BLOG for FT Contest (KL, Putrajaya & Labuan)

Today while browsing The Star online website, I saw this advertisement that mentioned about "Blog & Win" and of course the attractive prize of the "Peugeot 308 VTi" that attract me the most to click on the advertisement banner.

While reading through about the contest and the terms and conditions, I really find it as a very good idea to generate public awareness about Federal Territory or Kuala Lumpur (KL), Putrajaya and Labuan. Surely a lot of the blogger will find out and write out all the history, life, heritage, interesting things or attractive places in those areas, things or events happening at those areas, includes people personal view of those areas from local or foreigners and basically many mores you may see that people most likely to post in their blog.

I personally feel it is a great contest and thankful to Premium Partner: Sime Darby and other partners and sponsors such as Celcom, Sapura, Naza Group, Air Asia, TM and Pavilion KL that organize this contest that most likely to be very successful and effectively in promoting Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Labuan. I really believe this is a society contest rather than a profitable contest; they are spending a lot of their money for those prizes in order to get people to participate in this contest without thinking about profit, it is an act and effort from them to “contribute back” to the people or society.

I surely will try my best to post my personal view and experiences of those areas in my blog in order for more people to know about those areas. I also not sure how to get started but I will summary my views about these areas in this article.

Since I am young, I been staying at Serdang, only last year, I moved to Bandar Putra Permai, Selangor D. E., where both places also are just outside KL Territory and it had been 26 years now. But I had been frequent traveling to KL whether for work or entertainment for all those years. Surely a lot that can be write about KL such as daily massive traffic jam (before and after work time) that I need to withstand as I work at Cheras and my mother work nearby KLCC (that sometimes I fetch her back from work). There also my first experiences to those interesting places at KL such as Petronas Twin tower (KLCC) bridge (that KLCC is once the world tallest building), KL Tower, Christmas and New Year celebration at KLCC Park, my hotel experiences, Merdeka Square during the National Day, Zoo Negara and many more. There are of course Bukit Bintang areas that we as youngster like to visit whether for food, shopping or entertainment.

Meanwhile for Putrajaya, it not far from where I staying, although the distance maybe around 20km but with the width road and no traffic jam, the traveling time eventually take not so long. When the government started to build the area, I always frequent travel there especially outside the Prime Minister Office, the most attractive thing at there is those government buildings, infrastructures such as the bridges, mosque, etc. that captured my attraction. Currently it is really a great-developed area which shopping mall, recreation parks and township are being built that makes it even a great place to stay in. For me, it is a great move from the government to develop that area and even move out all the government sectors to that areas and also encourage foreign companies to set up their companies there that eventually can make the KL less congested. Even the government got extra land available for them to make proper planning at that area.

For Labuan, honestly I don’t know much about that area but I know the place is famous for diving and the sea is very attractive for those divers’ lover. I also hope to visit that place in future after I conquest the Kota Kinabalu Mountain.

Here go my first article to contribute to this contest; hopefully I can write more interesting articles about these areas soon and eventually win the grand prize!! Haha…

Start Own Business

There are a lot of people always said "don't want to forever become an employee and want to start own business". But the main question is "What kind of business to do?".

It is always easy to have a dream of starting own business, but it is not easy to know what kind of business to do. It will take a lot of time and courage to eventually start own business. Some people don't have the courage to forgo what his/her currently owing such as monthly salary, stable work and less work stress. When you decided to start a business, there are a lot of hardwork involve include work 24/7 because no capital to hire a lot of employees to help you, work stress is high because constantly you need to figure out what is the company/business direction is and capital/money stress as whether the current business/sales enough to sustain the company as that is the only money you get. It also involve giving up the current employment and no stable income.

It is not as easy as many may think, and a lot of factor involve during the process. It may be a difficult few years at the beginning with all the stress and workload involve. However it is always good to have own company which you work hard for your own income, no need to feel un-appreciated for the work had been done, and it is always feel great when you watch the business growth that you give your all the time and effort to make it successful.

For those who interested to start own business, there are a few questions that you need to have the answer as show below:
1) What business you want to start?
2) What is the potential sales?
3) Who is the target customer?
4) How is the competition?
5) What make your product so special?
6) How you reach your target customer?
7) How much is your capital?
8) Is your capital sufficient to last you for at least first 6 months without any profit?
9) How you get your resources?
10)Do you have the suppliers' contact?

Living in A Foreign Country

It is always great to live or work in other countries, but will you forever like it.

Living in a foreign country can be fun and exciting as you able to see a different places, culture, people, and lifestyle. It is an opportunity to see the country attractive places that make it different from the home country. You also can meet and making friend with foreigner to understand their culture and even foreign language. When living in a foreign country, the usual lifestyle also need to change in order to adapt the country, some countries, the pace is fast and some focus on quality of life which the pace is slower. This will eventually give you a new perception in looking things and add to your life experiences.

However being in a foreign country maybe difficult as well. You need to change and adapt to an entire new life: place, people, lifestyle, and language. Not only that, you need to leave or left behind the things you own or love in the home country including family, friend, house, assets, etc. This is not an easy decision to be made. At foreign country, cultural shock always happen, you may need to adapt to a lifestyle that you not always encounter in your home country and you may need to adapt on something that you may not agreed on. Racism also can occur in any country especially you are a foreigner and from a country that people will tend to have a bad perception on.

When you look at the pro and con of living or working in a foreign country, it is not easy to determine which is the best option. However it is really very exciting to live in a foreign country and see new things but you need to make some big changes in your life to adapt the foreign country. It is important to determine whether you happy or not if you look at those pro and con.

Why Countries must go on War?

Why Countries must go on War?
With the current bad economy situation, everyone had been suffering to stay alive and try to find way for living. Government should look on ways or implementing certain programs or plans to help those people to survive in the current situation.

However there are countries that over-look on this and only invest the government/people money for "War", "Weaponry" and "Terrorism". Is all this is necessary when their people need the help the most? Why must go into war? Currently there is war in the Gaza Strip along Israel and Hamas (Palestinian Sunni Paramilitary). Innocent people are being killed because of the war (air strike and now ground war). What kind of benefits the countries can get for this war?

Nowadays, the information can be traveled across to Atlantic or Pacific Ocean much faster than the older days. Any action you make, whole world will know about it within the same day. Eventually it had caused problems at other countries with street demonstration protesting the war. This had caused unrest among the people at the affected and unaffected countries when the economy is sliding downward. Where is the consideration attitude among those countries?

In this world, everyone has his or her own differences or own problems to solved. Why can't we just learn to be tolerant with each other and accept other people thinking or action without triggering a "war"? We got different culture, race, language and many others. We must learn to accept each other and not acting against each other. If people really don't want to tolerant, people around the world shouldn't travel across other country, everyone should stay and do business in own country and never leave the country. Then nobody got any differences and just live in the world of their own.