Blue Collar

Today I talked to an aunty whom come for foot reflexology, I noticed she got a tough muscle, she said she works as freelance house keeper. She has about 13 clients, she don't have to do any advertisement, as she is a responsible house keeper, their existing clients just refer her to another house. She works 5 days week, from morning 9 am to evening 5pm, she average working 3 hours in one house, they give her S$50/- for the 3 hours work. She cleans the house, washes the cloths, irons the cloths........... some times her client will ask her to clean the fish tank, and pay her another S$50/-. She average go 2 to 3 houses a day. Imagine if she goes 2 houses, she will get paid S$100/-, if she works for 3 houses, she will be paid for S$150/-. She is capable of earning S$2000-S$3000/per month. Although it is an hard work, she is better off than many white collar workers.

I met another freelance Lock Smiths. I asked him to change the locks for my Aluminium door, for less than 1 hour job, I pay him S$75/- including material cost and the installation cost. He seems receiving many calls for his services. I won't be surprised if he made S$3000/- per month. He probably has to drive a car or ride a motorbike for the house to house call islandwide.

I know of one handicapped mouth painter. He was paralysised due to car accident in 1992. The doctor cut the nerve connection so that he won't feel the pain. He used to be working with a oil plantation, he learned mouth painting after he recovered from his accident. He enaged a trained nurse from Philiphine to look after him, I think this nurse has now become his wife now. They come to Lucky Plaza for Indonesian food quite often. That shows they are quite ok financially.

What I want to say is people who fail in acadamic acheivement doesn't mean it's the end of the road. They can make a decent earning as long as they are willing to learn and be hardworking. Poverty is not possible if you possess the quality of continuous learning and working deligently.

Pretending I don't know you

Recently, I pumped into a few guys in my neighbourhood, and they were all pretending they either didn't see me or they don't know me. I associated with these men when they were in their 30th and when I was in my 20th. I am 45 this year, they must be in their 50-60th. No though, these men had grew a lot of grey hair now, but they still had the look. I am sure they know who I am, but they just looked away from my sight, and didn't want to have the direct eyes contact with me. I also don't have the energy to renew the friendship with them frankly. So, I also look away some way.

Ever since I started my soul searching journey, I also don't want to meet up my relatives and old friends. I just go work and home to look after my children. And I tried to work and work and work.................. no social life, no recreatation, no other activity except learning and working.....

May be I will change when I am more and more stabilise financially. One of my "tow gay"(big boss) friend who run a factory in Dubai offer me to visit Dubai with free meal and accomodation, so that I can tour in this up and coming country, and see what business I or we can do. I also not cabable of buying a ticket and just go. I don't know what have I missed..................... now and future.

"Virture Courting" Love in the air

Yesterday I spoke to a Phillipino girl. She said she has recently came to know a white young man who is undergoing pirate training in Glam. Her Phillipino friend who is happened to be his coursemate introduce this handsome young trainee to her.

What they do is they chat through the internet with the video camera on so that they can see each other while they are chatting. They do one thing further by they let the video camera on for the whole night, so that the boy can watch her when she is sleeping.

They enjoy the company of each other since both left their home land to another foreign land for career and for training. Two lonely heart find the comfort of speaking to each other.

This is the new age of love affair, amazing right!

"Killzone"

The original painting from "killzone".

This picture was drawn by my son by copying the above printing using "Paint". He spent almost a week to complete this picture. Everyday, he spent sometime to edit the picture.

He always asks me for animation programe. I don't think I can afford an original animation programe for him, unless he can find a sponsor!

The pink swim suite for men

I love to watch the show "Appentics" which was showed on every Sunday on Channel 5 at 11pm. The Appentics are group into 2 teams. They are given 14 projects over the 14 weeks periods. Every week there will be winning team and the lossing team. The winning team will enjoy a lot of fined things in life. For the lossing team, some members from the lossing team will be sent to the boardroom to let Mr Trumpt decide who will be out of the game, and out of the coperate race.

Last Sunday show that 2 teams were asked to design the swim suites, they will put up a stage in the beach, and the team will show case their swim suites through cat walk. The team that sell the most swim suites will be the winning team, and the team that collect the less order is the lossing team.

At the end of the show, the winning team win about 1000 US dollars of sales. Some things like 19000++ versa 20000++.

When came to the boardroom, the data revealed that the lossing team only sold about 3 men's wear, with the sales of about US$300++. The reason of lossing was due to the men's wear. So, who supposed to responsible for the failing design?

They argued that one of the reasons was the pink swimming trunk like the one above contribute to the failure. Another reason was the tight design, as not many men has the nice buttock to wear the suite.

