Attitude

Economy seems to be picking up as my work is also picking up. Good or bad? Personally I think its good lah, at least soon there will be less unemployed people around.

I happen to come across this interesting email from a friend...yah, probably one of those forwarded emails but since its good, I am sharing with all of u.

Here goes (*Credit to dunno whoever wrote this email...but I edited some of the grammar):

"Talk about thinking out of the box...

If your company, Comb manufacturers assigned you to sell combs to monks in the temples? Can you do it?

What is your answer?
a) No Way, Impossible
b) Crazy
c) I will give it a try in order to follow my boss' instruction
d) Well, I will try.
e) Ya, I think I can sell ??? (5pcs? 10pcs? 50pcs? or more...you name it)

Pick an answer above and read below to find out if you are/you are going to be a successful person or not at all .

The Story: SELLING COMB TO THE MONKS =======================================
There was a company manufacturing combs which intends to expand its business and so the management wanted to employ a new Sales Manager. The company ADVERTISED the vacancy in the newspaper. They were so many people turning up for the interview everyday.... and soon it accumulated to almost a hundred people in just a few days...

The Company then have the problem of choosing the right candidate for the position. So, the company interviewer set A Difficult Task to those who want to come for the final interview.

The Task is to : Sell Combs To Monks In Temples

Only 3 Applicants stayed on for this Final Interview challenge - Mr A , Mr B & Mr C. The Chief Interviewer instructed: "Now I want the three of you here to sell these wooden combs to monks in the temples. You only have 10 days to do it and report to me after that ."

After 10 days, they reported back. The Chief Interviewer asked Mr A: How many have you sold? Mr A answered: Only one. The Chief Interviewer asked: How did you manage to sell? Mr A answered: The monks in the temples scolded me when I showed them the combs. But on my way back downhill I met a young monk who bought it to scratch his head due to dandruff".

The Chief Interviewer then asked Mr B: How many did you sell? Mr B replied: 10 pieces.. I went to a shrine and noticed that many devotees' hair were in bad shape due to the strong winds outside the shrine. The monk in there listened to my advice and bought 10 combs for their devotees in showing respect to the Buddha statue.

Then, The Chief Interviewer asked Mr C: How about you? Mr C replied: 1,000 units. The Chief Interviewer and the other 2 interviewees were astounded. The Chief Interviewer asked: How did you do that? Mr C replied: I went to a famous temple. After observing for a few days, I discovered that there were many tourists. I then told the Chief Abbot there. "Sifu, those who come here are much devoted. If you could give them a gift, they will be elated." I told him that I have a bulk of combs and asked him to raft his handwriting on the combs as a present to those visited. He was very delighted and straight away ordered 1,000 pieces .

End of Story.

MORAL OF THE STORY : HARVARD UNIVERSITY had done a research that says :-
1) 85% of success is due to attitude and 15% is due to capability
2) Attitude is more important than intelligence, specials skills and luck. In another word, professional knowledge only constitutes for 15% of success of a person and 85% is due to self-cultivation, public relation and adaptability ability.

Still remember the story on Selling Shoes to Africans? When 2 salesmen were sent to that continent, one of them reported: Cannot do it. No one wears shoes there? The second salesman said: It is good to market. A lot of opportunities. Success and Failure is dependant on how we face problems.

Do you know that eagles live up to about 70 years of age? But when an eagle reaches about 40 years old, its claws start to age and it cannot grab its preys. It is also not able to fly as well. So, it is time for the eagle to make a choice: wait for its death or go through a renewal process. If it chooses to live, it must try its best to fly to the top of a hill. And on the hill top/summit, it will stay for 150 days. It will hit its feathers onto the stone so that they will drop and wait for the new ones to grow. After the feathers have grown out which takes about 150 days, it will continue its balance 30 years life.

Remember, when the economic is good, there are people going bankrupt. When business is bad, there are many new millionaires produced as well. So, apply now the 85% right working attitude fully.

All the best!"

Inspiring? U decide.

Humour

I finally decided to polish up this post after starting the draft at the beginning of this month. Took me a whole 2 weeks...and only after a fren asked me why I did not update my blog for so long and tat she's looking forward to reading my blog....awww....so sweet! Thanks JK!! Thanks also to the rest of u who read/follow my blog but have yet to tell me that u love reading my blog!!! :P

Did you know that Humour can pull a person through difficult times by letting one see the "lighter" side of things and not to take things too hard? Also not to take life too hard.

Humour can also brighten a person's day simply coz it puts a smile on our face. After a hard day's work or a disheartening event, we can all do with a smile.

At least tat's wat I think.

My work schedule has picked up and my days now seems pretty packed to the max...I dun really have enuff time to rest and sleep...no time for gaming either....

Now I stayed back more at work than the previous months, trying to clear backlots and forever trying to close case files but not having the time to even get started.

