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It's been a while since I last blog. Can't believe I have not blogged an entry for the past 2 months! Unbelieveable! I guess that's because I've been really busy and didn't realise 2 months have gone.During the past 2 months, I've kept myself really busy. One of the 3 initiatives which I've worked on for the past 2 years have finally been launched. It was launched …
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I'm blogging this while drinking triple-shots espresso grande sized Starbucks latte. My earphones are blasting the songs from The Killer's Sam's Town album. It has been a while since I can sit at a cafe and have some time for myself. I'm stealing some time in between 3 meetings today (not to be outdone by Paddy ;p).Christmas season is also making its presence felt with the …
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If you have books you have been thinking of buying, now is definitely a good time to stock up. Kinokuniya is having a 20% sale from 23 November to 25 November (Friday to Sunday). I suspect they will be having the almost month long Christmas sale starting sometime in December too. You can check the availability and price of the books in Kinokuniya by checking here.Borders …
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Wanna know the real me? Please refer to my astrology sign below. All the good things are true. I've got the link from The Mail Order Bride.Remember, only the good things are true. :p
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I had to cancel my initial plan of having lunch and going shopping with my wife for sports shoes yesterday. There was just too much work to do. Even though I had decided to stay back and work, my will was weak. I was still wavering. But I know I really had to do work. Every day is a precious day to prepare for the pending war.Just when I was gathering my resolve to start …
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After a tulmutus Thursay where I went through an emotional roller-coaster, a few friends contacted me via SMS, phone, emails etc. I thank all and am grateful for their concerns. I'm ok and better on Friday already. Nothing two bottles of Jim Beam Cola can't fix. Heh heh!On Saturday morning, I met a friend at Borders as he had some stuff to pass to me. At first, knowing …
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This morning I woke up to a SMS from a dear friend. She messaged me that my competitor had put up an ad recruiting for sales executives. I know that they already have at least one sales staff. Why do they need more in such an early stage? It makes me wonder how much investment they have and are prepared to sink in to this venture. I started as an OMO (one-man operation) …
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My son's Lego army, Duplo to be exact. I didn't realise my elder son so has so many Lego Duplo toys until I arranged them on our dining table. I believe there are more figurines except that I don't know where the rest can be found among the numerous toy boxes.The pictures only showed the figurines, dragons and Pilchard (the cat from Bob The Builder). There are still a F1 …
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The PR issue of Nuffnang Singapore had resurfaced again. This was due to a recent report in Techcrunch. It was not surprising that the report had stirred up many vocal responses against Nuffnang Singapore. This was because the previous PR issue was not fully resolved. Like many had written in their entries, it was not about the implementation of the $1 administrative fee …
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For the past few days, some cheques have finally been received. In fact, a total of 8 cheques have been received. It has been quite a while I've received so many cheuqes in a short span of 3 days. The fault was entirely mine as I've not been chasing my clients to make payments. Even though I've been in business for 7 years now, I still feel embarrassed and shy about …
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I need to learn the art of delegation. I've been working on my own for so long and have been independent for so long that I don't know how to pass some of my responsibilities. When I started, I've always planned to be a one-man-operation. That was my business plan. But the business and company is really an organic identity. It'll take on a life of its own. If the …
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After learning on Tuesday that a group of my clients having setup a competing company, I arranged to meet with my staff the next day to discuss about our counter-strategies. Initially planned to have the meeting at one of the cafes in Raffles City but we changed our mind as everywhere we went, it was crowded and noisy. Definitely not a conducive environment for discussions. …
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For the past month, I've been feeling... stuck. Things were not moving as smoothly as I had hoped. It is like driving a Ferrari with a sputtering engine. It was a torture. The whole problem was further exacerbated by me falling ill for a week. The illness was so terrible that I thought I was gonna die. I had an excruciating headache that even popping painkillers like …
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(This entry was a comment I made in response to The Young Businessman's blog entry: It's $1 Only! Don't Whine! I'm reposting here for my own reference and further discussion, if any.)I guess there are many folds to the issue here. As I'm not a member of Nuffnang blogger network, I'm only offering my views from what I gathered from the members.1. UOB had earlier informed …
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One of my servers was having problem for the past 1 year. It had gotten from bad to worse. For the past 3 months, every week, it would require a hard reboot at least once. There would also always be corrupted files which would require a rebuild (if we are lucky). Else, we would need to restore the corrupted files from our most recent backup. The server is only 2 years …
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PT contacted me about a few months back about purchasing my company's product. Before the call, I've already laid down my demons of the past and let bygones be bygones. So I told him we'll discuss more when he is back from overseas.We finally met on 29 May. After a short discussion, a deal was sealed. He would purchase my company's product by 1st September. However, a …
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I was pong surfing (randomly ponging various ping entries that caught my attention) a few hours ago, about 2am on a Monday morning. When I came to RichGrad.com, I nearly fell off my chair! According to the site's feedburner widget, it has 6 billion feed subscribers! Wow! A local site, 6 billion readers! Take a look at the screen capture below:The number is so impressive …
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On Monday night, while I was still recuperating from high fever and severe headache, I was online and at the front of my PC trying to get some work done. A friend whom I've not seen on ms …
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In the Septemeber issue of Business 2.0 magazine, there was an article "The Road Warrior's Guide to Travel". In total 12 cities were featured and they were Bangalore, Barcelona, Finland, Hong Kong, London, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Stockholm, Tallinn, Tel Aviv and Tokyo. I was glad to see Singapore featured as one of the wired-city (click on the image below for the …
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I met up with my company lawyer earlier today. My current staff didn't sign any employment contract, it was purely base on trust. I'll be getting more staff so I think I should have a proper employee contract for the coming recruitment.I've added the following to the otherwise standard contract:Leave entitlement on employee's birthdayLeave entitlement on employee's wedding …
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