I was goingthru some videos when i saw this.. truely inspiring...
Think of this in another aspect. How you go to work everyday in a very mudane way, and how you find work after you find a new focus.
Truely Inspiring..
Monday, April 19, 2010
Sunday, March 14, 2010
A change of heart
So, there's a dwindling number of visitors to my blog. lol... cool... but who cares?!?!
Hmm.... So much things had happened in the past week. Mostly about Jack Neo's affairs. I wonder why there are so many KPOs out there who love sticking their nose to his affairs when there are better things to do??
And, i read this report from the newspaper, saying that Jack Neo owns an apology to the public, but i really wonder..... he's not having an affair with the public, so why should he apologies? thats his problem!! and i do think that the public owns him an apology instead!! comeon, the public has some how destroyed his family's harmony, no doubt he's in the wrong. However, who are we to say that he's right or he's wrong? I'm sure that in a human's life, one must have done something more enormous than this, no matter the magnitude. And do the human needs to apologise to anyone? NO!!! thats his problem.
We have this pastor having an affair, that monk misusing money, and that malay sourcer using beliefs as a bait to rape girls, but do the public want an apology from them? Yes, but not as much as Jack Neo's. True, Jack has an affair, but that affair is none of yours nor my business. So, just let him off...
I was reading the newspaper when i saw that his recent movie, being human, is being affected by his affair. I was curious. How bad can that be? If his movies had always been that good, how can this affair be directly influencial to that of his movie?
I was out today to catch his movie. I left disappointed. No doubt, its funny, but not as funny as his past movies, not much substance, and it ends with the thing which my teacher always told me not to commit when doing a composition. It was a dream... omg, I think this movie and that where got ghost are just not up to his usual standard. Probably thats the reason to his dwindling movie ticket sales. Probably plus a little fact of that affair, but i seriously don't think that affair affected much, except for those 'saints' who thinks that the world owes them an apology for things that are not related to them.....
Anyway, Mark Lee's comment irked me a lot this week. Yes, i'm not a saint. I'm comflicting my words. but i am a person who is ' yin shui shi yuan'. I think using the excuse of Jack's affair to get out of Jack's team and starting his own firm is not a good one, let alone stepping on Jack, aka scolding him in the public, while saying himself til like saint, isn't good. Probably to me, a very bad PR.
Moving aside, i'm having so thoughts about my current job. I love sales. I love talking. I love the satisfaction of seeing my customers/clients. But talking on the phone all day, just demoralised me, even though i striked deals, made money. I just felt lost for the past 2 weeks. I'm not satisfied. Now, hows a money vs satisfaction/happiness? Probably, i will know that in a week or 2's time....
Checking out now....
Charm: Satisfaction occurs when you are feeling happy, not lost nor sad.
Hmm.... So much things had happened in the past week. Mostly about Jack Neo's affairs. I wonder why there are so many KPOs out there who love sticking their nose to his affairs when there are better things to do??
And, i read this report from the newspaper, saying that Jack Neo owns an apology to the public, but i really wonder..... he's not having an affair with the public, so why should he apologies? thats his problem!! and i do think that the public owns him an apology instead!! comeon, the public has some how destroyed his family's harmony, no doubt he's in the wrong. However, who are we to say that he's right or he's wrong? I'm sure that in a human's life, one must have done something more enormous than this, no matter the magnitude. And do the human needs to apologise to anyone? NO!!! thats his problem.
We have this pastor having an affair, that monk misusing money, and that malay sourcer using beliefs as a bait to rape girls, but do the public want an apology from them? Yes, but not as much as Jack Neo's. True, Jack has an affair, but that affair is none of yours nor my business. So, just let him off...
I was reading the newspaper when i saw that his recent movie, being human, is being affected by his affair. I was curious. How bad can that be? If his movies had always been that good, how can this affair be directly influencial to that of his movie?
I was out today to catch his movie. I left disappointed. No doubt, its funny, but not as funny as his past movies, not much substance, and it ends with the thing which my teacher always told me not to commit when doing a composition. It was a dream... omg, I think this movie and that where got ghost are just not up to his usual standard. Probably thats the reason to his dwindling movie ticket sales. Probably plus a little fact of that affair, but i seriously don't think that affair affected much, except for those 'saints' who thinks that the world owes them an apology for things that are not related to them.....
