My War

Went for an interview earlier this morning. I'm really desperate now. I don't know why but sometimes I think I'm a bit TOO OPTIMISTIC or TOO IMPATIENT. Months ago when I was out of work, I'm very very optimistic. That I'm going to go through this by doing my own stuff. But looks like it that I won't be able to make it that soon (well... that's the "TOO OPTIMISTIC" part). Furthermore, I can't afford to wait for Little Trees boss to offer me the job.

I've reading quite a number of books on Business and Entrepreneurship. And as Michael E. Gerber would say it, it will definitely sparked off the Entrepreneur spirit in you. It's normal. Suddenly you felt that you are gonna start off SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING. You are out to CONQUER THE WORLD. You feel that your BALLS are BIGGER. You just wanna escape your boss. Unfortunately, even you wanted to start off something or anything, most of the time, it's the Technician who's doing all the job. The Technician is the part of your personality who likes to do the technical work in a business. 'He' just like to work, not plan or manage. So, when you had this aspect of your personality to work on a business... YOU ARE DOOMED. In this case... I'M DOOMED. Sometimes in life, you can't just jump into something without testing the waters or you already bring in 'enough gadgets' to get you through it. I've learnt my lesson.

Now, I need to survive before I can start another 'WAR'. Gotta get a job first (yes Chyn, you won this time), then when you enough preparation, the BATTLEFIELD awaits. I won't GIVE UP that easily.

Congratulations Manchester United FC!!

Woohoo... We won the 10th English Premier League (EPL) title. It's worth the celebration. First, it proved to Chelsea FC that all that TRASH talk is not working. Mr Ballack and Mr Carvalho, you can now shut the fuck up.

Now for the Champions League Title. Here we go Moscow!!! We are gonna mow down the Blues.

Iron Man Pt 3 + Bitchy Bitch + Flea Market

I committed a sin again. I offer to help Chyn to get 2 Iron Man figurines. Of course i helped him to get it. But as i took the figurines from Uncle Steven, I can't help myself to 'buy' the Iron Man myself. The Iron Monger. Now I have 3 Iron Mans + 1 Iron Monger. I told Chyn I only got the Iron Man Mark 1. Arghhhhhh!!!! I hate myself. Sorry bud.... Money is more important at this moment.

The Flea Market business is HYPER BAD today. There were no crowds at all. It's so quiet. Up till 1130am, I've only managed to sell ONE (yes i said ONE) Little Trees product. I already knew that today is going to be a disaster (in a sense). I tried to keep my optimism high and told myself it's ok. Sometimes, you can get dry spell in doing business. It's not your fault, it's just there's not a lot of people coming. I found it hard to do business like that. Although 'technically' I don't need to give them rental, but it's still hard. And sometimes I don't feel comfortable at all.

At the end of the day, I only managed to sell 4 Little Trees products, 1 U2 by U2 (autobiography) to Auntie Ching for a very low price. "Special Rates" price. And a last minute Iron Man poster was sold for 10bucks. Initially, I wanted to sell for 12bucks. Arghh.... Not really an encouraging day today..

Never mind, there's still next weekend to go. Gotta be optimistic!!! I can do it!!! WooHoooo....

THE TALE OF THE MODEL BITCH
So there is this young lady who lives across my condo unit. I never took a lot at her before, but i had heard stories from my ex-boss and my bro who happened to seen her once. And he told me that the lady was really a cocky one. Sometimes, you can tell someone's character from just the appearance or facial feature. And this young lady was one of them. The COCKY one. I usually don't give a damn about these people.

But then, today, I was fated to meet her in a bad situation. I came back from the flea market in Amcorp Mall, so i parked at my parking lot. So, the Toyota Vios who was driven by this model parked very near to my place. Her car was parked almost parallel to the middle line. So I have to park very near to my right, which is still ok with me. Nothing's blocking my way.

I took all my stuff out, i heard the elevator reaches ground floor. Someone was in rush, walked so fast and was pulling the luggage bag. I saw her at the corner of my eyes, this young lady dressed in black. She was approaching the Vios parked next to mine. She can't get through the small space to her car boot. Then she made the 'tsk' sound (she was showing her dissatisfaction to me). I kept quiet, still doing my own stuff. And then after she finished putting her stuff to the boot, she needs to squeeze between the small space of my car and hers. Yet again, I heard the 'tsk' sound. But.. I still don't give a HOOT. Serves you right la... Who asked you to park your car like a bloody amateur? And if you are 'beautiful' you think everyone must always pleases you, and must let things go your way? Get Real!!! I'm not your typical guy who will be a shoe-licker when i see a 'beautiful girl'. Beautiful girls who acts like an asshole doesn't deserved to be treated like a Queen. Get the hell out of my FACE!!

