I seem to have very few table calendars this year. By table calendar, I mean the those half A4 types that stand up, and you flip them over every month, not those A3 size ones where you hide your resume under it. Every year I usually get lots and lots of them for the past few years, from my suppliers, sub-contractors, bankers or anybody who thinks I’m a position to give them business (hah, how wrong they were!). Usually I get like 20, I pass them to my parents and my friends (yeah, maybe THEY can give these suppliers some business).
Anyways, this year has been pretty squalid. I have only 3 – one sitting on my office desk next to the garbage compactor room, the other one is at home. I can’t remember where the third one is. It’s probably desecrated by my wannabe artist daughter.
Speaking of table calendars, there are only usually a few things they show on the calendar, other than the days of the month I mean. Well, there are:
Bland calendars – Usually picture of flowers, outdoor scenery, more flowers, more outdoor scenery, scenic cottages in the middle of Scotland, flowers…
Cheapskate calendars – No pictures, just the date tables. And they have the cheek to cram two months on one page. These calendars are the same everywhere, they just print the name of the company in gold letters at the bottom of the cardboard base. Usually something like Syarikat Kenderaan Yick Huat.
Product calendars – Usually pictures of the product of the company is trying to sell. Usually, its some obscure machine part or industrial whatchamacallit, I get the most of these types. Currently, the one on my desk is some thingamajig they use to do something or other to that thing you use for kablooing.
Inspirational calendars – Some people just LOOOOVE these. They have some mumbo-jumbo inspirational saying like “Seize the day, failure is only in your mind†or something like that printed in big colourful letters. I cannot tahan these types.
Nudie girls – the most popular type. In this office I used to work in, the HR manger had like 4 or 5 of these fleshy calendars all over his open cubicles. Including those huge poster sized wall calendars. And he shared this cubicle with a pregnant colleague.
Staff calendars – believe it or not, I received this unusual calendar from a huge public listed local company many years back. They actual asked 12 of their female staff to pose as models in the calendar! Nothing risqué, the ladies were dressed in typical office clothes, flashing their million dollar smiles. The January and February girls were pretty young things, but as the months went on to November and December, well… My question is this, why didn’t they a male model calendar version?!
Crap calendars – The cheapest kind of calendars, with 6 unrelated random pixelated photos downloaded from the ‘Net. My dad usually ends up with them.
Some days I miss those calendars with the small pictures of horses and jockeys on them…
18 Comments
Ken
Government almanacs – the next bestseller besides the latest Harry Potter. It seems like EVERYONE has to get one, or two, or a whole bunch of them. Actually it’s pretty informative – it displays the dates of the full moon, half moon, no moon, high-tide, low-tide, and whatever dates where Sarawakian government servants can get some days off.
consuela
I have 5 different calendars of different sizes on my work desk alone! lol!
zyrin
ha! i have the calendar with the pictures of horses and jockeys on them!!!
inevitable
I got one, from Xerox. Compact and simple just like me … haha
mama23beas
I also love the one with horses and jockey, the most informative.
Besides that, I’m careful to choose the one with accurate infos on holidays;)
ponytales
wannabe artist daughter – he he he…i got some of her masterpiece with me. Who knows? It might worth millions one day 🙂
lilian
I wish they still produce the daily one which tells you if today is good for farming or fishing, to wash hair or not, etc.
Ken
lilian – got ler… they’re sold mostly at those old old bookshops… they even come with different shapes and sizes! Here at Sarawak… 😛
anjali*
Haa. I purposely went to Petaling Street to buy myself one of those calendars with the small pictures of horses and jockeys on them. Costs me RM3. But well worth it!
Jason
waa i like your site very much, found your old site 30 minutes earlier..
Kenny Lee
I can’t live without these calendars!!!
eyeris
just print out the Blogger celender on my blog lar! haha
lucia
“not those A3 size ones where you hide your resume under it”
these i usually refer to as desk calendars instead of table calendars, see. can tell the difference then. i use table calendar… the same one for years. haha. this is because, i usually have books or files on top of it, so how to see the calendar anyway? and yes, i have stuffs hidden underneath it and use it as memo pad where i write important things down… so can’t throw it away lah.
lilian, our house has that type of daily calendar with ‘predictions’. not that we believe in the predictions of course – we don’t at all! never!. we get this type of calendar every year from our regular chinese sin seh shop. i find the predictions very amusing!
simon
ponytales – oi, i want komisen ok?
jason – welcome, welcome.
eyeris – i downloaded it. but need to stick on manilla card, cut into size… so much work.
lucia – i call both table calendars, but those big ones are not popular these few years. people stuff lots of things under them – namecards, receipts, photos, 4d stubs…
simon
lilian & ken – can i see a pic of this ‘prediction calendar’? Blog it, blog it!
consuela – my desk is too cluttered, i can only fit one. and it moves a few time a day…
zyrin & mama23beas – and the 12 numbers the zodiac above, right?
inevitable – do you also drink toner? 🙂
anjali – we can still get it from the sundry shops in ipoh. still in good demand. also those big ones that you tear everyday (big green numbers).
kenny lee – i bet your pc wallpaper oso calendar rite? :O
LMF
march and you still on calendar?
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anis armaya
i produce a personnel calendar as a size u looking for… need to order any..