On behalf of The Darevil Inside!, i would like to wish 'Merry X'mas!' and to thank each & everyone who has supported this project throughout 2009. It has indeed been a wonderful, hectic & crazy year. Here's wishing that your resolutions for the year has been achieved. If not, hopefully 2010 will be the year that brings the darevil out from within you; to make changes & to move forward from the comfort zone of status quo. Have an enlightening new year :)
Nicholas Quah
Project Creator
Merry X'mas & Happy New Year!
29.12.09
SHOWCASE3: Tan Jo kee/Coochicoo
17.11.09
WHO's the Darevil?
Jo Kee and i used to go to the same college. A few years later i was surprised that she showed up at the agency i was working with. We were the only 2 visualisers back then. Scary, in tallying with the work that we had to do! Haha. That was like almost 8-9 years ago. Wow! How time flies!
She continued her career in another few agencies after that. I was delighted when she became a mum. And even more surprised when she set up her own online baby store called Coochicoo, how cute is that? ;)
WHAT is Coochicoo?
"It has always been my wish to have my own store in which I could sell things I loved a lot myself. At first I wanted to bring in overseas designer’s products, but one day while eating some roast chicken for someone’s baby full moon, I thought of selling unique baby full moon pack.
"It has always been my wish to have my own store in which I could sell things I loved a lot myself. At first I wanted to bring in overseas designer’s products, but one day while eating some roast chicken for someone’s baby full moon, I thought of selling unique baby full moon pack.
The traditional full moon pack is always focused on the food that is inside the pack and not much on the new born baby. I bet sometimes, when you are eating the food you don’t even recall the baby name or what the baby looks like! Plus I thought the packaging really needed some improvement. And so the idea was born to make a modern full moon pack which is more focused on the packaging and most important is personalized to your needs.
Recently I added another product line to Coochicoo. It's 100% organic cotton babywear, which is both chic and comfortable to wear. The babywear is from 2 designer brands from the USA: Kate Quinn Organics and Sckoon Organics. Coochicoo is proud to be the first partner in Malaysia to bring you these charming natural gifts from mother earth." :)
WHY did you do it?
"I was tired of making a lot of money for somebody else while working crazy hours. I rather work long hours and make money for myself even though I knew it wouldn’t be easy to get what I’m earning in advertising.
And another big reason was that I planned to have children at that time and wanted to stay with them. My baby boy is now 1 year old and so far my working from home online business can be combined easily with taking care of him."
WHAT's your advice to people who dare not?
"I guess you might have a good reason not to dare. One such reason would be loss of income. A bad reason would be that you are afraid you might fail.
I do agree that a major dare has to be thought through carefully. So after carefully thinking it over, and you think you won’t lose a lot, why not dare and gain a lot?"
Website:www.coochicoo.com.my
Under Construction!
17.10.09
After 8 months online, The Darevil Inside! is being revamped to make future access much better & more friendlier. You can be sure there'll be new contents and new darevil uploads as well. Sorry for the inconvenience caused. We'll be up with the new template by end November.
Do visit our EMO/EGO brand at their own website: www.imjustemo.com. All previous EMO & EGO accessories posts have been moved to this new location. There's loads of new items as well. So, do check it out!
See yall again soon!
Nicholas Quah
Project Creator
PROJECT10: I'm Just Emo Website
9.9.09
After almost 6 months since its birth, EMO finally sounds her siren with her very own website.
Do visit www.imjustemo.com.
To those who have supported EMO and her works from the beginning, we thank you! It's been a wonderful and weird journey. We hope to bring our emotic accessories and creations to the masses at more affordable prices. We also hope to extend our arsenal of items beyond just the accessories. EMO's here. She's coming through like it or not...so get out of her way!
EMO & EGO
(P/S: And if you guys feel left out - don't be. There are items that'll feed your EGO as well. Look out for them. Bookmark & check out this website from time to time. You can write to us at im.just.emo@hotmail.com.)
PROJECT8: F'ace Value
22.5.09
The premier of 'F'ace Value' is finally up!!! :D
Yayyy...glad the gif-animation works! Had a bit of problem with the internet line earlier today so i had to delay this post. Hope this will be the first of many 'cartoon' instalments of the quirky character named F'ace.
To be on the friendlier side with minimum vulgarity, the front part of his name has been omitted to F(K)ace with the 'silent K' being formed by the arrow sign. Since i can't use the arrow key on this blog because of html technicalities, i will refer to the character as 'F'ace' with an apostrophe after the 'F' ;)
I got the name from Annie, a friend of mine whose the first person i know to call 'certain' people by that name openly. Respect the woman ;) She could run you down with her words let alone beat you with her bear hands! Ahhh...so much love in the office :p But I think she meant it in the best possible way...hehe. It wasn't after 2 years+ that the inspiration came to mind. I thought, "Wouldn't it be weird & cool to have a character literally with a 'fk' face" and "WAH-LAH!"...the kamasutra-faced one was born :$
I hope you'll learn to like him and not judge him by his face value, cos i know he'll bring smiles to your face when you least expect it (mind the puns ;)
Enjoy!
Nicholas Quah
Project Creator
What The F'?
21.5.09
After nearly 11 months and a long delay, F'ace will finally make his appearance this friday! :D
Look out for the character and his first gif-animated cartoon strip. Hope you'll enjoy it! ;)
Nicholas Quah
Project Creator
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