*By the way, today there's one young lady who came to my stall and took a look at the U2 book. When our eyes met, i could feel sparks. I was looking straight to her eyes for like 3 seconds straight without blinking. Haha!!!!! Could feel something rushes to my head... Ooooo..

Iron Man (Pt 2)

I already told myself that I won't be buying action figures again. But that very day, I was at the right place and at the right time. I was walking around Jusco MidValley, with my aunt and two other cousin. Bought a few greeting cards, one for mom, the other two for Marni and Wai Kuan. We are bored walking on the same floor, so me and the other cousin (which i nicknamed Dongkey and ChiCow) went downstairs to look for her. As i was going down the escalator, i saw Iron Man figurines. Then I saw people opening boxes containing Iron Man figurines. And I was like, HOLY SHIT. New stocks and I was there at the right moment. Actually I wanted to help uncle Steven to buy it. But them it's hard to resist temptation, if you are a fan-boy. I bought 3 for myself. Iron Man Mark I, Mark II and Mark III. Damn I hated myself. I should be so fucking broke, but still I bought it. Arghhhh.. I hate myself

Tomorrow is business day again. Another day in Amcorp Mall. Ohh.. yeah. Money making time.

Just now I got some pretty good news from the LT's boss. He said that 2 artworks have been 'approved'. Sometimes in design, you gotta give what the client wanted. I know it sounded that you are not professional at all. Because, as a professional, you ought to give the client the best design. But there are a bunch of them that were not like that. Although they wanted you to help them to solve their problems, but they had this pre-made decisions all the time. Even the visual is good, but they already made up their decisions way before you started on the visual.

The MORAL: Just follow what the client wants. It give definitely ease you a lot of troubles and headaches. Don't be a smart-alec who wanted to show off your skills of visual complexity. Most of the time, they don't give a damn about it.

Well gotta rest early today. Tomorrow will be a very long day ahead.

Iron Man

Went out to watch Iron Man with my bro yesterday. At last.. I've watched it. Everyone already seen. I consider myself 'slow'. The suit/armour was just Bloody incredible. And Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) kick ass.

If I got money, sure will go for another trip to watch it again. Haha..

Mental Patient

The FIRST encounter.
My first encounter of a mental health patient was long ago. Maybe less than 5 years-old. I didn't know nothing about it. The patient was usually very quiet, didn't talk much. Expressionless... The patient was ok before that. Working as a school teacher. Then suddenly it struck like a lightning bolt. One day, it just happened. After a few years of curing, and hell a lot of money spent. The problem was finally cured.

The SECOND memorable encounter.
I think i was in Standard 3 or Standard 2. We were studying in the class. We heard some commotion outside of the class. But i didn't pay attention to it. I was still listening to the teacher. And then... HE came in to my class. He was running at the front of the class. Most of them, my classmates were running helter skelter. Strange enough, I was still sitting on at my place. I was still pretty calm. Not feeling a thing.. and just waited for the guy to go out after he finished his business.

What I WANTED to SAY.
My friend had an encounter a few weeks ago. And he and the colleague only realise that the person (she) was a patient when they were told by someone who used to work with the girl.
The girl was giving a lot of trouble to the company and my friend of course... And everybody was really scared of her. And they try to minimize contacts with her, if possible. I know, when someone is really to hard to handle, we will try to avoid them as much as possible. Even i'll do the same.

But from what I heard from my friend, everyone was pretty scared of her. And some, I think till the point of feeling disgust with her behaviour. Even I wasn't experiencing it first hand, I could tell that this girl was pretty hard to handle. Always full of exaggerated behaviour.

After my friend told me that the girl was a mental patient, i could really felt sorry for her. I do seriously think that sometimes she can't even know what's wrong and what's right in her behaviour. Now everyone is talking bout the girl (after the truth came out). If i were my friend, i would really like to forget the whole incident. She really gives him a scare. But my friend here was not read to forgive and forgot. I felt pity for the girl. Her journey in life is still very long. And she needs to make a living too. But the condition could become a hindrance for her future employment. I really could wish the family could really cure her.

To the people who blames them (the mental health patient), i think the patient did not choose to end up this way. Even though they might hurt you mentally or psychically, I'm sure it's not intentional.

