A Change....

I felt sad this couple of days as i've discovered that my senior product executive has been promoted to a assistant product manager. We came in at the same time but she was promoted to a managerial position whereby i'm still stuck at this present position. I was experiencing sharp pains in my heart and felt rather displeased with myself and questioning whether did i done anything wrong and that why i wasn't deserved to be promoted as well.

Then, i received another bad news, my boss is intending to ask me to be placed under the counter session in a way to supervise the counter staff and keep an eye on them as well. My big boss has always been thinking of putting all his product team at the front counter so that if there were any enquiries from big groups, its easier for the counter colleagues to close the sale. With this arrangement done, i may have to perform shift duties and might have to work on weekends and even public holidays as well, as these are the times where the public will come and enquire on tours and etc...

When i put the two together, i felt that my boss is trying to push me out as there is the saying of "one mountain cannot hide two tigers" meaning to say that she cannot have two managerial position supporting her in this area. And hence, the decision to get me out to the counter. I was at a loss and i kinda of like my job and how its going right now, but with this change, i really felt extra lost...

Oh well, lets see what the year 2008 will bring for me...

My overseas assignment confirmed!

It has been confirmed that i will be leading a group of around 80plus of folks up to Koh Samui Island. I'm really excited and bewildered about this opportunity. We will be allocating 2 Tour Leaders which includes myself and another of my co-worker to come along to lead this trip. I will be gone from the 6th to the 9th December 2007. Along with this group of passengers, there will be this female artiste following us, her name is Jing Yin Ji. She has been with Mediacorp for some time and now her main acting focuses on mums, grandparents along that line.

Not many of us anticipated this to be a success as nobody actually wants to follow this programme. I guess this artiste pull of her own supporters is not that strong, meaning her supporters are mainly from the older folks and going to a beach holiday does not excite them at all, from the holiday trend of my country. And hence, it wasn't a huge success this time round compared to the other trip i had last year. My boss has actually wanted to have a younger artiste to lead this tour, someone hip, full of vigour or sunshine and hopefully lots of young supporters but the final decision lies with my big boss and he decided to have this Jing Ying Ji to lead this group. Well, maybe, this is a lesson to be gleaned for my big boss and not any artiste will attract the crowd to come and support but someone of a certain popularity will be able to do so. Well, i will end here and write somemore later...

Overseas Assignment again

Boy, i received some good news for myself. My boss told me that i were to choose one of the charter flights which is flying off this early December to Thailand to lead a group up. I was quite excited that i could again do this assignment again.

There are two dates which i am given and to choose one date to go. The departure date of 6th December has about seventy-nine passenger and the date of 9th December has zero passengers. I think that i may choose the date of 6th December as i could also earn some tipping from my fellow passengers and at the same time, i could also earn some allowances for this trip although it isn't much for me.

Next, i will have to get ready to pack up for this trip, but before that, there are alot of preparation work to be done. I will have to conduct a briefing for all those seventy-nine passengers, clear off those balance payments and many other administrative duties to be fulfilled. Next, i will have to purchase a digital camera to bring along, my old canon digital camera broke down when i dropped it while coming back from another overseas assignment last year. I still have not got around to buy one yet. Still thinking which brand, model to buy though. Oh, i am brimming with happiness that i could go for a trip again....

My other training...

I recently finished my in-camp training. That was the same kind of in-camp training that i went through and its the 3rd time that i have done such a exercise before in my time. I have found that life is refreshing once you have completed such a exercise and well i guess time is really well spent learning from one another (other camp mates). I have made some new friends along the in-camp training and have learnt some new things as well.

Alot of my in-camp mates think that this exercise is really a waste of time and resources of us and would really rather go back outside to work our ass off. You see some of us are self-employed and hence this unique group of guys think that this exercise is really wasting their time where they can use this time and earn more money out in the corporate world. They have tried to defer this in-camp training but was rejected. Reason being that the notice was sent out 6 months ago before this scheduled training and hence there isn't a excuse that there isn't anyone to cover the duties of those coming for this in-camp training. I've have tried to defer myself and this was exactly what i got in my face. These days, the government in my country really takes in-camp training very seriously and would take actions if that certain individual does not turn up for this training. In my country where i lived, its against the law to not turn up for this in-camp training whenever you are being called up.

During this time, i have learnt some things from my this friend whom is also in the same vocation as me. We served this in-camp training together, he is a nice guy and in his thirties. He is still single and living with his mum and dad, drives a car and is a manager (IT division) of a IBM company here. He is a fanatic of PSP where i think anyone whom owns a PSP will agree that its a great game to bring along to enjoy during those free times that we have during this in-camp training. I even got some sites where i can download new games and also some fun animes which i like to watch and am trying to download it into my PSP game machine.

