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Character #1 – Results Focused (Pro-Active)
One of best things about being a sales person is you have a tremendous amount of freedom and discretion in how you use your time. In return, you must be able to stay focused on the big picture and not let small problems or dramas distract you.

Character #2 – Courageous
We all experience fear at one time or another. Great salespeople are courageous, in that they are able to act and move forward even in the presence of their own fears. Fear is the reaction we have when you know that you need to do something or that something is going to happen soon that you are not prepared for.

Character #3 – High Energy (Assertive)
The true top-performers got that way by working long and hard to beat out their competition while the other guys were enjoying themselves on the golf course. In short, you must be able to do “Whatever It Takes” to get to the top.

Character #4 – Good Network
The ability to establish rapport and maintain rapport is probably the single most powerful skill a salesperson can have. The most flexible people can adapt and establish rapport with others from a multitude of backgrounds and cultures.

Character #5 – Committed To Grow
Great salespeople got that way by always looking for a better way. They are always improving their approach, their techniques and their attitude. Great salespeople know that they must look for the best examples of excellence and adopt the individual aspects of this that they can use.

This is indeed a very good question. I have heard of this question since my schooling days, and this is one of the oldest and most famous riddle still in use in the English history.

Looking back, some say that it was a test of the chicken’s health and growth capability. However, on the lighter side of things, there is quite a debate on this. Onto why did they use “chicken” instead of any other animals for this riddle, was it that “duck” was not invented yet?

Well, there is no right or wrong answer to this riddle, just a way on how you would to answer it to what i believe.

After procrastinating for about 3 weeks, finally I’ve submitted my tax! I did the figures last week however having to see that i still need to pay the government, i hesitated to finish and submit my tax. Leaving a 1 last week buffer to find whatever else receipt that hopefully appear which is income tax deductible.

Every year at around this time, you will start thinking and hoping you should have bought more books, did a medical check-up and keep whatever receipts. Hoping at the end of the year during the budget announcement things you bought / receipts you kept is income tax deductible.

But after a while getting over with the income tax, you tend to forget when you buy stuff, specially sports gear! Man and ridiculously, swim suits are NOT considered as sports equipment but shuttle cocks are…then swimmers will be thinking are we not taken seriously, or probably you’re in the wrong country to take up this sports. Cos badminton, football, bowling, squash are the few importance sports taken seriously representing the country and making fame for the country.

HOWEVER, you swimmers out there if you can win some medals back, then i bet probably the water in your pool can be tax deductible. This is life baby, life!! Its that Unfair hahaha….being evil here.

Some good tips from Warren Buffet on financial principles:

Spending: If you buy things you don’t need, you’ll soon sell things you need.
Savings: Don’t save what is left after spending; spend what is left after saving.
Hard work: All hard work brings profit; but mere talk leads only to poverty.
Laziness: A sleeping lobster is carried away by the water current.
Earnings: Never depend on a single source of income.
Borrowings: The borrower becomes the lender’s slave.
Accounting: It’s no use carrying an umbrella, if your shoes are leaking.
Auditing: Beware of little expenses; a small leak can sink a large ship.
Risk-taking: Never test the depth of the river with both feet.
Investment: Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

Turkish Airlines crash near Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam about a week ago. It is such a big news after the 9-11 incident. Turkish -> Europe, some may have thought it is some sort of terrorist again? And my boyfriend was in Netherlands at that time and he was about 45mins away from Amsterdam, was worried if it will effect some flight delay during the weekend when he is suppose to catch a flight back home.

Plane breaks into 3 pieces!

Isn’t it scary? Imagine if you were in the flight! I’m sure its all panicky, and screaming aloud, but I think prior to that I would have say my prayers quietly in my heart. Thinking back I always do that, during both take off and landing. Specially with budget airlines when things are not that stable, it always feels better after a prayer is whispered. (Haha, cos sometimes it feels like a roller-coster ride – minus the screaming )

Due to the time difference, it was on the newspaper frontpage on Thursday morning, only then i got to know about it. Malaysia time about 4pm only, Jack came online and got to know from him that they already knew it on Wednesday itself, as it happens NL time about 10-11am. And on Thursday morning, I was teasing one of colleague who will be departing for ICANN, Mexico on Friday nite, via KLM transit in Amsterdam, Schiphol and the crash just happened! haha…freaky

Burnt Jet Engine

Me with a shiny KLM Jet Engine

2.5 months ago I was at the Schiphol, Amsterdam airport too, so I could imagine the fear I would have got if this recent case just happened! In the Turkish Airline crash, if I am not mistaken none of the Cabin Crew survived, not even the pilot or co-pilot. I guess they thought everything is going to be just fine as any other day, part and parcel of their daily job, but who would have thought? “Cabin Crew, please be seated, we are preparing for landing” That’s what the Pilot/co-pilot would announce about 15mins prior to the landing. As announced today, after the Dutch investigation, “Found that faulty altimeter caused the plane’s autopilot to shut down the engines as it made its approach to land. The Boeing 737-800 crashed a kilometre short of the runway, killing nine people on board. The plane’s black box showed that the altimeter also malfunctioned during two previous landings.” (Reports extracted from “www.dw-world.de”)

So afterall, I have decided it is not a safe dream job!