barely back on friday and about to go off to jkt next tuesday, i decided to take it easy over the weekend....

yesterday me and colorful cloud went to pavilion....my friend had invited me to the msian international fashion week for her bridal gowns design show....well, i didn't look at the invitation card properly until when i got there...to realize it was a black tie event...well, black tie in a shopping mall....both me and cloud were in jeans and tee....but who cares! so we braved embarrassment amongst well dressed and well heeled crowd and sat there (close to the exit of coz to bolt if we hear snickering)

it was indeed an interesting experience for me...i never see real life models walk up and down a run way....now that i have seen it....i wonder why pple want to be model....they are really skinny and look mal nourished....the big screen near the stage allowed me to see the contrast between the real model swaying down and her image on screen...i guess they look better on screen since it adds a couple of pounds....and the cat walk seems more stylish on screen than on the run way....what's the swinging of the arms? only monkeys swing their arms like that! haha...ok ok, sour grapes....granted i will never be a model, but heck...if i have to eat 1 grapefruit a day just to be that skinny, forget about it.....no point making money if u can't enjoy it on food

anyway, after that me and cloud went to eat nice japanese food, my 4th consecutive jap meal in a row with lulu.....i drank some hot sake before the food came.....and went home giddy and sleepy...i googled then realize sake has 15% or more alocohol content! i thought it is like beer, guess i was wrong....

so today, i woke up groggily......walked all the way to lot 10, bought some grapefruit (yeah, i'm trying to be a model) and sake and cat walk back to my apartment....stopping by KFC for some finger linkin' good chickie....the hot afternoon sun was just what i needed, to make me sweaty enough to want to jump into my freezing indoor pool....

so i jumped and swam and showered and ate my chickie....there goes my plan to be a model and vegetarian...what's a person who only eat fish and veg? Shark? hmmm......

so i'm in the land where my daddy is...arrived last noon and off tonight.....exchange my book known as wisdom of whores, for my dad's return to depression economics.....hmm, i want my book back...i think it serves as a more entertaining read on the plane...so pak tho, pls remember to bring the book back!

other than that.....interesting meetings all day yesterday.....this morning i take it easy to blog and watch tv....off to lunch soon!

well....for a while i never understand the meaning of stress...but i think as we grow older, shoulder more responsibilities, this invisible weight does creep upon us....raising our blood pressure, our cholestrol...and slowly, wears us down and for some, bald us....

so anyway....the past few mths have been stressful....luckily for me, i still have my hair....not sure abt my BP and cholestrol levels though....but i feel like i have aged a few years....

anyway, the long awaited paperwork finally arrives....as i reviewed it, i noticed something unusual....1 year of sit out for nothing? hmmm.....i guess i got to eat west north wind if i really agreed to it....

industry standard is only 1 to 3 mth wor....and only enjoy the breeze but dun have to eat it....so i pray ....for this stress of negotiating to go away

so last nite i saw mister ed online.....by way of background, ed is a small boy (since i'm grand old lady) whom we briefly shared a common failed biz venture together....then he went off to army and everytime when i see him online, he is on some hyped out mlm or internet marketing biz....i think we screwed him up big time.....why? becoz mr. rich, another ex partner in our failed biz venture, then told ed that he would be the youngest millionaire around....perhaps our failed venture didn't provide much warning bells to him about sleazy partners and oversell salesman....

anyway, so now he is some coach in internet marketing seminars...u know, those seminars that purported what 5 digit income u can make from home just by teaching u the skills to prep your online shop, blog etc for sales?

so our conversation went along like this last nite:

me: so what you do ed?

ed: i'm one of the trainers there

me: that's pretty good, good career

ed: yeah

me: how long you been doing this?

ed: since army, about 2 years now

me: so your income good?

ed: so so only, coz there's profit sharing. So J (his main trainer cum boss) shares with me

me: so u get at least 5k right? (i know i'm bordering on personal/taboo territory, but i think when u are talking to a boy, u can safely ask that question...haha)

ed: no....i get x.xk amount (for the curious, it is abt a clerical staff pay with no degree ) for basic to cover

me: cpf??

ed: no cpf. my income is not on paper. just verbal

me: huh? verbal income?? or J tells u verbally abt profit sharing?

ed: yah, not written on paper. i just got xxk amount last 3 mths for profit

me: hmm, so including ur profit split, do u get 5k per mth? J's website sounds like he can easily make 10k per mth and he is teaching pple how to do that

ed: well, i target another xxk by year end...

me: so that's still below 5k per mth on annum basis. he gives u a car?

ed: nope, coz i work from home...but i intend to get one next year

me: so J basically makes alot of money, and has you as a partner, but gives u less than 5k per mth

ed: yeah

me: did you set a target with him on how much u want to make?

ed: never set...haha, just the xxk by year end (which in my opinion, is very low)

me: hmm, i thot trainers easily make 10k per mth

ed: if i'm the main trainer, right now J is the main one and he is the one selling the events

me: you are teaching them how to use internet to make money right?

ed: yeah

me: then why aren't u using internet to do biz urself?

ed: i'm running J's empire, where got time to run mine?

me: you run his empire and you are not paid for it, hmmm

ed: slowly next year come, i can do mine liao. that's why i told him not to put my name on paper and stuck in his company

me: you told him that? that he want to put u as partner on paper and u said no??

ed: partner don't earn as much as him, so why want to stay right? might as do my own and employ staff to run my own company

me: haha...if you think that's the better way

reading the above, well, not entirely verbatim, i edited for ease of sharing....i dunno what to think of ed....and also realize alot of these trainers out there claiming to teach u how to make money for a nice chunk of ur savings in return, are just hocus pocus, most of them living in their la la land that one day they will have a nice empire on their own...

i wish ed the best....the beauty of youth is that we easily get suck into our world of idealism and grandeur of our deluded empire building plans...slap u a few times, u shud wake up right? i guess wisdom do comes with age and experience, but in some case, alot longer time and painful lessons are required...

of coz i might be wrong, when ed become a millionaire, i will be sure to update u all and bang my head against the wall!

i wanted to blog about something and suddenly i forgot.....signs of getting old...hiaks

anyway, i got alot of holidays to clear but abit hard to clear them now....who wants to see the pyramids with me??