I am back from a trip to Tanah Merah since last night. We set off at around 10:00am in the morning yesterday and the trip took 5 hours to arrive in Tanah Merah. The road was winding and there are hardly any stops for food or the toilet. In fact the only 2 there were closed. Such bad facilities and services. Thank goodness the toilets were not locked. I think this is going to be my last time going to Kelantan by car. I would not mind if we take Firefly low cost aircraft there in future.
Archive for ◊ September, 2007 ◊
• Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
I couldn’t have been busier. These few months, almost everyday, I have to send in a quotation for sports courts. But as they say, you send in 100 letters, 2 letters get noticed with positive reply. That is about 2%. So from the number of quotations that I email, about 2% or so will turn out to be our clients. My company that I work for, Olympic Venture is prospering well. Every month, our workers will have something to do and able to feed their families even though they are paid daily. No work for the day, means no money coming in. Thank goodness, each month, there are 4-5 projects to be completed and that’s why I say the company is prospering.
Category: Business, Miscellaneous
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• Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Today is the day I am suppose to go down to Tanah Merah, Kelantan in a short while’s time. We were supposed to meet a potential client for a rubberized sports court there. He plans to build 1 court only but anyhow, we still have to drive down today. No matter the number of courts to be installed, my boss still makes it a point to see clients. As they say, ‘sedikit sedikit lama lama jadi bukit’. For my foreign readers, it means gathering money little by little, it will also be a lot in the end. So this is what happens with the present business. We are like Air Asia, cheap but plenty of customers.
Category: Business, Diana's Diary
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• Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Afternoon naps are good for you if you have the luxury of working from home. Now and then, I go for my afternoon naps for a while. It is not good to be in front of the computer for so long, so a nice break would suffice. Even as I blog, I talk walks in between to rest my eyes and fingers from the keyboard and monitor. And normally after lunch, when all the blood goes to the stomach, that is the time I take my naps in the day. My sleep is important, and I don’t sacrifice my sleep for the computer.
Category: Diana's Diary
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• Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
This morning, I am in a blogging mood. As there are many opps on PPP and other programs, I am taking the opportunity to snap them up. Is it not everyday that you have so many offers like today. In fact, it was becoming scarce to take opps from PPP some time back recently. Since there are at least 50,000 bloggers who have signed up, imaging the competition to take up the opps daily. Almost immediately they are snapped up. I guess blogging is in my blood since I also work from home office with a broadband internet connection.
Category: Blog, Blog to Profit, Diana's Diary
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• Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
There are New Football Helmets like Schutt ION 4D, SkyDex 2 and more. They protect the head during the game of constant contact and impact. Football is a popular game in U.S.A. and many people have tune in to watch this game on television. It requires motor skills, fast thinking and coordination. There is also constant contact with other players, hence you need the protective gears. Challenge sports drive the adrenaline to the body for fast action. Check out the links above to find out where you can buy Schutt products from your nearest retailer. Simply select the product that you like, and enter your zip code for the addresses for the nearest Schutt retailer in your area. They have a wide repertoire of sports products in the web site with pictures included. If your kids play sports, then it is about time you surf the site just in case you may need to purchase the items for him or her.
Category: Consumer, Products, Sponsored Post
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• Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Each time I come back from KL, I will stop in Tapah to buy about RM50 worth of fruits back home. I will buy a large pomelo, a packet of red apple custards, imported giant mangoes and sometimes some star fruits. My family loves to eat fruits which is our dessert after lunch and dinner. Fruits are rich in anti-oxidants that remove free radicals in our bodies and help prevent cancer. As they are eaten fresh, you can be sure that the vitamins are not destroyed by heat through cooking.
Category: Diana's Diary, Food
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• Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Mail boxes make a loud statement of every home. When you have mailboxes that are easy to identify, the postmen have easier jobs of posting to the right house the correct letters and parcels. At home, I get letters almost every day, some from advertisement companies, while the rest are my personal letters like statements for payment, etc. MailBox IX Change is a distributor of high quality residential mailboxes and commercial mailboxes. They have over 1500 mailboxes and curbside decor products. Please note they have an affiliate program as well. Participants are paid $20.00 for signing up. Refer to the link here for more details. Now you can upgrade your mailboxes to more elegant ones and replace the old ones by your gates. Receiving important letters like credit card statements on a monthly basis are important to make the payments regularly.