Ok enuff abt work...wats good these days are: MY FRIENDS!!!

Through my busy schedule, I make time to meet friends for dinners, movies, coffee sessions, shopping, etc...and with those dates/appointments, I get my fair share of laughters which is of coz good for my well being.

I went to Clarke Quay for a drink on one Monday night with A after doing OT till abt 10pm. Monday night at Clarke Quay was like a haunted night..not many souls out there drinking and making merry. Just lonely and some tired souls trying to drink off their weariness. Maybe for me too. So we had a drink at this pub call "La Noir" which seems to be the only pub with some decent music playing. The fun came when 3 SPGs lookalike girls approach the bar counter and ordered drinks. We started this debate session on whether these girls are really "guys"? Keke...I still think they are just SPGs out fishing for "cai tou" ang mohs (ie. stupid caucasians who will pay for them). Anyway, we left the pub at 12mn with only 1 of the initial 3 SPGs in sight, still hovering at the bar counter waiting to be picked up...woahh....business is quiet on mondays....so is business for SPGs on Monday...LOL!

Met up with J for some coffee/tea after knocking off from work one Thursday (after flying her kite/plane on our dinner date coz I had to do OT tat night). We went to our favourite haunt for our little chit chat session - Starbucks at Compass Point, Sengkang. I again ordered my favourite Earl Grey tea and chat with her on her updates on work and mine. I wonder if the nonsense started when I played with the bears in Starbucks which were on display on a table next to ours.

My itchy fingers went to push one of the bear's face into a mug and left it there for a while. Some moments later when I turned around, the bear is gone! Spooky? Or maybe its one of the Starbucks staff who saw me and decided to put the bear out of its misery of bending over into a mug?

Then I decided to place the remaining bears in awkward positions and take some snap shots quickly before I get caught...hehe!

Starbucks Bear Vomitting?

Starbucks Bear Shitting?

Starbuck Bears Shitting & Vomitting! (*and u wondered why he was vomitting? LOL)





Very bo liao? Issit? Haha...




The night ended with me babbling nonsense to J (think I might be a little sleepy and blur by then) and kept asking if she wanted to buy something to eat from 7-Eleven or Mr Bean or MacDonald...haha...but I was really full then, had only wanted to munch on something.





Friday night, after I finally put my work down to leave the office, it was quite late when A & I reached East Coast to have dinner at Long Beach Seafood Restaurant. Chilli crab...yum! Aiyah, forgot to take pics of the food! We decided to walk around East Coast Park after the hearty dinner when we saw some signages at pedestrian crossings that are like pictures of a Tortoise? I said some rubbish that the sign meant that whoever crosses is a TORTOISE! LOL...ya lah, indirectly scolding pple...hahaha...so whenever we wana walk to the pedestrian crossings, I would say "Whoever crosses is a tortoise!".....ROFL!



The only set back was that I had a slight diarrhoea condition around 3am plus which I initially thought was from the Long Beach Seafood...but found out from colleagues that it was caused by the Bryani which was catered in our office that friday afternoon.





Went shopping a lot with K lately, either too much money or too much time to spend? Neither lah...its just coz we cant think of other things to do...anyway its Great Singapore Sale now! So there we were at Marina walking past a Bebe shop when I commented "Bebe's clothes are like for people with big boobs huh." K replied "Yah lor...'xiong da wu nao' (ie. bimbos without brains)...coz the mannequins have no head mah!"....hahaha....we burst out laughing at that...a bit of a lame joke but it makes a lot of sense too...dun get wat I am saying? Go take a look at Bebe's mannequins.......

Had dinner with K and her friend AK at Suntec one evening. It was shopping first, then met AK, ate at Swiss Culture restaurant and had dessert and coffee/tea at Bakerzin. Friends of K all know tat she has a soft spot for branded bags, mostly LV. We were talking abt her bags and suddenly AK started weaving this story out of nowhere...

One day K was happily walking along the street carrying one of her branded bag (say LV bag) when a car hits her. She fell on the road hurt and bleeding while her LV bag flew and landed some distance away. The ambulance arrived and quickly went to her aid. But K anxiously pleaded with the medics, "Save my LV bag first! Save my LV bag!". The medics picked the LV bag up and put it on the stretcher. They brought the LV bag into the ambulance and drove off to the hospital. Behind K painfully got up and hailed a cab to follow the ambulance to the hospital, bleeding away... Upon reaching the hospital, the medics put the LV bag on a wheeled bag and rushed it to the emergency room while K got off the cab and barely able to walk, she staggered and drag herself in pursuit of her LV bag, bleeding away... "Save my LV bag...save my LV bag please..."

LMAO, academy award winner wo...such an imaginative story. Bow to AK!


Sick humour, bo liao humour, cute humour....just need to be humourous...