Reality check: If someone were to ask me again, would I ever imagine how the entire 2008 will be like one year ago?

It’s hard to say…

It’s been a VERY interesting year, I must say…

If I were to sum up the whole year, I’d say it’s more LEARNING than ever…

I don’t know about you, but I used to think that those who are out ‘fighting and battling’ it out in the big bad world of business was tough… I mean, I always knew it was tough… but honest to God I never realized how DIFFICULT it really is UNTIL the day I’ve experienced it MYSELF.

The sacrifices especially was something I never expected.. and til this day, I still feel it’s particularly difficult to swallow..

It gets one thinking sometimes, why go through it all in the first place when you see everyone else going with the easy route, playing it “safe”, slowly lurking, slowly looking around for that one “perfect” opportunity to strike gold.

It can be pretty disturbing sometimes, to sacrifice so much, not knowing whether this “decision” of yours will be the right one..

To lay out soooo many things on the table, to risk so much, without the slightest inkling of what might happen in the end…

Someone once told me that life is all about taking risk… I constantly wonder… is it really?

Worth it meh?

Honestly, I don’t know.

I’ve consulted a number of experienced old “war horses” on why it’s so… and usually their reply is “Aiya, normal-lah. This is where you’ll know what you’re made of. So you think so easy one ar?? If you want to play business, this is the game. If you scared of risk, if you want stability, go get a job”

Niama, char me until like that.

But I’ve got to admit, VERY true.

Whenever I run into crossroads like these, whenever fear strikes in, doubts, etc… I always remind myself of what Shifu Ooogway taught me…

“When you’ve crossed the bridge, burn it, and keep walking ahead. You die die also you must make it.”

Done.

On the Internet, nothing travels faster than a tip on how to score a bargain. Especially in an economic downturn.

With online retail sales falling this month for the first time, Internet merchants are offering steep discounts to anyone willing to punch in a secret coupon code or visit a rebate site for a “referral” before loading up their virtual cart.

Shoppers obsessed with finding these bargains share the latest intelligence on dozens of sites with quirky names like RetailMeNot.com, FatWallet.com and the Budget Fashionista. And more consumers than ever are scanning the listings before making a purchase at their favorite Web site.

Some online shoppers are so good at this game that they almost never buy anything at full price, making them the digital era’s version of bargain hunters who used to spend hours clipping coupons to shrink their grocery bills.

Tavon Ferguson, a 25-year-old graduate student in Atlanta, became obsessed with finding online deals last spring, while planning her July wedding. She scoured the Web for coupons and got free save-the-date cards, $8 bracelets for her bridesmaids and free shipping on flash-frozen steaks for the rehearsal dinner.

“I was able to do my wedding at a price that nobody would even guess” — $6,000, all included — “because everything down from invitations to the photo album, I got for ridiculously low prices with online coupon codes,” Mrs. Ferguson said.

Her favorite sites include RetailMeNot.com, which has one of the most comprehensive lists; CouponMom.com, which includes coupons for physical stores; and CouponCode.com, which is organized by category.

Mrs. Ferguson may be more fanatical than most people, but surfing for online coupons is growing in popularity. In October, 27 million people visited a coupon site, according to comScore Media Metrix, up 33 percent from a year earlier.

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When Scott Kluth started CouponCabin, some retailers were displeased. Now stores send him a thousand codes a week.

“Coupons had never been a big factor online the way they are offline. This is something new,” said Gian Fulgoni, chairman of comScore. “It’s taken pricing power away from the retailers and given it to the consumers, because the consumer is totally up to speed on what the prices are.” Retailers have mixed feelings about this shift.

Generally, companies prefer limited discounts, e-mailed to a select group of customers or sent inside packages with a purchase. When the coupons get wider exposure, retailers lose control, potentially costing them more money than they expected.

Two years ago, Sierra Trading Post, a site that sells overstock outdoor gear, sent a coupon code with 1,000 of its 50 million catalogs, expecting to generate $2,000 in sales. Instead, it led to $300,000 in sales after a customer posted it online.

“We certainly appreciated the sales, but sales with that code were at a very low margin,” said David Giacomini, director of catalog operations for the company. Sierra Trading now sends some coupons directly to Web sites and limits catalog codes to three uses.

