Lots of Work March 25, 2014 bizadmin Today I have lots of work and they must be completed within a certain time. I also have to go for my physiotherapy due today at the Adventist Hospital. Money is not easy to earn and comfort is the greatest killer of success. When you are used to comfort, it is not easy for you to dirty your hand and get down to doing real work. I also have been sleeping more now in my comfort zone, but it is my colleague who is a workaholic that gets things done, since helming the company some 11 years back. Yes, that’s how long I have been working in the same company since early 2003.
Now in KL March 20, 2014 bizadmin I am now in KL, having arrived around 12:00 midnight last night by car, traveling from Penang after dinner. We stopped for a break in Bukit Gantang and Ulu Bernam for nature’s call. There will be a meeting tomorrow with a big developer and also a school. I also hope to view the Main Place condo in consideration of renting it out if the amenities are good. The present place needs lots of upkeep and repair which is not worth our time since we come here once a week for a couple of days on average. Just pray and hope that my colleague will have some wisdom in managing the finances with positive net worth and not negative or zero!
Shuttle Paris Airports March 17, 2014 bizadmin I have been to Paris and seen the Eiffel Tower with the Leaning Tower of Pisa in France during my Europe Tour last year in December. I traveled by coach the entire trip except for the plane trip from Malaysia to London’s Heathrow Airport. In the meantime, you can check out Shuttle Paris Airports My trip to Europe was good and relatively easy. Everything was planned by the tour company in UK and hotels arranged in advance. Above is a snapshot of my photo taken in Mount Pilatus in Switzerland sometime late last year during Christmas.
Fees for Housing Loan February 23, 2014 bizadmin Tomorrow, I shall be meeting with the developer’s lawyer to collect my S & P agreement signed middle of last year and to pay the lawyer $4,300 in legal fees for the bank loan from RHB for my second condo, The Wave – touted to be phase 3 project by Ivory Properties. It is very costly and my first condo’s bank loan fees was borne by the developer, thus saving me thousands plus 5% discount of the unit during Hari Raya promotion for the bumiputera, of which I received gleefully. Now everything costs money and things are rather exorbitant now. When I bought the second condo, it was about $800 per sq ft which has now gone up to $1,100 per sq. ft.
I was inside MRI Machine February 12, 2014 bizadmin I went for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan the other day for the pain on my left arm and it was diagnosed as supraspinatus tendonitis. In layman’s term, it is inflammation of the tendons which join the muscles to the bone. I was inside the machine for like eternity, a wholesome 20 minutes hearing noises. It uses sound waves together with magnetic waves to form images slice by slice. Each slice takes about 2 minutes to form, so imagine the number of images made during the boring 20 minutes of lying down without any movement, other than breathing. The cost? A whopping $800 for the session of which I am going to claim from my one and only insurance company, Prudential. Still going for physiotherapy frequently for faster healing.
Toured Europe January 14, 2014 bizadmin I came back from Europe last week on 5th January 2014, having spent Christmas in Rome, Italy and New Year in Southampton University, United Kingdom. The 12 days, 11 nights tour of Europe covered 10 countries, namely UK, Belgium, Switzerland, Rome, Italy, Luxembourg, Lichtenstein, Monaco, France and Austria. Monaco is a small principality by itself, hence considered a small country governed by a prince. Rome is headed by the Pope where I witnessed the general public square blessing by the Pope who appeared on a very far away window in a building. This is to prevent possible assassination. Well, having spent Christmas during winter in UK where the sunset begins around 3:00pm and it is already dark by 4:00pm! This is an experience where I paid a bomb to see for myself. The flight from KLIA to Heathrow Airport took about 13 hours by Malaysian Airlines where the cabin is all dark since we were instructed to close all windows.
Blogging is Profitable November 19, 2013 bizadmin There are some perks to constant blogging and if your blog ranks high on the PR, then you can also earn some revenue and monitize it. This is just like milking the internet, all from the comfort of a home office in your bedroom. You can also do sponsored posts or earn some advertisement space on your blogs. But nothing is more worthwhile than penning your thoughts down in an online journal where anyone can come visit and read. In the good old days of PPP, blogging was very lucrative, but then it had slowed down a lot more later on. And don’t boast online, for there will always be tricksters scanning websites and blogs to email the owners for some easy money.
Survival of the Small Businesses September 1, 2013 bizadmin Small businesses don’t have the financial clout as compared to multi-national corporations or the big factories. It is all the more pertinent that they get constant jobs in order to survive and prosper in this red ocean world where competition is stiff. Therefore, it is recommended that they get a well known web designing company to set up the website for them that is indexed by Google search engine for prospects. You cannot just ignore this particular area of your advertisement and marketing which is the lifeblood of your business. Therefore small businesses need to plan and navigate their goals, mission statement and company policies to their staff clearly right from the start of employment so that the employees become an asset instead of a liability such as working the least hours, coming late, doing very little and getting paid at the end of the month with hardly any productive results. Well indexed websites will be searchable by key words typed in by potential clients looking for a particular service or product. The internet can be a very powerful tool in this area. Done right and you will prosper; done incorrectly and you have not clients nor sales. Nobody knows about your business or your existence.