I love and cherish the frienship of my friend who happens to be my boss as well for the last 7 plus years. Our friendship is good for the sports business as we meet up every day to discuss about the business and how to get more clients. I also print out customer enquiries from the emails and pass them to him to be notified and he will fax to me the replies before I type into the email reply to the customer. He can check his email via his iPad 2 but I will be the one to reply to them on his behalf. His old lap top is spoilt since some time back, so I am his only source for information revolving the company business.

After discussing for 20 minutes, the client brought us to see his boss, which is a government body and our product was approved. Immediately he wrote a check to be cleared on the 25th September and my colleague managed to confirm another sports project. We returned the rented car, got back $50 and bought a ferry ticket for 6:00 pm ferry which could possibly be the last for the day. We had dinner at KFC and then promptly boarded the ferry which took 1.5 hours to read Kuala Kedah plus another 1.5 hours on the road by car to drive back to my house.

Now I am doing ok with my job. I also had to start from a humble beginning working in a carpet shop after calling it quits when working in Singapore as an executive for 6 long years. My years in Singapore were met with struggles and challenges one after another. Though I have had an easy job working as a sales assistant in the carpet shop, I was not happy with my lady boss or supervisor. She takes credit for the work I did and tries to make me look bad by writing an offence list of petty things to cover up her lateness of up to 1+ hours coming to work every day. Only another Indian colleague knows her faults but he keeps quiet about it in order to keep his job.

So while she is struggling now to make a living with her 10 blogs, I am doing pretty well now living with occasional frivolity and a little luxury now and then. Though the small carpet shop has closed down some time back, I will remember and learn the tricks of the marketing trade there. They used to offer terrazzo tile cleaning austin or even turkish rug cleaning austin and turko persian rug cleaning austin. You can check out the links given and surf the site to find out more.

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On a side note, while I was driving back from Kuala Lumpur for business, there was this huge 4-wheel drive vehicle that over took me on the right hand side and suddenly skidded to the left side of the road blocking my path during a heavy downpour. Then as fast as the vehicle hit the baricade on the left side, it was swung to the right side and hit the divider and spun for a while before coming to a an abrupt halt. It was a near accident and I thank God for my divine protection from a potential nasty accident. Most road accidents happen when there is a heavy rain and inexperienced drivers tend to speed.

This is even better than going to the movies where you have to queue up to buy your tickets, and wait for the show to start after parking your car somewhere. But with Directv, all you need is a tv screen and a cosy place to start enjoying the shows and various channels. What better place than right in the comforts of your own home, no matter how untidy and cluttered it is.

I might also attend church service for Christmas eve if I am up for it – otherwise I will just stay at home to watch tv. And it has been like this for the last 10 years since I came back from Singapore in 2000. I still miss the Orchard Road decorations, but home life is better – no more stress of staying alone with a wierd neighbour who cannot leave you alone or being out of a job several times. Those are history now and I am going to turn on the tv soon.

This photo was shot just behind the registration counter in Grand Continental Hotel which incidentally was located by the beautiful beach.

Here is the lobby with lifts leading to the hotel rooms. Further in the photo is the restaurant serving buffet and ala carte food.

This is my hotel room with twin single beds.

A rather beautiful view from my hotel room of the blue seas and some atap roof houses of the Malay ‘kampung’ (village)

My simple buffet breakfast of sausages, curry chicken, French toast, etc.

A bill board next to the lifts.

I prefer to travel using the North-South Highway that is smooth and easy flow of traffic. Going to the East Coast gives me jitters whether the car will break down halfway in the God forsaken place. There is very little traffic and asking for help from PlusLine is almost impossible. So, I better pray for a smooth, unhindered drive down to Kuala Terengganu.

And now here I am blogging. That’s because I need to find an excuse to use my ‘new’ computer. I have yet to install all the software that I normally use. Maybe after coming back from Melaka, I will find the time to load the necessary programs to continue working from home again. In the meantime, I shall enjoy working from home while the opportunity is there.