Eat One a Week*

Reading this, I am urged to start my reading again. I have more than 5 books unfinished. I started a few and have not completed one of them. I bought some as a collection, e.g. The Chronicles of Narnia, and I have just finished one of the 7 books.. (Oh, so now I have more than 10 books unread, I think).

To my feeling, I may like reading a non-fiction one more than a fiction, but The Chronicles of Narnia and Pricess Diary are exceptions. How many exceptions will I have!?!?

OK.. Got urged.. and now I will just have to TRY HARDER to learn how to EAT books.

:p

Busy Week*

Awww… back on Monday again. Busy week, busy time, and busy life.

• To have carpeting done by this Sunday.
• To have movable library move back and forth during the carpeting process (to allow the carpet to be laid).
• To re-organise the seats and tables for Billing and Accounting Departments.
• To study for the Information Exploitation quiz on Thursday.
• To write up a memo to HR Manager for Employee Selection class, due Wednesday.
• To go to Rayong tomorrow (Tuesday) if time permits.

- -” Arrghhh.. how come, how come?

Besides, there are more pending but not urgent.

• Website re-design (Jeff, can you please send me to study a course on web design or something related first? Then, I will not have to learn how to use Dreamweaver myself.
• Polo shirts and cotton bags for HMC.
• Etc (can’t think of now).

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Non-Sense*

When asking for any security deposit back from a company or service provider, would I accept that my credit card has been credited when there is no proof?

No.

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And would Nikki accept that her credit card has been credited when there is no proof?

I do not think so.

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It is not $100, but $1,000! If I were a customer, I would shout at the rep from the provider, and would not leave this office till I had an evidence to prove that my money had been returned to my account.

How come Nikki left me and did not even try to forward me the receipt (which showed that the amount had been refunded)? I even asked her to take a photo of the receipt. She laughed and said the customer would have to wait till tomorrow.

Ha! If you were a customer, would you Nikki? Kid!

Thinking that the money would be automatically transferred to the customer’s credit card right away (and Nikki said so), I just went to talk to the customer and asked him to check with his card provider; while Nikki was leaving for home.

And it turned out that the card provider could not see any credited amount in the customer’s account yet!

D a r n . . . .  

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Wish I could go home now.. Moody!

Lesson-learnts

• Transfers to and from a credit card/ bank might not be done right way. Normally, it takes a daily process. For this case, the transaction would be done through the system around midnight.
• Don’t let Nikki go until the job is successfully done. Otherwise, she will not be contactable at all. No matter how often I call or text, she will just keep quiet without any returning calls.
• I should not allow or favour any customer with the credit card application anymore. Actually, the credit card application is not for Thailand, but Australia. And when it happens in Australia, it is out of my control (I cannot control the machine, as well as people’s minds and behaviours). Unlucky for the coming customers. No more credit card application from me ever!

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P.S. Anyway, this customer is also quite picky and always wants this and that in his way. When he came for renting the phone, it was like he did not read what I had emailed to him.

He came and started asking everything again. I spent over 2 hours with him. And when he came, he said he did not have $1,500 to pay in cash, and if it was possible to use his credit card. I favoured him and tried to get everything in the ways he wanted.. and now.. problem.. ! Duh! 

Next time, I would let all customers now that credit card use is not possible here. Customers have to ensure they have enough cash or can transfer the amount to our bank account.

Hectic Better*

One mistake being annoying me during these several months is that the words ‘and’ in the company’s affivadit that happened because I made a typo.

That would look very simple if I could just change from ‘and’ to ‘or’ right away, or if it did not affect anything in regards to the company’s business.

On the contrary,  the misprint was with the authorised signatory of the company where it should have been that only one person out of all has an authorisation. Instead of having ‘or,’ the affidavit contains the word ‘and’ between two names of the company’s directors.

The impact is that both of them have to sign all documents together, while only either one should have been doing that. That wastes their time, including those who prepare documents.

I am really sorry for that and upset for a long while.

Even more complicatedly, to change the authorised signatory, I need to get one of the CEO’s from UK to sign off the documents submitted to the DBD.  And they do not visit Thailand that often, but normally, twice a year, with 3-4 days each time.

Moreover, since the CEO’s from UK are not working in Thailand and they have no work permit, the signature must be certified by a lawyer who is a member of The Thai Bar that the signature is genuine. Or to be exact, the director has to sign the documents in front of the lawyer, and the lawyer certifies the signature; when the director does not want to go to the DBD to sign the documents in front of an officer.

Not only that, to change the authorised signatory, there should be a meeting held up among shareholders, or what it is technically called AGM or EGM. The minutes of the meeting should include the resolution of change director’s authorised signatory, blah, blah, blah..

Besides, the officer(s) there was so strict with wordings in the documents that sometimes the same person tells different things. For example, last time I went there, the details in the documents were ‘ABCDE,’ and there was no change this time; she asked me to go back and amend! T_T” Lack of standard, somehow.

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Anyways……….. PHewWwwwwWWww! It’s gone!

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After I failed getting this done last time Sandy (a CEO) was here, I successfully completed this task this late afternoon. Very relieved and feel like I have more focuses to something else now. Nothing to worry.

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Candle*

Currently, I have my candle (got from a senior colleauge) lit and shining in front of me.

Although the candle is not a large one, I can feel the warmth and see the bright moon-like light.

Although the candle is small, I am touched with a hug of warmth.

Although the candle cannot do anything else, apart from being lit and shining, I thank it for the lightness, the brightness, and the warmth.

Those are being delivered into my heart.

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Time on IM*

After reading The 7 deadly sins of instant messaging from 43 Folders, I found that some of time has been partly spent on IM. Thus, I decided to turn off my MSN and Skype right away.

I still have Gtalk online because I send tweets through Gtalk sometimes.

Although IM does not normally consume much of my time, I reckon that having it offline would help me be more concentrated on what I am doing.

Next step I would try is that to limit my time on all websites, Facebook, WordPress, Blogger, Bloglines, etc, I like surfing around.

The activites on the mentioned sites consume my time more than IM actually.

Anyway, without MSN/ Skype on, I feel that I do not have to worry, wonder, and keep looking at the chat programmes whether my friends or those I expect are online.

Why do I have to expect someone to online? I do not know :p

 

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An hour after I sent this post, I found out that my MSN and Skype were online without showing themselves in my system tray (so I did not see them). I realised this when a friend from MSN said hello..

Hahaa.. OK.

I changed the settings of both MSN and Skype not to be automatically logged in, so that they are under my control.. Hehee.

The Great Whale Trail*

WHALES
2 November 2007

Dear Greenpeace’s Supporters,

Name the whale – a lifetime chance to name a humpback whale.

A once in a lifetime experience – your chance to name a humpback whale.

As part of the Great Whale Trail project, which is tracking whales via satellite, we have some humpback whales that need names. Not just any names, but some great names for some great whales.

We haven’t yet cracked the code of whale language so we don’t know what the whales call themselves but we are pretty confident they don’t call themselves, ‘33001, or 37232′, which are some of the names they have now.

Click here to go to The Great Whale Trail project

Click here to see the Whale Profiles

Click here to name the whale

Thanks,
The Whale ‘Tag Team’.