Category: Products, Sponsored Post
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• Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
I hope to come back from Kelantan to attend The Star’s Property Fair in PISA (Penang International Sports Arena) from Friday to Sunday this week. There will be about 200 booths set up just for this purpose. I hope to buy an apartment unit hopefully auction sale by the end of this year. We hope to either rent out the unit or just stay during the weekends for ourselves. There will be houses for sale from IJM Properties, Henry Butcher plus a whole list of other contractors.
Category: Diana's Diary
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• Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
This coming Thursday, I shall be in Tanah Merah in Kelantan to see a potential client in sports business project. He wants to build a rubberized sports court. I guess the journey by car will take around 5-6 hours from Penang. I just pray for journey mercies for this trip and that nothing will happen to the car while on our way there. Most likely, I will stay overnight there before coming back. Sometimes you need to meet up with people to secure and finalise a deal especially for sports courts. They want to see you and check if they can trust you with initial deposit payment upon confirmation.
Category: Business Trip, Diana's Diary
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• Monday, September 17th, 2007
I have emailed my client a quotation for this sports courts in Shah Alam. Yesterday, he emailed me that he will consider doing business with us provided with lower the price. We have already given him a rock bottom price and yet he asked for further reduction. It is difficult to do business with a Chinese. They keep pressing you for further reduction until you hardly ever make money or just enough to cover the expenses of your staffs and materials. The Malays are more generous, perhaps because they get easy projects from the government and have the money. The trend is changing because the Chinese are not able to get projects directly from the Government, while the Bumiputra contractors are being spoilt and very dependant on the Government for all projects.
Category: Diana's Diary, Miscellaneous
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• Monday, September 17th, 2007
For more than thirty six years Anglian Home Conservatories has been renowned amongst UK homeowners as the place to go for high quality Home improvements. Your home is your sanctuary where you can take refuge from all the work stress, travelling and all that. Hence, you need to furnish it to make it a place for rest and sleep where you can rejuvenate. Your home is the place where you spend the most time in besides the office where you work. If you go to the links above, you will see beautiful conservatories with various designs like angled roof, ornate cresting and finials Victorian, elegant, clean lines Regency or timeless, sharp lines Edwardian. If I have more cash, I will certainly spend and invest on improving my home to make it the best sanctuary ever.
Category: Diana's Diary, Homes, Sponsored Post
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• Sunday, September 16th, 2007
For the first time, I stayed in Sunway Hotel near Macalister Road and KOMTAR. It cost RM190 per night without breakfast. The furnishings were modern and upgraded. However, upon walking near the lift on the 12th floor, there was strong smell of cigarette without any sign of smoke seen nearby. I thought people were not allowed to smoke in an air-con building. But not so in Malaysia. They smoke like a chimney, air-con or not in shopping malls, hotels and in restaurants.
Just outside Sunway Hotel were a lot of eating stalled and food ‘kopi tiams’ or food cafes for my overseas readers. I ordered fried fish cutlets with fried mee suah and 10 sticks of chicken satay. This is a food paradise for many locals. You can seen the place buzzing with diners and many hawker stalls selling various local food. The Chinese are a eating lot. Wherever you see hawker stalls, there you will find plenty of Chinese eating away. And since they are hardworking and richer, why not?
Category: Diana's Diary, Hotels, Vacation
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• Friday, September 14th, 2007
Yesterday, my boss told me we may have to go to Ipoh today to meet up with a potential client for sports courts. It is a public club which contacted us through our web site. The secretary copied and pasted pictures from our web site for her boss to look through. That’s the benefit of having an online presence that does the sales marketing for us. I just updated our web site with more pictures of completed projects yesterday. Every month, we will definitely have some sports projects to install and complete to keep our workers busy all year round.
Category: Business, Business Trip, Diana's Diary
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