kenapa nak menipu dalam berbusiness??

translating the title - why the need to lie/cheat in doing business????

ive had my share of being cheated when it comes to doing business with non corporation people, like for example, on line business (ordered a 5 hijabs but came only two and claimed will return the money but i never got it), friends who just started making cakes (like ordered an ice cream cake that supposedly uses haagen daaz but taste like nestle ice cream and smells funny) and all sorts of stories but nothing, nothing comes close to what happened this week...

i have a friend, lets call her Anne, who will be engaged this saturday, and we decided to sponsor one of her hantarans (dowries) and we decided to order macaroons tower from another friend, lets call her Fashi, whom we know makes macaroons and sells them. she just started this business, and we are pretty good friends too and so as to help a friend who just started a business, hence we order from her.

ok, so dats the background story.

yesterday we found out..

Fashi DID not make the macaroons, but ORDERED it instead from someone else, but CLAIMS that she makes it and MARKS UP the price to sell to us!!! so here we are thinking to help a friend's business and admire the effort for her to learn to make the macaroons and had the courage so open a business selling it, instead all these while she's been passing off other people's work as her own! and the original person is selling it at RM240 where as this Fashi, markes it up to RM280 to us!!

!!!!!!!!!

another friend of ours accidentally discovered it as its so happens she is ordering some macaroons for her daughter's party from the same person! when she told us, of course we were royally pissed and more importantly we felt CHEATED and have been LIED to by someone who we thought is our good friend but are willing to do this in the name of BUSINESS!!!

but of course, considering we have been friends for quite a while, the nice people that we are, we decided to not to confront her, to just let it go and just note it for future events, since to cancel its kinda late anyway, so despite being super angry, we kept quiet and continued on as if nothing is wrong, but we did one thing tho, we delayed the payment a bit to this Fashi, and little did we know, there's a silver lining or hikmah in doing what we did.

Fashi's fiance posted this on her FB today..

wah2 sedap nye mulut nak memaki orang mcm tu kan??

yes my dear readers, her fiance decided to BUTT IN and started cursing us on her fb!! obviously pissed about the fact that we have yet to pay her but doing it in such a lame cavemen type of method, simple in malay, mcm orang kampung tak pergi sekolah setakat tau those few words and thought habis hebat la tu!

on top of that, this Fashi actually called Anne (the girl getting engaged who has no idea what is going on as obviously we didnt tell her) and cried while whining that we did a background check on her, she's so oh-so-sad cos why people dont trust her and she is making the macaroons BUT she's making with that person together2!!

hello?? come on la;

first of all, that person clearly said Fashi "ordered" from her, not make together2

second of all, if you think we are wrong or watever, why do u call Anne instead of us? we are the ones who ordered, u shud explain to us, why should u go and get sympathy from Anne?

and lastly, if you are not wrong and guilty,why do you suddenly remove us from yr fb and block us? u didnt think that we have other friends who are also yr fb frends and able to tell us about your fiance's post??

so anyway, so now we know she knows we know..

to cut this long story short, ended up she cancelled the order with just a simple msg

"i ada hal esok.xdpt buat.sory.thx"

haihhh ni dah melampau la kannnnnnnnnnn

this message was sent today, thursday, at 4pm and the engagement ceremony is this saturday morning!! so last minute right??? we sent her a nasty message in return BUT luckily, we were able to find another baker to do the macaroons for us, so that is ok.

but on this thing, seriously what do you guys think??

is it really necessary to lie to people when u do business like this? of course i know not everyone does this but it seems like if u dont, yr business mcm slow and lambat nak maju and worse still, will kena tipu with orang pun ade jugak, like for example one of my best friends does baking business too and she's ever so honest and accomodating but her story pulak dia yang kena tipu sebab org curi recipe dia and pass it of their own, but dats another story all together huhu but that kinda like goes to show right, that person is willing to steal another person's recipe or use other people's creation and pass it of as their own and claim, hey, its not personal, its business!!

business my a**!!!

this is it

feels weird updating blog after months of silence...

hmmm...