Some retailers try to battle the coupon sites. Harry & David, a seller of fruit baskets, threatened legal action against RetailMeNot.com this spring for publishing its discounts, prompting the coupon site to steer visitors to other gift-basket companies. William Ihle, a spokesman for Harry & David, said that all of its deals were available on its own site and the coupon sites “disingenuously mislead the consumer” by posting expired or unverified discounts.

Other retailers use the coupon sites as marketing tools. For example, when Scott Kluth founded CouponCabin in 2003, he had discounts for only 180 stores, and many of them did not like it. Today, 1,300 merchants, including Dell, Target, Home Depot and Victoria’s Secret, send him discount codes — totaling about a thousand a week.

“They have seen the power of a coupon, in this economy especially, and they’re absolutely embracing us,” Mr. Kluth said.

Most of the sites list coupon codes submitted by readers and retailers. Shoppers can comment on whether the coupon worked and share tips in user forums. Some sites e-mail coupon lists to subscribers. RetailMeNot.com goes further with an add-on to the Firefox browser that alerts users when an e-commerce site they are visiting has a discount.

Many of the coupon sites are run by Web entrepreneurs who see a business opportunity in collecting online discount codes at one site. They earn a commission from the retailer when a customer makes a purchase. Sites like FatWallet.com and Ebates offer shoppers cash back on purchases if they sign in and then click through to the retailer.

But other discount aggregator sites were started by passionate shoppers eager to share their bargain-hunting wisdom. Kathryn Finney began Budget Fashionista in 2003, when she finished graduate school and found herself broke and newly interested in bargains. Now, “it’s in my blood,” she said. “I cannot physically pay full price.”

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Ms. Finney’s site was originally aimed at friends and family, but it quickly developed a following that has spiked 60 percent since August to 550,000 visitors a month. “We’re gaining a whole new level of fans, who maybe weren’t budget shoppers last year,” Ms. Finney said. Her site now makes money through advertising and referral fees.

Among her coupon-scouting tips: search the name of an online store and the word “coupon” and compare the promotions, because bigger sites are often able to negotiate better offers; if you find a coupon for an offline store, call the Web site and ask it to match the price; and insist upon free shipping, even if it means calling the manager and asking for a coupon code.

Deborah Dockendorf, a power Web shopper in Chicago, has another piece of advice: if you cannot immediately find a coupon code for a specific store, just wait. “It might be two weeks, but you will have a code for it,” she said.

Even though Ms. Dockendorf lives near the department stores of Michigan Avenue and the boutiques of Oak Street, she says she does 98 percent of her shopping online — always with a discount. She recently bought six pairs of $45 Wolford opaque stockings from Saks Fifth Avenue with a 40 percent discount and free shipping. She also snagged a $400 feather bed at half off from Pacific Coast Feather Company.

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He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, “I don’t get it! You can’t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?” Jerry replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.”

“Yeah, right, it’s not that easy,” I protested. “Yes it is,” Jerry said. “Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It’s your choice how you live life.” I reflected on what Jerry said.

Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.

Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business. He left the back door open one morning and was held up at gun point by three armed robbers. While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma centre. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body.

I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he said, “If I were any better, I’d be twins. Wanna see my scars?” I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place. “The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door,” Jerry replied. “Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live. “Weren’t you scared? Did you lose consciousness?” I asked.

Jerry continued, “The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read, ‘He’s a dead man.” I knew I needed to take action.” “What did you do?” I asked. “Well, there was a big, burly nurse shouting questions at me,” said Jerry. “She asked if I was allergic to anything. ‘Yes,’ I replied.

The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, ‘Bullets!’ Over their laughter, I told them, “I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.” Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully.

Attitude, after all, is everything.

What’s the bribe?

First, he’s giving away a special, $15k closed-door presentation entitled “Instant Leverage Points in Your Business That Bring You Surges of Cash”.

It’s all about little tweaks and ‘hacks’ that immediately ramp up the bottom line with a few quick fixes. And the best part is once they are set-up - they keep paying you
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He presented this information last January to 26 top-gun entrepreneurs and business leaders paid about $15k in membership fees and trip fees to come together in Baja,
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The group ranged from one-man Internet superstars raking in multiple 7-figures in their flip flops to $900M International Resort developers and $100M Manufacturing
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Originally, Yanik figured he’d sell the DVD of this presentation for several hundred dollars but decided instead to make it irresistible for people to try his new print newsletter called “Maverick Business Insider”. (It’s pretty different than anything else out there because it covers how to make more, have more fun and give more back!)

