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‘Productive’ emails

tei o

After not updating my blog for a such a long time, I was wondering what topic I should touch on. The easy one would of course be about ‘her’ (HRH, my girl), but I think I’d give it a break at the moment. So I thought I’d write something a little more interesting. The following subject may be a little ‘R’ rated, so read on with your own discretion.

My mailboxes (yes, I have several, as per the norm) are swamped with spam mails nowadays…I’m sure it’s the same for everyone. You checked your emails in the morning after one night and they’re flooded with all sorts of spam mails.

The spam mails ranged from trying to sell you some super cheap software to some hot-must-buy-now stocks from I-never-heard-before companies to some lunatics thousands of miles away trying to convince you that they would be most willing to share millions of dollars with you, with no or little strings attached. All you have to do is give them some money first. Yeah…right.

But the number one kind of spam mails are those professing to err… make one productive.

No, no, it’s not work productivity related but I’m sure the government will be equally be pleased with this kind of productivity.

C’mon…you know what I’m referring to.

Those magical stuff that makes a man ‘bigger’ and will therefore make your girlfriend/ mistress/ wife happy. The best part of these mails are….they make it out that it’s really us women who want it, and that’s why the men had to have it. So, really it’s not the men’s fault.

Hmm…..good marketing tactic right?

The men could justify it by saying …”but darling…I did it all for you…I did it to make you happy”

Really? I think I’d probably be happier with a 5 carat diamond ring.

To be fair to the men, there are lots of adverts everywhere touting the miracle ‘it’ for a huge ‘bust up’, so to speak for the women.

The strange thing is…whereas the adverts to bust up the bust are blatantly in the open for women…it isn’t the case for men. And yet…judging by all these spam mails…there must be enough demand. I mean it’s like those hundreds of irritating flyers one gets thrusted in face everywhere…it works…that’s why they continue doing it. At least I’m assuming that’s why I keep getting so many of these spam mails.

Now, I see a business demand here…would one of those beauty palour (that’s doing good business servicing women now) open up such a service for men one of these days?

And if they do, I wonder…would men walk in to receive these beauty enhancements?

^^

Food for thought.

PKL OWO

tei o 6 Comments

Yesterday I woke up @ 6am to have a free breakfast. It was one of the many, empowered, networking sessions organised for entrepreneurs.

It was supposed to be for about 20 people only but there were at least about 40 of us there.

Not all of these people are ‘full time’ entrepreneurs. Many of them hold a day job and moonlight/ freelance in their own business. It is not surprising that so many want to be their own boss. I guess everyone thinks of making it big on their own.

And entrepreneurs mean anyone who is doing their own thing…. from insurance agents, to freelance designers, to consultants to people who may have have a few thousand people under them like Li Ka Shing.

The lure of being answerable to you, yourself only is surely tempting. Just imagine:
– no more reporting to your boss
– no more preparing reports/ proposals that you boss will either not read or will tear them to pieces
– no more long meetings
– no more office politics
– no more trying to reach sales target
– no more jostling with the thousands of people on the way to work

That’s what all my friends say to me enviously.

Nearly 7 years after being on my own, I can only say this:
– no more reporting to your boss, but you report to your customers
– no more preparing proposals that will go unread by bosses, instead they will go unread by your customers
– no more long meetings, but you also end up with less ideas and no one to blame for projects gone wrong
– no more office politics but that also means no one to speak to (unless you want to call in to radio stations)
– AND no sales means no income

Many of my friends are now GM, VP or hold some high profile positions. They are earning more than me too. Sigh… My namecard doesn’t have any position. If I could, I will probably put this down:

CEO/ Sales Manager/ Receptionist/ Office lady/ Deliveryman

In short, a PKL OWO…
A Pow-ke-liao, One-Woman-Operation

But it would be misleading to say I’m regretting everthing now.

I still enjoy what I do….and I do get to do things that I want to do only. There are aspects of my life that I woundn’t give up now. Perhaps one day I will be a billionaire like Bill Gates or Li Ka Shing… though I seriously doubt it. But I can always dream right?

Now excuse me whilst I have my cup of tea in the balcony.