Running out of folders

Date November 9, 2008

Business seems to be coming in thick and fast, well by our standard anyway, that we are running out of folders to send to our clients! My brother has made a shipment from Malaysia just over 3 months ago, and incredibly it is still yet to arrive! That’s the problem with Malaysian postal service, you [...]

Best itinerary for the first time to Malaysia!

Date October 15, 2008

Someone searched, or “googled” to be precise, for the “best itinerary for the first time to Malaysia”. And our travel website comes out top! Well there are other key words where our website occupies the No. 1 spot or thereabouts too, like “Malaysia holiday specialist”, “holiday itinerary in Malaysia” etc. But this one is rather [...]

Free Internet access at Costa Coffee

Date May 30, 2008

I’m supposed to watch some ads on my web browser before I’m allowed to get free Internet access at Costa Coffee. However my PC and web browser settings are so hostile to ads that nothing shows up, yet here I am using their service. Looks like this type of business model is not very effective [...]

Customer facing work

Date April 18, 2008

It’s nice to be able to do some customer-facing work. Especially when something you sell has direct impact to the customer. I’ve been working on technical stuff all my working life. The things my company sell are mainly technologies, software etc. Not only that most of the time we don’t sell to end-users, we are [...]

Preparing financial accounts

Date February 29, 2008

I’ve set up a meeting with the accountant next week. So looks like the time has finally come for me to prepare the accounts for her to inspect. I initially thought it is going to be a rather daunting exercise. But with the help of the template W found me, it was surprisingly easy to [...]