Now, he’s bundled up this DVD, the MindMap he handed out, his newest book called “34 Rules for Maverick Entrepreneurs”, a 2 CD-Audio program and more - the only
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Side note: They had to put the entire site on ‘pause’ because of big-time technical gremlins last Thursday. Now the good news is because of the snafus - he’s going to
extend all the FAST-ACTION bonuses *way* beyond what they originally intended. (Fact is, they would have got snapped up in a few minutes during the intended Thursday
release but now it’s available until Monday at 3 PM, ET.)

Really - this means an even better deal for you so it’s probably a good thing they had these delays.

P.S. If you want more profits, passion and purpose in your life - this package will show you how to get there… Yes, really.

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I received an email today, random stuff really. But just as if the universe wanted to tell me something, the lesson I learned in the past three weeks hit me hard. And here I use the main ideas from the email and elaborate them a bit further…

You might already have heard about the fact that extraordinary results come from doing something different… from challenging the status quo and shaking things up. So for quite a while now I have been trying to figure out what that really means… what does get me on a path to innovation, extraordinary progress and extreme success? Here are five things that I stumpled upon over and over again

1) Uniqueness

The ultra successful companies and people are aware of their difference. In fact they even use it to their full advantage. As long as I tried to please most people it did not only hurt myself, it also made me look beige. I am different - so what?! Being afraid that by being polar will alienate your friends, family or market is like killing your most valuable sales point. Only if you are true to yourself you start attracting the most specific group of people around you. The kind of people that make each other feel comfortable and focus their power on the facts and energy that can move mountains.

I don’t want a one size fits all, “canned” solution. I don’t want to be surrounded by people who want that. “Meike, you are annoying sometimes”, someone told me. “I know.” I answered. Maybe this is also because I am never to afraid to

2) Ask Better Questions

Many people think that super successful people have all the answers. Maybe - but they didn’t get them from just divine intervention or from guessing. They get the answers from asking better questions.

Finding what to do takes asking hard questions to yourself, your friends, your co-workers, boss, peers and family. I read that average people tend to shy away from asking the tough questions because they are afraid of the answers they might get. I was compared to not going to the doctor because being nervous about what he might find out. Most successful people face new challenges head-on, ask the tough questions and tackle them regardless of the answers. If that makes me annoying - that’s good…

3) Take Risk

Risk tolerance is a success trait that is hard to ignore. You know about the saying: “no risk - no fun”. That makes so much sense… Who takes great risk can loose a lot… can also win a lot. Now don’t go overboard with risk. Hedge your bets with high quality information and research. Put the work and time necessary to plan for and research the viability of a risky decision. This way, risk becomes calculated and you won’t loose it all…

And in case you don’t win (simply because life isn’t a wishing list) you might understand that with every failure comes a learning experience. Make it a lesson leaned experience and gain extremely valuable information from you mistakes and failures. Do so by analyzing the situations and extract as many lessons as possible from the disaster. Then synthesize this information and create better plans for going forward. The super successful people don’t wallow in the misery of their failures and stick their head in the sand to hide. They pick themselves back up and move ahead again. This time armed with new information.

4) Fight

… as if you were right. But listen as if you were wrong. Most average people try to avoid confrontation at all costs. They hate to cause trouble, make a scene or have to get in someone’s face. This happens even to the point of missing out on something they are entitled to, paid for or are owed just so they don’t have to confront the situation. They’re happier practicing avoidance than strength. The overachievers on the other hand don’t follow that thinking. They make it a point to engage in battle to get what they want, deserve or are passionate about.

The successful people are not afraid to hurt some feelings and be open, honest and blunt about what they think, want or need from anyone. They are willing to fight for what they believe in, their passion and their ideas. This is a leadership quality that allows them to achieve more, accomplish more and have others working for them and with them to accomplish everything they need to give achieve high degree of success and happiness in life.

Truth been told: that all reads very easy but is hard to actually turn into action. It is true though. Think about it. A few weeks ago Khailee sent me an article about practicing brutally honesty. And I can tell you: it feels darn good…

5) Leverage Time

We all have the same amount of time in a day. Some people just do more with it than others. I am not talking about the g-t-d tricks or force of being extra efficient 24/7. I believe that just doesn’t feel natural to everybody. The “Trumps” of the world know the value of time and how to leverage it to get more accomplished. The average person thinks about time as a renewable resource not a precious raw material to

success.

