Tomorrow I’m heading down south to Singapore. It’s the end of my holidays back at home in Malaysia. And that means, I have 4 more days in hostel before beginning exams. And after that, another 4 more days and it’s time to shout Merdeka! End of exam….

This 2 ½ week back home surely brought a lot of thinking to my mind. Although it’s just a short 2 weeks plus, I felt that I’ve matured a lot more. I guess it’s the people you hang out with. Many friends over here are done with school; they are all in college and are all behaving like adults. But in Singapore, it’s back to school (though they call it junior college) and you know how people behave in school…..

Like it or not, that’s my road….1 ½ years more before graduating from junior college (aka Form 6)….

Anyway, I’d really enjoyed my time down here in Malaysia. To all my friends, thank you for making it fun by hanging out with me. Sorry to those I didn’t have the chance to catch up with. Was busy so we shall catch up some other time, k.

On other matters, I’m finally done with my Eat and Sleep business plan. It looks very nice on paper….It’s high time now to implement the plan….Will blog a whole post dedicated to this matter soon in the next few days once everything is ready…..

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Yup I practically have Monday and Tuesday left in Puchong before heading back to Singapore on Wednesday morning. There are still some stuff that I wish I have more time to complete before heading down south…

Among them:

1) Studies – Gotta finalise and understand more stuff for my mid-year common test…I need to score good grades….
2) Biz plan – ‘Eat and Sleep’ business plan is still hanging in the air up till now. I told myself to complete it asap to show my biz partner – Bryan, but up till now still nothing…
3) Friends – I was supposed to meet up wit a few other Subang/Sunway friends, but somehow the plan did not materialise and I don’t think I have the time to meet up since point 1 is of more importance….Perhaps I will just go play a game of basketball with some secondary school friends on Monday evening and have some chat with Pravana – my good friend since primary school….Haven’t had the chance to meet him since he came back from NS…
4) Others – I need to get myself some basic necessities over here before heading down Singapore coz put it this way, things here are much cheaper….and I need to get a haircut…

Anyway, I was reading Bryan’s blog and he wrote some nice post about our previous failed venture, in his own words - 69Tribe is down the toilet…and he did write some stuff bout the new Eat and Sleep venture…..Read it here and here…

Also, I was chatting with Darren yesterday, an ex-colleague at Xfresh (I’d interned there as a webjournalist some years back when Xfresh was still English based)….He’s an IT guy who’s now his own boss. He’s an entrepreneur and had a few online business ventures and is doing quite well….

Well, he asked me bout my latest venture…I told him I have real problem with Internet biz, coz got no technical expertise, even though I have the idea….And I told him some stuff that I have in mind with the Eat and Sleep brand….More idea out soon….

And he said something very useful to me…..You know, to start your own business, start it young, cause as you grow older, you get less motivated….

I believe that’s so true…He started his own business with his friends when he was around 19 or 20 years old. I’m already 18, at a ripe age to start doing well with my life….

He also said - And for young people, getting into Internet business is good, because most of the successful kids out there are people of my age….

Hmmm….my technical aspect (read: programming knowledge) is close to none….Apa macam?

Go finish up ‘Eat and Sleep’ business plan…..Go..go..go…..That’s my best hope now…..

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I got up today telling myself that I don’t have much time to study before heading down to Singapore and I’ve got to start reading my books today, especially Econs since I have not touched a page of it yet.

But I got up not in ‘the mood’ to study. And sure enough, after eating my breakfast, I turned on my laptop and had been surfing around reading blogs ever since.

As I read blogs after blogs, I realised that many (or most) of them are monetizing their blogs. Among the Malaysian blogs, most of them are running Nuffnang or Advertlets ads…

And then I hopped on to Nuffnang’s website. They are growing so fast that they are hiring new staff…I liked the pixs advertising for new staff…I went on to read Nuffnang’s history and somehow found their founder’s blog - Timothy’s.

Reading success stories just makes me feel like I haven’t achieved anything in life yet. I wanna write my own big success story but so far there’s still nothing to write.

I wanna earn my own money. Honestly, I’m sick of studying. Feel like working, but then people say working life is much harder, stressful and not fun at all as compared with studying. Well, who won’t blame them? Fresh graduates earn only like RM2000 per month? Feels like very little. I’d been thinking of ways of earning much more cash than that. And if any of my ideas ever worked, I don’t even need to start hunting for jobs once I’m done with university.

‘Eat and Sleep’ brand? Damn it….I still haven’t finish writing the business plan that I started out to do a few days back…

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*Blog update for Thursday, 14/6/07*

Again, I’m one day late in posting my blog post for the same reason – Momma using Internet…Damn it, I shall now update my blog in the remaining days here during the day instead of fighting it out wit Mom at night.

Anyway, here it is:

I just realised I don’t have much time to study once I’m back in Singapore. I’ll be heading down south this coming Wednesday and after that I have 4 more days to go before the start of exams. And cut 1 day off because I’m meeting my orientation group friends for some gathering.

This leaves me with Friday, Monday and Tuesday to finish up studying most of my subjects. Don’t count the weekend cause it’s my out days. And I’ve got lotsa things to catch up. Crappo.

I hate exams, never liked it. But crap, I’m stuck here going through the education system. I’ll write more about it in some later posts why exams are a piece of junk.

