wake up 6am in the morning, its a windy and chilly morning!!! I tell myself 'today will definitely be a good day!!!!' but in fact, it turns out to be a disastrous morning,a day that I will never forget.......
Went to the balcony , chilly and soothing winds blows towards me. It will be perfect if theres a teh tarik beside me. Without delay, i drove to nearby 7-eleven to get a copy of 'TheSun' a free newspaper and finally I settle myself in a 24-hours mamak stall near my house. Of course I ordered a cup of teh tarik and began to enjoy my newspaper in this chilly morning.
Round 10-minutes later , this is when the nightmares comes. A presumed-'ah gua' approached me. She asked my permission to sit next to me. I was seating on a 4-peaople seat by the way. Looked around, although the mamak stall was surprisingly crowded in the morning but there are plenty of empty seats available.using that reason, I rejected and point towards the empty seat on the far corner. Dont want to sound discriminating against that particular group, I smiled and offered my advice politely to the presumed-'lady?'. She them mumbles something which I dont understand. I ignored her and continue drinking my very-sweet teh tarik and reading my newspaper. The next thing I know is, she begins to touch my hand pleading 'bolehlah bolehlah'. I asked myself 'boleh what? boleh hentam kamu ke?'and then I started to glare at her, sending a 'fuck off or I'll kill you' message to her. Wrongly interpreted my message she winks at me.................Angrily I bang the table and I stood up. She flee immediately while saying 'janganlah garang garang'. Everyone's looking at me.So, I am the bad guy now huh? Embarrassed, I slip 2 RM1 bill under my half-finished teh tarik cup and go home.
and yeah what an experience.......hope there will be no second time in my life. I do aware that there uncountable grammatical error in this post and who in the world will cares after they face this unforgettable experience?
First of all , I would like to warn the reader that this is going to be a fairly long post.If you are not interested in business dont waste your time reading it, time is gold.If you are interested, prepare a cup of coffee/tea , you are going to spend at least half and hour reading it . Trust me =P.
It saddens me when one fails his business and put all his blame on luck or God. To tell the truth, luck got nothing to do with the success rate of a business. Even if it did, it only plays a very very minor role.It is important to know WHY you failed, and it is sad to fail not even know the real reason behind it. For example, you watched world cup final 1 day before the final exams. When the result came out, you failed all your subjects.Looking from a positive point of view, you know the real reason why you failed the exam and you would not repeat the same mistake next time. It is not cool to end up in hell not knowing the reason why you are there.
Okay enough crap...I'll get to the point now.
Preparation before Starting A Business
-Market survey: this is the most important part of all.
Location: Noone will open a Starbucks in the middle of forest or on the peak of Mount Kinabalu and expect to earn alot on it. If you did this and you actually earns alot from it, pinch yourself you must be dreaming!!
Potential Customer: This is also very important. you dont open a toy shop in a city where the average age is 60 and you dont start a high class 5star hotel beside a dirty fishing village, the fisherman will choose to sleep on the beach rather than paying hard earn salary for his whole in order to sleep 1 night in your hotel.
For example, if you are starting a cafe, you will expect most of your customer to be teenager or middle-aged customer a.k.a people between 17-30.Therefore, you wont play Theresa Teng song , and you will definitely shows live football match in your HD TV on weekends.Dunno who the hell Theresa Teng is?
If you are starting a steamboats restaurant, you will expects your customer to come in a group of at least 3 or more.Therefore you dont prepare a dining table which can only fits 1 people. Despite saying that, it might be different from town to town, city to city, villages to villages. Old fart in some town , might enjoy playing with toy and fisherman in some area might be rich enough to spend his whole life in your 5-star hotel you never knows.And maybe just maybe, youngster these day might enjoy listening to teresa teng's song. And again you never knows. Therefore, market survey is extremely super duper important!! dont even think about starting a business without even conducting a market survey, it will be useless on later date when you start complaining that the elderly customers visits the candy shop next to you more than your healthy vegetarian restaurant.
A very good example of successful market survey(potential customer) will be this. Where is it? what business is it? find out yourself I cant give more than that.
Budget: pretty self-explanatory. Beware of the budget.Lets talk about fishing.Bigger hook are used to fish bigger fish.Different feed is used to fish different fish.Just like stock market the more you invest the more you earn and of course it goes the same when you are losing. Put a 'value' on everything. When the object or subject meets your 'value/expectation' then it is a good deal.Going out of the topic? nah!just think again.
