zny=thnking out of da’ box

once upon a time, there lived two boys, Abu & Ali. Abu was a high achiever in school and was deemed to do very well in life by his peers. Abu’s best friend Ali was the total opposite, who was of course not so smart and quite dense when it came to school home work. "You are hopeless la, your maths so poor - you will nvr make it in life", said teacher to Ali.

Both boys grew up to be businessmen, and however Ali was making much more money than Abu. In envy, Abu asked Ali what was his secret. Ali whispers,"It is amazing what you can make with 10% mark up from cost."  Abu laughed at Ali to say it is impossible to cover your cost, let alone to make a profit, with only 10% mark up.

"Stop lying la", shouts Abu in frustrating.

"I’m not. You take your product’s selling price.

Multiple it by 10x.

Sell at that price, and you will get 10% mark up la."

". . . ."

only surround yourself with people who would life you higher.

this quote is so flawed.

no?

"why should i hire you?", says the interviewer in the most serious tone you can imagine. konon la trying to intimidate you.

". . . because i’m drop dead gorgeous", says sexy chic.

CONFIRM STONE COCK… and it is a damn good ice breaker, i recon. Before the interview responds to it, sexy chic says,"it is proven that good looking ‘people’ increase productivity in the work place; so we’re looking at a very productive 2007 ahead!" in good humour.

note to self: research on this when you got reading time

21.3.2007

33.33%

PLAN PRODIGY May, 01 2006 My Moment of Truth

1. make effort to call relatives, friends on the phone.

The only people I call a lot to are my customers, which rivals the amt of calls i make to my gf. Next would be my friends. Then I rank the following: Mom, Bro, Twins, Dad and Vidcus, whom I whine my credit card problems to (Vidcus is my maternal cousin who works in the same company, creditcard dept).

2. be the top sales person in my division within 1 year. then strive to maintain that for 3 months in a row. then 6 months in a row. then take 1week break.

I have been top sales within 1 year, for month of October 2006. Still unable to maintain top position for 3-6 months.

2a ONE WEEK BREAK will involve the sun, beach, my sunglasses, liquor and good food xxx

Mmmm how I long for this.

3. by June 2006, make proposal to host motivation camps for schools for free.

In 2006, I found myself impossible to do things for free, which made made this goal ‘impossible’ to achieve. However I did further my efforts to motivate others ie Motivation Camp Malacca 2006, my colleagues in ofice, and hopefully my own team in time.

4. by December 2006, complete draft of book, complete with index page

The only book I drafted out in 2006 was How to present to lawyers/real estate agents. The book I really want to write about is on life, or people, or immortality.

5. host party 2006 - invite musicians and dancers

Totally messed up on this one, for two reasons: money & no one was doing music/dance for free. Didnt look hard enoughtoo.

6. discipline savings plan. will afford homeloan in 3 years.

Status: GOOD

7. allocate $ for reading books each month

Bought IcON, Napoleon, Joe Girard, Meaning to Life, Art of Seduction.

Reading To Kill a MockingBird, What they dont teach you in Harvard, People Skills

8. SPEND TIME w mom. allocate small $ for mom.

This is embarrassing. I actually have countable moments I spend with my mom. I did get her a cake when she was really sick (choked on a fish bone). Got her . . another cake for her birthday. How quaint can you get zy. Want to take up dancing lessons with her, but making that happen will be goal 2007 haha.

9. allocate small $ for family night out.

Didn’t happen.

10. listen=cousins, every forthnight at least.

We dota together. Often.

11. listen=brother.

He is pre occupied. Women, pffft.

12. drive a cheap car. wear less expensive.

Hmmm.

PLAN B-2 dancing to a different beat, when u’re 22…/27-Nov 2005

1. work as much as i can. defines work as turning time/skills into money

I totally rocked this goal. Which made me unhealthy ie fatigue, not eating regularly, sleeping behind the wheel. Goal 2007 would be rejunavate health.

2. live on minimal credit, pay my bills and insure self. do not apply for credit card.

My bills and insurance are all tied to my credit card. I have credit

3. spend enough to keep self motivated, yet be thrifty.

I spend most on food. And coca-cola.

4. do not spend on others, u are not a saint.

Spend/invest in people, you will be rewarded later.

6. be kind to friends. being kind is free.

Time. Being kind takes up your time. Time is not free.

7. smile. thats free too.

Hmmm.

8. be direct. i dont waste your time, you dont waste my time.

This didnt exactly work as planned in the working world. I learn that you can word things differently but mean the same thing and achieve what you want to achieve with little hassle. Goal 2007: mean what you mean, but word it correctly.

9. dance shamelessly. 10. sing out loud. 11. love unselfishly.

YEAH.

12. eating is bliss. and mandatory.

LOL, i need food now. Ciao y’all.

my body. . .

It is my 4th consecutive day that I am waking up at around 11am; except for Tuesday, which was a wreck ‘coz i remember some effort of prying myself off bed some time at 7am, again at 8am sometime at noon and then at lunch and finally at 4pm.

I heard this over the radio, this DJ’s motherly supersition is that. . . what you do on your first week of New Year - will be what you end up doing for the rest of the year.  Fuked up, I’d be fired b4 the end of this year, let alone "the rest of the year" — at the rate i am going.

. . . is fucked up

Why am i waking up so late?  I’ve diagonised myself with low blood pressure, with insane bad eating habits.

