cerealjoe | Early morning frustrations and memories from Shanghai. (Reply)

Oh my effing god. Why do they want to make things so complicated all the damn time.

I'm talking about the uni I work at this time around. If you didn't know, there was a merger between three universities in the Helsinki area and now we're supposed to only use the new ppt templates and the new logo and stuff like that. But I can't find the damn ppt templates anywhere. Apparently they're somewhere on the uni wiki but that wiki was killed off a few weeks ago and was replaced by another system. I found one template but it dates back to 2008 and it's clearly not up to date.

I bet it's located somewhere that's really easy to find but I can't find it. Meh.

Also, I used to complain about the logo and pretty much everyone else complained about the logo but apparently it's seen in the design world as something grand. Professional designers are going all "wah!!!" when they see the A! A? and A". It even uses a special "aalto" font... to me, it really just looks like Helvetica.

Right. So google isn't helping and come on, I know it's there somewhere. There are supposed to be about ten presentation templates, each with a different colour and logo. I guess I'll just settle for using the background from one of our other presentations, it's not like anyone is going to care about it anyway... just don't tell the marketing/communication department that, they're really big on the whole "building a new identity", which I totally understand but I can't be bothered on a Thursday morning.

On an unrelated note, I still have about a hundred photos from Shanghai left and they're all interesting because they all have a story behind them...

One night we went to a Japanese restaurant close to the hotel. They had this "buffet" for 150 yuan which included food cooked in front of you and drinks. It was so brilliantly good!

This was mushrooms rolled in some beef.

There were about twelve or more of us and it was hard fitting around one table so the photos came out rather blurry.

For once we did not have tsingtao beer.

It started raining while we were in the restaurant and I spent quite a while just people watching. One of the best things about Shanghai at night is the way the elevated roads are illuminated.