Roger's Rant…

NOTE: All events are held at Internet Business Coaching Pte Ltd, Blk 261 Waterloo Street, Waterloo Centre #02-27, Singapore 180261 (http://tinyurl.com/sgwaterloo: Take Exit A at Bras Basah MRT, walk straight for 2 mins to Waterloo Centre)

Here are the coming events for (the rest of) Aug and Sep 2010:

BUSINESS NETWORKING PRIMER Workshop

Day/Date: Wed 25 Aug 10

Time: 7 – 10 pm

Fee: COMPLIMENTARY

How to Register: Call Maggie @90358998

Speaker: Roger Loh, Internet Coach & Entrepreneur

In this workshop, you will:

• Be introduced to the ONE thing in common among successful people: The importance of a large NETWORK

• Discover what is networking and how it can help them in their business or job

• Learn the basics of business networking (rather than trying to sell to others at first sight)

• Learn how to become an ideal networker and reap benefits Read the rest of this entry »

Tom 'Big Al' Schreiter (right) & Roger Loh

Tom ‘Big Al’ Screiter returned to Singapore again for the umpteenth time…

… and as usual, I make sure I drop all appointments just to be at the event. And this time it was the Reverberation Conference 2010 organized by event organizer, Metica (who in previous years organized the Elite Network Marketing Conference or ENMC).

Every time I listen to Big Al, I’m amazed at his wisdom and… his humor. He pulls no punches and cut to the chase.

He’s neither hazy nor vague. More than just motivation, he gives plenty of practical techniques that work because he believes in imparting skills to the participants. Read the rest of this entry »

Are you responsible for who you are? As I do my daily reading this morning, I come across this quote by Dahlil Gibran, a Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer:

“Our children come through us, but not from us”

In fact, I was reading motivational speaker Les Brown’s “Live Your Dreams” where he was describing how he hated his natural parents who abandoned him as a baby. He had no idea who they were and not even a picture to look at.

Les was holding a grudge against his natural parents and said it was a lot of work!

Till…

… he contemplated Gibran’s quote above and finally dropped the baggage.

Kahlil Gibran said that our parents bring us into the world, but in the end, we are responsible for what we become. Parents, he said, are like the archer’s bow and their children the arrows.

I saw this good news on TV this morning… that the Giving Pledge started by Bill Gates and Warren Buffet six weeks ago achieved tremendous success.

Essentially, Bill and Buffet started this campaign – asking the 400 wealthiest men in the country to give away half their wealth or more!

What an amazing drive. And so far, already 40 U.S. billionaires made the pledge including:

• Bill Gates – Microsoft founder & philanthropist
• Warren Buffet – American investor & philanthropist
• Bloomberg – Bloomberg founder (now New York Mayor)
• Ted Turner – CNN founder

Imagine how much those billions can do for the world – especially the one billion hungry people with less than US$2 per day in this world!

A picture I took while visiting the Kennedy Space Center, USA in June 2010

Do you dare to dream *BIG* DREAMS?

Today, I heard Jack Canfield, cocreator of the phenomenal ‘Chicken Soup for the Soul’ series on my car stereo as he narrated ‘The Success Principles
‘:

“Always dream big dreams.

“Big dreams attract big people.

“It doesn’t take any more energy to to create a big dream than it does to create a little one.”

How true is that?

AND

What has BIG DREAMS got to do with this SPECIAL DAY? Read on…

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If you’re a Dim Sum lover, you won’t want to miss this the next time you’re in KL. In fact, I’m sharing with you another of my favorite food there

It’s the JIN XUAN HONG KONG RESTORAN tucked in one corner of Kuchai Lama, near the Entrepreneur’s Park. It’s actually opposite a condominium.

(If you’re not a Malaysian nor familiar with KL, just visit Google Maps and you can find it in no time.)

What’s So SPECIAL About The Dim Sum there?

If you’re thinking, “Dim Sum is Dim Sum and you can get dim sum everywhere”, you’re not wrong!

However what you’re missing is this:

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Do you like Bak Kut Teh? If you do, you must absolutely try the Bak Kut Teh in Klang, Malaysia which is one of my favorite food in KL…

(Sorry, Malaysians… to a Singaporean like me, somehow I regard KL and Klang to be the same place much like Jurong and Geylang as Singapore )

Eversince my good friend Sern Yi brought me for Bak Kut Teh in Klang, every time I go to KL, I must make time to have a bite there!

It’s that good! After all, Klang is just half an hour’s drive from KL (during the night when there’s little traffic, I mean). Read the rest of this entry »

NOTE: All events are held at Internet Business Coaching Pte Ltd, Blk 261 Waterloo Street, Waterloo Centre #02-27, Singapore 180261 (http://tinyurl.com/sgwaterloo: Take Exit A at Bras Basah MRT, walk straight for 2 mins to Waterloo Centre)

Here are the coming events for the rest of July 2010: Read the rest of this entry »

This parcel just arrived in Singapore from the USA…

It took more than two weeks!

My good friend, Paul (from USA) was doing me a favor by sending out this parcel to me and was told that it will arrive in approximately one week.

However, I waited and waited and waited…

… but it NEVER came!

Just when I was about to give up, a card arrived from the Post Office notifying that I have a parcel to pick up.

Upon collecting the parcel, I realized that it went traveling to Thailand first before returning to Singapore (see the stamped ‘MISSENT TO THAILAND’ so neatly printed in the picture above)

LOL it must have had a GREAT TIME as it took a detour and tour and… yet there’s no additional charges. Anyway, thank GOD I received the parcel intact. And of course, thanks to Paul for doing me a favor! What are friends for?

Nandos finally came to Singapore…

For more than three years, I traveled to KL almost once a month to build my network. (Only recently, I go up north once in 3 to 6 months.)

Most times I visited KL, I would have a taste of Nandos chicken – its taste is really superb, especially, when it was not available in Singapore back then.

(At that time, I didn’t care much about my diet and eat anything that’s tasty. Now, I’m a 80% vegetarian. But that’s another story for another day.)

Recently, after I returned from the USA, I was walking along Victoria Street just outside Bugis Junction and I was surprised to discover that Nandos had opened in Singapore!

Upon further probing, I realized that they opened in early May 2010 at Bugis Junction and… a second branch is opening up soon in July 2010.

So, from now on, if you like to have a taste of Nandos chicken, you don’t need to go up north anymore