The guy I’ll spend most of my waking life with.
I’ve met him. A hottie with buff arms, great abs, who can cook well and sing well and is sensitive and funny and worships me…. NOT! No soulmate yet.
I meant my future work partner, I’ve met him today. He dropped by our office fresh from NY. Actually he’s Shanghainese currently working in DDB New York. But not for loooong >;-) I’m not telling his name yet, baka mausog. Knock on wood. Remember Kit?
I pray we get along and work well together. Partnerships are make or break thingies. Both can be really good individually but clash like crazy when teamed up. (Randy Tiempo once threw a typewriter at Edsel Tolentino, the old, heavy one ha not the portable kind.) Both can be okay but when paired up produce fab work. I’d like to believe Carl Urgino and I were like that. Papa Darth aka David Guerrero said he was my best partner in BBDO. We should be, we’ve worked four times together, twice in Saatchi and twice in BBDO, from the time he was single, got his girl pregrant, got married, got two kids (and soon to be four!) He even got me as his son’s godmother. One time we counted how many hours we work with each other and realized we spend more time together than him with his wife and kids and me with my parents and friends. Combined. Wahhhh!
That’s the sad truth in advertising. Or life in general. You spend more time working than living our lives. So it’s essential partners work well together. Even just for sanity’s sake. My future partner’s cool, he’s funny too. (And he has worked briefly with David Droga, would you believe?!!!! And resigned shortly after that, would you believe even more!!!!!) Back then, Droga was an ad god in Europe and Asia but nobody knew him in the States. So my art director left Publicis. What???! Oh well, at least now I’m just two degrees from working with Droga.
I hope we’ll kick ass. Not just each other’s.
