Life for the Past Few Days

I have been busy for a while. Office work is becoming heavier in the past few week, has started to bring some works back home.

Few personal things also cropped up that I need to focus on, which took lots of my time that doesn't have to do with computer and the internet.

My Blog Header

Last week I put Life Health Relationship as my blog header. A few days after that I decided to change a bit to Life Healthy Life Relationship, then I'll just concentrate on using that keywords in my blog postings.

Just trying out things that I learn when reading Brad Callen ebook.

This time, I think, using the word healthy is better, it is easier to form a sentence rather than health.

It is because I can write healthy ........(fill in the blank)which gives me more options, but health ....... (fill in the blank) gives me less options.

For example healthy food or healthy life or healthy thinking or healthy relationship or people.

But for the word health, I cannot just put something in front of health, it will sound ridiculous, although I have seen people using "health food" but never "health life" or "health thinking" or "health relationship" or "health people".

So I need to be creative there which I can easily do without, when using the word healthy.

I'm also thinking back to change my blog layout. Maybe I'll do it somewhere next month.

Question On Success-University

I have also been corresponding with one of my free-trial downline from Philipine. He claimed he is a business man and wanted to know how long will he get his money back if he continue to invest in Success University.

I told him I estimated in 3 years time. Although usually, 3 years payback time is quite OK. But, I'm not sure whether that is a good answer to a business man.

Returns Expected from Success-University

Considering the knowlege that he'll get, it may be worth it, if he continue with Success University as a paying member.

Anyhow if he is thinking in accounting terms, which I think he is, from the way he wrote his e-mail. He will not continue. There is no asset that he can flip, by buying Success University membership. He cannot mortgage his SU website to the bank.

But the same applies when you pay your fees while taking your degree or diploma. You cannot go to the bank and put it up, as a collateral.

But don't you think, your life and future will be much better if you have a degree. You can apply for better job. And in some years you are presented with vast opportunities, you'll be busy selecting and picking what you want.

For example, one of my working collegue just came back a few months from Japan, after finishing his Master Degree there. Now he is no more with us and has joined another company who is in awed of both his experiences studying in Japan and working in Malaysia.

Categories: Life, Malaysia, Success-University

Healthy Life

What makes you healthy?

What will make you feel healthy?

What will make you full of energy?

What is the most important thing that will keep you healthy?

Will you believe me, if I said for the first part of my life, headache is part and parcel of my life. I have come to accept it. Most of the time it is a daily occasion, something like, OK now I have to go the bathroom, need to throw away few things, no big deal about it, you have one of it, I also got one.

But now for the past few years, I cannot even remember when was the last time I experience headache. Even when I was down with fever, and whenever I got one, I can easily make it go away.

Nope, it's cure is not a magical drug or even a black magic. It is never a panadol or ponstant. It is a very simple thing in life that I get adjusted to.

I think, if I tell the cure, those pharmaceutical giant will get very angry.

Why I am Changing My Blog Header ?....Again

I did it again !

Yes....for the ummmphteenth time I changed again my blog header. I don't think this is the last though.

Before this it was Life Health Love.

Now it is Life Health Relationship.

What is the reason?

It is part of my experimentation with SEO and to get better result with Google.

For Life Health Love I used Google Trends to find the keywords and later for Life Health Relationship I use Good Keyword software. Furthermore I think it is much easier to make a sentence using relationship than love.

Another consideration is that, I believe in the cyberworld the "love" word is also an important keyword for those people running adult and dating websites which I don't want to be associated with.

OK, the idea came after I read an eBook by authored by Brad Callen by the title Search Engine Optimization MADE EASY.

Yeah everything in the internet is soooo.. easy.

He is teaching how to optimize a website and I'm trying to optimize a blog, but the reality is that I'm having problem to implement his tactics on my blog, now not so easy.... ehh.

According to the book, the most important factor is the keyword for the website and then try to sprinkle it throughout the website.

There is a marked differences between those two. The most important being, blog has a dynamic interface while a website is usually static.

And then there is the h2 tag which should help in getting a better point in SEO, but what I understand in blogger, it is used as date and time tag for each post.

But to be fair, he wrote a useful book and it is interesting for me and for those who needs to really follow through the steps how to optimize a website. He also discussed two optimization techniques, which are Onpage Optimization and Offpage Optimization.

So after learning his tactics I started to look for how to optimize blog. Been reading Yaro Starak and also Darren Rowse on this theme.

And up until now, still learning.

I'm also trying to juggle my time, because of a new project that I'm working on. It was suggested by Zamri two weeks ago.

I made a promised to finish it by end of August this year.

Categories: Blog-Improvement, Internet, SEO, Google

Family Relationship: Why it's That Way (2)

Continuing the previous posting here are more reasons.

