Very hungry now... Can't sleep.

That is why i am crazy enough to be blogging at this hour in the middle of the night.

Life has been pretty hectic recently. Year end is approaching soon and i am still busy chionging for my sales. Time seems to tick by so fast ever since i join this industry. In the midst of all these, i realised that i hardly did any shopping nowadays. Or simply put, i became lazier to shop. Wahaahhaa.... But then again, x'mas season is here again! Listening to those x'mas carols and songs playing everywhere is like a hidden poison subtly hinting you to just go out and join in the festive spirits. Oh well... What to do? Since joining AC, X'mas season is another story altogether. To others, it is a joyous occasion that everyone looks forward to. But to us, it is like an alarm bell warning you that the end is near and you have only that little bit of time left to finish up whatever you need to do.

Blame it on our culture! Haha...

Truthfully speaking, we are rather "famous" for slacking in the first part of the year and only began working in the 2nd half of the year. This year is no difference. In fact, i should say we officially started working only in the last quarter of the year. Lol... Strangely enough, our whole agency force somehow still manage to match up with most, if not better than the other agencies in the whole of GE even though we started late. You know what that means? It means that playing hard and working hard is our culture too. Wahahahaa... That is the strength of our agency and I love AC because of this! After a rather disappointing year in 2009, i hope this time round i will have a happier ending at the finishing line. Last year at this stage i have given up. This time round it's different. I am so close already, almost smelling my goal. I believe i will be able to make it through this time!

Anyway, i just did some x'mas shopping with JC at orchard yesterday afternoon. Again, that's the beauty of our job. We can go shopping anytime in the afternoon without applying leave or asking for permission :) Embarrassed to say, i hardly been to Orchard Ion. Everything appears starngely unfamilar to me, making me seem as though i am a tourist in my home country. Lol... JC also wanted to get a x'mas gift but since he has already gotten most of his gifts a few days before, he accompanied me to go get mine first. To be honest, sometimes i hate shopping in orchard. It is so big that i do not know where to start. Maybe once in a while, shopping with a guy is good because they are very focus and straight to the point. Haha... So JC gave some suggestions and we decided to proceed to CK Tang to have a look. After some quick browsing, JC and i saw something quite interesting. So i decided to get that for my gift exchange. After we were done, we proceeded back to Ion to get some other gifts for my friends and colleagues. I hope they like it. We went to City Chain after that to scout for JC's gift. Fortunately or unfortunately, i saw a solvil titus watch which i kinda like. Haha... It belongs to one of the newer range costing about $300 plus...

Just to sidetrack a bit. I did not know that all City Chain's house brand comes with 5 year warranty for batt replacement. To think i even got my watch batt replaced at a small stall along bugis street for 5 bucks recently. The sneaky uncle still wanna charge me 8 bucks intially till i bargained it down. And what's the best part? The batt seems to last only for a short while and i have to constantly re-adjust the timing. $#^%+*&@. Arrgggghhhh!!! At least now i know where i can get a free batt replacement next time. Hmph!

I just made another new discovery at ION (shit... i am starting to sound like a mountain turtle). They have Royce chocolate there! Woo hooo... I am so excited. Royce chocolate has always been one of my fav chocolate and to see one anywhere is like discovering a gold mine. I know some people claim that Godiva is the best, but to me, Royce still triump because it is more value for money and the taste is simply heavenly. The melt-in-your-mouth sensation is enough to give you an orgasm. Wahahahaa... I know it sounds gross. Anyway, that same night happened to be Mike's birthday feast at his house together with a couple of people from my group. So i decided to get him a box of the champagne flavour Royce chocolate for us to go along with the rest of the food. Yummy~ :)

Oh, i am also delighted to finally get a new pen for myself recently! This thought has been playing in my mind for quite a while. To some people, a pen is just a pen. As long as it is able to write something, it does not matter how much it costs. Unfortunately, being in this job somehow makes me a bit brand conscious at times. After a while, it became not what i think, but rather how other people perceives you. I know it sounds superficial. But being in sales and service job, it is inevitable that most people like to work with people who are successful. And normally how do people judge whether a person is successful? The sad truth is, first impression counts. Personally i have first hand experience on this, having encountered so many different people as part and parcel of my job. That is why the way you dress, speaks, and the things you use or carry around became important. Especially for someone like me who is doing mainly cold markets, i only have that little bit of time to make an immediate impression on my prospect whom i met for the first time. Given a choice between an agent who wears singlet,shorts and slippers and another agent who dresses up in suit and tie, assuming all other things being equal, who would you rather get your policy from? I guess the answer is quite obvious here, isnt it?

The trademark white star emblem up close


♥ the floating star effect!


Will this be a "sign"of bigger things to come? =)