Flying Down South March 17, 2016 bizadmin Tomorrow, my colleague and myself will be flying down via Firefly to KL, departing at 9:30am and arriving Subang Terminal Airport an hour later. There after, we shall rent Hertz which had been booked already to visit a potential client and then have lunch before going for a second interview at 4:30pm. Thereafter, we will have dinner and return the rented car and wait at Subang Airport for our flight home, departing at 8pm should there be no further delay. The return air flights from Penang to KL cost us $1,055 while the Hertz car rental was $288 for an auto proton saga. Last week, we also flew down just for a day for the first interview with the same company. Hope we get the project if it is God’s will.
Came Back to Penang March 5, 2016 bizadmin I was in KL recently, having visited the Perfect International Ping Pong Championships near Acappella Hotel where we get to enter for free as guests. Our supplier from China installed the flooring for this match as we have bought materials in the past from them. My colleague was given a shaver while mine was a 100% blue silk shawl with nice flowery designs. We are treated lunch also at a KL club in a Chinese Restaurant. We visited 6-7 places including paying workers, collecting cheques, delivering materials, attending meetings, etc. This coming Sunday, we might just go to Kedah to meet up with a potential client and hopefully can confirm the project. Next week, on Wednesday, we might book Firefly tickets to fly down to KL to attend a meeting and return the same day. We also have to rent a car for the trip down to KL
Going Down South Tomorrow Morning March 1, 2016 bizadmin This year is a leap year with Feb 29 yesterday which occur every 4 years. So for leap year babies, celebrating their 16th Birthday would mean they are 64 on that day. Tomorrow, I shall be heading to KL in the morning for business. I am just a silent partner in this business, and do all the computer work in the background. I hardly attend meetings and even if I do, my business partner does most of the presentation and talking as he is the one who created the product and knows it inside out. He is a civil engineer by training while I am in computer technology. At a ripe old age of 65, he drives down to KL from Penang while taking short breaks to the restroom in Tapah rest and relax pit stops and in Bukit Merah. I guess I am still lucky to be employed for the last 13 years by the same company to work in a home office with EPF and SOCSO.
Came back from Kota Bahru Yesterday February 19, 2016 bizadmin 2 days ago, I booked Firefly by MAS to Kota Bahru for 2 guests for $665 including seat allocation and taxes. After that I booked Hotel Perdana for 1 night for $280 which is right smack in town and very central and convenient. It is very near to KB mall where we went to have our dinner at Pizza Hut. I also booked the new Proton Saga from Hawk Rental for $180 for more than 1 day or 24 hours. We visited a client at a local school and was successful in getting a project which is slated to be completed by end of the month! It was a last minute thingy and that is why the need was urgent. The lady client is related to Kelantan royalty and they stay in a double storey bungalow with 4 cars, one of them a new Mercedes. There are 6 rooms in the bungalow and I enjoyed the trip; no doubt it was short as we had to come back and mobilise our workers after payment was done.
Typed 8 Quotations Yesterday February 5, 2016 bizadmin Yesterday was a full working day for me. I had to type 8 long quotations, format them properly in a table and make sure everything is in order before emailing them out together with brochures and pictures. Most of the days it is like this, except for today, I just finished with 2 quotations and that’s it. My boss gets enquiries very often via the handphone or e-mails. Gone are the good old days when you have to hire many sales personnel to run the show and travelling around to clinch business and close the deal. Working in a home office is cosy, but not easy! There is plenty of work to do every single day and work can never finish. There will always be something to do every day!
Going to Ipoh Tomorrow January 27, 2016 bizadmin Tomorrow, I shall be visiting 2 different places for business in Ipoh. We will set off at 10am to meet up with the first potential client and then another one after lunch at 3pm. Have to use GPS to guide us through rather than navigating via a map. In the good old days before GPS, we had to use our brains and figure out the directions of the map step by step. Now, with the convenience of GPS installed as an App on iPhone, it is easy peasy with voice directions along the trip. Just read in the press, that 400,000 workers will be jobless in China when its steel factory closes down. Furthermore, Shell will axe 10,000 jobs this year. Recession has started in Singapore in 2016. It is time for austerity drive and not to spend frivolously.
Managed to Figure Out Powerpoint September 16, 2015 bizadmin It was my first time creating a powerpoint slides show in Office 2007 and after figuring out a few stuffs, I managed to create a powerpoint slide show presentation with male and female voice narration added plus animations to the text and pictures. This is for a company presentation during the interview. If I were to get outside help, it would cost in the region of more than ten thousand for a full powerpoint presentation to make an impact. Being a do-it yourself gal, and with my IT background, I prefer to experiment around using the various features and learning how to do it myself. This is much simpler than, say writing or coding a program or system. As an end user, I have no complains other than being pleased with my progress and efforts.