Asset or money, yes, its a big reason in our life;

6) We have to support him, you know, (who is more than 21 years old, not studying and like to loiter around) until he gets a steady job.

7) My love, your money is my money and my money is .....

8) That person acted as if we were money printing machine.

9) He keeps boasting about how well-off he is, but told me there is simply not enough money when I ask for his help.

10) I loaned him the money and he spent it all on .... (fill in the blank), then he came back asking for more money.

The health of a marriage to a certain extent also depend on how much money is available for the family. According to a study, in US, one of the major reason of divorce is due to money problem.

And if you can recall, most disputes in a family that went to the Courts were about asset or wealth allocation which has a direct relationship with money.

One of the famous dispute in Malaysia between family members is the Tan Chong Bhd Saga. It is a public listed company which holds the franchise of Nissan and Datsun cars distribution in Malaysia.

The disagreement is between an uncle and a nephew on the company's ownership. Both of them have their own camp, and this is detrimental to having a cordial family relationship.

You can read here the Malaysian Courts Judgements High Court Judgement, Appeal Court Judgement, and Federal Court.

See you in next post.

Categories: Malaysia, Life, Family, Relationship

Family Relationship: Why it's That Way (1)

Everyone has a family. A mum, a papa, sisters, brothers, relatives and if married, a wife or husband and maybe children.

Today, in this posting I'm going to talk about us who regularly came across those people we loved.

If you haven't realize it yet, we tend to feel tense when interacting with some of those close people.

Why it's that way?

From my actual experience it is because of:

1) There is this one great idea how you should do it. Listen here... I don't need your idea how to go about it.
2) Actually you don't have the experience, you see...you don't know what you are talking about.
3) I'm better than you... look what I have, my expensive car, my clever kids, my sophisticated friends and etc.
4) Whatever it is, you must realize that person is never wrong.
5) You are already successful, don't nag, let that person be.

That's for now, I'll post some more later.

So what is my point?

Think what I meant and try to avoid doing those things which makes you regret later. Retaliation is sweet but if not done subtly, you may regret it later.

I know, I have gone through it.

Reflect back your encounter with your family. Ponder upon how certain aspects can be improved. Conjure your response in your mind. This needs constant exercise.

That will make your life and theirs also much better.

Categories: Family, Relationship, Life

Advice to Those Who Wants to Break A Relationship Cordially --- By Someone Who Did it

Here is a good advice to ponder upon.

One of my friends owns a factory and supplied products to MNCs in Malaysia.

This year he has started to supply to overseas market.

In the early year the factory was jointly own by another two partners.

During the 1997 Asian crisis, there was not enough money to pay all of them. Didn't really asked what he meant by the statement. I guess their salaries or perks being the owner.

So before the company goes bankrupt and they started blaming each other and became enemies for life, he suggested for the other two friends to sell their shares to him.

In other word, break their business partner relationship.

The other two owners agreed to his proposal. So my friend borrowed from his relatives some money and buy off their portions.

He told me, now they are still good friends.

So his advice is, if in your life you have to break relationship, do it before situations get heated up and give concessions if possible.

Categories: Malaysia, Relationship, Life

Success University, Malaysian CEO and Small Talk

Amongst the course that I really like from Success University is about small talk and striking a conversation to start a relationship.

On this topic, there are two instructors from Success University whom I’ve listen to many times. Bob Burg, he teaches a method that is more suitable for formal functions, when you're talking to the captain of industries, the community leaders or people who tend to value themselves highly and I feel that, Debra Fine techniques is more relax and can be used with anybody.

Both of them tell how to start a conversation and the techniques to maintain it going on.

So, last Sunday's evening on 2nd July 2006, I initiated a small talk with a company's CEO and his father.

He heads one of the biggest organisation in Malaysia which has a yearly revenue of more than RM1billion.

From the small talk I got to know the information below;
- How many siblings he has
- Among his siblings, which number he is
- He watched England vs Portugal match earlier that morning but didn't continue to watch Brazil against France because of sleepiness.
- Where he lives
- What car he drives
- His parents are still alive
- Why did he came to that place

He also asked why I came to that place, where do I live and did I watch the football/soccer games early that morning.

And before parting he shook my hand and said, “See you."

Well, when those words came from someone like him it felt nice, although I realised it is a good etiquette and the probability is that he was trained to say it to anyone.

See, we didn't touch on golf, expensive indulgence or his company's business. Only life simple things.

My vote is that what Bob Burg and Debra Fine teach worked, it really, really worked.

So, Success University, a small success from your lessons.

Categories: Malaysia, Relationship, Success-University

Streamyx's Mystery

Why mystery?

Because suddenly it is working fine.

Two week ago I cannot use Streamyx but last week it is usable.

I didn't even lodge a complain with TMNET.

There must be an unseen force working behind the scene.

Categories: Malaysia