Symptons:

• Fatigue
• Drowsiness
• Nausea
• When you sit and get up real quick, you feel like fainting
• Lethargic all the time

I was at the doorstep of Dr. Hion in TBM before I chickened out and drove off home with a bottle of vits + zinc that the pharmists recommended me. I dont trust her, she was stuttering when i asked her "so these tablets will make me strong and running again after i eat them?"  And I dont trust doctors too.  Don’t like to be diagnozed with cancer or some stupid banana disease at 23, will totally ruin my life you know what i mean. When a doctor tells you, that you are sick, it is like certified you are sick (because , heck, they spend all their lives learning the human body - they have to be right, correct?).  But when you pandai-pandai go diagnose yourself, there is still room for error, even though its some serious shit sickness - so this gives you a false sense of hope, that you might be wrong with your diagnose, and that you are still healthy / not so sick la.  Doctors, not cool ler.

I’m looking forward to the whole dying experience. I dont know which I would end up with. It could be in some freak accident (since i drive so much nowadays), which i would just die in my tincan car painfully but quickly. Or it could be some disease which i will be forced to terlantak on my dying bed, with family and friends visitng me with ‘get well soon cards’ (are you fucking kidding me) and flowers.

i dont mind dying, but i will never see myself helpless and out of hope when the day comes. i mean, just because you know your dying, doesnt mean you can’t do the stuff you always wanted to do right.

unless it is losing your right hand/mouse hand. then i can’t dota properly no more. which is not cool, because that means i will have to play up my other hand and NO HOT KEYS (no other hand).

my body is fucked up.

First quarter of 2007 - baiki badan:

1. See a dentist
2. Repair left ankle
3. Get a haircut pls
4. Eat properly
5. Eat Vits + Zinc - Be at the peak of my health again
6. Skin
7. Shave more often - random facial hair is not cool

http://www.drivers.com/article/680/

Tactics to fight drowsiness

Now a new survey shows some of the tactics drivers resort to in an effort to fight drowsiness on the road. In descending order, the most popular tactics those surveyed said they have used when they have become sleepy while they were driving were:

• Stop driving or switching drivers (59.5 percent) - i commonly stop at petrol stations to take a quick 10-15min nap. my most weirded out experience was some weirdo looking at me sleep outside my window at shell, jln pahang/jln genting klang.
• Open the windows or turn on the air conditioning (59.0 percent) - doesnt work, colder=nicer to sleep
• Listen to the radio or CDs (57.7 percent) - gg, still can fall asleep wei
• Stop to eat or drink (46.3 percent) - lisa has this basket of nescafe 325ml cans in my old ford. caffeine + drink=good shit. unfortunately the can drinks are still in my old ford :X
• Drink caffeine (42.3 percent) - YEY

Other methods the respondents claimed to have used to stay awake at the wheel include talking or singing to themselves (31.7 percent), splashing water in their faces (18.4 percent) and slapping, hitting, or pinching themselves (a self-abusive 16.1 percent).

- singing works for me, for only 10 mins or so. i still fall asleep after.

- slapping/hitting/pinching myself (self abuse!) <- hahahaha im so tickled. i thought i were the only one doing this to keep awake. 16.1% of other people are into sm too eh.

in a nut shell:

1. always have enough rest - don’t work too hard, or party too hard if you know you have to be somewhere at sometime. your body is weak, accept that.
2. stopping at kiosks/mcdonalds to buy coca cola or your fav drink, does help. maybe take a fag, if that helps.
3. stop aside and sleep 10-15mins. my fav. sleep spot during college time would be the mobil station beside the perabot LDP warehouse along the ldp highway. today, i sleep anyway i can find a shade/feel safe.

dont sleep and drive.

in the words of this author who tries to explain life, religion and the universe. . ."some people are just borned evil"

that explains some of the assholes thriving in town. i mean, be a bit nicer to people around you cannot die right.

dont discriminate race or gender, can or not.

stop pre judging people based on their jobs ie security guard vs a professional. ps professionals arent saints, from experience.

be polite. please, thank you, smiles are all free.

there is no right or wrong, so stop glaring. i did it my way and you can either sing along with me like how frank sinatra does, or eat your fruit cake.

life is my playground and everyone around me, plays at it. some would disrupt others from having fun, a few would form cliques and play together and others would just play by themselve. end of the day, we just want to have a little fun before we leave the playground. dont stop others from having fun?

at 19 yrs old, i discovered getting perfect good grades were achievable. the formula is working hard at your books=good grades. cannot fail this formula.

Then I gravely understood that good grades will only make me a good employee, and even the best-est employees don’t make the most money because you are always taxable.

i feel the pinch. i work so much and my salary is reduced by income tax and EPF. eg $10,000, approx 20% is deducted for SOCSO, EPF and tax. that blows.

i dont want to be a good employee, I want to make the most money.

*most money defined as the optimum amount of money you can make, in exchange for your time + effort + skills. Taking into account of time to sleep + relax.

i meet passionate people everyday. They are angry at life, or at society or somewhat, as you gather from their tone. Some come from poor families. Some didnt pass some college papers. Some got their girlfriends pregnant after highschool. its amazing to hear their story to life. you know how i love reading biographies, this was ecstacy for me.

insurance sales agents, telecommunications sales people, tuition centre owners, manufacturers, suppliers. — i work as hard as them, or even harder - but why so, my time to money ratio is so much lower than theirs.

motherfuckers. recap here : same age, maybe gender different la, assume same effort (equally diligent) — am i working hard at the wrong things?

why wei.

i need a formula.