Made’s Blog

He’s the man

I envy him

I’m sure you guys out there envy his act as well

Small built

But powerful inside

This is called,

Quality wins over quantity

I’m not gonna eat instant noodles anymore. Unless in a very important circumstances in which I’m not gonna survive the following day if I don’t eat anything. The last resort. Just like in a combat situation where a soldier has got to eat whatever food available in front of him. Otherwise, he won’t be able to fight the enemy tomorrow, and will be a burden for his teammates.
This bloody food has caused two acnes surfacing on my face!!! Hmmm… guess I’m returning back to be a teenager.

However though, I can’t thank this food enough. It reminds me of my high school time when I was still living in the boarding school. At night, this instant noodle is a very luxurious delicacy. It’s like caviar, or Belgian chocolates, or a glass of water in the middle of a dessert. Such was the limited resources of food available in the dormitory at night.

For those following reasons, dear Mr Instant-noodle, I thank you for what you’ve done in the past to me and my friends in the dormitory. But now as there are other edible food to replace your position of my saviour, please kindly open the door and go away out of my life.

My company learned something. Its ambition to be #1 in 1000 days has been revised. My company realizes that being number 1 is easy, but being #1 with a good foundation is tough. In this context, being #1 means getting the biggest market share.
A public company’s responsibility is clear, to give good numbers to its stockholders. Those people which have the share in the company care with their investment. These are their questions, “How much dividend will I get at the end of the year?”, “How can I get a higher return in the short term?”, “How much is the stock price now?”. The statements are not about, “It’s okay that I lose money as long as this company is #1 in terms of market share.”

Well, I can say that it’s easy to gain market share. Sell your product cheaper than everyone else. But it simply doesn’t work for a long period. One thing being sacrificed, though, is: Profit Margin. Big increase in expenditure, high sales volume, but small increase in profit…, it gives an impression that the company is not healthy… and people start screaming. Tighten the budget. Streamline the process. Shorten the time to change concepts to real products.
So it’s now focusing on something else. Build the brand. Push cost. And high ASP.

Hope it works.

This is one of the views of Erasmusbrug (Erasmus Bridge) in Rotterdam:

You wanna know a little secret bout it? Maybe this bridge was built using the fund collected when the Dutch occupied Indonesia…

My memory of Brussels is around:

• Good beers
• ‘Free’ transportation system (coz liyan had a smart way to board trams and buses)
• Mussels… yeiksss
• Manneken Pis which has been the symbol of the city

There’s a problem with my old blogger account. Pissing me off. First of all, blogger.com asked me to upgrade to the new version. I did it. Little did I know, it overwrote the default.aspx (aka the index page of my account) that I had in nomadlife.org. So, my old posts couldn’t be displayed in the main page. I was too lazy to tinker with the setting so I couldn’t revive my old posts. Until…
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