Friday, November 26, 2004
Dinner Date From Across The Miles
Christmas is the worst holiday for people like me. I mean, I'm an overseas worker here in Los Angeles and I left my family to look for greener pastures. They said that the United States is the land of milk and honey. And for the past five years, I have been working and working so that I will be able to save all the milk and honey that I could get.
So this is my fifth Christmas here that I'm going to spend without my family with me. You know, it's so hard because all my life I've been with my family to spend every celebration and festivities. Even toothaches and check-ups with the doctors, we are always together. Now, all I have with me to ease my pain are pictures… tons and tons of pictures. There are pictures from traditional cameras; and nowadays, my family sends lots and lots of photos via the internet since the introduction of digital technology.
But this year, it's going to be a very different Christmas for me. I've thought of a way to help lighten the feeling this holiday season. Luckily, my friend Jean told me about this wonderful provider of large format posters. I have this weird idea that I wanted to try out.
You see, I originally planned to just print my family's pictures from my very reliable and portable printer. (This has been my buddy for the past two years now.) But when I saw the samples and portfolio of Large Format Posters I was instantly struck by an idea. Since these people are experts in providing printing services in larger than life sizes, why not reproduce my photos to make them into full human sizes? Pretty weird huh? But, you know, when you get to be alone for many years now without your family, you'll be able to think of a lot of ways to ease your loneliness and homesickness.
So this time, I ordered from Large Format Posters large reproductions of my family's pictures and told them to make them like pop-up displays. Something like the ones we see in the malls, usually in those photo stores where they have this displays outside.
I ordered them last week thinking that they would need at least some time to come up with my job order. But wonders of wonders! They called me this morning to tell me that they'll be finished tonight. And they even asked me whether I would want for them to deliver. WOW! What great service! In my country, you would have to travel to get your orders yourself. But with Large Format Posters, they go the extra mile to fulfill the best service ever for their customers.
And the best thing is that my family really looked good. Just seeing them from the display was like having them here, standing right in front of me. Whew! This really made me cry.
Anyway, I'm just ecstatic with the results of my job order. Thanks to Large Format Posters, my Christmas won't be blue this year.
So this is my fifth Christmas here that I'm going to spend without my family with me. You know, it's so hard because all my life I've been with my family to spend every celebration and festivities. Even toothaches and check-ups with the doctors, we are always together. Now, all I have with me to ease my pain are pictures… tons and tons of pictures. There are pictures from traditional cameras; and nowadays, my family sends lots and lots of photos via the internet since the introduction of digital technology.
But this year, it's going to be a very different Christmas for me. I've thought of a way to help lighten the feeling this holiday season. Luckily, my friend Jean told me about this wonderful provider of large format posters. I have this weird idea that I wanted to try out.
You see, I originally planned to just print my family's pictures from my very reliable and portable printer. (This has been my buddy for the past two years now.) But when I saw the samples and portfolio of Large Format Posters I was instantly struck by an idea. Since these people are experts in providing printing services in larger than life sizes, why not reproduce my photos to make them into full human sizes? Pretty weird huh? But, you know, when you get to be alone for many years now without your family, you'll be able to think of a lot of ways to ease your loneliness and homesickness.
So this time, I ordered from Large Format Posters large reproductions of my family's pictures and told them to make them like pop-up displays. Something like the ones we see in the malls, usually in those photo stores where they have this displays outside.
I ordered them last week thinking that they would need at least some time to come up with my job order. But wonders of wonders! They called me this morning to tell me that they'll be finished tonight. And they even asked me whether I would want for them to deliver. WOW! What great service! In my country, you would have to travel to get your orders yourself. But with Large Format Posters, they go the extra mile to fulfill the best service ever for their customers.
And the best thing is that my family really looked good. Just seeing them from the display was like having them here, standing right in front of me. Whew! This really made me cry.
Anyway, I'm just ecstatic with the results of my job order. Thanks to Large Format Posters, my Christmas won't be blue this year.
# posted by digitalroom @ 7:25 AM 