At the end, Mr Trumpt gave the pink trunk to the guy who design the men's wear and sent that guy home because he insisted that pink trunk is alright with men.

The Privileged Customers

I attended an marketing course today. There was one session we touched on the privileges customers or rather how the difference big coperations treat their privileges customers. The tropical company is not other than SQ (Singapore Airlines). Some one shared their experience with SQ. Once this privileges customers of SQ has some urgent matter at home, needed to return back to Singapore urgently from Taiwan. He called the SQ hotline. The operator said," sorry we are fully booked!" As usual, this man started to demand for it. The operator asked, " Sir, are you the member of XXXXXX card?" Once he confirmed he is the member, the operator said, " Give me a moment....." and after checking the computer, he come back and confirmed that, "Sir, we can confirm you will have a seat in economical class to fly home by tomorrow. We will check for you if there is any business class......"

Well, when said about SQ, someone shared another story. Once, a maid and a businessman were flying by SQ in 2 separate days. The maid supposed to leave one day before the master. On that day, the SQ was overbooked and needed to off load some passengers. The maid was asked to delay till the next day flight. She was compensated S$500/- cash and the next day, she was placed seated in the business class. Don't you think it is great to be off loaded by SQ!

Things you need to know going to Italian restaurant

Lately chat with a friend working as an full time waitress in an established Italian Restaurant. Their Restaurant has the following figure.

• They don't serve cold water, all drink has to be purchased.
• They actually serve hot water, but the waitress is reframed from telling to the customer or offer the hot water to the customer.
• The serving is very small portion.
• They have 10% service charges plus 7% GST charges. They have one more charges apply to the people who come alone, don't know what is the term of the charges.
• If you bring along with own wine for celerbration, they will charge S$30/- service charges for let you use their glasses for the wine.
• If you bring along your own cake for celerbration, they will charge S$25/- for cutting the cake and services during the weekday, and S$30/- during the weekend.
• Their weekday set meal is about S$28/per person.
• During the weekend, they insist the customer has to place order for at least S$50/per person A la cart. No sharing of food is encourage here.
• During the special occasion like valentime day, per person has to order at least S$80/-.
• During the pick hour, if you want to come here just for the desert, forget it because no desert order will be taken.
• Any thing put on the table, you better ask before you eat, because all peanuts on the table are chargeable.

A lot of customers walk out from the restaurant due to any of the reasons above. The average they lost about 9 to 10 customers a day.

After the chat, I learned one thing....ie don't take things for granted. Like bringing your own cake and you think it is none of the other business. You are wrong in this place. Better ask before you are broke.

Some more interesting pictures

This "Twin chilli" was discovered by me from the stocks of chilli I bought recently.

In ancient China, the rich girls are forced to wrap their feet from young, probably as young as six years old. When the girl grown up, their feet will still remain the same length as the six years old kid. Their feet were seriously deformed, and they can't move properly. But since they were all rich girls, they probably has servants to assist them in every things and any things.

Look at this feet, I really wonder is this girl's previous life is from the rich family, hence her feet is born as small as the ancient lady!

See this beautiful baby parking infront of C.K. Tang

"Tien Chu"

This chain belong to a Fung Shui master. The "Tien Chu" was from Tibet. Guess how much it cost for this chain? It is few thousand Singapore dollars. He said he will sell one single "Tien Chu" to us for S$380/-. I borrowed the chain and felt the energy, I can feel the energy. This chain has very nice fragrance. He said because they pray, hence the Tien Chu has the nice fragrance.


This is another special piece of Tien Chu. I just want to share with you what is the real Tien Chu.

The interesting big drain along Kembangan

Can you see the interesting part of this picture? There is one single wave kept pushing forwards. Only one wave.

The water infront of the wave was still water.

Sometimes, you will see the small waterfall was formed from the step. If there is more steps, I think you will see a more interesting waterfall.

Along the drain, some times you can find white crane looking for fishes.

