My girlfriend just send me a picture of myself and woah!

Although we lost today's match, but I think I gain alot of things. Things like experience and how to handle pressure. Most importantly I got 12 points! Which I think is a good start? :)

My grandmother has gone back to Batam but I don't think she will come back to Singapore anymore because of age. Take care ah mah!

I have read today's Xin Ming Daily (Local chinese newspaper) and came across a article that goes like this :


In Singapore, there are many success stories of companies and many of them does not have a very high education level. Some of the common names we heard of are :

• Mary Chia Beauty & Slimming Specialist Pte Ltd ( The boss's highest qualification is Primary 6)
• Sheng Siong Supermarket Pte Ltd ( The boss's highest qualification is Secondary 4 )
• Audio House Marketing Pte Ltd ( The boss's highest qualification is ITE )

On the other hand, we still have not heard of any big name companies that their boss is a degree holder and instead, they are desperate for jobs and some became a taxi driver. *Not saying that taxi driver as a career is no good.

Why is this happening? There are many reasons to this, one of the bosses featured in the article said that academic is important, but character is even more important. This is very true, considering the fact that running a business is not just about intelligence or being smart-headed, its more than that. Other than having a good brain, a boss must have qualities like good communication skills, being trust worthy to supplier and customers, be able to estimate risk and deal with lots of pressure, not only on external, but internal which means your workers, so on and so forth. These are qualities that you cannot learn in school.

How can one have "businessman qualities" than? From what I think, it is about experience. Experience with the society says it all. The common thing that these bosses with low academic qualifications might be that they are working at a very young age. This became an advantage to them as they will gain a lot more working experience with the company. With experience, they are able to see know better how a company is being managed. With experience, they are exposed to many people with different personalities, with makes it easy for them to judge if a person is reliable or not. With experience, they are able to learn and become better in any aspects of business. Experience is something that cannot be taught in any schools and insituitions.

Other than experience, businessmen and bosses desire to learn and never give up on upgrading themselves whenever there is a chance to. Mary Chia went to have management course, same as other bosses, they went for various courses that will benefit them and make them even better more knowledeable on running a business. This is where education comes in and play a part. Being well-educated is not a bad thing after all, as one of the bosses admit that one of the barriers is good communication, as he has bad command of the English language. Having good command of English is not an overnight thing, it is needed to nurture for years. Therefore education creates a stepping stone for good communication which will help businessman. In today's world, it is not enough to just being able to speak in English, but mandrian is important nowadays too as China's market is expanding very fast. Therefore education plays a role in becoming a successful businessman too.

To conculde, it is not possible for a person with high qualifications but no experience to succeed overnight and it is not possible for a person with experience but not willing to study further to succeed overnight too. These two factors and add in hard work will make one successful when managing a business and. This is why some insitutions have attachments or Industrial Experience Programme(IEP) for students. They do not only want students to do well academically, but they want students to get the hang on the working world and gain experience. I will end off with an equation of my own,

Education + Experience + Hard work = Success

Thank you for reading.

Grandmother asked me alot of questions regarding marriage. I was stunned when she asked the questions. Girlfriend was shocked too! Nonetheless, it was an interesting chat with her. :) The most funny scene was this. This happen when Girlfriend was in my room and I am at living room with my grandmother.


After dinner and TV shows, time for me to send Girlfriend home. :)

And for now, I am hungry. Going to kitchen to find food! Bye!

Anqi dear, jiayous for your revision and soon your exams will end! All the best!
And for Desmond Yeap, don't know if you will read this but hope you get well soon!

EPL season is here again! The soccer fans must be happy now, the bookie must be happy now, the coffeeshop with television must be happy now!

Why coffeesh? It is because for people who do not have cable TV at home will go to coffeeshop to watch soccer matches and in turn get business! For the uncles, once they got a seat, they will get Kopi-O and for the younger fans probably some soft drinks with mee pok dry.

For me, I am waiting for the matches to start! :)

11 Aug, my girlfriend and I did not meet up but I send her home from school that night. (: I did not play basketball in the end but guess what, I downloaded Pokemon FireRed to play! Awesome! It is quite an old game but it still seems fun to me. The battling, the gym matches, the finding of routes.. dont they reminds you of the good old times when you are young? Aww, times flies and I am not sure kids these days play this kinda game anymore. With the introduction of more game consoles, older games seems to get outdated soon.


Hope this reminds you of the times you played the Pokemon games when you are young..

And I found my Green Adidas Jacket already!


Finally ended my Final Year Project 1. Seems to forget everything after I came out of the presentation room. I wont say that I have done a excellent job, but at least I am happy with what I have done and good grades please come!

Everyone was so happy the FYP ended and celebrated with some photo taking! Pictures to come soon. Went of to Nebo Cafe @ AMK Hub for some snacks and board games and headed home.

Up next will be my UT 3. After which, holidays! That will be the end of the semester one already. Time flies and lets look forward to what we deemed as a deserve break..

Tata!

Public Relation lesson is as usual boring. Today's a little different, but its not because of the lesson. Deepest condolence to the families and friends of the couple.

Anyway, after a few thoughts about an incident, no offense, but feel that the local newspaper have some tabloids news inside too. Aren't they suppose to report the facts?

Today, after so much of laziness and reluctant to go to school, I went anyway. Usually packed my bag in the morning and the last thing I put in my bag is my good friend, the Adidas Green Jacket. I cannot find it today since I get it for washing! Its like gone! My all time friend for the 4th year already, please don't get lost. My Adidas Green Jacket mean quite a lot to me. It is the first thing I bought using my first after O level job's salary.

Other than my Adidas Green Jacket, my white NWO jacket and black + pink jacket mean a lot to me too. They are gifts from my Girlfriend. :)

Will be going home and maybe have a basketball session with FTW friends! Its been a while since I play basketball and hope I don't lost touch as I have a game this Sunday I think. Details to follow.

Tata!

Lastly, to my girlfriend,
You are always young in my heart. :)
<3