Anyway, Mark Lee's comment irked me a lot this week. Yes, i'm not a saint. I'm comflicting my words. but i am a person who is ' yin shui shi yuan'. I think using the excuse of Jack's affair to get out of Jack's team and starting his own firm is not a good one, let alone stepping on Jack, aka scolding him in the public, while saying himself til like saint, isn't good. Probably to me, a very bad PR.
Moving aside, i'm having so thoughts about my current job. I love sales. I love talking. I love the satisfaction of seeing my customers/clients. But talking on the phone all day, just demoralised me, even though i striked deals, made money. I just felt lost for the past 2 weeks. I'm not satisfied. Now, hows a money vs satisfaction/happiness? Probably, i will know that in a week or 2's time....
Checking out now....
Charm: Satisfaction occurs when you are feeling happy, not lost nor sad.
Monday, March 8, 2010
work...
So, chinese new year has ended.
I have started work. Thou at a MNC, the basic is super unsatisfactory. I was in the sales again, but a totally different one. I used to enjoys doing sales very much, seeing the satisfaction straight from the customer's face, joking with them at ease, using at ease with my 'singlish' and having fun, joking with colleagues on the sales floor.
Perhaps, being in the retail line for close to 10 years, gives me complete confidence selling anything. With a product that i can see with my naked eyes.
Things changed thou. The current company, thou, has really low basic, but high commission. i do appreciate the high commission. However, unexpectedly, i do think that i am flopping in the company now. Its a totally different kind of sales experience all together. I'm grouded. I cannot even walk. I'm trying to crawl.
My best friend is the telephone at work. talking to it more than i sleep at home. Touching it more than i touch myself. At home, i'm straight on the computer. Finding leads for the work tomorrow. 30 new leads every single day is no easy task. I'm limited to only less than 5 hours sleep everyday. Dead tired.
While in NS, the theme 'RING THE BELL' is to give up. Here, i yearn to 'RING THAT BELL' mounted on the wall. Not that i wanted to quit. But that i want to close my deals, FAST!! The term 'RING THE BELL' means closing deals, and every single ring of the bell means the number of delegates investing in the product. This is followed by claps from everyone on the sales floor. The target audience is no longer walk in customers, but decision makers in ranging from small companies to hugh ones. The sales place is no longer local, but anywhere in the world.
Talking to the phone is a total new experience. I felt so helpless, not at ease, and i'm like a nusience, asking questions, and most of the time stupid ones to seniors. I'm learning, YES, but i'd not felt like a spastic person for so long. Asking questions after questions.
2 weeks without sales. Tho demoralised, but i'm still upbeat. Lets hope i'll be able to walk soon, then jump, followed by fly. I'm not a fan of planes thou, but i'm a fan of astronaunts. I wanna reach for the moon. With constant hardwork, i believe i can do what i wanted.
Now, i shall start reducing my singlish.
Charm: Who says the sky is the limit when there are footsteps on the moon...
I have started work. Thou at a MNC, the basic is super unsatisfactory. I was in the sales again, but a totally different one. I used to enjoys doing sales very much, seeing the satisfaction straight from the customer's face, joking with them at ease, using at ease with my 'singlish' and having fun, joking with colleagues on the sales floor.
Perhaps, being in the retail line for close to 10 years, gives me complete confidence selling anything. With a product that i can see with my naked eyes.
Things changed thou. The current company, thou, has really low basic, but high commission. i do appreciate the high commission. However, unexpectedly, i do think that i am flopping in the company now. Its a totally different kind of sales experience all together. I'm grouded. I cannot even walk. I'm trying to crawl.
My best friend is the telephone at work. talking to it more than i sleep at home. Touching it more than i touch myself. At home, i'm straight on the computer. Finding leads for the work tomorrow. 30 new leads every single day is no easy task. I'm limited to only less than 5 hours sleep everyday. Dead tired.
While in NS, the theme 'RING THE BELL' is to give up. Here, i yearn to 'RING THAT BELL' mounted on the wall. Not that i wanted to quit. But that i want to close my deals, FAST!! The term 'RING THE BELL' means closing deals, and every single ring of the bell means the number of delegates investing in the product. This is followed by claps from everyone on the sales floor. The target audience is no longer walk in customers, but decision makers in ranging from small companies to hugh ones. The sales place is no longer local, but anywhere in the world.
