Frachise or not

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Hi I've been out again for a long time. It is safe place for me let me spit out.

I've been doing quite well in my life now, though, it is coasting along the rail but still i understand that i'm still going up. *Chuckles

I've come back to talk about my big plan and how's is life to be part of the franchising. Years back, I've been mumbling of having business. Yes, I'm doing my own business in education and it is pretty difficult at the starting point. 

Franchise often centralised all the freedom to make use of their brand under the headquarters. In other word, you ought to be less creative to follow the sets of dogmas. Otherwise, you are going to be frustrated just like me. Restriction of being outlier is one thing you must endure in franchising.

Another thing to watch out, protection plan. The most worrisome thing in business world is to compete. To compete with other brands, to compete in strategy and etc. How about competing with own brand? Ridiculous isn't it? How can one compete with own brand. That's the thing you should rule out. Watch out for their protection plan. If they don't have one, don't sign up even it looks tempting good. 

The next thing to do is to hold your calculator and think of the royalty. How confident you are to survive and prosper after profit cut and give to the mother company. If you are newbie, yet, don't feel gaining experience as your goal. Along the way, as you gain enough experience you will feel harder to continue the business. You know what i meant. *wink

We still left about 2 years of contract and I've made up my mind to kickstart my own brand. Though we are not ready structurally, certification wise and even the team, I believe we will pickup along the trial and error. 

Connecting the Dots to the Past

"Fast money," a sale man told me. The sale man has a younger brother and he is very smart. "He doesn't want to work. He doesn't want money from the proper way," He continued.

Proper way? I think that's quite a subjective perceptive. Something incontestable is that some people in old fashion still perceive money which got from random sources to be not proper. I didn't make a comment. The picture of my friend success had came into my mind. He is doing an "improper business" for years before he established himself a good company. I thought the claim by the sale man is subjective.

"I've seen quite a number of my friend having good trait but turn worst when they mismanage their lives," He said. "Though some of them from very poor family manage to strive into realm of success." While he trying to convey the message, I found this man interesting. He's actually looking back to his past. They are classmate started from the relative same starting point and ended with different point of life after years. He began to compare what he actually missed to become success like his classmate and what he gratitude that he doesn't get involve in certain way to become a bad person. I start to observe and I found this fact is fascinating. We can't actually see thing when we are young. The icon and success stories on paper is quite a fairy tales to us but when someone in our circle start to emerge as a successful person, it kicks into our mind. What've we done differently? One thing I see from my past is I thought of education is an absolute determiner and success is impartial to those loner, but my friend had proven me wrong. I start to build my communication, I speak more, flatter when I need to and I stress to every one around me that getting no good mark doesn't mean you are bad producer. 

One thing I do agree is ambitious people do often looking to do something out of sense. Looking for fast money is one of the trait, but it also mess up their life. I pretty sure i'd somehow mess up too my life by debts and overwhelm by job that I'm not supposedly able to handle at my age. I look at the guy and smiled, feeling like I'm somehow in the position of his brother. Though I might be little hard worker than him. 

It also taught me another important lesson, if the problem is chronic and important, working on the surface does't help to eradicate it. I'd spent most of my time trying to pull off the fire failing to recognise the source is still there. I think if the problem is there, why avoiding and worrying? Work on it.

It is important to have a kid waiting for you

Now i'm back to the blog again. One good thing of my blog is without ad. It isn't because I don't want some income from the advertiser but I don't know how to really put one.

Let's go back to the topic again. Why is important to have a kid waiting for you at home, in school or nursery. Now to some culture, one would seek more on individualism, means they want to have something to achieve before they got married or have child. In the common perception of the group, they perceive children or kids were burden to their progressive live. For example, they want to achieve something, a business startup, a superb athlete or a fame celebrity and etc.

But I'm trying to assure you that "kids", especially your child will make the entire belief the opposite way.

What makes me to say so? I don't have child and I'm yet to married but my job has giving me more opportunity to get in touch with kids with different age than most of the office workers.

The one essence of having kid is "they are the greatest motivation factor".

What was that? You might think that, ya right, it means struggle days by days to bring home pennies to get them fed. That is my life, my motivation.

No. What I'm trying to say is completely different.

What I'm telling you is, even if you get scolded in the office by your boss but when you get home, you are their hero. When you get to teach them, shows them new trick or stuff or maybe get something build, they will giving you the feeling that you are amazing. Indeed, you are amazing. It matters. Why? Thinking you are amazing should be subjective and not universal. You can be amazing in a small circle but not to the other. But who care. Living in that small circle makes you grow faster than the other. One of the good example that of thinking someone is amazing is a subjective perception is Android-ian think that Steve Job wasn't that amazing compare to the Google's humanity achievement.

