It had been some time since I blogged. Haha I am actually typing this post in the plane on the way to Shen Zhen.

It is actually school holiday now, but I don't seem to spend much of the time in Singapore. I just came back from a KL and Genting trip 2 days ago, with my classmates, Hui Ting and Qi Jia. Well that's a fun trip; I went to the place that I had always wanted to go since young, which is Petronas Tower sky bridge. Another one of my dreams had been fulfilled, and there are still many dreams to be fulfilled. The other places that we went were the normal places that all tourists would go, which is Times Square, KLCC etc. This trip I did not bring them to Chinatown due to the rainy weather.

Now I am in the plane on the way to Shen Zhen, China to visit my uncle. It had been 3 years since I had been there, and I believe that there are huge changes there. I will update more when I am there. I had registered both my t-shirt printing business and sports accessories business. T-shirt printing business is solely owned by
me, but soon I will incorporate to combine with my sports accessories business. My sports accessories business is a limited liability partnership business running by my partner, Kelvin Ng and
me. The name of my t-shirt printing business is "AttracTEEve Creations" and my sports accessories business is "Ultimate Focus LLP".

In this year of 2009, I felt that I am very lucky. To mark the start of 2009, the most significant matter that shook the world economy will be the big crash in stock market. I made use this chance to gain a lot
of knowledge on how to invest in stock market. Do take note that I wrote invest, not play. Whenever people talk about stock market, majority of the people's mind will think that stock market is "so risky, very easy to lose money, I think I put in fixed deposit will be  better and safer". But instead, before people invest in stock market, do they look that what stock are they actually buying, calculating the intrinsic value, P.E ratio, look at financial reports? I guess majority of them don't, and that includes my father. In fact if you look at the inflation, every year if you put your money in fixed deposit, you are actually losing the value if money instead if earning. Let's see, inflation average at around 4%, your fixed deposit interest rate is only around 2%, you are in fact losing the value instead of gaining. Let's come back to stock market, if you know how to get in at the right time, and you hold the right stock as long as possible, for sure you can earn money. Because in long term, due to  inflation and many other factors, price of the raw materials and many  other stuffs will go up for sure. Buying US stock like P&G, Coca Cola, Kraft have their value there. And the stock were bought by world
richest investor, Warren Buffett too, who run the US most expensive stock company, Berkshire Hatchway. In Singapore, stock like OCBC, UOB, DBS and SPH can be bought. DBS owns POSB, which held more than 50% of the older generation bank accounts; therefore DBS cannot collapse and won't collapse unless the government collapses.

Feelings? I guess that we can only be friends, maybe what numerology state is right, 8 and 33 do not really match. Sometimes I wish I do not need to stress about this kind of matters. Just me and myself, no other people, not need to care about other things. But as long as she's happy, it's enough already. I will be expanding my business, but with someone to share my joy of course I will feel happier.

Just a short summary of my current life, will update more when I am back in Singapore.

A successful team is made up of team members who:

1. are interdependent. They are willing to ask for help when they need it and offer help when they can provide it.

2. compete outwardly, not among themselves. There are three things you can use to create healthy competition: a competitor in the marketplace, a team goal to be achieved or a common problem to be solved.

3. are self-starters. Since they understand the big picture, they don't need to be told what to do.

4. share rewards and sacrifices. Don't expect people to make sacrifices if they won't get to share in the rewards later.

The best thing to strive for is no a team with a great leaders, but a team of leaders.

Extracted from "The Straits Times", Recruits section.

I heard this question while walking with my friends during our break time yesterday afternoon. I had given it a thought and decided to blog on it.

In my opinion, both family members and friends are important people in our life.

Family Members.
Why? Because family members are that showers love on you since you are born. It's countless effort that they stayed up the whole night just to take care of you when you are sick despite they are tired. They brought you to the doctor immediately when you are sick. Your mum had a torture time carrying you around in her womb for 9 months, and not to count the pain during giving birth. You might wonder why I kept talking about mother but not father.
Alright, Father's time. Before you read the next sentence. Think. How noble is your Dad? Is he wonderful? If I asked you to describe about your Dad, how will you describe him?

My Dad had the same routine for the past few decades which is to work and feed the family. He is an electrical engineer, and yes I am proud of him. During my primary school and younger days, I didn't talk much with him, because I was closer to my Mother. But it was during the day when I collected my PSLE results, I had got a result that was terrible and not within what he had expected. It was a big surprised to me too, because I didn't expect myself to get such a low mark. I can still remember that Dad still brought me to have Fish ball noodle for lunch. But we did not talk, and that time I did not know what to say either. Time went past; I got to choose which secondary to enter. For my terrible results, I could only enter to the nearby school which is Yishun Secondary School as my first choice. My best friend, Danny, entered to Catholic High School. I did not expect my results could enter into the first class there, I was surprised too. Dad would drive me to school on every Tuesday and Thursday. And he would drive me to school during raining days too. My thinking began to change after I entered into that school. It seems weird but true, this neighbourhood school had moulded partly to what I am now. I had graduated from YSS since 2007 in Express.

Friends.
Alright! It’s time to describe about friends. Why friends are also important key personnel in your life?

I will like to say there are 2 kinds of stage in 1 life, which is the inner stage and exterior stage. The inner stage is family, and exterior stage is friends.
Why is the exterior stage so important in one person's life?
It's because for most of the time, especially during maturity period, teenagers will find parents' nagging a torture. (Which I passed through too.) Teenagers will think that they are very long winded, and whatever they say teenagers will treat it as nonsense. They will prefer to go out with their friends. At this stage, Friends are the important key personnel that could either bring them to be better or become bad! It's because normally if you have any problems that you faced you will sought help from friends. At this point of time, it's to open your eyes, ears and heart big enough to know who's good and who will lead you bad. Not everything of what your friend say is correct, but it's to listen, digest it, absorb what is correct and discard off what's wrong. Family members' advices can be sought after 99% of the time, because they want you to be better too. 1% is when they gave the wrong information. You must open your eyes big to find true friends that will guide you along, be with you during your hard times, that you can learn a lot of things from them(Vice-versa).

Well that's what I think about it. You might want to sit down and think about that question.