So the next time, why don’t you leverage time and stop trading it for dollars? Stop buying into a tit for tat mentality when it comes to the exchanging of time for money. Instead create systems that you build one time that work for you for eternity. Do it like the super successful and seek out and get involved with opportunities that are scaleable and deliver returns for long periods of time. Action and ideas are the currency of the rich.

So the next time everybody jumps off the bridge… at least think twice before you jump, too.

So in about a day’s time I’ll officially be thirty.

Who would’ve thought?

Never in a million years… *sigh* As depressing as it may sound… I guess age-ing is something we HAVE to deal with, like it or not…

I guess it’s also customary to do the standard “reflection time” when one reaches this “dreaded” number.

So…

10 years has practically flew by without realizing it. It wasn’t the easiest of times. Thinking back, I don’t know how I got through it, but I was really glad I did.

Of course good times, got bad times, got funny times, whatever also got. Proudest moments: Fell down, got up, failed again, got up, lose money, got up, failed again, again and again, got up, then “fortunately” got it “right” (phew)… all in a span of 10 years.

Seriously not easy one k.

As one matures, I have learnt to accept that it’s not a “crime” for us to screw up. No point in beating oneself up over spilt milk. Sure it sucks sometimes, its like “How could I be so stupid! Aiyo yo… bodoh-nya!!”

We’ve all been through that, haven’t we?

Of course, screwing up can never be easy on the soul sometimes, but after going through the highs and the lows, the ups and downs in the past , I now know and have openly accepted the fact that it’s actually pretty NORMAL for us to make mistakes, screw up, learn, screw up, learn, screw up, learn. (no one’s perfect, right?)

What else can you do?? Turning back the clock is out of the question, so the next best possible option is to move forward.

This year, “balance” was added to the vocabulary.

Not easy to master “balance” (waaaay harder than I ever thought, I’m still learning and hopefully in the coming year, I’ll get this skill “down” as well

That being said, everything starts afresh, an old chapter will be closed, fresh new ones will be opened.. it’s about moving on and DOING things “right” from now on.

On a lighter note: Next year’s gonna be an exciting year! Plans have been laid out, and it all boils down to November 7th, 2008.

A freakin’ monumental day it is.

If things go well enough, business will FLY.

If not, then I also don’t know what will happen haha.

Plan B doesn’t look so “motivating” for the moment.

So what this means is: We WILL make it happen… WHATEVER THE COST!

Gears will be shift to overdrive Nov 7th onwards… and for the whole of 2009… no more messing around, “risk” will take on a WHOLE new meaning next year… “balls” of steel will be tested like it’s never been “tested” before… creative-ness, business growth “skills” and strength will take center stage… it’s scary just thinking about it now… phew… I can only hope everything will work out the way we “envisioned” it to be.

I really, REALLY hope so.

So dear God, one more time… blessed this road we travel.

Then suddenly out of the blue… Boom!

Startedla, all that nonsense about how her colleagues and people around her could be so nice in front of her, but behind, SHIT were thrown at her.

“Why people like that one?”, she asked.

I guess that’s just the way the world works.

No point asking so much.

Some things are just like that.

… and the best we can do is just to ACCEPT things as they are.

I guess it all boils back down to one thing: The only way to find true GENUINE happiness in life is for you to be able to have SELF-CONTROL. (I know it can be hard sometimes, but that’s where PRACTICE comes in) <– Yes, it takes time.

Externals (or basically how others may treat you, are BEYOND your control).

This is what I personally believe: If you keep living your life putting a fake front just to “fit in” and “please” people, being afraid that people might not accept you for whom you really are deep down, always “holding back”… to me, I consider that person as as good as dead.

Why?

Because you’re just not being “you”.

Can you imagine how repressed you’ll feel when you’re not living life being the “ultimate” you?

Some may be a little insecure of themselves, of who they are.

Some may say that it’s because of all the “life experiences” that they’ve went through that made them as “hard” or as stone-cold as they are.

But think about it, the core of being human is for us to “feel”, not be “cold”. That’s not what we as human beings are built for.

And the moment we lose that “feel”, we die.