tadi idea mencurah2 but now im staring at the screen blankly..

another few more sentences of randomness like this and tadaaa, new post!

hahaha giler betul :p

how can someone who writes like a minah rempit and doesn't even know the difference of "there" and "their" can earn hundreds in nuffnang monthly? how?? how??

wonders will never cease!

and that ends my first post in months!

haha

and u guys actually read till the end.

ishk...

now, go, get a life!

perlu ke?

perlu ke..

kalau berjaya proof that you are right and i am wrong, nak email sampai ke level chairman that yes, you are right that the savings is actually RM1000, instead of RM995 as per my reporting?? takda masa nak kut nak calculate beria that small amount when i deal with 8.4million usd monthly!!

perlu ke...

kalau dah berjaya menguruskan badan dengan banyak nye terus pakai baju ketat gile and tudung pun berubah fashion kalau dulu tutup dada but now selagi boleh nak nampak kan tulang kat bahu yg baru timbul tu?

perlu ke...

kalau asal orang cakap bulan ni nak dapat bonus, terus terlompat2 gedik suruh belanja lah, buat ayat2 perli seperti "ala, bonus ribu riban takkan pakai beg vincci jer kut" atau lebih annoying terus sok sek sok sek paksa orang gi online shopping shawl terbaru kat kedai dia dan bila tak beli terus mengumpat ckp "hutang dia tu banyak keliling pinggang sebab tu duit bonus habis kat situ jer" like WTF??

perlu ke....

announce kat satu dunia yang duit ASN/ASB dia ada RM100,000 - siap tunjuk statement lagik tu!! tak kesah la duit banyak mane pung ape kes nak tunjuk statement kat orang pastu tanye how much do you have?

perlu ke...

sikit2 nak kecik hati ngan kawan sendiri, benda2 kecik pulak tu, setakat tak ajak makan sama or tak ajak keluar sama, takkan nak ajak SEMUA orang everysingle time setakat nak pi mamak jer kan, pastu yg dia buat the same kat orang lain tak sedar, kalau ajak pun tak pernah nye kata ok, kalau ok pun tetiba last minute cancel, nak gi rumah in law la, nak gi ikut husband main golf la, orang pun malas la nak ajak kalau dah selalu sangat buat perangai mcm ni kan...

perlu ke...

dalam meeting nak dengar suara dia jerrrr, sikit2 "this doesnt make sense" apa kes, lepas bila tanye apa yang make sense, tak jawab pulak, pastu dia ngan anak2 buah dia semua gi meeting jenis nak bully orang, asal org tak jawab sikit mula la "this doesnt make sense" dia tu, pegi meeting ngan dia mcm pegi berperang, ni tempat kerja ke battlefield ni? this kind of examination questions and bullying, baik masuk high school balik!

airheads and bimbos

i have no mood to update my blog..

nowadays life have become a bore..

i go to work at 7am, home by 8pm, spend an hr with the family and was in bed by 10..

it is indeed quite sad..

havent made any plans at all for this year, especially travel plans, which is quite a surprise for me, i usually mapped out my travel plans by 1st week of jan.

but nothing is certain until certain someone makes a decision in june..so until then, im just going with the flow....

oh fyi - work also have become terribly annoying lately..its like im dealing more and more with airheads and bimbos, male female alike, asking stupid annoying questions like;

im intern, can i get a handphone? - duhhhhhhhh!!!

this place yr arranging for company dinner, is it halal? cos otherwise i wont go - no, my dear, i purposely want to serve sweet and sour pork to u, u idiott!!

one particular bimbo was out of this world;

1. we arranged for a surprise baby shower for a colleague, the idiot couldnt make it, went to the mother to be and said "im sorry i couldnt make it to your surprise baby shower" - obviously the mother to be was like, huh, wat?? which part of surprise u didnt get la right??

