Sunday, January 27, 2008

interesting to know....

I was scrolling through my sitemeter, it is interesting to see how people stumbled across my blog. By searching, singapore "siao khee", caryn zouk out, manglish jokes, singlish jokes, perodua, and lots more. *luckily no one came in by searching "yi jun bitch!" hahahaaha. Lately, since many have searched for Marcus Evans "BAD" and many other things about Marcus Evans like how are they paying, so on so forth.

Lol.... Never knew Marcus Evans was such a topic. But I wonder, why did some of you searched for Marcus Evans "bad" ? What sort of "bad" are you referring to? The events? The operations? The company itself or what?

If you are complaining about the events being bad, then I would not say anything than refer to the producers who most of them are fresh grads in the operations team. However, if you are commenting the quality of people although it is catered for senior management levels, it really depends. Especially being in such a competitive environment like some commented that it is a 90:10 rule instead of 80:20 rule in sales. Which means top salesperson would earn to an average of 20k a month? Not counting those who sells sports congresses which figures would be sky high for one. While lowest would only maintain the basic for monthsss. However, there are many interesting things that I have came across through speaking to MDs or GMs of mostly Asian countries.

Malaysians would most probably attend an event which is located locally, Sg or HK. But its contrasting, charging a mere fee of $1.5kUSD for an international event, some commented, why do I have to pay that much to attend an event locally while some commented that travelling overseas would be crazy for that fee too. And being the norm, I was suprised to see many Afghanistan companies would actually attend events in Sg, Thailand and M'sia.

Nevertheless, the idiots which no sales would like to face, which are the XXX country, the arrogant fellas, of course, that does not imply to all but mostly. Why do I say so? E.g. I've spoken to this huge company that has their internal mgmt training courses. However, the MD wasn't the idiotic one, its the secretary. She said "we have the best experts to educate us, we do not have to attend those anywhere else". I politely asked her, "don't u wanna know hows the world outside? what area ur competitors doing?" She replied "no, we do not" and so on so forth. With this, I wonder how good that company would be. If they were the best, you would be renown company in the world and not in XXX country only. I guess they must have been brainstorm to think that they are "APPLE JR" .

Another case was, my colleagues, blasted this XXX country's minister, when that minister commented that these events are only for those lousy people who needs help in their system, when they do not have a good system. Lol... my colleagues just told him, are you sure? Then are you saying that the .... of Commenwealth bank of Australia is useless? He attend because his bank's security is worse than your Ministry? Wah.. I guess if thats right, people, do not save ur savings there then! hahahahahaahaa.. Then she continue by, 'alright sure, I guess i'll pass this msg to him when i meet him in the event that you have commented such' . Stupid minister just freaked out! hahahahaa.

There are no perfect guidelines when it comes to business management. There is only best suggested solutions. Expert? If doctors were experts and make no mistakes, how come there is no publicity news on what are actual stats of people killed because of the 'professionals' mistakes. Are all of the patients treated 100% correctly? If the expert that could give talks and educated an organization about how to manage this and that. Why would he be getting paid by giving lectures instead of being a successful top 10 entrepreneur in this world? Easiest way like how chinese love to laugh it as 'can talk, cannot do'. I get it that it is a way to turn some salesperson down. However, how stupid to hear such words coming out of a huge XXX country organization. I understand I'm being racist here, why so? Yes, because I'm a Malaysian, if I was to tell them I 'm calling from ME London, speaking with an accent, instead of a 3rd world country, they would pass and listen to you attentively. Why so? Does that mean the London team is much better? They are selling the same thing as well !!! I do understand that we can't comment as Malaysia's industry is so much worse comparing to the XXX country. But hm.... Don't forget, you do have a XXX country sales team doing exactly what we are doing. Hence, the conclusion would be, racism is a big issue in this XXX country as well. If that particular is trained by experts and being closed like how it is, why isn't that name on the Business Week each day? Why doesn't events pay them as a speaker to share their glory with others instead of inviting them as a delegate to listen from the successful cases like Taipei 101 or IFCs in New York or HK. Sigh.... pityful, they only have a small industry to cater. Unlike this poor 3rd world country, where business is everywhere, we do not even need to focus of overseas clients.

Sunday, January 13, 2008

drew's bday..

As we were partying at QE2 on Friday with andrew, ben, soon yang, yen yee, desmond, gin and some others, after 2 bottles, soon yang decided to treat us all but in Mois instead, hence, we departed. However, we did not finish that extra 2 bottles, we decided pay a visit again, on
Saturday night, which happens to be Andrew's birthday as well. Lol...

Edward and his friends, Hsin Yi and melvin came along as well, celebrating Andrew's birthday with a secret recipe chocolate fudge cake. The fun part was... drew got sooo drunk, before he collapse, phew..... that was an awful lot of mess that what have been done. Lol.....















so.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY DREW!!!! haha...... finishing calling everyone d? hahhahaha

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

1st week of work

7th of November, I came back to Penang.
7th of December, I've got my interview at Marcus Evans.
7th of January, I'm officially working!

Well, I'm working at Marcus Evans located at Northam Towers. Jobs seems to be interesting so far, however, hope it would still be interesting in the months to come. I have colleagues whom mostly spreads from the age of 20 to 30, and only a handful who are over the board of 30. My admin cum finance cum receptionist, Michelle, suppose to be the oldest before Dennis came in and broke the record by aging 36, if i'm not mistaken. Lol..... and the worst part of the story is, miss xxx, after disappearing after the age of 15, and appear again at 19ish and disappeared again a year later, she appeared in my life again as my colleague!!! #!@($&!(!@&*#

However, miss xxx doens't seems to be so bad after all, as she's the limelight of the company that makes us laugh all day, making work more lively for us. Hope what eric has commented doens't come true again thats all. Lol....