And nope, this is not my own little theory, I actually went for an actual course in this, and I’ve met NUMEROUS people who were 10, 20, 30, 40 years older than me who told me the same exact thing: Never stop being “true” to yourself. Never EVER allow yourself to turn ”cold”. <– This, I NEVER forget.

Imagine yourself getting up from bed, putting on a fake mask, and going out to face the world each day.

How do you think it’ll feel?

I know of a few people who are exactly like that, and their lives are absolutely MISERABLE.

You’ll feel as if the whole world is out to “get you” each day, and you having to use your mask as a shield to deflect the crap that’s coming at you.

 Uuugh. I’m getting goosebumps just writing this.

But yeah, I know, easier said than done.

Seriously, I used be like that as well, always fearing how people might think of me, but as I grow older, I’ll be like… aah too badla then. What’s the point of thinking soo much??!

Like my mentor puts it best when he says if you come across complicated, fake mother fu^kers… “screw them”.

Your job then is to find people to be with genuine friends who will appreciate you for whom you really are. (It takes time and effort to find these people, yes, but trust me, it’s well worth the effort).

If you’re nice to them, and you think that you’re being manipulated in any way or form or just simply feel like you’re being taken for a ride and taken advantage off, walk away.

Smile, don’t say anything and just WALK AWAY. <–This can be one of the hardest things to do sometimes, I’ve had several such experiences of my own, it wasn’t easy, but it can be done again… with practice. The trick is to just “turn off”, cut the line, and NOT look back when you’ve made your decision (bad or good).

People say nice guys finish last.

Is it true?

I used to think so.

But not so now.

The question “Whats the point of doing good, being nice to people when at the end of the day, you’re the one who get’s fu^ked from behind??!!”

Answer: What goes around, comes around.

My principle has always been to not treat others the way I don’t want to be treated in the first place, some call it naïve, I don’t know, but living by this rule has made my life
soooooooo much more easier and happier til now hehe…

So I think I’ll still stick to this one for the meantime

A baseball in my hands is worth about $6. A baseball in Mark McGuire’s hands is worth $19 mil’lion.

A tennis racket is useless in my hands. A tennis racket in Venus Williams’ hands is a championship win’ning.

A rod in my hands will keep away a wild animal. A rod in Moses’ hands will part the mighty sea.

A sling shot in my hands is a kid’s toy. A sling shot in David’s hand is a mighty weapon.

Nails in my hands might produce a birdhouse. Nails in Jesus Christ’s hands will produce salvation for the entire world.

As you see now it depends whose hands it’s in. So an oppor’tunity is only an oppor’tunity depending on whose hands its in.

So now this message is in your hands. What will YOU do with it?

“It Depends on WHO’S Hands it’s in!!”

Moral of the story: Opportunities don’t come often, but when they do, GO for it…

Do You Need Technical Knowledge?

It’s very common for people to think that they need to be technically “savvy” to do this, but that could be further from the truth!

In fact, I’m technophobic myself. (For those who know me well, they’ll know how ‘useless’ I can be at these stuff sometimes hahhaa.. eh sorryla I know I not so brainy like you ppl k but at least I’m ‘trying’ k

Ok anyway back to serious-ness…

Well, the reality is, in order to be successful in this, one just has to understand how things ‘work’, as in how to drive traffic to your sites and how to convert those virtual visitors into paying customers in the best possible ‘friction-free’ process.

(It does not matter what business model you’re operating right now: PPC, Adsense, blogs, shopping carts, physical products, reseller, ebay, affiliate mktg, bla, bla, bla, the SAME principal applies)

Really.

Think carefully, it has it’s truths in it

Of course, there’s much more detail that goes into how to do that but simply put, you have to understand marketing; not just any form or marketing, but ONLINE MARKETING that works.

(Ok-lah, bluff you la.. actually it’s a little more complicated than that-lah hahaha… but if you don’t already know, under the sub-heading of online marketing is fu^king a lot of stuff k, so again, ‘technically’ I’m still telling the truth *tsk tsk*)

As for all the technicalities that comes with it, what we’ll usually do is to hire good people; tell them exactly what we want, how we want them to be done and they are the ones that gets the job done, simply because they’re the best at what they do.

We don’t see the point in spending hours of our time learning and doing something which may turn out to be a low quality, third-rated, lousy-ass job anyway.