Talking to the phone is a total new experience. I felt so helpless, not at ease, and i'm like a nusience, asking questions, and most of the time stupid ones to seniors. I'm learning, YES, but i'd not felt like a spastic person for so long. Asking questions after questions.
2 weeks without sales. Tho demoralised, but i'm still upbeat. Lets hope i'll be able to walk soon, then jump, followed by fly. I'm not a fan of planes thou, but i'm a fan of astronaunts. I wanna reach for the moon. With constant hardwork, i believe i can do what i wanted.
Now, i shall start reducing my singlish.
Charm: Who says the sky is the limit when there are footsteps on the moon...
Friday, February 19, 2010
The price of being a grown up
A child has no worries, pressures. He has all the world for him.
An adult has loads of worries (financial, love, career), pressures, perhaps insecurity, unstability of moods due to various reasons. He may have already or almost learnt how to cope with them and live with them.
I'm in the process of being an adult. Some, i'd learnt to live and makedo with them, some, i'm still coping. Whatever the reasons, they still haunt me at times.
Being an adult isn't easy.
I wanna be a child again.
Charm: life is a process, a cycle or to some, its just so annoying...
An adult has loads of worries (financial, love, career), pressures, perhaps insecurity, unstability of moods due to various reasons. He may have already or almost learnt how to cope with them and live with them.
I'm in the process of being an adult. Some, i'd learnt to live and makedo with them, some, i'm still coping. Whatever the reasons, they still haunt me at times.
Being an adult isn't easy.
I wanna be a child again.
Charm: life is a process, a cycle or to some, its just so annoying...
Saturday, February 6, 2010
A long time...
I'm still patiently waiting for the right job to come to me. I have lots of business ideas but i need capital. Right now, my priority is to find a job that pays really well.
Today, i was back in the counter doing retail sales again. This time, i would say that i felt like a freelance, as there's a shortage of manpower for issey miyake's promotion, and she asked me to help fer for the week. Haha, she said to me:" Can u help me for the promotion?" And indeed, i thought i'm involved. However, nope, it wasn't to be. I'm there to look after JPG and Narciso instead of being involved in the promotion. I do opened a few bills thou, which i gave to the full timers.
Its been 2 and a half years since i saw them. Today, while i'm on my way to eat in Wisma, i saw PF and her bf. Its really been a long time. I was in a hurry. we both saw each other while we were walking in the opposite direction enroute the escalator. We exchanged a short hi and carried on with our journey. I wondered, how things can change in such a short time frame, or should i say in less than 3 years.
Later at night, i saw PF's 2 best pals, and haha... i almost could not recgonise them!! It took me some time before i started knowing who they are!! lol.. yup, its been the same period of time also..
Well, sometimes, coincidence don't really happen when u wish it could. But it does happen when u didn't want it to, anymore... and probably a few more times than u wanted. How funny is life?
Indeed, we do treasure happy times in the past, but for me? i'm contented with the current status. I'm lazy to start all over again, afraid to commit another and contented with the current, while hoping that she will slowly change for me.
Charm: Cherish your yesterdays,
Dream Your tomorrows,
Live your Todays!!
Today, i was back in the counter doing retail sales again. This time, i would say that i felt like a freelance, as there's a shortage of manpower for issey miyake's promotion, and she asked me to help fer for the week. Haha, she said to me:" Can u help me for the promotion?" And indeed, i thought i'm involved. However, nope, it wasn't to be. I'm there to look after JPG and Narciso instead of being involved in the promotion. I do opened a few bills thou, which i gave to the full timers.
Its been 2 and a half years since i saw them. Today, while i'm on my way to eat in Wisma, i saw PF and her bf. Its really been a long time. I was in a hurry. we both saw each other while we were walking in the opposite direction enroute the escalator. We exchanged a short hi and carried on with our journey. I wondered, how things can change in such a short time frame, or should i say in less than 3 years.
Later at night, i saw PF's 2 best pals, and haha... i almost could not recgonise them!! It took me some time before i started knowing who they are!! lol.. yup, its been the same period of time also..
Well, sometimes, coincidence don't really happen when u wish it could. But it does happen when u didn't want it to, anymore... and probably a few more times than u wanted. How funny is life?