When you see them growing up everyday from able to walk, holding a pencil, talk something that you don't expected, it gave you some goosebumps. They had really grow under your care! you will hold that on any stormy day will get into your way.

So, have your own baby and take good care!


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Hard Things Always Easy - Business Life

Little moment when girlfriend was out. It was quiet and peaceful though it doesn't mean that she is noisy. It do give me a little moment of being my very own. My television was down and it was a quiet night. Listening to the new song bought from Apple iTunes had gave me many thoughts. Looking on the words and advices I had pasted on my closet. It said, "Hard thing always easy." Very often, I was too busy and tired to even look at that but once I have the time, it always hits me deep into my heart. It makes me believe that I have to stretch more and more to get better and better. We are human and rely much on companionship. It is inevitable to be imperfect and sometime situation around can be like salt on wound or perhaps one little word from other's mouth can cut deep into your heart. It is unavoidable, absolutely. However, if you had been expose more and more to such situation, challenge and maybe criticism, your won't be that glassy anymore. I had regret that I'm a businessman once a while when hitting rocks. I will ask how good if i'm still well protected under a company welfare. This feeling is weary day by day and it is maybe that I've grown stronger.  I'm not glassy compares to a freshie now. I brush off my shyness to deal with unknown. It is hardly now to feel in trauma or disappointed on little words by people. I have to live on and continue to survive and to grow big. If you are a businessman or a start-up. You never alone because there are thousands of people feel the same as, i'm inefficient. I think it is a growth process. Cheer! Lad!

Walk two miles

Do a little bit more than you will be different along way. How much did you embrace this sentence? Some of the people will holding the concept of giving 20 percent of effort and getting 80 percent of result. If you have bunch of friends, look at the success one. Every done and undone things matters what he is now. I saw that one friend tried a little bit different when we are at high school and he is huge different successful figure now. Why not do a little bit more? Jesus says, "walk two miles when someone had asked you to walk a mile." Amen.

Ladder of Education

Being inspired by an art satirise the very true situation of our society. "The ladder of education" It was illustrated in the way of staircase was built by notes of money. Being a teacher, I notice the education received from wealthy family is richer than the poor one. More than often, poor kids are just rely on the government school system they had. They are very depending on whatever they received from school, unlike richer kids, they receive better, detailed, rich content as long as their parents are capable to pay for it. It is always sad that they are much in love but they do not feel the situation. One can said, "Plant in the greenhouse can't withstand adversity." It is true but they have better surviving rate than the poor one. It means, "Plant in forest is stronger but they exist at one in thousand ratio." You saw someone from a despairing family doing great and very success, but wonder too how much of those had actually died off.

I hope every teacher in this nation will devote more love to everyone and pay more attention to build the kids. Who know you are the only one they can rely with, second to their parents.

"Lord, please give strength to all the teachers, parents and students. Open their heart to receive your words. Make them wise, mature and persevere. Grant them best of their luck. Amen."

Difficulties, Take It Down Pieces By Pieces

I have learned to appreciate every drop of inspiration on starting an article. It is often situational and difficult to repeat.

Have you ever been mediocre on your way to success or even feeling difficult to continue? Be it on your career, as a parent or even as school student. Many of us encounter difficulty or difficulties, but not many of us try to embrace it. As large group of the people might turn away from it, look at it or panic with it. It will be much simple to imagine by putting your younger self side by side to your current image. If you have child, try to compare your way of living, method to deal with external stimulus with theirs. You will probably found that there are not much different in term on the nature of problem and dealing mechanism. How? You would say, we are at different stage of life. True enough. But had you seen yourself saying "I don't know.", "They are different, they are better.", "It is somehow destinated". Have all these thoughts come across your mind before? If you are conscious enough you probably heard these, and if you deepen your thought, you will notice that you can solve the problem what had caused your kids scratching their head (your head) with the wisdom you currently have.

So what you are going to do to solve their problem is the same same mechanism to solve your problem right now. Put it in career, parenting or business world. Yes, but I ain't say the magnitude is the same. The magnitude gains in size when you grow older but the mechanism to solve problem is always the same, the way of thinking, processing is the same. Throughout history, people "walk" with their feet, "ride" a horse to travel and "drive" a car to work. All of these shared the same mechanism but different in magnitude. This is why we need "company" to "create" certain value which can't be done by individual. The magnitude is different. But what had been done in the past, will still be doing now.  What was needed, will still be needed now.