All in all, this in-camp training has helped me gain some new friends and if i am not wrong, this could be my last in-camp training. Well, fingers crossed.....till then in-camp training....

A review on Pay Day Loans

I have not done a review on any No Fax Payday Loans site. But today, my sponsors has asked me to do that, and off i go. This www.paydayloanquotes.com is a comparison site where it will base on your online information, get a authorised and approved money lender whom will approach you with those information you have furnished and if its approved, the money in which you required, will be deposited in your bank. (But if you feel uncomfortable dealing online, you may contact them through the phone)

With absolute confidentiality, your personal information will be kept between you and the money lender and none will know of this information, not even your wife. Such a practice is good for any individual, as you do not even have to meet up with the money lenders face to face but everything will be done online, hence, one will not be embarrassed to meet the money lenders and request for a short-term loan today.

You can even discuss with your money lender on how to settle your loans. You may opt to pay in full once it is due, opt to renew your loan and just pay interest and fees only and many more other options, approach your money lender if you have any further questions.

All in all, its a safe and trouble free pay day loan site and everyone whom is in need of a short-term loan should approach them today!

My friends truck

I have a friend whom just left for states just a few days ago. She has this truck that she has been driving for some time which was quite cool and really suits her needs as well. While her two nephews from states were here to visit her, she played host for them in Singapore and i guess that both kid really enjoyed their stay in Singapore here with her. There was a trip where she brought them to the beach and the boys really like this outing. They had a really good time and enjoyed themselves tremendously with all the swimming and playing in the sand. Lucky her, she was driving this truck if not all the sand and salt water bringing back to the car would have spoilt the inside of it. And so, with a truck, she doesn't really mind the boys coming into the truck with their sandy and salty feets. While surfing the website, i notice this site at www.buyautotruckaccessories.com, where they have lots of truck accessories and thistruck bed liner will be a good item on offer to purchase first. With its STK Line-A-Bed Bedliners, it delivers Superior Bed Protection with skid resistant technology,ideal for the boys if they want to sit on the back of the truck while she drives and of course with a adult supervision onboard the back of the truck. I think that will be a good idea for her truck and i will introduce this site to her when she comes back from states.

Different occupation

This time round for three weeks,i will be doing my reservist training. This reservist training is all about preparing the men whom have gone back to the society to work and are recalled back to do some training and exercise to prepare them just in case the country needs them for war time situation here. I have a number of friends whom comes from all walks of life, some come from the other government sectors, most come from the private sectors and a small percentage being self-employed. Normally its the self-employed whom mades a big fuss while attending this reservist coz time is money and precious earning money time is wasted on coming back for re-training in camp, although the military do reimburse back the money that these self-employed lost out on.

One of my friend comes from the treasury departments belonging to the local banking institution here, while the other friend of mine comes from the gold
, other precious metals and commodities trading department from a local firm. While these two of my friends became acquainted here, they began non-stop on trading on stocks, shares and other investments which did not sound anything to me. I guess probably its the profession that they are in and hence its a good conversation material for them. For me, i'm trying to learn up on gold, silver and other precious metals investment portfolios and Monex Deposit Company mades a good partner to be with while their consultants are experts in these fields. With more than 40 solid years of foundation and has been America's trusted name, I will depend and seek them out if i am you, wait no more, seek them out today!

Earning womens money

Do you know how to earn a woman's money or the trick to earn woman's money? I saw this TV Variety Show which telecasts every Tuesday in my country's local television programme, where this group of local artiste goes to promote their wares, hoping to sell it to their future customers. There are two groups competing with each other and the group that sells most of their wares will win in the programme. Each episode, there will be four local artiste competing in this game programme and its quite fun just watching them trying their ways and means to market their wares, drawing the intended crowds to visit their shop outlets and many more other gimmicks like free flow of drinks, free souvenirs etc...This time, both group are competing in drawing the most women crowd to patronise their shop doing pedicure and manicure services.

This pedicure and manicure services are very popular with women these days as they could be made quite pretty with the proper equipments, different colours or mini artistic accessories can be added onto their nails as well. I thought this idea is not a bad idea coz it can help attract lots of women customers to patronise but the idea is that i will do up a online store with their help of Ashop Commerce which specialises in online shopping cart software. Women do not need to come down to physical store, just book with us online and i will send a pedi and manicure lady to her office, home to pamper her, now hows that for a earning women's money idea?

