Dionis on the web.

Spent some time googling for my favourite Adam Lambert videos and I must say I was wowed by his rendition of “Mad World”. I totally fell in love with the song and I absolutely have to get a copy of it in my iPhone!

Check it out here.

Download the full video here.

But what really moved me, literally to tears, was when I watched Britain’s Got Talent’s Susan Boyle. The purity of the human spirit and her fight for her dreams moved me. You can say that her soul, touched my soul, through her singing as a channel. This is amazing. You guys have to check it out.

Sigh, I made a mistake at work today … Hope everything’s gonna be fine and I don’t lose my customer one if the toughest things of owning a business is when you have to shoulder the entire responsibilites of your company.

It is almost like you need balls of steel and hides of thick rubber to insulate the blows that come your way, almost on a daily basis.

Ouch!

And life goes on. Ah well…

I’ve always wanted to blog this entry to share with everyone some of the inner circle stories of being a lady entrepreneur in a techie world but never had the opportunity to do so. Thought that this would make a good angle for this blog. Anyway, now that I’ve a couple of minutes to spare, let me get started on it. As some of you might already know, I’m running a couple of businesses (customised gifts, big john, printing) and non-profit organizations (tdm – tho not so much of this right now all thanks to Howie, Mike and Su Yuen) at the same time, and sometimes one or another takes up all my time and I end up with not much time for myself. But that’s fine, I have no complains about that, in fact the busier I am, the more fulfilled I feel. My only complain is the kind of people that I meet and the remarks they say that really makes my blood boil at 1000 degrees Celsius.

Remark 1
A fellow entrepreneur takes a jab at my business:

Your chatbox on your site adds a nice personal touch to your website, but honestly, it makes you seem like such a mom and pop shop. One man show. Not like ours.

What’s he really trying to say: A back handed insult to bring you down to his level so that you’ll give him a better deal.

Remark 2
Another one comes and say:

We like to work with companies that have huge potential for growth and sizeable market share. Hence, we cannot promise anything to you right now. We just want you to try out our service.

What’s he really trying to say: You are too small for us to consider you as a real customer, but then again, we don’t have enough customers, why don’t you come support us. See, I already came to your office just to talk to you. Even though you’re so small, but we still came, just that we don’t consider you as a real customer.

Remark 3:

Honestly speaking, though this might not land too well on you. You should just come under us.  There’s seriously, no potential for growth for your business.

What’s he trying to say: Since you can’t beat us like EVER in the next 50 years of your existence, you should join us.

Sometimes this is what I really want to do to the meanies...

I mean, we all take pride in the things we do. At least I do. I acknowledge that in these couple of years of growing up, I took one too many decisions that were not too wise, lost money in the process and had to restart the business from scratch, resulting in the online front looking like a one man show. I am working very hard right now to shift the business around and adopt a new model and this time, I think it will work. The “one man show” is only temporary while we shift our internal operations and fully utilise the 10 people that we have in the company. It is painful to hear these comments and still smile and take them in graciously when you know that you’re past your boiling point inside.

While I am pissed at the mean comments that have been thrown my way, it is also a reflection of the holes that I need to plug. I am present to the intensifying need to strike a balance between fun, professionalism and having a personal touch. So, let me try to figure that equation out.

I love the service that I am providing, and I want for everyone who uses our services to walk away happy. I’m in the business of making somebody else smile. I am never selling a product, I am selling an experience, that is what Printeet has been built upon.

It is tough being an entrepreneur, even tougher if you’re a lady, and toughest when you try to run an online business and you belong to techie based social networks where it is predominantly male. There are a whole lot more interesting stories to share

Hope this entry serves as a little piece to share with everyone some insights on what goes on in my life as a lady entrepreneur in Singapore.

Just wanted to take a snapshot of my workdesk to remind myself how horribly cluttered it is and how I need to seriously do something about it :p I’ve made a promise to myself that I’ll clear this place up within the next 3 weeks! I hell better make sure I do!

- entry made via iPhone and middle finger typing

I realized one of the reasons that I gave myself for not religiously updating my previous blogs was the terribly inconvenient interface that required me to login and this was a major big-ass deterrant for myself. The only way to cure this is to make blogging as easy for me as possible.

Blogging on the go is definitely the way to go ;p And it all clicked that I just got myself an iPhone and there’s this really cool wordpress app that I can blog from. This is really exciting and I can’t wait to start blogging again…. Now let me test the photo function…

“just me and my iPhone”

Then and Now picture of my blogs

I’ve finally got my butt down to recreating my blog. It has always been my dream to own my own domain name since 1996 but there were a whole onslaught of excuses reasons that deterred me from doing so. (Too expensive, no idea how to do it, too ostentatious and so on…) But I do know, deep inside me, I’ve always envied my friends who have their own domain names where they can freely express themselves and I really want one for myself.

Hence I bought dionischiua.com more than 6 months ago. And like I said, 6 months just flashed by me like that while I procrastinated for god-knows-what reasons from creating a blog. (The list includes lack of energy, not my priority yada yada). Finally, a voice within my head just went, “JUST GET THE DAMN BLOG UP!”

And tada, I found a great theme and created this site within 30 mins.

Yes, I do own several blogs but I would like to consolidate them within this domain. Although my older blogs are pretty crappy, where I used to BMW (Bitch, Moan & Whine) in them, I kind of appreciate how they form a kind of time capsule for me where I watch myself grow from an angst-y young girl to the geeky geek and to the woman that I am right now.

Over the years, I’ve underwent many transformations, moving from somebody who was shy and hating people to someone who owns her own business and a life coach, being a service to the people around me.

I hope to use this blog as a way to express myself and become a permanent time capsule to document my growth as well as share my lessons with everyone out there.

I’m not sure how this is going to turn out but let’s go along with the flow shall we?