So ask yourself, how are you going to solve your younger self problem. Coaching? Step by step? starting with least difficult task? Make a lighter commitment to train up responsibility? It is the same mechanism like learning ABC before Spell "Cat" and "Dog". So take it down one piece at a time.

Then who are suppose to be the teacher role? You aren't getting a teacher when you are already an adult. No guiding, no postulation, no, nothing, ambiguous is the only thing left when you peer into the future. However, this inefficiency makes whole thing perfect. Don't feel afraid on making choice or waiting other to pick for you. If they do, prepare to be deep in regret when someone achieve than you do. In fact, I doubt the richest man will certain their every action, they don't, they gain confidence and instinct along the way. It took a small piece at time. That is also an harsh truth that trained us to be more responsible to our choice in adulthood. In fact, I don't have a good teacher right now and I would cry for having one. Teacher will coach you, give you insight and motivate you when you run out of fuel. In business world, you must realised that you need one. If you don't have any, keep looking, expand your social circle. That is the only way.

Taking down the difficulty small piece at a time is the only universal rule to get it done. Recognise when you are running away. Conscious or not, life is getting better and mind is getting wiser. That happens to everyone of us.  =)

Temptation Is Talking To You

Believe it or not, there are always more than one voice in your heart speaking on certain decision or choice. Most of the time, they are conflicting each other which make us difficult to make choices and stall on some of the big moment. It happens too to the temptation. So how do we deal with the temptation at the first place? How do we make a right choice at the very moment? You need to be conscious (always) which will be difficult as it could happens and gives you a blink or it would not. Secondly, don't compromise but run. Do not try to indulge in any single pieces of temptation because once you condemn in a even smallest pieces of temptation, it going to haunt you and hunt you down.

Devil are not pushy but they are very good on mesmerising and lie. As Psalm 10:6 said, "They say to themselves, 'Nothing will ever shake us', they swear no one can do us harm'.  Psalm 10:11 "The wicked say to themselves, 'God will never notice'. he covers his face and never sees".

Psalm 10:4 In their pride the wicked do not seek him in all their thoughts there is no room for God.
That is how one does not respond to God whisper and fall. Do not be one of them. If God grace is to give you conscious on what you are doing and how danger are you on the edge of cliff, appreciate that and run.

An Awesome Generation

I had came across this post from facebook posted by a friend. It is both surprise and feeling proud. This guy is my old mate and my friend! When we are in form three, he plays a song at class and I could remember until now.

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Our year is an awesome generation, we have bubble tea tycoon which who now operates their franchise abroad; We have a group operates vegetarian foods franchise in Penang and now is top vegetarian shop in Penang Island; We have few successful friend now working in Singapore and their salary is easily 10 thousand of ours; We have one group of friend recently opens new pharmacy and dental clinic and another opens a Thaifood restaurant.

Although i'm not as good as they are now but still I'm proud to have sharing same old day with them. By looking on them and I knew I did miss out something when sharing the same journey with them. Though I always quite slow but I will keep finding the thing that I had missed.

Love to be part of you guys.

At the most vulnerable state

Never being so vulnerable since and sometime I will think if it calls losing a job. Technically, I open a shop and have my own business since then. It is difficult be it my business already break even but I do not gain a single penny up to now. It has been half year and I have felt despair since then.

Lots of pressure, urgency cropping up whether from qualities to deliver, customer's satisfaction, multi-tasking and many more. At this moment, I've thought luck was important and luck is needed to get through this. But on the other part of my mind will say, didn't God answer our prayer through us and answer it very originally? It means harvest from sowed field. Fairness of lord, it have sticked with me all this long. God is fair to every single person, where harvest for those who had sown. The only things make us different is chances of encounter. We encounters or expose to certain chances differently. Example like Jack Ma from Alibaba, there are few million peoples in China and I bet there are thousand of them doing the same thing as him. Anointing from the lord make him different (whether he is Christian or not). This is the sort of chances and encounter that only happen in probability of lower than 1%. Do you think this one percent going to happen on you? And some would said try or never. It is two different end of spectrum.

You know what, I've tried to film a video and one American (view from America) watched for only 42 seconds. WHAT?? It is a big laughing stock.

I'm in a very vulnerable state and hope Lord will show me what to do, perhaps bring me some luck (I don't think it would understand from Bible). I really in a confusion state and I need money.

Your sporadic son.