Indeed, we do treasure happy times in the past, but for me? i'm contented with the current status. I'm lazy to start all over again, afraid to commit another and contented with the current, while hoping that she will slowly change for me.
Charm: Cherish your yesterdays,
Dream Your tomorrows,
Live your Todays!!
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Dilemma
I'm looking for job, went for interviews, but undecided. Feeling so depressed now. Job prospect VS interest VS pay. which one would u choose?
My heart is feeling so freaking down now. I would probably blame RMIT for that. For my results that was supposed to be passed and getting a fail 7 days later? And now? Its such a barrier to me getting a job that i want.
I don't want to waste time doing part time anymore. I want a prospective career with a good pay but of my interest. But the reality will never match with your dreams. What do u think? which would u choose?
Anyway, i seriously think that staying at home for 1 full month without working isn't good for me, especially for my interviews. The normally chatty, quick witted me is somehow misplaced. I failed lots of interviews. I can sell anything. But when this question is being thrown to my face. I am speechless.
"Sell yourself to us."
I hate this sentence. I tried thinking at home. I can't think of the answer, or perhaps i'm too much of a pefectionist to even think of selling myself. Or perhaps i'm not even confident in myself when it comes to introducing my self. Yes! my main strength is my mouth, but perhaps thats also my weakness. Haiz..
Feeling so down......
Charm: A confident person may be confident about his skills but probably not about himself. How contradicting.
My heart is feeling so freaking down now. I would probably blame RMIT for that. For my results that was supposed to be passed and getting a fail 7 days later? And now? Its such a barrier to me getting a job that i want.
I don't want to waste time doing part time anymore. I want a prospective career with a good pay but of my interest. But the reality will never match with your dreams. What do u think? which would u choose?
Anyway, i seriously think that staying at home for 1 full month without working isn't good for me, especially for my interviews. The normally chatty, quick witted me is somehow misplaced. I failed lots of interviews. I can sell anything. But when this question is being thrown to my face. I am speechless.
"Sell yourself to us."
I hate this sentence. I tried thinking at home. I can't think of the answer, or perhaps i'm too much of a pefectionist to even think of selling myself. Or perhaps i'm not even confident in myself when it comes to introducing my self. Yes! my main strength is my mouth, but perhaps thats also my weakness. Haiz..
Feeling so down......
Charm: A confident person may be confident about his skills but probably not about himself. How contradicting.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Hearing Aid
The Chinese New Year is drawing closer. I think probably another 20 days or so? Well, Though i'm looking forward to that day, which also means that i will be edging closer to the 30 year old mark (Not So Good), the preparation to the day isn't any rosy at all.
What do i mean by that? Hmmm..... thats the spring cleaning!!!
I love spring cleaning, as the house will look neater. However, cleaning this and that requires a lot of hard work.
Recently, my mum and grandma started nagging me to clean this and that, pack this and that.... its as if that i'm deaf, or in need of a hearing aid!!! Omg, there's still 20 odd days to the day itself and to clean now means double job!! I would have to clean it like 2 to 3 days before the day again... But they just dun agree to me..
My room is in a mess right now, and my mum still have not even packed her stuffs off my room... I'm still waiting, and waiting...
Charm: Everyone will never realise his own mistakes but will only pinpoint others'.
What do i mean by that? Hmmm..... thats the spring cleaning!!!
I love spring cleaning, as the house will look neater. However, cleaning this and that requires a lot of hard work.
Recently, my mum and grandma started nagging me to clean this and that, pack this and that.... its as if that i'm deaf, or in need of a hearing aid!!! Omg, there's still 20 odd days to the day itself and to clean now means double job!! I would have to clean it like 2 to 3 days before the day again... But they just dun agree to me..
My room is in a mess right now, and my mum still have not even packed her stuffs off my room... I'm still waiting, and waiting...
Charm: Everyone will never realise his own mistakes but will only pinpoint others'.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Job Hunting
Its easy to find a job, but never easy to find a suitable one. This is the scenario that i'm currently facing. Armed with a decade of working experience, i sent my resume to some companies, awaiting for their replies, with the efforts coming to a noun.
