Before I begin typing anything, I guess I should clarify that the last line of my previous post doesn’t refer to a relationship. ;p

Must say that the week has been a rather long and tiring one, especially since the week started off with a fever and flu that continued from the last weekend. Apart from a heavier workload, I had to wake up at 3.50am to pick up a client from the airport on Friday. Tsk Tsk…

Hmmmm.. have been thinking that I should really put in more effort and thinking into work, so as to climb up faster. At the rate I’m going, its gonna take a hell lot of time for me to become a millionaire..!

hehe..

Urghh..
Am feeling both weak and tired now.. shucks.. am down with a flu since Friday afternoon, and fever since Friday night. Grrr.. Hate to be sick..

Guess it was mainly due to the workload, which has been pretty much heavier, due to a suggestion made by me to the trading manager a while back.. ;p But oh well, although the workload is much heavier, and with very much more responsibility, it was a really good learning experience, and it should definitely help me move up much faster. hehh

Anyway, back to the topic of this post, I’m sure most people would have heard of the pareto principle? The law of the vital few which states that 80% of the results come from 20% of the action. In business terms, the top 20% of your clients usually contributes to 80% of your company’s earnings.

Have been thinking about the pareto principle these days as I guess in life, one just can’t have everything. You got to give up some things in order to get the other things you want or need. I was just talking to a colleague the other day when she was saying: on one hand, she would like her future husband to be out there making alot of money, yet on the other hand, she’d like him to spend more time with her. But oh well, its kinda hard to find someone who can satisfy both conditions. I guess this is something she probably wont be able to figure out herself until she’s met the someone who will be her future husband..

Hmmm.. so.. well.. given the limited amount of time everyone of us have in life, I guess its vital that we know what we want, and that we learn to give up on the other things that may hinder us from getting what we want. Hmmmm… this is very much easier said than done uh..

Should I just give it up?

Hoho, after running quite aimlessly for a very long time almost every weekend at East Coast Park with Ednix and Bx, I finally bought a Nike+ Sportband:

This cool device that is born as a result of a collaboration between Nike and Apple certainly has substance. Simply plug it into your USB port and your run data will be automatically uploaded onto NikePlus’s website, where you can login to check the recorded data for all your past runs.

My first run using the Nike+ Sportband:

Grrr…. My running speed is quite consistently inconsistent!

Anyway, I must say that it was a good move by Nike to partner with Apple to create this sportband. Apple is certainly a company who knows how to make its products and packaging look cool. I was in the cinema with Ting yesterday when there was this advertisement introducing the “Sound of Perfection”, and about how digital audio should sound like, etc… It was towards the end of the advertisement when it dawn on everyone that it was an advertisement for Creative’s Zen X-Fi; a portable music and video player that incorporates a radio tuner and photo viewer, etc. I must compliment Creative on its creative advertising that tells the public about its product’s quality and technology. However, I feel that their products are still lacking a simple, yet critical “cool / style” factor that is drawing the masses towards Apple’s products. Technology and quality are somewhat a pre-requisite now. It doesnt work as an edge over competitors here. In this sense, Creative seems to be fighting a war with axes that are of superb, top class quality. However, they forgot that an axe’s gotta be sharp. Apple on the other hand, are creating products that are (as least seemingly) equal in quality…that are certainly much sleeker, and definitely sharper.. to slash creative’s high quality but blunt axes.

hmmm…. Now is a time where being creative just isn’t creative enough uh..?

Nowhere = No where? Or Now here?

;pp