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I absolutely have to blog this little enlightenment tweeting going on at twitter.
I chanced upon a conversation that the 2 brothers doing my office renovation were having.
Bro 1: I going toilet.
Bro 2: Let’s go together.
Bro 1: (Looks quizzically) I’m going to wash my hands
Bro 2: Let’s go together!
Thought it was pretty funny, so I tweeted that short post on twitter.
Vicki then showed me a picture of two toilet bowls and I mentioned that I can much less pee, if there’s someone looking at me.
The funny thing that happened, the conversation escalated into ctham sharing about one guy who was pooping half way and then 3 girls walked in while he was doing his deed.
Then we touched upon the topic of butt enlightenment.
Some quotable quotes.
@thimerosa: My butt recognises my regular toilet bowl
@ctham: Your butt has gained sentience?
@thimerosa: My butt is awakened and on its way to enlightenment. But total acceptance of all bowls, will take some time….
@vickilew: Your butt is self-aware
It’s quite interesting, the kind of things we exchange on twitter. Perhaps that’s how it makes it so addictive. More quotes to come! (Maybe, they will turn up on tee shirts. Haha)
Edited:
Well, right after I posted this toilet entry, a little interesting google ad appeared under….
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I know I haven’t been blogging ever since I came back from Guangzhou and I am so way behind time for so many many things. It has been crazy and I haven’t slept properly every night since I came back!
Finally things have managed to slow down a little (just a little) and I sneaked back up here to do a little posting to record down my thoughts and what has been happening the past 2 weeks.
Vicki has been following the AWARE saga quite closely while I was away in Hong Kong / Guangzhou then just as I came back to Singapore, they held an EGM that particular night where she was following on Twitter. Someone mentioned that it’s a good idea to put the quips on the tees and voila. The tees were born. She uploaded on cafepress – got a pretty good response and it was only till around 11plus when she saw me online (I just reached home from Guangzhou like few hours before) and she said, hey why not put it on Printeet.
We worked till 4am to get the stuff online and the rest is history.
I’m still pretty amazed cause things have been moving so fast and furious. We have this running joke between the both of us that she forced Printeet into production. We pretty much were almost done researching our tees but this AWARE event really accelerated the whole process.
Check out the tees here: http://www.printeet.com/bioniccreative
Some of the greatest things that I’ve learnt is really about speed, efficiency and listening to what the people really want and have to say. I think I’ve finally found a way to work around the family business structure and come up with a viable way to marry technology with brick and mortar type businesses.
I’ve been somewhat of an awkward kid when I was growing up. I was a fat kid who weighed 48kgs by the time I was 10, 60kgs when I was 12 and peaked at 75kgs when I was 16. I only started losing some weight when I was 17 due to a random epiphany that struck me and made me start running at the stadium beside me. Of course it helped that one of my bestest friends, Pearl, was the National 400m record holder in Singapore at that time and she was sweet enough to care and encourage someone, who was almost like an anti-thesis (because I never liked to exercise) to her existence as a national athlete, to exercise and be healthy. Being a fat kid was tough. I had many dreams and hopes but all of them were smashed to smithereens because of my larger-than-life physique. I would like to share a couple of incidences that I could still remember from my past… Read More
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.
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.
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.
