{"id":2737,"date":"2011-06-13T19:37:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T11:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=2737"},"modified":"2015-02-18T11:48:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T11:48:32","slug":"hospitality-vs-media-self-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2011\/06\/13\/hospitality-vs-media-self-expression\/","title":{"rendered":"hospitality vs. media, + self-expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>It was my first time working a morning at Shangri-La, and I didn&#8217;t know what to expect. Cause I&#8217;d been up all day and we were indoors, it felt like night time to me anyway. First thing I did was break a teacup because I was so sleepy. Paiseh lah. Jack and Priscilla were wonderful to work with and Adam was a great supervisor so I had fun and time went along well.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Interestingly enough the event that day had to do with the Media Development Authority (MDA) and for some reason or another, Ken T happened to be there on attachment for some roadshow-style thing. Had a few laughs with him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The more I see it, the more I know for certain that I want to work in the media industry.<\/strong> It&#8217;s stuff that I am passionate about and stuff that I&#8217;m good at. It&#8217;s also not so rigid. The hospitality industry is quite meaningful and fun, but I can&#8217;t do it 24\/7. I like the fun, slightly odd-ballness of the media\/entertainment\/advertising industry. You get to dress differently, sport long hair, tattooes, whatever. You get to express yourself, and that means alot to me. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In the hospitality industry, self-expression is frowned upon. In it&#8217;s context, I can appreciate and respect that. You learn humility, grace, respect, and become more refined as an individual. I&#8217;ve taken alot from the experience, but it doesn&#8217;t appeal to me in the long term. I need self-expression, it makes me feel alive.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was my first time working a morning at Shangri-La, and I didn&#8217;t know what to expect. Cause I&#8217;d been up all day and we were indoors, it felt like night time to me anyway. First thing I did was break a teacup because I was so sleepy. Paiseh lah.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[268,294],"class_list":["post-2737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-livejournal","tag-memoirs-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-I9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10053,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions\/10053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}