1st Post Since Almost A Year...

Been thinking of reviving this blog, think now is the best time to do so...

REOPENING THE BLOG!! NEED TO RANT ABOUT STUFF!!

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Hi all, I have not been posting regularly at this point of time due mainly to my busy schedule at work and some other factors....

Yep, still working at my new blog andy-ang.com
Which will be up before the July ends!!

Cheers!

IS MLM = NETWORK MARKETING??

A friend told me that he is doing network marketing, then I say," Oh, MLM la!!" Seems like a taboo word to my friend, he kept saying the MLM is DIFFERENT from network marketing. Ok.... I decided to do some research.

First, I went to the DSAS(Direct Selling Association of Singapore) to check out more about Multi-Level Marketing, Ponzi Pyramid so on and so forth. There is no mention of the term "network marketing" in the entire website. So is it true that MLM don't = NETWORK MARKETING??

I doubt so. Any mature-thinking adult who has came across MLM or network marketing, or even joined the MLM company, will somehow know that Amway is the oldest MLM (or network marketing) company in the world. DSAS was formed specifically to represent the interest of legitimate direct selling companies operating in Singapore, in this case, MLM companies...

So is Amway a member of DSAS?? Definitely!! So who dares say the Amway is NOT a network marketing company?



If you can click on it and enlarge it, you will be able to see network marketing on the webpage.

So, its really very confusing.... Is the oldest MLM/network marketing company also confused, and they joined DSAS as a member and branding itself of doing 'illegal' MLM? Or has it gone coco?

Hmm... probably the reason is that MLM AND NETWORK MARKETING IS DARN THE SAME!!!

Of course, if I were to type in the term "network marketing", I will definitely get searches that say MLM as well. Do it yourself.

So at the end of the day, why will some sane people say that MLM is illegal in Singapore but Network Marketing is not??

The obvious reason will most probably be that they have no guts to let people know that they are in fact doing MLM, so 'honey-coated' the word "Network Marketing". After all, it is definitely a nicer word to say.

That may be the same as an insurance agent and a financial adviser, is it the same? Hmm... well I will suppose that the jobscope is largely similar. However, that is a "Financial Advisers Act". Why DSAS don't say "Network Marketing" in its website?

So in this case, is MLM a Singapore word, and "network marketing" an ang moh word? You decide for yourself....

Well, a good reason why someone will say that he is doing network marketing but not MLM would probably be that MLM is the nature and structure of the compensation plan.....


"So is it reasonable to say that those people who say that they are doing "network marketing" not MLM, are simply turtles, and are simple not proud of the career that they are having, or they just made a genuine mistake? Its not up to me to comment about it."

Hasn't been posting original posts, due to many factors... Seriously this is a very 'stressless' and 'undemanding' period for me.... OopS, pardon me, I wrote everything in opposite. Oh DuH, what the heck.

Do I look shag? Yeah Definitely!!! Not enough sleep for da past 2 weeks!!!! ARg!!!!!

Haha, think its been some time since I posted my photo on it.... Comparing with it, I have really lost a lot of weight. Blame it on my poor management of stress!!

Yep, thats about it, will definitely post something longer and more fruitful on SAT, I mUsT!! If I didn't, whoever reads this post, just leave their name and contact number, I will transfer them $5 each!!! THATS PUTTING MYSELF ON THE LINE!!

Went to see Pirates of the Caribbean 3, well I must say that the 1st and 2nd one is better. This one's a bit too draggy, but Johnny Depp still his usual funny self, though could be better.


Here's the trailer for it :)

Actually there's another experience I had about an old man I met during supper... but think I'll share it tommorow or later in the night.

Went to Rock Auditorium at Suntec City for the 1st time in my life and I must say that its a memorable event, and the place is darn huge.. Probably can hold more than 1000 people!!

Almost all local major securities firm are involved in this event, Kim Eng, POEMS, OCBC Securities, and basically hosted by this Dutch Bank from Swiss?? RaboBank, which is the 3rd most secured bank in the world. I never heard of this bank in my life before, I was even shocked to hear that their HQ is based here!!

After that, the lunch is excellent!! Wide spread of food, especially theres sushi, and people serving laksa!!

After having a sumptous lunch, I went to Sim Lim Square to collect some hardware. Was thirsty hence I went over to get a drink. I realised that Anything is for sale!! Wow, I bought the drink for $1.20, was pretty skeptical on what the drink is, so I sip a bit through the scraw, and its APPLE JUICE!!!