A stupid mistake of mine

I was supposed to call Auntie Ching or Uncle Steven yesterday to ask them to help to reserve a place for me for the Flea Market in Amcorp Mall. Then it was a fucking stupid mistake. I woke up damn fucking late today. Around 11.37am, so when i called aunt Jessie, and she tried to call them. And unfortunately, i got bad news. All the places are fully booked. And I was like "OMFG!!!" What am I going to do?

And guess what, i got some good news. Uncle Steven is willing to share his space with me. And i was so FUCKING RELIEVED. Phheeewww!!

Hmmm....

Plan A to the rescue:
Get a fucking job and work. Sunday do Flea Market at Amcorp Mall. When Streamyx gets going. Apply for a Maybank account and start the eBay and mudah.com.my online selling.

Plan B: Worried till you die. End of Story.

Thank God that there are still people who cares.

A day in the life (Good and Bad or even worse)

Everything went well for the flea market at Amcorp Mall. Woke up early, bring all the stuff there and set-up everything within half an hour. Was pretty excited about it. It's my first day of business. The first customer, unfortunately was the worst one throughout the day. Still wanted to haggle for a few dirt cheap novels (not mine actually, my aunt just wanted to put her stuff there to sell). And reason for her to haggle... The book was not popular. At first she wanted to buy 8 books.. which cost about 40bucks. But then, she wanted to buy it all for 2oplus. It's hard for me to reduce the price since it was not my stuff. She went off... a few minutes later.. She was back, and took two of the books. Still she haggled for the price. Hmpphh.... at last i sold those two for 7bucks. Well, that was my '1st difficult customer'

The second one, was a cool Indian guy. And his choice of products, U2 by U2 Hard Cover. To be frank, the cost for that book was only 18bucks. And i sold it for 70bucks. Pretty good start. Damn happy cause the customer didn't cost me any trouble. But 1 thing bad is.. i forgot to take off the price tag. Argghhh......

The day went off pretty ok i guess, manage to get sales about RM170 for Little Trees products alone. I think i need to get it online pretty soon.

I packed all my stuff pretty early. Coz i wanted to go to the warehouse sales to get more U2 by U2 books. And i got it for about 10bucks each. How fucking cool was that. Now, i need to sell it or at least put it all online.

The bad part..... and trust me. It's really make my day go downward spiral.
Iced IM me. He told me that boss asked me to pay the 1K to him. At first i thought it was still ok, since i did a few pages of layouts for him. At least i can get some extra cash. And after i finished with that few pages of design about a week ago, WaiKit (the writer for NTUC) said to him that he's engaging another graphic designer to finish the remaining of the stuff. I said ok. IT was fine with me. But they (both WKit and boss never FUCKING ever mentioned to me that all the layouts had been rejected. At least they can tell me to redo or tell it to my face.

Totally unprepared for those BULLSHITS. I can accept that the layouts had been rejected. But PLEASE have the courtesy to tell me. Now i was left with nothing and i wasted my time finishing the that few pages coz they needed it urgently. Even though i sacrificed my time for them... they did not even have the guts to tell me or at least give me a chance to redo. Damn it..

Now, i burdened with the new streamyx, jobless, the Little Tree projects which is just started, and the payment for the iMac (another 1K to pay). Really feels shitty right now. Gotta save myself now. Or else.....

MUST AT LEAST GET A JOB NOW. At this moment, i can't wait. Don't worry.. My day will be here SOON.

Selling my CD's and DVD's

I'm selling off many of my own CD's and Dvd's tomorrow at the fleamarket. Although i'm really reluctant to sell it, but there's no point of keeping so many at home. If you don't use it, SELL IT. That's my motto now. But i would still be keeping some of the stuff which I like so much.

Can't wait for tomorrow's Flea Market. My first day of business. Really don't know what to expect. Hope things will go smooth.

Need to buy a few stuff like plastic bags and etc. Really dun want to use plastic bags. It's not really good for the environment. Damn

Hmm.. Something Fishy is Going On

Just now, a friend (Friend X) was chatting with me via IM. So this friend asked whether I'm using post paid call plan (with my current telco). So i said I'm not currently using it since my call only limited to certain people. So my monthly budget of 60 still fine with me. So my sixth sense tells me that something is not 'right'...

So to cut the story short, Friend X wanted me apply for a post paid call plan under my Telco so that Friend X can 'sub' a line from my main line. Come on la. Get Real. I will only do this to my family members only. Even friends are difficult. I heard of many cases that many people who didn't pay up their bills. I was told that Friend X name was being used up with a different person. That's why Friend X can't apply for a post-paid with my current telco.

Sorry.. not my problem. I had enough of bullshits happening to me right now. I don't want more problem.