Jan’s blogs about life

Working for somebody, you could only use what equipment was given to you. An old PC is not a good way to boost your productivity, but what to do? Bosses can be such a miser even if the money does not belong to them and the company is making so much money only to be given away to the taxman. A case of penny wise pound foolish. Read more »

I don’t mean to be a kvetcher, but the local broadband internet service provider – Streamyx, provides very inconsistent internet service. Sure it may have first mover advantage over the other broadband service and sure as hell almost killed off Jaring. Its inconsistent internet connection leaves much to be desired. Read more »

What do you think? Whenever there is clash in opinion would you obediently follow what management says or would you rather strike out on your own on a limb and do what you feel would be correct in your own eyes?

The world is imperfect. And so are organizations. Whether it is business or military, they are composed of humans who are fallible basing judgment on their own experience and understanding and laced with emotion and private agenda. Read more »

What was it with Hanoi, Vietnam that makes even planning a trip there perilous? If there was some kind of jinx set upon a place I would most certainly say there was something about that holiday destination that didn’t seem to welcome us. Read more »

After a long, tiring running around chasing for prospects, attending to suppliers and driving long tiring distance, the last thing I wanted to see in my phone text messaging are comments from boss saying you shouldn’t do this, you shouldn’t do that, etc. He is beginning to get on my nerves. It’s been only one year, and the true colours of my boss are starting to show. With nobody to keep him in check would he be the next emperor in my little branch office? Read more »

I was the recipient of one Lucky Draw, a winner of Creative ZEN Neeon 6GB MP3 player when I threw my name card into the lucky draw pile in the recent National Achievers Congress 2007.

I was using the law of attraction as expounded by the Secret DVD by thinking and receiving an MP3 player be it an iPod or any other. And I thought it was working when I received an email in my inbox informing that I won the lucky draw to my surprised joy. Read more »

Ouch! My water vending machine was attempted break in again! This will be the second time and the vandals broke my lock again! My home business is not going very well. Coin collection is not up to my expectation. Sheesh. I must be more careful in where I should invest my money. But I did do this out of desperation to find a way out the problem that I was facing from a tyrant boss previously. Sure God has brought me out of Egypt so to speak, but I still need to face the legacy of mess from the decision that I made. I should have been more patient but I was already almost like spiderman climbing up the walls on his impossible demands. Read more »

It was a quiet week at the office. Japan is having their Golden Week holidays and we have our Labour Day and wesak day holidays coinciding. That meant at my end only working on Monday, Thursday and Friday.

Having attended the Olivia Newton John concert at Genting Highlands Arena of Stars on Sunday. I took a half day leave from office on Monday. Still felt tired from that short simple trip to the highlands. It was really cold and foggy up there. But it seems the weather is really odd nowadays. Alternating with a hot sunshine and culminating into brief but thunderous showers. The end times must be near now that the whole world’s weather system has gone haywire. Read more »

Now I found out what was wrong with my new AirKu location. The old history has surfaced when I contacted Amazed Aims promo personnel to determine when is the best time to do a promotional launch. Make money quick? Not a chance here. It seems there was some heavy competition with some underhanded tactics by competitors. There were up to five vending machines placed there. Five! Crazy, no wonder the previous business owner quit. So did the rest. Now there is only one and I just moved in mine. Read more »