AND IT WAS THE WORST DRINK EVER!!

And I won't buy another Anything again.....
Seriously, I know that people will disagree with me, but I haven't drink CARBONATED apple juice for very long....

It made me think about whether this drink will be a hot sale or not. In my opinion, I think it is. It is not because that this is the nicest drink or what, BUT because most Singaporeans don't know what they want, so Anything lor.... Right??

How many people do you think will know what they want in their entire life? If you have, then how many would have a strategy to reach what they want?? Do they have a detailed plan to know how close are they to their objectives?

I don't know, but I can find many more classic examples around myself, who doesn't have goals at all.

Its just like drinking Anything, we have a choice to choose what drinks we want, however, many time we just think anything will do, because it won't be anything bad right?

Yeah, I agree. Who knows if anything is just another sales method for people to drink more syrup thats not really beneficial to your body? Who know if its just another strategy to clear more those drinks that nobody wants? I mean its just anything right? So if I wanna clear my stocks, I just packaged it into anything, and everybody will take it.

This may seem a bit complicated. The point I want to drive in is that:

"If you don't have a plan for yourself, a vision for your future, you will definitely fall into someone else's plan, and you can be sure that they will not leave anything good for you."

Finally got the chance to have a meal at Suntec's newly-made Food Republic, and I must say its a memorable experience.

I ordered a plate of Sgt Chicken Rice, the chicken rice itself costs me $4.50, the cashier asks me if I wanted to add an egg, lucky I didn't add.... One 'lu' egg will cost $1 more!!

Then, I had great diffculty finding a seat as I saw the infamous tissue packet chopping technique again!! Does this happen to every darn foodcourt in town!! Very crowded!!

Ambience-wise, I would say its really nice, as the decor is somewhat like in Harry Potter the Hogwarts school-type. The walls are 'full of books' and the tables are lit with ancient looking lamps, which really sends us back to the medival ages, where we eat.

Food-wise, seriously.... To be honest, BELOW-AVERAGE. The chicken rice tastes like any other normal chicken rice out in the streets. And there's a guy having prawn noodles complaining that the soup base don't even have prawn flavour, way below standard for a $5 prawn noodles!!

Price-wise, I would really say that the food there is over-priced!! Unless someone shows me good proof that its peg with the current inflation, if not, I would rather have my meals somewhere else.

Today is quite a tiring day, I believe its the long term of not exercising.... Really darn tired man..
However, before jam session, I happen to study at a KFC at Fuchun Community Club (I don't really know where is it, should be somewhere in Woodlands).

I happen to see this:

This is a "Special" KFC, that has crews that are deaf. I must say that intially I was a bit uncomfortable at the ordering procedure. There are actually 4 simple steps to follow at ordering.
1. Point the food of choice at the menu
2. Choose my choice drink and other side dishes
3. ..... I forgot...
4. Make Payment

After studying there for an hour, I realized that they are really one of THE MOST COURTEOUS staff around, if I would say, around Singapore.

It is really a great feeling to see that KFC actually took care of deaf people, by giving them a job, and setting all the different systems from the cooking to ordering exclusively to ease there job. Its really something that I have not seen in Singapore at all!!

I would say that ordering my food to deaf staff seems a bit diffcult at first, as the main communication (Verbal) is lacking. However, I realized that their service is much better than any normal KFC staff out there, as they take the effort to 'connect' to the customers, and really a simple smile on their faces really makes our day. Compare this to staffs who takes your order, follows the script to take orders yet putting on a lousy face.

For deaf people, a lot counts on facial expressions and one can tell if they are sincere in taking your orders.

For me, I really got an eye-opener, and feel that there should be more outlets like this to help deaf people find their dream jobs.

NEO VS ROBOCOP!!


The Creator of this clip is super duper powerful at flim editing and animation manz!!! VERY SHIOK CLIP!!!

Hi all, pardon me if I posted something weird or wrong, as I have justed came back from a birthday party for Marq and Darren at Plasma. And boy did I have a wild time!! And I broke 2 taboos......
1. Drank Damn Lotsa Liquor
2. Smoke a puff

Though I have seen this before, but I never actually have the chance to drink from it, I must say its really difficult to finish even with 10+ ppl, not to include the bottle of VSOP and Mattell before we started on this.....