Fish Spa

Extract from crienglish.com




Two bathers soak in the hot spring enjoying a "fish spa" in Haikou, south China's Hainan Province. [Photo: photo.eastday.com]

A girl soaks in the hot spring enjoying the "fish spa" in Huizhou, south China's Guangdong Province. [Photo: photo.eastday.com]

A newly emerged "fish spa" is becoming fashionable in many hot spring resorts, and has attracted even more customers, all curious about this peculiar treatment.
At such a spa, many Garra Rufa, a type of small tropical fish, also nicknamed Chinchin Yu, nibble fish or simply doctor fish, are put in hot springs. As they can live and swim freely in at least 43-degree-hot waters, they are naturally used for the treatment of skin diseases in such spas.
When placed in the spa, these fish can feed themselves on the dead cells of the human body, since they only consume such cells, leaving the healthy skin of the human body to grow. The whole process is reportedly free of pain. It won't hurt and the bather might feel a pleasant tingling on his or her skin.
The fish species are often found in the river basins in the Middle East, including Syria, Iraq, Iran and Turkey, and thus is also called Turkish Fish. It is legally protected from commercial exploitation in Turkey due to concerns over harvesting for export.
In 2006, the first Asian Doctor Fish spa resort opened in Hakone, Japan. These fish are used to clean the feet of the bathers at the spa. Recently, such spas become fashionable in resorts in China and South Korea.

Guess, are they wearing wigs?

Look at this charming young man. Look at his nice groom hair!
He is wearing a wig that measure to made according to his head size, and colour. The wig was made in Iran, yes Iran. It was made of natural human hair, and the cost is about S$315/- only...........very reasonable price. He said he glue it into his head, and it won't drop...... amazing.

I said she is wearing a wig. But they insist it is her natural hair. I still think it is a wig, but this wig might be made from her own hair.

Cute dog from France?

You see this cute dog was wearing a pair of fashionable glasses, a pair of socks etc. Are you thinking that this dog was strolling on the road in Frence? To tell you honestly, it can be seen in Aljunied MRT area. The owner will bring it out every evening time to stroll around in Aljunied area. I wonder how much the owner needs to maintain his "daughter"?

Gold for the nail? Anyone?

These hand belong to a French lady. I noticed something is very striking on her last finger, I thought she is using a Gold art work on her nail. She said, it is real gold. She Glued the Gold on her nails!





Body art painting at work. The artist is a teacher in Body Art. She paint it very fluently.

"The pianist"

The Jews has to wear this yellow badge to be identified as Jews. So that they can be picked up by the solidiers.

Einsatzgruppen mass shooting in 1941

Deportation of Jews from the Lodz ghetto.

On 16 Feb 08, Saturday, kid central channel has this Saturday night movie, "The Pianist". This is a long movie, almost took 3 and a half hours. I gave 6 stars ******to this show, because it is so realistic. But this is a very sad history.

This story was showing what happened in 1940 to 1945, the world war II period, when the German possessed Poland. How the German soldiers discriminated and tortured Jews populations! How they murder the 11 millions Polish, of which 6 millions were Jews and 5 millions was non Jews. (The figure extract from http://www.remember.org/forgotten/)

It showed how this pianist from the closed knit family of 6 (parents, one brother and two sisters) and became the sole survivor in the world war II. How he was saved by his own jewish brother, the Polish friends, and a German Captain. How he witnessed his friends being killed under the gun. How the world turned to hell during the dark day.

In the show, the background building is exactly the same as the above picture. The cruelty of what human being can do to another human being. Imagine, one of the screen shown that the German marched to a Jews house, when all of them were having dinner round the dinning table. The German commented the Jews to stand up, all arised except one, because he was a cripple and weak, he was bounded by the wheel chair. Since he could not stand up, the German asked the soldiers to throw this man from the 4th stories down to the ground. And then they shoot the Jews one by one on the table. They are more cruelty in this show. It was breathless to watch this movie than any fighting show my son ever watched.

If you are interested to peek into the history of what happened in World War II, this show can give you a great deal of the ideas. If I have not watch this show, I was totally ignorance of this fact of life happen in 19939- 1945. Totally, totally not aware..................

Pretty Woman

Look at this beautiful nail art. It is decorated with Swarovski Crystal. It was done in Hong Kong. Cost HK$2000/-(equivalent to S$400/-). It take almost 4 hours to finish the nail. It able to last for 2 months, because the lady no need to do any house work.



This is the pretty woman from Puerto Rico, South America. She is now living in Hong Kong. She is a business lady, dealing in Trading business. Look at her gorgeous hair extention and knitting of the hair. It was done in Hong Kong as well. It take almost one day to do this hair. Three staffs work on her hair. The cost : HK$3000/- (about S$600/-). How long it can last? About 2 months. She is washing her hair every day.
Can you guess how old is she? 25? She is 43. She married at 17. She has a daughter 25 years old. And she is a grandma of a 6 years old girl. She is gorgeous, doesn't she! She said older man not interested in her, but younger man love her. Sure, young man prefer mature lady with substances! She said in her country, all girls are more goreous than her. If she don't care about her appearance, she is not dare to walk on the street! I can imagine the beauty industry in her country is booming.

Stocks for sales

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