12th Jan 2010

First post of the year, but not on the first day of the year. hahaha lets go through things one at the time, shall we?

Career:
Insurance wise - i'll need to reconsider.

Who	Kok Wah	Seagull	IFA1	IFA2
Indebt	$4k+CHI/M5/M9	$10	0	0
Offered Benefit	$0	$0	$0	$2k per month

Basically, Kokwah cant make me payback anything i own him since he had told Raymond before that such are so-called recuitment risks. shrug. some thing that i'm not happy over but i just dont feel like talking about it.

Own Seagull $10 from the money he placed with me for gachapons, but since Guns 13 is already out, he'll be the one owning me 2 bucks. >p

IFA1 bascially just hope to enlist an experinced agent at no cost. free wowo to hunt for you.

IFA2 offered me another "EP" as well as more training.

I think before i go into insurance again, i wish to get my financial back into shape which is why i'm looking for work and doing up my resume.

Career/Hobby:
After compilating all the cost and profit, i have made a profit of 300. HU HU HU~! considering that the first 6 month is more on monitoring buying patterns, i think in a sense, more profit will be seen, provided that they dont decide to increase the rental. At the same time, Mond has placed some Lego for me to sell in my box. Hopefully this will draw Lego fan to my box so that i can use the box to offload my Lego extras. why? Lego decided to release their own form of tikam.



Hobbies:
Collecting gachapons still. downloaded a whole new bunch of documentaries. recently is more involved in Lego-collecting and building. alot of new Lego friends with many things to learn from. they study history to see how medival knight/castles are created and try to recreate them.

Love:
Still with Irin. >p 5 years and still counting.

Present:
Doing spring cleaning and consolidating my toys. hopefully will be able to work out a format to list them all on ebay smoothly.






After doing some rearranging with farmville, i decided to do the same with my room. Took out the un-usable(just need a new cartridge to solve the issue, but dont wanna spend) printer out and store it under Ranna's used desk. will be relocating the power extention to my middle desk. will clean up the plywood thingy further. might be putting wheels on my square table.

Still thinking on various issues like how my career should go, why does Kokwah say that 100% profit margin is hard to achieve? been following Raymond to classes on investment and looking at various stratergy and stuff. even there, they say that its hard to achieve 100% profit. is investing in stock market less profitable that doing your own business? hmmm...

27th Nov 2009

Am now at Ice Dreamland at west coast. this place is sort of becoming a favourite hunt. the ambience of the place is very nice and quiet. good for chilling out, studying or just hang ard with nothing to to. Since i recently got the Starhub mobile broadband 7.2mbps, it's sort of a good place to surf net as well. hahaha

Yesterday I accidently scratched my dad's car. i wasnt even scolded. they just told me to be more careful next time, as long as no one is injured, it's ok.

Hmmmm... work-wise, i have spoken to Kokwah about going to work some part time jobs. his reply was that if i were to be doing that, i'll be distracted from selling insurance. bascially, selling insurance or not, i still need to eat, drink, travel. if those basic needs are not covered, nothing else need to be said. not forgetting my policies that are in premium holiday.

recently, my reservist mate ask me if i wanna talk to his friend from IFA (Independent Financial Advisers), saying that he can offer a better deal than Prudential. well, i'm always open to options, so i asked him to go ahead and arrange for an appointment. Then one of my contacts on MSN ask me if i wanna hear more about IFA, so on Wed, i went with Raymond to meet up with her. Yesterday, Seagull called me. He's moving into IFA also and asked if i'm interested in joining him.

24th Nov 2009

Didnt get to meet Yeo the last time. but coming thursday might be going with him to the PC show at EXPO.

Today something funny happened. My EP was supposed to have ended, but payment was still deposited into my account. hahaha then a guy called asking for the money to be returned. hmmm... good also la. going into the office tomorrow to meet with Kok Wah and ask him what to do now that my EP is over. the consequences and stuff.