Testimony of God's Miracle

"...when every time I prayed, I move the hands of God, for the prayer does the thing my hand cannot do..." Every time this track turn on when i'm in the car, it will reminds me how great the God power is and how was the experience of receiving answer from the heaven.

It was few weeks back that my dad out from no where, coughing seriously and contains blood. continuous for few days coughing lots of blood. Cancer or lungs problem had instantly caught into my mind. I'm shivering and feel afraid. For my dad is a heavy smoker and non-believer, I felt the possibility of losing him.

The night he have been sent to hospital, I was crying. I cried and pray to lord with the name of Jesus. The lyric of this song had floating out from somewhere of my brain and I prayed according to what the song said.

The diagnose was done and doctor claims that the X ray and other scanning was fine without any growth in the lung. From that day onward, my dad had stop coughing blood and maybe a few times of dry cough. Praise lord and glory to him that today my dad was fine and back to his loud voice at home.

It reminded me story of Jesus healing multiple type of people and always said to the sinners, "be your confidence and believing heal you." It doesn't matter to you that if you are a good in prayer, it just matter that you believe and you pray.

**Glory to god and praise the lord that He had help me to succeed on my ten days Daniel Fast, although i'm first timer and not doing exactly well. I won't success if only me alone all these ten days.

When one say "i finally be myself"

More than often, we feel that the one area doesnt let us to shine and we will think we keep doing someone that not ourself.  However, i felt in another way. All this while we are living as ourself but not suitable to the current area. It just simply doesnt fit and and not the surrounding is doesnt favoring. 

He Got A Plan For You

I have going outstation for company business recently, particularly is to study the technology at an competitor company. It was an SME company but it worths to be mention and written in my blog.

I'm an engineer which was i feel have very strong fate with activated carbon industry. I have left my company but eventually come back to my old fac. 

I met this guy, a boss from this AC company. He told us, the company to him is a miracle and he say without these two chances to his life. He would never be what he is today. Start with some of his history as a youngster. He was born a very poor family and father past away when he was age 6 months. His mother was doing day care and all his brothers and sister have to working young of the age 12 and 14. He say, he was the lucky one manage to have chance to enjoy education up to university level. He working all the time since age 16 and will go to singapore every holidays just for part time. He utilised all his time whenever after lectures at university, teaching tuitions, shoes collectors and etc. lucky that he was born quite smart that he was some of the "no need study hard" student.

He join a carbon company for few years and started his own business when age 29 and already a multimillioaire today as his late 40.

The first chance, there was a taiwanese company with very ruined company structure and planned to sell to his ex boss. Unfortunately, the deal was not closed. One day, he talk to his colleague which his partner now about the acquisition. His partner say, why not us to take over? He began to talk to the taiwanese and rent the factory on five years basis with negotiation of five minutes in car. So he meet his first chance.

The second chance, the taiwanese who rent the factory to him was kind enough and also for his own survival tried to be agent and bring business to him. But at that time, he have completely without moneys to buy any raw materials. So he tried to utilized another cheap source which was plenty in my country with fews hundred of dollars. Of course, what he produced was a lousy product and he sell to the end user. He receives the customer complain about the quality but the application still delivers the result. Why? Because the water supply itself dont need to be filtered by activated carbon and the customer are not aware of it. This is his second chance, he made 500,000 usd on his first deal. After that, he was able to buy tonnes of proper raw materials for his manufacturing.

From his tales, I can feel his pains and hardworks when he was a youngster and i feel his decisive and strong anticipating ability now. I think his past cultured him to be what he is now. He is still active in different community and services and also church activities. 

I hope I can also meet the chance that he have met. He grabs the chance and brave enough to create from nothing, the trait that i admired the most. Although i was not born poor and do not have much society experience, i still hope i can have all the trait he have now. He was one of my learning list.

Thanks god that i see you are planning from him, through his tales i feel your presence. Amen!

Work For The Lord

Just to reflect my life as an employee. I have face conflicts and political tackling by few of colleague. In general, as I'm quite straight forward and often offend them by putting thing straight. I'm living my life serious and I put my works serious. I can't tolerate slack and laggy. More than often, I can't see changes to better from the group. I decide to pull myself out.

Until recently, working by your own is very tough and tiring. Peoples are stay aside, cross their arms and waiting you to fall. Eventually, I fall, my passion being killed. My boss can't see improvement I intend to brought up. I receives all sort of disappointment expression that i'm not a good team player. I felt despair and to reason why I must white knuckles all the way and got an unfair evaluation. I received encouragement which I read it as false encouragement, an expression and message you must work hard to make the company grow. I'm raged and disappointed, I have been working hard, I do what must be done cause as a Christianity belief, "What is right shall not be fooled". I got the thing done but they took that as granted.

