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The recent developments in the ping.sg community has affected me greatly. Can't believe that the incident started unraveling only 3 days ago. So many posts, comments, forum postings were made in the short span. Contrary to some beliefs, the incident had in fact split the ping.sg community into many fragments. Unhappiness over Daphne's postings were talked about in msn, …
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Through the 8 years since I've started my business, many clients have become friends but many friends later also become strangers. We had helped each other through the hard and difficult times. We were locked together elbow to elbow, standing proudly and facing the pounding waves that tried to wash us away. Many a times, after the ordeal, we held our head high and laugh …
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I know I've been ranting about the taxi services recently and talking about buying a car for the reasons in my ranted entries. But truth be known, I can put up with all the big and small inconveniences from the public transport and my reasons for not having a car remains. Many of my friends think that I'm a frugal person. When I shared with a friend that I'm considering …
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It's been almost three months since LTA had made adjustments to the Taxi CBD rule. In summary, the current rule is such that taxis are not allowed to pick up and alight passengers on the main roads in the CBD area. Also, taxis are not allowed to pick up and alight passengers on side roads if public buses are plying. This rule is in effect from Mondays to Saturdays, 7am to …
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From as much as I can gather, even though Ron Lanford (an Australian) has a similar patent in Australia which he first had it registered, it doesn't seem like he has sent any letter of demands or invoices to any of the companies in Australia. Apparently, he has similar patents in New Zealand and USA too. If that is the case, doesn't it make you wonder why did he target only …
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We had sent an invoice to a client about 6 months ago after our product had already been fully delivered. The invoice was only $4000. It took us months of phone calls to the client's accounts department before we finally received the cheque 2 months ago. When I slit opened the envelope, the cheque was $2000, half of the total amount!This client is a corporate client. …
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There is now a new website setup to gather the site owners who had received invoices from VueStar Tech to team up and seek legal advice on the actions to be taken.The invoice has 5 pages and the scanned images can be found here.For those who are interested in the full article of the patent registered and accepted by IPOS (Intellectual Property Office of Singapore) can …
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I woke up yesterday morning to the news in the papers that an Australian invented the Internet... well almost. You can read the news here. If you don't believe me, you can do a whois search on the registrant of vuestar.biz and all the information points to an Australian company. If you compare the whois information and to the legal page of vuestar.biz, you'll notice that …
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Out of the blue, a client sent me an sms today requesting us to provide a service which was stipulated within our contract. The client had asked for my email address as instructions would be sent via email. This is also a client who has not sent us the payment for quite a while and I gladly grab the opportunity to remind the client of the outstanding payment.For a while, …
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I was checking my stats and saw a healthy amount of traffic coming from a link I didn't recognise. Upon clicking the link, it brought me to the infamous sammyboy forum! Fortunately, there weren't any NSFW content, else I may be misunderstood by my wife and I'll have lots of explaining to do. Heh! Apparently, a member has copied-and-pasted my entry "Another Reason To Get A …
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Last Sunday, I was going to meet a friend at Raffles City so I took a cab down. The normal route would be for the cab to take the CTE route and exit into Orchard Road near the Istana. Instead of turning into the CTE towards city, he took the route of Lavender Street all the way to Raffles Avenue. I even get to see Singapore Flyer close up!I wasn't very happy so I asked him …
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A few months ago over lunch with a friend, he invited me to give a speech to share my entrepreneurial experience in a seminar. Being the idiot that I am, I gamely agreed.This was going to be the first time I'll be making a public speech. In all honesty, I was pretty excited about it. I imagined that my speech would inspire future generations of new entrepreneurs to "boldly …
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It's been 8 years now since I've started my venture. For a while, I'm satisfied with what I've achieved. For friends who know me, they all know that I'm a simple person. I don't have many material needs. I don't aim to stay in a private condominium or drive a flashy car. Like any boys, I like and admire Ferrari but I never desired to drive one. I'm happy to stay in my …
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I was walking towards my sons' childcare centre to pick them up on Monday evening. It was the start of the week and there were many things on my mind. I was thinking about how I can pick up the pace and have more projects completed in a more compressed time; I was also thinking how I can improve the efficiency of the company; I was also deeply in thoughts on how to increase …
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A friend of mine bought a Vertu phone recently. Yes, the each $10k-comes-with-concierge service phone. The phone is by the same Finnish company Nokia.One day, while we were at a friend's retail shop shooting breeze, he came in looking flustered.Vertu friend: Anyone has Nokia charger I can use? My phone's battery is flat!My friend took out his Nokia charger and passed it to …
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Needed to meet my friend at Registry of Marriage (ROM). Was waiting for a cab for 15 minutes and there were no cab in sight. As the time goes by, 3 more people appeared at varying distance in front of me and were waiting for cab too. The weather was hot and humid, it made the wait even more unbearable. It had been getting more difficult to get a cab at the road near my …
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A regular client who has been a repeat customer for the past 3 years emailed my staff for a quotation so that she can plan her budget for next year. For the past 3 years, our products have been underpriced but we did it to expand our marketshare. For the past year, what with GST increased by 2% and oil prices setting new records on an almost daily basis, everyone knows that …
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Some may chide me for being silly. But I am who I am. Remember last year when I wrote an entry about a deal not being realised? What happened was that PTcontacted me after my blog entry (no, I don't think he reads my blog) and explained to me the reasons behind the delay. It's been a while now so I can'tremember the reasons he told me then. :pAnyway, I've agreed to give …
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A potential client left a voice message on our answering machine:"This is so-and-so, I would like to speak to your sales representative. Please call me back at this number."Message end tone sounded.Er... but what is the number? The caller's number was those private numbers type that do not display on caller-ID.Another Duh moment! What a way to start the day. :p
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Another humid and hot night. Makes me wanna drink a bottle of ice cool beer. Instead, I opened up a bottle of Jack Daniel's cola. My friend told me it is better than Jim Beam so I tried. I think he is right. It is a real sweet taste and feeling to have cool alcohol slowing flowing down your throat. When the intoxication kicks in, you'll feel lightheaded and the burden …
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