Bingo Game

During my working stinct with this social club house which i worked around 2 years, it was full of fun and excitment and self-satisfaction. I used to work for them as a social and events executive, where i will plan out social and sports event for the members over at this social club for a minimal fee. Especially when members come and sign up for those social or sports event, i will have this sense of self-satisfaction inside of me and i sincerely felt that i have accomplished something while i was there.

Of the many social and sports events that i hold in the club, i like the Year-end party which i will organise for the members again with a minimal fee with free flow of drinks and food, live entertainment and count down for the year as well. Every member is filled with joy and laughter and you could see that glimpse of happiness inside them that shows they have enjoyed this event. Another social event which i organises for the general memebers are Bingo Nites. The club members will just go crazy if i don't organise one for them and hence it began starting to have at least 2 games per month. Not only members can enjoy the game of Bingo and win back cash prizes but refreshments will be served as well, like finger food, coffee and tea.

While surfing this site at www.pro360.com, this site has a wonderful review of some of the best gambling games on earth. Gambling games likecasino online, poker, routlette and even bingo as well. I will look up this site and see if i could learn a trick or two and share with my social and events executive whom has taken over my position there some tips on better organising gambling activities in this social club.

Don't just listen to me, go on and see it for yourself today!

Gold Urn!

Ever since starting this travel company, my boss has been starting to get superstitious. He will believe in anything that is in this world to help him gather the force of Yin and Yang which will help him to manage his travel company and perhaps bring in more luck and money (in terms of more customers booking with us). In other words, he is much into fengshui these days and will try to buy objects to turn his money making business into a success in this travel industry.

The day has come for him to made a decision of whether to buy this gold urn which is from the country of Taiwan. Its rather heavy which needs at least 4 person to man handle the golden urn which was placed strategically in the door way of our office entrance. Since then, whenever anyone enters into the corporate office, visitors will see this golden urn right in front of them in whichever direction that you wish to take. I guess this must be his fengshui master's bidding to put it there to gather the energy force of making more money for him. Lets hope so...

Britney Spears woes...

Spear finally loses her custody of her children to ex-husband Kevin Federline. The court has ordered Britney to go for a test for consuming illegal substances and further to that, she was driving with a invalid license and was charged on 21 September this year with leaving the scene of an accident after police said she ran into a parked car. But this gal has her charms set on climbing the charts with her latest hit "Give me more" and has been the biggest online downloaded songs.

Oscar Nicholas Cage's leather jacket found on...

This is really funny, a burglar broke into Nicolas Cage's Orange County home and was found sleeping naked and also found him adorning Cage's leather jacket while sleeping. Luckily, the burglar did not do any harm to Oscar Winner Cage and the burglar is on bail right now.

Fashion Tips for the Gentlemen!

Here, they are going to show you what is the best kind of shirt and colour that will best suit you and must have that can go with anything, be it jeans, pants...

Online Money Lenders

Have you ever been in need of a cash advance and hope that someone out there could help to lend you some money to tide over this emergency situation that you are in?

I remember while i was studying part-time doing my diploma course, this situation of shortage of money is always happening to me. Being the eldest son in the family, i would have to provide for my family, i have to pay for my own commitments as well, like handphone bills and etc...And there is the going out with friends, going for a movie, a meal together or just hanging out, all these take a strain on my wallet as well. I would remember at times, i will prepare sandwiches to bring for my classes to eat for dinner, partly the dinner there at the school grounds are expensive and didn't taste nice at all and i could save some money out of it as well. When i think back on my studying days, i hope that the children whom are studying will pay attention, get good grades and go all the way up and not like me have to struggle mid way through my working life. But all that has passed and now while i look back at those things that i have done, i will laugh at myself and thank the Lord that he has carried me through till today.

Today at this online payday loans, lenders will lend you money based on the criteria that they've set for their customers. All employed adults will usually meet their criteria of working status, minimum income and active checking and savings account. There are a few online lenders which you can look at which will satisfy your cash advance needs, look them up today!

Raining Day today....

It was raining cats and dogs this morning and i was forced to take the public transportation today! Morning rush hours are something not everyone can enjoy and although i left my house early this day, i was still late by 5 minutes to work. Again after work, i have to brave through the mad hour rush again to take the public transport back to my place. While i arrive at my place of abode, i decided to reward myself at the Fun Fair and buy myself some treats. I bought a fried drumstick and a piping hot corn or maize. It was crowded with people trying to buy some of those alluring snacks which can really make you sinful just by looking at it though. Already, i was beginning to feel sinful while i ate on my drumstick and corn. Lucky, it wasn't raining or else the businesses of this Fun Fair will be struck down but my guess is, their loyal customers will still brave those storms to have a bite in their favourite snack.