2. had a lunch meeting with a very important clients, boss decided to invited all the admin staff along to show diversity and inclusiveness crap-watever, so fine. she ordered seafood tomato pasta. the general manager of the client ordered carbonara. the waitress somehow mixed the order and send her the carbonara and she happily ate it, not even questioning why (1) there's no bloody seafood in carbonara and (2) where's the tomato sauce??. the general manager had to settle for the seafood pasta she ordered!! boleh?!! and this is very very important client okehhh!!

another annoying this is, im like suddenly the unspoken admin support suddenly in the office. it all started when i became the IT focal point for the department. yes u can go ahead and laugh. it is ironically hilarious. so when new staff comes in im suppose to get them their access to accounts and laptops and such but suddenly im like one stop information centre/admin/kuli la plak, and get these kind of shit;

can u introduce this person around the department - waddahell rite, hr la buat kan or the respective boss!!

can u arrange welcome/farewell lunch dinner bfast for this and that person - like i dont have anything better to do!!

can u arrange flowers/gift basket for this person who just gave birth/sick in the hospital/cat-gave-birth/passed-driver's license - seriously??!! seriously??!!!

do you know how to arrange to buy a printer/stationeries/projector/food deliveries/a ship/a plane/the wheels where the hamsters goes round and round - yes, im the hamster!

do u know if this place is nice? how far is it? how to get there? - helllooooooo, that's what google is foorrrrrr!!

im surrounded by idiots, airheads and bimbos!!

SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!

facebook is crazy!!

so ok, i dont know how or when it happened but i just realised that somehow, some of my friends in my facebook list are suddenly being deleted or blocked without me knowing it!

this is not the first time it happen sadly, last time it did, i nearly had a huge fight with a friend who thought i did it deliberately because it just so happens we kinda had a disagreement a few days before, such a coincidence right??!! and then another time, a friend wanted to send me his wedding card but found that im not in his friend list, called me up and was all sad about me deleting him in my friend list (such an emo guy but ok2 my bad hehe) but it turns out, i didnt, it just got deleted somehow!

today, i wanted to wish a cousin of mine a belated happy birthday wish, was wondering why facebook didnt do the usual notification, actually got it from friendster instead, but i soon found that she's not even in my frends list!!

ok, ok there is of course the possibility that she deleted me which then i cannot say anything lah hehehe but i will give her and myself, the benefit of the doubt because of the damn facebook huhu

methinks, it will get deleted or blocked if there's more than a few months of non communication or activities between friends, so facebook just shuts it down..my theory la haha i dunno :p

i opened my friendster today, walawei, cant believe how boring it is compared to facebook :p was contemplating to shut it down but i loved my blog in there, anyone know if we can transport it into blogger here?

to buy or not to buy?

while in new york, dah alang2 kat situ, i decided to get some shopping done at the famous woodbury outlet (i will update on the details later k), not only for myself but also for some other people, and i especially took orders from those yang getting married soon, who wanted a branded hadbags/watches for their "hantaran" at a bargain price.

i myself are purchasing same items for the same purpose so it took some time and skill and discretion to ensure that the items are different for different people, obviously you wanted your things to be unique etc, tak best la kan if let say if you are related and same people will go to your wedding and your cousin's wedding, and the barang2 hantaran macam sama warna design and all kan?

but naturally, since you are the one doing the purchases, and knowing your budget and all, surely you will tend to choose the best for yourself right?

ok contoh nye;

this person gives me 200USD to buy a Coach handbag right.

so, i look for something that is within her budget, tapi of course i akan pilih the most lawa of the lot kan.

but for myself, kata lah i put my budget at 200USD also, but masa kat sana, the one i liked is slightly more expensive and of course, slightly more "lawa" than the one i chose for the other person, so naturally, i do my maths and since i can afford the extra 100 (let's say) i will make the purchase for me. kire u get what u paid for la kan.

or, kata kan lah, my budget is also 200usd, and there's two bags of that price, but one is more lawa than the other, so isnt it common sense for me to naturally pick the more lawa one for myself la, right?

i mean, why should i give in so that the other person gets nicer and better things, when im the one who does the purchases for her right?

its not like the stuff i bought for her not even nice, its just that mine, is, well, "nicer".