I do have some job offers, but i think a fresh 'going to graduate but cannot graduate' undergrad, i'm rather picky when it comes to this part. I think that the first step to a full time career is th determinant to how ur future will be shaped. I rather bothered and troubled by this part of my life. It seems that the game of life has started, and that everything needs to be planned out before u take any step. This is essential as it concerns my future.
In just a few more days, my good pal who has been residing in Austalia for dunno how many donky years will be back in Singapore, but only for i think a week.. How sad this is... Just a few years ago, my group of best pals, whom we have been the best pals ever for since primary school days, are still hanging out 2 to 3 times weekly like uncles in coffeshop drinking coffees. Our group consists of 6 members. However, now, the number of times we hang out are decreasing at such a speed that i think 3x10to the power of 8 (speed of light) cannot even be matached. Okie, a little exaggeratingly over. oops...
Perhaps thats the price of growing up....
Lets just hope that everything will be smooth for me in the coming weeks..
Cheers!
Charm: The most significant CHANGE is a change in perspective. CHANGE your perspective, and you change your world.
I do have some job offers, but i think a fresh 'going to graduate but cannot graduate' undergrad, i'm rather picky when it comes to this part. I think that the first step to a full time career is th determinant to how ur future will be shaped. I rather bothered and troubled by this part of my life. It seems that the game of life has started, and that everything needs to be planned out before u take any step. This is essential as it concerns my future.
In just a few more days, my good pal who has been residing in Austalia for dunno how many donky years will be back in Singapore, but only for i think a week.. How sad this is... Just a few years ago, my group of best pals, whom we have been the best pals ever for since primary school days, are still hanging out 2 to 3 times weekly like uncles in coffeshop drinking coffees. Our group consists of 6 members. However, now, the number of times we hang out are decreasing at such a speed that i think 3x10to the power of 8 (speed of light) cannot even be matached. Okie, a little exaggeratingly over. oops...
Perhaps thats the price of growing up....
Lets just hope that everything will be smooth for me in the coming weeks..
Cheers!
Charm: The most significant CHANGE is a change in perspective. CHANGE your perspective, and you change your world.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Mixed feelings
School's starting, work finally ended, ties also ended with the company i had been in for almost 10 years...
I'm officially looking for a full time job now, while still studying full time, which is erm... 1 module per sem? Haiz... i hate exams, hate studying, but i hate leaving school life even more. However, with my current age, i need to work harder to catch up with my peers.
A new year, new beginning. 2010, hopefully will be the start of my life path.
I was looking thru facebook photos a few moments ago, when i came across someone whom i had spent some time with long time ago. Somehow, it seems, its just not long ago, but with deeper thoughts, its actually about 8 years ago... how time flies with a bat of eyes. The rich moments of the past just so suddenly came flooding back to me, with the scenes of the past playing like the most exciting movies ever watched. The show which i watched just now, had this song playing, bridging the memories closer, making the movie just so much unbearable. If only time can be changed with a sniplet of my thumb...... how good would that be.. Just going back even for a minute to keep the memories fresher, away from all the dust and rust...
so, i shall share this song with u:
Charm: The route to letting go seems difficuly, some will say that its easy. Me? i say, its just lying. U just put those at the back of ur library, forgetting it, or even thought that u have thrown it away, only to realise its still there when u come across it.
I'm officially looking for a full time job now, while still studying full time, which is erm... 1 module per sem? Haiz... i hate exams, hate studying, but i hate leaving school life even more. However, with my current age, i need to work harder to catch up with my peers.
A new year, new beginning. 2010, hopefully will be the start of my life path.
I was looking thru facebook photos a few moments ago, when i came across someone whom i had spent some time with long time ago. Somehow, it seems, its just not long ago, but with deeper thoughts, its actually about 8 years ago... how time flies with a bat of eyes. The rich moments of the past just so suddenly came flooding back to me, with the scenes of the past playing like the most exciting movies ever watched. The show which i watched just now, had this song playing, bridging the memories closer, making the movie just so much unbearable. If only time can be changed with a sniplet of my thumb...... how good would that be.. Just going back even for a minute to keep the memories fresher, away from all the dust and rust...
so, i shall share this song with u:
Charm: The route to letting go seems difficuly, some will say that its easy. Me? i say, its just lying. U just put those at the back of ur library, forgetting it, or even thought that u have thrown it away, only to realise its still there when u come across it.
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