Thank you Joan!

I had 2 surprises today. First was that I sold my 11th mac today. Second was the christmas present from my store IC Joan. Its the keyboard shield from Capdase which I planning to get after getting my pay! Thank you Joan! I really adore this present. No more stain marks on my screen anymore:)


Keyboard shield from Capdase on. Notice that my Moshi wrist protector is still on

10 this month!!

Haha thanks to the holiday and christmas season, I managed to sell 10 sets of macintosh system till now. Hopefully I can hit beyond that by the end of this month.

I realized that due to my work I have been neglecting the activities for my table tennis club and the preparation for my OCIP project. Must make up for it when school starts when I only work on Saturday.

Went to cousin Zaiwei's wedding dinner last Saturday. Photos uploading soon.

Road show and a very shrewd uncle

Okay this was my fourth roadshow and I have to admit that this is the worst road show I ever had. 15 plus part timer was there for this road show and even if Im the top sales for the first 3 I would have done rather bad for this also. How do I put it. I mean lets just do a simple calculation, if 20 people are interested and there are 5 partimers, then chances are each part timer can get 4 sales. Now if there are 15 part timers, each part timer can only close 1-2. This case I would rather do show room instead cos don have to say that much even though lesser commission.

There was too many part timers and worst of all they were those kind of kids without experience. They will just rush to anyone they have in sight without seeing who actually serve the customer first. This ends up unhappiness among those kids themselves. I'm happy as I can help these kids if they have any questions ;)

Okay seems that IMM saved me from all the mess. I worked in IMM today helping ZJ cos IMM was short of man power. When ZJ was not around I happened to serve this old man with long brows and glowing face like those wise old man in the movie. He asked me if our shop has Leopard OS in a very strong tone because I couldn hear him for the first. Then I showed him the Leopard OS and he said it was expensive. Finally after some explanation he bought it. So during payment he asked me

Old Man: How long have u been working here?
Me: Eh 3 months plus to 4
Old Man: Then you seem rather inexperience
Me: Because I am a part timer and I don't work everyday
Old Man: So which school are you from?
Me: (Pause) University (Pause) SMU
Old Man: The Bras Basah one?
Me: Yeah

Then ZJ came back and wanted to explain to him about the lucky draw in English.

ZJ: (In Chinese) Okie now we have a lucky draw...
Old Man: Okay even though I am a chinese can you explain to me in English
ZJ: Okie (English)

Then after the payment the old man said

Old Man: 你有没有钉子？
Me: Huh?
Old Man: showing me the stapler hand sign
Me: Oh stapler you mean?
Old Man: Are you a foreigner?
Me: No
Old Man: Then how could you not understand the meaning?
Me: (Resilient) 钉子 could mean nail in English
Old Man: Thats a hard conversion for the meaning.

Then this old man requested me to write down my English and my Chinese name at the back of the receipt. This is the first time a customer has requested for it. Hmm... Damn strange but I got a feeling that this old man is not an ordinary old man.