Damn it man, although I have a 1 month holiday break, it’s not really holiday. It’s more like a study break. Reason? 1st week I had Alpha Bravo Camp aka AB Camp – a leadership camp supposedly to groom leaders of my college (but in my humblest opinion have not achieved its objectives)…

Then we had make-up lectures for Maths and Econs during holidays. Luckily my co-curricular group does not have any extra practises during holidays…Choir had practices like almost everyday during the holidays.

And then we had to do self-directed learning for one chapter in Physics. We have to download an e-module from the school website and study it. It is a video consisting of lecture slides with a background lecturer’s voice. I did my lecture yesterday and took up more than 1 hour of my time.

As I said earlier, exams are after holidays, so this holiday (ermm…study break) I have to brush up on my studies….and it’s almost over…Should exams be after holidays or should it be before holidays? Which is better? Another post for some other days….

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*Blog update for Tuesday, 12th June 07*

This was supposed to be a blog post for yesterday, but I couldn’t post it up because Mom was using the internet.

Anyway, yesterday, Wen Pin aka Bryan See and me went jalan-jalan to downtown KL. And this feels so weird. We call ourselves KL boys (ok Klang Valley if you are that particular, but I was born in KL though) but haven’t really roamed the streets of KL.

Not as though we haven’t really walked around KL before in our life, but we hardly do it. I guess it’s the same for most of us Klang Valley kids. We tell foreigners we come from KL, but how many times have we visited (or ever visited) our national landmarks aka places of interests like the Tugu Negara, National Library, Dataran Merdeka etc? We always go to the shopping malls, but shopping malls are just shopping malls and shopping malls are almost identical all over the world; nothing so special.

Anyway, the two of us went down by bus (another KL thingie, how many of you KL-ites actually use public buses?) to Central Market. We had this ‘Eat and Sleep’ brand that we want to promote and we are thinking of producing some T-shirts for sale. Thinking that Central Market being the hive of all artistes, there will be cut-throat competition; hence prices of custom made T-shirts will be much cheaper.

But we are proven wrong. The prices of T-shirts are much expensive than our current supplier. I sense some monopolistic or agreement sort of thing between the sellers there. And I’m not wrong. One shopkeeper actually told us he didn’t want to go below a certain price because he didn’t want to ‘spoil’ the market.

By the way, Bryan had already made an initial supply of ‘Eat and Sleep’ T-shirts of 20 pieces and sales had been brisk. I like the ‘Eat and Sleep’ branding and foresee a big potential here. I sell my idea of marketing this brand to Bryan and he seems interested. I’m writing a business plan for this venture and hopefully this venture will be a successful one after the failed 69Tribe plan.

More details about this venture soon. I’ll keep all of you updated on the new T-shirt designs once it’s out.

Now, once we are done with Central Market, we made our way to Petaling Street. We didn’t know it was walking distance till we saw some signboards. We were also within walking distance of Dataran Merdeka, but we chose to head right towards Petaling Street instead of Dataran Merdeka. I guess that’s a blessing in disguise cause if we had headed to Dataran Merdeka, we would have seen the mess that KL was in after the flash floods 2 days back. The Dataran Merdeka carpark was still flooded as of yesterday and it will definitely be a sight if we had gone there.

We walked around Petaling Street in the afternoon, but it’s quite empty and quiet. Perhaps it’s much more vibrant at night. By the way, it’s KL’s Chinatown right? But I see many shopkeepers being foreigners. Ironic. Anyway, we didn’t buy anything, just thought it would be nice to roam around.

Oh yeah, and another observation. We saw some DBKL council officers walking around Petaling Street. And it stopped at the Rolex watch shop….Hahaha….can’t stop smiling at the sight of corruption that might just be happening right under our noses.

And the weird part is, there are 2 police stations within walking distance of Petaling Street. The whole street is selling pirated, fake goods. But the enforcement officers are really turning a blind eye. The traders must have greased the officers with lots of bribes. And I guess they get a free flow of fake goods supply too?

We made our way to Low Yat Plaza next. We found out from the chestnut trader that there’s a monorail near Petaling Street. It’s the Maharajalela station. And Petaling Street is near Stadium Merdeka. Gosh, we are so damn blur about KL’s geography.

We walked around Times Square and both of us agreed that the girls clothing at Times Square are really Lala-ish. And Times Square is really empty especially at the top floors.

We header to Low Yat Plaza next and I bought my mom a Kingston 1GB Flash drive and another 1GB MP3 Player. She gave me some money to buy it. The Flash drive cost me RM35 while the MP3 player RM95.

I was also looking to buy some PC games – Battlefield to be exact. But surprise, surprise….there’s no longer any shops selling pirated CDs openly. I remembered my last trip to Low Yat; CDs were displayed on walls offering all the latest softwares, games, movies. The whole floor that has the CDs seems like it has vanished.

Crap, no more pirated CDs to be bought at Low Yat. On second thought, I remembered some small shops displaying movie VCDs/DVDs….And not as openly as last time….Perhaps some enforcement was done recently? Or not enough bribe offered? Or a change in the police head? Never know the reasons…..

Oh and lastly, sorry no pixs over here. Scared to bring down camera phone to KL….Scared kena rompak…

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