tv, "ah, my favourite show is on marathon today",...poof...f*cking 7 pm.

3)dinner time, family is important right, hey why not i use this hour of food consumption to spend a little time with my beloved genetically related human beings.  chat chat  chat eat eat eat...9pm

4)" ok time to be serious now, the least i can do is turn on the computer, hmm while at it why not i check whats happening in facebook, it'd be rude not to reply wall post and what not right," 12 pm

5) at this point u r depressed, desperate, you start evaluating what u are doing with ur life, u tell urself "oh well if i stay up through out the night i could make up for lost time" you open the program u needed to use to do your work, ACCOMPLISHMET!  u reward urself with 3 more hours of facebook and youtube videos of cats.... 3am

6) You know if you dont do it now, you are not gonna make it. You should totally finish up the work now IFFFFFF  you could only find the motivation to actually do the work. You tell urself, "perhaps if i wake up early tomoro i can finish up this before the dateline at 1pm," so u take a short nap, rest your eyes.....

7) 1pm...fuck....