and, takkan i nak beli the same stuff la plak kan!!

i dah cukup baik untuk beli bag for people pun dah cukup bagus right? lagi nak berkira and compare la kan? kalau nak the choices, then pergi beli sendiri la kan, baru puas hati. and actually, at first memang i did not want to show the other person my purchases, nak simpan la kan nanti baru tunjuk, but unfortunately due to cannot-explain-here circumstances, i had to show that person my things, which i thoroughly resented but terpaksa :(

so tak pasal2 jadi masalah tak puas hati nie...

sometimes women can get really weird when it comes to this kind of stuff, so dunno lah, malas nak layan orang2 macam nie huhu

what do you guys think?

X Y Z

i ran into an ex yesterday.

was in monte's bsc waiting for someone when there was a tap on my shoulder.

i turned and there he was, asking "you're nik, right?".

to be honest for a split second i didnt recognise him haha. teruk betul :p he was taller and bigger than i remembered. all my exes are tall, 6ft and above, so dia ni mcm dah grow lg and he was a rugby player, so memang type yg besar dan tinggi, mcm body builder tu, which i totally hate, cos i found body builders' bodies gross euww.

he offered to teman me for a while i waited. he was already sitting at the bar actually when i came in but he was building up courage to come and say hi. weird.

anyway, we had the usual updates.

relationship - him divorced apparently, no kids. married for like a year je. hmm..fickle fickle.
work - he's a pilot now. i remembered when we broke up he was studying to become a pilot, he already had a degree in petroleum engineering but that's what the dad wanted, so once he got his degree, the dad allowed him to pursue his interest. yeah, some people are spoiled that way. if we all could be so lucky.

he mostly talked about himself a lot. he's always been like that.

somehow the conversation veered towards our breakup. he was the one who ended it with me because he couldnt cope with my work life, going away most of the month to offshore or singapore or ports. he wants a gf that is around him 24/7 at his beck and call. he gets really annoyed when i cancelled plans because of work emergencies. we went out for like 3 months before he finally ended it.

he then dated and married this another girl who is constantly demanding attention from him, and expected him to be around her all the time until he couldnt take it anymore and divorced her.

karma, i told him. he agreed.

actually if he didnt break it off with me, i would have.

his low points;
he asks me to "bukak tudung" when he came to visit me in singapore once so that we can go clubbing.
instead of ensure we do our solats when we go out, he said stuff like "ala, kat rumah boleh jamak" or "i malas nak kena basah2 nie, tak suka"
one time i texted him asking wats he's doing, he replied "i tgh tgk porn, u want to watch with me?"
he drove a brand new car and proudly announced "jgn terkejut, i beli kereta ni cash tau" pffft. it was a wira je. and it was his dad's money, not his.
he said "i rasa kalau i kawin nanti i still pegi kut club2 nie sebab ini memang my lifestyle. kita kan orang kl" eh, hello, awak tu orang kuantan born and raised k. kl konon.

so, adakah ini someone you consider as bakal suami????? like seriously! fair enough masa tu tak fikir nak kawin pun but aiyoo! apa punye mentality mamat ni.

i think there's a reason why when i was in a relationship with him, i was the opposite of my usual-in-a-relationship self. im usually the type that is very very 'manja' and needs constant affection and attention (hehe my current bf will testify to this, baru tak dengar suara dua hari dah tak keruan :p) but with him, i didnt call him, i ignored his messages if im busy with work. i happily answered any work calls even tho i out with him. i get irritated when he calls and keeps asking me where i am and when im coming back. i hated it when he wants to hold my hand. actually i dont even know why i went out with him in the first place.

oh wait, i do. i was heartbroken over another guy who didnt like me back, thats why. ok2, i think i can excuse it as temporary insanity haha.

anyway, he left me his card as i saw my appointment approaching. and said "i know yr in a long distance relationship, but there's no harm in having a fling, what he doesnt know wont hurt him" with a wink.

euwww.

when i left the restaurant, i left his card on the table with a note "if yr horny, call this man for free service" next to his hp number.

like i said, karma.