Monday, May 30, 2005 ;
5/30/2005 09:18:00 AM
Spent my fridays and weekends rushing here and there.. felt it was rather hectic but fruitful....
Worked on Friday and rushed off early to play bball w Nic and his NUS bball frens. It was a totally fast paced, non-stop game man.. maybe it was because I haven't played for quite some time (8mths?) or maybe i'm just out of their league.. Everybody was too fast too furious.. More importantly, it showed me that I am badly out of shape and my exercise regime is too lousy to get me back to fitness.. We played from 7.30pm till 10pm when it was lights off and I had to rush home to get recharge so that I will be able to do the role of designated driver for the night cuz my parents and aunts and friends are going for a week long holiday to
Yunnan and the flight was @ 1am.
No hugs and tears of course but just a couple of nice good byes to my parents and co. before my brother and I head home to get some sleep......
Lights off @ 3am.
RIIIIIINNNGG...
"Hello...", Kev said.
"Are you coming?", Zy said.
"Coming?....", Kev replied, still dazed.. 5,4,3,2,1....
"Oh shit!!!... okok I'm on my way....!", Kev screamed, jumping out of bed..
Totally forgot that I had a soccer game in the morning... and I was late by 9.30am... Reached there in 15min as Dad's car is available... However, a packed day looms ahead......
Played soccer but it was as though I wasn't there.. was too lethargic to even chase after the ball.. got scolded by SZY for my lack of motivation, apologised but still underperform.. Was quite disappointed with myself...
*3 of my favorite sports: basketball, soccer and pool. I am underperforming for 2 of them..arghh*
But maybe the guys I am playing against are just above my league??
*Ya.. I know I am just consoling myself.. Got to work harder*
Anyway, soccer ended, borrowed szy's shower before I changed to rush off for a career talk from Pathfinders under Prudential.. Forgot y qualifications and the address of the place thus I had to rush back home to get them which defeat the purpose of borrowing szy's shower... Well was late for the appointment for half an hour... after the interview, found that I had nothing better to do and it was only 2pm, I decided to meet up with Fred since he wanted me to accompany him to some business talk....
Picked him up and head for the talk which I found out is another Prudential company during to get more people to join their company as financial planners.. Damn, aren't they aggessive? seriously.. It is so easy for them to make money like they said?? I mean one subsidiary of Prudential has about 300-400 financial planners under them. I saw about eight of such companies at the place where I had my interview and 3 of such companies at Sing Post Building.... You do maths... that's about 3000 to 4000 financial planners from Prudential alone and they are hiring more people? Where got market? Somemore there are other big insurance or financial service companies around... like Manulife, Aviva, GE etc... It is not going to be easy lor...
Well, I would have actually strangled Fred for bringing to another Prudential talk but the plus point about that seminar was that they invited Adam Khoo to speak and share his ideas about how to be rich or make it towards financial freedom. Heard about him so often and this time round finally get to meet him. He looks normal with 3 adjectives to describe him; Motivated, Intelligent, normal.... So what makes him such a successful entrepreneur? well he said that to succeed, we should have goals, a plan, a proper strategy and suitable action, in order to have a thriving business. Don't we learn all this in business management? To me, I felt that components like this are neccessary but the issue is that do we have that components within ourselves? if not, where can we acquire them? and how much do we need to fork out to acquire them? can we afford them in the first place?
The bottomline I feel is capital. and where can we get them? well, it depends. As Mok (my finance lecturer) says you just need one of this elements. They are either FIR, GIR, WIR etc... FIR= father is rich
GIR = girlfriend is rich
WIR = wife is rich
so long as you have strong financial support... =P
Shitt... write too long already.. to make things short... Saturday ended off with me heading home after sending Fred home.. was suppose to go and celebrate Marv's birthday but I was too shacked to wake up.. Knocked off @ 9pm and woke up at 9am the next day....
Sunday was quite relaxed.. It was just meeting Fred at the comics shop in the afternoon followed by a half hour gym session and then dinner. Since he loaned me his PS2, we continued to play games over at my place until he had to go home to meet Chingyan and back to NTU for a kids camp...
J'amore mon cherie
