Somehow, the grass is greener!

About 1.5 years back, when I were about to make a final decision about leaving my previous company in Shah Alam for a better opportunity, my ex-boss was the most skeptical and throwing lots of sarcastic words about my decision and what my future would be. One of his remarks was "Don't expect the grass to be greener the other side". The rest of it was trying to discourage me and to convince me that I was making a bad/unwise move in the midst of the economic downturn. (Refer here...)

Now, while many companies started to picking up, they offered VSS! So, the lesson is, trust yourself. Some ppl might look clever, sharing about sky-rocketing stuff pertaining economic, financial, recovery plan (Nike shape) etc.. bla bla, but to be able to predict what your future will be, is just ridiculous...... Just imagine what would happen to me if I blindly listened to the nonsense prediction? I am glad I didn't! 

P/S: It's ok. Ppl make mistake too :)

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Where am I?

After been in Penang for 5 days, I started to adjust myself to the new house, new environment, new work place, new friends etc. I started to accept that my room is small….. that I cannot run during night time because it is too dangerous….. that I cannot wash my car on my own since there is no way I can go inside the parking area. The most stupid policy ever, only one car/unit house is allowed to enter the entrance gate.

But I believe, there will be a way for me to beat these unfortunate constraints. I just need more time to see it coming. Today, is my second day working in the new company. Day one was tremendously bored. There were no many things to do. Anyhow today, a little bit different. I did my own tour and survey to understand further about my future task.

Tomorrow, I will be doing some hands on job, which I created on my own to ensure a smooth start when my senior start to dump some new project on me. Well, they did train me, by just verbally explained on what is this and that. Oh well, I clearly understood, but if you ask me to do it right away, I believe I can only do 30% out of it. Then there will be some frustrated face shown, and this is what I really want to avoid before it happened.

Overall, I am excited about a new responsibility. I am looking forward to learn and to contribute. I have no regret when I walk my plan and decided to go. Those peoples, who belittled my decision to resign, should feel ashamed about themselves for the negative and bad perception they gave on me. It is very clear that their allegations were baseless and based on emotional and personal overreaction.

They pretend they knew everything. They predict other people future. They even said, since the economic outlook is not good, thus you should be thankful of what you have and do not look for a short term gain.(Aku plak dia kata tamak). What a bluff.

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I watch "Confession of a Shopaholic"

Yesterday I went to KLCC. I got free TGV coupon and I think why not? I kan dah ‘bujang’ balik….. hehehe. I observed my surrounding like a stranger. I suspect that this might due to excess exposure of the wall inside my office.

I parked my car at Taman Jaya LRT station. I was surprise to know that the parking fee have increased from RM 3 to RM 4. If I used the MBPJ parking, it will only cost RM 0.6/hr.

I guess people making a lot of money with parking business. It’s an easy business I think. If you get the right location, you do not need to worry whether it can sell or not. How much of money you can get in a month if every day the parking is full like this:???

Let’s say 200 cars per day with 26 working days in a month….. they can easily get 20.8K/ month. There is no major cost as no material, no machine, no depreciation etc. involved …. May be only small management or maintenance cost incur which contribution might not be significant. I don’t know. I just guess.

How much do you think they will get when this parking complex completed??

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My Dream

If you have a chance to open a business on your own, what kind of business do you have in mind? As for me, I would like to start a small business first. The one does not need big capital and less people to run. There are a lot out there. But all this while, I had been thinking about setting up a laundry service shop. It’s just a dream anyway. I don’t even know whether I will ever have the opportunity to realize it, but hopefully soon, when the time is right maybe.

Well, I have been looking for information about this idea from the internet and asking questions from friend who have done it before. Actually, most and foremost, I have to think about where can I get a capital to get it start. And actually there are some organizations out there that are willing to help people who wish to start their own business by providing financial assistance.

But again, I need to prepare a business plan/model proposal, which should well explain the criteria below:

The Executive Summary should talk about the business opportunity, technology, product, market and management; the proposed financing amount and use of the funds; and contain a five-year income statement and capital requirement summary.

The Business Opportunity section should describe the product and technology, and talk about why a customer wants it and how well will it performs.
The section on Business Strategy and Key Milestones should list down business strategies including financial strategy, technology strategy, and product development.

The Marketing Plan should address customer needs, market segmentation, distribution channels, sales strategy and plans, competition and positioning.
The Operations Plan should include engineering and manufacturing plans, facilities and administration plans.

The section on Management and Key members of the Personnel, should give detailed resumes of key personnel, organisation charts, the staffing plan and headcount projections, and information on incentive & compensation programmes, if any.

The Financial Projections should include five-year pro forma forecasts - including profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow statements; together with financial assumptions.

Your proposal will be evaluated then, and if everything seems good, then the first ladder is completed. There are many more ladders to go anyway.

This is just a guideline. There are many ways to go about doing it. So those of you who interested, please prepare your proposal and get your Trading Licence ready.

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