Differentiate between needs and junk/rubbish/useless stuff/placenta fluid (whatever you wanna call it). Spending RM100k on building a high class toilet full of flowers for a mamak stall is a placenta fluid. Providing a tissue for every 4 table is a needs.Got my point? There is alot more to talk about budget actually, for eg: applying loan from banks, financial management, and alot lot more, but i need to stick to my title and discuss about 'basics' only.
tired already? it is only 1/3 of my entire post, take a short break or stop if you are totally not interested in business
Dun ask me why i revive my dead blog, cos i have no intention to answer. I have been the calmest people in the world, but today there are actually people alive that are capable of making me piss off.Yup from the title you know who already.
The sun actually took 30sec to load the page, when you click the headlines, another 30sec of waiting.When someone tries stops me from reading news, I'll be really piss off.Trust me. So i called to streamyx as usual doing all the speed test,reseting the modem and so on.....ok good...still slow, and they claim that maybe it was slow because I was surfing on a non-Malaysian based webpage.
So, let me give you an example, you buy a Perodua Myvi in S'gor. It was equipped with the best engine in the world, can accelerate to 100km/h in 2 secs. A indestructible bumper, you bump onto the lorry the lorry will terbalik not you. Equipped super durable bullet proof car body.You instantly becomes syok, u asked the salesman 'betul ke?'he answered 'betul!' but it is only applicable in Selangor, you go to Perak your car will terbalik when collide with a bicycle,using 5sec to accelerate to 10km/h, and the car body fell off when a fat man sneezes.
So will you still buy that car??? Streamyx self-proclaimed the fastest internet in Malaysia, but the fastest speed is for Malaysia-based webpage only.......Will you still subscribe it??!!!!!
I am just too lazy to go through with the whole switching procedure,or else i could have switched to another ISP already.But you never knows if this kind of shit excuse and services continues, it might turn me into a hardworking fella.
And finally dun expect another update soon........I post on my blog because this whole shit is too much to post on facebook. Unless there are some other people living out there that are capable of making me pissed off like streamyx,which i seriously doubt it.
1) to keep my friend/family updated on my current status and condition as im going to live away from home and away from country in a few years time. 2) following trend 3) share my political & social view to reader 4) to provoke the g*v**m**t
things that you wont expect in my blog. 1) emo post -sorry if you like to read people's whining and complaints on their daily life , this is definitely not a place for you.I like to keep all the daily problems to myself,complaining and whining is definitely not my way of solving problem.
2)cute cute pictures ..........................................................................................................................................................................well it was self-explanatory , maybe just maybe I will post pictures of hot chicks in my school but dont expect any picture of me.
well I think thats all of it,and after this post I will publicly post this link in my facebook profile page and maybe MSN pm.
I have learned my lesson from last year, which is 2009(reminder for those homely people that failed to notice that a year has passed).I will not set my goals so high that makes it 'almost' impossible' to achieve it.
However, I wont list the goals down, and i will leave it blank till I actually achieved it.Well here goes...
Personal 1: 2: 3: 4: 5: 6:
Relationship 1: 2: 3: 4: 5:
Financial 1: 2: 3: 4: 5:
Results(career) 1: 2: 3:
ALOT huh? well all the goals can be easily achieved if i tried hard which i dont, and FYI I already revealed 1 of my personal goal >_^
well thats all of it, new goals may be added into the list as time passes,for example if I've lost in India then 'going back to Malaysia' or 'stay at India for as long as possible' may emerge as my new personal goals.
Seems like another year has passed, so quickly , and theres many thing yet to be done last year.Well, its okay theres still next year and the following year , and the following following year.
To tell the truth, i have only achieved 30% of my resolution last year and failed to achieve the remaining 60% of my vision.The remaining 10% you ask? I din even bother to achieve it.I will list down the 30% and 10%.
30% of my goals that has successfully achieved. 1) get a good result 2) scored at least 6.5 in IELTS 3) confirm my desired career 4) attending at least 70% of my class 5) make more friend instead of enemy 6) win my rival(healthy competition)
10% of my goal that I din bother to achieve 1) diet( less 10kg) utterly failed 2) control my mouth from insulting/bad mouthing/teasing people in college for 1 day (failed miserably) 3) send my wira into the deep seabed(courage and financial issue)
well thats all of it...the remaining 60% i will try my best to achieve it, and post it on the very 1st post in 2011.
