Jan’s blogs about life

Finally, I get to work with a new office work PC. Well almost. My old PC was really messing up my eyes. For the past six months the screen has a way of turning purple as though it was having a asphyxiation fit. If seeing things in the color of purple wasn’t bad enough, the screen has the addition of going through a temporal phase blur effect. This definetely will cause my eyes to become really, really bonkers trying to focus on something that wasn’t even defined in the first place. Read more »

My boss has asked me to develop new chemical product for sales into the market. Now, what are the products that I can develop? Previous endeavors were not successful. I am having a hard time here.

The Talc Masterbatch which Japan HQ has developed does not seem to have much success over here or even in other south-east Asian countries. Maybe in Japan the PP is expensive and using the Talc Masterbatch can significantly lower their cost. But over here, the PP cost was about US$1.31/kg, and the talc m/b after bringing it from China or Japan stock, with the usual mark up to cover for cargo clearance and profit margin becomes approx slight less than the PP price which does not contribute much value for customer at an add in dosage of 20%. Read more »

After a nice long year end break is back to the grind again. Back to facing unpleasant situation, demanding customers, not very competitive products, sheeesh…! But I guess this early week will be quiet a bit as the business slowly picks up. Already things leftover from the few days before new year is beginning to rear its ugly head.

Follow up matters, rushing for shipment, cold calling, budget matters… I see a headache coming up, can’t even take MC for this ailment. Wouldn’t be good either. Problem still there. Read more »