While surfing the internet today, i was fascinated by this site called Ashop Commerce. A full pledged online shopping cart software that can help any online store owners to succeed in their online selling. With no templates to choose from, work from their unique design creator and have your very own personalised online store. No longer, will you need to queue to buy your favourite food, items or anything under the sun or rain for that matter, just surf to the online stores and order your merchandise, its that easy. With their advice, technical support and customer service, in no time, your site will be found in any of the search engines found in the internet which means customers will look up your store and buy from you too.

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VisionBedding.com for your bedding requirements!

Have you ever thought of personalized Bedding for your bedrooms or for your loved ones? I thought of them as one whom can be bold at times using those personalized beddings and a sense of character or personal taste will be what i will describe them to be. At times, these can tell one's mood or feelings and from there, one can judge whether one is welcomed or to be left alone.

These can be good personalized gifts as well, to be given to your loved ones or close ones as a sign of a personal touch to those gifts which you present to them. Of the many photo blankets, beddings and pillow shams, i thought of doing one personalized gift for myself. I always dream of staying in those beach front houses where the waves come sweeping into the sand and where you can dream yourself away. No worries or stress but enjoying every minute of those time by yourself doing nothing. Such is the atmosphere and environment that i wish to be in and i thought of this beautiful Tropical Sunset design. I can't wait to be having my very own Tropical Sunset bed blanket and wrap myself in it and dream on of those fantastic days ahead! I am such a dreamer and i think that at least, i can have time to dream of such a vacation house on my own and am looking forward for that kind of opportunity to arise.

Bad News....

Oh my gosh... When i heard from my direct boss as she slowly tries her very best to describe the situation where my big boss is intending to do with our departments working schedule.

He intends to reshuffle our reporting times to work and that will include working on weekends and public holidays. I immediately protested to this proposal. My direct boss and i were equally frustrated and felt that this company which we are working are killing us and slowly like a vampire draining our blood and soul away from us. Already, we have worked like the whole month of AUGUST07's weekends trying to build up the sales as much as possible. And now this....

The reason being why my big boss has such a idea in mind was that the counter staff were unable to close those big groups whom comes by to check on the pricing and as such we lose out to our competitors, whom are more proactive and would have easily closed off this particular sale. Hence, he has come out of this idea with us working during the weekends will cut down opportunities snatched away by our competitors.

Both me and my direct boss agrees that the counter staff at times is not strong enough to close certain destination sales but at the most, they should at least take down the numbers and inform the customers that we will get back to them soonest possible. Even if we were to work on weekends, we can't really help much being the fact that the airlines sales representative will be off to enjoy his or her weekends and our land operators will also be doing that. Nobody can or will work 7days a week or 365days a year just to make sure sales won't slip out of their hands. In compensation of the weekends work, we will be compensated 1day off during the weekdays. This is just so stupid, being the fact that the airlines and land operator will be working and we are off, when that is the time which we are needed the most!

Oh gosh, i have prayed to God that my big boss will change this idea of his and have asked the church to pray for me too! I really hate to miss the Sunday worship.

Natas Sept 2007

At last, my Natas Fair has just finished and now i could just rest abit before my big boss will start looking into staging another post Natas Fair in town again. I see alot of people booking for their year-end trips with the different travel agents gathered at this big playground.

Throughout the three days affair, there were always plenty of people around either checking their tours, booking their tours or just poking their heads and checking for fantastic deals from all the travel agents. There was this general sentiments that alot of travelers will be traveling this year end. It seems like the general public has extra cash around to spend for their overseas trip and this is the time to grab that special deal that they have been waiting for.

Be it short haul or long haul trips, it seems like people are trying ways and means to get out of this country. I heard that Korea is a hot destination this year and is doing quite well though. I was pretty tired at the end of every fair, talking non-stop, booking online flights for my passengers. I got alot of enquiries too over the last three days and i hope they will come back to look for us again!

Migratory Busyness!!!!

Why did i use this word Migratory? I saw this post from my blogging friend - Peregrineonline.com describing her busy morning before and after getting on the usual customs check-in.

As for myself, i seem to be in the Migratory mood today too. I arranged a lunch appointment today with my ex-boss, just having a simple lunch and i hope he will blanja* me though. Time for me to catch on him on what is the latest happenings at the club itself. I used to work in a country club setting and now a full swing to a travel agent business. I like this place where i started a my work as a finance officer many donkey years ago. I like the idea of visiting long forgotten places and it feels nice and special visiting old colleagues and renewing that relationship again.