Similarly, if you’re just starting out, you don’t have to do everything yourself either, just find someone who knows this stuff; fresh graduates, freelancers or anyone you know who’s web-savvy, pay them a small fee and that’s it!

Understand that as a business owner, your primary job is to MARKET and SELL your products & services to whoever who wants it in any possible way you can, which makes you, first and foremost, a marketer and NOT anything else. I’ve found that to be the fastest way to grow online.

[Side Note]: This is only meant for beginners. When one goes to the next level, it’s a D-I-F-F-E-R-E-N-T mindset for operations and directions. We’ll leave that bit for another day.

Common Mistakes Businesses Make:

One just has to be extra creative to be successful online.

I’ll give you a simple example. It seems that practically anyone you and I know are using Facebook to keep in touch with friends, family, kau lui, kau chai, etc but entrepreneurs can actually take this a step further.

They can use it to strengthen their relationships with their customers, drive tons more traffic and bring in added profits to their bottom line. We’ve tested this several times and the results from this one simple strategy alone was amazing!

What I see in most businesses (big or small) is they have a standard website which gives information about their products and services, the company’s history, the contact information, the basic things and that’s it, their web presence is no different from an online brochure.

*shakes head*

What they don’t realize is how much $$ they are laying on the table just by doing that because they are so many other creative ways to leverage and to monetize their web presence; be it to gather leads, gather vital customer information, to sell, cross-sell, up-sell (or whatever sell they call it these days) their products right there on the web itself because there IS a way to do it!

No, seriously, you just have a think a *little* harder, that’s all

The bottom line is, businesses aren’t leveraging on the potential of the technologies we have on the internet today to fuse them into their operations with customized CRM (customer relationship management) systems, blogs, social networking sites, social book-marking sites, etc. there’s a whole lot of upside potential there but unfortunately they don’t see it.

*shakes head again*

Oh oh… my favorite show’s coming on… lazy to write d-lah.. I’ll see ya around k?

Tip: Here’s a little nugget my mentor taught me:

“If you keep working on your weakness, you’ll be at most, average… if you keep working on your strengths, you will become great”

“Greatness” and striving for only the BEST life has to offer you and not just blindly follow what everyone else is doing deserves an entire post by itself…

By not going through the stages in life following the herd mentality, not doing and following the “stuff” other people are doing… it’s something not everyone can do, it requires a certain mental agility, persistence and s-t-r-e-n-g-t-h to get through and I will be having my own say on that in the near future here… but my show’s on now, so later…

Jay…

I find it odd how sometimes this road we’re taking… it’s never predictable.

The moment when everything seems alright, when you’ve did your part (at least) you thought you did your part, worked your ass off night and day, planned like one chi sin madd-ass scientist and when everything seems so smooth flowing, everything starts looking good, the moment you LEAST expect it, S-H-I-T happens.

OMG.

I don’t understand how the world works sometimes.

Why-lah??!?

Mother toot.

Sometimes I feel like vomiting blood.

Sometimes I get so pissed it’s like aaah.. just fu^k it.

I always thought that with genuine hard work, comes results.

Bollocks.

Why can’t we have it smooth for once.

One time only ma.

We’re not asking for the world k.

We work our ass off one k.

Eeeh, no point complainingla. Like anything’s gonna change only. Looks like it’s all back to the drawing board again.

Looks like have to find solution lo, what to do??

As for the question, “How and where to find solution??!!”

Chivas also can.. Jack Daniel also can.. suay suay Tiger also jadi-lah.

Hmm… talking about alcohol, I must say the dude who invented alcohol is one genius-lah.

But lets leave that for another day.

Aiyo, how to keep up with this lifestyle like that. As mua is approaching the big three-o in less than 2 months, this is definitely not the way.

Sooooo not the way.

Cher, say only easy. When one is stressed out crazy, anything goes-lah. Call it a short-term fix, a cheap thrill, whatever you will… it does help sometimes.. I don’t know about you-lah, but to me it does

Eh jom kita orang pergi Ming Tien dekat itu Taman Megah sana.. cheap beer ada, lagu
ada, lagu thai pun ada, semua ada.. apa mau tunggu lagi oi!!

But of course, most important of all, it’s near my house

Ok… ok.. so now you know why I’m always there-lah haha…

Wah.. so late d ar? Better go sleep first… ciaoz!