I becomes pacified and lack of motivations.

I receives this message from an audio podcast where the message said, "you are not working for anonymous, you working for Lord. You are not anonymous, you represent the almighty."

I understand thoroughly that I'm a Christian, although at time, I'm looked like not in a shelter but I believe that should be a reason behind.

I'm a Christ follower and people know I'm. I represent God and this had become my motivation in my following days. "I work for God, I represent God." Lets continue to shows our Christian Way.

To All: Be it hard, but don't worry. God is watching. Keep praying for greater-you.

To My Suprise

An email from feedspot had spur some inspiration of coming out this pages.

It was an usual night with tiring work life, I received an casual email where usually I don't very pay attention on. To my surprise this email from feedspot had caught my attention where this blog had subscribed by 26 followers. Wou... my first reaction was. It was to my humble, I never advertise the blog and not even being give aware to my nearby friends. It is still an unknown reason but I'm glad that I can do something to motivates the folks although it might be dust like effect.

I wish to continue share my taught, religion, photography and my hometown.
welcome visit Penang.

From a Penang Boy

I've gone greed

The desire to become an impressive football player doesn't go fade after all these years. In fact the desire is there but the training and preparation wasn't there. Sadly to my forgetful mind, i have been reminded i was prayed for a good competition. He have answer my prayer, he give me chance, but I wasn't prepare. They chance have arrive and i have to sadly give this away. I wasn't an impressive player, I didn't pickup by the other. It is disappointing but it is all my own. 

A gentle reminder to myself, when you did not feel pain, you are not giving your best, and you wont expect a miracle to happen. It was too early for you to comment on luck.

Way Back From Japan

Hello there, it is been a while not updating the blog isn't it. I just way back from Japan last week.

Yup, it was my first trip to oversea and I appreciate it so so much. It is a training trip to Wakayama Japan and known as legendary origin of modern Japanese knowledge and culture. It was a religous town than any large urbanization of Japan. Wakayama is located at south of Osaka.

The legend say XU FU from QIN Dynasty arrive at the place of wakayama and start living and teaching at the place. He bring in new way of farming and medicine from China to ancient Japan. There are still temple at Kumono river that people are workshipping him and known his as God of Farm and Medicine.

I've been staying Japan for five days which I've spent four days at Minabe, Tanabe. Interestingly, the hotel i stay was near to the ancient pigrim route by ancient Japanese. Of course, the fourth day morning I took the chance wake up 4 something which already sunrised at Japan and walk on the pilgrim route too. It was cold and about 20C and it was a bit creepy to walk alone. I visited 3 Shrine but dare not walk into the shrine.

i was amazed by the Japanese culture and working attitude and felt sorry to see what we have in our country. It was sad and it is completely different world of people when I was in the circle. I still finding why they are so committed to what they doing.

trying to think what i really like

i was trying to think clearly what make most happy up to now. i tried to think after i got rich then how, after i got the fame then how. All of this doest really matter to me if imagined i already got all these. Now this seems lonely striving for these.

I think the most happy moment is coupling the right pace during football and impress by my own photography product.

When think about football, my memory still floating at the moment i scored a very important goal during my inter form competition during form six. The first ever goal at that match and we nearly win the game. 3-2 and we fail to kick in final. it feel like happening yesterday.

没有进决赛真是遗憾

prayer

It was ever once that you heard someone say this, "it doest seem logic for praying this and it does not happen in that way." However, God's blessing to you also does not seem any logic behind. it just happen that way and it is a miracle.

I read an article which teach us how to pray and practice to pray. Up to now, it seem i got all my prayer answered by time. It was too instant we lost our faith and conclude things while God is giving the answer.

I also heard a story in real that dying person last wish to ask for recover. since ever he pray, he getting well from sickness. i meet him alive and that is miracle.

let us pray and specifically. i love u god

Walking on the water

We or precisely, i believe that we can do wonders when we just step out from the books and we imagines ourself as hero and savior of certain industry as we splashing our knowledge on papers and on practical as well. But reality doesn't go that way, and we got blow. We got blow and blows and we finally fed up and disappointed that either we are not hero or we tend to accusing the other party on lack of creativity, do not think out of the box, this and that.

Somehow, God says we must have faith. You choose but without faith. You are sinking. You cried, god save me. Of course, almighty hand pull you from further lost.

You might losing your faith on your career, but never to lord. Amen.