Since i have proof of my EP terminated (the guy's call to have me return the money), i think its time to make a decision to stay or not. for some reason, prudential staff have been showing me a very bad management of paper work. might have to seriously reconsider what to do.

This morning's weekly meeting was sort of funny also. after telling the agency about someone approaching me to hold a seminar on financial planning, Kok wah, Lucy and Serene's eyes seems to have lit up immediately. This morning, kok wah sort of told me to share my ideas with the agency. hmmm... will see... anyway, its all in God's hands. Amen!

12th Nov 2009

Yesterday while i was waiting to meet Yeo for lunch. Kokwah called. when i told him i'm going to meet Yeo for lunch, he sort of ask me if i'm going to go back to IT line. hahaha, hmmmm.... cant say that will not come true, but i think i'll continue with insurance and other part times.

Meeting with Yeo is just to sort of let him know, i'm not there to take business away from him. Hmmmm... shrug.

10th Nov 2009

Currently at Doris's office finishing up the upgrade for the 2 new laptops. Kokwah didnt sound too happy about me not going into the office for meeting today. shrug, so be it ba. taking a "not letting anyone push me" stance. it's true that if i went in today, both Lucy and Serene will be there to help me with my presentation skills, but what i need might not be presentation skills. what i need is to be free from debt, un-lapse all my policies and gain a higher level of product knowledge.

A few days back, a line from Bai Jia Jiang Tan struck me deeply. The talker was a proffessor sharing his experince when working. he was talking about making sure that your nose hair are trimmed before you meet ppl. regardless of how well you dressed, a single nose hair out of your nostril will give ppl the impression that you are dirty. His german boss once told him, unless you have no choice, never deal with a man whose shoes dont shine. at first, he tot that wasnt a very right statement to make, but later on, after he reflected on it, he found it to be very right.

Personal grooming is a reflection of personality. If you are not even able to take care of yoruself, how will you take care of your company? of important deals? of ppl's financial life? Being well dressed is not only a sales tool, its a mindset.

On the next day, no matter how big a 50 cents will look to me (when you are poor, 50cents look bigger than Singapore Flyer.) i went and got a bottle of shoeshine and polish up my shoes which was full of scratches.

A few days later when i went to my uncle's office, my auntie4 commented that i look different from before. sort of larger. hahaha

6th Nov 2009

Somehow i realised some things. things that are very easily confused. I might be in Prudential selling insurance, but that doesnt mean that i'll have to make use of EP. strangely, when i decided to stay on, i felt peace. but not when i think of EP. maybe the first few screw-ups with EP is trying to tell me something.

All in the hands of the Lord. I thank you, Lord, for providing all that i need. Amen!

5th Nov 2009

Went to Doris's office today to assist them with thier PC prob. Hmmmm... have to go for a second trip on monday to resolve all the issue. Might be getting Raymond to come in to assist me. shrug, it will depend on how the meeting with yeo goes tomorrow and how to go about arranging for things. Will be going to my Uncle4's office tomorrow with Yeo.

Went home to put down my bag and prepare to go for RT. then it started raining heavily. when i open the door, about to go out, a loud thunder boomed. so i decided to skip today's RT and go to sleep instead.

Seagull called and had a chat with me. seems like he's considering how to move on his career. we called about some of the things that i realise through the past month.
My lack of product knowledge which brought out my lack of confidence.
My urgency to meet the target which brought out my pushing of sales.
My lapsed policies which convey a lack of conviction in the need for insurance.

Seagull asked if i can still survive for how long without the allowance. the truth is, what i have now, is whats left from the last allowance, which is less than half. and coming sat, i'll need to be spending to socialise as well as meeting client. shrug, at most, no money to move, just hide at home lor. yah, its a vicious cycle i know. the alternative will be to do insurance as part time, and get a full time work.

Hmmmm... let things flow the way that they should ba. alot of dejavu feeling has been happening recently. sort of feeling that this is the way things should be happening. no worries. all good.