We have officially graduated!!

i matured at the ripe age of 16
before that selfless and selfcentred
shun myself from you for pride and fear of riducule
locked myself in this home you provided for me without giving thanks
still you continued to love me, like only a mother can

17 onwards, a new beginning
promised myself that i'd come up in life and be somebody
just like you always wanted me to be
you never once asked me to be a doctor, lawyer, businessman or politician
respected all my decisions, though with a shed of concern

i did all this to make you proud
to see that smile on your face when i tell you my results
to hear that you are proud of me and to continue doing well
on the 28th of may i want to see that smile again when i receive my diploma
so if you wont be able to be there, i see no point of me being there either

i'm kinda through reading the 'freakonomics' book
done with the main part, reading the bonus material part
if you're like me, not into the storybook type
dig smth that keeps your mind thinking (not talking about sodoku books here)
and gives you a different perspective of situations going on in the world
then this is the book man
go to the book shop and look for book
flip thru it and check it out
and if you realise that you dun really like it
then guess what
you're not really like me after all

been thinking of my future lately
(i'm sure that ppl are going "oh man, not again")
more like thinking of ways to be successful in the future
so here is my latest idea
(warning: it gets a little boring after this, so venture at your own risk)

imagine doing business with virtually no physical contact with your clients
lets say i set up a programming company
my main mean of sales would be my own website, which offers packages for companies to choose from
examples would be:

• Package A = Website
• Package B = Website + Server
• Package C = Website + Server + Firewall
• Package D = Website + Server + Firewall + UPS
• Package E = Website + Server + Firewall + UPS + Lease Lines

obviously the prices would go up according to how many peripherals there are in a package

lets say a company has choosen a package, we will then have to get into contact with them to discuss how things are to be done according to how they like it right

first of all think of how over telecommunication industry has evoled in the last 5 years

we didnt have video calls, video streaming, VOIP (not really under telco but whatever)

now think of how its going to evolve in the next 5 years

imagine contacting your clients through VOIP, conference calling, video conferencing (http://www.ojophone.com/products/ojophone) and of cos the ever trustable (most of the time) Email

we can use Email, VOIP and conference calling for basic communications, and video conferencing for presentations and such

physical meetings can be replaced and thus time may be saved for better results in the project (think travel time, as vendors usually go down to the clients' office for meetings)

clients may preview the websites thru online portals that allow you to run sets of codes and preview them

of cos there are many many details to be sort out, and taking away the physical interaction between the vendor and the client does post some serious setbacks

but wouldn't it be great taking advantage of the technology that is right in front of us

think about it, business 5 years from now..

people always say that you will feel like studying once you start working
for me, that is true to a certain extent
i do feel like studying instead of working
but i wana study what i feel like studying instead of a set of modules that a school sets for me
just a thought

works been normal
went shopping last saturday
felt good
pics of that day should be up soon (ling..er-hem er-hem)
cant wait for my next pay check
going to splash the cash again

shopping
so super wonderfully fantastically shiok
its just nice to own smth new
its may already
a third of the year is over already
sch's done with
all working
so many things have happened man

the good old days

been too lazy to blog

highlights:
saw LYY on sunday, nice to see you
eye getting better (much better)
returned to work on monday
got my pay today

thats all for now

i wanna be that somebody

some stuff happened this week.

firstly...
i got into SMU!!
so happy when i saw the letter
parents and friends congratulated me
then i was just hoping my enlistment would be ard june/july

wed night i took out my lenses
and my left eye was itching like crazy
decided to just sleep it off
woke up on thurs and my whole eye was swollen and red
told my parents i wasn't going to work and needed to go to the doc
went to the doc and he told me that it was a very serious eye infection
he also said that i had ulcers in my eye (i didn't know i could have ulcers there)
he said it was very serious and i could go BLIND!!
gave me some med and told me to see him the next day

this morning went to see him again
felt better
not fully recovered though
he said my eye did get better
and told me to continue my medication and see him on sunday

then my dad told me to go check the mailbox
cos he hadn't checked it for 2 or 3 days
i went down and low and behold
it arrived
MY ENLISTMENT LETTER
Date: July 10th 2008
Time: 08.30 am

a life changing week?