I've been feeling down recently. So much so that I've been avoiding some work. Instead, I immersed myself in meetings after meetings. They are necessary but I need not have piled all the meetings together in the past weeks. It was my way of avoiding the real problems. I was frustrated. I don't have a solution. Even though I've assembled my team of very capable members, …

It is another cool and quiet night. While most of the lights in the neighbouring HDB units are off, I'm illuminated by the silent brightness of my laptop. I'm awake again. I hope I'm not becoming an insomniac. But there have been many nights when I woke up in the middle of the night and I can't get back to sleep again. Tonight, is one of those nights.When I started …

I've finally bought my fax machine after resisting the primitive technology for 7 years. I thought fax machines would become extinct and go the way of the Dodo. When I started, I thought I would not need a fax service since we've progressed to the age of emails. I mean, if you really need to fax, you can always scan the document and email it as an attachment. I thought …

It has been a tough few months. There are times when I feel like throwing in the towel because going forward can be so difficult. You feel the pain, the agony, the frustrations of just taking the next step. When I feel like giving up, I'll crank up my volume and play two songs and they always work wonders to my battered soul:1. Keep Holding On by Avril LavigneThe portion …

I'm actually in a foul mood. Just needed to vent my frustrations. Things not going well in the work-front. I hate to do difficult stuff where the customer does not know what she wants. It may end up requiring a total redo after the first submission. Totally no mood to do. I have a meeting with another client at 2pm. It is now my perfect excuse not to do any work. …

I get that quite frequently from some of my clients. They think I do nothing but sit back to collect money. I really wish that is the case. One of my client even commented that I've a very smart business model - like selling insurance. I create a policy, get clients, then they continue to pay year after year and I just sit back for the rest of my life. Yeah, right! …

I've not been blogging for so long that even typing my blog's url felt weird and unfamiliar. My fingers actually tripped over each other typing the url on the keyboard. I've been kept busy with various projects, chasing payments, closing accounts for year 2006 and of course, preparing for the Chinese New Year.This year, instead of just hiding all my junk and mess in unseen …

As year-end has come to pass, I would need to close my company accounts for the financial year 2006, in preparation for submission to Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS). For the past two years, the business has been growing quite quickly and unfortunately I've let it ran out of control. Subconsciously, I knew that there were many uncollected payments but I've …

I guess everyone should have heard about Cisco suing Apple for trademark infringement over the name "iPhone". Surprisingly, Cisco had owned the name iPhone since 2000 when it acquired the company Infogear and Infogear had the original filing for the trademark which dates back to 20 March, 1996. Cisco's iPhone is a VOIP phone. I've actually not heard of the term "iPhone" …

I've always encouraged the culture of working from home as it is still not a widely accepted concept in Singapore and unfortunately, for small companies, it'll be harder to establish credibility if the clients know that you are operating from a home office, at least for the industry I'm in. Even presented with this daunting obstacle, I would like to gradually make home …