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Baby Loft in Desa Park City

Some more last minute shopping this time in shop called baby loft in Desa Park City. Looking for some small items here and there. I guess Lena is really enjoying all this baby shopping spree. I would have thought we have sufficient baby stuffs by now. We got most of the main gears already. Any other miscellaneous items we can get along the way when needed, right? Hmmm...

Desa Park City in Sri Damansara is a nice upmarket location with an interesting shops to serve the community here. Guess I would just have to hold in one of the cafes here while my wife hunt down some baby things.

Fortune comes to those who dares

I got this wallpaper that says, "Fortune comes to those who dares."

Having learned some hard lessons at trying some various business venture on my own with limited success I have come to appreciate this maxim.

Although it is difficult to venture out on your there is a reward when you achieved some measure of success. It also requires a certain amount of ingenuity as you think up ideas and plans to make your venture work.

So when you have a superior who fears the possibility of a bad paymaster eventhough there is a chance to start a new products sales does really sigh with exasperation.

In one hand he wants to expand the company sales and on the other hand not willing to take simple risk. Then how will the company grow?

Sure boss calls the shots but my efforts are just wasted. Well I could think out of the box and take the business elsewhere. I've been thinking out of the box for a long while, it is not easy but as they said, "Fortune comes to those who dares."

Countdown to delivery

Just visited doctor for routine weekly check up for the final third trimester. It seems the baby's head is engaged and the doctor gave an estimate of 14 days. soon a bundle of joy will come into this brave new world and the journey of life will begin outside the comfort of the womb.

Time is free but it is priceless

'Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.' - Harvey MacKay

 

Bad traffic in LDP

Somedaays morning rush hour is just so bad. This was caused by the usual vehicle breakdown and today I suffered from it again. This time at the overhead pass at the TTDI Damansara BU intersection. Wasted so much of my driving time that I was late by a minute to the office. Maybe you would say it was just a minute late only ma. Unfortunately the boss is very picky about punctuality and even a minute late he would reprimand. For some companies especially factories a minute is an issue because they are paid by strict time. For sales and management there is no strict time and extra time put in are usually not acknowledge but when you are a minute late they question you. Seems unfair but the fairness and unfairness are the result of people enforcing to the rule. Live with it or die with it. That's all.

Sales call done

Some customers can be very talkative but the off topics were quite engaging too. It was easy overstay perhaps of the various other topics that was discussed seems to be useful info. Apart from the nonwoven fabric material discussed for the moisture absorbing packs we also talked about travels and website creation. It is good to know about general knowledge and able to share your ideas. To promote a product you need to know as much as you can about it. Then the customer will know you are an expert in your field. "Drink deep or taste not the Priarian spring", ah as what Alexander Pope said about knowledge. Know it well and be a guru in your field then you are regarded as the top in your field if not the best.

Blogger layout finally working!

Finally managed to get the Blogger layout to work! This was really tough as it uses very strict XHTML convention. Any XML tags that were not closed will elicit a cryptic error message.

I had place in the XML code section by section to find out the errors and fix them. XHTML is very unforgiving unlike HTML.

My blogger template still have some minor layout issues which I can't figure out. But otherwise the overall look and feel is generally ok.

I will leave it alone for now and have a mini celebration for a working blogger layout template!