It's April 2006

April's fool has passed. No. I don't feel like a fool but 1st of April will always be in my mind. It is the date where I joined the working class or rather slaves. It has been awhile since my last blog. I have also been checking my fellow bloggers. One has dissapeared. While two others are pretty busy with their life.

It's also already the middle of the month. My career progress has somewhat stalled. At the same time, I am trying to settle my new home. Yea..at last. Got myself a new home. On one hand, I feel poor after calculating all the expenditure that I will be incurring for the coming months to settle the home ownership. On the other hand, it's my new home. So it feels great. I may have to be on the road again due to work commitments. Still, I am making no headway in my career search. So the mood is kinda down and feeling tired. I did meet up with one of my buddies during my one-day break. That really felt great.

This reminds me. A search consultant asked me if I were excited about an opportunity with an established firm. Being me, I answered frankly. No. A big NO and I told her the only reason why I am willing to try if given the chance is because of the possible career progression. I guess I blew the chance but I really couldn't let go this chance to let the world know what I really thought.

Hahaha... of course. No news about that opportunity until today.
Dang...back to the grinding stone.

Income Tax day 2006

It's income tax day again. I've finally dragged myself to sit down and do my income tax. It is done. Almost, except that I've done it on a draft copy. Clever me. So that I don't need to make any corrections. Hehehe...

The conclusion? I owe the Inland Revenue more than 1k. Dang!!!!!
DANG!!!!

Imagination and Public Speaking

Everybody has their ups and downs. There are times when things are difficult and there are times when things will fall together into their rightful place without any problems.

My mate, David who is in Vietnam was telling me how speak well in public. First, practise. Practise and practise till you can do semething effortlessly. Practise so well until your thoughts being so jumbled and disoriented, come together like a jigsaw puzzle. Free your thoughts, focus on your single most priority during the presentation. To deliver your message or in marketing, your unique selling proposition.

The best tip from David was imagine that the audience are not wearing anything. That would make you feel ... relaxed. You will feel less tensioned inside and sometimes, feel hilarious at the audience. Anything to take and stress and pressure away from the presentation.

Yup, I will try that. I need to, to stop stuttering.

Ya baby!

These days.

The few days I have busy with two things besides work. Searching for job opportunities and house hunting. Both were frustrating. I guess MBA skills may come in handy. How do you manage problematic projects such as these two? Hahaha...

Still, it has been difficult. However, saying that things are difficult isn't going to make things better. So I guess back to the grinding stone. I wanted to blog more, on anything actually. Anything that would make me feel good at this point of time.

Keep on going.