Samuel Yeoh

Sigh. Seems like things blow up when you least expect it.

I should have seen it coming, and was in fact planning to take reconciliatory steps already, but it exploded before I could find time to do anything.

Have been getting quite a lot of bad rep recently, as I’ve been taking awhile to edit my photos, and do owe a backlog to a number of models. In all fairness and honesty, I am delaying quite a bit beyond my usual 2 week deadline, but at the same time I always try to give some preview photos within the deadline. So it kinda irks and disappoints me when a model complained that she waited over a month to get only 5 photos.

Don’t get me wrong, she has every right to complain, I’m guilty about the delay as charged. But it’s the way how one-sided it all is. I did give 5 photos within 2 weeks, and another 19 photos a few weeks later. Slow, but still different from claiming that I didn’t deliver. What irks me more are the other complains which are also skewed and factually incorrect, but I digress. There’s no point bringing out evidence to debate on petty matters, I just needed to rant.

To be honest, I have no idea how to deal with this. It’s the first time I’ve encountered such a situation in all my years of shooting, and I’m not a very PR person. Despite the injustice I feel, I guess it’s best to just ignore and let others chatter away. Ultimately, those who feel my work are of value and want to work with me will still approach me, and it filters out the bad eggs.

Anyway, to top things off, I’m about to become a jobless bum. Talk about double whammy.

Been having difficulties with my work for the past few months, part of the reason why I’ve been stalling the editing of my photos. (Yeah, I still shoot, coz it helps me destress. So the backlog is still self-inflicted, no excuses for that.) Today it finally culminated in a chat with the bosses, and an agreement that we should part ways amicably.

Actually, I should be happy, coz I’ve been planning to quit and start my own business already. Just didn’t expect to have a shift in plans so quickly.

All in all, it’s a pretty shitty day.