In the evening, i made yet another appointment visiting another christian friend of mine who seems to be not attending church lately. Have not seen him for some time and i hope by visiting him this round, it will remind him that someone out there is thinking about him and praying for him. When one stops coming to the church, it makes it all the more difficult coming back again to church to worship. Satan has his ways to make all of us stop attending church services. So by this, i hope to encourage him to come back and attend services again. But i think its a good start, moving out of my comfort zone to help those in need and renewing those old forgotten relationships!

blanja* is the malay word for giving me a lunch treat...

Yet another Travel Fair!

Yes, my next travel fair will be in two weeks time. Its time to work my butts off, the travel fair will be held at Expo this time round and its about 30 minutes riding journey for me but if i took the train, its around 1.5 - 2 hours journey. The fair grounds will be gigantic as its meant for big scale events to be held in my country. There are eateries at the entrance of this mega exhibition hall and it comes with a huge carpark as well. So no worries for no parking lots for cars and bikes as well.

The problem is that i will have to look up the map again to determine my journey route as it has been some time since i traveled there.

Relocation, anyone?

The place where i used to work for as an accounts executive, i was in-charged of the accounts payable and have to issue cheques payable to different suppliers and such. As the company which i was working for was a multi-national company and its head office is in Atlanta, USA. As such, there were alot of expatriates coming to my country to work for its offices here. They will engage movers to help them to relocate their stuff to a temporary location to house those big items and ship over those smaller items over here for usage. At times, they will also list their property under agents to help them put under homes for rent to earn them some money too. If their relocation is a permanent kind of posting, then they will start to think of putting up their Homes for sale as well.

National Relocation is a relocation portal that has a real estate channel with area information, home values and forms to fill out to connect agents with buyers and sellers. Look for them today!

Halloween Party...

is a fun thing to play along and not only for younger kids, adults too can join in the fun too. Before coming into this profession of a travel agent, i used to work for a country club and the lounge that is situated inside the club always has fun themes going on for their members. One theme which is the most fun for me has to be Halloween party. Lots of drinks, food, dancing with the gals are the sort of thing that the members engaged themselves while in the lounge here. The lounge also dresses up itself to look scary and haunted and the waiter and waitress will also dress to the theme. I have a friend who is working inside the lounge and was thinking about what to wear this year for Halloween. I recommended him to get some Halloween Ninja costume and not just any costume but from the famous online store called Karate Depot.com. They offer authentic ninja uniform made of cloth and complements it with split toe ninja boots and socks and a black wooden ninja sword to make this set. Sizes run from a small child up to 6’5” 250 lbs.

Watch out coz our new ninja will have his grand appearance in the Halloween party!

A treat from my boss!

To reward those whom were there during the last 3 weekends of gruelling travel fairs, my boss has decided to reward his staff and bring them to a nearby hotel for a buffet dinner.

Its just a 10 minutes walk from my travel agency and the ambience is nice and cool. The food is okay as i have tried their high tea before. Although, i must comment is that their dishes are usually the same kind of food served. Someone suggested to my boss to take us all for a meal at the Ritz Carlton, but he replied that our nearby hotel's dishes has since changed. Well, i guess my boss wants to save some of his hard earned money which was in exchange for the hard work that all this staff have put it - time.

Retirement!!!

My government is releasing this news of our citizens retiring at the age of 65 years old. When we reach this age, then we are allowed to draw out monthly sums of money which was deducted when we are working, a certain percentage goes into this fund and everyone is liable to contribute this amount of money and the employers too play a similar role and contributes a slightly lesser amount to this employee's total contribution to this combined fund.

When i began to realise this and finally the news sinking into me. It got me thinking of my retirement, although i'm only 35 years old and i still have the second half to complete before i draw out the money from this combined fund of mine kept by the government. From the look of it, i think that i may resort to migrating to another place to enjoy my retirement somewhere with my aged parents of course.

The place that i thought of migrating will have to be my nation's close neighbour - Malaysia. This place has a slow pace and i hope that by the time i reach that age, i could move over to the far ends of Malaysia. Have a lovely and white sand beach, grow a plot of vegetables, being self-sufficient, i will set up a homestay and with my expertise, it shouldn't be very hard to do that. I will set up a online site where visitors or consumers can come and view and book their homestay accommodations with me. Bringing my aged parents along with me will help me to ease the load of me and at the same time, my mum can help out with the cooking of dishes and food for our holiday makers staying at our place.

That was what i'm thinking in my head now and for a few days, this thought began growing inside me, i hope i can achieve that someday. My blogging friend peregrineonline is a avid traveler and she has been to Malaysia for umpteen times and from reading all her blogs, it makes me realise that Malaysia is most and very likely to be my retirement nest for me and my family.