We started at 8pm and ends at 2am... Talk about heavy drinking manz.... and I realised that I'm actually good at playing dices :)

I was browsing through my friends' blogs and was quite astounded by a post which Nigel wrote at this blog. A brief introduction about him, knew him in my sem 1 at econs class, was a groupmate, I saw him as a person with ambition.

So what happened was that he was blogging about his thoughts and opinions about financial planning (he's a hot-from-the-oven Prudential Adviser), and I find his views are very true to the society, especially in Singapore.

A very novel he made was: What you see a vampire and a financial adviser, which one will you run away from? Vampire or adviser? Of course, financial adviser la, because they will suck off all your $$!! Really had a good laugh out of it. But how true is it?

Well I can firmly say that ITS TRUE!!!............ from the mindset of the public. People (including me) always think that an agent/adviser always aims to push us any product that reaps the highest and longest commission, 3C us (convince, confuse, con), then force us to sign, then don't care about us and go find another victim to scam!! Pardon me for being too frank about it. If not, why are about 80% of Singaporeans are UNDER-INSURED!!

These are some of the following reasons:
1. No money/Don't have enough $$
2. Assume/thought I am well-insured
3. Parents got buy insurance for me, so no need lor
4. Wait la, got time then think about it

I believe at least some of these reasons, my readers you will thought of it before in one way or another. And I know insurance or insuring for death is something not many of us would like to think of....

Read Nigel's Blog to know more about it.

Hi, long time no blog liao... About 2 weeks?? Hehe

I gotta blog this time, due to a series of er.... fortunate events happening one after another today??

Do I look like an uncle??......

I was studying at kallang mac til about 3am... Then an old uncle (I will call him a pek) and this is what happens:
1. The a pek called me 'uncle'!!
2. Ask me if I got car anot ( I said no for security reasons, and I was correct)
3. He said his ear very painful and can't hear anything clearly, and ask for $10 to take cab to SGH
4. I said that I student, got limited resource. Then he walked away...

Am I a bastard to do that?? I don't know.... But I observed some stuff...

1st: In the early morning, cab fare costs a bomb, at least 50% more, $10 enough to go SGH, according to my experience, the nearest is TTSH..... what the hell...
2nd: a pek went out for a smoke... No $$ take cab, got $$ buy cigarette!!

Next, on my way home.... I got stopped by police... For the 1st time of my life, what ever happens next, is food for thought...

ONE Last Paper Left To Clear!! 3 May's The Date

Finished all my papers except Stats, and its a module that I have not started to revise yet, fret not, got 4 - 5 days to revise..... hehe, apparantly I screwed up my Finance paper so badly that my goal for this sem won't be attainable anymore, haiz....

Right now, I will lower my aim to have a CAP score of more than 3.0/5.0, I will be satisfied.

Just had supper with a friend, and it really amazes me to know that there is a free meal in the world!! How? Simply don't pay for it!!

I just had supper at a kopitiam along Serangoon Road, and the place was packed with people, so much so, that the workers can't really handle it!! And after our meal, we just walked off just like that!! No workers actually chased after us!!!

Then again, our conscience got the better of us, and we walked back to pay, but saying that I almost forgot to pay. Haha!!

1sT Paper Completed! 4 More to Go!!

Just finished my Finance Paper a few hours back. Felt quite indifferent before, during and after the exam, din even bother to find out the answers for the paper. Probably because of my thumping headache thats bugging me since the start of the week. But I can't say that it affected my performance, that will be unfair....

Next up: Operations Management. Quite optimstic about tomorrow, probably due to the fact that after Friday, 1 last paper to go..... Stats.... Hehe

NEW WEBSITE IN PROGRESS!!

Hi people, its been some time since I have posted something... Cos I'm in a midst of improving the blog for easy reading. So I have decided to engage my own domain name, and web hosting!!
I have scouted a few websites as a template and I'm really excited about it!!

Any ideas for domain names?

Most probably the website will be up sometime early May 07, in da meantime I will still be posting here :)

Cheers

Hi people!

Gotta apologize for not posting frequently, especially its on a weekend. Have to work over the weekend, help my friend to cover his shift.... Most probably I won't start posting till Wednesday night, when all my projects and presentations are completed.

Pls be patient!!!